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Editor’s Pick: The Suffering Tree by Ellie Cosimano

November 16, 2017 by Cassie Leave a Comment

Editor’s Pick: The Suffering Tree by Ellie Cosimano

The Suffering Tree by Elle Cosimano Victoria Burns doesn’t want to be part of her new community any more than the residents want her there. She and her mother and brother were given the house by the town patriarch, Aloysius Slaughter, after his death, despite never having met him and having seemingly no connection to… 

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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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Editor’s Pick: The Road to Winter by Mark Smith

April 28, 2017 by Claire Leave a Comment

Editor’s Pick: The Road to Winter by Mark Smith

Okay, so… WOW! I was completely enthralled by Smith’s THE ROAD TO WINTER almost from the first page. The gritty feel of the world he created is palpable. Recently, I have been super into Australian YA, and if you haven’t yet been introduced, now is the time – start with this one. Finn is a… 

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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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Review: This Is My Brain on Boys by Sarah Strohmeyer

April 19, 2017 by Cassie Leave a Comment

Review: This Is My Brain on Boys by Sarah Strohmeyer

In THIS IS MY BRAIN ON BOYS by Sarah Strohmeyer, Addie Emerson doesn’t believe in love. She believes in the chemicals that create feelings of love, and she believes that those chemicals alter a person’s thoughts and actions and brain chemistry, but that’s not the same thing as believing in love. Especially when Addie has… 

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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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Editor’s Pick: Chasing Stars by Helen Douglas

July 18, 2016 by Erin Leave a Comment

Editor’s Pick: Chasing Stars by Helen Douglas

I’ll start with a confession: I haven’t read After Eden, the book that precedes Chasing Stars. As far as world building and plot goes, that doesn’t really matter. Despite the sometimes clunky dialogue, Douglas did a bang up job getting us newbies into the loop. Even though the story can get bogged down in the… 

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Review: Meet Me Here by Bryan Bliss

July 11, 2016 by Sandie Leave a Comment

Review: Meet Me Here by Bryan Bliss

Everything changed because of a slap. Thomas had a plan but then Mallory slapped her boyfriend Will on graduation night. It shouldn’t have affected Thomas at all since Thomas and Mallory haven’t been best friends or even really talked to each other since before seventh grade. But it did because she bee lined for Thomas… 

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Review: Suffer Love by Ashley Herring Blake

June 21, 2016 by Claire Leave a Comment

Review: Suffer Love by Ashley Herring Blake

The title of this book, SUFFER LOVE, is taken from Shakespeare’s “Much Ado About Nothing,” wherein Benedick and Beatrice fall in love despite or in spite of themselves. Though the play is a comedy – and this book does have some humorous lines – the book is by and far not a comedy. The parallel… 

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Editor’s Pick: With Malice by Eileen Cook

June 14, 2016 by Erin Leave a Comment

Editor’s Pick: With Malice by Eileen Cook

In WITH MALICE, Jill Charron wakes up battered, broken and wanted for the murder of her best friend. The trouble is, she has a serious case of retrograde amnesia. I know what you’re thinking, amnesia? Isn’t that a little Days of Our Lives? In this case, no. Cook gives us an out—no one believes her…. 

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