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Today I’m talking about The Other Ones by Fran Hart. I’m not 100% sure where I found out about this book, I think it just popped up in my search when I was looking for more queer books to read that aren’t specifically just about the romance. Our blurb says that Sal hates standing out. But he lives in a haunted house – and everybody knows it. His oldest friend, Dirk, tries to help… but he wants to stay popular, and Sal isn’t helping. Elsie was popular – until recently. Now she’s on the outcast’s table too… and she doesn’t want to talk about it. Then there’s the new boy, Pax, who won’t leave Sal alone. His idea of a good time is hanging out in graveyards. And, for some reason, Sal just can’t stay away. Meet the other ones. Can they banish their ghosts together? So the book opens on Sal absolutely just raw-dogging handfuls of dry cereal into his mouth when the doorbell of his crusty, supposedly, haunted house rings. It’s Pax, of being mentioned on the blurb fame, who is stood on his do...

  Welcome to this post of She Drives Me Crazy  that I'll be honest I don't know where I found out about it, but oh well. Here we are. Our blurb says that seventeen-year-old Scottie Zajac can’t catch a break. First there’s the embarrassing loss to her ex-girlfriend in their basketball game of the season, and then she gets into a fender bender with the worst possible person: her head cheerleader nemesis, Irene Abraham. Irene is as mean as she is beautiful, and Scottie makes a point to keep her distance, only their little car accident means the girls are forced to ride together to school. Every day. But when an opportunity arises for Scottie to get back at her toxic ex – and climb the school’s social ladder – she convinces Irene to take part in an elaborate fake-dating scheme that threatens to reveal some very real feelings. The first chapter has Scottie in a preseason basketball against this team her ex-girlfriend, Tally, is on. She mentions how her team almost always loses, a...

  So, I think Blaine for the Win is my third Robbie Couch book at this point. It was If I See You Again Tomorrow that got me into his books. I’ll be real, that’s exactly the reason I picked this book up, because of another one of Couch’s. The blurb says high school junior Blaine Bowers has it all – the perfect boyfriend, a pretty sweet gig as a muralist for local Windy City businesses, a loving family, and awesome, talented friends. And he is absolutely, 100 percent positive that aforementioned perfect boyfriend – senior student council president and Mr. Popular of Wicker West High School, Joey – is going to invite Blaine to spend spring break with his family in beautiful sunny Cabo San Lucas. Except Joey breaks up with him instead. In public. On their one-year anniversary. Because, according to Joey, Blaine is too goofy, too flighty, too… unserious. And if Joey wants to go far in life, he needs to start dating more serious guys. Guys like Zach Chesterton. Determined to prove t...