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Eliza is a mystery to everyone, including herself. At school, no one dares talk to her, and at home, where her family is obsessed with all things sports, her parents assume all of her reclusive behavior is due to a “teenage thing.” Yet, inside her room, she is the mastermind behind the worldwide famous comic series, Monstrous Sea. The very people who call her weird at school are huge fans of her work, not knowing who she is. At the beginning of her senior year, Eliza meets Wallace, who not only wants to talk to her, but is a huge fan of Monstrous Sea. As their friendship turns into something more, Wallace starts confiding in Eliza all of his secrets, but she’s still hiding the fact that she’s the author of Monstrous Sea. Deeper and deeper their relationship goes and Eliza must decide when she wants to stop hiding. Right of the bat, the premise of Eliza and Her Monsters remind me a lot of Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell. In both books, the main characters are behind successful webstories/...

After a year of staying at the neighbor’s house, Eleanor is finally being allowed to come back to her house. Except, her house isn’t what it use to be. Now, it seems like all of her siblings worship her abusive step-dad and her family is even poorer than what they use to be. Across the neighborhood lives Park, a teenage boy who’s always had a stable family and loves all things punk. Eleanor and Park are total opposites so when they end up sitting next to each other on the bus they have nothing but displeasure for each other. But on the next bus ride, things change. Things change again on the bus ride after that and the bus ride after that. Soon they’re sharing comic books and then speaking to each other and even better, holding hands. Set in the backdrop of the late 1980s, Eleanor and Park’s relationship seems to come straight out of a movie. Unfortunately, it’s real life and it’s crashing down on them. Eleanor & Park is a really good concept for a book. What I mean is, it gli...

Carver’s life was going great. The Sauce Crew was all he needed- the crew that he was in with his three best friends Eli, Mars, and Blake. Now his life sucks, Eli, Mars, and Blake are dead and it’s his fault. Well, not really, but there’s still plenty of blame on him. He sent the text that Mars read at the driver’s seat of the car that Eli and Blake were in. The text that Mars was reading when he swerved the car, killing everyone in it. The only people who don’t blame him are his family, Blake’s grandma, and Eli’s girlfriend Jesmyn. To help the healing process, Blake’s grandma asks him to hold a goodbye day for Blake with her. A day to do all of Blake’s favorite things before saying one last goodbye to him. Soon, the other families are asking for goodbye days and the question rises: who really was responsible for their deaths?   I first became a fan of Jeff Zentner when I read his debut, The Serpent King . I loved how straightforward the book was on really intense issues and ded...

Mateo is going to die. Of course, he has to die sometime but he’s going to specifically die today. He knows because DeathCast called him at midnight letting him know. Mateo is eighteen. Rufus is seventeen and he is also going to die today. Neither of them are ready to go out. Mateo’s anxiety has made it so that he’s barely lived and Rufus is just rebuilding his life after his family died three months ago. Through the Last Friend app, Mateo and Rufus are able to connect and attempt to live their last day to the fullest, literally. Oh, and they might fall in love along the way. So my love for Adam Silvera is at full capacity right now. Not only is he basically the coolest person ever, he released two books this year. The first one, History Is All You Left Me was an automatic all time favorite of mine. Also, exciting news, he’s coming to my library in December (AHHHH)! Basically, my life is made. Of course, I had to read They Both Die at the End as soon as it came out and I feel like...

It’s been three years since Sam Walsh went missing on a bike ride to the mall. Since then, his best friend Josh and his sister Beth have been tormented with his disappearance, both blaming themselves for what happened. At this point, they’ve both settled into regular life, and while Sam is still on their mind, they’re able to move on. Then, Sam is found. Sam’s whole family is beyond relieved and happy to have their brother and son back, except Sam isn’t the innocent boy that they last knew. Now he’s a fourteen year old who is struggling with the present and isn’t doing so hot emotionally. Beth and Josh have no idea what to do, especially since Josh is hiding some information about what happened the day Sam went missing. They have to find some way to deal with it because regular life has now returned. Going into We Now Return to Regular Life , I had no idea what to expect. I’ve never read a book with a topic like this and I hadn’t read any other Martin Wilson book. Now, I am so glad...

Vivi needs a break from the life she’s built and that’s just what she gets: a move to Verona Cove for the summer. Right away, she’s in love with the town. The small-town feel, the diner, her new job, and the beach a walk away. Things couldn’t be going better and to top it off she meets Jonah Daniels, who is feeling anything but joy this summer. Within the past few months his dad passed away and his mom fell apart, leaving him and his five siblings to fend for themselves. From the moment Jonah and his younger sister walk into the pottery shop, Jonah and Vivi stick together like glue. Vivi is the type of girl Jonah’s never met before he becomes enticed with her. However, soon enough her quirks don’t seem quirky but out of hand and if Jonah wants to help her, he’s going to have to do it soon. And, the award for The Worst Book Ever goes to… When We Collided by Emmery Lord. This book was something else and I’m kind of amazed with how this book not only got published, but has mostly p...

It’s been over six months since Tommy has vanished, literally. No one remembers him; not his classmates, not his parents, not his best friends. Ozzie still does. He remembers everything about their relationships. All the late nights and spontaneous trips to the beach? He remembers those. Everyone thinks he’s going crazy, that he should see a therapist, that he should get on medication but he’s not budging. Especially since the universe as he knows it is shrinking. Soon, not even his best friend, Lua, remembers what the sun is or what the stars are and Ozzie is somehow getting close to the golden-boy-gone-rogue Calvin. Every time the universe shrinks Ozzie loses more and more of what he considers normal and he might not even have time to figure out why because, well, the universe is shrinking. I have such a mixed relationship with Shaun David Hutchinson books because I absolutely loved We Are The Ants but I couldn’t even get through The Five Stages of Andrew Brawl. Luckily, not ...

There were holes in Marin’s life. Her mother died when she was three, and her father was non existent. Her grandmother was gone too, but it was okay because her and her grandfather cohabitated fine. That is, along as she doesn’t go in his side of the house and he doesn’t go in her’s. She’s got her best friend, Mabel, too, though they might be becoming more than friends. At least, that’s how it was before. Now, she’s holed up in her New York dormitory on Winter Break, waiting for Mabel to come, who she hasn’t spoken to in months. No one knows what happened to Marin, and she’s not talking. Mabel has three days with her before she has to fly back home, and if she wants to help Marin, she has to work fast. I first became enticed with Nina LaCour’s work in fall of 2014, when I read Everything Leads To You , one of my favorite books of all time. I then read Hold Still and The Disenchantments , both also fantastic. LaCour has this ability to take parts of life that we all go through but ...

Since middle school, it was Wade, Griffin, and Theo. They were their own squad, and did everything together. Then, Theo and Griffin fell in love. Fast, and head over heals. The squad was still Wade, Griffin, and Theo, but there was also just Theo and Griffin. Until Theo decided to move across country for college, and Griffin decided it’d be best if they broke up. But the endgame was always for them to be together, and they vowed to still be best friends. It worked out at first, and even after Theo fell in love with Jackson, Griffin and Theo still tried to be close. And then they stopped trying. The next thing Griffin knows is that he’s at Theo’s funeral, after he drowned. Wade tries to comfort him, but it seems the only person who can really relate to Griffin is Jackson. Along with some help from Wade, Griffin and Jackson work together to try to piece the history Theo left them, even if it means it’ll change everything. I don’t know where to start with this book. I am so heartbroken...