By all intents and purposes, The Lonesome Young by Lucy Connors should be my next favorite book, based on the cover and summary. I was expecting dangerous, they shouldn’t be together because they are opposites so I ship it chemistry. The Lonesome Young, unfortunately falls flat, lacking the chemistry that say, Simone Elkeles has. A modern day Romeo […]
Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta | Book Review
September 19, 2014
You know how there is that one book that EVERY SINGLE YA READER except for you has read? Or at least, that is how it feels? For me, that one book was Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta which is like a super huge deal of a book in young adult community, at least among the circles that I find myself in.
Rumble by Ellen Hopkins | Book Review
September 18, 2014
When a copy of Hopkins’s latest book, Rumble, arrived in my mail I was so excited. I was excited because it was on a topic that I could really relate to, losing your faith. I mean, I can’t relate to drugs or prostitution, but I can totally relate to going from being religious to being not-so-religious. Yet, Rumble goes a little deeper than the whole question of having faith vs. being faithless.
This One Summer by Jillian Tamaki and Mariko Tamaki | Book Review
September 12, 2014
I thought that This One Summer would be a pretty neat female focused comic book perfect for my summer reading. My instinct about this did indeed prove correct and so — the summary combined with a quick flip through to look at the art combined with A TON OF BLURBS from authors I really enjoy lead to me reading This One Summer and I regret NOTHING.