Category: Reviews

RUIN AND RISING By Leigh Bardugo

RUIN AND RISING By Leigh Bardugo

Short and Sweet Everything that Alina has been through has lead to this, one final battle to end it all. Alina and her group are underground with the Apparat but they know at some point they’re going to have to go above ground and face The Darkling, they also know that they need to assemble […]

SIEGE AND STORM By Leigh Bardugo

SIEGE AND STORM By Leigh Bardugo

Short and Sweet Review Siege and Storm picks up right where Shadow and Bone left off. Alina and Mal are in a small town trying to be discreet but The Darkling locates them anyway. Now Alina and Mal are stuck on a ship with The Darkling, Grisha, and a mysterious pirate named Sturmhond. Sturmhond ends […]

SHADOW AND BONE By Leigh Bardugo

SHADOW AND BONE By Leigh Bardugo

Short and Sweet Review Alina is a soldier and she’s going across the Shadow Fold and knows she might not survive. The Shadow Fold is filled with monsters. When her regiment is attacked and one of her closest friends is in danger Alina unleashes a power she didn’t even know she possessed. After revealing her […]

WHEN YOU LOOK LIKE US By  Pamela N. Harris

WHEN YOU LOOK LIKE US By Pamela N. Harris

When Jay’s sister Nic goes to a party and calls him he thinks she’s high on drugs and ends up hanging up on her. But after being gone almost a week Jay realizes something is really wrong. Jay doesn’t think anyone will help someone who looks like “us” which means they have brown skin, black […]

ONE OF THE GOOD ONES By Maika Moulite, Maritza Moulite

ONE OF THE GOOD ONES By Maika Moulite, Maritza Moulite

Short and Sweet Kezi Smith is a social activist, after attending a rally and being taken into custody Kezi is killed under mysterious circumstances. Kezi’s family is still dealing with her death. Kezi becomes another victim remembered for police brutality in the US. To honor Kezi’s memory her sisters, Genny and Happi embark on a […]

TAKEN By Erin Bowman

TAKEN By Erin Bowman

On the eve of a boy’s 18th birthday he will be heisted, this happens to every boy in Claysoot. Gray knows that his time will come soon but after he learns some information that not everything is as it seems he takes a chance and climbs the wall that surrounds Claysoot to see what is […]

ROMAN AND JEWEL By Dana L. Davis

ROMAN AND JEWEL By Dana L. Davis

Short and Sweet Jerzie wants to land a lead role in Broadways newest show, Roman and Jewel, a retelling of Romeo and Juliet. Jerzie gets a role as an understudy and she’s the understudy for Cinny a megastar. On set Jerzie meets Zeppelin Reid, the actor playing Roman. It’s like love at first sight but […]

TINY PRETTY THINGS By Sona Charaipotra, Dhonielle Clayton

TINY PRETTY THINGS By Sona Charaipotra, Dhonielle Clayton

Short and Sweet Review At the American Ballet Company our main characters Gigi, Bette, and June just want to be Prima Ballerina, and they’ll do whatever it takes to get to the top even if it includes sabotage and backstabbing. In this book we get the POVs of each girl and there wasn’t one I […]

LOOKING FOR ALASKA By John Green

LOOKING FOR ALASKA By John Green

Short and Sweet Review This book goes from past tense to present so lets start with Before. Miles “Pudge” is starting his first year at Culver Creek, where he meets his new friends Chip “Colonel”, Alaska, Tukami, and Lara. Pudge has a crush on Alaska but she’s already taken so that’s obviously not going to […]