Author: Dani Young

I AM THE SWARM By Hayley Chewins

Short and Sweet Review In Nell Strand’s family all of the woman have a magical gift that manifests when they turn 15. Nell doesn’t think these are gifts but more like curses. Her mother changes her age everyday, her sister bleeds music, and depending on how Nell feels different insects appear but the one that […]

ACE OF SPADES By Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé

Short and Sweet Review Devon and Chiamaka attend Niveus Private Academy, where they both happen to be the only black students that attend. It’s their senior year and they’re both made prefects which will look pretty good on their college applications, but when Aces an anonymous person starts sending out texts about Chiamaka and Devon […]

IN THE COMPANY OF KILLERS By Elora Cook

Short and Sweet Review In the Company of Killers follows our main character Tasha as she navigates becoming the new Mob Boss after the death of her father and older sister. Tasha just thought the Nicastro name was powerful but it isn’t until another Mob kills her father and sister that she learns what was […]

HOW TO SURVIVE A SLASHER By Justine Pucella Winans

Short and Sweet Review Satterville is known for the Wolfman and the two massacres that occurred. The first one at a summer camp where a few camp counselors made it out alive. The second time with a copycat killer who went after the counselors who lived. That’s where CJ comes in she was at the […]

SOLVING FOR THE UNKNOWN By Loan Le

Short and Sweet Review Viet is headed to UC Davis for his freshman year of college, he has a passion for forensic science and he’s just ready to immerse himself in the college life experience. Sadly, college is going by in a pace he wasn’t expecting and with the weight his parents put on him […]

FABLE FOR THE END OF THE WORLD By Ava Reid

Short and Sweet Review Inesa lives in a half sunken town where she works at a taxidermy shop with her brother and they barely make ends meet. Unbeknownst to them their mother has them in the red and that means they’re going to need to pay it back and to do that she enrolled Inesa […]

WHEN THE BONES SING By Ginny Myers Sain

Short and Sweet Review Dovie lives in the small town of Lucifer’s Creek, Arkansas, tucked away in the Ozark Mountains. A lot of people have gone missing on the hiking trails and their disappearances are a mystery one minute they’re there and the next their bones are buried. That’s where Dovie comes in, eventually the […]

SAY A LITTLE PRAYER By Jenna Voris

Short and Sweet Review A year ago Riley left the church after realizing that there’s no place for a bi person in her congregation but what really ticked her off was when Pastor Young shamed her sister Hannah for having an abortion, after that Riley was ready to go scorched earth on the church and […]

A PHO LOVE STORY By Loan Le

Short and Sweet Review A Pho Love Story follows Bao and Linh, both teens work at their family’s pho restaurant and these restaurants happen to be across the street from each other. Their families have been rivals for a while and there’s a story there but neither Linh or Bao know what it is. Bao […]