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#loveozya:: Paris Syndrome :: Lisa Walker
I’ve always been a bit of a francophile, so when I saw the cover of Lisa Walker‘s new #loveOzYA novel – Paris Syndrome – I knew I wouldn’t be able to resist reading it for long. Luckily my library loan came up pretty quickly, and I devoured this one in just a few days. (Obviously I couldn’t resist posing it with my Thursday pre-work croissant – a little ritual I indulge in to help me feel a bit Parisian each week haha) In Paris Syndrome our protagonist is Happy Glass – a seventeen year old girl living in Brisbane and dreaming of going to Paris with her best friend. Happy…
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Review :: Love, Simon :: Becky Albertalli
Another case of me having a book on my TBR FOREVER, and finally reading it so I can see the movie/tv adaptation – a friend gave me Simon vs the Homo Sapiens Agenda (which has been retitled Love, Simon, to match the movie) I think for my birthday in April last year (it could have been longer ago!). There has been so much buzz about the movie that I definitely wanted to see it, and when a friend had tickets to an advance screening on Sunday I jumped at the chance – and so I spent Saturday binge-reading the book =) I think this book deserves every single bit of…
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#loveozya :: If I Tell You :: Alicia Tuckerman
It is no secret that I’m trying to read ALL the #loveozya books this year, and that If I Tell You, by Alicia Tuckerman, was one of the books that I was most excited about (I wrote a bit about it here). By now it is also no secret that when I read this I absolutely I loved it! Let me tell you a little bit about the story (thanks to the Goodreads plot summary), and then we can talk about what I liked so much about it… Seventeen-year-old Alex Summers lives with a secret and the constant fear someone will find out. But when a new family moves to…
