Publisher: HarperCollins

THE GREAT DISILLUSIONMENT OF NICK AND JAY By Ryan Douglass

Short and Sweet Review Seventeen-year-old Nick Carrington dreams of becoming a journalist and escaping Greenwood, Oklahoma, but everything changes when the Tulsa Race Massacre shatters his family and his future. Forced to start over in Harlem with relatives he barely knows, Nick finds himself trying to rebuild his life while carrying an enormous amount of […]

RED AS ROYAL BLOOD By Elizabeth Hart

Short and Sweet Review Ruby has spent her whole life as a servant in the castle, quietly solving puzzles and playing secret chess matches with one particular prince… and then suddenly the king dies and names her—a maid—his heir. No warning, no explanation, just instant “congratulations, you’re queen now.” And of course the castle is […]

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 […]

MERCY By Patricia Ward

Short and Sweet Review Mercy lives in Arbor Falls which is a small town and unfortunately for her she’s apart of one of the core families which means she’s cursed by the Sorrowing. Back in the day a family was murdered and they put a curse on the families that committed the crime so now […]

ONCE A VILLAIN By Vanessa Len

Short and Sweet Review In this third and final installment of the Monsters trilogy were back with our characters from previous books but they’re stuck in the timeline Eleanor has made and they have to figure out how to make things right in a world that’s so wrong. Joan, Nick, Aaron, Jamie, and Ruth are […]

A THEORY OF DREAMING By Ava Reid

Short and Sweet Review A Theory of Dreaming picks up shortly after A Study in Drowning, both Effy and Preston are back after defeating the Fairy King and they’re now facing backlash after publishing their thesis about Emrys Meridian. Effy and Preston face new challenges in this book and even though they knew it was […]

EMBRACE THE SERPENT By Sunya Mara

Short and Sweet Review The Serpent King is one of the most eligible bachelors but he’s also known as being a cold monster. Saphira is an orphan and she likes being invisible to most, the only thing is Saphira is a skilled jewel smith, but to keep her presence on the down low she lets […]

YOU’VE AWOKEN HER By Ann Dávila Cardinal

Short and Sweet Review Gabriel is staying with his best friend Ruth in the Hamptons for the summer and while most people would be excited about that Gabi prefers to stay indoors with his Funko collection and books. When Gabi makes it to the Hamptons and witnesses a woman bring dragged into the ocean and […]

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 […]