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How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake

22nd June 2018
How to Make a Wish by Ashley Herring Blake
- Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2017
- Genre: Young Adult, LGBTQ+
- Format: Ebook
- Page Count: 336 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐⭐ (4/5)
In short, this book is about wounded characters doing their best to heal each other with love. Ashley captures every possible emotion for the readers to experience: we get annoyed at how incompetent Maggie is, astonished by Grace’s unrequited love for her mother, compassionate towards the recovering Eva, warmed by Luca’s forever-loving family, etc.
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Puddin’ by Julie Murphy

19th June 2018
Puddin’ (Dumplin’ #2) by Julie Murphy
- Publisher: Balzer + Bray, 2018
- Genre: Young Adult
- Format: Ebook
- Page Count: 448 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐⭐ (3/5)
I sort of feel like doorbells are as useless as landline telephones. I mean, if you’re going to come over, wouldn’t you just text me? And if you don’t have my number to text me, do I even want you coming over?
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Dumplin’ by Julie Murphy

15th June 2018
Dumplin’ (Dumplin’ #1) by Julie Murphy
- Publisher: Balzer + Bray, 2015
- Genre: Young Adult
- Format: Ebook
- Page Count: 384 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐ (2/5)
If you go in there and you decide that this isn’t for you, then you never have to go back. But you owe yourself the chance, you hear me?

The message this book tried to convey is clear enough, but the details of the plot are not. Some of the conversations were slightly unnatural and the sense of time was a bit weird. The characters would change subjects without proper pauses and a several-minute drive would be over in a 10-sentence talk. I was left in confusion.
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The Upside of Unrequited by Becky Albertalli

1st June 2018
The Upside of Unrequited (Simonverse #2) by Becky Albertalli
- Publisher: Balzer + Bray, 2017
- Genre: Young Adult
- Format: Ebook
- Page Count: 336 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐ (2/5)
It was an okay yet sweet YA book. I enjoyed some of the scenes but not really the whole plot.
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Almost Midnight by Rainbow Rowell

15th May 2018
Almost Midnight by Rainbow Rowell
- Publisher: Macmillan Children’s Book, 2015
- Genre: Young Adult
- Format: Ebook
- Page Count: 144 pages
- My Rating: ⭐⭐ (2/5)
Maybe I missed something, but I did not find the stories particularly cute. They were only okay.
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