Genre: Contemporary

Bite-Sized Reviews – Romancing the Nerd, Tuck Everlasting, Island of the Blue Dolphins

A few quick reviews of some books that deserve attention. Hopefully these bite-sized reviews will be enough to feed your fiction addiction! Romancing the Nerd by Leah Rae Miller Series: Nerd #2 Published by Entangled Teen on 4/5/16 Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance Pages: 352 Source: NetGalley My content rating: YA (Nothing more than kissing) My rating: Dan Garrett has become exactly what he hates—popular. Until recently, he was just another live-action role-playing (LARP) geek on the lowest run of the social ladder. […]

Posted April 4, 2016 in Reviews / 12 Comments

Bite-Sized Reviews – Their Fractured Light, The Distance Between Us, The Summer I Became a Nerd

I wanted to write quick reviews of these books since they’ve been out for quite some time, but they deserve some more attention! Hopefully these bite-sized reviews will be enough to feed your fiction addiction! The last two books counted toward my Shelf Love Challenge! Their Fractured Light by Amie Kaufman, Meagan Spooner Series: Starbound #3 Also in this series: These Broken Stars, This Shattered World Published by Disney-Hyperion on 12/1/15 Genres: Romance, Science Fiction, Young Adult Pages: 425 Source: Purchased […]

Posted February 24, 2016 in Reviews / 30 Comments

After the Woods by Kim Savage – Traveling ARC Review, Favorite Quotes and Giveaway!

This was the most fun I’ve ever had with a blog tour! The traveling ARC idea is phenomenal, especially with a book with a central mystery like this one. Take a look at the map above to see where this ARC went for the tour! (The big book shows the path that it took after it left me.) It was so much fun to read the comments that had been left by the bloggers before […]

Posted February 21, 2016 in Giveaways (Ended), Reviews / 34 Comments

The Year We Fell Apart by Emily Martin – Review & Giveaway

The Year We Fell Apart was an incredibly poignant look at the ways we try to escape the painful moments in our lives and the many mistakes that we often make along the way. This book doesn’t paint a pretty picture of the teen years, but it does paint a realistic one. What Fed My Addiction: Dealing with serious illness and death. I appreciated the way that this book dealt with terminal (or at least possibly […]

Posted January 21, 2016 in Giveaways (Ended), Reviews / 11 Comments

Identity Crisis by Melissa Schorr – Review & Giveaway

I really enjoyed Identity Crisis because I felt like it was a somewhat lighter take (though not too light) on what can be a very serious issue – and sometimes we need that. There are lots of “issue” books out there, and they’re all important, but they might not always feel accessible, especially to a younger YA crowd. This one does. The synopsis describes the book pretty accurately, so I’m just going to jump straight […]

Posted January 13, 2016 in Giveaways (Ended), Reviews / 4 Comments

Bookishly Ever After by Isabel Bandeira (The Book About Me as a Teenager) – Review

First off, I have to say that I’ve been dying to get my hands on this book ever since I met Isabel Bandeira at BEA in 2014 – she was sweet and fun and dressed in quirky bright dresses, and I could just tell that her book was going to be adorable, just like her. I was right. The book centers around Phoebe, who is a bookish introvert, much more comfortable living in her stories […]

Posted January 11, 2016 in Reviews / 24 Comments

Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn – Review

This book is so incredibly hard to encapsulate in a review because it brings up so many topics of discussion. This is the type of book that just makes me want to go on and on and on about my feelings because they’re so complex. I’ll try not to do that, but I make no promises. Simply read the synopsis and you’ll probably be able to tell right away why I feel so conflicted about […]

Posted January 9, 2016 in Reviews / 24 Comments

This is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp – Review & Giveaway

This is Where It Ends is an intense reading experience. And, unfortunately, the situation portrayed in the book is all too real in today’s society. (I read an article on NBC News the other day that said there have been more mass shootings in the US than days this year – how scary is that?) The book looks at a school shooting from the perspective of four students who have a connection to the shooter in […]

Posted December 9, 2015 in Giveaways (Ended), Reviews / 19 Comments

Bite Sized Reviews: Don’t Touch and What I Thought Was True

Here are some quick reviews for books I haven’t gotten around to reviewing or that I just don’t have a ton to say about. Once again, I figure a few bite sized reviews together will be enough to feed your fiction addiction! 🙂 Don’t Touch by Rachel M. Wilson Published by HarperTeen on 9/2/14 Genres: Young Adult, Depression & Mental Illness, Contemporary Pages: 432 Source: Library My rating: A powerful story of a girl who is afraid to touch another […]

Posted October 30, 2015 in Reviews / 14 Comments

Blackmail Boyfriend by Chris Cannon – Review

This book just looked all sorts of adorable – I was in the mood for a light read, and that’s exactly what I got, so it was perfect! Haley wants a boyfriend, but her brothers are too overprotective and intimidating – no one wants to cross them, so they leave Haley alone. So, when Bryce mistakenly tells everyone that he and Haley hooked up (it was a different Haley – one who has a hulking […]

Posted August 10, 2015 in Reviews / 7 Comments