Genre: Contemporary

PARADISE COAST By Suzanne Young

Short and Sweet Review Paradise Coast is separated by the elites and the locals. Deep in the everglades there was a luxurious hotel that the elite would frequent until one night there was a fire and a socialite was killed and a dock worker was blamed, then the hotel was swallowed up by the wetlands […]

LOVE ME TOMORROW By Emiko Jean

Short and Sweet Review Emma doesn’t believe in love especially after her parents divorce. When Emma visits the Tanabata festival she makes a wish to prove that love is real and that it can last. Emma begins to receive letters from her greatest love and the letters are from the future. Emma thinks she’s being […]

FEW BLUE SKIES By Carolina Ixta

Short and Sweet Review Paloma has been heartbroken. Last year her boyfriend Julio broke up with her and has been avoiding her ever since, until recently. Julio comes back into Paloma’s life and asks for her help on a project to win a scholarship. Paloma lives in San Fermin where people either work at farms […]

BETTER THE DEVIL By Erik J. Brown

Short and Sweet Review When a teen comes home and learns that his family wants to send him to a conversion, he decides the best thing for him is to runaway. He’s been on the run for eight months and when he gets caught shoplifting he’s taken to the police station. He sees a picture […]

HOW GIRLS ARE MADE By Mindy McGinnis

Short and Sweet Review How Girls Are Made follows three girls Fallon, Shelby, and Jobie whose lives collide in a secret, off-campus sex-ed class that was never supposed to get this big or this dangerous. Fallon is the planner, the fixer, the girl who loves a good list. When her younger sister comes to her […]

BEAUTIFUL BRUTAL BODIES By Linda Cheng

Short and Sweet Review Tian is a famous singer-songwriter with hypnotic vocals and a massive online following, but behind the glitz, she’s basically trapped in her own life. Her childhood friend and bodyguard Liya is her only companion, except Liya isn’t just a loyal protector, she has a monstrous secret. When fans start mysteriously dying […]

THE SECRET ASTRONOMERS By Jessica Walker

Short and Sweet Review Copernicus has just moved from San Francisco to a small West Virginia town after the death of her mother, and she’s trying to find her place in a world that now feels too quiet and too small. When she starts leaving diary notes in the oldest astronomy textbook in her high […]

WE FELL APART By E. Lockhart

Short and Sweet Review Matilda has never met her father, Kingsley, so when she gets an invitation to spend the summer at his Seaside home, curiosity gets the best of her and she buys a ticket. When she gets to her father’s home he’s nowhere to be found instead she meets Meer her half brother […]

THE SCAMMER By Tiffany D. Jackson

Short and Sweet Review Jordyn is about to start her first semester in college and she chose to go to an HBCU, which has her parents heated but deep down she knows this was the right choice. Jordyn becomes friends with her dorm mates Vanessa, Loren, and Kammy and they quickly become a little family. […]