Just a girl and her books
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
PET | Akwaeke Emezi 09.10.2019 | Make Me a World Rating: 5/5 stars There are no more monsters anymore, or so the children in the city of Lucille have been taught. Jam has grown up holding this notion as truth her entire life. When she meets Pet, a creature made of horns and colours and … Continue reading Book Review: Pet
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
CEMETERY BOYS | Aiden Thomas 09.01.2020 | Swoon Reads Rating: 5/5 stars Yadriel has summoned a ghost and now he can’t get rid of him. When his traditional Latinx family has problems accepting his gender, Yadriel becomes determined to prove himself a real brujo. With the help of his cousin and best friend Maritza, he … Continue reading Book Review: Cemetery Boys
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
THE ONES WE’RE MEANT TO FIND | Joan He 05.04.2021 | Roaring Brook Press Rating: 5/5 stars Cee has been trapped on an abandoned island for the last three years without any recollection of how she arrived or memories from her life prior. The only thing she knows is that she must find a way … Continue reading Book Review: The Ones We’re Meant to Find
RED RISING | Pierce Brown (Red Rising Saga #1) 01.28.2014 | Del Rey Rating: 5/5 stars The Earth is dying. Darrow is a Red, a miner in the interior of Mars. His mission is to extract enough precious elements to one day allow Mars to be a habitable planet. The Reds are making the ultimate … Continue reading Book Review: Red Rising
FIREKEEPER’S DAUGHTER | Angeline Boulley03.16.2021 | Henry, Holt & Co.Rating: 5/5 stars As a biracial, unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal, eighteen-year-old Daunis Fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby Ojibwe reservation. Daunis dreams of studying medicine, but when her family is struck by tragedy, … Continue reading Book Review: Firekeeper’s Daughter
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
PREPPED | Bethany Mangle 02.23.2021 | Margaret K. McElderry Books Rating: 4/5 stars Always be ready for the worst day of your life is the mantra that Becca Aldaine has grown up with. Her family are the leaders of a community of doomsday preppers in an exclusive neighborhood that prioritizes survivalist training over the norms … Continue reading Book Review: Prepped
