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Category: Realistic

Frankly in Love

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 25 July 202025 July 2020 in Fiction, Realistic, Reviews

Our main character Frank Li calls himself a Limbo, his term for all the Korean-American kids who feel trapped between their parents’ traditional expectations and their Southern California environment. This internal conflict can be found in this one rule Frank’s parents have made up: date a Korean. Which proves to be impossible when Frank Li falls for Brit Means, his beautiful and smart and white classmate. Fortunately, Joy Song – a fellow Limbo – struggles with the same, and the two of them come up with the perfect plan to cover their interracial romances.

Tiny Pretty Things

Posted by Daniëlle de Boer on 25 April 202025 April 2020 in Fiction, Realistic, Reviews

In this book, we follow three students at a ballet school in Manhattan. The three girls Gigi, June and Bette are completely different from each other. In the ballet world, there is only one way to distinguish yourself from other ballerinas and that is to be the best of the best. The three girls do everything they can to reach the top and they’re also prepared to play nasty tricks.

Dubbelleven

Posted by Daniëlle de Boer on 28 March 202029 March 2020 in Realistic, Reviews

In this book, we follow Ivy, a seventeen-year-old girl who is studying at a fashion school. Ivy has two best friends; Marsha and Kim. She always spends a lot of time with her friends, until her boyfriend Sander became more and more important in her life. Sander calls Ivy ‘s friends childish and thinks that Ivy should distance herself from her friends. But Marsha and Kim are concerned about Ivy. They don’t trust Sander and they wonder what Ivy actually knows about Sander.

Ola en de dingen

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 25 December 201925 December 2019 in Realistic, Reviews

Ola is a young girl. Different from everybody else. Different from the rest of her family, even. After executing the deathwish of her sick mother and the accidental strangulation of her little brother, Ola loses her mind and decides to flee …

The places I’ve cried in public

Posted by Daniëlle de Boer on 9 November 201917 November 2019 in Realistic, Reviews

Amelie loved Reese. And she thought he loved her. But she’s starting to realise love isn’t supposed to hurt like this. So now she’s retracing their story and untangling what happened by revisiting all the places he made her cry. Because if she works out what went wrong, perhaps she can finally learn to get over him.

UNpregnant

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 30 October 20195 April 2020 in Fiction, Realistic, Reviews

Victoria, your typical valedictorian high-school girl has it all: nice friends, a good-looking and popular boyfriend and a scholarship in the pocket. But finding out she’s pregnant has messed everything up …

Fangirl

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 23 October 201922 October 2019 in Fiction, Realistic, Reviews

When Cath and her twinsister Wren go to the University of Nebraska to study, Cath has a lot of things to process. Because they used to do everything together, it comes as a big surprise to hear that Gwen doesn’t want Cath to be her roommate …

What red was

Posted by Robin Holthuizen on 9 October 20197 October 2019 in Realistic, Reviews

This story begins with an interaction between Kate, a silent girl with a single mother, and Max, a popular and social boy with connections to a well-known person. A patonic, somewhat weird friendship is born. Years go by, not affecting the friendship between Kate and Max. But at a graduationparty at Max’ place …

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