Genre: Contemporary

FOUR LETTER WORD By Gretchen McNeil

FOUR LETTER WORD By Gretchen McNeil

Short and Sweet Review Izzy has wanted to follow her mothers dream of living in Italy and now that it’s her senior year she’s counting down the days until she can leave. When Alberto an Italian exchange student comes for his stay with Izzy’s family things in town don’t seem so dull anymore. Alberto is […]

ICARUS By K. Ancrum

ICARUS By K. Ancrum

Short and Sweet Review Icarus is a thief and he and his father work together to steal valuable things from Mr. Black and replace them with forgeries. Mr. Black has been the target because of his involvement in the death of Icarus’s mother. To avoid being caught Icarus has to follow his father’s strict rules […]

WITH A LITTLE LUCK By Marissa Meyer

WITH A LITTLE LUCK By Marissa Meyer

Short and Sweet Review Jude is okay with staying low-key, he wants to play dungeon and dragons with his friends and draw comics when he has the time, and work at his parents record shop. One day Jude finds a 20 sided dice and he finds himself with a lot of luck. Almost everything Jude […]

UNDER THIS RED ROCK By Mindy McGinnis

UNDER THIS RED ROCK By Mindy McGinnis

Short and Sweet Review Neely has monsters and they don’t always follow her rules. There’s a history of mental illness in her family and she recently lost her older brother Lance to suicide. Neely decides to get a first job where her monsters won’t follow her, so she becomes a tour guide at the caverns. […]

BAD LIKE US By Gabriella Lepore

BAD LIKE US By Gabriella Lepore

Short and Sweet Review Eva and some of her close friends head down to a beach lodge for spring break, the only thing is, Eva doesn’t really know everyone that well its just when you’re friends with someone their friends become your acquaintances. Anyway things go well for the first few days, until tensions between […]

WE GOT THE BEAT By Jenna Miller

WE GOT THE BEAT By Jenna Miller

Short and Sweet Review It’s Jordan’s junior year and she wants to be the editor in chief of the school newspaper, but instead she gets the job of writing about the schools volleyball team. It would be a doable job if Jordan’s former friend Mackenzie wasn’t the captain of the team. Jordan and Mackenzie used […]

THE SOMEDAY DAUGHTER By Ellen O’Clover

THE SOMEDAY DAUGHTER By Ellen O’Clover

Short and Sweet Review Audrey St. Vrain wasn’t even born when her mother Camilla wrote the novel “Letters to My Someday Daughter” a self-help book for women. That book shot Camilla to fame and she ended up building an empire. Everyone thinks Audrey is lucky to have Camilla as a mother but Audrey has an […]

OUT OF BODY By Nia Davenport

OUT OF BODY By Nia Davenport

Short and Sweet Review Megan has bounced around from friend group to friend group until she meets LC. LC is like her friend soulmate. One night Megan and LC celebrate their friend anniversary and get matching piercings and go out to a party. Things seem to be going alright until Megan wakes up the next […]

THE LIES WE TELL By Katie Zhao

THE LIES WE TELL By Katie Zhao

Short and Sweet Review It’s Annas first year in college and she’s going to Brookings University. Anna is thinking about a lot and she’s living in the campus dorms while her parents bakery is across town and not doing so well, especially since there’s another bakery across the street. College is hard for any first […]