[REVIEW] How (Not) to Find a Boyfriend

Series: N/A
Author: Allyson Valentine
Genre: young adult, contemporary, romance, realistic fiction, chick lit, humor
Published: June 12, 2014 (first published June 6th, 2013)
Publisher: Speak
Purchase: Amazon

With the perfect plan to get the guy, what could possibly go wrong? 

Nora Fulbright is the most talented new cheerleader at Riverbend High. She may have been a friendless overachiever in the past, but this year Nora is determined to transform from social larva to full-blown butterfly. Even if it means dumbing herself down. But when Adam moves to town and steals Nora's heart with his ultra-smarts, she devises a plan to wow him with her intellect. Every move she makes getting closer to Adam is move complicated, and she quickly loses control of her strategy. Can Nora prove that she's not a complete airhead while keeping her image in check? 

[REVIEW] A Little Something Different

Series: N/A
Author: Sandy Hall
Genre: young adult, contemporary, romance, chick lit, 
Published: August 26, 2014
Publisher: Swoon Reads

Lea and Gabe are in the same creative writing class. They get the same pop culture references, order the same Chinese food, and hang out in the same places. Unfortunately, Lea is a little aloof, Gabe is shy, and it looks like they are never going to work things out.

But something is happening between them, and everyone can see it. Their creative writing teacher pushes them together. The baristas at the local Starbucks watch their relationship like a TV series. The bus driver tells his wife about them. The waitress at the diner automatically seats them together. Even the squirrel who lives on the college green believes Lea and Gabe were meant to be together. 

Fall in love with falling in love in this irresistibly romantic, completely original novel! 

[REVIEW] The Secret Ingredient

Series: N/A
Author: Stewart Lewis
Genre: young adult, contemporary, romance, realistic fiction, chick lit, family, LGBT, coming of age
Published: June 10, 2014 (first published June 11, 2013)
Publisher: Ember

Olivia doesn't believe in psychics. But the summer before her senior year in high school, she meets one in an elevator.

This summer will be pivotal, the psychic warns. Please remember - all your choices are connected. 

Olivia loves her life in Silverlake, Los Angeles, but lately, something's been missing. And after getting this strange advice, her world begins to change. A new job leads her to a gorgeous, mysterious boy named Theo. And as Olivia cooks the recipes from a vintage cookbook she stumbles upon, she begins to wonder if the mother she's never known might be the secret ingredient she's been lacking. 

But sometimes the things we search for are the things we've had all along. 

[REVIEW] P.S. I Still Love You

Series: To All the Boys I've Loved Before #2
Author: Jenny Han
Genre: young adult, contemporary, romance, realistic fiction, chick lit, 
Published: May 26, 2015
Publisher: Simon & Shuster

Lara Jean didn't expect to really fall for Peter.

They were just pretending. Until they weren't. And now Lara Jean has to learn what it's like to be in a real relationship and not just a make-believe one. 

But when another boy from her past returns to her life, Lara Jean's feelings for him suddenly returns too. 

Can a girl be in love with two boys at once? 

In this charming and heartfelt sequel to the New York Times bestseller To All the Boys I've Loved Before, Lara Jean is about to find out that falling in love is the easy part. 

[WAITING ON WEDNESDAY] Every Last Promise

Series: N/A
Author: Kristin Halbrook
Genre: young adult, contemporary, realistic fiction, death, suspense, chick lit, drama
Expected Publication: April 21, 2015

Perfect for fans of Laurie Halse Anderson and Gayle Forman, Every Last Promise is a provocative and emotional novel about a girl who must decide between keeping quiet and speaking up after witnessing a classmate's sexual assault.

Kayla saw something at the party that she wasn't supposed to. But she hasn't told anyone. No one knows the real story about what happened that night—about why Kayla was driving the car that ran into a ditch after the party, about what she saw in the hours leading up to the accident, and about the promise she made to her friend Bean before she left for the summer.

Now Kayla's coming home for her senior year. If Kayla keeps quiet, she might be able to get her old life back. If she tells the truth, she risks losing everything—and everyone—she ever cared about.

[REVIEW] Being Friends with Boys

Series: N/A
Author: Terra Elan McVoy
Genre: young adult, romance, contemporary, chick lit, realistic fiction, music
Published: May 1, 2012
Publisher: Simon Pulse

More than friends? 

Charlotte and Oliver have been friends forever. She knows that he, Abe, and Trip consider her to be one of the guys, and she likes it that way. She likes being the friend who keeps them all together. Likes offering a girl's perspective on their love lives. Likes being the behind-the-scenes wordsmith who writes all the lyrics for the boys' band. Char has a house full of stepsisters and a past full of back-stabbing (female) ex-best friends, so for her, being friends with boys is refreshingly drama-free… until it isn't anymore. 

When a new boy enters the scene and makes Char feel like, well, a total girl… and two of her other friends have a falling out that may or may not be related to one of them deciding he possibly wants to be more than friends with Char… being friends with all these boys suddenly becomes a lot more complicated.