Tag: contemporary

Review: Don’t Call Me Baby by Gwendolyn Heasley

Posted April 21, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 12 Comments
Review: Don’t Call Me Baby by Gwendolyn Heasley

Pages: 304Publication: April 22nd 2014 by Harper Teen Series: N/A – Stand AloneSource: Harper Teen via Edelweiss Amazon • TBD • Kobo • Goodreads All her life, Imogene has been known as the girl on THAT blog. Imogene’s mother has been writing an incredibly embarrassing, and incredibly popular, blog about her since before she was born. Hundreds of thousands of perfect strangers knew when […]

Review: Great by Sara Benincasa

Posted April 13, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 13 Comments
Review: Great by Sara Benincasa

Pages: 272Publication Date: April 08th 2014 by HarperTeen Series: N/A – Stand AloneSource: Harper Teen via Edelweiss Amazon • TBD • Kobo • Goodreads Everyone loves a good scandal. Naomi Rye usually dreads spending the summer with her socialite mother in East Hampton. This year is no different. She sticks out like a sore thumb among the teenagers who have been summering (a verb […]

Review: Dear Killer by Katherine Ewell

Posted April 9, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 7 Comments
Review: Dear Killer by Katherine Ewell

Pages: 288Publication Date: April 01st 2014 by Katherine Tegan Books  Series: N/A – Stand AloneSource: Katherine Tegan Books via Edelweiss Amazon • TBD • Kobo • Goodreads Rule One—Nothing is right, nothing is wrong.Rule Two—Be careful.Rule Three—Fight using your legs whenever possible, because they’re the strongest part of your body. Your arms are the weakest.Rule Four—Hit to kill. The first blow should be the […]

Review: The Summer I Wasn’t Me by Jessica Verdi

Posted March 26, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 2 Comments
Review: The Summer I Wasn’t Me by Jessica Verdi

Pages: 352Publication Date: April 01st 2014 by Sourcebooks FireSeries: N/A – Stand AloneSource: Sourcebooks Fire via Netgalley Amazon • TBD • Goodreads Lexi has a secret… Ever since her mom found out she was in love with a girl, seventeen-year-old Lexi’s afraid that what’s left of her family is going to fall apart for good.  You are on the road to […]

Review: Sweet by Erin McCarthy

Posted March 21, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 2 Comments
Review: Sweet by Erin McCarthy

Pages: 257Publication Date: October 15th 2013 by IntermixSeries: True Believers #2Source: Borrowed from the library Amazon • Kobo • Goodreads Jessica Sweet thought going away to college would finally make her free of her parents’ constant judgments and insistence she play chastity club role model for their church events, but if anything, the freedom has made her realize she can’t go home […]

Review: Panic by Lauren Oliver

Posted March 6, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 15 Comments
Review: Panic by Lauren Oliver

Pages: 416Publication Date: March 4th 2014 by HarperCollins Series: N/A – Stand AloneSource: HarperCollins via Edelweiss Amazon • TBD • Kobo • Goodreads Panic began as so many things do in Carp, a dead-end town of 12,000 people in the middle of nowhere: because it was summer, and there was nothing else to do. Heather never thought she would compete in Panic, a legendary […]

Review: My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Posted March 3, 2014 by Lauren in Review / 20 Comments
Review: My Life Next Door by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Pages: 416Published: June 14th 2013 by Dial Books for Young Readers Series: My Life Next Door #1Source: Gifted from Melissa Amazon • TBD • Kobo • Goodreads “One thing my mother never knew, and would disapprove of most of all, was that I watched the Garretts. All the time.” The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, messy, affectionate. And every day from […]