Banter that makes you giggle while swinging your feet back and forth. Witty comebacks
and relatable characters. Book Lovers is most likely one of the best contemporary romances I’ve
read this year.
All of Us Villains revolves around 4 teenagers mainly. They’re Alistair Lowe, Isobel
Macaslan, Gavin Grieve, and Briony Thorburn. All four teenagers live in a small town called
Ilvernath. Ilvernath is cursed, and the curse is that every 20 years, there will be seven people
from the seven families of Ilvernath that compete in a secret deathly competition for high
magick. However, this year, a book exposing all of the secrets of Ilvernath comes out, and now
Mystery, romance, suspense. This book was definitely worth the hype. With beautiful
scenery descriptions and trying to understand the effects of abandonment, the reader will be
asking questions until the very last page.
When twelve year old Lulu’s dad goes missing, it becomes Lulu’s job to
take care of her sister Serena. Lulu has to take her fathers work with only
about seventy dollars, while taking care of her classes. She has to overcome
her problems with hard work in order to protect herself and her sister from
getting separated.
This is a realistic fiction book by John Green. Looking For Alaska is about a group of teenagers,
Miles, Chip, Lara, Takumi, and Alaska who go to a boarding school called Culver Creek. All of
them hate a group of people at their high school - “the weekday warriors.” Miles, Chip, Lara,
Takumi, and Alaska hate the weekday warriors because they are obnoxious and entitled and
think they are better than everybody because they are rich. The weekday warriors and the
"I have a heart for every year I’ve been alive.” Lira, a Siren princess, has collected the hearts of
17 princes, one for each birthday. She lives her life under the sea, as the daughter of the Sea
Queen and future inheritor of the crown. Long ago, the sirens were wronged by humans, and are
now hell-bent on getting revenge by killing them. However, she makes a mistake just before her
eighteenth birthday, and her mom banishes her to the surface, turning her into a human (think
What is Not Yours is Not Yours is a collection of short stories written by Helen Oyeyemi, all
tied together through the motif of keys--a key to a heart, a key to a house, or the key to a solution.
Not all of these short stories take place at the same time or in the same place, but there are certain
short stories that have overlapping characters or small details that remind you of something else you
Introduced as a historical fiction romance, The Poetry of Secrets by Cambria Gordon
becomes much more than just a love story: it is the story of identity, family, loyalty, feminism,
religion, and internal conflict, all during the Spanish Inquisition in Spain in 1481. This novel follows
Isabel Perez, a converso, or a Jew forced to convert to Catholicism. But like many conversos in Spain
during that time, her family, although attending church every Sunday, still practices Judaism in the
Lore, by Alexandra Bracken, takes place during the Agon, a hunt once every seven years where
Greek Gods are made mortal and hunted by mortal descendants of Greek heroes. When a god
is killed, the hunter who dealt the blow gains the powers of that god. Lore Perseous fled this life
long ago, after the death of her entire family. However, she’s drawn back in by Castor, a friend
long thought dead, and Athena, one of the last original gods who needs her help. Lore binds
The Silent Patient, by Alex Michaelides, takes place six years after the death of Gabriel
Berenson. His wife, Alicia was convicted of the crime and institutionalized. Since her husband’s
death, Alicia has been entirely silent, and only through her diary do we get to see her side of
events. Theo Faber, a psychotherapist, has become obsessed with her case and goes to the
Grove, the institution where Alicia lives, to try to get her to talk and reveal her secrets. This
