Genre: Contemporary

THE GETAWAY LIST By Emma Lord

THE GETAWAY LIST By Emma Lord

Short and Sweet Review Riley recently graduated from high school and she feels like she doesn’t really know who she is. She’s spent the last four years trying to be a good kid for her mom but now she just feels like she’s been suppressing herself. Riley decides on a whim to go to New […]

LOVE & OLIVES By Jenna Evans Welch

LOVE & OLIVES By Jenna Evans Welch

Short and Sweet Review Olive who prefers to be called Liv hasn’t seen her father in 9 years, when Liv was 8 he moved to Greece in pursuit of finding Atlantis. Now at 17 Liv is trying to figure out what she wants to do with her future and out of nowhere she gets a […]

SHUT UP, THIS IS SERIOUS By Carolina Ixta

SHUT UP, THIS IS SERIOUS By Carolina Ixta

Short and Sweet Review Belén just wants to be a normal teenager and have normal experiences but in her life nothing is going right, her father left, she may not graduate, and her religious and studious friend ends up pregnant by a boy she can’t tell her parents about because they’re racist. Soon Belén starts […]

THE ATLAS OF US By Kristin Dwyer

THE ATLAS OF US By Kristin Dwyer

Short and Sweet Review Atlas recently lost her dad and life hasn’t been so great. In an effort to finally try to get things back together she signs up for a community service program that focuses on rehabbing trails in the Western Sierra. The thing about this program is that her dad was also once […]

THE INHERITANCE GAMES By Jennifer Lynn Barnes

THE INHERITANCE GAMES By Jennifer Lynn Barnes

Short and Sweet Review Avery doesn’t have the best financial situation going on for her. Avery plans on doing her best in school to get a scholarship to eventually go to college and do better. Things change when Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves a majority of his fortune to Avery, the thing is Avery has […]

WHAT LIGHT By Jay Asher

WHAT LIGHT By Jay Asher

Short and Sweet Review Sierra’s parents own a Christmas tree farm in Oregon but around the holidays her family packs up and goes down to California to sell the trees. Sierra feels like she lives two lives the one she’s used to for 11 months a year and the other she lives during Christmas time. […]

HOW TO EXCAVATE A HEART By Jake Maia Arlow

HOW TO EXCAVATE A HEART By Jake Maia Arlow

Short and Sweet Review During the holiday season, Shani decides to take an internship analyzing fish fossils for a month in DC. While making the drive with her mom to DC her mom accidentally hits a girl with her car. Shani and her mom drive away like it was nothing and the girl walks away. […]

THEIR VICIOUS GAMES By Joelle Wellington

THEIR VICIOUS GAMES By Joelle Wellington

Short and Sweet Review Adina has had to work hard for a lot of things in life. She attends Edgewater Academy on a scholarship and ended up getting into the Ivy League school of her choice, but one fight ends up getting her blacklisted from the school and trying to figure out what her options […]

GHOSTED By Amanda Quain

GHOSTED By Amanda Quain

Short and Sweet Review Hattie goes to Northanger Abbey which is allegedly one of the most haunted high schools in America, but Hattie isn’t a believer. After the death of her father, Hattie decided to do away with anything involving ghosts including believing in them. When new student Kit, who is a huge believer, and […]