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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: 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: 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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Review: So, This is Love by Tracy Andreen

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So, This is Love is the sequel to So, This is Christmas, our book club pick from November 2022.

So, This is Love picks up about three weeks after the events of So, This is Christmas. Finley Brown is back for her next semester at Barrington Academy in Connecticut. After an amazing holiday season, Finley can’t wait to reconnect with Arthur Chakrabarti Watercress, her classmate who she spent time with in her hometown of Christmas, Oklahoma during the holidays.

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Review: Live Your Best Lie by Jessie Weaver

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Everyone thought that Summer Cartwright lived the perfect life as a teen influencer. She’s pretty, popular and has millions of followers. On top of that, she has an amazing boyfriend (well, she did until last week), great friends and attends an elite school in Los Angeles. Everything is going perfectly in her life, especially since she got a book deal. Her career and post-high school life are mapped out for her.

Well, until the night of her Halloween party. Everyone who is anyone is going to be there and Summer has big plans. Her best friend Grace Godwin is keeping track of attendees and their friendship seems to be improving. After a big fight, Grace and Summer are getting back to normal.

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Review: Lightkeepers by Kennedy Plumb

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In this modern day retelling of Rapunzel, Zella grew up in a cult and Ryder is in foster care.

Zella is 17 years old and ready for her life to begin. She loves her mom and has never questioned the reasons why her mom has kept her isolated in the past, but she’s starting to become restless. Being a “Child of the Lighthouse” provides her safety in a scary world, or at least that’s what her mother says.

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Review: The Killing Code by Ellie Marney

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Kit Sutherland has spent the last year and half living a lie. Nobody knows her real name or her true identity. Luckily, her former friend gave her a chance at a new life and World War II provided her a job at Arlington Hall as a codebreaker.

Arlington Hall gave Kit her dream life, especially compared to how she grew up in rural West Virginia. With the military, she’s appreciated for her intellect and he ability to help the war effort. Everything in her life was going perfectly, until her roommate Dottie Crockford didn’t come home one night.

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