Tag Archives: young adult

Review: The Awakening and The Struggle

The Awakening and The Struggle by L.J. Smith My rating: 2 of 5 stars I don’t generally mind fluffy bunny-style vampire stories, after all I like Twilight, but this book was a bit too fluffy for my taste. As with other young adult vampire stories, the two books were filled more with purple prose than anything that might be even… (more…)

Review: Gossip Girl

Gossip Girl by Cecily von Ziegesar My rating: 5 of 5 stars Gossip Girl, the first of the Gossip Girl series by Cecily von Ziegesar, was surprisingly fun to read. It didn’t seem like my type of book when I first ran into it a few years ago, but I finally decided to give it a chance. Even though I… (more…)

Review: Go Ask Alice

Go Ask Alice by Beatrice Sparks My rating: 3 of 5 stars When I was a teenager, I read this book (along with some of the others that were written by Beatrice Sparks). I thought, at the time, that it was a pretty good book. I’ve since come to realize how absolutely ridiculous it is. The book is pretty much… (more…)

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