Review: The DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend

This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence.THE DUFF: Designated Ugly Fat Friend by Kody Keplinger Series: Stand Alone Published by Little Brown, Poppy on September 7th 2010 Genres: Emotions & Feelings, Family, Young Adult Pages: 280 Source: Bought Goodreads Seventeen-year-old Bianca Piper is cynical and loyal, and she doesn’t think she’s the prettiest of her friends by a long shot. She’s also way too smart to fall for the charms of man-slut and slimy school hottie Wesley Rush. In fact, Bianca hates him. And when he nicknames her “the Duff,” she throws her Coke in his face. But things aren’t so great at home right now, and Bianca is desperate for a distraction. She ends...

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Review: Positively Beautiful

I received this book for free from FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Positively Beautiful by Wendy Mills Series: Stand Alone Published by Bloomsbury USA Childrens on March 3rd 2015 Genres: Emotions & Feelings, Family, Young Adult-Contemporary Pages: 368 Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Goodreads 16-year-old Erin is a smart if slightly dorky teenager, her life taken up with her best friend Trina, her major crush on smoky-eyed, unattainable Michael, and fending off Faith, the vision of perfection who’s somehow always had the knife in for Erin. Her dad, a pilot, died when she was very young, but Erin and her mom are just fine on...

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Review: Say What You Will

I received this book for free from FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Say What You Will by Cammie McGovern Series: Stand Alone Published by HarperTeen on June 3rd 2014 Genres: Young Adult-Contemporary/Romance Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Goodreads John Green's The Fault in Our Stars meets Rainbow Rowell's Eleanor & Park in this beautifully written, incredibly honest, and emotionally poignant novel. Cammie McGovern's insightful young adult debut is a heartfelt and heartbreaking story about how we can all feel lost until we find someone who loves us because of our faults, not in spite of them. Born with cerebral palsy, Amy...

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Review: Love and Other Theories

I received this book for free from FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.This book may be unsuitable for people under 17 years of age due to its use of sexual content, drug and alcohol use, and/or violence.Love and Other Theories by Alexis Bass Series: Stand Alone Published by HarperTeen on December 31st 2014 Genres: Young Adult-Contemporary/Romance Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Goodreads If you want more, you have to give less. That’s the secret to dating in high school. By giving as little as they expect to get in return, seventeen-year-old Aubrey Housing and her three best friends have made it to the second semester of their...

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Review: The Fall

I received this book for free from FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.The Fall by Bethany Griffin Series: Stand Alone Published by Greenwillow Books on October 7th 2014 Genres: Young Adult-Gothic/Thriller Source: FTC: Exchange for honest opinion, Publisher Goodreads Madeline Usher is doomed. She has spent her life fighting fate, and she thought she was succeeding. Until she woke up in a coffin. Ushers die young. Ushers are cursed. Ushers can never leave their house, a house that haunts and is haunted, a house that almost seems to have a mind of its own. Madeline’s life—revealed through short bursts of memory—has hinged around her desperate plan to...

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