samantha_randolph's Reviews (1.59k)

"Kyra Agnew has a pretty good life as star of the softball team with a great best friend and a gorgeous and sweet boyfriend. On a drive with her dad after a game, everything changes when she sees a blinding light. She wakes up behind a dumpster and as she tries to find her parents, she discovers that five years have passed since that day. The strange thing is she hasn't aged a day, and she has the exact same bruise and tan she had the day she disappeared. Now with divorced parents and her boyfriend (whose little brother is now all grown up and looking great) dating her best friend, Kyra must figure out what exactly happened five years ago and why strange national security men are asking her questions." Full review at Fresh Fiction: http://freshfiction.com/review.php?id=44206

"In the 1930s, Hitler's power was starting to rise. During that time, his honorary niece, Gretchen, was growing up as one of his favorite people. She loves her uncle Dolf dearly, the man her father died supposedly protecting. When a Jewish journalist, Daniel, tells her a different version of her father's death, Gretchen slowly learns the truth about her uncle. Together, the two try to find the truth though finding it may cost them their lives." Full review at Fresh Fiction: http://freshfiction.com/review.php?id=44207

"Caroline is shocked when the guy she broke up with puts their sex pictures online. Now, she has gone from a nice, eager for law school girl to a slut according to everyone on her college campus. She faces cruel Internet comments and phone calls and can hardly sleep, which leads her to driving to a bakery where a guy she knows she should stay away from works. From the first time she met him, West screamed trouble, but now he is one of the only few who will talk to her. As the two get to know each other, their feelings grow for each other, but both have problems that need to be worked out." Full review at Fresh Fiction: http://freshfiction.com/review.php?id=44236

Short and Sweet:

I have so many feels for this book. It's gripping, intense, and mind-boggling. Basically, book hangover alert right here.


To Elaborate...

Molly keeps finding holes in her memory. One minute, she'll be in class or at home, the next she can't remember the last hour or day. When she encounters a stranger who oddly enough seems to know her, memories start resurfacing that don't make sense. As more of the holes are filled, Molly will have to find out if she's ready to face the entire truth.


This book, people. THIS BOOK. Normally, psychologically-focused books aren't my thing in the sense that I'll give it a try if it sounds good, but I don't actively seek them, but this one completely and utterly blew me away. Literally 3% into the book I knew I was going to love it. The writing is just so....mesmerizing. You want to know what's going on with Molly so badly and I couldn't stop reading. I pretty much devoured page after page trying to put this whole picture together.


Just to rein in my absolute gushing for a sec, I can see that this might not be everyone's favorite. It has a certain feel to it and style of writing that not everyone will like (like sometimes there are moments of heavier repetition for emphasis). Of course no book will fit everyone anyway, but this was just one that captured my heart. It's like when you meet someone and you're just like, "Oh right, of course you're in my life."


The part of me that craves firm and secure endings wasn't too happy at the end, but shoving that part aside, I still loved it. It was fitting and beautiful and perfect for the characters. All in all, I couldn't recommend this one enough if you're in the mood for an awesome story and a slight messing with your mind. :)

Originally posted at I Heart YA Fiction: http://iheartyafiction.blogspot.com/2014/06/review-half-life-of-molly-pierce-by.html

"Charlotte is an Oracle, a person who sees the future. The bad part is that she is never supposed to interfere with what she sees, so she and the rest of the Oracles constantly fight off their visions even though it causes them pain. When Charlotte gets a vision she can't fight off about a classmate being murdered, she starts to question why she can't stop the tragedy starting to happen around her. When a mysterious man named Smith who seems to know about Oracles wants to help, Charlotte will be forced to trust him if she ever wants to stop the killer." Full review at Fresh Fiction: http://freshfiction.com/review.php?id=44241

"A young teen girl named Leila is on a mission to get to the Northern Lights. Leila has a purpose and a story, but hers isn't just what the story is about. Along her way, she encounters Hudson, Bree, Elliot, and Sonia, four very different people that Leila can't help but help. Their journeys and hers mingle together on this adventure of a lifetime." Full review at Fresh Fiction: http://freshfiction.com/review.php?id=44255

"Frances Stuart has little money, but she has beauty that can attract kings. When she goes to the French court with her newly wed friend, King Louis XIV is enraptured and asks her to be his mistress. Guided by her morals and her desire to protect her family from scandal, she refuses, and he sends her back to England, charging her to capture King Charles II's eye. While she attempts to win Charles over with kindness instead of seduction, she starts falling for the monarch she can't have. Her loyalty is tested, and Frances must decide how long she can say no." Full review at Fresh Fiction: http://freshfiction.com/review.php?id=44299

"As determined by the queen bee Sugar sets on a map, Sugar is headed towards New York now. Never sure of what the place will hold for her, Sugar nevertheless looks on the bright side and hopes for nothing more than to make new friends and take care of her bees. This time, her destination holds something else for her in the form of handsome Theo, but Sugar doesn't want romance after a heartbreak from the past. Alongside a group of people who have lost their way a bit, Sugar will have to learn how to let someone else be her friend to her for once." Full review at Fresh Fiction: http://freshfiction.com/review.php?id=44404

"Chiara Nerini is the young daughter of a dead bookseller, and her family is starving. In attempt to save them, she tries to sell her father's alchemy equipment to Grand Duke Francesco, a man rumored to be obsessed with the magical science. Instead of just buying the tools, Francesco forces her to be part of his alchemy, and thus dragging her into political plots and a world full of Medici drama. Fellow alchemist Ruanno seems to be the only person Chiara can trust, but even he has his own plans. Chiara has to walk a careful line or it may mean her death." Full review at Fresh Fiction: http://freshfiction.com/review.php?id=44416

"Becca Williamson has one job: breaking couples up. From her older sister to her ex-best friend, Becca has seen the dangers of love and knows it must be stopped to at least some extinct which led her to her business. People request the Break-Up Artist (anonymously Becca) to break couples up for money, and she finds a way to pull them apart. Things change when she gets a request to break up her high school's most beloved couple: Huxley, her ex-best friend, and her boyfriend, Steve. While Becca strategizes to break them up, she has to fight her own emerging romantic feelings for someone she can't have." Full review at Fresh Fiction: http://freshfiction.com/review.php?id=44426