This amazing book was given such a short review because it was part of my "Flash Review" on my book review blog, The Hufflepuff Whovian.

This book started off difficult for me, it’s written in second person, I wasn’t always sure what the hell was going on, but oh. my. lord. THIS BOOK blew me away so hard, I recommended it to everyone I could. It’s that good, I haven’t met anyone who didn’t love it.

Possible ReadHarder Prompts: A picture book with a human main character from a marginalized community.
Possible PopSugar Prompts: 4 star rating on GoodReads, Setting is a country starting with a C, Author has written more than 20 books.

This book was so cute, I absolutely adored it! It talks about the old cars of Cuba and how many of them have been tinkered with in order to survive due to the US Embargo. It doesn't have heavy political messages or anything, and I could totally see a kid who loves cars loving this book!

The only reason this book has three stars is because it wasn't memorable. I remember all of the books that I loved (or most of them) and although I remember it from sitting on my bookshelf I can't remember anything else about it.

Please note: I am going through all of my read books with an attempt to star and review, at some point, all of these books will have a decent review, I promise.)

I LOVED this book growing up, Meg Cabot was everything growing up and anything remotely politicky is always of interest to me. Just, amazing.

(Please note: I am going through all of my read books with an attempt to star and review, at some point, all of these books will have a decent review, I promise.)

SOOO this book. I waited a while to read it, which is really strange actually, mostly because I finished [b:Divergent|13335037|Divergent (Divergent, #1)|Veronica Roth|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1328559506s/13335037.jpg|13155899] and [b:Insurgent|11735983|Insurgent (Divergent, #2)|Veronica Roth|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1325667729s/11735983.jpg|15524542] back to back, before there was a movie deal. I stumbled upon them when I first bought my Kindle Fire and loved them, and even shared them with my old English teacher who also, loved them. But I waited on this one and I'm not sure why.

I’m pretty sure I decided to pick up this book because I saw the Divergent movie and remembered how much I loved it and figured I should finish it. But I also thought, because I saw a quick review on GoodReads that it had been spoiled for me, and what I thought was the ending sounded absolutely horrendously terrible so I decided just to not.

BUT, that wasn't the ending that I thought it was going to be. It was actually totally different, and I was really actually happy with it. I have this thing for when bad things happen to the main characters of books (No Spoilers!) but I was really really really happy with it. And Four, I seriously fell even more in love with Four. It helps that Theo James plays him the movie, right?

But back to the book, I wasn't a huge fan of the whole scientific aspect of it, which is honestly so strange because that’s what I really loved about the [b:Birthmarked|6909544|Birthmarked (Birthmarked, #1)|Caragh M. O'Brien|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1442562480s/6909544.jpg|7134814] Trilogy by [a:Caragh O Brien] (which I also have yet to read the last book…Do you see a pattern? Same with the Cahill Witch Chronicles by [a:Jessica Spotswood|4718528|Jessica Spotswood|https://images.gr-assets.com/authors/1436636214p2/4718528.jpg]…hmmm..) But it just seemed kind of thrown at you, it didn't REALLY felt like it was built up to, and what I liked about this series is that it didn't seem like The Maze Runner or whatever where people were calling the shots. Either way, I actually really enjoyed this book, and I’m happy the ending wasn't what I thought it was.

And I really love Four. Like it might actually rival my love for Nico DiAngelo, which as most of you probably know from my [b:House of Hades|12127810|The House of Hades (The Heroes of Olympus, #4)|Rick Riordan|https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1464201430s/12127810.jpg|21539506] review, is strong.

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Obsessed with Sarah Dessen. Always have been, always will be. I remember being disappointed with this book though, it wasn't as raw as some of her others (if you could call them raw).

Possible Read Harder Prompts: Rural setting, Middle grade that takes place somewhere other than the US/UK
Possible Pop Sugar Prompts: Passes Bechdel test, by a woman of color, 4 star GoodReads rating.

This was a beautiful middle-grade story that takes place in Pakistan and inspired by Malala. Amal loves school and reading and looks forward to her future until her parents can't pay back a debt and she is forced to go work for a landlord who holds her small town in terror. It's a modern-day story of what women go through throughout the world, and really gets its point across without being triggering or traumatic for the sake of it. I'm excited to give it to students so they can learn as well. Highly recommend!