Shatter Me

Rating- 1/5 Tahereh Mafi's fantasy YA novel Shatter Me is just the first book in her ongoing Shatter Me series. The book follows Juliette, a seventeen-year old girl whose been locked up for murder by the Reestablishment. It was an accident, as Juliette's touch is fatal to everyone around her, but no one seems to care. After all, the...

Furyborn

Rating- 4/5 Claire Legrand's newest YA fantasy novel, Furyborn, has been said to be one of the best YA releases of 2018. The story follows two women, centuries apart, but who both hold the power to save, or destroy, their world. When Rielle Dardenne's best friend, a powerful prince, is targeted by a group of assassins,...

Red Queen

Rating - 3/5 If you're as invested in the YA fiction genre as I am, there is no possibility that you haven't heard of this book. Victoria Aveyard's Red Queen is basically the newest popular dystopian/fiction novel, following The Hunger Games, Divergent, The Maze Runner, and Throne of Glass. The novel is set a society where people are divided based...

An Ember in the Ashes

Rating- 2.5/5 I know this rating is weirdly specific, but hear me out. Sabaa Tahir's fantasy novel An Ember in the Ashes follows a slave, Laia, and a soldier, Elias, who are currently living under the Martial empire. But when Laia's brother is arrested for treason, she decides that she must do everything she can to get...

We All Looked Up

Rating-2/5 Tommy Wallach's contemporary fiction novel We All Looked Up follows four teenagers who have spent all of high school being defined by labels - athlete, outcast, slacker, overachiever. Then, Earth is threatened to with the 66.6% chance of being destroyed by Ardor, an asteroid hurtling towards the Earth. That gives Peter, Eliza, Andy, Anita, and the...

Carrying Albert Home

Rating- 4/5 Homer Hickam's emotional yet witty story Carrying Albert Home a West Virginian coal miner (Homer Hickam Sr.), his wife, and her pet alligator. When Homer's wife, Elsie, was in highschool, she dreamed of living West Virginia. She moved to Florida soon afterwards to go to secretary school, where she met Buddy Ebsen and fell in...

Dumplin’

Rating - 3/5 Julie Murphy's Dumplin' follows Willowdean Dickson, known as Dumplin' to her pageant queen mother, a self proclaimed fat girl. She's always been comfortable in her own body. That is until, she finds herself in a relationship with Bo, her hot co-worker and former private school jock. Instead of feeling even better about herself, Willowdean...

All The Bright Places

Rating- 3/5 Jennifer Niven's All The Bright Places is said to be the perfect combination of Eleanor and Park and The Fault in Our Stars. However, I personally think that this book needs a label of it's own. The YA novel follows Theodore Finch as he meets a girl named Violet Markey atop a school bell tower, six stories in...

Eleanor and Park

Rating- 5/5 Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor and Park is heart warming and heart wrenching at the same time. This teen romance novel fills the reader with joy, hope, sadness, and despair at the same time. Rowell's writing style puts a detailed picture into the reader's mind and gives the reader a candid insight into the characters' minds. Eleanor and...