It’s certainly been too long since I’ve posted here. A lot has changed since we last talked. I defended my PhD and moved…

5/5 stars A cafe in Tokyo has been serving coffee for over one hundred years. There may be a reason why it’s stayed…

5/5 stars Linus Baker has always done what was expected of him. As a caseworker at the Department in Charge of Magical Youth,…

5/5 stars June is the epitome of the eldest child. Responsible, successful, and unapologetic. Her younger sister, Jayne, is the complete opposite. In…

3/5 stars Greer has the chance of a lifetime when she meets Faith Frank in the bathroom at her college. After some time,…

5/5 Stars The Goldfinch is an epic coming-of-age novel that follows Theo Decker after the tragic death of his mother in a MOMA…

5/5 Stars (As far as I know, this is now an Own Voices work but I cannot confirm that. I do have mixed…

3.75/5 The sequel to Colleen Hoover’s viral story, It Ends With Us. This begins as if no time has passed and you must…

2.5/5 Home is so exclusive even A-list celebrities fight for membership. The top-tier clubs around the world offer a safe haven for the…

4/5 stars Daisy Darker was born with a broken heart and her family hasn’t let her live life properly since. When her Nana…

3/5 stars Jess escapes to her half-brother, Ben’s Paris apartment for a change in pace. Except when she arrives, she discovers that he’s…

4/5 stars A woman is murdured in Blackdown and Anna Andrews is first on the scene to report it to the world. Detective…

5/5 stars Robin Swift has been brought from Canton to the western world. Stationed at Babel, a center for translation and silver-working, he…

4/5 stars Amber has woken up in a coma. She can’t move, she can interact, she can’t scream for help. She isn’t certain…

2/5 stars Cody Swift is a true-crime podcaster, but he’s not like the others out there. He’s investigating the murders of his two…

2/5 Stars Molly is a maid in a prestigious hotel. She takes her job very seriously and values cleanliness and order above almost…

3/5 stars Jocelyn, the daughter of Lord and Lady Holt, loved her nanny more than anyone. One day, her nanny left without a…

3/5 stars Jayne, Ruth, and Emily head to the secluded barn a day earlier than their husbands for a relaxing weekend away with…

3/5 stars 40 years ago two men were murdered at random. Beth Greer was arrested for the murders but was aquitted and has…

4/5 stars Casey, an actress,  is recently widowed and reeling from some very bad press. She retreats to her family lake house and…

4/5 stars Adam Wright was born with a neurological condition that prevents him from recognizing faces. While he can use other cues to…

2.75/5 Fred and Sheila Merton are wealthy. Living in an exclusive area for the elite, they have raised their three grown children and…

4/5 stars The Delaneys live for tennis. Stan and Joy have been fixtures in the community even after selling their tennis school. Their…

3/5 stars It’s been five years, but Kenna has returned to the place that tragically changed her life. She hopes to meet and…

3.5/5 stars 3.5/5 Pip is taking an unconventional route for her senior capstone project… investigating the murder of Andie Bell. Andie was killed…

4/5 stars In 1978, Gran brought home a curious girl that was to be Vi and Eric’s new sister. They don’t know where…

2/5 stars A man is found murdered on a canal boat and three women are connected to the murder. Each have their own…

3/5 stars Owen Michaels has disappeared, but not before giving his daughter and wife cryptic goodbyes. His daughter, Bailey, is sixteen and still…

4/5 stars Alice and Leo have moved into an exclusive gated neighborhood, The Circle. They bought the house for a steal and as…

4/5 stars Having a best friend can be the greatest thing in the world. Until it’s not. What happens when that friendship turns…

2/5 stars Florence Day’s family is a bit atypical. Death is the family business and they’ve owned and run the same funeral home…

4/5 stars Hannah Jones may not have had the extravagant lifestyle her Oxford University roommate, April, did but that didn’t mean she stayed…

4/5 stars Alex Stern is an unlikely student of Yale University, but she has an important job. To oversee the activities of the…

亲爱的妈妈， It’s been a few months since I talked to you last. Do you remember how I told you I was in a…

3/5 stars Jada Townsend-Matthews is still reeling from her time on the reality dating show, My One and Only. She’s laying low after…

4/5 stars Anna is heading off to college. She may only be moving across town, but she’s in for a wild first year.…

4/5 stars Victor and Eli started out with the same goal, to determine if they could create EOs (ExtraOrdinary people). What began as…

5/5 stars Olivia Prior only has her mother’s journal to have any idea of her family history. Her mother’s writing shows a descent…

5/5 stars What are you willing to do for love? Roma is stunned at Marshall’s death and he is out for revenge. Juliette…

The imbalance between the different Londons has reached a peak. An ancient enemy threatens the universe and our beloved characters must learn to…

5/5 stars Four months ago, Kell came into possession of a mysterious stone that sent him and Lila on an adventure of a…

3/5 stars Nesta Archeron is not exactly a heart-warming individual. She has always been a headstrong woman that was not afraid to let…

亲爱的妈妈， Lunar New Year is coming up! Are you preparing for it? What does our family do for it? Do we have any…

3.5/5 stars The Night Court is busy reviving the city after war while preparing for the Winter Solstice. While recovery looks different for…

3.75/5 Feyre is back in a place she had hoped to never return to… the Spring Court. While Tamlin thinks he has her…

January 14, 2022 亲爱的妈妈， Are you doing well? What has the pandemic been like in China? I thought of you often during lockdown.…

5/5 stars Jenny is set on attending the Manhattan School of Music. She has devoted most of her life honing her skills playing…

The day of the photoshoot arrived and anxiety was setting in. I kept myself busy around the home and waited until an acceptable…

4.25/5 Feyre has survived Under the Mountain and is now a High Fae after being saved by the seven High Lords. Despite defeating…

I’m sitting in a coffee shop on a rainy day waiting to pick up my mom from the airport. She’s here for a…

3.75/5 Five 20-year-olds are about to experience the adventure of a lifetime. Called to Beijing by a mysterious Chinese corporation, they unite as…

2.75/5 Xia Chan has been given the opportunity of a lifetime. Only twenty students a year are chosen to enroll in The Foundry,…

4/5 stars Ever Wong has always had different ideas for her future than her parents. Her parents immigrated from China so she could…

4/5 stars 19-year-old Feyre is doing what she can to keep her family alive. She spends her days in the forest hunting to…

5/5 Michelle Zauner recounts when she put her life on hold to fly home and care for her mother. As a woman in…

I’m not talking about the willfully ignorant parents. As adoptees sharing our stories, we all have encountered them and have all been triggered…

4.25/5 Neveah is a biracial 16-year-old who has never felt very comfortable in her own skin. When her Black mother and Jewish father…

Imposter Syndrome is a hot topic lately. The phrase just needs to be uttered once and people will instantly raise their hands to…

For as long as I can remember, I struggled with accepting my physical appearance. I am a transracial adoptee, and my adoptive sister…

4/5 stars Izumi grew up without her father, but she and her mom have done just fine. One day, while browsing through her…

3.5/5 Ben is chosen as the lead on an ad campaign starring a very beautiful and very famous actress, Anna. The two have…

3/5 Sydney lives with her grandmother while her mother, Lila, is off being a famous actress. This summer, she is heading to San…

3.5/5 Love is not something that can be quantified. Unless it can… Jess is a single mother who doesn’t have much time to…

2.75/5 Rachel and Tully aren’t sure what to make of their father’s new fiancée. It’s uncomfortable on multiple levels. First, Stephen Aston is…

2.5/5 Rachel is a single mother who finds herself unemployed with no good job prospects. An intriguing opportunity opens up, but it requires…

3.75/5 Lux is on the adventure of a lifetime. The only problem is, it was supposed to just be her and her boyfriend,…

3.75/5  Daisy seems to have it all in life, but there is something keeping her up at night. When she begins receiving emails…

4.0/5 Nora Seed has not had a good experience with life. She is finally over it. At the 11th hour, she finds herself…

4.75  Olive is a third-year PhD candidate. Her passion is science and she has no interest in relationships. To ensure her best friend…

3.25/5 17 years ago, Charlie’s mother vanished. No one knows what happened. Charlie wants to move on and focuses on her new life…

3.0/5 stars Bree escaped her life in rural Georgia by marrying rich. She may have grown up poor, but she has everything she…

3.25/5 stars Elin would rather be anywhere else than the eerie Le Sommet Hotel, but her brother, Isaac, and his fiancee, Laure, are…

5/5 stars Xiomara is quiet. She has often resorted to using her fists to communicate. Make no mistake. She has a lot to…

3/5 stars Anna K is brought to South Korea to reconnect with her family and heritage. Following the death of Alexia Vronsky, time…

5/5 stars A reimagining of Romeo and Juliet taking place in Shanghai 1926. Two gangs are at war. Juliette is a member of the Scarlet…

4.5/5 stars Charlie knows nothing about Josh, the man in the driver’s seat. They met via a campus rideshare board. Charlie is getting…

4.75/5 stars The Maidens, a secret society comprised of female students at Cambridge University. They particularly admire one professor, Edward Fosca. Mariana is…

3.75/5 stars Avery and Declan have remained fast friends and nothing more. She’s too busy with her social and work calendars. Declan prefers…

2.75/5 stars Charles Wang earned his large fortune by building a cosmetics empore. A financial crisis takes everything he has. He gathers his…

Even though I take a low-key approach to advocacy, there is a strategy to being able to produce regular videos/posts. In this video,…

Yola is engaged to be married and realizing that she would like a few more life experiences. In an out-of-character move, she ghosts…

The start of 2020 will be a period of time the world will never forget. By then, COVID-19 had been identified as a…

When I share my story, it is from the perspective of a Chinese, international, transracial adoptee. In this video, I share why it…

June 22, 2021 was supposed to be our two year wedding anniversary. Life happened and that’s not the case, but Adam and I…

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5/5 stars Parachutes. Teens who were picked up from their lives in Asia and dropped into the USA to study. Claire didn’t think…

Angie Chen is reeling from her parents’ divorce, feeling alone, and figuring out her place in the world. As a mixed race teenager,…

Plagiarism has been a huge issue in the advocacy community and I’m tired of it. While we all can have similar thoughts about…

5/5 stars Rani Kolkata has always been the perfect, honest, and obedient daughter. Until she meets Oliver… He is not someone she would…

Relevant blog post: https://lillyfei.com/index.php/2021/02/01/how-to-be-an-advocate-transracial-adoptee-edition/ So many adoptees want to start advocating online but don’t know where to start. In this video, I give…

2.5/5 stars It is definitely not love at first sight for Tate and Miles. They embark on a no-strings-attached arrangement once they’ve established…

I’ve often felt like I am not qualified to speak about my experiences as an adoptee because I don’t have a degree in…

4/5 stars After she discovers her sister has been murdered, Letty escapes to FLorina with her 4-year-old niece. She lands at a quaint…

Thank you to St. Martin’s Press for giving me a copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.  3/5 stars Aubrey…

3.5/5 stars For Ines, Catherine House was an escape. The school of higher learning graduated the world’s leaders, and somehow, Ines was going…

4/5 stars Nancy and her friends are shocked when their ex-friend and star student, Jamie, is found dead. Now, a mysterious person called…

3/5 stars Jane has her own secrets, but when she meets Eddie Rochester, a recently widowed man in the upscale neighborhood she walks…

I’m with family this weekend, but my sentiments about Mother’s Day remain the same from 2020. Wishing all those who may struggle with…