When The Daily Quirk Bloggers aren’t writing, they’re reading! We decided it would be fun to share our bibliophilia with you by listing what we have been reading each month and giving you our opinions on a three point scale: Recommend It, Maybe, or Skip It. Have fun checking out what pages we’ve been turning, and feel free […]

With young adult fiction currently being dominated by dystopian and paranormal genres, it’s easy to forget the simple pleasure of reading a contemporary YA story with realistic characters dealing with realistic issues. Thankfully there are a handful of talented authors who keep plugging away at the contemporary genre, including The Book of Broken Hearts author […]

Things I Can’t Forget is the third book in Miranda Kenneally’s Hundred Oaks series. Despite being part of a series, all of the Hundred Oaks books can stand alone – you don’t need to have read a previous book to appreciate or understand a later book. There are some crossover characters since all the books […]

Lauren Miller’s debut novel, Parallel, is a stunningly complex novel about a young woman named Abby who wakes up one morning only to discover that she has somehow wound up in a parallel universe where, instead of living out in L.A. and having a role in a sure-to-be-blockbuster movie, she is studying journalism at Yale.  […]

Parallel by Lauren Miller honestly left me speechless. That’s a pretty difficult thing to do, but as soon as I finished reading the final words, I couldn’t do anything but sit in silence and try to wrap my mind around how a book can be that complex and adorable and amazing all at the same […]

The Madness Underneath is the second book in Maureen Johnson’s Shades of London trilogy. There may be spoilers for the first book, The Name of the Star, in this review. After reading The Name of the Star, I thought I had an idea of what might happen in the next book in the series. Sure, […]

To preface, it is important to note that I have a tendency to avoid YA paranormal like the plague. This is mostly due to the fact that, in my experience, most of these books tend to be very melodramatic with unbelievable doomed romances. I’m not interested in reading about a human girl in love with […]

Rory Samantha Green brings readers an adorably funny read with her self-published debut novel Playing Along. The book, told from the alternating perspectives of British heartthrob George and California girl Lexi, follows the two as they try to figure out how life and love fit together, narrowly missing meeting each other several times in the […]

I am a sucker for romantic comedies. Any story with a sense of humor and a couple who may or may not know that they are meant to be together is right up my alley, which is probably why I loved Playing Along by Rory Samantha Green. George is the lead singer of the popular […]

When The Daily Quirk Bloggers aren’t writing, they’re reading! We decided it would be fun to share our bibliophilia with you by listing what we have been reading each month and giving you our opinions on a three point scale: Recommend It, Maybe, or Skip It. Have fun checking out what pages we’ve been turning, and feel free […]

Susan Rizzo Vincent, with the help of her daughter Andréa Rizzo, has written a heart-wrenchingly beautiful novel about tragedy, death, cancer and the strength and love it takes to move on. Dréa’s Dream: An Unfinished Dance starts in 2011 with Susan looking back over her life – the decisions, the heartbreak, the triumphs and the love […]

When I first cracked open Sketchy by Olivia Samms, I didn’t know what to expect, but within the first few pages, I was hooked. Sketchy’s plot revolves around sharp and spunky Bea Washington. Bea, newly released from a drug rehab program, is preparing to start life at a new school. Unlike most high school seniors, […]

After self-publishing her first book, The Siren, in 2009, Kiera Cass found widespread success with the release of her second novel, The Selection. The first in a trilogy, The Selection tells the story of a teenage girl plucked from society’s low castes to compete for the affection of her country’s young prince.  The second book […]

Every once in a while I read a book that takes me by surprise, either by surpassing my expectations or by leaving me a little confused – in a good way. Kiera Cass’s 2012 novel, The Selection, was one of those strange books that didn’t necessarily tick all the boxes for things I especially enjoy […]