Siobhan Vivian is a longtime favorite author of mine. She’s a fierce champion of teenage girls, she’s effortlessly cool, and oh, right, she’s BFFs with Jenny Han. When Vivian released Stay Sweet in 2018, an ice-cream-cone sweet love letter to…
Book Review: How to Build a Heart by Maria Padian
How to Build a Heart, author Maria Padian’s follow-up to Wrecked, explores the life of Izzy Crawford, a teen who seems to have it all—until the carefully separated sides of her life begin to overlap, forcing her to confront not…
Book Review: Starry Eyes by Jenn Bennett
One of the literary tropes that I am incredibly fond of is enemies-to-lovers. Whether it’s the slow-burn nature of discovering or rediscovering emotions, the forced interaction allowing for hatred to morph into a tentative friendship, a possible miscommunication of intentions…
Read of the Week: The Things You Kiss Goodbye by Leslie Connor
Bettina Vasilis can hardly believe it when basketball star Brady Cullen asks her out, and she just about faints when her strict father actually approves of him.But when school starts up again, Brady changes. What happened to the sweet boy…
Read of the Week: ‘Bleed Like Me’ by Christa Desir
From the author of Fault Line comes an edgy and heartbreaking novel about two self-destructive teens in a Sid and Nancy-like romance full of passion, chaos, and dyed hair.Seventeen-year-old Amelia Gannon (just “Gannon” to her friends) is invisible to almost everyone in…
Book Review: Before My Eyes by Caroline Bock
I wish Before My Eyes was a book of pure fiction, one that was set in a far-away fantasyland that didn’t mirror reality in the slightest. But, it’s not. Before My Eyes, by Caroline Bock, is a story that comes…