Kategori: Contemporary
-
‘My Heart and Other Black Holes’ by Jasmina Warga
The book is pretty depressing and sad with all the talk about suicide and depression, but it could quickly turn from sad to witty in a matter of a few lines.
-
‘Firsts’ by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn
I had great expectations to this book. The plot-idea sounded appealing to me, and I thought the main character would go through some kind of development. But I was disappointed. After reading, I was so confused, and I was not sure what the book was actually about. It left me with more questions than answers.
-
‘Hello, I Love You’ by Katie M. Stout
Sometimes you think you know exactly what you’re going to get, and you got the entire book planned out in your head. ‘Hello, I Love You’ was nothing like that. From the moment I got on the plane to Korea with the main character Grace, I was just as lost as her and had to…
-
‘How to be brave’ by E. Katherine Kottaras
High School student Georgia is determined to go through a self-made bucket list to live life after her mothers dead. The blurb sounded really interesting, but ‘How to be brave’ and espcially Georgia’s bucket list disappointed me big time. Amanda from our editorial board asked me this very good question: “What items would you have…
-
‘We All Looked Up’ by Tommy Wallach
‘We All Looked Up’ is a contemporary Young Adult novel with a very interesting concept and four main characters whom are very different from each other. I expected something new and educational from this book, but all it did was leaving me with a feeling of disappointment.
-
‘Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda’ by Becky Albertalli
“Don’t you think everyone should have to come out? Why is straight the default?” ‘Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda’ is one of the funniest and most heart touching stories I’ve read so far this year. I’m absolutely in love with this book and believe me, if I could force everyone in the world to…
-
‘No and Me’ by Delphine de Vigan
An incredibly poignant and beautiful story about two lonely girls mutual friendship. Not since ‘Zoo Station, The Story of Christiane F.’ have I been so emotionally involved, and even though the story is incredible sad, it wasn’t devastating, but actually life-affirming in a very beautiful way.
-
‘The Perks of being a Wallflower’ by Stephen Chbosky
‘The Perks of Being a Wallflower’ is the story about the sensitive 15-year-old boy, Charlie, who starts in High School. As a reader I felt like I had a bigger role in this book because of the personal writing style and that is something I have never experienced before. But at the same time I…
-
‘Wintergirls’ by Laurie Halse Anderson
‘Wintergirls’ is not just a really good and realistic novel about a young girls complicated relationship to her parents and vice versa. It’s also a kind of a crime/mystery, because Lia in the secret wants to find out how Cassie died. This combination made it both a pageturner and unforgettable.
-
‘Let It Snow’ by John Green, Maureen Johnson and Lauren Myracle
‘Let It Snow’ with the subtitle ‘Three holiday romances’ is a novel from 2008, where three separate novellas mix into each other, storywise. The two first stories were so well written, deep, unpredictable, funny and thrilling, and the last one was a lot worse that just so-so. But overall, ‘Let It Snow’ still deserves four…
-
‘The Shock of the Fall’ by Nathan Filer
I really enjoyed reading ‘The Shock of the Fall’. I had the sense of that I became friends with Matthew while reading the book, and he taught me great things about life.
-
‘Paper Towns’ by John Green
In ‘Paper Towns’ we meet Quentin, also known as Q, who was friends with Margo years ago, when they were kids. Now Q likes Margo, but Margo does not seem to notice him at all. While reading this book I never understood why Q likes Margo so much, since she has never done anything for…
-
’Lovely, Dark and Deep’ by Amy McNamara
It wasn’t quite the love story which made me turn page after page in ‘Lovely, Dark and Deep’. Of course I was curious to find out whether Wren would end up finding happiness in love, but that wasn’t what made this book great. What I really wondered was, whether this unfortunate girl could find her…
-
‘Will Grayson, Will Grayson’ by David Levithan and John Green
‘Will Grayson, Will Grayson’ is written by John Green and David Levithan. It has its own charm with some personalities I instantly fell in love with and I could nothing but smile while reading. So even though I’m not much of a contemporary reader I did enjoy reading this book.