Grief is a hard thing to manage, especially when you lose your best friend/kind of boyfriend who you’ve grown up with most of your life. What’s even worse, is that Griffin has to deal with Jackson’s grief, who was Theo’s current boyfriend when he died. Griffin isn’t ready to deal with any of this, but […]
I absolutely adored this book and all the characters that came with it. Queens of Geek follows three Australian friends as they travel together to a geeky convention over the weekend, creating a story of self-discovery while dealing with societal issues relevant to the current time. Readers get to read through the first person POV’s of […]
The Secret Science of Magic is an incredibly relatable contemporary story about figuring out who you are and what to do with your life. It features two charming characters who you can’t help but root for and if that’s not enough, there’s also lots of science and a sprinkle of magic. Sophia is a math genius […]
Finishing high school is an emotional time, particularly when you’re parting with people you’ve been seeing everyday for most of your life. For the first time, you have a choice of what you want to do in life, where you want to study, if you choose to study, work, travel or do nothing at all. This […]
Trigger warning: mental and physical abuse I really, really enjoy A.S. King’s writing (see my review of Ask the Passengers here) but every time I pick up a book of hers, I’m a little taken aback by how weird and quirky it is and it takes me a while to get into it. I definitely had that experience […]
Black kids getting shot. Murdered by police when unarmed without a reason. Working against a system that will never give them justice. Although Starr and Garden Heights is fictional, this is a story that is very real for many black families out there. When they’ve done absolutely nothing wrong, when they get themselves an education, work […]
Trigger warning: domestic violence The End of Our Story is a book that I picked up solely because it contains my favourite romance trope of all time, second chance romance. But it ended up wowing me for so much more than just the romance. I loved the themes that were explored in this book and I thought […]
Check this book out if you’re looking for a fun and flirty light read that is mindless and laugh-out-loud funny. Extremely superficial at times, I can see why people liken this book to a romantic comedy movie. The awkward, clumsy main character Emily can be an absolute train wreck, but you can’t help but read […]
I was intrigued by Before You Forget from the first time that I heard about it at the Penguin Teen Australia YA Showcase in January. It’s an Aussie YA release that focuses on early onset Alzheimer’s and anorexia nervosa, both of which I have a deep interest in as a psychology major. I appreciated that the novel […]