This picks up right where Just One Day leaves off, but is told from the boy's point of view as he navigates his own coming of age in the year he's separated from Allyson. I thought Willem's character and story was much more complex, interesting and compelling. And it's also rather compelling to read parts of the same story from a different perspective. I did feel like the end of the book could have been just one more chapter long. Without giving spoilers, really, it's the least the author could have done. And, lo, I found the Just One Night novella...

A nice little novella that put the cherry on the cake of the series. Very satisfying. I highly recommend reading the whole series in one go.

As a pretty avid Twitter user, I've been meaning to read this as well as Hatching Twitter. Biz Stone writes in a very fun and playful way; there were several laugh out loud moments, as well as really cool insights into Twitter. Alas, I thought it was a little hokey and that it ought to be in the 'Self-Help' section of the library.

This was a really quick read - Moyes still has a knack for making me turn the pages, laugh out loud and swoon just a little bit. But this romance felt familiar/formulaic, like I'd read a similar story or seen a movie just like it, or something... Didn't seem wholly original, but good chick lit.

Favorite book of the year so far! I LOVED the Disreputable History of Frankie Landau Banks and Lockhart's new book has certainly been getting a lot of buzz. This book plops you right down into summertime on Cape Cod - this is one of the best atmospheric novels I've ever read, I could almost smell the sea air and taste the food prepared by this wealthy family's staff. It's also haunting, unsettling, and highly suspenseful. What DID happen that summer they were all fifteen? We the readers come to some horrendous realizations along with the main character, Cady, as she struggles to overcome her amnesia from an accident that year. I wasn't expecting a major twist at the end and my hand literally flew to my mouth as I was reading. Crazy good, and I feel like this one will stick with me for awhile.

There's sort of a 'Butterfly Effect' theme going on, with all these seemingly small choices the characters make that end up making a huge impact on their lives and the life of A.J. I'm partial to stories that take place in bookstores or that revolve around characters that are also book lovers. This was just wonderful, sweet, surprising, hilarious, heartbreaking while being uplifting and inspiring. LOVED.

I was really looking forward to this one, as I thought I could identify with the protagonist the most of all Rowell's characters: a married mom of two small kids. Alas, I'm no Georgie (well, I do tend toward the social anxiety that comes off as suuuuper chatty - I've got that trait down) and I really couldn't relate to her marriage. The way Rowell emotes, though, always gets me. She EXCELS at writing romantic language without being cloying. I just got a little exhausted being inside Georgie's head for the whole novel and felt like it could have been whittled down to a short story.

This was equally compelling to Wool, but it did drag for a bit in the middle. Maybe because I had to put it down for a few days while I was on a trip and it was hard to get back into the momentum of the boook... Either way, I really enjoy the way he goes back and forth between persepectives in time to tell the story and it's a highly original and thought-provoking read.

Eh, it kept me turning the pages and there was some good humor. But, it just felt predicable or I didn't even care about anyone enough to wonder about how their fates would unfold. I'm not saying I have to love every character, or even ONE character, in the books I read. But if they ARE going to be deplorable at worst (and bland stereotypes at best) it should be a crazy interesting exciting read (hello, Gone Girl). This was a bunch of people hanging out on their snobby European vacation. Meh.

This book was AWESOME. A sci-fi take on Cinderella and it had nuances of Star Wars (LOVE), AI, and a bit of Tudor England-esque drama. I thought it was well plotted and highly entertaining. Maybe it's been awhile since I read a good YA yarn, but I can't wait to devour the whole series.