Genre: Young Adult

THE COUSINS By Karen M. McManus

Short and Sweet Review Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah’s grandmother cut of their parents before the cousins were even born. The cousins don’t really know each other but when they’re invited by their grandmother to work at her island resort they’ll be spending a lot of time together and trying to get into their grandmothers good […]

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 […]

ONCE UPON A BROKEN HEART By Stephanie Garber

Short and Sweet Review Evangeline Fox has always believed in love and happy endings, unfortunately for her the boy she loves is marrying her step sister. Evangeline decides she’s going to make a deal with a fate: the prince of hearts. Evangeline wants the wedding off and the boy she loves back and the prince […]

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, […]

ESCAPE FROM ASYLUM By Madeleine Roux

Short and Sweet Review Brookline isn’t the first place Ricky’s parents have sent him to try to fix him, but Ricky knows something isn’t right with Brookline. He’s seeing and hearing things, and now the Warden has taken a special interest in him, and even chose Ricky for a special program. Ricky realizes that he […]

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 […]

DARK AND SHALLOW LIES By Ginny Myers Sain

Short and Sweet Review La Cachette, Louisiana, is a small town and also the psychic capital of the world. Grey is back for the summer and she’s determined to find out what happened to her best friend Elora, who disappeared six months ago. But as Grey keeps digging she learns that some secrets aren’t worth […]

SENSE AND SECOND-DEGREE MURDER By Tirzah Price

Short and Sweet Review When Elinor Dashwood finds her father dead at his desk she knows that hardships are coming. The Dashwood sisters and their mother are forced out of the house by John, their half brother and his wife. Before they leave their house the girls discover a substance in their father’s teacup and […]

A FORGERY OF ROSES By Jessica S. Olson

Short and Sweet Review Myra has a gift, she is a prodigy and her paintings can alter people’s bodies. Recently prodigies have gone missing and Myra knows she can’t risk anyone finding out who she is, after all she has to take care of her younger sister Lucy. Unfortunately for Myra the governor’s wife discovers […]