Love Edy by Shewanda Pugh When the author emailed me asking if I’d review this book, I was excited to see an African American girl on the cover, but was more than a little worried about the genre–I don’t typically enjoy contemporary YA romance. However, I’m glad I gave it a chance. Shewanda Pugh is a seriously talented writer, and I was sucked in by her beautiful language from the very first page. Love Edy centers on a girl named Edy Phelps (short for Edith) who hails from an

In many other respects, this book was better than the first book. For example, in Shiver, I felt a few of the side characters weren’t well drawn out whereas in this book, Stiefvater has four POV characters and thoroughly fleshes out each one. While this may sound confusing, it actually worked really well, since two of them were our two old friends, lovebirds Grace and Sam (or should I say lovedogs?). Interestingly it is the two new POV characters–Isabelle and Cole–that reall

Really enjoyed this character driven book about a teenaged girl named Ruby who was abandoned by her mother and was forced by social services to live with her estranged sister. Sarah Dessen does a wonderful job filling in the story with a well-rounded, kooky, yet realistic cast of side characters. I picked this book up because I was looking for a contemporary YA romance to help with some scenes I had been writing in my current novel and had been recommended to Sarah Dessen as