Readability: 3/5
Plot: 2/5
Recommend: No

A Raisin in the Sun documents the life of an African American Family after a member has died and a $10,000 check is received for his life insurance.

I read this for school. It was okay. It wasn't hard to read, but it isn't the type of book I would actively seek out.

Readability: 4/5
Plot: 5/5
Recommend: Yes

A Spark of Light details the events of a day starting from 5pm and going backwards to 8am. The day involves the lives of a few people being caught up in a dangerous situation with a gunman in a women's reproductive health clinic. Different points of view and ideas are presented about life, abortion, and the law.

The way this book was written was a first for me. I have never read a book where the story starts from the end and works its way up to the beginning. Even though this style is unique, I feel like it made me not want to continue reading it all the time (thus the readability rating of 4 instead of 5). It wasn't that bad though, it would be a great book to read backwards (in chapters) (and except for the epilogue).

As for the actual plot, it was compelling and enjoyable. I loved having multiple viewpoints and being able to read the histories and life experiences of more than just one or two people. This meant there was an A story, a B story, and an antagonist's point of view at the same time! Another thing I loved was the end of the book (or beginning of the day) where two plot twists were revealed. Both were quite satisfying and one of them tied to A story and B story together very well. I left this book quite satisfied and glad I had decided to pick it up.

Readability: 5/5
Plot: 5/5
Recommend: Yes

Geekerella is centered around Danielle Wittimer and Darien Freeman as they watch and participate in the reboot of one of their favorite series, Starfield. As Danielle, or Elle, follows her fangirl dream and enters a cosplay contest at ExcelsiCon. Darien finds himself less than thrilled to have to attend a convention where everyone thinks he's nothing but a pretty face.

I only read this book because I won a giveaway for the second book. I am a sucker for fairytale retellings, and I was silently chastising myself for taking 30 pages to realize this was a retelling. As I am writing this review, I now see all of the parallels to the original (I love this feeling).

Geekerella details the romance between Elle and Darien, but it also covers fan culture. I gave this book five stars because it's captivating and the love story was good (to me). I love fairytale retellings and I love romances. I have to say these things do make me a little (maybe a lot) biased, but hey, we are all different readers. So if you really want to know if you should read this book, just pick it up and try it out.

Readability: 5/5
Plot: 5/5
Recommend: Yes

The Distance Between Us is a memoir based on Reyna Grande's life. It describes her life after being separated from her family, and it also explores her life after moving to the United States.

This is a great book. The story is engaging and I could not stop reading. I read this for class and it was very enjoyable compared to other class assigned books. Personally, I loved hating on the characters and following them through their lives.

Readability: 5/5
Plot: 5/5
Recommend: Yes

The Selection follows America and 34 other girls as they compete for the love of Prince Maxon. However, America does not want that life, rather she is in love with Aspen, who is a caste below her.

Amazing book, I first read this book five years ago and to this day, it is still one of my favorites. It is the Hunger Games meets the classic Cinderella story meets the Bachelor, and I love it.

Readability: 4/5
Plot: 3/5
Recommend: No

Once and for All is a book that follows Louna who stopped believing in love after her first love ended tragically. But as a new guy enters her life, she finds herself falling for him.

It's an okay book, it was enjoyable, but slow on some parts. It's pretty cliche and most of the plot points are easy to predict, but some people would probably enjoy it.

I didn't enjoy the fact that Ambrose apparently planned everything to get together, ot the casual cheating.

Readability: 4/5
Plot: 3/5
Recommend: Yes

The Sun is Also a Star contains the story of a girl, a boy, and the universe. Natasha doesn't believe in love. Daniel does. They only have one day together before they will never see each other again.

This book contains 3 cliches:

instant love, miracle reunion, and the one-believes-in-love-but-the-other-doesn't. This book is very cliche. In fact, the girl-doesn't-believe-in-love-but-the-boy-does trope was already done by (500) Days of Summer (and they did it better). The fact that they spend one day together and they fall in love, or the fact that they separate for ten years and then they meet again is super cliche.

The love story is cute, but the cliche is very, well... cliche and very predictable.

Readability: 4/5
Plot: 3/5
Recommendation: Yes

Zephyr Doyle is focused. Focused on leading her team to the field hockey state championship and leaving her small town for her dream school, Boston College...Until a new boy steps into her life.

This book was a great shift from the classic love stories, however, the first few pages hint at

the abusive and manipulative nature of Alec and completely spoils the rest of the book. (I did kind of spoil it for myself by reading a chunk of the end of the book, but I had already suspected this before I read ahead.) However, reading the book with the knowledge that Zephyr was being manipulated did give me a different viewpoint on the story as a whole.

Readability: 4/5
Plot: 4/5
Recommend: Yes

The Heir follows Eadlyn, America's now 18-year-old daughter, and how she is to become the next queen and reluctantly hosts another Selection.

I listened to this via audiobook. I absolutely love the first three books of this series. My biggest question would be why wasn't it a trilogy and then a duology, rather than a five-book series. Despite this, I still love this series. I will admit that America's story and point of view were more enjoyable, but nonetheless I enjoyed the differences between America and Eadlyn. The references to the original three books were like little nuggets of gold and basically, if you liked the original trilogy, read this book (and the next one).

Readability: 4/5
Plot: 4/5
Recommend: Yes

I am Number Four revolves around nine children and their caretakers who have escaped their home planet, Lorien, after an invasion by the Mogadorians. One by one, the Mogadorians plan to kill them all in numerical order. One, Two, and Three are dead, Four (John) is next.

This was my second time reading this book. I loved it the first time, and this time, I loved it too (but maybe a little less). When I first read IANF, I still loved instalove and how awesome Four/John was. Now, the instalove is not my favorite. There is a lot of emphasis on how beautiful Sarah is and how much John is in love with her. I understand that John is genetically wired to love one person, but it seems really forced. Not only that, but I don't like how Four decided to call himself John Smith. I understand why a generic name would be favorable, but why a name that is already engrained in mass media? Despite all of this, I still love the book and I will continue to reread this series.