Since You’ve Been Gone by Megan Matson Pages : 449 Genre : YA, Contemporary Stand alone My Rating : 3.5/5 About the Book  : It was Sloane who yanked Emily out of her shell and made life 100% interesting. But right before what should have been the most epic summer, Sloane just…disappears. All she leaves behind is a to-do list. On it, thirteen Sloane-inspired tasks that Emily would normally never try. But what if they could...

The Killing Woods by Lucy Christopher Pages : 384 Genre : YA, Mystery Stand alone My Rating : 3/5 About the Book  : Ashlee Parker is dead, and Emily Shepherd’s dad is accused of the crime. A former soldier suffering from PTSD, he emerges from the woods carrying the girl’s broken body. “Gone,” he says, then retreats into silence. What really happened that wild night? Emily knows in her bones that her father is...

Belzhar by Meg Wolitzer Pages : 264 Genre : YA Stand alone My Rating : 2/5 About the Book  : If life were fair, Jam Gallahue would still be  at home in New Jersey with her sweet British  boyfriend, Reeve Maxfield. She’d be watching  old comedy sketches with him. She’d be kissing  him in the library stacks. She certainly wouldn’t be at The Wooden Barn, a therapeutic boarding school in rural Vermont, living with a weird...

Please Remain Calm by Courtney Summers Pages : 96 Genre : YA, Horror Series : This is Not a Test, book 2 My Rating : 4.5/5 About the Book  : Rhys and Sloane are headed for a safe haven when they get separated along the way. Rhys is determined to reunite with Sloane until he discovers people who might need him more–people who offer him the closest he’ll get to everything he’s lost, if they can just hold on long...

Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell Pages : 328 Genre : YA, Contemporary Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : Eleanor… Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough…Eleanor. Park… He knows she’ll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever...

Guy in Real Life by Steve Brezenoff Narrated by : MacLeod Andrews, Arielle DeLisle Pages/Time : 400 pages / 9h33 Genre : YA, Contemporary Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : It is Labor Day weekend in Saint Paul, Minnesota, and boy and girl collide on a dark street at two thirty in the morning: Lesh, who wears black, listens to metal, and plays MMOs; Svetlana, who embroiders her skirts, listens to Björk and Berlioz, and...

Love and Other Foreign Words by Erin McCahan Pages : 336 Genre : YA, Contemporary Stand alone My Rating : 4/5 About the Book  : Sixteen-year-old Josie lives her life in translation. She speaks High School, College, Friends, Boyfriends, Break-ups, and even the language of Beautiful Girls. But none of these is her native tongue — the only people who speak that are her best friend Stu and her sister Kate. So when Kate gets engaged...

I went through a lot of books on my YA contemporary reading month, and let’s be honest; for me, there comes a point when it gets almost impossible to have enough interesting thoughts to share on all the books I read. But I still enjoy keeping track of them all, the favorites like the boring ones; so today I’ll be doing it with quick reviews for a few of these books, sharing what I did like about them! Five Summers by Una LaMarche...