Just a girl and her books
THE DEPTHS | Nicole Lesperance 09.13.2022 | Razorbill Rating: 5/5 stars Eulalie Island should be a paradise, but to Addie Spencer, it's more like a prison. Forced to tag along to the remote island on her mother's honeymoon, Addie isn't thrilled about being trapped there for two weeks. The island is stunning, with its secluded … Continue reading Book Review: The Depths
HOW TO SURVIVE YOUR MURDER | Danielle Valentine 08.30.2022 | Razorbill Rating: 5/5 stars Alice Lawrence is the sole witness in her sister’s murder trial. And in the year since Claire’s death, Alice’s life has completely fallen apart. Her parents have gotten divorced, she’s moved into an apartment that smells like bologna, and she is … Continue reading Book Review: How to Survive Your Murder
THE COUNSELORS | Jessica Goodman05.31.2022 | Razorbill4.5/5 stars Sisters by choice. That’s how Goldie and her best friends, Ava and Imogen, define their friendship, which formed years ago at Camp Alpine Lake. This year, Goldie is back at camp as a counselor, desperate for summer to start and for Ava and Imo to arrive. With … Continue reading Book Review: The Counselors
HOUSE OF HOLLOW | Krystal Sutherland 04.06.2021 | Penguin Teen Rating: 5/5 stars Seventeen-year-old Iris Hollow has always been strange. Something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t quite remember but that left each of them with an identical half-moon scar at the base of their necks. … Continue reading Book Review: House of Hollow
THE WOODS ARE ALWAYS WATCHING | Stephanie Perkins 08.31.2021 | Penguin Teen Rating: 4/5 stars Best friends Neena and Josie spent high school as outsiders, but they’ve always had each other. Now, with college and a two-thousand-mile separation looming on the horizon, they want to have one final hangout to mark this milestone. They decide … Continue reading Book Review: The Woods Are Always Watching
EAT YOUR HEART OUT | Kelly deVos 06.29.2021 | Razorbill Rating: 4/5 stars Vivian Ellenshaw is fat, but she knows she doesn’t need to lose weight, so she’s none too happy to find herself forced into a weight-loss camp’s van with her ex-best friend, Allie, a meathead jock who can barely drive, and the camp … Continue reading Book Review: Eat Your Heart Out
THE TAKING OF JAKE LIVINGSTON | Ryan Douglass07.13.2021 | PutnamRating: 4.5/5 stars Jake Livingston is one of the only Black kids at St. Clair Prep, one of the others being his infinitely more popular older brother. As if fitting in wasn’t hard enough, Jake can see the dead. In fact, he sees the dead around … Continue reading Book Review: The Taking of Jake Livingston
FIREBORNE | Rosaria Munda (The Aurelian Cycle #1) 10.15.2019 | Penguin Books Rating: 4/5 stars Annie and Lee were just children when a brutal revolution changed their world, giving everyone - even the lowborn - a chance to test into the governing class of dragonriders. Now they are both rising stars in the new regime, … Continue reading Book Review: Fireborne
HARROW LAKE | Kat Ellis 08.25.2020 | Penguin Rating: 4/5 stars Lola Nox is the daughter of a celebrated horror filmmaker best known for a movie taking place in a sleepy town called Harrow Lake. It’s also the place where Lola’s father met her mother, who was the star of this very film. Lola has … Continue reading Book Review: Harrow Lake
THE COMPANION | Katie Alender 08.25.2020 | G.P. Putnam’s Sons Rating: 5/5 stars Margot was the sole survivor of a car accident that killed her family. She has been left an orphan with no one to take her in until one day she receives word that a wealthy family wants to adopt her. Tucked away … Continue reading Book Review: The Companion
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