25 Roses by Stephanie Faris

As Valentine's day approaches Mia and her best friend Ashleigh sell chocolate roses in school.

Popular girls always get then so Mia buys extras and adds to the list making less popular people happy to receive one for once only when they want to know who sent them does trouble start

She has a crush on Alex her best friend while Ashleigh is her best friend with a secret crush then she sends roses to Sun a girl who needs a make over...

She gets asked to help do make overs especially by school mean girl who wants everything to go her way all the time including getting a guy.

This was a great book highlighting the good and bad that Valentine's can cause and how friendship means more than any action can show.

In the Beginning There Was Only Darkness by Soraya

Split into four big poems reading as stories, talking of life and death and the fragility of life and how we grow up dealing with all our feeling and emotions, a poetry collection to get you deep thinking.

The 30 Day Reset For The Anxiously Attached by Noah Grey

Noah has written another great guide to read and reflect along to with many good points raised. Stand out parts to me of this collection to me were: Day 11, about building the idea of a future with someone who isn't always present with you in some way. Day 22, about the bare minimum of basic respect, like a text back being met without you questioning or them leaving you hanging. I really enjoy Noah's books they always get me thinking deep about situations in life past and present and relate a lot to many points he get you reflecting on opening thinking and growing from your thoughts and reactions of the past to present.

This Is How You Know I Want You by AVA

A poetic diary of falling in like and love, the joy and discovery it brings in all the poems written and shared in this collection showing how deeply love can inspire you.

Finding Beauty by SaDee Hodge

This fourth collection of poetry by SaDee is as powerful in telling her journey of facing abuse and the previous loss of her beloved husband before too. Some stand out poems of this collection to me were: Caught Between Forever and Goodbye, knowing you had to save yourself from a situation endangering your life. The Day My Heart Overdosed, how suicide impacts your life. Home For The Broken, helping others who are or have been struggling even when you are too. Feelings Gross, was a clever poem reflecting on negative love what could be beautiful in a slow burn but preferring distance and safety. The Things I've Learned, too was a strong poem about what love should be and isn't. Only knowing love to hurt, brutal and honest in love, loss and life and every time I read SaDee's writing I am struck by how she writes with such beauty in being poetic and honest even on such tough subjects, another brilliant collection.

October Haunts by Eden Larsen

Set at Lasting Memories daycare, Ava meets Ethan, the new sudden owner who she's initially jealous of as she would've wanted the opportunity to own it herself before getting to know him and realising they may not be so different after all. A sweet short story about how impressions and premature judgement can hinder relationships before being more open to understanding each other.

Echoes Within by Briya Sage

This is simply an empowering collection of a toxic relationship ending and on reflection finding strength to become again who you were before but stronger.

Roots: Poems of Remembering: When remembering becomes returning by Evelyn Valehart

This poetry collection focuses on the metaphor of seeds and roots literally in the ground and in our families and how every step we take is rooted and for us to remember how each step, choice and decision can shape us.

Whispers Unsaid by T.Euke

This collection of poetry focuses on the unsaid words, the almosts spoken in feelings of desire and love, what remains but could be foreseen to go various ways besides how it actually really played out and what never got said instead got typed for closure as the whispers unsaid.

The Slowest Goodbye by Stacey Nicole Douglas

This collection opens on a very clever poem about the Disney princeses and their princes and the way we can feel deeply desiring to be their fairytale girl and their heroine yet feeling you fall short to real life expectations that fantasy can set. Discovering feeling needed for things, not loved, desired, treated well and ultimately cherished. My Goodbye Was A Test, was a fantastic sad and relatable poem about losing connection before it could truly become something proper. There was also a poem about the habit of checking on your person you adored and loved online seeing them and how they know little insignificant things that make you, you and you hate that in hindsight having been so open and vulnerable for it to all fall apart. The title absolutely speaks for this collection and the poems show all the ways entangled lives do slowly come apart again.