The Book Shire

YA Contemporary

Foolish Hearts by Emma Mills

I have such a hard time reviewing anything Emma Mills writes because I just want to put a ton of heart-eyed and sobbing emojis together and leave it at that. [...]

You Bring the Distant Near by Mitali Perkins

I don’t know that I’m going to be able to find adequate words to describe my feelings for this book. This intergenerational heart-wrenching gem of a book, [...]

North of Happy by Adi Alsaid

North of Happy by Adi Alsaid 1 cup likeable protagonist 2 ½ cups grief-induced hallucinations 3 cups food porn ½ cup diversity   6 TB forbidden [...]

Saints and Misfits by S.K. Ali

Saints and Misfits is a pretty solid contemporary with some truly extraordinary components. Let me dive right in. Here’s what I liked: Janna is a bright [...]

Saint Death by Marcus Sedgwick

It’s very hard to review this book because I WANTED to love it the way I loved Blood Red Snow White and while I think that Saint Death is every bit as [...]

Bang by Barry Lyga

I wasn't really sure what to expect when I started reading this one, and it hit me like a punch to the gut basically on page one. Sebastian Cody accidentally [...]

The Unlikelies by Carrie Firestone

Last year, Carrie Firestone’s The Loose Ends List was definitely on my top books of 2016 list. It was uproariously unrepentant and unprecedented in its [...]

#ReadADessen Spotlight – This Lullaby

I am so excited to get to fangirl over Sarah Dessen with you guys this week as part of the official #ReadADessen tour! I received a copy of this wonderful [...]

The Hidden Memory of Objects by Danielle Mages Amato

What a surprising gem this book is! You think you’re getting one thing – a YA mystery with maybe a hint of the mystical - when really you are getting so [...]