The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger - Book Review

 

 The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger - Book Review

Title: The Catcher in the Rye

Author: J. D. Salinger

Publisher: Little, Brown

Publish Date: July 16, 1951 

Rating: 4.5/5

Summary: Holden Caulfield is a sixteen-year-old boy who just got kicked out of his private school due to bad grades and failing performance. Holden, reluctant to break the news that he got expelled from yet another school and thus having nowhere to go, just roams around New York for two days before breaking the bad news to his parents at home. The entire book is Holden's narration of what happened during those two days-- some things, but nothing exciting. However, Holden is a severely angsty teenager and seems to be very disillusioned and jaded about the world.

*This book review contains spoilers for this book. If you still want to read the review, go ahead. However, I strongly recommend you to read this book before reading my review.

They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera - Book Review

  

 They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera - Book Review

Title: They Both Die at the End

Author: Adam Silvera

Publisher: Harper Teen

Publish Date: September 5, 2017

Rating: 3.7/5

Summary(blurb): On September 5, a little after midnight, Death-Cast calls Mateo Torrez and Rufus Emeterio to give them some bad  news: They're going to die today. Mateo and Rufus are total strangers, but, for different reasons, they're both looking to make a new friend on their End Day. The good news: There's an app for that. It's called Last Friend, and through it, Rufus and Mateo are about to meet up for one last great adventure-- to live a lifetime in a single day. Uplifting and devastating, charming and haunting, They Both Die at the End is a tour de force from acclaimed author Adam Silvera, whose debut novel the New York Times called "profound". It's a story that reminds us there's no life without death, no love without loss- and that it's possible to change your whole world in a day.

**This book review contains spoilers for this book. If you still want to read the review, go ahead. However, I strongly recommend you to read this book before reading my review.

Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper - Book Review

 

 Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper - Book Review

Title: Out of My Mind

Author: Sharon M. Draper

Publisher: Atheneum Books

Publish Date: May 1, 2012 

Rating: 4/5

Summary(blurb): Eleven-year-old Melody has a photographic memory. Her head is like a video camera that is always recording. Always. And there's no delete button. She's the smartest kid in her whole school-- but NO ONE knows it. Most people-- her teacher and doctors included - don't think she's capable of learning, and up until recently her school days consisted of listening to the same preschool-level alphabet lessons again and again and again. If only she could speak up, if only she could tell people what she thinks and knows... but she can't because Melody can't talk. She can't walk. She can't write. Being stuck inside her head is making Melody go out of her mind-- that is, until she discovers something that will allow her to speak for the first time ever. At last Melody has a voice... but not everyone around her is ready to hear it.

**This book review contains spoilers for this book. If you still want to read the review, go ahead. However, I strongly recommend you to read this book before reading my review.

All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven - Book Review

 

 All the Bright Places by Jennifer Niven - Book Review

Title: All the Bright Places

Author: Jenniver Niven

Publisher: Ember

Publish Date: January 6, 2015 

Rating: 4.2/5

Summary(blurb): Theodore FINCH spends each day thinking of ways he might doe, but every day he also searches for- and manages to find- something to keep him here, and alive, and awake. VIOLET Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her small Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her older sister's death. When Finch and Violet meet on a ledge of the bell tower at school, it's unclear who saves whom. Soon it's only with Violet that Finch can be himself. And it's only with Finch that Violet learns to start living. But as Violet's world grows, Finch's begins to shrink. A heart-wrenching, unflinching story of two teens who find each other while standing on the edge.

**This book review contains spoilers for this book. If you still want to read the review, go ahead. However, I strongly recommend you to read this book before reading my review.