Unstoppable Review

Hey guys!

I finished another NetGalley!

Unstoppable by Melody Grace was an interesting read.  The story drew me in from the get go, and had me up until all hours of the night.  I’ve never read any of the other books in the series, but this one made me want to.  I loved seeing how Teagan and Ryland’s relationship progressed, and how they were able to help each other.  There were a few times that I felt a little bit doubtful about their feelings; they were obviously attracted to each other, but it felt like things were mostly physical with them.  I both loved and hated when things started going awry.  I wanted to see just how much of a test their relationship could handle, and I wasn’t disappointed.  I really loved getting to hear about Brit and Hunter, Dex, Ash, and Blake, and Zoey.  I really hope that Zoey and Blake get a book, because I can see the two of them ending up together.

Have a great day!

DeereReaderGirl

Day 21

Hey guys!

I finished a NetGalley that I was super excited about the other day!

Needless to say, when I got approved for Day 21 by Kass Morgan, I screamed my head off in excitement.

 

 

 

Day 21 is the sequel to The 100, which I read and LOVED!  In this book, things are going poorly with the remainder of the hundred.  At the end of the first book, Bellamy and Clarke had gone off in search of Octavia and the camp was attacked.  This book picks up where the last one left off.  

I really thought that this book was excellent.  I love that the books are so different from the show.  Sometimes I just wanted to smack Clarke, Wells, and Bellamy with the book, because they’re being so moronic, but that makes them feel more real.  I didn’t really enjoy the parts that talked about what was going on on the ship.  I was more interested in what was going on on the ground.  There was a twist at the end of the story that I did not see coming up until the end and I thought it was AWESOME!!  I’m really excited for the next book!

Happy reading!

DeereReaderGirl

Appaloosa Summer

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I finished an awesome NetGalley the other day!

Tudor Robins’ Appaloosa Summer was superb!  I couldn’t put the book down and when it was over I screeched because I wasn’t ready for it to be over yet.  

Meg was in the midst of jumping in a competition with her horse, Major, when he dropped dead.  Meg is really torn up about what happened to Major.  She isn’t sure she ever wants to jump again, but when given the chance, she rides a horse and it makes her feel good, but not like it did with Major.  Much to her mother’s chagrin, she gets a summer job away from home.  While away for the summer, she meets handsome farm boy, Jared.

I ended up not liking Meg’s mom for most of the book.  She just really got on my nerves for whatever reason, but close to the end of the book she got better.  Jared.  Boy did I love Jared.  He’s pretty much my ideal guy, even though he doesn’t seem to have fanboy tendencies.  The dude can drive a tractor, that’s an important skill to have.  Slate, Meg’s best friend, is crazy!  She thinks tractors are boring.  I know from personal experience that tractors are anything except boring, but maybe that’s just in my family where if something doesn’t break it’s a miracle.  

I really liked learning more about Jared and seeing how Meg grew as a person.  I was so, SO thrilled that there wasn’t any huge misunderstanding or drama to add suspense or whatever to the book.  I liked that the things that happened in the book could actually happen in real life, too.  I cannot wait for the next book in the series!  Check this book out guys!  I can’t see anyone giving it less than three or four stars!

Happy reading!

DeereReaderGirl

Glitch

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I finished a NetGalley last night.

I had seen Glitch by Brenda Pandos on Goodreads every once in a while, so when it showed up on NetGalley I knew that I wanted to read it.  This book was not what I expected at all, and at this point, I’m not even sure what that was anymore; I wasn’t expecting zombies and Sasquatches, that’s for sure.  Abby lives in a world where everyone wears a watch that  shows how much time you have left until you die.  Abby is very OCD about her time left; she does everything she should and tries to never get stressed out or take risks.  One day during a softball game, she falls down the side of a hill or something and meets this guy with blue eyes who gives her a note and sets her world spinning off it’s axis.  In Abby’s world, people are not supposed to have blue eyes and they aren’t supposed to have or use paper.

The idea for this story was really good, but there were just some things that didn’t jive for me.  Abby waffles a lot, like more so than any other heroine I’ve ever read.  The zombie thing was also really weird.  First they “exist,” then they don’t, but then they actually do.  The oracle/time travel thing was also really weird, and the Abby/Anna thing?  Weird, weird, weird.  Also, the way the book ended really drove me nuts.  I was plan on reading the sequel anyway, but after how it ended, there was no way I couldn’t after that.

Happy reading!

DeereReaderGirl

Hero Duty

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Sorry I haven’t done a real update in a while!  I’ve been super busy, but I’m making up for it today!

I recently finished another book from NetGalley.

Though I really enjoyed Hero Duty by Jenny Schwartz, I had mixed feelings about it.  Sometimes there were emotions and actions that would come out of nowhere and I’d be sitting there like, “Wait!  What just happened?!  Where did that even come from?!”  Overall, the story was enjoyable.  Basically, Jessica goes and hires Brodie, an ex-seargant, to be her emotional bodyguard.  As best as I can figure out, Jessica had anxiety in addition to her phobia.  Her dad has just died, and her step-mother and step-brother are essentially emotional terrorists.  I really liked seeing how everything would turn out.  I know that there was a book before this one, but I think they can be read as stand-alones.  I do feel like I would have been less confused about Brodie’s brother if I had read It’s Love, Dude first.

I think that most people would enjoy this story.  There were some instances of mature content, but those were easy to get around.

Happy reading!

DeereReaderGirl

The Curse Breakers

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Another NetGalley bites the dust!

Yesterday I finished The Curse Breakers, which is the sequel to The Curse Keepers, by Denise Grover Swank.  I was so upset with the way TCK ended so I was curious to see how TCB would handle everything that went down.  I really enjoyed the story, and I love David, but I’m pretty sure that Collin and Ellie are going to end up together in the end.  When Ellie was having trouble finding Ahone’s symbol, I wondered why she didn’t just go to Tom’s grandpa since he was able to identify the symbols that were on Ellie’s door.  I’m really excited for the third book in the series, because I can’t wait to see what Ms. Swank comes up with next!

Happy reading!

DeereReaderGirl

Forbidden

Hey guys!  

I just finished a fantastic NetGalley this evening!

The book I read was Forbidden by Lori Adams.  When I got this book, I was really excited to read it, but then I saw that it was getting some pretty negative reviews, which had me worried.  I was especially worried because one of the reviews favored a book series that I don’t really enjoy all that much, but those reviews didn’t stop me from reading this book, and I am glad.  I liked going through Sophia’s experiences with her, and I liked trying to figure out the different mysteries she was dealing with.  First, I really didn’t like Michael, but the boy grew on me.  I wish that I had a Michael of my own.  I was glad to see that in this series there were serious consequences if an angel were to develop feelings for a human, instead of it all just being kosher or a non-issue.  Against my better judgement, I actually liked Dante for a while.  Who doesn’t like star crossed lovers?  At the same time though, I was mentally berating myself, because he is a DEMON for crying out loud, and I definitely shipped Sophia with Michael.  There for a while in this book, although I was interested, I felt that things could have not gone on as long as they did.  The only thing that I didn’t really like about this book was that we didn’t get to really know about Dante and Sophia’s past life.  All we really knew was that they had been in love and that he died for her and had been tracking her through all time trying to find her.  I wish that we could have learned more about that, but we can’t have everything.

This book made me fangirl a lot.  I was squealing.  I was curling my toes.  I was berating characters for being idiots.  Seriously though, at one point I kept yelling at the book and my parents thought I was having an actual problem, but then when they figured out that I was having book issues they went on a walk so that I could rant at the book to my heart’s content.  I would definitely recommend this book.  It isn’t the same as the Hush, Hush  series by Becca Fitzpatrick, but if you enjoyed that series I’m pretty sure that you would enjoy this series.

Happy reading!

DeereReaderGirl

The Break-Up Artist

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I recently finished another NetGalley book!

 

The Break-Up Artist by Philip Siegel was released on April 29, 2014.

I waited to review this book, because I wasn’t sure what to say about it.  I thought that the premise of the story was really interesting, and it reminded me of a backwards version of Nyrae Dawn’s What a Boy Wants.  Basically, Becca is paid to break people up, but no one knows that she is “the break-up artist.”  Becca is very cynical about love and relationships, because her original only friend ditched her when she got a boyfriend, and recently, Becca’s sister got dumped six hours before her wedding.  Through most of the book, I had a hard time liking Becca.  She did some very unlikeable, non-friend things, and it was very frustrating to me.  The story was enjoyable enough that I tried to guess what was going to happen, and I was excited or dejected when whatever happened did or didn’t go the way I wanted it to.  I was pleased with how the book ended, but it mostly left me unsatisfied.  

The thing I struggled with the most in the book, and liked the least to be quite honest, was Siegel’s portrayal of girls in high school.  As a girl that, surprise, surprise, went to high school, I couldn’t help but be. . . offended by how these girls were portrayed.  With the exception of Becca, every high school girl in the story was either slutty or in a relationship, but that isn’t even what bothered me.  What bothered me was that the girls in relationships decided that they were SO superior; any girl that was single couldn’t be friends with girls in relationships.  That is absolutely, positively NOT how high school was, at least not for me.  When I was in high school, single girls, and girls in relationships were friends, and girls in relationships didn’t act superior.  Did girls in relationships have moments of stupidity where they basically dropped their friends for awhile before they started hanging out again?  Absolutely (Guilty.).  Really, I don’t think this guy should have been writing from a girl’s point of view.  Some girls are jerks and could, and do, act like they are superior to the girls without boyfriends, but not all of them.  He could have at least tried to diversify the girl characters.

Have a great day!

DeereReaderGirl

Waltz on the Wild Side

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I’ve been making more progress with my NetGalley books!

This afternoon, I finished Waltz on the Wild Side by Alana Albertson.  This was a pretty good story.  I really liked Salome, one of the main characters.  She seemed very real and down to earth for the most part.  Vika, on the other hand, made me frustrated.  When we first meet Salome, she is watching the Emmy’s with her two best friends, Jenny and Diana.  After seeing Vika getting an Emmy for a dance that Salome choreographed, the girls talk about how they won’t ever be on Dancing Under the Stars like Vika.  Then we actually get to meet Vika, and I was not impressed.  Vika used to be friends with Salome, but after Salome caught Vika with Benny, a judge on DUTS, their friendship fell apart.  I liked seeing what happend between Salome and her ex, Dima.  There were things in this story that I definitely could have done without (mostly to do with Vika and her, ah, mature actions), and other things I would have liked to have more expansion on.  I really enjoyed this book; I giggled, I squealed, I lost myself in it.  

Happy reading!

DeereReaderGirl

The Stepsister’s Tale

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I’m making more progress with my NetGalley books!

This evening, I finished The Stepsister’s Tale by Tracy Barrett.  This story was released on June 24, 2014.  I devoured this book.  When it first started out I wondered how I was ever going to dislike the Cinderella figure, and pity the “evil” stepsisters.  I am so thrilled with how this story went.  Jane and Maude live with their mother in her run-down family estate.  Though the girls’ mother hasn’t been part of Society for years, she still insists on acting as if they are all ladies.  The sad, hard truth is that their house is falling apart, they can hardly afford anything they need, and as much as their mother would love to deny it, Jane and Maude are essentially just normal girls with a once important name.  Jane and Maude have been on their own for a few days while their mother is away in the city, getting them things like soap.  The two are very worried about their mother, but when she shows up in a carriage, they’re thrilled to see her, but they never expected what happened while she was away.  While in the city, their mother got married, and not only did she bring them a new father, she also brought them a new sister, Isabella.  No one is thrilled with the new arrangement, and it is obvious that the girls’ new stepfather feels led astray when he sees the house is in disrepair.  Jane, Maude, and Isabella do not get along AT ALL, and more often than not it seems that Isabella is the one that receives the pity.  I really love how things evolved in the story.  There were times that I felt irritated at Jane and Maude, because sometimes it didn’t seem that they were trying at all, but most of the time I wholeheartedly supported their dislike of Isabella.  I absolutely loved the character of Will in this story; I adored him!  I want a Will of my own someday.  One thing that I especially enjoyed was the evolution of Isabella; there were moments were I just wanted to strangle her, which, let’s be real here, was most of the book, but there were a couple times that I legitimately felt bad for her.  If you guys like fairy tale retellings, I would highly recommend this story.  I know one thing for sure; I’m going to buy this book the first chance I get!

Happy reading!

DeereReaderGirl