The Truth About Happily Ever After is kind of a hard one for me. I loved Cozzo’s previous book How To Keep Rolling After A Fall – LOVED, sooo much. But, I struggled with the main character in this one. Here, we meet Alyssa, and honestly I didn’t find her super likeable at first. She…
Letters to the Lost Blog Tour: You’ve Got Mail
You’ve Got Mail! Earlier this year I ended up reading four books, including LETTERS TO THE LOST, that centered around a teen couple getting to know each other via “letters.” Some of the stories very clearly had a You’ve Got Mail/Shop Around the Corner vibe, and others were simply epistolary love stories, but still, it…
Editor’s Pick: When We Collided by Emery Lord
Emery Lord’s WHEN WE COLLIDED, which won the 2017 Schneider Family Book Award for representation of disability, is excellently titled. Collision, in all its forms, is somehow inherently violent. It is something that is abrupt, disorienting, life-altering. It is a moment after which nothing is the same.”When we collided” is therefore a very apt description…
Review: This Adventure Ends by Emma Mills
In THIS ADVENTURE ENDS, Sloane Finch has moved to a small Florida beach town, just in time for her senior year. Not much for friends, she plans to happily pass the time rereading her dad’s cheesy romance novels. But then, she falls in with the twins Vera and Gabe Fuller and their friends Remy, Aubrey,…
Waiting on Wednesday: #famous by Jilly Gagnon
Okay, basically why wouldn’t I be waiting on this one? It has all my favorite things: dual point of view, romance, I imagine some humor. I love books like this, clearly feel good – and often just what I need. Reading the synopsis of #famous seems very indicative of today’s society. We are all on…
Waiting on Wednesday: Long Way Home by Katie McGarry
I feel like I’m constantly waiting on the next book from Katie McGarry. And as we head into Fall 2016, suddenly January 2017 doesn’t seem that far away for “Long Way Home.” Starting from her first book “Pushing the Limits,” McGarry has been a must read, and an auto-buy for me. I love her style…
Editor’s Pick: Highly Illogical Behavior by John Corey Whaley
Three years ago, Solomon had a panic attack, climbed into the school fountain, and then disappeared from the world. Three years later, Lisa, who wants nothing more than to become a psychologist and get out of her town, is the only one who wonders about that crazy kid who climbed into the fountain. Lisa is…
Editor’s Pick: Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke
On principle, I would normally not like a book whose main characters have such twee names: Wink, Poppy, Midnight. But this book forced me to like it. I couldn’t help it anymore than Midnight could help his love for the Cathy Ames-like Poppy. The forceful, distinct writing, with three narrators whose voices were bell clear,…
Waiting on Wednesday: Everyone We’ve Been by Sarah Everett
Every so often I add a random book to my “to be read” shelf on Goodreads based on nothing but a cover. The for Everyone We’ve Been cover caught my attention straightaway, and I’m glad it did. The synopsis sounds absolutely intriguing, and unlike so many books I come across on my hunt for a…
Editor’s Pick: A Week of Mondays
I have a name for fun, frothy, good-time books that make me happy: “candy.” I know, maybe not the most unique moniker, but we all need a little sugar in our lives and even better if it doesn’t cost us any calories. And A Week of Mondays is just that sweet, delicious, wonderful candy. Ellie,…