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There’s Something About Sweetie, I Wish You All the Best & The Goodbye Summer | Quick Tho..

May 30, 2019 / 1 Comment / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review
There’s Something About Sweetie, I Wish You All the Best & The Goodbye Summer | Quick Thoughts on New Releases

REVIEW: There’s Something About Sweetie by Sandhya Menon A really cute diverse love story with a great message. Sweetie Nair is a fat, high school track star who is a fierce feminist. She’s also a dutiful daughter and super into her Indian culture. Sweetie spends most of her time dealing with her mother’s issues with how she should lose weight, but her confidence shines through the years of fat-shaming. Ashish Patel is dealing with heartbreak. After being dumped by his on-and-off college girlfriend Celia, he’s got no mojo left. He’s worried he’ll never gain back his confidence with basketball, girls, […]

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The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, Paper Hearts & Tell Me Three Things | Mini-Revi..

July 11, 2017 / 4 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Mini-Reviews, Review
The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue, Paper Hearts & Tell Me Three Things | Mini-Reviews

Review: The Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue by Mackenzi Lee Henry Montague (Monty) and his best friend Percy – whom he is most certainly NOT in love with – are embarking on their Grand Tour. Monty has been the disappointment of his family for years – with a carefree spirit, he’s always been the rake of the family. Along with them on their tour is Felicity, Monty’s sister, who wants to be more than what her family expects of a lady. Percy, meanwhile, is being sent to Holland after his tour, so Monty is looking at this as one final, […]

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Three Swoony Summer Reads That Get It Right | Ramona Blue, Coming Up for Air & When Dimple Met ..

June 27, 2017 / 5 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Mini-Reviews, Review
Three Swoony Summer Reads That Get It Right | Ramona Blue, Coming Up for Air & When Dimple Met Rishi

Review: RAMONA BLUE by Julie Murphy Beautifully intersectional, Ramona Blue is equal parts complex family dynamics, small-town poverty, friendship goals, and swoony romance. Julie Murphy has an incredible gift of being able to bring all of these pieces together in a way that never feels forced, but always lyrical. Ramona Leroux is 17, entering her senior year of high school, with no plans for the future other than staying in Eulogy, Mississippi. She’s got her part-time jobs, her friends, and her sister Hattie, who is pregnant at 19. And she has a summer romance with Grace, a vacationer who’s not […]

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Defending Taylor by Miranda Kenneally | Review

July 8, 2016 / 2 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review
Defending Taylor by Miranda Kenneally | Review

Review: Defending Taylor by Miranda Kenneally Taylor Lukens had a perfect life. With great support from her fantastic family, including a senator father, and two older siblings who love her, she’s captain of the soccer and debate team at her private boarding school and on the road to Yale. But everything changes after one evening in the woods where she takes the fall for her boyfriend Ben, who has a backpack full of prescription pills. Expelled from her private school, Taylor is forced to do senior year at Hundred Oaks High, where she’s given the brush-off by most people who think […]

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The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald | Review + Interview

February 8, 2016 / 8 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Interview, Review
The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald | Review + Interview

Hi guys, today I’m proud to be part of the official blog tour for The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend, which is a fantastic book about…loving books. I’ve got a review and interview (and a special Sourcebooks giveaway), and I think it’s a real winner, whether you’re a YA, NA, or adult fiction reader. Read on to find out my thoughts and hear what Katarina Bivald, the author, has to say! The Readers of Broken Wheel Recommend by Katarina Bivald is a book that begs you and dares you to not love books. It is, in fact, a book about […]

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Catching Up: eBooks Bought and Read Recently

September 14, 2015 / 4 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Mini-Reviews
Catching Up: eBooks Bought and Read Recently

Hi guys, I’m playing a little catch-up with some highly anticipated (for me, at least) eBooks that I bought and read recently. Have you read any of these? Let me know what you think! Tina Chen is a college student who is barely scraping by with her job, her loans, and schooling. Her dad lost his job when she left for college, and it’s been up to her to be the responsible one in her family for a long time. When she and Blake Reynolds, the son of a technology mogul, end up sparring in class about socioeconomic status, it’s […]

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“They Don’t Know About Us”: The Heartbreakers by Ali Novak

August 4, 2015 / 7 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
“They Don’t Know About Us”: The Heartbreakers by Ali Novak

Stella and her twins Cara and Drew have been through a lot together – Cara has non-Hodgkins lymphoma and has been in and out of the hospital as a teen. Now, with their eighteeth birthday coming up, Drew and Stella concoct a scheme to get her signed memorabilia from the world’s biggest boy band, the Heartbreakers – and Stella’s worst nightmare. A bunch of coincidences throw them together with the band for a night, where they have an amazing time together, especially Stella and lead singer Oliver. When an opportunity comes up for Stella to work with the band again, […]

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GIVEAWAY: Blog Tour + Review: Jesse’s Girl by Miranda Kenneally

July 10, 2015 / 2 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
GIVEAWAY: Blog Tour + Review: Jesse’s Girl by Miranda Kenneally

Hi guys! Today I’m excited to be part of the Jesse’s Girl international Blog Tour! I’ve got a review and giveaway going for this adorable summer book, the sixth installment in Miranda Kenneally’s Hundred Oaks series. Read on to check out my thoughts! Jesse’s Girl (Hundred Oaks #6) Author: Miranda Kenneally Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire (Raincoast Books in Canada) Source/Format: eARC provided by publisher on Netgalley Publication date: July 7th 2015 Genres: Contemporary, Young Adult My rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars. Buy It: Indigo.ca | Amazon.ca | Amazon.com | B&N | IndieBound | The Book Depository | iTunes | Google […]

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“Are We Out of the Woods Yet?” Review: Halfway Perfect by Julie Cross & Mark Perini

May 11, 2015 / 2 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Review, Uncategorized
“Are We Out of the Woods Yet?” Review: Halfway Perfect by Julie Cross & Mark Perini

Win a copy of HALFWAY PERFECT & a 1 year subscription to Cosmo! Halfway Perfect Authors: Julie Cross and Mark Perini Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire Source/Format: eARC provided by publisher in exchange for an honest review (thank you!) Publication Date: May 5, 2015 My rating: 3.5 out of 5 stars.  Buy It: Indigo.ca | Amazon.ca | Amazon.com | Barnes and Noble | iBooks | Kobo | IndieBound | The Book Depository Bestselling author Julie Cross teams up with Ford model Mark Perini to pen a poignant and gritty YA novel about love and the dark side of modeling and the fashion industry Eve’s time as a fashion model nearly destroyed her-now she’s […]

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GIVEAWAY + Excerpt: Halfway Perfect by Julie Cross & Mark Perini

April 30, 2015 / 2 Comments / Posted by Tiff @ Mostly YA Lit in Uncategorized
GIVEAWAY + Excerpt: Halfway Perfect by Julie Cross & Mark Perini

Hi everyone, I’m delighted to be part of the promo tour for Halfway Perfect by Julie Cross and Mark Perini. I’m a fan of Julie’s (and part of her street team) after reading her mature YA novels Whatever Life Throws at You and Letters to Nowhere – she does great things with teens who are dealing with tough, pressure-filled worlds. I just started Halfway Perfect, and I’m pretty sure it’s going to be spectacular as well. Stay tuned for my review, but first, check out an excerpt and giveaway from Julie and Mark! Halfway Perfect Authors: Julie Cross and Mark […]

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