I can give you a hundred thousand ones, though.

I’m a writer I can’t give only five words. Other books that got me through my youth were Nancy Drew mysteries, Sweet Valley (can you believe it? I read them all), and just about anything I could get my hands on. And then TKAB hit me in a whole other way with all its layers that I wanted to be able to write like that, in a way that hits at the humanity of people while talking about the not so nice things. Spellbound scared the hell out of me and I was so obsessed with figuring out how to elicit that kind of emotion from a reader with just words. I don’t know exactly when I read them, but I just remember the feeling I got (different feelings) when I read both. Whew! To be honest…the first books that hit me hard were Spellbound by Christopher Pike and To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee. Quick lightning round! Tell us the first book you ever remember reading, the one that made you want to become an author, and one that you can’t stop thinking about! I still love writing with blue Bics even now. I still have it though the pages are very faded. That’s when I wrote my first book about a group of woodland creatures who had to save their forest from humans wanting to cut the trees down. My love for writing came in middle school, I think. We chat with debut author Yasmin Angoe about her novel Her Name Is Knight, along with writing, book recommendations, and more! When did you first discover your love for writing? (Nov.Her Name Is Knight is a propulsive character story and action thriller driven by retribution, passion, strength - and coming to terms with your own true self, regardless of what anyone calls you. Thriller fans will cheer Aninyeh every step of the way. Angoe expertly builds tension by shifting between her lead’s past and present lives. Meanwhile, after learning the same man who led the attack on her village has joined the Tribe, she plots her revenge. Things go awry on a mission for the Tribe when, instead of assassinating the intended target, a federal attorney with whom she has become close, Aninyeh kills another person. Aninyeh now lives in Miami, Fla., and is part of an assassination team that protects the Tribe’s interests, killing its enemies when necessary. There, Anniyeh was adopted by Delphine and her husband, Noble, the leader of the African Tribal Council (aka the Tribe), a business group devoted to uniting the various African countries into a strong economic force.

Aninyeh eventually escaped and was found by Delphine Knight, who took her to London. Then, when she was 14, an enemy of her father, along with a group of barbaric men, ransacked her village, slaughtered her family, and sold her into captivity. Aninyeh, the captivating heroine of Angoe’s impressive debut, had an idyllic childhood as a chieftain’s daughter in a Ghanaian village.

Yasmin angoe her name is knight