Genre: Emotions & Feelings

Emotional and Heartfelt: Call It What You Want by Brigid Kemmerer

Posted August 26, 2019 by Wendy in Reviews / 0 Comments

Why Did I Read? I really enjoyed Brigid Kemmerer’s Letters to the Lost and was excited to see what her latest contemporary was like! My Thoughts: Well, I know one thing. I can always trust Brigid to really hit me in the feels with her contemporaries. She manages to craft such heartbreaking stories with realistic family relationships. The push and pull of family and societal expectations and what would you do for those that you love? Where is the line […]

Audiobook Review: Emmy & Oliver by Robin Benway

Posted July 16, 2015 by Wendy in Reviews / 8 Comments

The Sound: I thought the narrator Phoebe Strole was fantastic. I feel like all the emotion was transferred so well into Emmy’s voice! I loved listening to this one. The Story: This story is so interesting because the situation is just so.. well, messed up. Emmy and Oliver were best friends as kids and next door neighbors — until Oliver’s dad kidnapped him and everyone’s lives changed. Now, ten years later, he’s back. Everyone wants him to hate his dad […]

No Regrets

Posted July 3, 2014 by Wendy in Reviews / 4 Comments

After I finished reading Since You’ve Been Gone, I loved it so much that I knew I had to read Morgan Matson’s other books ASAP. I owned Second Chance Summer already and ended up reading it along with Rebecca from the Library Canary! Firstly, I’ve heard a lot about this one, all great things and also warnings about reading with tissues. Everything I heard was true. I already knew this was going to be a tough, emotional read just given the content. […]