Cheer Up: Love and Pompoms by Crystal Frasier REVIEW

This was ADORABLE!!!! If you're looking for something sweet and queer with themes of the real struggles trans youth go through, I highly recommend checking this out! This follows Annie and Bebe, old friends reunited through cheerleading, where Bebe is the team captain and Annie is being forced to participate in order to have an…

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She Drives Me Crazy by Kelly Quindlen REVIEW

THIS BOOK WAS...EVERYTHING!!!This is the YA sapphic romance I NEEDED as a high schooler. If I had had this, maybe I wouldn't have read so much fanfiction. It has all the best tropes: enemies-to-lovers, fake dating, basketball-player-and-cheerleader pairing, and some others I won't spoil ;). The romance had me squealing with delight and looking like…

The Ex-Girlfriend of My Ex-Girlfriend is my Girlfriend REVIEW

The title is all too real. This book is like reading one of those magazine advice columns, except everyone who writes in to ask for advice is gay and the advice column writers are also gay and give advice that is both heart warming and keeps it real. As a non-binary lesbian, I found this…

Spoiler Alert by Olivia Dade REVIEW

Spoiler Alert: It was fucking amazing. This was the CUTEST. I was literally squealing at every chapter. Cue the synopsis: This book follows Marcus Caster-Rupp, the star of the biggest show on TV, Gods of the Gates, and April Whittier, a hardcore fan of the show. Marcus, frustrated with the direction the show is taking,…

Piecing Me Together REVIEW

Yes, I'm a little late to the party, but we are gonna roll with it. Piecing Me Together is Renée Watson's 2017 YA novel following Jade, a poor Black girl living in Portland and is on scholarship at the private, majority-white high school across town. When Jade is called to her counselor's office on the…

The Midnight Library Review

tws for this book: su*cide, depression, anxiety When my library got this book, my interest was piqued: a library?? of lives?? a title similar to my favorite HeadSpace Sleepcast?? Amazing. And THEN this won the Goodread's choice award for fiction! Overall, this was a great book, but because of the hype, I was a little…

We Used to Be Friends Review

I am having ALL. THE. FEELS. This summer, I read Amy Spalding's other YA novel, The Summer of Jordi Perez (and the Best Burger in Los Angeles) and it was really everything sapphic I needed. So imagine my excitement to see Spalding had released a new book in 2020! I was really just expecting a…

The Library of Legends Review

Janie Chang's MIND y'all. The Library of Legends was SO GOOD. It was so magical, imaginative, and full of adventure and mystery. The story took so many turns and was full of this magical nostalgia. The magical elements reminded me of something we would see straight out of a studio ghibli movie, while the historical…

Take a Hint, Dani Brown Review

cws for this book: mention of death, grief, mention of anxiety I LOVED THIS BOOK!! While I adored Get a Life, Chloe Brown, it fell a little flat for me in comparison to this one. Take a Hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert is about Dani, the middle sister of the Brown family, who is…

Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky Full Review

cws in this book: child abuse, toxic religion, abusive relationships, death, suicide, murder, self-harm, mental illness It's been a week and I'm still thinking about how this book ended. Imaginary Friend is about Christopher, a young boy who is leaving his house in the middle of the night as his mom flees her abusive boyfriend.…