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Few Liners YA stand alone book Reviews and Recs

A Gentleman’s Guide to Vice and Virtue

Young, English gay 18 year old lord Monty goes on Grand Tour around Europe with his best friend/ crush Percy and his sister. Highwaymen, Pirates, little bit of sci-fi , scandals in a palace party and excellent representation.

Deals with a few serious issues but the tone is adequately breezy, hilarious comic sense and A MUST READ.

What If It’s Us

A summer romance, set in New York City between two boys who have nothing in common. As someone who doesn’t like romances a lot, I became obssesed with this book. You get instantly attached with all the characters, not just our main two dudes. Extremely character-driven plot (in a good way) .Amazing writing style and the Harry Potter, Hamilton, Dear Evan Hansen references are to kill for.

Highly recommend it (the audiobook was perfect)

Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of Universe

A fresh contemporary novel set in the 80s, revolving around two boys and their story of growing into adulthood and a slow burn romance. Not once the central focus of the plot becomes their romance ( which i loved because romance isn’t really my thing). Amazing Representation. Deals with issues like post war trauma, family in jail and accepting one’s own sexuality. Has a charming mother-son relationship .

Do yourself a favour and read it.

13 Reasons Why

The book isn’t half as bad as the show but still… it romanticizes suicide (in my opinion).Do yourself a favour and don’t read it :)

Turtles All The Way Down

I read John Green because of his writing which more than makes up for lack of a strong plot in his books.

On point, no bullshit, non-filtered representation of OCD and Spiral thoughts Disorder.

The storylined seemed forced, irrelevant and bland but for the representation alone, I would recommend it.

The Night Circus

Imagination at its finest.

Two magicians who are bid to play a game where they will either kill the other one or die themselves. And guess what? they end up falling in love. This book had a lot of potential to go haywire but it didn’t, not even once. Can take you a while to get into but once you’re in, you’re in. Beautifully constructed urban fantasy world set in the nineteenth century. Highly imaginative but can get a little descriptive at points and i wish it had been a little concise.

I would definately recommend it.

Eleanor and Park

Primarily a teen romance but heavily layered. Deals with a lots of issues like domestic abuse, sexual harrassement, body type stigma, bullying ,and out of all these, a beautifully worded, innocent, pure romance is born. Good representation of Asian male protagonist and his daily struggle to fit in. Excellent writing style and I was in awe the whole time reading it.The main complaint about this book is its ending but i am okay with open endings. So i got no complaint but i would love to see a sequel.

Highly Recommend.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower

Told in a epistolary format from the POV of a 15 year old boy. A heartbreakingly beautiful story of friendships and love, love done right and also done wrong in our main protagonist, Charlie’s life. The writing style is a bit poignant in nature.

Do yourself a favour and read it.

A List of Cages

A story of friendship and platonic love between two boys, Adam and Julian, who lived together at one point. Then Julian was taken away to live with his uncle. After many years. they meet again and Adam realizes something is wrong with Julian. Adam does everything humanly possible to help him.

This book is a heart-wrenching representation of purity, innocence and goodness in people.

Check out its trigger warnings but highly recommend it.

Feel free to comment or message me about any of these books above :)