Nicola Yoon sure has a knack for writing smart, charming teenagers in unusual situations. Her prose clips along at a delightful pace and one of these days she’s going to write a book with a…
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I’m Not So Sure About You, Charlie Freeman
It’s 1990(ish) and 14-year-old Charlotte Freeman has recently moved from Boston to rural Massachusetts. She’s got a scrunchy in her hair, is starting a predominantly white school, and she doesn’t quite know the lyrics to…
A Light & Interesting Character Study of a Novel
Oh Lillian, Lillian. I’m not sure how I feel about you Lillian, or your walk. Equal parts charming and annoying, Kathleen Rooney’s novel Lillian Boxfish Takes a Walk is probably a book that would best…
A Good’Un Even if I Figured Out Whodunnit Early
The bad thing about Jane Harper’s The Dry is I figured out pretty quickly “whodunit.” The good thing about The Dry is that the writing is so good and the characters are so interesting that…
Don’t You Bother
Don’t You Cry by Mary Kubica should have had the distinction of being the first book I quit in 2017, and yet somehow I finished it, though I’m not entirely sure why. I guess, maybe,…