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2.5 Stars

This book seriously wasn't my cup of tea.
I liked the idea and the concept of a SAR team
The characters fell short for me
and frankly I was a little bored reading this.

4.5 Stars
I honestly didn't expect to like this book as much as I did, but I ended up really enjoying it.
full review to come

Forget you By Jennifer Echols is really hard for me to review. I am torn with this book. I REALLY liked the book, I liked the idea, the writing style, and I liked SOME of the characters, but for the most part some of the characters just down right aggravated me. If Zoey wouldn't have been such a Smart girl but so dumb at the same time, I would have REALLY liked this book.




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I really enjoyed this book
Very informative learned a lot of cool tricks with lighting and such.
I don't have a studio or want a studio set up and a lot of the book focused on this aspect of lighting in photography. So if you are a Studio photographer or use studio lighting I definitely recommend this book to you

My Life Next Door:
Funny
Cute
Romance
Summer
Realistic
Thoughtful
Family bonds
Politics
Morals

These are some of the best descriptive words I could come up with to explain this book without Giving too much away.

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2.5 Stars
I did this as a read-a-long. Review to come


Katrina (from kindreddreamheart) and I did a read-a-long if you want to see our thoughts and opinions on this book visit the blog! If you have read this book feel free to join in the conversation. Let us know your thoughts and opinions!

http://kindreddreamheart.blogspot.com/2014/05/arc-read-long-divided-dualed-2-by-elsie.html

This book was VERY hard for me to get into and enjoy. I liked the concept of this book. The plot intrigued me. I think this novel had a lot of potential, but it was very poorly executed which was very disappointing. Basically this book is like a really bad train wreck, its a terrible thing, but you cant pull your eyes away from it because you want to know whats going to happen. I hoped that this book was going to redeem itself. That just was not the case

(It is very rare that I give a book 1 star)

I received a copy from Netgalley in exchange of an honest review

Second Star is a VERY different spin of the classic Peter Pan. I say very different because it has very few similarities to the Actual Peter Pan story. So if you are looking for a Young Adult retelling of Peter Pan that has tons of similarities, this book is not it.

Wendy Darling is a 17 year old high-school graduate who is on the search for her missing twin brothers who are surfers. Because surfing is so dangerous and the twins were big risk takers when it came to being on the water, a lot of people including Wendy's parents have given up hope on finding the boys. Wendy's search brings her to this Surfers cove which is basically impossible to find if your not already familiar with it. Wendy happened to Follow Pete whom she met earlier in this book and followed him to the cove. She discovers the people who live at this cove are all younger kids who LOVE surfing. We have an insta-attraction between Wendy and Pete, but there is a twist when her search also leads her towards Pete's Enemy Jas who Pete claims is this big time Drug Dealer.

Second Star moves a little too slow for me, then at times it picked up and when it did, it all seemed rushed. But then it would slow down and drag again. I really like the concept of this book and I really like the Authors writing style, I'm just not a fan of the execution of it all.

Wendy's parents REALLY pissed me off. I can't explain how upset I
was with them throughout the book. I almost wished she was a character in one of those typical YA books that just never has parents or they aren't spoken of. I understand they lost two kids, As a parent I couldn't imagine that loss. The thing that upset me is they shut themselves down. Wendy is a 17 yr old girl who at times didn't get home till 5am and they had no idea she was even gone. They should treasure the fact that they still have a child instead they just kind of forget they still have one living child. It irks me.

While I didn't like the execution I still somewhat enjoyed this book. Would I recommend it to you as a Peter Pan Retelling, No. Would I recommend it as a cute and quick kind of beach read? Most definitely. I liked that it was able to use some things from the classic tale, but still had its own story and twists.

I recieved this from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review

Finished this book within an hour.
I liked it. Full review to come

We Were Liars
SYNOPSIS
 
A beautiful and distinguished family.A private island.A brilliant, damaged girl; a passionate, political boy.A group of four friends—the Liars—whose friendship turns destructive.A revolution. An accident. A secret.Lies upon lies.True love.The truth. We Were Liars is a modern, sophisticated suspense novel from National Book Award finalist and Printz Award honoree E. Lockhart. Read it.And if anyone asks you how it ends, just LIE.

These are Stories I have read and loved as a child and Adult.

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4.5 stars
A fun quirky contemporary romance with tons of LOL moments!
Review to come....