EFR REVIEWS

  WONDER SHOW Ladies and gentlemen, boys and girls, step inside Mosco’s Traveling Wonder Show, a menagerie of human curiosities and misfits guaranteed to astound and amaze! But perhaps the strangest act of Mosco’s display is Portia Remini, a normal among the freaks, on the run from McGreavy’s Home for Wayward Girls, where Mister watches and waits. He said he would always find Portia, that she could never leave. Free at last, Portia begins a new life on the bally, seeking answers about her father’s disappearance. Will she find him before Mister finds her? It’s a story for the ages, and like everyone who enters the Wonder Show, Portia will never be the same. ★ ★ ★ ☆ ☆ Not even gonna lie, definitely the cover that initially sucked me in... that, and me being a sucker for a story set in a circus community! Growing up in the 1920s-30s, Portia Remini, having been abandoned by her parents, is left in the care of her Aunt Sophia. By Portia's teen years, Sophia decides she's not equippe...

FLOR & MIRANDA Miranda is the lead singer in her family's musical band, Miranda y Los Reyes. Her family has worked hard performing at festivals and quinceañeras. Now, they have a shot at the main stage. How will Miranda make it a performance to remember?  Flor's family runs the petting zoo at Mr. Barsetti's carnival. When she accidentally overhears Mr. Barsetti and Miranda's dad talk about cutting the zoo to accommodate Miranda y Los Reyes's main stage salary, she knows she has to take action. Will she have the heart for sabotage once she and Miranda actually start to become friends? ★★★☆☆ Miranda is the lead singer in the family band Miranda y los Reyes. When traveling carnival owner Mr. Barsetti sees her sing, he offers the band a chance to join the performer roster. It'll mean the biggest crowds the band has ever seen! But in order to make this dream happen for them, Mr. Barsetti feels he'll have to cut someone else from the team...