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A review by thechanelmuse
Amari and the Night Brothers by B.B. Alston
5.0
This is so good! If I was a kid of this generation, this would be at the top of my list of favorite books. It's Men in Black, Harry Potter, Spy Kids, and Percy Jackson all rolled into one.
Amari and the Night Brothers is a fun, mystery, adventure-fantasy tale that follows a young Black girl, Amari Peters, who enlists in a hidden society known as the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs after discovering a ticking briefcase in her missing older brother's closet. Traveling from Rosewood low-income housing projects to an ordinary place on the outside where mermaids, aliens, dwarves, witches, magicians, dragons, and other creatures actually do exist on the inside, Amari must compete for a spot against other children who've always known of this organization while on a secret mission of her own: to find out what happened to her missing brother.
Penned by B.B. Alston, this magical debut middle-grade novel, which is the first book in this trilogy series, touches on topics like bullying, classism, and racist microaggressions. The whole time I was reading (or should I say flying through this book), I kept thinking, "This should be made into a movie." Well turns out 17-year-old Marsai Martin's got that covered
Amari and the Night Brothers is a fun, mystery, adventure-fantasy tale that follows a young Black girl, Amari Peters, who enlists in a hidden society known as the Bureau of Supernatural Affairs after discovering a ticking briefcase in her missing older brother's closet. Traveling from Rosewood low-income housing projects to an ordinary place on the outside where mermaids, aliens, dwarves, witches, magicians, dragons, and other creatures actually do exist on the inside, Amari must compete for a spot against other children who've always known of this organization while on a secret mission of her own: to find out what happened to her missing brother.
Penned by B.B. Alston, this magical debut middle-grade novel, which is the first book in this trilogy series, touches on topics like bullying, classism, and racist microaggressions. The whole time I was reading (or should I say flying through this book), I kept thinking, "This should be made into a movie." Well turns out 17-year-old Marsai Martin's got that covered