Talk about a book getting your hopes up. The whole time I was reading this, I kept thinking, “wow, maybe it will end happily ever after!”. Spoiler alert: it ended with me sobbing into the pages wondering how Moyes could do this to me. Even so, I’m glad I read it and would recommend it. Continue reading Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
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Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
I got this one
from a friend who read it in high school. She said I had to read it, it was one of her favorites. So of course I read it, and I can’t believe it. This is a short read, more of a novella or short story. I read it in a day. It was one of those where I was literally yelling at it out loud, I know I’m a dork, it’s fine. But it was just one of those where I was so surprised I couldn’t believe it! Continue reading Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins
Ok, so I just finished this book and all I can think is WHAT EVEN?!?!?! I read this one based on a recommendation from my aunt, I did not know anything about it when I started it except everyone was saying it was good. Let me tell you, it was worth the wait. WOW! I am normally very good at guessing what the ending is for mystery books but I had no idea until the last few pages who did it. I suspected every other character in the book except the one that did it. I couldn’t put it down! Now, if you’re like me and don’t know anything about it, it’s about a girl on a train who makes stuff up about the houses that she passes every day and the people living in them. One of the women goes missing and the girl on the train gets involved because she thinks she knows them. Half the book I thought the lady was crazy, half the time I felt bad for her and what she had been through. My favorite thing about this one is the fact that I did not know how it was going to end! I wasn’t sure if the killer’s wife was going to help the girl on the train or not, and I won’t say what happens here.
They are making this into a movie, set to come out October of this year. The book takes place in London, but they filmed in New York, so I’m not sure about that…anyway, go read this book!
Fade by Lisa McMann
The second 
in the Dream Catcher trilogy. Another one that I couldn’t put down, I read it in less than a day on vacation. Although there were some parts that made me cringe, it was such a good book. It’s got jealousy, love, more dream walking, more family drama.
Janie is now working for the police department and is offered a case in her own school. It is suspected that her chemistry teacher is a sexual predator. She wants to take the case but Cabel doesn’t want her wound up in anything like that. So to catch him she helps plan a class party outside of school to catch him in the act. I’ll leave it at that so that you can find out what happens at the party, I will say it’s exciting though.
Out of the three books, this one was my least favorite, even though it is still a good book. The third one is probably my favorite so keep an eye out for that review!
Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone
Stone is an amazing writer. Especially for writing about a disorder that she doesn’t actually have. She wrote this book with the help of a close family friend who has OCD and she did a great job portraying what it is like to live with the disorder. She writes it so that you care about this girl and what she is going through, you want to help her, stick up for her, tell her she’s doing the right thing. It can be difficult to write a character like that, but Stone has done it.
Samantha/Sam has OCD. School is really hard for her and in the summer she is like a different person. This book starts at the beginning of the school year and her therapist wants her to try and be summer Sam during the school year. While trying to stand up to her friends at lunch, she has a panic attack and ends up in the school auditorium and meets Caroline, who tells her to meet her back there later that week for something that will change her life. Turns out to be a Poet’s Corner where she can be herself. But first she has to show the people in the club already that she deserves to be there.
Have you ever had to look around at the friends in your life and decide that they aren’t right for you? Ever given up some friends for that reason? This book shows the courage and hardships that come with realizing who you really are. It’s got parts that will chill you to the bone, and parts that will have you crying for this girl. You might even discover a love for poetry while reading it. Overall, and excellent read.
Wake by Lisa McMann
If you could 
have one superpower, what would it be? It’s a question we’ve all been asked and probably spent some time thinking about. Have you ever picked going into people’s dreams as a power? I know I haven’t. Janie can do just that. Unfortunately, it’s not really a good thing for her.
Janie can’t control when she goes into the dreams, she just gets sucked in and doesn’t know how to get back out. Still, she gets to see what people are dreaming about, right! Nope. She has to see all the high school dreams. Including the quarterback of the football team dreaming about being on the field naked at homecoming. The important one though is Cabel’s dreams. She keeps getting sucked into them during study hall and sees his abusive father until he turns into a monster and attacks back. Then one day Cabel sees her in his dream. He realizes it is her on a school trip when she can’t get out of everyone’s dreams on the bus. After they go through a lot of high school relationship drama, Cabel takes her to his job at the police station. The police chief decides to use her to solve a case and lets her know another lady was employed by them before as a dreamcatcher.
This is just the first in a trilogy and I can tell you the next two are just as good. It’s a quick read, but one I would recommend. Now go read it!
All The Rage by Courtney Summers
This is a diffi
cult book to read. It’s dealing with a lot of heavy stuff that people don’t like to talk about and hope never happens to them or anyone they know. At the same time, it’s very eye-opening to how something like this feels and what kind of person it leaves behind. It’s about a teenage girl, Rumy, living in a small town who is sexually assaulted by the sheriffs son. Can you guess what happened to the boy who did it? He lives in a big city now after the sheriff claims the girl is just looking for attention.
There are two main plot lines going on throughout the book and Summers does a fantastic job of navigating between the two smoothly. The main storyline in my opinion was when Penny went missing. Penny was Rumy’s best friend when she was sexually assaulted but she didn’t believe her when she found out. This year they are not friends but Penny still sticks up for Rumy when she is being bullied by everyone at school. By the end Rumy realizes that even if they weren’t really friends anymore, Penny looked out for her until the end, which is a very powerful thing to think about. If you’ve ever gone through something and don’t know how to be friends after, this is understandable to you. You’ll always care about that person, even if you can’t show it. Rumy dealing with her assault and the aftermath of it is the other big plot story. She starts dating a boy, Leon, who works with her at the diner on the outskirts of town. She has trouble getting close to him and telling him what happened because she sees another girl when she is with him. Throughout the book, Rumy talks about two different girls, the girl she was before the assault, and the girl she is after. The girl before is dead to her, another extremely powerful image that helps understand the tragedy that is sexual assault.
I honestly stayed up all night finishing this book. It pulls you in and makes it hard to put down. This is an important book to read if you want to understand how girls in these situations feel and how to treat them.
The Last Good Day of the Year by Jessica Warman
I wanted to li
ke this book, I really did. It had a lot of potential…that was not achieved unfortunately. The first chapter and the last chapter were excellent, everything else was confusing and hard to follow.
The book opens on New Years Day 1986 in the basement of a suburban townhouse. Sam, Remy, and Turtle have been sent there so their parents could celebrate upstairs. Turtle being the youngest is fast asleep in her sleeping bag when a creepy santa shows up in the backyard. He slowly comes towards the house, looking in the basement for a minute before coming in and taking Turtle. Sam and Remy were awake but too scared to do anything while santa was in the house. The kids assure the police it was Steven Handley, Sam’s older sisters boyfriend. Then you get to the second chapter, ten years later and the family is moving back to the house where it all happened. Nothing else really matters until the last chapter. This could have been a short story and probably been more successful, so is great if you like books, while if you’re looking for other type of entertainment you should check the ennidwong virtual girlfriend online for this.
The last two pages you find out what happened ten years ago and what happened to everyone when the truth was revealed. The story was interesting, but it was hard to get through.