I read Danielle Jensen’s Stolen Songbird back in March and fell in love with her elegant writing, ability to create likable characters, and absolute command of what could’ve been a terrible plot. Jensen understands what readers want– a so-called ordinary…
Read of the Week: “Six Feet Over It” by Jennifer Longo
Home is where the bodies are buried. Darkly humorous and heart-wrenchingly beautiful, Jennifer Longo’s YA debut about a girl stuck living in a cemetery will change the way you look at life, death, and love. Leigh sells graves for her family-owned cemetery…
Book Review: Deadly Design by Debra Dockter
Genetically engineered identical twins Kyle and Connor McAdams were born two years apart. Their parents figured it was safer that way, to increase their odds of survival. Connor was born first, paving an impossibly perfect path for Kyle to follow.…
Read of the Week: Get Happy by Mary Amato
In this poignant, realistic, contemporary YA by a state master list star, perfect for fans of Sarah Dessen and Gayle Forman, a young songwriter builds a substitute family with her friends in place of the broken family she grew up…
Book Review: ‘The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest’ by Melanie Dickerson
About three things I was absolutely positive. First, Edward was a vampire The Huntress of Thornbeck Forest was a YA novel. (It’s a Christian romance marketed towards teens that can pass as adult fiction.) Second, there was a part of him […]…
The Reputation Reclamation: Books with a good reputation
Growing up in a small town, it was hard, if not altogether impossible, to escape having some sort of reputation. (And really, having no reputation was probably just as undesirable as having a bad one.) I could name every person in my graduating class, all 200-something of us.
Book Review: ‘P.S. I Still Love You’ by Jenny Han
P.S. I Still Love You | Jenny Han | To All The Boys… #2 | Pub Date: May 26, 2015 First, I just want to say that I LOVE Kitty, Lara Jean’s feisty, smart, and funny little sister. LOVE HER. She…