Sometimes there are books that, without being bad reads, I don’t have much to say about. So mini-reviews are the way to go! * * * Beautiful by Amy Reed Pages : 232 Genre : YA, Fiction Stand Alone My Rating : What it’s about, from the back of the book :  When Cassie moves from the tiny town where she has always lived to a suburb of Seattle, she is determined to leave her boring, good-girl existence behind. This is Cassie’s...

Sometimes there are books that, without being bad reads, I don’t have much to say about. So mini-reviews are the way to go! * * * The Secret Year by Jennifer R. Hubbard Pages : 192 Genre : YA, Fiction Stand Alone My Rating : What it’s about :  For a year, Colt and Julia had a secret relationship. When Julia dies in a car crash, Colt doesn’t know how to deal with this secret grief. Then Colt receives a notebook written by...

Inside Out by Maria V. Snyder Pages : 315 Genre : YA, Science-Fiction, Dystopia Series : Insider, Book 1 My Rating : What it’s about : Living in a restricted world divided in lower and Upper levels, Trella is a Scrub. With this unglamorous job and the strict schedule that is imposed on her, Trella has little time for herself. And yet, Trella knows more hiding spots among the pipes than anyone else, the pipes she explores and sleep in...

Married with Zombies by Jesse Petersen Pages : 241 Genre : Horror, Humor Series : Living with the Dead, Book 1 My Rating : What it’s about : David and Sarah’s relationship has had more downs than ups recently. As they head to their marriage counseling session, the couple face what could be the biggest “down” of their marriage : they find their counselor eating the previous client with determination. It’s the zombie...

I never feel like spending too much time on those books I didn’t really enjoy, so once again, it’s time for mini-reviews! * * * The Duff by Kody Keplinger Pages : 288 Genre : YA, Fiction Stand Alone My Rating : What it’s about : When charming Wesley nicknames Bianca “The Duff” (Designated Ugly Fat Friend), she hates him as much as she ever did. Yet she ends up kissing him, and soon she finds herself in a...

UFO in Her Eyes by Xiaolu Guo Pages : 200 Genre : Fiction Stand Alone My Rating : What it’s about : The year is 2012, and in a small Chinese village, Kwok Yun witnesses the unthinkable : a flying object falling down the sky. When she rescues the man she finds on location, Kwok Yun has no idea the event will completely change her little village and make her a celebrity. At the start of 2010, I read and enjoyed Twenty Fragments of a...

The Queen’s Pawn by Christy English Pages : 373 Genre : Historical Fiction Stand Alone (Kind of) My Rating : What it’s about : When princess Alais of France arrives in England to marry Richard the Lionhearted, she has no idea she is about to meet two people that will change her life forever : Richard’s father, king Henry II, and his wife Eleanor of Aquitaine. She immediately forms a friendship with the queen, but her...

The Unidentified by Rae Mariz Pages : 296 Genre : YA, Dystopia Stand Alone My Rating : What it’s about : Kid’s school is called the Game : the teenagers play through levels in what used to be a mall, while being observed through cameras by sponsors. Everyone’s dream is to be sponsored – or more exactly, branded – , yet Kid has a hard time finding her own way through the different groups populating her school. Then a...