Before, she was just a 16 year old rising soccer star. After, she was a rebel in denial wreaking havoc in the Merchant’s School for the Blind. Refusing to come to terms with her life after meningitis, Maggie lands herself with a parole officer. And just when things seem their darkest, she meets Ben, the only person in the world she can see. Maggie bonds with Ben, and realizes just how great life can be. The only question is: how long will it last?
Miles “Pudge” Halter is only after one thing: The Great Perhaps. Alaska is also after one thing: How do you get out of the labyrinth? The two cross paths at Culver Creek prep, a private boarding school in the south. As they get to know each other, Pudge forms a crush on Alaska. Amid a prank war and keeping his grades up, Pudge must learn how to also navigate his new love life. Will Pudge find The Great Perhaps? Will Alaska find her way out of the labyrinth? Read to find out!
Rowan and Neil have been competing for everything their whole lives. Student council, best class project, even valedictorian. In the last 24 hours of their senior year, there’s only one thing left to compete for: Howl champion. The book explores the journey of the two teens spending those last 24 hours with each other, where they learn more about each other in that time period than they had in the 12 years they’d been in school together.
Heartstopper Volume 5 follows Nick and Charlie in their relationship. This is a story about gay love and two characters struggling with mental health together. They go through struggles such as what happens when college separates us two and how to grow into their relationship together. This is the fifth of the series so read the first four before this one!
The Selection is the perfect dystopian book if you love high society and competition. If you're looking for an easy read this is it. This book follows the main character American Singer and her journey competing for the crown. Although the names in this book might not be creative the plot pulls you in making you want to read more. By the end of the first book in this trilogy I couldn’t wait to get my hands on the second book.
As you continue to read the story, you will notice a lot of ups and downs during America’s and Maxon relationship. They constantly fight and it’s almost as if nothing really happened in the second book because America decides to shut down. There wasn’t as much content in this book as the first one, but I will say it was pretty good. Again the author does a great job at writing it in the perspective of a girl who has a temper, you could really feel the anger inside of America when reading from her POV. And sometimes you just really want to punch Maxon in the face.
This book was really a crossover of The Bachelor and The Hunger Games. I loved reading it from America’s perspective and it’s funny how everyone else wants the crown or the prince but America doesn’t. I also love how Maxon has the ability to punish America for her manners and doings but he lets it go since every girl he’s ever met is polite and virtuous. Another thing that has caught my eye is that the first 3 books are about Maxon’s selection, and the covers are the same color of the American flag.
Check & Mate, by Ali Hazelwood, is a witty and sweet read about rival chess players. Mallory Greenleaf has quit chess, and instead works as a mechanic to care for her mother and sisters. However, when given an opportunity to return to chess, Mallory finds herself matched up against world champion Nolan Sawyer in a charity chess tournament. When Mallory beats Nolan, she finds herself roped back into chess and has to deal with the complicated emotions she has for the game and her growing feelings for Nolan.
We’ll Always Have Summer is the third book of The Summer I Turned Pretty series and takes place two years after the second book and follows Belly Conklin, a freshman in college. Belly has been happily dating Jeremiah for two years, but that all falls apart when she learns that Jeremiah slept with another girl after they fought, and Belly broke up with him.
Mothers Laurel and Sussanah have been best friends since they were young. So, it became a tradition for them to bring their families together every summer to the summer house at Cousins. Laurel’s kids Belly and Steven come together with Sussanah’s kids, Conrad and Jeremiah. As the kids settle into the home, it becomes apparent that something has changed this summer. Belly has grown up into a young woman. Not only are there physical differences but Conrad is acting differently. The book goes through the summer as the kids change, and romantic feelings develop. I loved this book so much.
