Format: ARC

ARC Review: Girl, Unframed by Deb Caletti

ARC Review: Girl, Unframed by Deb Caletti

Synopsis: A teen girl’s summer with her mother turns sinister in this gripping thriller about the insidious dangers of unwanted attention, from Printz Honor medal–winning and National Book Award finalist author Deb Caletti—perfect for fans of Courtney Summers’s Sadie. Sydney Reilly has a bad feeling about going home to San Francisco before she even gets […]

Posted June 21, 2020 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 6 Comments
ARC Review:  If We Were Us by K.L. Walther

ARC Review: If We Were Us by K.L. Walther

Synopsis: Everyone at the prestigious Bexley School believes that Sage Morgan and Charlie Carmichael are meant to be….that it’s just a matter of time until they realize that they are actually in love. When Luke Morrissey shows up on the Bexley campus his presence immediately shakes things up. Charlie and Luke are drawn to each […]

Posted May 31, 2020 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 2 Comments
ARC Review:  Finding Balance by Kati Gardner

ARC Review: Finding Balance by Kati Gardner

Synopsis: Jase Ellison doesn’t remember having Acute Lymphocytic Leukemia when he was three years old. His cancer diagnosis only enters his mind twice a year. Once at his yearly checkup at the oncology clinic and when he attends Camp Chemo in the summer. No one in his “real” life knows about his past, especially his […]

Posted May 9, 2020 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 2 Comments
ARC Review:  The Burning by Laura Bates

ARC Review: The Burning by Laura Bates

A rumour is like a fire. You might think you’ve extinguished it but one creeping, red tendril, one single wisp of smoke is enough to let it leap back into life again. Especially if someone is watching, waiting to fan the flames … New school.Tick.New town.Tick.New surname.Tick.Social media profiles?Erased. There’s nothing to trace Anna back to […]

Posted April 5, 2020 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 0 Comments
ARC Review: The Best Laid Plans by Cameron Lund

ARC Review: The Best Laid Plans by Cameron Lund

High school senior Keely Collins takes on firsts, lasts, and everything in between in this sweet, sex-positive rom-com for fans of Meg Cabot and Jenny Han. It seemed like a good plan at first. When the only other virgin in her group of friends loses it at Keely’s own eighteenth birthday party, she’s inspired to […]

Posted April 4, 2020 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 0 Comments
ARC Review:  The Perfect Escape by Suzanne Park

ARC Review: The Perfect Escape by Suzanne Park

Nate Jae-Woo Kim wants to be rich. When one of his classmates offers Nate a ridiculous amount of money to commit grade fraud, he knows that taking the windfall would help support his prideful Korean family, but is compromising his integrity worth it? Luck comes in the form of Kate Anderson, Nate’s colleague at the […]

Posted April 3, 2020 by Lisa Mandina in Review / 0 Comments