Blog Tour | The Fortunate Ones by Ed Tarkington

The Fortunate Ones by Ed Tarkington Fiction, Contemporary Algonquin Books | January 5th, 2021 4 Stars When Charlie Boykin was young, he thought his life with his single mother on the working-class side of Nashville was perfectly fine. But when his mother arranges for him to be admitted as a scholarship student to an elite …

Book Review | When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O’Neal

When We Believed in Mermaids by Barbara O’Neal Women’s Fiction Lake Union Publishing | July 16th, 2019 4/5 Stars Josie Bianci was killed years ago on a train during a terrorist attack. Gone forever. It’s what her sister, Kit, an ER doctor in Santa Cruz, has always believed. Yet all it takes is a few …

Book Review | Identity by Alexandra Bayer

Identity by Alexandra Bayer YA, Contemporary Aya Ellen Publishing | May 20th, 2020 4/5 Stars Naya hasn't had the best first year of university - her boyfriend broke up with her, leaving her friendless and pining after him. That is, until she meets Brynn one day at the gym. Brynn is cool and beautiful, and …

Blog Tour | What Unbreakable Looks Like by Kate McLaughlin

What Unbreakable Looks Like by Kate McLaughlin YA, Contemporary Wednesday Books | June 23rd, 2020 5/5 Stars   Lex was taken – trafficked - and now she’s Poppy. Kept in a hotel with other girls, her old life is a distant memory. But when the girls are rescued, she doesn’t quite know how to be …

Book Review | The Hundred Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti

 The Hundreds Lies of Lizzie Lovett by Chelsea Sedoti YA, Contemporary, Mystery Sourcebooks | January 3rd, 2017 3.5/5 Stars A teenage misfit named Hawthorn Creely inserts herself in the investigation of missing person Lizzie Lovett, who disappeared mysteriously while camping with her boyfriend. Hawthorn doesn't mean to interfere, but she has a pretty crazy theory …

Blog Tour | Tigers Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry

Tigers Not Daughters by Samantha Mabry YA, Contemporary, Magical Realism Algonquin Young Readers | March 24th, 2020 4/5 Stars The Torres sisters dream of escape. Escape from their needy and despotic widowed father, and from their San Antonio neighborhood, full of old San Antonio families and all the traditions and expectations that go along with …

Book Review | It’s My Life by Stacie Ramey

It’s My Life by Stacie Ramey  YA, Contemporary Sourcebooks Fire | January 7th, 2020 3.5/5 Stars If she wants a future with him, she'll have to make peace with her past. Jenna's never let her cerebral palsy get her down. But when she discovers that her condition was actually caused by an injury at birth, she's …

Book Review | Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz

Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz YA, Romance, Contemporary Entangled Teen | November 5th, 2019 4/5 Stars Isabel has one rule: no dating. It's easier-- It's safer-- It's better-- --for the other person. She's got issues. She's got secrets. She's got rheumatoid arthritis. But then she meets another sick kid. He's got a chronic …

Book Review | Saving Zoë by Alyson Noel

Saving Zoë Alyson Noel YA, Contemporary St. Martin's Press | September 4th, 2007 4/5 Stars It's been one year since the brutal murder of her older sister, Zoë, and fifteen-year-old Echo is still reeling from the aftermath. Her parents are numb, her friends are moving on, and the awkward start to her freshman year proves she'll …

Book Review | Six Goodbyes We Never Said by Candace Ganger

Six Goodbyes We Never Said by Candace Ganger YA Contemporary  Wednesday Books | September 24th, 2019 3.5/5 Stars Naima Rodriguez doesn’t want your patronizing sympathy as she grieves her father, her hero—a fallen Marine. She’ll hate you forever if you ask her to open up and remember him “as he was,” though that’s all her …