With the explosion of YA dystopia in the past few years, it can be difficult to find one that stands out from the crowd. After a while, so many series started to look the same to me: citizens divided by arbitrary…
Book Review: ‘Bounce’ (‘Boomerang’ #3) by Noelle August
Playing the occasional club gig just isn’t cutting it for twenty-two-year-old cellist Skyler Canby, who’s trying to support herself and her mother back home in Kentucky. Persuaded by her best friend Beth to accompany her on an audition for the…
Book Review: ‘Fans of the Impossible Life’ by Kate Scelsa
This is the story of a girl, her gay best friend, and the boy in love with both of them. Ten months after her recurring depression landed her in the hospital, Mira is starting over as a new student at…
Book Review: ‘The Devil You Know’ by Trish Doller
Eighteen-year-old Arcadia wants adventure. Living in a tiny Florida town with her dad and four-year-old brother, Cadie spends most of her time working, going to school, and taking care of her family. So when she meets two handsome cousins at a…
Movie Review: ‘Citizenfour’
Edward Snowden is quite a polarizing figure–some view him as a hero for revealing the extent of the state’s surveillance on private citizens, while others see him as a traitor for exposing state secrets–and I suppose there are a great many…
Book Review: ‘The Night We Said Yes’ by Lauren Gibaldi
Before Matt, Ella had a plan. Get over a no-good ex-boyfriend. Graduate from high school without any more distractions. Move away from Orlando, Florida, where she’s lived her entire life. But Matt—the cute, shy, bespectacled bass player who just moved…
