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 […]
Short and Sweet Review Paloma has been heartbroken. Last year her boyfriend Julio broke up with her and has been avoiding her ever since, until recently. Julio comes back into Paloma’s life and asks for her help on a project to win a scholarship. Paloma lives in San Fermin where people either work at farms […]
Short and Sweet Review When a teen comes home and learns that his family wants to send him to a conversion, he decides the best thing for him is to runaway. He’s been on the run for eight months and when he gets caught shoplifting he’s taken to the police station. He sees a picture […]