2016: Scarlet (Marissa Meyer)

I picked this up rather quickly after finishing Cinder, because I enjoyed Cinder so much. Unfortunately, I didn’t think Scarlet was as strong of a story. I think the main thing Scarlet has going against it is that there are two focuses to the story. First, you have the further adventures of Cinder and Kai, moving the overarching plot forward. Second, you have the new

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2016: The Miseducation of Cameron Post (Emily M. Danforth)

Cameron Post is a young girl who has basically the worst thing happen to her — her parents are killed in a car accident. Coincidentally, that same day is the first time she kisses a girl, and because children aren’t logical, she connects the two events in her mind, thus beginning several years of confusion and denial and secrecy. In the mid-90s, rural Montana isn’t

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2013: #15 – The Different Girl (Gordon Dahlquist)

Title: The Different Girl Author: Gordon Dahlquist Format: ARC Paperback Pages: 230 Release Date: February 26, 2013 Publisher: Dutton Juvenile Source: ARC via LibraryThing Read the back of the book Veronika. Caroline. Isobel. Eleanor. One blond, one brunette, one redhead, one with hair black as tar. Four otherwise identical girls who spend their days in sync, tasked to learn. But when May, a very different kind

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