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NIGHT OWLS BY JENN BENNETT // spoiler-free book review: lowkey the most absurd YA romance i’ve ever read but its absolutely wonderful and you 100% need it in your life!!!
This last year has been really great for me tbh, look at me catching up on all of my fave authors. And you should feel very blessed that I’m shoving it down your throats. At least I’m not recommending boring books amirite,,, Okay enough yapping now, into the review!!! Title: Night Owls [or The Anatomical Shape of a Heart]Author: Jenn BennettPage count: 304Date published: 3 November 2015Genre: YA contemporary romance 🫀 Synopsis: Beatrix Adams knows exactly how she’s spending the summer before her senior year. Determined to follow in Da Vinci’s footsteps, she’s ready to tackle the one thing that will give her an advantage in a museum-sponsored scholarship contest: drawing actual cadavers. But when she tries to sneak her way into the hospital’s Willed Body program and misses the last metro train home, she meets a boy who turns her summer plans upside down. Jack is charming, wildly attractive, and possibly one of San Francisco’s most notorious graffiti artists. On midnight buses and city rooftops, Beatrix begins to see who Jack really is—and tries to uncover what he’s hiding that leaves him so wounded. But will these secrets come back to haunt him? Or will the skeletons in her…
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SERIOUS MOONLIGHT BY JENN BENNETT // spoiler-free book review: may I present this gorgeous YA contemporary workplace romance that deals with grief that you really need to read…
Took me a bajillion months to write this freaking review and then post this freaking post and I don’t even want to dwell on it anymore so instead we will get right into all the gushing!!! Title: Serious Moonlight Author: Jenn BennettPage count: 429 pagesDate published: 16 April 2026Genre: Young adult contemporary romance 🌙 Synopsis: After an awkward first encounter, Birdie and Daniel are forced to work together in a Seattle hotel where a famous author leads a mysterious and secluded life in this romantic contemporary novel from the author of Alex, Approximately. Mystery-book aficionado Birdie Lindberg has an overactive imagination. Raised in isolation and homeschooled by strict grandparents, she’s cultivated a whimsical fantasy life in which she plays the heroic detective and every stranger is a suspect. But her solitary world expands when she takes a job the summer before college, working the graveyard shift at a historic Seattle hotel. In her new job, Birdie hopes to blossom from introverted dreamer to brave pioneer, and gregarious Daniel Aoki volunteers to be her guide. The hotel’s charismatic young van driver shares the same nocturnal shift and patronizes the waterfront Moonlight Diner where she waits for the early morning ferry after work.…
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FAKE SKATING BY LYNN PAINTER // spoiler-free book review: if you haven’t read this YA childhood friends to lovers sports romance with alllll the yearning then idk what you’re doing with your life,,,
Before we get into the pterodactyl screeching that will be this review, I figure this is a great time to shoutout the interview I did with Lynn a while back, in case you missed it: Title: Fake SkatingAuthor: Lynn PainterPage count: 448Date published: 30 September 2025Genre: Young adult contemporary romance ⛸️ Synopsis: From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Better Than the Movies Lynn Painter comes a heartfelt and banter-filled “feel-good rom-com” (School Library Journal) about childhood sweethearts whose icy reunion in their hockey-loving hometown unexpectedly thaws when they fake a romantic relationship. Growing up, Dani couldn’t help but follow around the adorable son of her mom’s best friend. Funny, kind of nerdy, and a little soft, Alec was always down to hang with Dani when they were little. From play dates to sneaking into movie theaters, Dani and Alec were inseparable. Until Dani moved away. Alec promised they’d stay in touch—except, they didn’t. Flash forward and Dani is back in Minnesota for her senior year, she and her mom living with her grandfather. Dealing with the fallout of her parents’ devastating divorce, Dani wouldn’t mind a nerd-out with the cozy and comforting Alec (and maybe a chance…
