The Debutantes series, which includes Little White Lies and
Deadly Little Scandals, by Jennifer Lynn Barnes, made me
just resent how high-class society was presented in the book.
My original reaction to the premise of Don’t Read the Comments by
Eric Smith was that the world didn’t need a gaming/streamer meet
cute. After reading it, I can say I was at least partly wrong.
In this article I’ll be discussing the progress of the romance
between Prince Elmo of Labland and Princess Rainflower of Mrowtown
complete with STEAMY details and INSIDER interviews!!
I guess I liked this series: Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ writing style
is consistent and pretty decent. Unfortunately, other readers must
have not felt the same way because Barnes said that she wouldn’t
be writing a third book because there wasn’t a “broad enough
audience to support continuing the series.”
A Girl Named Digit by Annabel Monaghan is one a
non-mainstream book that I recently read because it was spy-themed
ish. I had a spy themed phase after the Gallagher Girls so this
was one of the related books I wanted to try. Just to preface
this, some of those related spy themed books (like the Naturals)
were pretty good. This one, however, was not.
The Arc of a Scythe series, which includes
Scythe, Thunderhead, and The Toll, by Neal
Shusterman was both interesting and boring at the same time. The
author’s writing and futuristic vision is really impressive. The
books are told from numerous different and seemingly random
perspectives, and the way Shusterman weaves all them together is
really satisfying.
In my senior year of high school, my AP Lit teacher, Mrs. Locken assigned us to write a counter story. The exercise was basically to write about an experience or event that wasn’t as perfect or ideal as it seemed (sort of like expectation vs reality).
School starts tomorrow, so I thought this would be a good time to reflect on this summer. This summer/quarantine has been one of the most productive (loosely defined to include creativity :) periods of time for me.
I generally stay away from murder-mysteries because they’re creepy and make me scared of the dark at night... But the Naturals was a pretty good read, and not even that scary (it is published by Disney Hyperion…).
Since I read an unholy amount of YA books, one day I got it in my head to try writing some myself. I was a little intimidated and didn’t trust myself to write a compelling story, so I asked a top-secret snowflake for help. Here’s what we came up.
The first time I read The Thousandth Floor by Katharine McGee was around three years ago. I don’t remember much besides that I only had a couple of characters I was rooting for. I tried reading it again last week, and I couldn’t even get past page 100.
We’ve all been wondering about Sesame Street’s It couple. I know I have! This article reveals exactly what the relationship between Prince Elmo of Labland and Princess Reema of Mrow-Town is, with steamy details as well as insider interviews!!
The Folk of the Air trilogy by Holly Black was pretty amazing. Although it has some flaws, the pace and tone of the book was completely enthralling. I literally couldn’t put it down without some persuasion.
Just to preface this, I don’t actually really want any of these things, for reasons I’ll explain. But they’re still nice to want to want :)
Geekerella might be the MOST cringey book I have ever read (!) Honestly, some of these meet-cute type stories get by just by being cute (like Tweet Cute, Tell Me Three Things). Geekerella couldn’t even get that right.
One of my all time favorite books!! I've reread this SO many times
(maybe around 5/6?) and it is just perfect.
I named a top secret undercover agent after Baz because I liked
the name so much! Also, it's totally the Harry x Draco canon we
didn't get from the HP books..
To be honest, there’s a lot to criticize about this book. But, I’d be lying if I said I didn’t enjoy it, even if it was a tiny part of me that really liked the (predictable!) meet-cute trope.
This book was much more reflective, mature, and realistic than the books I normally read. Reading it made me realize why it is a good idea to stick to the books I normally read…
When I first read the Gallagher Girls, I loved it so much that I finished it in less than a week! And that was just two weeks ago...