Genre: Contemporary

HOW GIRLS ARE MADE By Mindy McGinnis

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

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

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

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

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. […]

YOU’VE FOUND OLIVER By Dustin Thao

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

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

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

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 […]