Relevant summary: The last thing either of them wants is to spend a weekend away at a therapy camp alongside five other teens with “issues.” But that’s exactly where they are when three masked men burst in to take the group hostage. Reaction comment: HOSTAGESSSSSS! Murderers killing teens! I have a suspicion it will not meet my demands for intellectual connection + fully clothed-ness, but I'm hoping it can pretend otherwise long enough for me to get some satisfaction. She also thinks she might not be the only one with a crush.Ĭurrent Mood: The reviews are not great - and my most similar Goodreads friend gave it only 1 star - but it's hard to tell with teacher/student because some people are mad if isn't "steamy," some people are mad if it doesn't deliver a stern moral trouncing, and basically I am the only one who can evaluate if a teacher/student novel will work for me, because I have such specific rules for how I need it to play out in order to be good. And Charlie thinks he's the only one who gets her. Relevant summary: everything changes when she meets her new English teacher. There, Sharky meets a girl who just may show him how to live-and love-again.Ĭurrent Mood: What I like about this is that it pings my "quality male teen protagonist" radar, a sector that is always, always underpopulated and hungry for options, because even most of the ones I find underperform.Ģ. Hoping a change of location will help, Sharky’s mom sends him to visit his dad on a remote island in Canada. Shell-shocked, Sharky spends countless hours holed up in his room, obsessively watching documentaries about sharks and climate change-and texting his dead friend. Summary: J.C., who goes by the nickname Sharky, has been having a hard time ever since his best friend died in front of him in what might or might not have been an accident. Reaction comment: ooh, solid grief and a healing girl come find out how my mind works re: the book selection process in incredibly overblown detail. Based on the initial lack of title capitalization, I’m pretty sure I got it by putting some kind of search parameters into my local library catalogue of YA novels, which is excellent news because it means I can go get any of them whenever I want.Īnd now we’re going to look them up & run them down in detail together! a.k.a. RainbowstevieSpeaking of that old list of books-to-read I found on my computer - each title has reactionary comments beside it, indicating I was running down a long list of options for possible hits and meant to look up the best-sounding ones in detail later.
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