Genre: Fiction, Contemporary Publisher: Scout Press Pages: 320 Release Date: March 19, 2019 Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Americanah in this disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly inclusive novel that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and found something very different in its place. Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman … Continue reading Queenie – Candice Carty-Williams
Tell Me No Lies (Follow Me Back #2) – A.V. Geiger
Genre: Young Adult Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Love. Obsession. Jealousy. Murder. No one knows what happened to pop icon Eric Thorn. His Twitter account? Frozen. His cell phone? Cracked and bloody, buried in the snow. Agoraphobic fangirl Tessa Hart knows the truth, but she's finally left her #EricThornObsessed days behind. She has no intention of ever touching … Continue reading Tell Me No Lies (Follow Me Back #2) – A.V. Geiger
This Darkness Mine – Mindy McGinnis
Genre: Young Adult Publisher: Katherine Tegen Books Sasha Stone knows her place—first-chair clarinet, top of her class, and at the side of her oxford-wearing boyfriend. She’s worked her entire life to ensure that her path to Oberlin Conservatory as a star musician is perfectly paved. But suddenly there’s a fork in the road, in the shape … Continue reading This Darkness Mine – Mindy McGinnis
A World Without You – Beth Revis
Genre: Young Adult Contemporary, Mental Health Publisher: Razorbill What if finding her means losing himself? Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. When he was ten, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at fifteen, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the bodies … Continue reading A World Without You – Beth Revis
January First – Michael Schofield
January First is a heartbreaking story about mental illness and the consequences it has for everyone involved. Janni and her family’s story is an important one. It’s a story that will change your perspective on mental illness by teaching you empathy rather than sympathy. It’s a story that will show you what it takes, both … Continue reading January First – Michael Schofield
Waiting on Wednesday #2
Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly post created by Breaking the Spine that features anticipated books. https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/27272505-a-world-without-you?from_new_nav=true&ac=1&from_search=true Seventeen-year-old Bo has always had delusions that he can travel through time. When he was ten, Bo claimed to have witnessed the Titanic hit an iceberg, and at fifteen, he found himself on a Civil War battlefield, horrified by the … Continue reading Waiting on Wednesday #2
Top Five Wednesday
Top Five Wednesday Group: https://www.goodreads.com/group/show/118368-top-5-wednesday Books with "Hard" Topics (ie mental health, sexual assault, illness, etc.) Forbidden – Tabitha Suzuma Incest. Forbidden is the story of a brother and sister who develop serious, emotional feelings for each other and the consequences of those feelings. What makes this book worth reading is its moral ambiguity. The … Continue reading Top Five Wednesday
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