Reviews by Category: Fiction

The Magic Fish by Trung Le Nguyen is a graphic novel that will capture the interest of any

reader. Growing up in the 1990s as the son of Vietnamese immigrants living in the Midwest, Tiến’s

life is much different than his mother’s. Besides the everyday language barrier--her first language is

Vietnamese and she’s struggling to learn English, whereas Tiến primarily learned English growing

Verity, by Colleen Hoover, is a suspenseful romance novel and a stand-alone book.

All The Bright Places, by Jennifer Niven, is a young adult fiction and is a stand-alone book.

This adventure fiction book by Adam Silvera was definitely one of the best books I have ever

read. It all begins when two total strangers get a call from Death Cast saying they are going to

die in the next 24 hours. Both download an app that finds them a best friend to live out the last

hours of their life. They set out on a mission to live a lifetime in one day together. This is a

wonderful book told by many different perspectives that merge into one plot for one amazing

book

After a tragic accident, two very close sisters have to learn how to maintain their

closeness through a traumatic experience. Roo, the older sister, crashes her car and gets

“locked-in syndrome” where she can see and hear everything but cannot respond verbally or

physically. She and her younger sister, Tilly, have to figure out how to communicate with each

other again. The book talks about dealing with guilt and how traumatic events can make

relationships between people even more complex. It depicts a lot of real emotions: anger,

Mystery, romance, suspense. This book was definitely worth the hype. With beautiful

scenery descriptions and trying to understand the effects of abandonment, the reader will be

asking questions until the very last page.

When twelve year old Lulu’s dad goes missing, it becomes Lulu’s job to

take care of her sister Serena. Lulu has to take her fathers work with only

about seventy dollars, while taking care of her classes. She has to overcome

her problems with hard work in order to protect herself and her sister from

getting separated.

This is a realistic fiction book by John Green. Looking For Alaska is about a group of teenagers,

Miles, Chip, Lara, Takumi, and Alaska who go to a boarding school called Culver Creek. All of

them hate a group of people at their high school - “the weekday warriors.” Miles, Chip, Lara,

Takumi, and Alaska hate the weekday warriors because they are obnoxious and entitled and

think they are better than everybody because they are rich. The weekday warriors and the

What is Not Yours is Not Yours is a collection of short stories written by Helen Oyeyemi, all

tied together through the motif of keys--a key to a heart, a key to a house, or the key to a solution.

Not all of these short stories take place at the same time or in the same place, but there are certain

short stories that have overlapping characters or small details that remind you of something else you

Scythe by Neil Shusterman is the story of Citra and Rowan, who live in a world without disease,

hunger, injury, or death. In order to prevent overpopulation, Scythes end the lives of random

citizens. Citra and Rowan are chosen as apprentices to a scythe and must learn the ways of

scythes. Neither wants to be a scythe, as scythes are feared by many. In order to survive, the

two must take on the dreaded responsibility of killing others. This book was absolutely brilliant.