Sara Ryan

While away for the summer at a school for the gifted, Nicola Lancaster finds a special friend in a girl from North Carolina, Battle Hall Davies, but when her feelings for Battle take an unexpected turn into the area of love, Nic begins to question what she is feeling. Reprint.

Empress of the World

Sarah Sammis

Empress of the World by Sara Ryan was a wishlist book given to me by a fellow Bookcrosser ages ago. It sat on my shelf for a good couple of years until I made the commitment to read my wishlist books.

Nicola Lancaster is at the Siegel Institute Summer program to study archeology. She quickly hooks up with a group of friends but doesn't expect to fall for one of them. Nor does she expect it to be a girl!

Empress of the World is a quiet and thoughtful book with comedic moments and gut wrenching ones too. The group dynamics of Nic and her classmates feels real. None of them are perfect; they are flawed, moody, goofy teenagers.

There's a sequel out called Rules of Hearts. It was published in 2007. Based on the strength of Empress of the World I have added it to my wishlist.

Jeannette Ordas

This book felt so incomplete and unsatisfying.

Taylor

Just remembered this book that introduced me to the concept of lesbians. Does this make up for how much I disliked Fun Home?

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Georgia Carr

Ahhahdjdnejdndkenwkdjc this book was so goooooood! It reminded me a lot of Perks in places, particularly in Nic's journal and in the way that Sara Ryan writes. I loved every second and I could not put it down.

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Rochelle Montagne

Nicola Lancaster is spending her summer at the Siegel Institute, a hothouse of smart, intense teenagers. She soon falls in with Katrina (Manic Computer Chick), Isaac (Nice-Guy-Despite-Himself), Kevin (Inarticulate Composer) . . . and Battle, a beautiful blond dancer. The two become friends--and then, startlingly, more than friends. What do you do when you think you're attracted to guys, and then you meet a girl who steals your heart? A trailblazing debut, reissued with an introduction by acclaimed author David Levithan, and copious back matter, including three graphic novel stories by Sara Ryan (and artists Steve Leiber, Dylan Meconis, and Natalie Nourigat) about the characters.

Empress of the World

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