Cheryl Ntumy, Entwined

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Lauri Kubuitsile

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Entwined, by Cheryl Ntumy, a Gaborone based author, is the fi rst book of an exciting new series featuring the protagonist Conyza Bennet published by Carina UK which is a digital imprint of Harlequin UK. Conyza ‘Connie’ Bennet is an average 16 year old girl growing up in Gaborone. She hangs out at Riverwalk mall. She likes going to the cinema. She has her best friends Lebz and Wiki and has a crush on the cute bad boy –Thuli. She is your average teenage girl except that she can predict what is going to happen in the future. And then things change even more. One day she gets a horrible headache and the strange boy with a lizard tattoo and a scar down his face, Rakwena, tells her to go home and rest. Who is he to tell her anything? she thinks. But then the next day when she realises she has developed a new talent –reading people’s minds– Rakwena is the one she goes looking for because she suspects he knows more about her powers than she does.

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SECTION THREE: BOOK REVIEWS