Tag: Young Adult Fiction
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REVIEW: Bright Decay by Aurelia Wong
The Official Description: It’s a dangerous world, whether you have power or not. Everyone knows there’s something off about Skylar, including herself. She wades through high school being normal, but ever since the disappearance of her only friend, her life spirals out of control. Humans with uncommon abilities live closer than she thinks. Skylar wants…
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REVIEW: We Are Lost And Found by Helene Dunbar
The descriptive bit: We Are Lost And Found by Helene Dunbar tells an important story that took place in the 80s. Michael is a young man who is just becoming comfortable with his sexuality, and he’s living in a time when he has to contemplate the fact that having sex might kill him. HIV/AIDS is…
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REVIEW: The Gravity of Us by Phil Stamper
The official description: As a successful social media journalist with half a million followers, seventeen-year-old Cal is used to sharing his life online. But when his pilot father is selected for a highly publicized NASA mission to Mars, Cal and his family relocate from Brooklyn to Houston and are thrust into a media circus. (GoodReads.com)…
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Review: Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston
I read “Red, White & Royal Blue” in one day and I’m pleased to admit that I cried through the last quarter of it. This book is exactly the balm that my poor, battered, immigrant-Canadian heart needed. It’s probably not lost on anyone that the past few years have been a challenging time to survive…
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Review: A Mark On My Soul by Jordon Greene
The short blurb bit: Noah Andrews is an anxious, book lover with a secret. It’s a secret he wants to be able to tell his friends and his family but it’s an uphill battle. Noah is gay. It shouldn’t feel like the bottom of his world will be yanked out from under him if he…
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Review: Slip by Quoleena Sbrocca
The short blurb bit: Seventeen-year-old, Xavier is a high school student with a secret. It’s a secret so heavy that Xavier would rather live with the rumors that are spread around that he’s gay than reveal the truth. Natasha is a high school student who is living the good life. She is dating the Captain…
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Review: The Fever King by Victoria Lee
The short blurb bit: The first thing I want to write is that “The Fever King” is going straight onto my list of best books of 2019. Yes, I’m that confident. I read a lot of books, always have, and when I read one that has an original concept … presented in a way that…
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Review: Deposing Nathan by Zack Smedley
It only took about five pages for me to be hooked on this novel. The introduction of both characters instantly made me curious about them, and that increased steadily. There’s been a beating. There’s been a stabbing. Nate and Cam have ended up across from each other in a deposition because of the violence that…
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