Reviews by Tag: family drama

Teen Review
A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas

A Court of Frost and Starlight

By Sarah J. Maas
Star Rating
★★

Rated by
Maya
Mar 20, 2025

A Court of Frost and Starlight is the fourth book in the series and definitely the most boring. This book is short, but it felt like forever while reading it. It is the definition of a filler book as it follows Feyre and her family in the Night Court over a holiday. This book is different from the others since you get multiple perspectives which was interesting. The book was not bad, but it was definitely not on the same level as the other books.

Teen Review
King of Pride by Ana Huang

King of Pride

By Ana Huang
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Emma Davis
Mar 6, 2025

King of Pride by Ana Huang is a contemporary romance that is closest to a forbidden romance trope. Kai and Isabella are complete opposites, with Isabella living life to the fullest and Kai tending to put work above all else. Kai has a big vote coming up in his family-run company, and he is worried about being able to rise to the challenge of being CEO. Isabella is a distraction to him, but he could be the answer to all of Isabella’s questions creating quite the conundrum.

Teen Review
Bridge of Clay by Markus Zusak

Bridge of Clay

By Markus Zusak
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Mar 3, 2025

The story of five boys (and several animals) within a small home, learning to cope with the death of their mother, the absence of their father and life in general. Honestly, I should be surprised that Zusak manages to write masterpiece after masterpiece. I picked this up after having read his previous two books, The Book Thief and I Am The Messenger and falling in love with his writing style.

Teen Review
Diary of a Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball by Jeff Kinney

Wrecking Ball

By Jeff Kinney
Star Rating
★★★

Rated by
Nirvaan Mehta
Feb 19, 2025

Diary of A Wimpy Kid: Wrecking Ball by Jeff Kinney is about a kid named Greg Heffley who has big dreams about his future. Greg has always dreamed big, thinking about what he would buy if he were rich. Recently, he had been thinking about making a super cool underground mansion that had a videogame room, basketball court, rotating restaurant, laser tag arena, arcade trampoline park and so much more. Well fortunately for him, he ran into some money due to his Great Aunt's passing.

Teen Review
Romeo and Juliet book cover

Romeo and Juliet

By William Shakespeare
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Sarah A.
Jan 13, 2025

This classic piece of literature by Shakespeare tells the tale of forbidden lovers, Romeo Montague, and Juliet Capulet from warring families. To begin, the families are not allowed to fight by order of the Prince. Later that night, Romeo and his friends break into a Capulet party. Romeo meets Juliet and they fall in love. However, all is not well because Juliet is promised to marry Paris. After a deadly battle between the two families, Romeo is banished. Juliet and Romeo make a plan with the Friar that ultimately ends in bloodshed.

Teen Review
The Family Upstairs

The Family Upstairs

By Lisa Jewell
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Maya Wood
Sep 19, 2024

I really, really loved this book. The Family Upstairs is about a young woman who inherits a house with a dark past. As she uncovers the history of the house and its former residents, secrets and mysteries begin to surface. Soon they connect her life to a series of unsettling events. It was everything I like my thriller mystery books to be. Lisa Jewell is one of my favorite authors and this is one of the best books by her I've read. The creepiness and twists of this book are unmatched by anything else I have read.

Teen Review
House of Roots and Ruin by Erin A. Craig

House of Roots and Ruin

By Erin A. Craig
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Jul 2, 2024

House of Roots and Ruin (HoRaR) by Erin A. Craig is a fiction fantasy sequel to Craig’s House of Salt and Sorrows (HoSaS). The second book in the Sisters of the Salt, it follows Verity Thaumas (House of Salt and Sorrow’s main character, Annaleigh,’s youngest sister) all grown up. Now eighteen years old, Verity feels trapped in her older sister, Duchess Camille,’s manor on the sea.

Teen Review
Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover

Heart Bones

By Colleen Hoover
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Lauren
Feb 12, 2024

Beyah is a teeneager forced to spend the summer at her—absent through most of her life—dad’s beach house, with his new family. She is not the most excited because she lived a poverty filled life, much different than her dad’s and her new step sisters. She feels out of place, especially around the guy who really caught her eye, Samson. As they spend more time together, their emotional connection grows and grows. But something is holding them back, and on top of that, their relationship is built on secrets. I, simply put, loved this book. It is a relatable book for teenagers.

Teen Review
Chronicle of a Death Foretold

Chronicle of a Death Foretold

By Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Dec 10, 2023

The work by Márquez follows the death of Santiago Nasar, what preceded it, and what happened afterwards. The book begins by telling the reader that Nasar is to die. Then, it shifts back to the beginning of the story as to why Santiago Nasar was to be killed. The Vicario brothers, Pedro and Pablo, murdered Santiago Nasar due to him allegedly committing adultery with Angela Vicario before she married someone else. 

Teen Review
Spy X Family

Spy X Family Volume 1

By Tatsuya Endo
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Sep 24, 2023

The first volume of Spy X Family by Tatsuya Endo is a mix of action and family bonding
that revolves around the Forgers, a family made up of a spy, an assassin, and a telepath. The
book starts off following Twilight, one of the best spies in his organization, WISE. After a brief
introduction, Twilight gets the mission that will be the main reason for the creation of the Folger
family. In this mission, Twilight is assigned the identity of Loid Forger, and his objective is to

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