Review: Paper Towns

by Ikhlas // 2 June, 2013 // 4 Comments

Quentin Jacobsen has spent almost his whole life loving his next door neighbour Margo Roth Spiegelman. There was a time when they were friends, as kids, but now the Queen Bee hardly acknowledges his existence at school. So when she...

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Review: What Happens Next

by Ikhlas // 25 November, 2012 // No Comments

Sixteen-year old Sid Murphy pretty much has everything: great friends, good grades, a supportive family, and a spot on the cheerleading team. She doesn’t have a boyfriend, but on the ski trip, meets older and handsome Dax Windsor, who seems...

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Review: The Innocents

by Ikhlas // 16 October, 2012 // No Comments

Sisters and best friends Alice and Charlie have never let a thing get in between them. They’ve stuck together, with their mother, when their parents got divorced and their dad left the country. But then their mother remarries a rich...

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Review: 40 Things I Want To Tell You

by Ikhlas // 31 March, 2012 // 2 Comments

In 40 Things I Want To Tell You, Bird (real name Amy) seems to have a perfect life, warm and caring parents, amazing grades at school, a loving boyfriend, and a bright future. Bird wants to go to Oxford, and she’s...

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Review: Twenty Boy Summer

by Ikhlas // 29 February, 2012 // No Comments

Anna and Frankie are best friends and neighbours. They’ve known each other for their whole lives and don’t keep secrets. But when Frankie proposes the idea of meeting one boy a day during their summer vacation in Zanzibar Bay, California,...

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The Whimsical Whims of Ikhlas Hussain

contemporary YA

Review: Paper Towns

Review: What Happens Next

Review: The Innocents

Review: 40 Things I Want To Tell You

Review: Twenty Boy Summer