#VBT- Review: Cool Kids - Arlene Freeman - October 2021 Starting a new school can be difficult to make new friends as you are chucked in the middle of groups of people who have been friends for years. For someone who has been to many different schools, it was something I experienced quite a bit. In Cool Kids, Michael has just moved to a new town and starting a new school. He of course wants to fit in and becomes friends first with the bullies. Michael starts to be mean to other kids but soon he realizes that this isn't fun and he doesn't feel great being a bully as though kids fear him, they don't want to be friends with someone mean to them. About halfway through the book, Michael decides to change his tune and starts to become a good role model at school by making friends and being nice to everyone and soon he becomes the most popular boy in their class that he even influences the bullies to become one of the Cool Kids. This was a good read with a lesson and moral to le...

Review: Fierce - Book #1 Fierce Series - Ginger Voight - December 2013 Jordi was never a small-town girl in her mind, she just didn't fit into their usual stereotypes. She was a big girl fitting in Size 20+ clothes, she loved to sing and when she turned 18, she hightailed into the land of singing and celebrities in LA. Here she meets her new GBF and moved in with him and soon had gigs singing at Drag clubs. She wanted more, but all these cattle calls were looking for someone skinny, blonde and perfect, not someone who is a big woman and loves to dye her hair funky colors and someone who stands out. That is until she sees a casting call for a new reality show similar to American Idol but this show is wanting those contestants who are considered "freaks of the world", those who stand out and don't fit into the cookie-cutter world. When Jordi tries out for the show, she gets in of course with her amazing and powerful voice. Everything is going well until they have to do...