Genre: Contemporary

THEY BOTH DIE AT THE END By Adam Silvera

Short and Sweet Review On September 5, Mateo and Rufus get a call that within the next 24 hours they’re going to die. Mateo and Rufus don’t know each other but they’re both looking for a friend on their last day for different reasons. Mateo to get out there and live his life to the […]

SOME MISTAKES WERE MADE By Kristin Dwyer

Short and Sweet Review Ellis has had a hard life her parents have always been in and out of her life, and this is where the Albery family comes in. The Albery’s become Ellis’s second family and take her in and give her a place to stay. This became the arrangement when Ellis was younger […]

CONFESSIONS OF AN ALLEGED GOOD GIRL By Joya Goffney

Short and Sweet Review Monique is a pastor’s daughter, but she isn’t into the rules of her religion. Monique is required to wait for marriage before sex but Monique and her boyfriend Dom have been trying but Monique physically can’t have sex. Dom feels like he’s been waiting for too long and breaks up with […]

MESSAGE NOT FOUND By Dante Medema

Sweet and Short Review Bailey and Vanessa are best friends, but when Vanessa leaves Bailey’s house and swerves off a cliff Bailey’s world is changed. Bailey wants to know what happened that night especially because Vanessa was nowhere near her house when she died. Bailey makes a chat bot of Vanessa to help her grieve, […]

QUEEN OF THE TILES By Hanna Alkaf

Short and Sweet Review Trina was great at scrabble, she was Queen of the Tiles, until she dies during a competition. Now Najwa is back to the world of scrabble competitions, she’s been staying away since her best friends death. Everyone at the competition is trying to become the new king or queen, but things […]

BEING MARY BENNET By J.C. Peterson

Short and Sweet Review Marnie has always been fine with who she is until someone tells her she’s more like Mary Bennet than Lizzie. This makes Marnie want to change who she is so maybe the people around her will realize how great she is. Marnie feels like the black sheep of her family and […]

FANGIRL By Rainbow Rowell

Short and Sweet Review Cath is a Simon Snow fan, her life revolves around the book and she even writes her own fanfiction. Cath and her sister Wren used Simon Snow to cope with their mother leaving them. Wren has moved on from the fandom but Cath hasn’t. Now that they’re going to college Wren […]

KILLING TIME By Brenna Ehrlich

Short and Sweet Review Natalie Temple isn’t like the other kids in town she’s into true crime and murder so much so that the other people in town think she’s weird. When her favorite teacher is murdered Natalie’s world is rocked but she also uses this as a chance to start her own investigation. Where […]

LULU AND MILAGRO’S SEARCH FOR CLARITY By Angela Velez

Short and Sweet Review Lulu and her sister Milagro are complete opposites, Lulu is an over-achiever and Milagro seems to care more about boys than her studies. Their older sister Clara is in college and Clara is the sister that seems like she can do no wrong, until she came home from winter break and […]