Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
Seventeen-year-old Ruby has been living alone ever since her negligent mother disappeared. She’s been doing just fine, thank you very much (or so she thinks). Eventually, the authorities discover her and she’s forced to move in with her older sister who she hasn’t seen or heard from in ten years. [...]
Category > Young Adult
Lock and Key by Sarah Dessen
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
An Abundance of Katherines by John Green
Colin, newly graduated from high school, has just been dumped for the 19th time by a Katherine. He’s never dated a girl that wasn’t named Katherine, not Kathy, not Catherine, just Katherine. After the 19th dumping, he’s a little depressed so his best friend, Hassan, takes him on a [...]
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Looking for Alaska by John Green
Miles is off to boarding school in search of his “Great Perhaps.” Once there he meets Alaska Young – beautiful, smart, fun-loving and moody – and of course falls for her. Then something really bad happens and Miles must find a way to deal with it.
The book is divided into [...]
Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
Percy Jackson and the Olympians Series by Rick Riordan
I’ve just finished reading this series with my seven year old son. I’m going to get him to help me with the review.
First of all, I’m not sure I need a summary or how to go about that with an entire series so I’ll just give you [...]
Paper Towns by John Green
Paper Towns by John Green
John Green is another one of those authors that I would totally be missing out on if it weren’t for book blogs. (And I would be missing out on Brotherhood 2.0, which I discovered by reading the inside back cover of the book and since then I’ve been watching all the [...]
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Just Listen by Sarah Dessen
Sarah Dessen is one of those authors I probably wouldn’t ever have discovered if it weren’t for book blogs. As soon as I got into the world of book blogs though, her name kept popping up. And yet, it’s taken me since April of last year to finally pick one up! [...]
Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty
Sloppy Firsts by Megan McCafferty
So my friend started reading these books and told me they were really fun and she’s gotten so caught up in the series, I just had to try it out!
Jessica Darling is a sophomore in high school and her BFF has just moved halfway across the country. The book is written [...]
Would You by Marthe Jocelyn
Would You by Marthe Jocelyn
Read for: Canadian Books Challenge
This book is about a teenage girl whose sister is seriously injured when she is hit by a car and the week immediately following the accident. The book was really short and there really wasn’t much more to it.
I didn’t really like this book. I think it [...]
Book Review: City of Glass
City of Glass by Cassandra Clare
Read for: RIP IV Challenge
This is the third (and I believe final) book in The Mortal Instruments series. (The first two book are called City of Bones and City of Ashes.)
I can’t say I enjoyed this one as much as the first two. Clary is still trying to revive her [...]
Book Review: Dancing with Ana by Nicole Barker
Dancing with Ana by Nicole Barker
Dancing with Ana is a young adult novel about a girl in high school who decide she is overweight and needs to go on a diet. Immediately she begins starving herself. There is also a subplot about a friend of hers that has an issue with her mother and is [...]
