Morgan survived something at her school last October the 15th. Since then, she’s been house-bound: afraid to even walk out the front door. She’s no longer communicating with her friends, goes to school online, and has completely stopped the competitive swimming that she used to live for. Her whole world is the inside of her apartment, along with her over-worked mother and her precious little brother. And then a boy moves in next door, and everything changes. “I think you’re a girl who went through a horrible thing, […]
The problem with my life was that it was someone else’s idea.
4.5 stars Aristotle “Ari” is a conflicted teenager growing up in El Paso in the late 1980s. He’s sixteen and a loner, but doesn’t really mind his lack of friends. He’s very close to his mother, whose a high school teacher (not at Ari’s school), but wishes he could talk to his dad, a Vietnam vet about, well, anything really. The youngest of his family, Ari’s twin sisters are much older than him and his brother is in prison, never spoken about by anyone in […]
#frenemies
“Waking in a hospital bed with her leg in a cast, the last six weeks of Jill’s life are a complete blank. . . All she knows is what she’s been told: while in Italy on a school trip she was involved in a fatal accident and had to be jetted home to receive intensive care. Care that involves a lawyer. And a press team. Because maybe the accident. . . wasn’t just an accident.” With Malice by Eileen Cook is a fast paced, high […]
The “Geek” part is good. The “Unrequited Love”…not so much
I’d be interested to see if Sarvenaz Tash has written anything else, because while I wasn’t a huge fan of the protagonist in this story, the background of New York Comic Con and Tash’s obvious love of all things nerdy made the rest of it pretty fun. “And who wouldn’t wish that? Certainly everyone here- dressed up as aliens, and wizards, and zombies, and superheroes- wants desperately to be inside a story, to be part of something more logical and meaningful than real life seems to […]
The Princess Bride with Shapeshifters
This is such a weird book and I loved it. There were some plot holes here and there which is the only reason why I am giving this 4 stars. This is an alternate story to Lady Jane and here is some information for you people out there who don’t know who Lady Jane Grey is. Lady Jane Grey (1536/1537 – 12 February 1554), also known as Lady Jane Dudley or the Nine-Day Queen, was an English noblewoman and de facto monarch of England and Ireland from 10 […]
I did like the turtle’s name. The rest was a flaming turd.
I should have known how bad this would be after the first couple of chapters, but I stupidly soldiered on. Matthew Quick wrote The Silver Linings Playbook, which was a decent read. This…was not. The tagline for the book is Didn’t you ever just simply want to…stop? I should have taken its own advice. But it’s not too late for you! Run away! But read my review first — I put pictures in it in order to distract you from the terrible-ness. Every Exquisite Thing starts with Nanette O’Hare […]
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