Like Rapunzel, compliant and affluent Samantha Reed has watched the boisterous Garrett family from her window for years, because her icy control freak state senator mother simply doesn’t interact with “that kind of people.” When Jase Garrett finally introduces himself, Samantha finds herself not only falling in love with him, but with his family and…
Paper Princess is the YA brainchild of authors Jen Frederick and Elle Kennedy (both of whom write terrific and sexy NA sports romances), writing under the pen name Erin Watt – and I couldn’t put it down. The pace is fast, the characters are complex and the ending… well, I don’t want to give anything…
You Know Me Well is a funny, bright YA coming-of-age story about love, friendship and identity – I loved it and would be happy to have it with me on my Desert Island. This is a beautifully paced novel with alternating points of view, a structure that works very well here. The protagonists are Katie…
Sometimes you read a book and immediately feel the need to go and tell everyone about it, whether it’s just that good or just that bad. Other times, you finish a story and need to digest it for a while, like a fine meal. Dreaming of Antigone definitely needed time to digest – while the…
If I request a book for review, chances are I liked one of two things – the author or the premise. In this case it was a happy combination of both: I have read and enjoyed Ms. Cosimano’s Nearly series so I was familiar with her as an author and the premise of Holding Smoke…
When I picked up Be Careful What You Witch For I’m not sure what I was expecting. It’s a contemporary young adult novel about the fourteen-year-old daughter of one of the most famous actresses in Hollywood, and her attempt at going to a “normal” high school while staying with her aunt. Her aunt, she finds…
Morning Star is the third book in Pierce Brown’s Red Rising Trilogy. While I did not enjoy it as much as the previous two books, it nevertheless provides a satisfying if uneven conclusion to the saga. For those readers who are unfamiliar with the trilogy, the series takes place a couple of hundred years in…
Fans of Kiera Cass’ Selection series won’t want to miss The Glittering Court, book one in Richelle Mead’s trilogy of the same title. It’s a captivating story of forbidden love set against the backdrop of a world not so different from Great Britain and America. Our heroine is a young noblewoman, determined to live life…
So I admit, I definitely read this book because I heard the author lived in my area and was also a librarian. I normally avoid contemporary Young Adult stories because they aren’t my thing, but I knew I needed to give this a shot. The result was a charming, wholly Texan, story about friends, boyfriends,…
As I read Louise O’Neill’s Asking For It, I had mixed feelings. I hated the story; it was not a pleasant read, and it left me feeling unsatisfied. Ironically though, the reason why I now appreciate it so much is because of how uncomfortable and angry I was while and after reading it. I knew going…