Genre: Contemporary

YOU’VE FOUND OLIVER By Dustin Thao

Short and Sweet Review It’s been a year since Sam has died, and even though Oliver knows he won’t get a response he finds comfort in sending Sam’s number text messages with updates about his life. Unbeknownst to Oliver someone else now has Sam’s number, so when Oliver calls Sam’s number he’s surprised when someone […]

ALL THE WAY AROUND THE SUN By XiXi Tian

Short and Sweet Review All the Way Around the Sun, follows our main character Stella as she navigates what her future will look like and also grieving. When Stella’s brother went off to college everyone expected him to come back but he doesn’t he passes and his death changes everything. Stella and her brother were […]

LEAVING THE STATION By Jake Maia Arlow

Short and Sweet Review Zoe just finished her first semester in college and she’s pretty sure it’ll be her last. She went into college feeling like she knew who she was but soon realized she didn’t and that turned her world upside down, and now she’s on a train from New York back home to […]

WE WON’T ALL SURVIVE By Kate Alice Marshall

Short and Sweet Review Two years ago, Mercy was able to save some lives in a mall shooting and since then she’s been hailed as a hero. But for Mercy she lives with a fragment of a bullet in her back and some guilt for not listening to her sister when she said the boy […]

THE REBEL GIRLS OF ROME By Jordyn Taylor

Short and Sweet Review The Rebel Girls of Rome takes place in two different time periods, in the current time we have Lilah who is currently in Rome with her grandfather to bond and learn more about his past. In the past time period which takes place in 1943 Rome which is under Nazi occupation […]

AFTER WE BURNED By Marieke Nijkamp

Short and Sweet Review The local high school in Fenix was just burned down and someone died, some people in Fenix are grieving and others not so much. Eden died in the fire but why was she even there that night? Only five people know what really happened and each one holds a different piece […]

AMELIA, IF ONLY By Becky Albertalli

Short and Sweet Review Amelia is a big fan of Walter Holland and his content and she may have even invited him to prom. Amelia’s friends think she has a parasocial relationship with Walter, but Amlia knows if she can just meet him in person that they would hit it off. Walter has a meet […]

I’LL PRETEND YOU’RE MINE By Tashie Bhuiyan

Short and Sweet Review Summer Ali has spent years making a name for herself as a musician and for all those years she’s had her parents as her managers. As of recently she dropped her parents and is ready to do her own thing and feel in control of her career. Summer needs to write […]

THAT DEVIL, AMBITION By Linsey Miller

Short and Sweet Review Fabian, Credence, and Euphemia, are students at one of the best schools for magicians and they’re in the honors class. Every year the school brings in a devil to teach the honors class and the students have the goal to kill the devil by the end of the year or he […]