Book Reviews / C+ Reviewscollege / Contemporary / family relationships / Fiction / lawyer / mothers and daughters / single mother / teens / Womens-FictionNo Comments
Jessica and Emily Burnstein have very different ideas of how this college tour should go. For Emily, it’s a preview of freedom, exploring the possibility of her new and more exciting future. Not that she’s sure she even wants to go to college, but let’s ignore that for now. And ... more >
B- Reviews / Book Reviews / C+ Reviewscollege / Contemporary / high school sweethearts / mystery / Scandal / Young-Adult2 Comments
Mischa Abramavicius is a walking, talking, top-scoring, perfectly well-rounded college application in human form. So when she’s rejected not only by the Ivies, but her loathsome safety school, she is shocked and devastated. All the sacrifices her mother made to send her to prep school, the late nights cramming for ... more >
C+ Reviewscollege / Contemporary / hockey / New Adult6 Comments
A party girl and a clean-cut college hockey player discover that they’re not so different in this sexy, soulful Bayard Hockey novel from the bestselling author of Shut Out and the Heller Brothers series. Ella Verran has three goals this semester: get off academic probation, repair her relationship with her ... more >
B+ Reviews / Recommended Readschildhood friends / college / Contemporary / friends-to-lovers / New Adult3 Comments
Dear Julianna Keyes, I loved Undecided last year – there really are too few books featuring amateur magician heroes. While it’s not necessary to have read Undecided before Undeclared, I do think there is an advantage to the reader who does. They’re both great books so that’s a feature, not ... more >
B- Reviewscollege / Contemporary / m/m / New Adult / queer / Waardenburg Syndrome2 Comments
Dear KA Mitchell, I enjoyed book one of the Ethan & Wyatt series, Getting Him Back, which I reviewed here in February, so I was eager to read the second installment. While the first book is told from Ethan’s POV, this time we get Wyatt’s. This was both good and ... more >
A- Reviews / Recommended Readscollege / Contemporary / hockey / New Adult / rape culture / sexual-assault / Suicide6 Comments
Trigger warning: Suicide, sexual assault and rape culture are all discussed in the book and in the review below. Dear Kelly Jamieson, I’ve had a bit of a mixed reaction to your books. Some of them have been excellent and some… not so much. Still, the wins have been well ... more >