An awful lot can change in a few hours. When Huey woke up that morning, her only worries were finally passing a math quiz, where to get a burrito, and why her parents named her after a cartoon duck. Just a few hours later, she and her seven best friends were dealing with mind-controlled armies, kidnappings, human-sized mousetraps, french fry catapults, high-speed skateboard escapes from crazed mobs, dangerously ravenous sorority girls, mad scientists, and a kid with a direct line to God.

What led to all of this you ask? Two separate groups of baddies with nefarious intentions stole Huey's family’s restaurant - an Asian American owned, 1960s music-playing, Peter Max inspired french fry heaven - with the goal of releasing tainted french fries. To what end, you say? Creating an unquenchable hunger for fries and mindless enslavement to their directions, at least until 6:00PM.

It's up to Huey and her friends to stop their plot and save their town, her parents, and possibly the world. To do so, they will have to rely on their skills in hacking, parkour, chemistry, boarding, and creating last-second BOGO coupons.

French Fry Heaven isn’t a dystopian zombie comedy like Girls Save the World in this One, but it offers the same energy and comradery. And it’s certainly not an antihero heist like Six of Crows, but the crews would find plenty of common ground comparing crazy plans that shouldn’t work but do - although Jesper and Wylan would be baffled by a world where LGBTQ+ rights aren’t a given.

Thanks to the originality of the story, the strength of the character’s voices, and exceptionally creative storytelling, French Fry Heaven immediately hooks readers with characters they can connect with and a crew they can root for. And with a lesbian lead character so well written that she feels like a real person and not an agenda, it unabashedly celebrates the importance of lifting LGBTQIA2s+ voices in their own stories.