Wild Awake by Hilary T. Smith Pages : 375 Genre : YA, Contemporary fiction Stand Alone My Rating : 4,5/5 From the back of the book  : Things you earnestly believe will happen while your parents are away: 1. You will remember to water the azaleas. 2. You will take detailed, accurate messages. 3. You will call your older brother, Denny, if even the slightest thing goes wrong. 4. You and your best friend/bandmate Lukas will win Battle of...

Jane Austen Goes to Hollywood by Abby McDonald Pages : 336 Genre : YA, Contemporary fiction Stand Alone My Rating : 2,5/5 From the back of the book  : Hallie and Grace Weston have never exactly seen life eye to eye. So when their father dies and leaves everything to his new wife, forcing the girls to pack up and leave San Francisco for a relative’s house in shiny Beverly Hills, the two sisters take to their changing lot in typically...

This Is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith Pages : 416 Genre : YA, Contemporary fiction Stand Alone My Rating : 4/5 From the back of the book  : If fate sent you an email, would you answer? When teenage movie star Graham Larkin accidentally sends small town girl Ellie O’Neill an email about his pet pig, the two seventeen-year-olds strike up a witty and unforgettable correspondence, discussing everything under the sun,...

The Theory of Everything by Kari Luna Pages : 320 Genre : YA, Contemporary fiction, Magical realism Stand Alone My Rating : 4/5 From the back of the book  : Sophie Sophia is obsessed with music from the late eighties. She also has an eccentric physicist father who sometimes vanishes for days and sees things other people don’t see. But when he disappears for good and Sophie’s mom moves them from Brooklyn, New York, to Havencrest,...

Under the Dome by Stephen King Pages : 1074 Genre :  Horror, Sci-fi Stand Alone My Rating : 4,5/5 From the back of the book  : On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester’s Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener’s hand is severed as “the dome” comes...

Golden by Jessi Kirby Pages : 278 Genre :  YA, Contemporary fiction Stand Alone My Rating : 4/5 From the back of the book  : Seventeen-year-old Parker Frost has never taken the road less traveled. Valedictorian and quintessential good girl, she’s about to graduate high school without ever having kissed her crush or broken the rules. So when fate drops a clue in her lap—one that might be the key to unraveling a town mystery—she...

Accidents Happen by Louise Millar Pages : 400 Genre : Mystery, Psychological Thriller Stand Alone My Rating : 3,5/5 From the back of the book  : Kate Parker has weathered unimaginable horrors—her parents died in a traffic accident on her wedding night, and her husband, Hugo, was murdered in a tragic break-in gone wrong. All she has left is her young son, Jack, and determined to make a better future for him, she attempts to pull her...

Always Watching by Chevy Stevens Pages : 352 Genre : Mystery, Psychological Thriller Stand Alone My Rating : 3,5/5 From the back of the book  : In the lockdown ward of a psychiatric hospital, Dr. Nadine Lavoie is in her element. She has the tools to help people, and she has the desire—healing broken families is what she lives for. But Nadine doesn’t want to look too closely at her own past because there are whole chunks of her life...