Liz Lighty has a lot to deal with. Her mother is dead, dad left long ago, and her brother has sickle cell. She doesn’t have wealth like the other rich kids she goes to school with and her town, and the school’s history is primarily white. When she doesn’t get the scholarship into the schoolRead More
Emily Joy reviews We Used To Be Friends by Amy Spalding
We Used To Be Friends by Amy Spalding tackles a topic that I don’t see often in fiction — friend breakups. I’ve experienced a few friend breakups, and this book hits all the right notes. Kat and James have been best friends since kindergarten, and had what seemed like an unbreakable friendship until senior yearRead More
Bee reviews I am Out With Lanterns by Emily Gale
I often see people complaining that there is no WLW equivalent to Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe. I’m not really sure what the complaint is about: the popularity of the books? The tone? The content? The writing? I think that what people mean when they say this is that they areRead More
Marthese reviews All Eyes On Us by Kit Frick
“I don’t want her to grow up with only the voices of the Fellowship and our parents in her ears… most of all, I don’t want her to grow up to be afraid of me” All Eyes On Us by Kit Frick promised to be a mix between Pretty Little Liars and People Like Us.Read More
Bee reviews A Love Story for Bewildered Girls by Emma Morgan
Sometimes you take a chance on a book, and it pays off in a weird, indefinable way. This is the only way I can describe my experience with A Love Story for Bewildered Girls by Emma Morgan. Actually, it turned me into the bewildered girl the book addresses in the title. I tacked it onRead More
Marthese reviews Firework by Melissa Brayden
“There were olives in her drink, she could fashion an olive branch” It’s summer (here), which means beach reading! Granted, I live on an island and have not yet gone to swim but you get what I mean: giving romances another try. I settled on Firework by Melissa Brayden because it’s a novella and itRead More
Marthese reviews If You Could Be Mine by Sara Farizan
“Fine, so my nipples don’t want this to happen, either” Another sapphic modern classic down! If You Could Be Mine tells the story of Sahar. Sahar lives in Iran and is in love with Nasrin, who is more than her best friend–but being public about it will get them both killed. Nasrin gets betrothed toRead More
Marthese reviews Leah on the Offbeat by Becky Albertalli
“Something tugs in my chest. I feel strangely offbeat” Leah on the Offbeat is the second book in the Creekwood series by Becky Albertalli and it follows Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda (on which the movie ‘Love, Simon’ was based). While it may be worthwhile to read that book first it is not necessary to understand thisRead More
Marthese reviews Her Name in the Sky by Kelly Quindlen
“Her stomach hums with the familiarity of it all” Let me start with a short disclaimer: This is not a ‘holiday’ read, but for people that want to read something angsty and somewhat deep, this may be what you are looking for. Her Name in the Sky follows Hannah, a teenage girl that goes to aRead More
Alexa reviews If I Loved You Less by Tamsen Parker
Theo Sullivan lives on an island like paradise with her slightly overprotective father, content with how things are. The community in Hanalei is tight-knit: everyone knows everyone, outsiders rarely stay for long, and nothing can really remain a secret. Personally, the island setting and its descriptions were my favourite part of the novel, as wellRead More