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This book goes against my insta-love issue. Everything happens in one night, and it is so so so great. So for this book I put that little quirk aside because I can't help but say I love the story and the romance its self. But it was an amazing debut novel and I am already excited to see what Garcia is going to publish next.

After an accident at home Julie wants to get away. With her church's youth group she heads down the New Orleans to help build houses. But even with that she still feels trapped. At the spur of the moment Julie darts and hops onto a bus that takes her into the heart of Mardi Gras. With her red hand made fairy wings she off into the world of New Orleans alone and finally free. That is until she meets Miles. One night. No Baggage. No Names. Just living in the moment.

I think I would have appreciated Julie's character more if the incident that caused her to leave home was revealed earlier and not at the climax of the book when five million others things going on. In my head she was running away from her brother (which in a sense is true.) But you don't find out the real cause until the end. Despite that I enjoyed Julie's character. She made a rash decision, and decided to let free for one night. In a sense I saw myself in her character. I loved Miles and his blue spiky hair. Even though we don't know his real name to the end of the book.

I am rolling my eyes at myself as I type this paragraph because it was one night, but the romance. Despite the fact that it takes place over the course of one night it is slow. A touch here. A thought there. Until you are reading faster so you can get to the point where they finally kiss. Insta-love can go wrong in so many ways, but I loved how Garcia managed it in this book. It wasn't too over done.

Overall I really enjoyed Even if the Sky Falls and I am excited to see Garcia's future works. Because her writing is beautiful.

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I've read a good number of Armentrout's books by now and I can easily say that this is the one I have connected with the most. I also want to hate her because she literally breaks my heart over and over and repairs it. The Problem With Forever deals with a tough issue that I have seen in many YA's but none of them handled like this.

Mallory hasn't had the easiest life. Being in the foster care system you never know where you are going to end up and who are going to meet. Jumping from home to home with Rider, her best friend she managed to escape the worst of her troubled until Mr. Henry. Mr. Henry is the definition of the devil living on earth. He is a abusive phycopath that used any excuse to beat on Rider. Rider was always Mallory's cushion. If she got in trouble Rider stepped in and took the physical beating. She was always told be quiet and never make a noise. After a tragic night and four years of seperate on they never expected to see each other again, especially in high school.

Mallory is such a complex yet simple character that I have no words to describe her. I admire her strength of character and as well as everything she been through. Through out the novel we see Mallory progress from a shy quiet girl who is terrified to use her voice to someone who could stand up in what she wanted and believed in. Her anxieties with certain aspects of her life also made her an easy character for me to related to. Rider is quite a hard book to read, he is still in the system and though in a more stable home with people who consider him family. He doesn't talk about how Mr. Henry affected him. He just wants to know how Mallory, or too him "mouse" handled the aftermath.

The romance is a real slow burn in the book, nothing really happens until the last half of the book. But it's a believable romance. Both characters have their own doubts and demons that they are battling that conflict with each other. But Armentrout wove a beautifully complicated romance into an already complicated story line.

All in all I am so excited for this book to hit shelves and for everyone to experience what I did in the novel. Filled with a heart wrenching story line, a tender romance and the charm that most Armentrout books hold The Problem with Forever is a story that you will never forget.

Review to come

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I haven't had the chance to real Cozzo's other works yet, but after How to Keep Rolling After a Fall I am really excited to. Though I didn't find How to Keep Rolling After a Fall perfect, I did like the characters and the premise of the story. It was educational as well as smile inducing at moments.

I don't like how the summary described Nikki as a mean girl:


"....shows a former mean girl that everyone deserves a second chance...."

I found Nikki to be anything other then a mean girl. Sure, she was involved in that cyber bullying incident but it's not like she walked around tormenting everyone. Others may argue this with me but that's just my opinion. The only thing that makes Nikki bad was those pictures being posted to her Facebook account and not speaking up to her friends on the matter. Though I would describe Nikki now to be more of a person who looks down on herself, and throws herself a constant pity party (Which was irritating.)

But where Nikki was negative, I found Pax to be the complete opposite. Sort of like Ying and Yang. Pax, who is wheel chair bound after a car accident looks at life with a whole new perspective, he is happy to be alive and believes in second chances. Which is exactly what he gives Nikki. A second chance that she needed. He didn't judge her for what happened, he just understood her and didn't judge like many others would have. At times Pax reminded me a little bit of Augustus from The Fault in our Stars. (Only Pax doesn't die on us like Gus did.)

Overall I really did enjoy How to Keep Rolling After a Fall and look forward to Cozzo's future adventures. I took a personal lesson out of this book that you can't beat yourself up for the bad choices you made in the past, you just have to pick yourself up and move on. No matter how hard it may be to do so.

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So, I took a pretty long hiatus from the blogging world. 2 months long and I didn't read a single book in that time. Torn is the first book I read in a while and I left speechless. Armentrout never fails to amaze me with her imagination and execution of her novels. Having read most books written by her, all rated 3.5 stars and above it is easily shown she is an author that I love to read more of. When Inkslinger presented me with the opportunity I was more the grateful to take it. What a way to get back into the reading/blogging world.

At the end of Wicked we learn that Ivy is the halfling that Ren, her boyfriend was sent to New Orleans to kill. But besides that the Prince (Drake) of the otherworld had entered our world by opening the gates. In Torn we deal with the aftermath of the events played out in Wicked, and the dark twisted events that take place in Torn. In Torn we see Ivy's willingness to save the ones she loves the most, as well as the sacrifices she makes to save those loved ones. (Trying to keep it spoiler free!!!!)

Let's start off with what I loved about this book. TINK! We definitely learn a few more things about him in Torn, I guess he still wasn't so truthful as he claimed he was in Wicked. But I love his relationship with Ivy. Ivy could have easily casted him to the side when he was injured, but instead she rescued him and let him live with her. Their bond is something I adore in this book. As well at the witty banter, and Tink's none ending obsession of spending Ivy's money with Amazon Prime. But Armentrout has a few surprises in Torn about Tink that I didn't suspect.

I also enjoyed Drake's character (The Prince.) As twisted and dark as he was, his character made the book what it was. With out Drake and his screwed up mind and ways Torn wouldn't have been enjoyable. (At least to me, that is.)

There was a few aspects I was unhappy with though, there is one scene in the book that was highly predictable to me, and the aftermath of it as well. I'm not saying the whole book was predictable but I predicted most of what was going to happen for a good portion of Torn. (Hence, my four star rating.)

Overall I really enjoyed Torn except for the few issues I had with it. I am excited to see where Armentrout is going to take Tink, Ivy, Ren and the rest of the crew in the next book Brave that will be coming out next summer!

Because I felt like being nice I gave this book a three star rating instead of a two like I originally wanted too.

Sookie Stackhouse a small town cocktail waitress desires one thing in her life. To meet a vampire. And what happens when she meets one? That is how the novel starts.

I was warned about the sexual content of this book before hand that I wasn't surprised by it, but there were a few things I didn't get.

~A traumatic event happens in her life, so she goes and looses her virginity
~Something happens in Bill's life, he takes his anger out by pounding her still she is soar.
~They do it, then five seconds later she is mad at him for something.
~Then she compares two guys asses!!!!

Some of thge things Bill says to her in the beginning creeped me out. I would not have talked to a guy after he said something like that to me.....

“But there's a juicy artery in your groin," he said after a pause to regroup, his voice as slithery as a snake on a slide......."

CREEPY!I would be like this to get out of there..............



The dialect was out there for me too. I don't think real southern people talk like that nowadays. Feel free to correct me, but Sookie talks like a ninety year old grandma! Act twenty three dammit! Not like my grandmother! Gahhhhh! It was so infuriating!

"Don't you talk dirty," I told him. "I won't listen to that.”

She says "I won't listen to that," so much in this book that every time I read it a pictured a old woman saying it.

I don't know what I expected from this book but what I got was extremely disappointing. Best part is, I felt no attraction to any of these characters like I do in other books.

Review to come!

Review to come