Tag: Contemporary

Review: 10 Things I Hate About Pinky by Sandhya Menon

Posted July 17, 2020 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: 10 Things I Hate About Pinky by Sandhya Menon

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.10 Things I Hate About Pinky by Sandhya Menon Published by Hodder Paperbacks on July 21, 2020 Genres: Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Young Adult Pages: 368 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads The follow-up to When Dimple Met Rishi and There’s Something about Sweetie follows Pinky and Samir as they pretend to date—with disastrous and hilarious results. Pinky Kumar wears the social justice warrior badge with pride. From raccoon hospitals to persecuted rock stars, no cause is too esoteric for her to champion. But a teeny-tiny part of her also really enjoys making her conservative, buttoned-up corporate lawyer parents cringe. Samir Jha might have a few . . . quirks remaining from the time he had to take care of his sick mother, like the endless lists he makes in his planner and the way he schedules every minute of every day, but those are good things. They make life predictable […]

Review: Rick by Alex Gino

Posted July 10, 2020 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Rick by Alex Gino

I received this book for free from Publisher in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Rick by Alex Gino Published by Scholastic Press on April 21, 2020 Genres: Children’s, Contemporary, Fiction Pages: 240 Format: Paperback Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads From the award-winning author of George, the story of a boy named Rick who needs to explore his own identity apart from his jerk of a best friend. Rick’s never questioned much. He’s gone along with his best friend Jeff even when Jeff’s acted like a bully and a jerk. He’s let his father joke with him about which hot girls he might want to date even though that kind of talk always makes him uncomfortable. And he hasn’t given his own identity much thought, because everyone else around him seemed to have figured it out. But now Rick’s gotten to middle school, and new doors are opening. One of them leads to the school’s Rainbow Spectrum club, where kids of many genders and identities congregate, […]

Blog Tour / Review: Summer on a Sunny Island by Sue Moorcroft

Posted May 4, 2020 by Charlotte in Blog Tour, Reviews / 3 Comments
Blog Tour / Review: Summer on a Sunny Island by Sue Moorcroft

I received this book for free from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Summer on a Sunny Island by Sue Moorcroft Published by Avon on April 30 2020 Genres: Chick-lit, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance Pages: 400 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads The #1 bestseller is back with your perfect holiday read! When Rosa Hammond splits up from her partner Marcus after his gambling problem becomes too much to handle, she decides to take up her mum Dora’s offer of a summer in Malta. Not one to sit back and watch her daughter be unhappy, Dora introduces Rosa to Zach, in the hope that sparks will fly under the summer sun. But Rosa’s determined not to be swayed by a handsome man – she’s in Malta to work and that needs to be her focus. Zach, meanwhile, is a magnet for trouble and is dealing with a fair few problems of his own. Neither Rosa or Zach are ready for a romance – but […]

Review: Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Posted April 3, 2020 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams

Queenie by Candice Carty-Williams Published by Orion on March 19, 2019 Genres: Contemporary, Fiction Pages: 330 Format: E-Arc Source: Netgalley Buy on Amazon Goodreads Bridget Jones’s Diary meets Americanah in this disarmingly honest, boldly political, and truly inclusive novel that will speak to anyone who has gone looking for love and found something very different in its place. Queenie Jenkins is a 25-year-old Jamaican British woman living in London, straddling two cultures and slotting neatly into neither. She works at a national newspaper, where she’s constantly forced to compare herself to her white middle class peers. After a messy break up from her long-term white boyfriend, Queenie seeks comfort in all the wrong places…including several hazardous men who do a good job of occupying brain space and a bad job of affirming self-worth. As Queenie careens from one questionable decision to another, she finds herself wondering, “What are you doing? Why are you doing it? Who do you want to be?”—all of the questions today’s woman must face in a world trying to answer them for her.. Having read Queenie a little […]

Review: Love & Other Curses by Michael Thomas Ford

Posted April 23, 2019 by Charlotte in Reviews / 0 Comments
Review: Love & Other Curses by Michael Thomas Ford

Love & Other Curses by Michael Thomas Ford Published by HarperTeen on April 9, 2019 Genres: Contemporary, Young Adult Pages: 352 Format: Arc Source: Publisher Buy on Amazon Goodreads The Weyward family has been haunted by a curse for generations—if a Weyward falls in love before their seventeenth birthday, the person they love dies. Sam doesn’t plan to fall for anyone in the nine weeks before his birthday. He’ll spend his time working at the Eezy-Freeze with his dad; cooking up some midsummer magic with his grandmother, great-grandmother, and great-great-grandmother (the Grands); and experimenting with drag with the help of the queens at the Shangri-La, the local gay club. But when a new guy comes to town, Sam finds himself in trouble when they strike up a friendship that might be way more than that. As Sam’s birthday approaches and he still hasn’t quite fallen in love, the curse seems to get more powerful and less specific about who it targets. A mysterious girl Sam talks to on the phone late at night and a woman he’s only seen in […]