Tweet Cute by Emma Lord

This book was nearly impossible to put down once I’d started and if it hadn’t been for the fact that I’d started it too late in the day, I would’ve binged it in one sitting! I LOVED how the whole story and the plot and the characters just sucked me right in and didn’t want …

Call It What You Want by Brigid Kemmerer

Brigid Kemmerer always has this uncanny ability to make me cry. I don’t know how (yes I do) and I don’t know why (yes. I do.), BUT SHE ALWAYS DOES, OKAY. Because she writes heartbroken soft boys that get the rough side of life into her books and my heart can’t take it. Seriously, all …

Dear Evan Hansen by Val Emmich

I've always said that if I can't relate to the main character in the book I'm reading in some way, then I won't be able to appreciate the story. Well, let me tell you, I have never felt more understood by a character than I did by Evan Hansen. He was literally the embodiment of …

The Rest of Us Just Live Here by Patrick Ness

I still can't quite figure out what to think of this book. It was decidedly very different from books I've read before, because, as the synopsis implies, it looks at the perspectives of people who were away from all the real actions. The people on the sidelines of the exciting story. The ones who aren't …

More Than We Can Tell by Brigid Kemmerer

I don't know how Brigid Kemmerer did it, but she managed to somehow create such a fiercely gripping main character who tears you apart by being so emotionally damaged and then makes you ridiculously proud to watch them rise above it all. The character development in this book for the main character, Rev, was honestly …

A Very Large Expanse of Sea by Tahereh Mafi

First of all, I feel the need to admit that I had a really hard time judging this book from a non-biased position, because I, myself, am a hijab (headscarf) wearing Muslim, like our main character in the book. But my religious morals are vastly different from the main character's and they clashed a lot …

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera

Adam Silvera has such a unique voice when writing his characters. That is one of the first things that struck me about his writing style. The two narrators in this book were so vastly different in both their personalities AND their lingo that I honestly never would've thought it was written by the same person. …

Autoboyography by Christina Lauren

This book has me an emotional mess just thinking about it. The way it was written, the emotions it evoked, the rawness of the characters feelings, the love and the pain, all of it. It all just went together perfectly and made for a book I couldn’t not love. This coming of age novel is …

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe by Benjamin Alire Sáenz

This book. This book, you guys. It made me so inexplicably sad and emotional and UGH, I just wanted to cry for more than half of it. And you know who I blame that on? Ari. Because he was the kind of main character whose emotions bleed out of the book and into you and …