Add on Goodreads | Buy on Bookshop As a joke, Alice buys her best friend, Teddy, a lottery ticket for his 18th birthday. What they don't expect is for his ticket to be one of the three jackpot winners, instantly making him a multimillionaire. Now Alice is afraid of losing not just her best friend, … Continue reading Review: Windfall
Add on Goodreads | Buy on Bookshop Evie is fairly clueless about love. She's never been in it, and honestly the thought of kissing a guy hasn't been on the forefront of her mind. For her, it's all about the numbers... and trying to keep her anxiety under control. But when new student Leo comes … Continue reading Review: The Quantum Weirdness of the Almost-Kiss
Add on Goodreads | Buy on Bookshop Five years after being whisked out of Beauty and moving around for five years, Josie and her mom are finally returning to run the family bookshop while her grandmother is away. And all Josie wants is to make it through junior and senior year while working on her … Continue reading Review: Chasing Lucky
Add on Goodreads | Buy on Bookshop Paige has a hard time making decisions, even small ones that seem insignificant to other people. Why? Because every decision you make might determine what happens later on in life. Whether you end up with your true love or settle for someone else. Whether you live a life … Continue reading Review: One Way or Another
When private school student Isabelle Warren first meets Dominican-American Alex Rosario on the downtown 1 train, she remembers his green eyes and his gentlemanly behavior. He remembers her untroubled happiness, something he feels all rich kids must possess. That, and her long dancer legs. Over the course of multiple subway encounters spanning the next three … Continue reading Review: This Train is Being Held
Ellingham Academy must be cursed. Three people are now dead. One, a victim of either a prank gone wrong or a murder. Another, dead by misadventure. And now, an accident in Burlington has claimed another life. All three in the wrong place at the wrong time. All at the exact moment of Stevie’s greatest triumph … Continue reading Review: The Hand on the Wall
The Truly Devious case—an unsolved kidnapping and triple murder that rocked Ellingham Academy in 1936—has consumed Stevie for years. It’s the very reason she came to the academy. But then her classmate was murdered, and her parents quickly pull her out of school. For her safety, they say. She must move past this obsession with … Continue reading Review: The Vanishing Stair
Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting pathways, and gardens. “A place,” he said, “where learning is a game.” Shortly after the school opened, … Continue reading Review: Truly Devious
Emma is a coder, not a lover. In fact, she feels like math is more reliable than people. Now in her senior year, she's got her eyes set on getting into Stanford University and along with her co-president, George, taking their coding club to win the states this year. So when her sister inadvertently gives … Continue reading Review: The Code for Love and Heartbreak
Lila Reyes had it all planned, until the trifecta of losses happened. First, her grandmother passed away, then her boyfriend broke up with her right before prom, and the last blow... her best friend told Lila she's not staying in Miami and is going abroad. So, of course, Lila has a breakdown of sorts, and … Continue reading Review: A Cuban Girl’s Guide to Tea and Tomorrow
I did a post like this last year with a small list of books. This year I thought it would be nice to sort of redo my post, but include more books. Books are always a great gift, as long as the person actually does like to read, and it's nice to know a person … Continue reading 10 Books I’d Give as a Gift
I was shocked and then excited to see that there was another Dash & Lily book out this year, so of course I had to read it despite the fact it's been a few years since I've read the previous two books. Dash is now at Oxford University and Lily is taking a gap year … Continue reading Review: Mind the Gap, Dash & Lily
It's been a few years since my first read of Dash & Lily's Book of Dares, but I loved it just as much this time around as I did before. This is also following my viewing of the Netflix series, Dash & Lily, so be expecting a book/series comparison coming soon. And spoiler alert, the … Continue reading Review: Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares
Halley has always been on the sidelines, while her best friend Scarlett is the one who has interesting things happen to her. But what happens when Scarlett's boyfriend, Michael, is killed in an accident, and she finds out she's pregnant with his baby? Halley now has to be the stronger of the two and support … Continue reading Review: Someone Like You
This is one of those books that I regret not reading as soon as I bought it. It's literally been sitting on my bookshelf for four years, waiting for me to pick it up. Well, I finally did... and the book is amazing! The story, the characters, all of it. It's one of those books … Continue reading Review: Our Chemical Hearts
