Genre: Contemporary

ROMAN AND JEWEL By Dana L. Davis

Short and Sweet Jerzie wants to land a lead role in Broadways newest show, Roman and Jewel, a retelling of Romeo and Juliet. Jerzie gets a role as an understudy and she’s the understudy for Cinny a megastar. On set Jerzie meets Zeppelin Reid, the actor playing Roman. It’s like love at first sight but […]

TINY PRETTY THINGS By Sona Charaipotra, Dhonielle Clayton

Short and Sweet Review At the American Ballet Company our main characters Gigi, Bette, and June just want to be Prima Ballerina, and they’ll do whatever it takes to get to the top even if it includes sabotage and backstabbing. In this book we get the POVs of each girl and there wasn’t one I […]

LOOKING FOR ALASKA By John Green

Short and Sweet Review This book goes from past tense to present so lets start with Before. Miles “Pudge” is starting his first year at Culver Creek, where he meets his new friends Chip “Colonel”, Alaska, Tukami, and Lara. Pudge has a crush on Alaska but she’s already taken so that’s obviously not going to […]

THE LOVE CURSE OF MELODY MCINTYRE By Robin Talley

Short and Sweet Melody is the stage manager for her high school. Melody is great at being a stage manager, what she’s not so great at is finding love. When her crew comes to her and suggest she puts off dating for the next show she’s willing to try it, what she didn’t expect was […]

THE GOOD GIRLS By Claire Eliza Bartlett

Short and Sweet Emma Baines was murdered and all fingers are pointing at her three classmates, Avery, Gwen, and Claude. The truth behind what happened to Emma is in plain sight but the secrets that her three classmates are hiding need to come out in order to find the killer. Characters Claude: Claude is our […]

HOW TO PACK FOR THE END OF THE WORLD By Michelle Falkoff

Short and Sweet Review Amina often thinks about the end of the world and what she would do if it was happening. As a new student at Gardner Academy, Amina meets some like minded students and they make a club focused on survival strategies. Someone is pulling pranks and causing trouble and targeting members of […]

THERE’S SOMEONE INSIDE YOUR HOUSE By Stephanie Perkins

Short and Sweet Review I will make this review really short and not so much sweet. Makani lives in Nebraska with her grandma. Someone is killing the students in town in pretty gruesome ways. Thats pretty much it Makani lives in a small town with a serial killer on the loose. I just could not […]

YOU WERE NEVER HERE By Kathleen Peacock

Short and Sweet Cat hasn’t been Montgomery Falls in five years, the summer she realized that she can do things that aren’t normal. Now she’s back five years later and the boy next door that she was friends with, Riley, has gone missing. Riley’s brother Noah asks for Cat’s help finding Riley, but this only […]

FIVE TOTAL STRANGERS By Natalie D. Richards

Short and Sweet Review All Mira wants to do is get home for Christmas, but that plan is stopped when all flights are cancelled. But Mira’s seat mate from her flight from California, Harper, offers Mira a ride home. Mira says yes but now she’s stuck in a car with four strangers on a snowy […]