Short and Sweet Review Elias Hilfiker was just a teenage boy from a small village before Victor Frankenstein decided to use him for an experiment. Victor is a brilliant, wealthy young man who is desperate to prove that he can change the world by bringing the dead back to life. After a drunken bet leads […]
Short and Sweet Review Schuyler is an evil spirit who has been stuck haunting the house she used to live in ever since she died. She’s also completely in love with Wren, the girl who now lives there, which would already be complicated enough if Wren didn’t have the absolute worst boyfriend ever. After watching […]
Short and Sweet Review Mikaela has a lot on her plate. Between grieving her grandmother, helping out at her family’s occult shop, and preparing to take on the role of Witch Queen, she already has enough to worry about. Then, during a tarot reading, she turns over the Death card and has a vision of […]
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 […]