Reviews by Category: Fiction

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What About Will

By Ellen Hopkins
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Nehanika C.
Dec 29, 2023

What about Will by Ellen Hopkins is a book about two boys, Trace and Will who are brothers and best friends. Will’s mom hated football because she thought it was a dangerous sport, but Will's dad thought that it was good to have kids playing sports. Finally, Will's mom gave in and let Will play. All was going well, everybody loved Will and he loved playing.  One day Will had a football game and everything was going great, until it wasn’t.

Teen Review
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The Spaces Between Us

By Stacia Tolman
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Anna S.
Dec 29, 2023

Serena is just a regular high school girl, besides the fact that she thinks her father is having an affair with the cheerleading coach.  She acts dumb but she is really some sort of genius, and she has all kinds of stuff going on. Serena finishes her junior year just barely, but for her senior year her friend Melody Grimshaw convinces her to join the cheerleading team and make an academic comeback. Serena somehow manages to make the team and she learns to apply her full potential, but during this time Melody runs away.

Teen Review
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The Screwtape Letters

By C.S. Lewis
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anna S.
Dec 29, 2023

In this classic satire a demon, named Screwtape, writes to his nephew, Wormwood. In this satire, Screwtape is somewhat of a mentor to Wormwood, giving him advice on how to deceive the person that Wormwood is in charge of. This is a satire, as it gives an insight, for Christians, or other readers, into how Satan steals, kills, and destroys. 

Teen Review
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The Inheritance Games

By Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Dec 29, 2023

Avery Grambs is an average 17-year-old girl from Connecticut. She finds out that she has inherited 46 billion dollars from Tobias Hawthorne, a very wealthy man. However, Tobias is a total stranger to Avery. With no record of being connected to this man at all, she becomes suspicious of whether or not this is real. There is one condition that comes along with the money-she is required to live in Tobias Hawthorne’s mansion along with his living family. Avery must adjust to her new situation while also trying to uncover the secrets that come along with it.

Teen Review
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A Taste for Love

By Jennifer Yen
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Likhita
Dec 14, 2023

A Taste for Love by Jennifer Yen is a quirky rom com about a girl named Liza who is desperate to find her one true love. Liza was always a big dreamer, hardworking, and smart, but her mom, Mrs. Yang, begs to disagree. Due to past circumstances with Liza dating guys who didn’t meet any of her mother’s criteria, Mrs. Yang is desperate for Liza to date a nice, smart, good looking ASIAN guy.

Teen Review
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You've Reached Sam

By Dustin Thao
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Likhita
Dec 14, 2023

You’ve Reached Sam by Dustin Thao is a young adult romance novel. 16-year-old Julie is still grieving from the loss of her boyfriend, Sam and it doesn’t help that some people blame her for his death. She makes up her mind to stop thinking about him and throws out his stuff, but after reading a message that Sam left for her in the yearbook, she tries to call him. Little did she know that he would pick up.

Teen Review
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The First to Die at the End

By Adam Silvera
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Siera
Dec 14, 2023

The First to Die at the End is the prequel to the book, They Both Die at the End, where two strangers spend a life-changing day together after the Death-Cast makes their first calls. It’s the night before Death-Cast goes live, and there’s one question on everyone’s mind: Can the Death-Cast predict when someone will die, or is it just an elaborate hoax? 

Teen Review
All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover

All Your Perfects

By Colleen Hoover
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Dec 13, 2023

All Your Perfects is an emotionally charged novel that intricately weaves together the past and present of Quinn and Graham's marriage. The story unfolds through dual timelines, providing a poignant glimpse into the couple's early days of falling in love and the current challenges threatening to unravel their once-perfect union. At the heart of the narrative lies the deeply personal and often stigmatized issue of infertility.

Teen Review
Letters to the Lost

Letters to the Lost

By Brigid Kemmerer
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
TeenReviewer11
Dec 13, 2023

Letters to the Lost by Brigid Kemmerer is about Juliet, whose mother passed away, and Declan, who works at a cemetery for required community service. Juliet writes letters to her mother as a way to feel connected to her, and Juliet leaves these letters at her mother’s grave. Though she never received any response, she returns to her mother’s grave one day to find a response to one of the letters. The response was written by Declan, although neither knows who the other is.

Teen Review
Beloved

Beloved

By Toni Morrison
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Dec 12, 2023

Summary: Beloved tells the story of Sethe, an escaped slave, living with her daughter, Denver. The novel starts with the runaway of Sethe’s two sons, Howard and Buglar, and the death of her mother-in-law, Baby Suggs. These events open the theme of the story and introduce the malevolent baby ghost who haunts 124. As more characters show, the novel begins to entwine past and present, revealing flashbacks of Sethe’s past in slavery. With the appearance of Paul D, the main conflict begins to unfold.

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