Five teens, who couldn’t be more different from one another, wind up together in detention: Nate, the drug dealer who’s on probation; Bronwyn, the future valedictorian; Cooper, Bayview High’s star baseball pitcher; Addie, the popular girl with the popular boyfriend; and Simon, the creator of Bayview’s notorious gossip app, where he spills the secrets of all his classmates, sometimes . . .
Tag: YA
By Your Side | book review
Being trapped in a library may sound like a dream come true, but for Autumn, it’s actually a nightmare. She’s supposed to going to a cabin with some friends for the weekend, where she’s finally going to confess her feelings to Jeff. Instead, she gets left behind at the library, and locked in. No phone. No food. No warm clothes. And to make things worse . . .
Radio Silence | book review
Frances Janvier feels like two separate people: there's school Frances, who is quiet, plain, studious---boring; then there's the real Frances, who loves patterned leggings, watching movies and eating pizza with her mum, and drawing fan art for her favorite podcast, Universe City. The podcast is voiced by the anonymous Radio . . .
Must-Reads for Every Genre
Hello, friends! I thought I'd share some of my favorite books from all the genres I read, some new, some old. But hopefully you're able to find something to add to your ever-growing TBR. Some of these were no-brainers, others I really struggled to break three-way ties. But these are all absolute favorites of mine, all 5-star reads (in my opinion), so . . .
Red Hood | book review
It's homecoming night, and Bisou Martel, at sixteen years old, finally has her first period. But it couldn't have come at a more awkward time... Escaping into the woods, she just wants to be alone. But alone she is not. She's attacked by a wolf, but finds herself stronger than ever, able to best the beast and kill it. But when a classmate's body turns up in . . .
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes | book review
For the 10th annual Hunger Games, the Capitol is shaking things up. They need more viewers, and to do that, new ideas. Twenty-four of the wealthiest seniors attending the Academy will be, for the first time, mentors to the twenty-four tributes. Eighteen-year-old Coriolanus Snow, though not rich anymore but pretending to be, scores a . . .
I Re-Read ‘The Hunger Games’ Books 10 Years Later
I was only fourteen years old when I first read The Hunger Games. I had recently discovered a love for young adult fiction. And at that time, YA dystopias were all the rage. So of course I devoured as many as I could get my hands on: the Divergent series, The Maze Runner books...and The Hunger Games trilogy. Though I loved Divergent, and there's a special place . . .
House of Salt and Sorrows
The Thaumas sisters live in a manor by the sea with their father and step-mother. There were 12 girls in all, but now only 8 remain. Ever since their mother died, tragedy seems to strike the family every year. People say the family is cursed. And now that another sister has died, Annaleigh, now second-eldest of the girls, begins seeing her dead sisters’ ghosts. She begins to . . .
Aurora Burning | book review
The squad it back...for the most part. But there's no time to grieve for their losses. Aurora still doesn't know how to control her powers, but now that she knows she's the Trigger, she's going to have to learn. And fast. All while hunting for the Weapon. Ya know, to save the galaxy from the evil Ra'haam, which is about to take over the universe and all. Speaking of . . .
Aurora Rising | book review
In 2380, Tyler Jones is finally graduating from Aurora Academy. Top of his class, he knows he'll have first pick in assembling his dream team. That is, until he almost dies rescuing Aurora Jie-Lin O'Malley, a girl stuck in cryosleep aboard a centuries-lost spacecraft. That stunt puts him dead last, meaning his squad is now comprised of everyone else who . . .