Reviews by Category: Fiction

Teen Review
A Court of Thorns and Roses Review by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Thorns and Roses

By Sarah J. Maas
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Maya
Mar 20, 2025

This book follows Feyre, a human living in poverty. The human world is separated from the magical world by a large wall. She mistakenly kills a wolf who was actually a shapeshifter. A beast comes and takes Feyre across the wall as payment for the life she took. 

Teen Review

Uglies

By Scott Westerfeld
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Z. Ahmed
Mar 19, 2025

Uglies is a dystopian novel set in a society where everyone gets a mandatory cosmetic surgery at 16 to become a “Pretty.” The story follows Tally Youngblood, a 15-year-old girl eagerly waiting her transformation. However, she starts doubting the system when she meets Shay, a rebellious girl who resists the operation and introduces Tally to the Smoke, a hidden city of people who reject societal beauty standards.

Teen Review
Twisted Love

Twisted Love

By Ana Huang
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 17, 2025

Alex Volkov is a man with a dark past and an even darker heart. His past is filled with trauma and tragedy that forced him to be closed off. However, when he is forced to look after his best friend’s sister, he begins to feel foreign emotions. Ava Chen tries to see the good in everyone, even a man who never shows kindness. They shouldn’t want each other, but they cannot resist. Secrets unravel and the past threatens to pull them apart.

Teen Review
Binding 13 by Chloe Walsh

Binding 13

By Chloe Walsh
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 17, 2025

Shannon is a quiet girl who is severely bullied at her school. She is forced to move to a new school where she is promised a new start. However, her world has taken a turn when she meets Johnny Kavanagh, Ireland’s golden boy. Johnny’s whole life is planned out with the center of it being rugby. So, when he meets Shannon, his feet are knocked out from under him and he is trying his hardest to stick to his life’s path. Past traumas and dangers are threatening to pull them apart as they try to understand this new world they have created for each other. 

Teen Review
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston

The Seven Year Slip

By Ashley Poston
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 17, 2025

When book publicist Clementine inherits her late aunt’s apartment, she notices its strange anomaly— the apartment will occasionally slip back seven years in the past. One day, she walks into her apartment, stuck in the past, and meets a charming, mysterious man who might be her perfect match. But as the lines between past and present blur, she must decide whether love can defy time or if some things are better left alone. 

Teen Review
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Vernes

Around the World in Eighty Days

By Jules Vernes
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 17, 2025

London is in outrage when a gentleman steals fifty-five thousand pounds from the Bank of England. Phineas Fogg, a rich man who spends his days at the Reform Club playing whist, places a wager of 20 thousand pounds that he can travel across the world in eighty days. He and his servant, Passepartout, who has recently been hired, embark on a journey around the world, where they face many challenges and meet new people. However, he is constantly being pursued by the police, who believe him to be the robber of the Bank of England and are trying to delay his journey so that they can arrest him.

Teen Review
The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo

Poet X

By Elizabeth Acevedo
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Alex
Mar 17, 2025

The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo is a coming-of-age novel about finding your voice. It follows Xiomara, a Dominican teen in Harlem who feels unheard and misunderstood, especially by her strict and religious mother. Xiomara pours her feelings into poetry, expressing her struggles with faith, family and her first love. When she joins a slam poetry club, she starts to embrace her voice and identity, even when it means standing up to those she loves.

Teen Review
Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Long Way Down

By Jason Reynolds
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Alex
Mar 17, 2025

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds is a fast-paced novel in verse about grief, revenge and tough choices. It follows Will, a teenager whose brother was killed. Following the neighborhood’s unspoken rules: no crying, no snitching and getting revenge, Will grabs a gun and heads to settle the score. During an intense elevator ride, Will meets the ghosts of people from his past, each sharing their own tragic stories. As he goes down each floor, he’s forced to question whether revenge is the right path.

Teen Review
The Great Gatsby By F. Scott Fitzgerald

The Great Gatsby

By Scott F. Fitzgerald
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Alex
Mar 17, 2025

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald is a tragic story about wealth, love and the American Dream. It follows Nick Carraway, who gets drawn into the lavish world of his mysterious neighbor, Jay Gatsby — a man obsessed with winning back his lost love, Daisy Buchanan. The novel explores themes of greed, illusion and the emptiness behind glamorous lifestyles. Gatsby’s dream of recreating the past ultimately leads to heartbreak and tragedy, showing that money can’t buy true happiness.

Teen Review
Layla by Colleen Hoover

Layla

By Colleen Hoover
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Kate Horton
Mar 14, 2025

In Layla, Leeds and Layla are set to get married. On their wedding day, they face a tragedy. After this incident, Leeds tries to help Layla recover, but she struggles, not acting like herself. They decide to go on a trip to a bed-and-breakfast, but weird things start happening there... Leeds becomes torn on if they should stay or leave this potentially haunted BnB. If you enjoy romance with a bit of supernatural fantasy, this is the novel for you!

Browse by Tag