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The Locked Door by Freida McFadden
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Plot
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
3.75
People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry
adventurous
emotional
funny
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? Yes
- Loveable characters? Yes
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
4.0
The Perfect Son by Freida McFadden
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? A mix
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? No
- Flaws of characters a main focus? No
3.75
I really enjoyed this one, I recently read 'Never Lie' and the book is really promising. I liked the grasp of the mystery but it didn't keep me so entertained.
Content Warnings
Minor: Cancer, Murder, Panic attacks/disorders, and Animal death
The Best Laid Plans by Cameron Lund
3.0
Alright so add this to a pile of books that I would read again but honestly makes me so mad!
This book starts out as the average teenager book with your teens who think they’re big, bad and cool because they have their cliques and they drink alcohol. At this point it’s the next new thing to lose your virginity though. Which is a thing that’s more common today for some reason, but you have keely and her clique with the popular Danielle and then you have Andrews clique, keelys best friend since they were little.
It’s always a love interest between the best friends and it’s obvious, but there was so many love hate times and even some really petty times throughout this book that really made me hate because it is so true to Highschool. Although the relationship between keely and Andrew is very accurate is was also cute. I think I’d like to revisit them sometime, but I think for now it wasn’t a bad read.
This book starts out as the average teenager book with your teens who think they’re big, bad and cool because they have their cliques and they drink alcohol. At this point it’s the next new thing to lose your virginity though. Which is a thing that’s more common today for some reason, but you have keely and her clique with the popular Danielle and then you have Andrews clique, keelys best friend since they were little.
It’s always a love interest between the best friends and it’s obvious, but there was so many love hate times and even some really petty times throughout this book that really made me hate because it is so true to Highschool. Although the relationship between keely and Andrew is very accurate is was also cute. I think I’d like to revisit them sometime, but I think for now it wasn’t a bad read.
All This Time by Rachael Lippincott, Mikki Daughtry
5.0
Okay, let me say, this was your average sappy love story but the emotions it brings you.. omg.
Kyle had the perfect life, the perfect girl, and the perfect title in High school until one play, one football game instantly ruins his career. Everything he’s ever known gone. His perfect girlfriend and his best friend still support him but everything is about him. So in reality it leads him to find out the hard way that his girlfriend doesn’t want to constantly be in a shadow of him, and his best friend Sam is tired of being there and getting no recognition for it. Until the one night of prom, leads to many emotional wreckages and leads to a dream of him losing and gaining even more. This book, led me with so many twists and turns and it really focuses on the characters. And let me say, if you don’t have a Marley in your life, you definitely need one.
This book is a sappy love story, but it’s one of the best, it’ll leave you second guessing and it’ll leave you fully over the relationships between the people. I know I loved it, but who am I kidding? I’m a huge hopeless romantic for sap stories <3
Kyle had the perfect life, the perfect girl, and the perfect title in High school until one play, one football game instantly ruins his career. Everything he’s ever known gone. His perfect girlfriend and his best friend still support him but everything is about him. So in reality it leads him to find out the hard way that his girlfriend doesn’t want to constantly be in a shadow of him, and his best friend Sam is tired of being there and getting no recognition for it. Until the one night of prom, leads to many emotional wreckages and leads to a dream of him losing and gaining even more. This book, led me with so many twists and turns and it really focuses on the characters. And let me say, if you don’t have a Marley in your life, you definitely need one.
This book is a sappy love story, but it’s one of the best, it’ll leave you second guessing and it’ll leave you fully over the relationships between the people. I know I loved it, but who am I kidding? I’m a huge hopeless romantic for sap stories <3
Wilder Girls by Rory Power
5.0
This book. My heart. Okay
So this book starts off as a book of hope, there’s hope for a better life, a future and a promised life. The amount of emotion poured into the pages only caught so much from each and every girl of Raxter.
They all face the tox, and no one knows a cure. Typical disease am I right? It doesn’t end there though, Byatt, Hetty and Reese are a group of girls who are emotional, vulnerable and even a little crazy together but they’re the best trio to read about in Wilder girls. Hetty tries everything she can for them both until they both lose Byatt, which sends them into a spiral and they both don’t know what to do without having her around to keep the peace. In the end Reese and Hetty discover so many secrets kept from them and all the girls and then to their knowledge a missile is coming to take out the island, they can’t find a cure, and there’s nothing left for them both to suffer.
Reese and Hetty thanks to the knowledge of her dads boat left behind they end up getting away from the island before it’s too late. But do they ever find Byatt? Is she dead or alive?
So this book starts off as a book of hope, there’s hope for a better life, a future and a promised life. The amount of emotion poured into the pages only caught so much from each and every girl of Raxter.
They all face the tox, and no one knows a cure. Typical disease am I right? It doesn’t end there though, Byatt, Hetty and Reese are a group of girls who are emotional, vulnerable and even a little crazy together but they’re the best trio to read about in Wilder girls. Hetty tries everything she can for them both until they both lose Byatt, which sends them into a spiral and they both don’t know what to do without having her around to keep the peace. In the end Reese and Hetty discover so many secrets kept from them and all the girls and then to their knowledge a missile is coming to take out the island, they can’t find a cure, and there’s nothing left for them both to suffer.
Reese and Hetty thanks to the knowledge of her dads boat left behind they end up getting away from the island before it’s too late. But do they ever find Byatt? Is she dead or alive?
Is This Me? by Jo Michaels
3.0
So I loved the setting and the characters and the base around college and even college life, the characters had their own personalities so drawn out.
Story wise; it was a definite slap to the face type of deal with the description and characters and the back and forth of every situation and even sometimes where it had you want to stop reading. In reality it wasn’t a bad book, just predictable, your average college girl life with all these guys she hangs with and yada yada. It wasn’t bad though but definitely not something I’d read again.
Story wise; it was a definite slap to the face type of deal with the description and characters and the back and forth of every situation and even sometimes where it had you want to stop reading. In reality it wasn’t a bad book, just predictable, your average college girl life with all these guys she hangs with and yada yada. It wasn’t bad though but definitely not something I’d read again.
We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
5.0
The way the book carried on through Henry’s train of thought, dealing with everyday horrors of losing people and frantic experiences that can happen, this book tied sci-fi and reality together and made the book smooth. This book brought me out of a reading slump and i’m so happy it did. Henry Denton you will always be remembered.
Two Can Keep a Secret by Karen M. McManus
4.0
Karen M. McManus never fails to disappoint me! When I first read “one of us is lying” I never thought I’d get hooked to that book. Normally when I read a book about murder everything is so expected, but finishing that book and “one of us is next” she has never failed to disappoint me with the suspense of not knowing who did it. When I’ve read them I always assumed the most least expectable person but it’s definitely someone you wouldn’t expect. I really enjoyed reading these and I can’t wait to read what she comes up with next. I hope whoever reads her books next get the same feeling I did!