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Review: Compulsion
I’m always eager to pick up books about mental illness, but I’m also a skeptical reader. It’s extremely important to me that mental illness is portrayed well; I hate to see anything that will add to...
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Review: Bitter End
Following up Hate List, a book that explores how people heal in the aftermath of a school shooting, Jennifer Brown tackles another tough subject in Bitter End. Alex’s mom died when she was young; her...
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Review: Ambitious
Mari (short for Marisol) achieves her dream of getting into the dance program at Premiere High School, a special school for performing arts, but quickly discovers that she won’t be able to rest on her...
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Review: Shut Out
Frustrated with the rivalry between her high school’s soccer and football teams, Lissa organizes the athletes’ girlfriends together in a sex strike. The strike, though, becomes more than a means to an...
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Review: Audition
After a terrifying audition, Sara wins a scholarship to the Jersey Ballet for a year. Though it’s not the most prestigious of the ballet schools, it’s certainly a step up for a dancer from a tiny...
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I Wish the Ocean Was Warm, I Feel Like Drowning: Drowning Instinct by Ilsa J....
What I knew about Drowning Instinct before reading it: Nothing. I loved the cover. I occasionally talk to Ilsa Bick on Twitter about challah and rugelach. I might have read a synopsis at one point, but...
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Freshman Year & Other Unnatural Disasters by Meredeith Zeitlin
It is Kelsey’s freshman year and she is ready to start over and stand out. Her goals for the year include: Not being embarrassed by her parents, who are positively annoying and frequently frustrated by...
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It’s the End of the World as We Know It: This is Not a Test by Courtney Summers
Imagine The Breakfast Club being interrupted by a zombie apocalypse and you’ll have a pretty good idea what it’s like to read Courtney Summers’ This is Not a Test. I love Courtney Summers’ writing. It...
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Hot or Not: The List by Siobhan Vivian
I’m attracted to books about body image, but I have to admit that most of the ones I’ve tried to read recently have gone to the DNF pile pretty quickly. Few of them had anything particularly new to...
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Drink The Kool Aid: The Right and The Real by Joelle Anthony
I can’t remember the last book that kept me up reading through the night. They don’t come along often. I really love my sleep. But I loved The Right and The Real even more. I started it before bed,...
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