How YA Has Lied To Me

Yes, YA is fiction. So obviously that means it cannot all be true. But that doesn't mean I didn't read books about high school before I got there, and used them to base my expectations of high school off of. We all know YA makes things a lot more convenient for the characters until it needs to make it …

Discussion: My Favorite YA Tropes

Tropes. That tends to make readers like us sigh when we hear that a book was just chock full of overused cliches. There are only so many books we can read about (insert most hated trope here). Tropes can be born from a particularly popular book (I'm looking at you, Hunger Games.) They can also just be …

Book Review: Anna and the French Kiss

Rating: Fire  Wow. I'm blown away by this book. I had heard so much praise for Anna and the French Kiss, so naturally I was a little turned off by it. A couple weeks ago, I got an email from BookBub that Anna and the French Kiss was only $1.99 for a Kindle Ebook that day. I decided I might …

Book Review: A Study in Charlotte

Rating: Fire  A Study in Charlotte by Brittany Cavallaro is a book that was tentatively on my TBR list. While voting on Goodreads for best Young Adult novel, I saw this one was receiving a lot of votes. Besides it's gorgeous cover, the plot was pretty intriguing, although a little different than my usual genre. This book …

Book Review: Long Way Home

Rating: Fire  The long awaited sorry of Violet and Chevy in the Thunder Road series by Katie McGarry has finally arrived! I don't know about you, but every time Violet and Chevy was mentioned in Thunder Road I got more and more curious about why they loved each other, yet refused to be together. And finally we get …

Book Review: Amy and Roger’s Epic Detour

Rating: Fire  Wow. Morgan Matson seems to have a special talent for making me sob while reading her books. This wasn't even one of her sadder books (Second Chance Summer anyone?) but left me crying all the same. This was a reread, but honestly was just as good as I remembered it being. Amy Curry is …

Book Review: By Your Side

Rating: Fire  Ever since I saw the bio for this book, I've been excited for it.  First of all , it's written by Kasie West, one of my all time favorites. And second of all, it featured a trapped in a library together romance. Swoon. But, as much as it kills me to say this (I currently …

Book Review: Tell Me Three Things

Rating: Fire  Oh. My. God. I think I'm in love. This book blew me away. Julie Buxbaum has such an amazing writing style. Everything she writes is perfectly witty and flows and really sounded like the inside of a teenage girl's mind. AND it's only her first YA book. She completely nailed it! Also, I …

Book Review: Anywhere But Here

Rating: Fire  Anywhere but Here was my first book that I've read by author J.L.Paul, and I have to say I am pleased. Rena's little sister has been missing, and Rena moved in with her aunt because of her wild behavior resulting from her sister's disappearance. While with her aunt, she opens up her heart to …

Book Review: Saint Anything

Rating: Fire  I've always had a love hate relationship with Sarah Dessen, author of Saint Anything. It's never been her writing that's the problem; I think she writes magnificently and the stories always flow well. I used to think the problem was that the plots seem pointless in some stories, where the characters never grow and learn …