John Green’s The Fault in Our Stars the sweetest love story I’ve read since, well probably Steve Brezenoff’s Brooklyn, Burning. I thought it would be a longer period of time between sweet love stories. I…
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Nobody sees the negative stereotypes
It’s ironic that a book about bullying can be so full of cruel, negative stereotypes that it verges on bullying itself. Lucky Linderman, the teenage protagonist of A.S. King’s young adult novel Everybody Sees the…
Don’t let the cover scare you
Before I started reading Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs, I took off the book jacket and placed it on the coffee table. I didn’t want that image anywhere near my bedroom,…
A++ even without the automatic ‘Mats’ mention mark-up
I cried when I finished reading Brooklyn, Burning by Steve Brezenoff. While I’m generally a crybaby, I wouldn’t need to use my toes to count how many times a novel has made me cry. But…
The charming tale of Robot Girl & Ghost Boy
Don’t let the bright pink cover and the telephone fool you, How To Say Goodbye In Robot by Natalie Standiford is not the type of YA romance novel you might expect. In fact there were…