Review: The Getaway List - Emma Lord - January 2024 Today was another nice day outside and so it meant, sitting on my outside porch swing and reading and when I get undisturbed reading time then that's the time, I love to get stuck into my Book Shoppe Book Boxes. I had 5 sitting on my pile and so I asked my partner to pick a number between 1-5 and he picked number #4 which happened to be Emma Lord's The Getaway List which was February's YA Book Box. After reading a mystery this morning, reading a sweet YA romance was right up my alley. In The Getaway List, we have Riley and Tom - best friends since childhood. In a world where most people their age would be going off to college, they are both stuck in the "what to do next stages". Riley decides on a whim to visit Tom in New York for the weekend and start the Getaway List they wrote before Tom moved away. What turns from a weekend ends up being the whole summer and with a few more friends chucked into the mix, their...

  Review: The Truth about Jack - Jody Gehrman - April 2015 All Dakota has wanted was to get into the Rhode Island Art School and join her friend who is at Brown and her boyfriend whom is currently at Rhodes , but what will happen when the day she gets her acceptance letter - she also gets an email from her best friend to say that she and Dakota's boyfriend are now dating . Dakota is really hurt and feels betrayed, considering that her boyfriend didn't even have the decency to break up with her first or give her the heads up. During this time , Dakota thinks that maybe she should take a gap year to Barcelona and at the beach decides to put a message in a bottle.   Jack is off to Julliard when the new school year starts, but at the moment he is busy hanging around home as he has been homeschooled the past few years , when he spots Dakota. He feels that he must get to know her and there is something magnetic about her that drives him wanting more. When he...