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Review: Final Draft by Riley Redgate

By CandidCeillie June 15, 2018May 10, 2018

The only sort of risk 18-year-old Laila Piedra enjoys in Final Draft is the peril she writes for the characters in her stories: epic sci-fi worlds full of quests, forbidden love, and…

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Review: The House that Lou Built by Mae Respicio

By CandidCeillie June 8, 2018May 31, 2018

Lou Bulosan-Nelson is going to build her dream in The House that Lou Built. She shares a room with her mom in her grandmother's house in San Francisco, and longs…

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Review: All of This Is True by Lygia Day Peñaflor

By CandidCeillie April 30, 2018April 21, 2018

Miri Tan loved the book Undertow like it was a living being. So when she and her friends went to a book signing to meet the author, Fatima Ro, they…

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Review:: Descendants by Rae Else

By CandidCeillie June 26, 2017March 25, 2018

There are lots of stories about the children of gods. But what about those cursed by the gods, and their descendants... El, a seventeen-year-old has inherited an ancient and deadly…

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Review:: Tash Hearts Tolstoy by Kathryn Ormsbee

By CandidCeillie May 29, 2017March 25, 2018

After a shout-out from one of the Internet’s superstar vloggers, Natasha “Tash” Zelenka finds herself and her obscure, amateur web series, Unhappy Families, thrust into the limelight: She’s gone viral…

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Review:: How to Make A Wish by Ashley Herring Blake

By CandidCeillie May 5, 2017March 25, 2018

All seventeen year-old Grace Glasser wants in How to Make A Wish is her own life. A normal life in which she sleeps in the same bed for longer than three…

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Review:: Noteworthy by Riley Redgate

By CandidCeillie May 1, 2017March 25, 2018

It’s the start of Jordan Sun’s junior year at the Kensington-Blaine Boarding School for the Performing Arts in Noteworthy. Unfortunately, she’s an Alto 2, which—in the musical theatre world—is sort…

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Review:: Girl Out of Water by Laura Silverman

By CandidCeillie April 24, 2017March 31, 2018

In Girl Out of Water, Anise Sawyer plans to spend every minute of summer with her friends: surfing, chowing down on fish tacos drizzled with wasabi balsamic vinegar, and throwing…

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Review:: The Summer That Melted Everything by Tiffany McDaniel

By CandidCeillie March 3, 2017March 31, 2018

Fielding Bliss has never forgotten the summer of 1984: The Summer That Melted Everything the year a heat wave scorched Breathed, Ohio. The year he became friends with the devil.…

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Review:: The Education of Margot Sanchez by Lilliam Rivera

By CandidCeillie February 13, 2017March 31, 2018

Pretty in Pink comes to the South Bronx in The Education of Margot Sanchez, a bold and romantic coming-of-age novel about dysfunctional families, good and bad choices, and finding the…

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Review:: Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins

By CandidCeillie December 12, 2016April 9, 2018

Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which…

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My NaNo Rebellion!

By CandidCeillie November 2, 2016April 9, 2018

I'm not really a rebel, most of the time. I like to follow the rules, unless they're stupid or I absolutely can't. In the case of National Novel Writing Month,…

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Review:: This is Where It Ends by Marieke Nijkamp

By CandidCeillie September 26, 2016April 18, 2018

Please be aware that This is Where It Ends is about a school shooting. If this is something that will upset you, I'd recommend not reading this review and probably…

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Review:: Tempting Isabel by Rissa Brahm

By CandidCeillie September 9, 2016April 18, 2018

In Tempting Isabel, Wedding planner Isabel Ruiz is cursed. Her hometown of Puerto Vallarta, Mexico agrees, considering her tragic track record. Alone and loveless, she creates fairy-tale weddings for others.…

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Review:: Root, Petal, Thorn by Ella Joy Olsen

By CandidCeillie August 29, 2016April 22, 2018

I received a copy of Root, Petal, Thorn as an eARC from the publisher, Kensington Books, and Netgalley in exchange for an honest review.  Root, Petal, Thorn follows the stories of five…

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