Name: Brown Girl Ghosted
ISBN: 9780358128892

Mintie Das

In Meadowdale, Illinois, sixteen-year-old Violet deals with mean girls, racism, murder, and being spurred by immortal Lukas to accept being an Aiedeo, a hereditary warrior queen charged with protecting the world.

Brown Girl Ghosted

POV : First person / third person / dual POV 

• degradation, death, substance abuse, drugging, violence, sexual assault & harassment, rape 

<i>”“My name is Violet Choudhury. I descend from an ancient royal heritage. Since the days when India was the enchanted playground of gods and maharajas, the women in my family were queens—Aiedeo.”</i>

I loved The premise of the story. It actually got a tad confusing but it all actually made sense to me. I truly believe that this could’ve been executed in a neater and orderly manner but I think the chaotic layout gives the book its charm. 

It took me a while to get into it, especially having a white washed, mean girl lackey desi girl. Did I grow into loving Violet? Yes, but super super late into the book. The book’s worldbuilding was also a lot longer which makes it slightly draggy. 

I really do hope there’s a follow up to this book. I really would love to explore it more. 

Danya <3

3.5 ⭐️ 

Genre: YA Thriller  

Age group : Young Adult  

POV : First person / third person / dual POV 

Characters: 3.5/5 ⭐️ 

Plot: 4/5 ⭐️ 

Setting/Themes: 2/5 ⭐️ 

Writing: 2/5 ⭐️

• Please check TWs & CWs 

• degradation, death, substance abuse, drugging, violence, sexual assault & harassment, rape 

• Cliffhanger 

<i>”“My name is Violet Choudhury. I descend from an ancient royal heritage. Since the days when India was the enchanted playground of gods and maharajas, the women in my family were queens—Aiedeo.”</i>

I loved The premise of the story. It actually got a tad confusing but it all actually made sense to me. I truly believe that this could’ve been executed in a neater and orderly manner but I think the chaotic layout gives the book its charm. 

It took me a while to get into it, especially having a white washed, mean girl lackey desi girl. Did I grow into loving Violet? Yes, but super super late into the book. The book’s worldbuilding was also a lot longer which makes it slightly draggy. 

I really do hope there’s a follow up to this book. I really would love to explore it more. 

Tatiana Alvarez 

Yikes. Okay, before I comment, I do have to say that I DNF this book. I got exactly halfway and I just couldn’t continue on. I genuinely like the author as a person, but this book was just not good. 

Basically this is a story about Violet. Violet feels like an outcast in her small town because she is one of the only brown girls in her school. Her “friends” really suck. Like, they are all awful to each other, perpetuating the mean girl stereotype. 

The thing is, I didn’t care about any of the characters and the plot was...nonexistent? The first half was so boring and by the time that I got more of the plot, I was too bored to care. 

Also, the way the characters spoke was extremely annoying. No teenagers talk like that. I teach 8th grade. They would cringe.