Cozy Ink

This is the sort of book that can best be enjoyed in the season that it was read in. In this case, that was summer. Alas, I read this in winter, so I'm going to be critical. (What else is new?) The Summer of Jordi Perez is a brief read about Abby, a 17 year old girl who blogs about plus sized fashion. She lands a summer internship at her favorite store, Lemonberry. She is the social media intern, and on her first day, she meets the photography intern, Jordi. There's just one problem; there's only room for one of them at the company, and Abby is developing a crush on Jordi. Ultimately, it was a cute story with a disappointing ending and a sort of lackluster plot. First of all, there was the matter of the best burger in Los Angeles. Abby became friends with this sort of one dimensional jock named Jax, and his father was launching a ranking app. Together, they decided to rank the best burgers. However, for something in the title, it had maybe fifteen pages in the actual bo...

Now that we're a month into 2019, I've decided to do a best books of 2018 post. Maybe by 2020 I'll be punctual and able to write blog introductions. Without further ado, my top 18 of 2018. (In no order.) 1. Sawkill Girls, By Claire Legrand Three girls unite to fight off a monster representative of the patriarchy on their tiny island.  Despite being about four hundred pages long, the story is extremely engaging and the characters are well developed. I cannot hype this one up enough.)   2. Far From The Tree, by Robin Benway Three siblings who grew up apart reunite and help each other recover from their various life traumas. The writing is simple and sweet, and despite there being a lot of characters, you really get to know all of them.  3. A heart in the body of the world, By Deb Calletti Anabelle takes off running from Seattle to Washington after tragedy strikes her at home. A heartbreaking story about family, recovery, and violence that will keep you read...

Before I let go, by Marieke Nijkamp, is a   chilling story about a girl who returns to her Alaskan hometown to mourn her friend's death. The girl is Corey, and her friend is Kyra. Much of the story is told in the past tense though conversations between them, mostly revolving around Kyra's bipolar disorder. Writing - The writing in before I let go was what I would describe as "no style." For me, this means that there was nothing that I hated about it. There were a lot of lines that were very quoteable, but they were sort of awkward inserted into what was supposed to be everyday dialogue between Corey and Kyra. Characters -  Corey and Kyra were the only real characters, and they both just had an arbitrary trait assigned to them as their character. Kyra constantly talked about how she was more than her disorder, but her character really wasn't. All of the memories that Corey had of her revolved around her talking about it. (Or Corey talking about astronomy and...

Hello, readers of book blogs. I'm an amateur reviewer who felt that her goodreads reviews were a little long. (And ranty.) I also don't know how to write things that aren't book reviews or fiction, so excuse the writing of this. I'll try to post twice a week on here, and I'm super excited to get to know everyone in the YA blogging community!                            -Sarah