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Review: Lying in the Deep by Diana Urban

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Jade Miller is ready for a fresh start. After her ex-boyfriend Silas dumped her for her ex-best friend Lainey, Jade is ready to be thousands of miles away from both of them. Jade is spending the semester at sea on Campus on Board, a study abroad program for college students.

Jade can’t wait to explore multiple countries during the semester and have a fresh start. But when Jade arrives in Amsterdam ready to set sail, she spots Silas and Lainey at registration. Jade never got closure, so she becomes obsessed with what happened with both Silas and Lainey.

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Review: Whatever Life Throws at You by Julie Cross

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This book review is part of our then and now series, where we revisit books that we enjoyed in the past.

Summary

Annie Lucas is ecstatic when her dad gets a job offer as a pitching cocah for the Kansas City Royals. Years ago, her dad played only one major league baseball game. Now, he gets to help the Royals and be a part of the baseball world again.

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Review: Picture-Perfect Boyfriend by Becky Dean

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Kenzie Reed is excited for her first family vacation in years. She can’t wait to visit Hawaii and see everything that the island of Maui has to offer. Too bad she can’t be like her old self and photograph everything on the island and wander by herself. Nope, the new and resposible Kenzie didn’t bring her camera and is sticking to the family schedule.

But when Kenzie arrives in Hawaii, a big surprise is waiting for her. Months ago, Kenzie made up a fake boyfriend named Jacob Miller, who she met at a conference. Jacob is perfect in every way, well perfect for her parents.

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Review: Liar’s Beach by Katie Cotugno

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Michael Linden is ready to spend some time at his friend Jasper Kendricks’s beach house on Martha’s Vineyard. He’s excited for hanging out with his friend and relaxing on the beach. However, Linden feels like he doesn’t belong. Even though he attends a fancy New England prep school, he’s a scholarship student from East Boston.

Linden does whatever he can to fit in with his wealthy classmates and tries to act just like them. However, it’s not always easy, especially when Linden realizes the rules are different for his friends.

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Review: Exactly Where You Need to Be by Amelia Diane Coombs

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Florie’s OCD has been holding her back in life. With her best friend Kacey moving to Portland for college, Florie doesn’t know what she’s going to do. At least they still have the trip to the beach house coming up.

But Kacey and Florie both want more. So when they listen to their favorite true crime podcast, they find out that the hosts, Eleanor and Trish, are going to be in San Francisco for a live show. And there is a contest to win tickets and meet and greet passes.

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Review: Queen Bee by Amalie Howard

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Ela Dalvi is determined to get revenge. Three years ago her former best friend Poppy Landers betrayed her. Since then, Ela has been waiting for her chance to go to London to make things right.

Ela has everything planned. She looks completely different from three years ago and is going by the name Lyra Whitley. She’s ready to enter the current social season and finally see Poppy again after all these years.

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Review: The Upside of Falling by Alex Light

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Becca Hart isn’t looking for romance. But when her ex-best friend teases for never having a boyfriend, Becca says she actually has one. She never expected football player Brett Wells to walk by the conversation and say that he was her boyfriend.

Becca has no idea why Brett would help her because everyone at school wants to date him. But Brett is focused on football and college, so having a fake girlfriend gets everyone off his back about relationships. Besides, they don’t have to be together for too long.

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Review: Never Ever Getting Back Together by Sophie Gonzales

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Maya Bailey never wanted to see her ex-boyfriend Jordy Miller ever again. But Jordy is now famous because his older sister married a prince. Too bad the world thinks he’s the perfect guy.

Skye Kaplan wonders what would have happened with Jordy if he hadn’t moved away. They had an amazing connection and she hasn’t met anyone like him since. She would be ecstatic to see him again.

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Review: Seven Percent of Ro Devereux by Ellen O’Clover

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Remember the game Mansion Apartment Shack House (MASH)? It’s a fun kids game that tells you your future. For her senior project, Ro Devereux decided to create an app version of the popular children’s game that can predict your future with 93% accuracy.

With the help of her family friend Vera, a behavioral scientist, Ro was able to ask participants the right questions, while handling the coding side.

Ro never planned on her app becoming big. She just wanted to create it to prove to her dad that she doesn’t need college because she’s ready to start her career out of high school. But when Ro’s influencer cousin promotes online, MASH starts getting hundreds of thousands of downloads.

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Review: Borrow My Heart by Kasie West

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Wren loves to stick to her rules. She always has a plan and rarely ever deviates from it. But one afternoon when she is sitting in a coffee shop, she overhears a guy getting destroyed by his best friend for getting catfished.

So what does she do? She decides to be impulsive once in her life and pretends to be Gemma, the fake girl online, so this guy doesn’t become a laughing stock. But she didn’t expect to like Asher, especially since he’s the exact opposite of her.

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