Short and Sweet Review Every Reason to Stay had an emotional premise that immediately pulled me in, but while I enjoyed parts of the story, it didn’t fully come together for me. Skylar’s grief after losing her father was the strongest aspect of the book, and I appreciated that it didn’t shy away from showing how […]
Short and Sweet Review I really wanted to enjoy The Vacation Shift. A YA romance set on a bus tour through Japan sounded like a lot of fun, and the setting ended up being one of the strongest parts of the book. The descriptions of Japan were enjoyable, and I liked seeing Ivy and Matteo’s relationship […]
Short and Sweet Review The Ocean Would Paint me Blue was such an emotional and powerful read. The story follows Jihad, a seventeen-year-old girl whose world loses its color after the sudden death of her mother. As she navigates grief, Islamophobia, and the challenges of starting at a new school, she reconnects with her love […]
Short and Sweet Review Stops Along the Way follows Iris as she heads on a cross-country road trip with her sister Amelia, only to unexpectedly end up traveling alongside her board game rival, Declan, and his brother. While the trip starts as a practical plan to get everyone home for the summer, it slowly becomes a […]
Short and Sweet Review Finley has always built her life around her boyfriend, Colin, letting him take the lead in almost everything. But when she’s suddenly whisked away to her mom’s estranged family’s lake house, and then gets dumped, she’s left without a plan for the first time. As she spends the summer getting to […]
Short and Sweet Review Hannah heads to Scotland for what’s supposed to be the opportunity of a lifetime: spending the summer interning for her favorite author. Instead, her plans completely fall apart when the author abruptly leaves for Japan, leaving Hannah stranded and jobless in a foreign country. After meeting a charming stranger at a […]
Short and Sweet Review Lying About Last Summer follows our main character, Skye heads to a remote summer camp for teens dealing with grief after losing her sister Luisa in a tragic accident the year before. Her parents hope the camp will help her heal, but things take a strange turn when Skye starts receiving […]
Short and Sweet Review Paradise Coast is separated by the elites and the locals. Deep in the everglades there was a luxurious hotel that the elite would frequent until one night there was a fire and a socialite was killed and a dock worker was blamed, then the hotel was swallowed up by the wetlands […]
Short and Sweet Review Emma doesn’t believe in love especially after her parents divorce. When Emma visits the Tanabata festival she makes a wish to prove that love is real and that it can last. Emma begins to receive letters from her greatest love and the letters are from the future. Emma thinks she’s being […]