After finishing Making Pretty, I had to ask myself how have I seriously not read everything ever written by Corey Ann Haydu? I was very taken with Life By Committee and yet, I never went on to grab OCD Love Story. At least now I know enough to fix my mistake and to hurry up and read the rest […]
The Trouble With Destiny by Lauren Morrill | Book Review
January 26, 2016
The Trouble With Destiny by Lauren Morrill has the distinction of being my first book of 2016. No regrets with that — I had quite the pleasant time reading this book. The Trouble With Destiny is a book that has not really been hyped by my friends and perhaps I am the black sheep with this […]
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely | Book Review
January 25, 2016
All American Boys by Jason Reynolds and Brendan Kiely is a superb collaboration between two powerful young adult writers who are able to encapsulate sharp, incisive insight into contemporary issues with their solo books. This book melds that characteristic writing and takes it up to a new level, making the story even more hard hitting […]
On The Edge by Allison Van Diepen | Book Review
January 18, 2016
On The Edge by Allison van Diepen is a book that I continually found myself looking at — thinking that it looked like a relatively interesting young adult contemporary book. However, I never really made any time to sit down and read it — there were always more pressing books that I had wanted to […]
Light Of Day by Allison Van Diepen | Book Review
January 13, 2016
Light Of Day by Allison Van Diepen is one of those books that I began almost immediately after finishing a previous book by the same author -Â On The Edge. I had no clue what to read next, however, because I had a book in a similar style on hand, I went with it. Do you […]
The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand | Book Review
January 6, 2016
Are you in the market for a gut wrenching read? You need to get a copy of The Last Time We Say Goodbye by Cynthia Hand. Reader friends, this book absolutely gutted me. Granted, that is something that I would expect based upon the subject matter. Still, although I had expected the emotions, it did not […]