Super cute romance of boy meets girl by reading her flagged-for-content work emails. Lincoln and Beth's journey to love is tons of fun to read and filled with awesome banter between the characters (both spoken and in their emails). Rainbow Rowell's first novel, and an author I have totally fallen for myself. I will read anything and everything she writes.

A graduate student is lured into another realm to become the bride of the Fairy Queen's son, only to find out that what is beautiful on the surface may have far more sinister origins.
Unfortunately, despite a promising start (really appreciated and sympathized with the graduate student humor), Barker's tale quickly began to bore me. The heroine felt led around for most of the tale and only came into her own at the end. While studying magic is intriguing, I do not need to read exhaustive descriptions of the learning process. Get to the action!
Plus, the alternate realm is so chauvanistic that I wasn't really sure how I felt about it, nor the cranky old wizard who eventually becomes the love interest. Why bother at all? It may have been more interesting to leave this as a non-romance completely. Left wide open for a sequel, but not really interested enough to read another 500 pages of low action. Read Deborah Harkness's series instead.

I slightly adore childhood neighbor romances, and this one is especially endearing. Cricket (the boy) earns Lola's crush after he starts wearing these fancy pants that show he is into clothes (like she is). They have many many months of flirty behavior, then he breaks her heart and moves away to help further his twin's ice skating career. Several years, and one MUCH older boyfriend later, Cricket is BACK. Yup, that crush never went away...

The characters in this novel are fun, fully-fleshed out, and made me love them. So fun to see a character who likes to dress up every day, and also nice to see a character being raised by two dads. Cricket can climb in my window anytime.

Chapters that alternate before and after Sawyer La Grande left Reena 16 and pregnant in a small Florda town paint the story of first love gone wrong, and then refound. Sweet, but often exasperating as a super smart gal constantly gets hurt but keeps coming back for more. Thankfully, redemption and forgiveness play a large part in making this love story work out in the end.

Good palate cleanser between more challening reads. Too bad the steamy stuff was kept mostly for flashbacks, and the stuffy librarian cliche was pretty lame. And if a guy can really see beyond spray-hilighted hair and hooker heels to see someone's "true sparkle" I don't know him :).

Book 2 of the Cousin O'Dwyer trilogy focuses on Connor and his connection to his ancestor Eamon, and the circle's battle to destory the evil sorceror Cabhan.

Obstensibly the story of how Connor realizes he has always loved childhood friend Meara, more time is spent dwelling on the epic battles (and failures) between the cousins, their circle, and the evil sorceror. There was too much "I got into this bad situation, I was rescued, now let me recount it for you again even though you just read through it." I would rather have spent more time exploring Meara and Connor's relationship and "getting" why they fell so quickly into love after ignoring it for twenty years.

A bit repetitive for me, and I'm looking forward to finally seeing rape-y Cabhan defeated in book 3.

Stephanie Perkins, you've done it again. Exactly the sort of sweet, emotional, and lovely romance I needed right now. What draws Isla apart from the other books in this series (don't worry, you don't need to read them to enjoy this novel) and what makes me think I like it the best, is that the road to how the couple finally get together isn't the main focus - it is what happens after they are together. Le sigh. Sign me up for French boarding school, s'il vous plaît.

Thanks to my coworker for sharing the ARC with me!

**Review based off a free ARC received from www.netgalley.com**

Pixie and Levi were friends since childhood, but a tragedy tore them apart. But, will living at the same inn during their summer break break down their walls?

This wasn't terrible! In fact, I rather enjoyed it. Finally a New Adult title that doesn't focus on a personal sexual tragedy for the lady (whew breath of fresh air); instead the tragedy affects them both equally (I won't spoil it here). Bonus, Levi is a steamy handyman and really truly cares about Pixie, and Pixie's dedication to art, work, and friends is laudable. I really wanted these two to work it out.

Also, I must add I keep seeing heroic Levi's in a lot of the books I'm reading...interesting.

Actual rating 3.5 stars.

Svetlana should live in another era. She loves embroidery, D&D, drawing, reading, and opera. She is the Dungeon Master of her High School's table top game club (barely holding onto its official status with five members) and sleeps in a tower (ok, really the attic of her house).

Lesh is a metal-head who gets sucked into playing a MMO game online after he is grounded for coming home drunk. This is the incident where he actually runs into Svetlana, knocking her off her bicycle and ruining her notebook of D&D maps and characters.

After apologizing and becoming her lunch buddy, they start to fall for each other despite each of their hesitations and their respective groups negative attitudes. But, will Svetlana find out Lesh is impersonating her online in his MMO and get grossed out? Can people from two different castes really date?

Super cute and fun, but definitely not the emotional "gut-punch" that the description of this book promised. That was fine with me, but let's not over-sell here people. I really thought Brezenoff had a wonderful handle on the different high school groups he explores, and I love that Lesh wasn't already a hard-core gamer and actually kind of fell into being one due to circumstances. I also loved finding out the "Guy in Real Life" is actually a really horrible internet etiquette failure (G.I.R.L.). Ha. Never knew.