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Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke

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Wink Poppy MidnightI first saw this book on an instagram account I follow and was really excited to read it.  My friend read it next and didn’t like it but of course I had to read it still, I mean, look at the cover!  I know you’re not supposed to judge a book by its cover, but this was a cover read for me.  I give this a 4 out of 5.  It keeps you on your toes, keeping track of who is who, who did what, and why.  It does get weird and kind of confusing at the end, which is why it’s not 5 out of 5.  Now for some info on the book!

A hero.  A villain.  A liar.  Who’s who?   A modern day fairy tale with monsters hiding in pretty things and heroes that don’t know they’re heroes.  But who can tell who is a hero and who is a villain?  No one in this book.   Continue reading Wink Poppy Midnight by April Genevieve Tucholke →

The Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

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The Girl on the TrainOk, 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

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The second Fade 1in 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!

Wake by Lisa McMann

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If you could Wakehave 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!

Immaculate by Katelyn Detweiler

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You know when Immaculateyou are promised a really awesome surprise and then when you get the surprise it’s brussels sprouts or something?  That’s how I felt when I finished this book.  Now don’t get me wrong, it was a great story, the ending was just disappointing.

Mina is the top of her class; straight A’s, most popular boyfriend in school, the two best friends a girl could ask for, a great job, and a pretty great family.  Then this creepy old lady comes into her work one night talking about protecting Mina and her baby.  A few weeks later, Mina finds out she’s pregnant…except she’s a virgin.  The story gets out and people start telling her she is going to Hell if she keeps the story up and they keep getting angrier when she won’t give it up.  You’re probably thinking what I was thinking when I was reading it, why is Mina pregnant, is this a modern day Jesus?  Unfortunately we never find out.  Spoiler alert: Mina tells everyone the baby dies, moves to New York, and that’s the end of the book.  WHAT?!?!  I read this whole thing and that’s how you’re gonna end it Detweiler?!?!  I mean, come on, really?

If you like reading books that have no answers to them, this ones for you.

All The Rage by Courtney Summers

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This is a diffiAll the Ragecult 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

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I wanted to liThe Last Good Day of the Yearke 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.