"Everyone lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth instead? The one thing that defines you, that makes everything else about you fall into place."   RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️.5 SYNOPSIS: "Everybody lies about their lives. What would happen if you shared the truth?" This is the question that Julian Jessop, an eccentric, seventy-nine-year-old … Continue reading The Authenticity Project | Clare Pooley | Review

“It'll get easier. That's the beautiful thing about the universe. It puts you through trials, but it never gives you anything you can't handle. We grow from these things.” RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: When Ollie meets Will over the summer break, he thinks he's found his Happily Ever After. But once summer's ended, Will stops texting … Continue reading Only Mostly Devastated | Sophie Gonzales | Review

"'Darling,' London read. 'has not the count just told us that all human wisdom is summed up on two words? 'Wait' and 'hope.'" RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: The Massachusetts School for the Feeble-Minded is not a happy place. The young women who are already there certainly don’t think so. Not Maxine, who is doing everything she … Continue reading The Degenerates | J. Albert Mann | Review

"Rule number one of being a woman from Trinidad: Be hell a fierce." RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: Love and violence. In some families they're bound up together, dysfunctional and poisonous, passed from generation to generation like eye color or a quirk of smile. Trisha's trying to break the chain, channeling her violent impulses into Muay Thai … Continue reading Fight Like A Girl | Sheena Kamal | Review

"I am a girl. I own my own destiny." RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: A page-turning and immersive YA novel in verse, telling the story of Lily who is mercilessly bullied at school and who turns to boxing in an attempt to fight back; a story of hope and resilience breaking through even the most difficult situations. … Continue reading Gloves Off | Louisa Reid | Review

“Through love, all is possible.” RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life—working hard all day and partying all night—until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investigation. She’ll … Continue reading House of Blood and Earth (Crescent City #1) | Sarah J Maas | Review

“When you have enough power and money, you can dictate the meanings of words.” RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: Ellingham Academy is a famous private school in Vermont for the brightest thinkers, inventors, and artists. It was founded by Albert Ellingham, an early twentieth century tycoon, who wanted to make a wonderful place full of riddles, twisting … Continue reading Truly Devious | Maureen Johnson | Review

"Three dark queens Are born in a glen, Sweet little triplets Will never be friends Three dark sisters All fair to be seen, Two to devour And one to be Queen” RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: When kingdom come, there will be one. In every generation on the island of Fennbirn, a set of triplets is born—three … Continue reading Three Dark Crowns | Kendare Blake | Review

“Perhaps my House is broken, but we are a matched set, split apart in the same place, and a broken girl is just the things for a broken House.” RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: When her father is convicted of high treason, Violet Sterling is exiled. Seven years later she has a chance to return to her … Continue reading A Treason of Thorns | Laura E. Weymouth | Review

"There is more than one happy ending for everyone." RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️ SYNOPSIS: Lydia and Freddie. Freddie and Lydia. They'd been together for more than a decade, and Lydia thought their love was indestructible. But she was wrong. On her twenty-eighth birthday, Freddie died in a car accident. So now it's just Lydia, and all she … Continue reading The Two Lives of Lydia Bird | Josie Silver | Review