Reviews by Tag: contemporary

Teen Review
Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover

Ugly Love

By Colleen Hoover
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Kate Horton
Mar 14, 2025

When new nurse, Tate Collins, meets an airline pilot while visiting her brother, the pair are forced to get along. They start a no-string attached agreement, but even with that in place, feeling begin to grow. As this happens, Tate discovers Mile’s past and why he says he is not emotionally available. Do Tate and Miles have a future? Or will that complicate their lives too much? I really enjoyed this book. It was a light-hearted, easy romance read. A perfect book to take on a trip or read at the end of your day. It is very easy to connect to both Tate and Mile’s varying perspectives.

Teen Review
King of Wrath by Ana Huang

King of Wrath

By Ana Huang
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Emma Davis
Mar 6, 2025

King of Wrath by Ana Huang is a fun contemporary romance that has a universally loved trope: billionaire CEO arranged marriage. Vivian Lau is rich, but she is new to money, and therefore has certain social blocks. If she marries Dante Russo, though, she will be catapulted into high society as the elite of the elites. Dante only agrees to marry Vivian because of the fact that if he doesn’t, his younger brother will pay for mafia-related poor decisions.

Teen Review
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

By Haruki Murakami
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Mariam S.
Apr 30, 2022

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami is a complex contemporary novel with elements of mystery and magical realism. The story follows a young man named Toru Okada who, at the beginning of the novel, is told by his wife to look for their missing cat. His journey takes him from the suburbs of Tokyo to a supposedly haunted house to the bottom of a well to a strange dream world that somehow affects reality. In the process of looking for their lost cat, he loses his wife as well.

Teen Review
Lucky Girl by Jamie Pacton

Lucky Girl

By Jamie Pacton
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Marium K.
Oct 6, 2021

When Jane Belleweather, a 17 year old, wins a 58 million dollar lottery ticket, she is stressed out. She is conflicted on what to do next and who to trust. She is left with only a few options with what to do with her ticket. Give her ticket to her hoarder mother, tell her journalist best friend, or trust her ex-boyfriend, who came back into her life after disappearing. Does Jane end up claiming her prize? What will happen next? Read more to find out!

Teen Review
Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven

Holding Up the Universe

By Jennifer Niven
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Justyna H.
Oct 6, 2021

In the young adult novel Holding Up the Universe, Libby Strout and Jack Masselin live two separate lives with the same goals: to be wanted in society. Libby, formerly known as “America’s Fattest Teen” who was cut out from her house after a massive panic attack, and Jack, a high school boy living with Prosopagnosia, the inability to recognize faces, even the people he loves, come together through a demoralizing prank.

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