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Books We Adore: One of Us Is Lying

May 14, 2018 by Erin Leave a Comment

Books We Adore: One of Us Is Lying

Reading One of Us is Lying was the result of a social media twist. I somehow started following Karen McManus on Twitter some time ago, and it’s been a kick to watch in real time as her book went from unpublished to New York Times Best-Seller. It’s a well-deserved place as she put together something… 

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Emergency Contact Giveaway & Love

March 23, 2018 by Sandie 4 Comments

Emergency Contact Giveaway & Love

Simon Teen is partnering with Teen Lit Rocks for an amazing Emergency Contact giveaway! I wish I could enter it myself, because I love Herschel Supply backpacks, and the branded pop socket is adorable. We get pitched blog tours and giveaways all the time, but we’re picky about which ones we do. But we have… 

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Books We Adore: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Trilogy

November 28, 2017 by Erin Leave a Comment

Books We Adore: To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before Trilogy

The To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before books are the first Jenny Han books I’ve read, and I have to admit I’m in love. I don’t know if I’ve read any other book that feels so real. Like the reader is peeking into Lara Jean’s life. There are so many mundane everyday moments mixed… 

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Editor’s Pick: Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

October 31, 2017 by Keely Leave a Comment

Editor’s Pick: Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

John Green writes young adult fiction like few other writers can. His characters are witty, intelligent yet quirky and still very much teenagers dealing with everything that life throws at them. Turtles All the Way Down is very much the same and yet, very very different. Green has, in the past, skirted delicately around the… 

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Review: The Truth About Happily Ever After

April 21, 2017 by Claire Leave a Comment

Review: The Truth About Happily Ever After

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… 

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Letters to the Lost Blog Tour: You’ve Got Mail

March 28, 2017 by Sandie 2 Comments

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… 

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Editor’s Pick: When We Collided by Emery Lord

February 13, 2017 by Cassie Leave a Comment

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… 

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Review: This Adventure Ends by Emma Mills

December 8, 2016 by Erin Leave a Comment

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,… 

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Waiting on Wednesday: #famous by Jilly Gagnon

September 21, 2016 by Claire Leave a Comment

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… 

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Waiting on Wednesday: Long Way Home by Katie McGarry

September 14, 2016 by Claire Leave a Comment

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… 

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