Short and Sweet Review Taryn Beck has spent her life trying to survive in a world still recovering from war, where she and her family live in a Scottish refugee camp and struggle to care for her sick younger brother. Her incredible singing voice offers what feels like the only way out, leading her to […]
Short and Sweet Review We Were Never Here follows four teenagers who secretly fund their expensive private school education by breaking into supposedly haunted locations, stealing valuable artwork, and disguising it all as a popular ghost-hunting YouTube channel. But after a job at De Lys Manor ends in tragedy, with Jules dead and Georgia unable to […]
Short and Sweet Review Black Girls Don’t Cry follows Ida, the vice president of her high school’s Black Student Union, as she decides to run for prom queen after a racist “hot list” excludes every girl of color from the school. What begins as a campaign to challenge beauty standards and advocate for representation quickly spirals […]
Short and Sweet Review What Happened to Those Girls was a fun, suspenseful YA thriller that kept me guessing from beginning to end. The story follows Emma, who has always been the outsider in her friend group. After her friends exclude her from a camping trip she originally planned, they are found dead the next morning. […]
Short and Sweet Review Every Exquisite Thing follows Penny Paxton, the daughter of a world-famous supermodel who has spent her whole life surrounded by beauty, fame, and impossible expectations. Wanting to step into the spotlight herself, Penny enrolls at the elite Dorian Drama School, where image matters just as much as talent. When her mentor […]
Short and Sweet Review Ida has spent seven years wondering what happened to her father after he vanished at the mysterious Night King’s Court. When a position opens for a new Luminaire, she uses her candle magic to earn a place there, hoping to uncover the truth. But once inside the dazzling world of midnight […]
Short and Sweet Review Tru has spent her entire life hiding. In a world where people are born with different Talents, hers is the one everyone fears most, she’s a bastion, meaning her body is basically indestructible. Her parents were murdered because of it, and before her mom died, she sent Tru to live with […]
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 […]
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 […]