I'm glad that the first book I read by Rowell, was Eleanor & Park. So far, her other books aren't blowing me away. This was a cute story and I'm not sure that the months I was on hold for it, was worth it. I know that right now everyone wants to read all of her books because Eleanor & Park was so good.

I took this book on not knowing what it was about except for guessing from the cover. We meet Lincoln, who is just stuck in a rut. He hasn't really cared about anything but is STILL trying to get over his high school sweetheart NINE years later. Hmm.. There's something wrong with that. He lives with his mom, has multiple master degrees, plays Dungeons & Dragons, and works the night shift reading other peoples emails. Now, when he was in high school, he was popular, had a serious girlfriend and had friends. I'm not getting the connection. How can this guy go nine years without another interested girl? He is supposed to be so good looking and muscular, but yet, when he explains it, girls don't ever seem interested in him. So he's either giving off some creepy vibes or he's just really bad at reading signals.

He is a loner and just doesn't really care about life, until he starts enjoying the email interactions between two co-workers, Beth and Jennifer. Their email gets flagged a lot, so he always has them popping up in his inbox. Instead of giving them warnings and letting them know they are caught, he just keeps reading them. So this is how the story begins. Months go on and he's falling in love with Beth through her email. Then one day, he reads an email about himself. Beth had noticed him and calls him her "Cute Guy." All the while, she is in a committed relationship. Obviously, as much as she obsesses about him, she should know that if she were in a healthy relationship, she wouldn't be. Then it just gets a bit weird. She starts to stalk him! He ends up doing the same by going to the bar where her boyfriend plays in the band.

If it were me, I think the idea of someone reading all my emails for months on end, is just creepy. How do you get past something like that? Yeah, it can be seen as romantic but it's really an invasion of privacy. Besides this big moral issue, I thought the story was cute. I did like Beth's character a lot. You really get to know her and Jennifer through these emails. The emails take on some deep issues but also are funny and interesting.

You also get some nostalgic feelings with all the references to the 80-90's (mostly 90's for me). It's a light, quick read that was interesting but fell flat for me.

I want to thank Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book. I had tried several times to win a copy through goodreads. When I saw this on Netgalley, I requested it and was excited to receive a copy. So Thank You!

First of all, that cover! It's beautiful. It drew me in right away. I know, it's horrible to judge a book by it's cover but it still happens.

Anyways, I liked this story but I had some trouble keeping up. All the different takes on vampires by authors is interesting enough but I was left a bit confused by this one. I don't think I ever got a clear stance on what this authors take is. All her questions are ignored and when she's being taught, it's all behind the scenes. You pretty much have to guess what is fake/real from the movies. They tell her but don't tell her. Confusing, right? So you kind of have to learn along the way by things that happen to her. I wish that the author would have gone into more detail. Not only with just the Dearg-duls but with the other creatures as well. I would like to know a little more about their differences and powers. I hope the second book will go into more details.

This poor girl has lost her parents and is taken in by her parents close friends. She grows up not knowing anything about her life or what she really is. Then when she turns 16 it's a rush to get her to a safe place. She's turning into not one but two of the night creatures. She has no idea what is going on and kind of just goes along with it. I mean this girl questions things without really questioning things. She wonders all these questions in her head but when it comes to real life, she just goes along with whatever she is told.

I really liked Devin's character. I can completely understand his love for her and his attachment. He's pretty much watched her grow up and been her guard for several years. The other boys.. I find that so hard to believe. These boys have met her once and then are suddenly in love with her, head over heels, kind of love. I just find that so hard to believe. It gets a bit annoying on how accepting they are of each other too. I mean she's practically all over one guy after just meeting him. What do her other two love birds do? Nothing! All is good and they understand they have to share. Okayy.

The storyline is actually quite interesting. Overall, the take on this world is really great but I just need a bit more clarity and some distinction between the different groups. I would also like to know more about the actual world as well. I think this book was really heavily based on the boy aspect. I'm very curious to see how it's all going to play out, and what's going to happen in Arianna's world, now that she's so powerful. I really want to know who the person is that betrayed them! That was definitely a great cliffhanger. I'm wondering what all this Legend entails too. I'm sure I'll learn a lot more about that in the second book!

I won this from a goodreads, giveaway. I would like to thank Goodreads and the publisher for a copy of this book. Receiving this book for free, has in no way, influenced my opinions.

I really enjoyed this book. I might be biased since I'm a Psychology major. This book is about bi-polar disorder and the manic hi/lows that go with it. This book is a coming of age story, about Olivia who has to grow up with her mothers (Myla) manic episodes. She has to deal with living on her own and growing up with a mother who is unstable and unpredictable. Later in life, she is diagnosed with bi-polar and the gene is also given to her son. So she not only has to deal with it herself, she has to help her son.

I was just so engrossed in the story and getting the details of Olivia's story. She has to learn to fend for herself and never knows where her mother disappears to for days or weeks at a time. She then has some conflicting situations with her mom that force her into a bad crowd. She immediately embraces to life of drugs, sex and alcohol to feel "free." Throughout the whole book you don't know who to feel sorry for. I would feel so bad for Olivia but then something else would happen and I would feel bad for Myla. They were both struggling with so much on their own that they couldn't reach each other.

The story alternates between her coming of age story with her present story. She is dealing with a divorce and moving from Texas to NY. On her way, she stops at her birth place to take her kids to the ocean. While this is happening, you get her story with how she is dealing with her life and her son's diagnosis. All the while, she's trying to deal with her guilty feelings for abandoning her mother years ago.

This was a great story and it really opens your eyes to the disorder and how it affects everyone in a family.

Ah! I started this book a couple days ago when I was waiting in line to meet THE author, Jason Segel! He was great by the way! Now to get to the book..

It is just so cute! It's such a great story for kids. I love how this book is about kids facing their fears in nightmares. I remember those days and they were not fun! Nightmares never are.



Charlie Laird has lost his mom and it's started a whole bunch of fears in him that have him being traumatized at night. He is convinced that his new stepmom is a witch. He is so sure that she is the reason he is having all the nightmares that he becomes very mean and rude to his whole family. He thinks that his dad and brother are forgetting his mom. So when he thinks the witch has taken his brother, he goes after the witch, into the Nightmare world. Soon he has help and takes on an adventure. He starts to cross into other nightmares and realizing it's his friends, he finds ways to help them. Soon all the kids are facing their fears and conquering them.

Jason does a great job to keep this book light, funny, and a mystery. It's not a scary book so kids wont actually get nightmares from this. I absolutely loved the cover and the illustrations. I think it was awesome how they had so much detail in the story that you could picture everything. All the creatures were really described in detail that when you saw the illustration, it was exactly what you were picturing! What a great world Jason has thought up!



I thoroughly enjoyed this book and can't wait for the 2nd and 3rd book. I will definitely be reading them.

Thanks to goodreads and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book. Winning this book from a goodreads giveaway did not influence my opinions.

This is an anthology of six different stories. Although, they are short stories. It was hard to get into the characters because there really isn't much character development. I think it's kind of hard to judge because of it. Overall, it was okay. I might have to read an actual book from this author.

I won this book from a Goodreads, first-reads giveaway. I would like to thank the publisher for providing me with a copy.

This is my first book by Syrie James so I didn't really know what to expect. I have all the Jane Austen books but have not read them yet. I know! It's horrible of me. I really enjoyed all the movies and I love the era. I really enjoyed this book!

You get 15 year old Jane Austen and her hurry to grow up. This is her story reminiscing, about her first love, Edward Taylor. She goes back in time and tells you this story that just sucks you right in. All the details about the time period make it easy to make the picture come alive. This whole book was inspired by a letter that Jane wrote to her sister, inspired by true events. James does a great job writing this story on how Jane meets Edward. He might have actually been her first love.

Jane undertakes a lot throughout this book. Not only is she falling in love for the first time, she starts to meddle in other's love lives. She starts to push certain people towards each other, not realizing she has no idea what she's doing. What she thought is actually the opposite of what's happening. In the end, she puts fixing her mistakes before her own wishes. You see how she realizes her faults. When she has to leave without saying by to Edward, it makes her latch onto him even stronger. Years pass and she's still head over heels for him. Her sister tries to tell her that it may seem like he's the one for her but it doesn't mean it is so. Later, when she sees him, she realizes how true her sisters words were.


It reminds me of when I was a teenager and I would be sure that I had just met the person I was going to marry. How in your mind you are so in love and there's no one else. It's just crazy how when you mature, you realize how wrong you are.

I really liked this book and I will get on reading my Austen novels soon!

I want to thank Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book. I was so intrigued when I read the synopsis and excited to get my hands on a copy. What a surprising book! I didn't think I would like it as much as I did.

This is about Aurora, the daughter of Sleeping Beauty. It's also a dark take on the continuation tale. Turns out the prince isn't what Beauty of any of us would have expected. Aurora and her brother, Jor, are captured by the Queen ogre. Her mom ends up killing herself to give Aurora her fairy gifts, so that they can escape. Turns out that not all fairy gifts are just gifts. Many of them have dark curses that go along with them. Anyways, Jor is later captured again by the Queen and Aurora leaves her safe home to find an army. Her only focus is saving her brother.

Along the way she is rescued by Niklaas. He is looking for Aurora to wed her. He has been cursed to turn into a swan on his eighteenth birthday. He was told by the witch who cursed him that only a wife in power can save him. Since Aurora is the real Queen, he is convinced he can make her marry him. So when he finds Jor, trapped in a camp, he saves him. He expects Jor to lead him to Aurora. Not knowing any better, he has actually saved Aurora. She is dressed as a boy because it was safer for her travels. So she finds an opportunity to have him help her find an army. They of course, become closer during their adventures.

The beginning of this book is a bit slow and drawn out. It doesn't pick up it's pace until the middle of the book. I really enjoyed the relationship between Aurora and Nicklaas. Especially, when he thought she was Jor. It was a great way for them to connect and become close without it being "love at first sight". It made it much more real and believable. I wasn't sure how the author was going to wrap things up nicely. The way she did it, makes a lot of sense now. I did feel that the ending battle between them and the ogres, was a rushed. There were so many opportunities to cut down some of the slower parts to add to the ending. There were also a lot of interesting takes on the fairy tales. It was entertaining and interesting. I was impressed how the author took on many grey areas about morals. I really enjoyed this book and am so glad I got to read it soon.

I really recommend this book because it's just so fun. It's definitely not what I was expecting when I started reading this. Love it when books turn out better than expected! :)

I had this book sitting on my ottoman for 2 weeks and six days. I had to return it to the library tomorrow and decided to see if I could read it. I wasn't sure I wanted to because I thought it was just parts of divergent retold from his perspective. So I wasn't that excited to read it. Until I looked through it and realized it was about his story.

So we start out at when its time for Tobias's Choosing ceremony. We learn all about his life at home and to that pint. what he is feeling and why he chooses what he does. We also get to go through his initiation all the way to his place when Tris comes along. We get so much background information about his life and the faction less too. We also get the story in why Eric is such a horrible person. Why he and Four don't get along. At the end there are a few chapters of his POV from the divergent book. It's not much but they are some key moments with Tris.

I wasn't sure I wanted to read this because sometimes authors just try to make more off a successful series. I'm glad that this was more than what I expected. It was informative and interesting. It's good to see what Four is thinking and feeling. He is so closed off throughout the series, so this is good to see.

I want to thank Netgalley and the publisher for providing me with a copy of this book.

The very first things I'd like to talk about is THAT ending. Yikes! I was completely surprised by that and still can't believe Weber went there. I do have to say, as crazy as this sounds, it's refreshing. Most YA books have become pretty predictable lately and so it's nice when a book surprises you. I do think that because of the world we are in, it wont be the actual ending we think. With that being said, it would be pretty disappointing to me. If you are going to go there then stay there.I was hoping that it would be a stand alone book. When I saw that it was a trilogy, I became more convinced of my theory.


I did have a hard time getting into this book because he language was a little irritating. I'm assuming that she's using creative words as swear words? So if you are reading this in our language, it would be full of swear words. It just seemed a bit too much. The story also takes a while to actually grab ahold of you. It really took at least half the book for me to be totally immersed into the plot.

After I got into the story, the rest of the book went rather quickly. I really liked the characters. Nym is trying to deal with her gift/curse throughout the book. She is consumed by grief of the past and refuses to let it go. What she doesn't realize is that is what's holding her back from controlling her elemental gift. She is being used as a pawn in a war of generations. Although, it seems that her new owner is helping her, she's really using her for her own reasons. I think that the tension between Nym and Eogan. I also really loved Colin. He was fun and added something to the book. What ends up happening, really shows character growth. It was great to see.

Something that failed miserably for me, was the fact that the world they were in was never developed. Same with the whole Elemental aspect. There were no introductions on what they could do or what it really was. Every author takes their own spin on things, I never really got Weber's. There were these two people fighting each other but no background. There just was no development of these things and they are really important to this story.

Overall, it was just an okay book for me. There were a lot of reviews loving this book but it didn't do that for me. There was some great potential but a slow moving plot and not enough detail about what's really going on.

First, I want to thank Goodreads, First-Reads and the Publisher for providing me a copy of this book. Second, I did not realize that it was translated from German. Third, I did not realize that it was part of a two-part series.

With that being said, it still was horrible. You really don't need to read the first book, because you get the whole story in this one, eventually. This was almost a DNF for me. I have only ONE other DNF and it was a personal book. I really try to finish books that I need to review. I was about 100 pages in and it was a tough call. I did stick with it and finish it but I'm not happy that I did.


From the beginning, I was completely annoyed with the main characters, Emely and Elyas. They are both SO stupid. Emely's inner monologue, wanted to make me scream. Her thoughts were so immature. These two are supposed to be in college. They seriously reminded me of a cheesy, pre-teen attempt at romance. I don't know if there was something that was lost in translation? Either way, I was having such a hard time not rolling my eyes.


This book was so predictable. Honestly, these two really caused their own misery. They were so fixated on their own feelings that they missed all the cues. Really, I was confused by Emely, throughout the whole book. She was so self-destructive. She wants to know WHY something happened, but couldn't stand to be in the same room with him. She never let him have a chance to explain himself. I understand that she was upset but come on! Don't get mad and angry because he hasn't provided you with an explanation, when you completely shut him down, when he tries.


Not only was the writing bad but this book took forever! When two days span over 150 pages, there's a problem. This book definitely dragged and I feel like not much happened, at the same time. There was too much of their thought process. I like when you get what is going on inside a characters head. This book has way too much of that and makes it boring.