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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!

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.

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.

The Game (The Game is Life Book 1) by Terry Schott

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The GameAll I want to say about this book is GO READ IT NOW!!  My brother actually suggested this to me so I didn’t think it would be that great, but it might be my new favorite series.  I would say this book is science-fiction with a little bit of thriller.

This one is about Brandon Strayne and Zack.  Brandon is the CEO of a virtual reality game that is basically the main economic income for the entire world.  Zack is Brandons patron when he is inside the Game.  The Game is the new school system for the world, instead of going to public schools, they go into the game and live a lifetime inside it, an entire lifetime inside the game takes about three months in real life.  The whole plot of the first book is Zack’s last game before he ages out.

The best part of the book to me was when the mainframe allowed Alexandra a chance to go back into the game which got her out of the public school system.  The second book is just as fantastic, I’ll post a review of that one soon!