Genre: Social Themes

Blog Tour: The Code for Love and Heartbreak by Jillian Cantor

Posted October 12, 2020 by Wendy in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments

The Code for Love and Heartbreak is an inventive and cute contemporary retelling of Jane Austen’s Emma. It centers around Emma, an analytical number focused, top of her class student. Numbers are black and white and make sense to her – they always do what they’re supposed to and she much prefers straightforward numbers to subjective feelings. As co-president of her school’s coding club, she comes up with the idea for an app to predict a person’s “perfect match” based […]

Blog Tour: Don’t Read The Comments by Eric Smith

Posted January 29, 2020 by Wendy in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments

My Thoughts: Don’t Read the Comments was such a great ode to video games, online connections and friendships while also addressing some hard hitting issues that are very relevant to the current day. Divya, better known as D1V to her online subscribers of her streaming channel, is just trying to scrape by. She uses every bit of income she gets from sponsers to pay for rent and groceries to help her single mother. As a popular female gamer, she comes […]

Blog Tour: Permanent Record by Mary H.K. Choi

Posted September 4, 2019 by Wendy in Blog Tour, Reviews / 0 Comments

What really drew me to Permanent Record is the fact that it’s about someone who just has no idea what to do with their life as a twenty year old. It’s that stage after high school when everyone now views you as an “adult” and they ask you about your major and your career aspirations when really, a mere year or less earlier, you were just a kid sitting in class and getting through high school. It’s like an unspoken […]

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 […]

Review: Ogre Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine

Posted May 24, 2019 by Wendy in Reviews / 0 Comments

Why Did I Read? When I was a kid, Ella Enchanted was my absolute favorite. I reread it so many times. I still own the same copy I had when I was young and the pages are yellowed, the cover is creased and it’s very, very well loved. I was downright ecstatic when I found out there was going to be another story in the same world! My Thoughts: Well, I was a little (please forgive my pun) disenchanted with […]