Reviews by Tag: secrets

Teen Review
The Secret Year by Jennifer R. Hubbard

The Secret Year

By Jennifer R. Hubbard
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Mia M
Apr 17, 2025

The Secret Year is a realistic fiction young adult novel that follows Colt through his junior year of high school. Labor day weekend, he lost the secret love of his life in a car accident. Although they were in love, no one was allowed to know. He was from the flats, and she was from one of the huge houses up on Black Mountain. Throughout his junior year, Colt faces his grief in secret, reading her journal entries written about their time together, allowing him to relive the best year of his life, the one with Julia.

Teen Review
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Five Survive

By Holly Jackson
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Apr 7, 2025

Five Survive is a thriller novel about six friends who are going on a road trip for spring break. On the way, their RV breaks down in the middle of a forest at night. They quickly realize that it was not an accident. There is a sniper outside of the RV who wants one of the people in the RV to reveal one of their secrets. Throughout the book, many secrets are uncovered, trust is broken, and tensions rise.

Teen Review
The Champions by Kara Thomas

The Champions

By Kara Thomas
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Bridget A
Jan 22, 2025

This mystery book written by Kara Thomas follows the story of Hadley as she works on writing a story for her school newspaper about the school's two time national championship football team. As she works on writing this story, terrible things begin happening to the team. Slowly, she begins to uncover more and more information about the team that the school has covered up for years. As I read this book I found it so exciting. It was full of twists and turns that I never saw coming. It kept me on the edge of my seat from the first chapter and I hoped it would never end.

Teen Review
Five Total Strangers by Natalie D. Richards

Five Total Strangers

By Natalie D. Richards
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Charlie Collins
Jan 12, 2025

Mira is on her way home for the holidays, when her flight gets canceled due to a raging blizzard. Wanting to get home, she accepts an offer from an acquaintance, Harper, whom she met on the plane ride. In the car with Harper and Harper’s friends, Mira begins to feel like the other passengers are hiding secrets. Harper and Brecken seem to know each other. Brecken has an unsettling intensity and a tendency to break the law. Kayla is sleeping nearly the whole time, or is she? Then, there is Josh, the only passenger who is as paranoid as she is, but he’s ready to throw anyone under the bus.

Teen Review
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The Fort

By Gordon Korman
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Leila S.
Jan 4, 2025

The Fort is a superb piece of literature that tells the tale of four boys (soon to be five) who, after Hurricane Leo, go to check on the condition of their makeshift hideout. However, one of the boys, Evan, is forced by his grandmother to bring along Ricky, the new kid, who no one is very happy to hang out with. Nonetheless, Ricky is the one who finds a new hideout in an abandoned bomb shelter and so they are forced to keep hanging out with him.

Teen Review
Five Survive by Holly Jackson

Five Survive

By Holly Jackson
Star Rating
★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Dec 13, 2024

Six People. One killer. Only five survive. In this thriller, a girl named Red goes on a senior trip with her friends - her best friend Maddy, Maddy’s brother Oliver, Oliver’s girlfriend Reyna, Arthur Moore, and Simon Yoo. It seems like the perfect summer until a course of events lead to the sudden break down of their RV. They soon realize that this is no accident, and that someone is out to get them. In this story, secrets are revealed with all kinds of twists and turns that leave one dead.

Teen Review
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The Cousins

By Karen M. McManus
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Sep 6, 2024

The Cousins is a thriller fiction book written by Karen M. McManus, the author of One of Us is Lying. In her book, Milly, Aubrey, and Jonah are the three-Story cousins, but they lead completely different lives that are about to converge into one. Back in the day, their parents had lived on Gull Cove Island with their mother, which she owned.

Teen Review
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Stealing Snow

By Danielle Paige
Star Rating
★★

Rated by
Shereen
Jul 5, 2024

Snow, a 17-year-old girl in Whittaker Psychiatric, falls in love with another patient in the hospital, Bale. They have their first kiss and something tragic happens, causing them to separate. Now, Bale has disappeared from the hospital and Snow is distraught. She too escapes with the help of a mystery man she finds in her dreams being pulled towards the magical kingdom, Algrid.

Teen Review
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The Towering Sky

By Katharine McGee
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Jul 5, 2024

It’s New York City in the year of 2119 and, while there are many skyscrapers, the Tower dominates them all, offering over a thousand floors. Despite the shiny glamor of the city, Leda wants to put everything away into her past because of what happened in Dubai, but when a new investigation from the police department opens up old wounds, she’s forced to seek help from the person she’s been trying to forget the most. Rylin returns to her old life, away from the upper floor. But when she begins to see her old boyfriend again, she is once again torn between two worlds.

Teen Review
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The Dazzling Heights

By Katharine McGee
Star Rating
★★★★★

Rated by
Anonymous
Jul 5, 2024

It’s New York City in the year of 2118, and a tower with a thousand floors stands tall. But there are horrors and secrets that must remain hidden. On the worst night of her life, Leda is taunted by terrible memories and knows that she must keep this secret hidden no matter the cost. Watt is desperate to keep a clean slate and put everything behind him, including hacking. But when Leda blackmails him to work for her again, Watt knows that he has to get rid of her- for good.

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