tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7142302997444474032024-03-12T18:56:58.070-04:00Pages of AdventureMy opinion on your favorite booksley2003http://www.blogger.com/profile/01708056297094952018noreply@blogger.comBlogger331125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714230299744447403.post-20891335922169559342015-08-18T13:06:00.001-04:002015-08-18T13:06:06.834-04:00Blog No More<span style="background-color: black; color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"> As most of you may have noticed by now, I have not blogged Since January of this year 2015. I have been very busy and quite frankly uninterested in something I once loved. Some of this is due to demand and rudeness and sometimes it was similarly due to time restraints. I don't think I will ever be as faithful to it as I once one. I due hope to post a few things from time to time, but if you are looking for the once ever faithful blogger....your in the wrong place. </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: #0b5394; font-family: inherit;"> I still very much love books and love my fans I just can't do it as I once could. I hope you understand and will stay tuned for what could come!</span>ley2003http://www.blogger.com/profile/01708056297094952018noreply@blogger.com5tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714230299744447403.post-61962857718838101302015-01-03T17:07:00.001-05:002015-01-03T17:07:10.736-05:00Forgive My Fins by: Tera Lynn Childs<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #ea9999; font-family: inherit;">Unrequited love is hard enough when you’re a normal teenage girl, but for Lily Sanderson, there’s no such thing as a simple crush.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #ea9999; font-family: inherit;">Lily has a secret, and it’s not her huge crush on gorgeous swimming god Brody Bennett, who makes her heart beat flipper-fast. Lily’s mermaid identity is a secret that can’t get out, since she’s not just any mermaid—she’s a Thalassinian princess. When she discovered three years ago that her mother was actually a human, Lily finally realized why she didn’t feel quite at home in Thalassinia, and she’s been going to Seaview High ever since. Living on land has its problems—like her obnoxious biker-boy neighbor, Quince Fletcher—but it has that one major perk: Brody. The problem is, mermaids aren’t really the casual dating type—when they bond, it’s for life.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #ea9999; font-family: inherit;">When Lily’s attempt to win Brody’s love leads to a tsunami-sized case of mistaken identity, she finds out, quick as a tailfin flick, that happily ever after never sails quite as smoothly as you planned.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #ea9999; font-family: inherit;">I just love this series. It was just magical and beautiful. Lily is a mermaid and her father is the mer-king. Kinda having a love for the Little Mermaid it just brings me joy to read anything with similarities. Her one true love is the boy she never considered. She is really mad for Brody due to his love of water and water-sports. But she doesn't realize is that he will never love her. She tries to get him alone to kiss him which will turn him into a mermaid and it also makes him her mate. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #ea9999; font-family: inherit;">The annoying neighbor boy gets in the way he ends up turning into a mermaid. Lily is so mad, but she gets her dad to agree to a seperation and so she must not only pass the test she must find someone new to love. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #ea9999; font-family: inherit;">But does breaking the bond mean losing the real true love forever?</span></div>
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ley2003http://www.blogger.com/profile/01708056297094952018noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714230299744447403.post-2497812659975389122015-01-03T16:58:00.002-05:002015-01-03T16:58:36.571-05:00Right of Way by: Lauren Barnholdt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: white;">Here are Peyton and Jace, meeting on vacation. Click! It’s awesome, it’s easy, it’s romantic. This is the real deal.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: white;">Unless it isn’t. Because when you’re in love, you don’t just stop calling one day. And you don’t keep secrets. Or lie. And when your life starts falling apart, you’re supposed to have the other person to lean on.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: white;">Here are Peyton and Jace again, broken up but thrown together on a road trip. One of them is lying about the destination. One of them is pretending not to be leaving something behind. And neither of them is prepared for what’s coming on the road ahead…</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">This is one of those books that I wasn't </span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">particularly</span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> happy with. I just wanted to give it the chance it deserved because the author has written some really fun thing, I just hated this book .The characters </span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">seemed </span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">spoiled and self </span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">righteous</span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> and most of the time I found I was forcing myself to stay in the book. Just not something I would buy ir read ever again. Great thing I borrowed it from a friend. </span></span></div>
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ley2003http://www.blogger.com/profile/01708056297094952018noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714230299744447403.post-28178348892214009582014-12-10T12:56:00.005-05:002014-12-10T12:57:09.179-05:00The Ex Games by: Jennifer Echols<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: purple; font-family: inherit;">January 2011</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: inherit;">Brace yourself for the battle of the exes. . . . Hayden and Nick used to be a hot item, but their brief affair ended with a highly publicized breakup. Now the two are "just friends" excluding the occasional flirtation. When Hayden wins the girls' division of a local snowboarding competition, Nick is unimpressed, claiming that Hayden wouldn't have a chance against a guy. Hayden calls Nick's bluff and challenges him to a head-to-head boarding contest. Their mutual friends quickly take sides, the girls on Hayden's and the boys on Nick's, making for an all-out battle of the sexes. This friendly competition is bound to get heated - and they might end up igniting some old flames.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: inherit;">This girl is in love and so blinded to anything but anger. With just reasons but at some point you have to let it go and find each other again. He had made a bet to date her, won the bet, and broke her heart. Now even I know it would take some time to get over, but to be downright rude to most everyone and angry all the time...no go! </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Hayden get over it and move on. You would be happier fast and be the best you can be at your game.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: purple; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">One</span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> thing that will help this match is her BFF is dating Nick's BFF. Therefore they are forced together at times. I'm not going to say this reunion was easy but it was fun to read. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">5 stars</span></span></div>
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ley2003http://www.blogger.com/profile/01708056297094952018noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714230299744447403.post-45488081249442599832014-12-10T12:46:00.003-05:002014-12-10T12:46:40.433-05:00Contact Info<span style="color: white;">I have edited my contact page. I think you should take a look. You might see something new. Hoping you all have a very Merry Christmas and Happy New Year.</span>ley2003http://www.blogger.com/profile/01708056297094952018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714230299744447403.post-29578859708671098682014-11-18T13:15:00.002-05:002014-11-18T13:15:24.116-05:00Stay by: Deb Calette<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">March 2012</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: white;">Clara’s relationship with Christian is intense from the start, and like nothing she’s ever experienced before. But what starts as devotion quickly becomes obsession, and it’s almost too late before Clara realizes how far gone Christian is—and what he’s willing to do to make her stay. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: white;">Now Clara has left the city—and Christian—behind. No one back home has any idea where she is, but she still struggles to shake off her fear. She knows Christian won’t let her go that easily, and that no matter how far she runs, it may not be far enough....</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Clara's life is so fun and easy going, then mister dream boat, </span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Christian</span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> shows up. Life become fearful and intense and his jealousy and anger threatens to destroy her.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">Her father does what he can and takes her far from home and gives the lovebirds the space that headcase Christian doesn't like but really needs. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">Clara believes life is finally getting great, she meat a new guy....got a job and even has made friends. But the haunting calls come and her thoughts reveal her past with Christian. And it's dreadful. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">Will he find her? Or is she completely safe from him? You'll have to read it yourself to find out...lol.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">4 stars</span></span></div>
ley2003http://www.blogger.com/profile/01708056297094952018noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714230299744447403.post-48819078622506589882014-11-18T13:06:00.002-05:002014-11-18T13:06:50.674-05:00Banished by: Sophie Littlefield<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-family: inherit;">There isn’t much worth living for in Gypsum, Missouri—or Trashtown, as the rich kids call the run-down neighborhood where sixteen-year-old Hailey Tarbell lives. Hailey figures she’ll never belong—not with the popular kids at school, not with the rejects, not even with her cruel, sickly grandmother, who deals drugs out of their basement. Hailey never knew her dead mother, and she has no idea who her father was, but at least she has her four-year-old foster brother, Chub. Once she turns eighteen, Hailey plans to take Chub far from Gypsum and start a new life where no one can find them.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">But when a classmate is injured in gym class, Hailey discovers a gift for healing that she never knew she possessed—and that she cannot ignore. Not only can she heal, she can bring the dying back to life. Confused by her powers, Hailey searches for answers but finds only more questions, until a mysterious visitor shows up at Gram’s house, claiming to be Hailey’s aunt Prairie.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">There are people who will stop at nothing to keep Hailey in Trashtown, living out a legacy of despair and suffering. But when Prairie saves both Hailey and Chub from armed attackers who invade Gram’s house in the middle of the night, Hailey must decide where to place her trust. Will Prairie’s past, and the long-buried secret that caused her to leave Gypsum years earlier, ruin them all? Because as Hailey will soon find out, their power to heal is just the beginning.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-family: inherit;">Hailey has to live her life in fear and neglect and let me tell you her granmother needs a butt kicking. She has no buisness taking care of her and letting strangers into their home. She also deals drugs and drinks to much, that alone should send CPS to her house often. But no, and hailey has to learn to deal. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan;"><span style="font-family: inherit;"> Until the day she heals a classmate. She shouldn't have done it, but what can I say if I saw a girl dying I would try to save her too. But then Hailey's would turns topsy turvy. She finds a </span>ticket<span style="font-family: inherit;"> for Dublin and some money. Then her aunt shows up from out of no where and takes Hailey on the run. Will this be all?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-family: inherit;">I didn't care enough about this book to read the second, there may be a time I regret that but right now...I stand by my choice.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-family: inherit;">3 stars</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: cyan; font-family: inherit;">Unforsaken</span></div>
ley2003http://www.blogger.com/profile/01708056297094952018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714230299744447403.post-32147129707709959692014-11-08T00:00:00.000-05:002014-11-08T00:00:00.482-05:00The Devouring by: Simon Holt<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: purple; font-family: inherit;">June 2009</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: purple;">When Reggie finds an old journal and reads about the Vours, supernatural creatures who feast on fear and attack on the eve of the winter solstice, she assumes they are just the musings of some lunatic author. But soon, they become a terrifying reality when she begins to suspect that her timid younger brother might be one of their victims.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: purple;">Risking her life and her sanity, Reggie enters a living nightmare to save the people she loves. Can she devour own her fears before they devour her?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: inherit;">I actually had all the books in this series to read, but after reading this one...I got rid of all.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: purple; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Reggie</span><span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> like my family, enjoys scary tales and reads them to her little brother. Quite a mistake when the Vours she's reading about turn out to be real, they suck her brother away little by little then they attack her. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: purple; font-family: inherit;"><span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">He's an ass, but Reggie and her b</span><span style="font-size: 14.5454540252686px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">est friend </span><span style="font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Aaron believe they can save him. Then Reggie finds she can get into the darkness, will it be enough to save her brother or just further help the Vours. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: inherit;">2 stars</span></span></div>
<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.3999996185303px; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><br /></span>ley2003http://www.blogger.com/profile/01708056297094952018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714230299744447403.post-39391848483240653372014-11-06T14:32:00.004-05:002014-11-06T14:32:54.406-05:00The End of you and Me by: Wendi M. Lee<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">April 2014</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;">Sixteen-year old Kate can't live without London. Their friendship is intense to the point of obsession. Nothing else matters: not dating, college applications, or her military father’s disapproval. When beautiful red-haired Anastasia sweeps into town and becomes fast friends with the pair, life changes forever. Suddenly Kate's quiet world is threatened. What makes an honor-student like Kate snap? Is it a redhead armed with seduction and lies? And how far will either of them go to get what they want?</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Kate </span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">and</span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> London are nest friends, and have never been romantic towards each other. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Anastasia</span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> comes to town and things change, she makes them try things and see things that they have never imagined before. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">London has been craving adventure so it doesn't take much to draw him into it. But Kate is happy with their quiet life. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Anastasia </span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">threatens </span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">everything. One ends up in jail, and the other suspended and someone could quite possible be dead. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">The end leaves me wanting more...</span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">especially</span><span style="line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> answers. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: white; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">4 stars</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: inherit;">December 2008</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Thou Shalt Not Kiss Thy Best Friend’s Boyfriend...again... </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">There is no greater sin than kissing your best friend’s boyfriend. So when Emma breaks that golden rule, she knows she’s messed up big-time...especially since she lives in the smallest town ever, where everyone knows everything about everyone else...and especially since she maybe kinda wants to do it again. Now her best friend isn’t speaking to her, her best guy friend is making things totally weird, and Emma is running full speed toward certain social disaster. This is so not the way senior year was supposed to go.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">Time to pray for a minor miracle. Or maybe, just maybe, it’s time for Emma to stop trying to please everyone around her, and figure out what she wants for herself.</span><span style="font-family: inherit; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"> </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: inherit;">Emma is rebellious and sometime crass, but I love it.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: inherit;">In a town similar to the one I grew up in, life is hard and painfully slow. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: inherit;">When you fall in love with your best friends guy, it can only get worse. But he also happens to be your best friend and crap is about to hit the fan hard. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;"><span style="color: yellow; font-family: inherit;">Darci is evil and truth be told you can see the evil pretty quickly. She's fake and fake people never win, in the end! What would you do for a friend?</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: yellow; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.3999996185303px;">1 star</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: lime; font-family: inherit; font-size: large;">Here is a new look! I hope you enjoy it! I may leave it up til November, since I'm late changing it!</span></div>
ley2003http://www.blogger.com/profile/01708056297094952018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714230299744447403.post-21769103740368215912014-10-06T14:43:00.002-04:002014-10-06T14:43:26.773-04:00How to Ruin my Teenage Life by: Simone Elkeles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #c27ba0; font-family: inherit;">June 2007</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #c27ba0; font-family: inherit;">In this sequel to How to Ruin a Summer Vacation, EVERYTHING in sixteen-year-old Amy Nelson Barak’s life is going wrong! Her mom got married and moved to the suburbs, and now they are going to have a baby. Amy moves in with her dad in Chicago and signs him up for an online dating service. His first four dates are that night . . .</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #c27ba0; font-family: inherit;">What else? Her dog Mutt impregnated her grumpy neighbor’s prized poodle, so Amy will actually have to get a part-time job to pay for half the veterinary bill. And there’s this totally annoying boy, Nathan Rubin, who just moved into her apartment building. Luckily, Amy has a cute boyfriend named Avi. Only he’s more like a non-boyfriend considering Avi is in the Israeli army for the next three years.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #c27ba0; font-family: inherit;">What’s a girl to do when everyone is conspiring to ruin her life?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #c27ba0; font-family: inherit;">Things are getting harder all the time. Moving in with dad, mom getting married, and then mom's pregnant...rough and crazy time.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #c27ba0; font-family: inherit;">Mutt being her only sole comfort at times makes it fun and then Avi shows up. You'd think things would be great, but then things fall apart, because Nathan kissed her and she kissed him back. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #c27ba0; font-family: inherit;">Dad won't get a date with the girl at the coffee shop even when she sets it up. Avi and her get back together. And poor Jess is really sad and lonely.</span></div>
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ley2003http://www.blogger.com/profile/01708056297094952018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714230299744447403.post-45589470443936813752014-10-06T14:36:00.001-04:002014-10-06T14:36:18.960-04:00How to Ruin a Summer Vacation by: Simone Elkeles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">October 2006</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">Moshav? What’s a moshav? Is it “shopping mall” in Hebrew? I mean, from what Jessica was telling me, Israeli stores have the latest fashions from Europe. That black dress Jessica has is really awesome. I know I’d be selling out if I go to a mall with Ron (my biological father), but I keep thinking about all the great stuff I could bring back home. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">Unfortunately for 16-year-old Amy Nelson, “moshav” is not Hebrew for “shopping mall.” Not even close. Think goats, not Gucci. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">Going to Israel with her estranged Israeli father is the last thing Amy wants to do this summer. She’s got a serious grudge against her dad for showing up so rarely in her life. Now he’s dragging her to a war zone to meet a family she’s never known, where she’ll probably be drafted into the army. At the very least, she’ll be stuck in a house with no AC and only one bathroom for seven people all summer—no best friend, no boyfriend, no shopping, no cell phone… </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">Goodbye pride—hello Israel.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">Amy has always felt like a huge mistake. And when Ron her father unexpectedly shows up at her house and demands she travel with him to Israel for the summer, she freaks out!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">Having spent very little time with someone who never seemed to want her, makes her insides scream and then this trip. And her mother makes her go! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">She acts up and causes so much chaos, everywhere that they think she's a spoiled brat. Until Avi confesses his feelings for her and she changes her mind and her plans. They start over together and they get a chance to have a relationship.</span></div>
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ley2003http://www.blogger.com/profile/01708056297094952018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714230299744447403.post-16269413069699021102014-08-27T00:00:00.000-04:002014-08-27T00:00:08.056-04:00Return to Paradise by: Simone Elkeles<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">September 2010</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Caleb Becker left Paradise eight months ago, taking with him the secret he promised to take to his grave. If the truth got out, it would ruin everything.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Maggie Armstrong tried to be strong after Caleb broke her heart and disappeared. Somehow, she managed to move on. She’s determined to make a new life for herself.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">But then Caleb and Maggie are forced together on a summer trip. They try ignoring their passion for each other, but buried feelings resurface. Caleb must face the truth about the night of Maggie’s accident, or the secret that destroyed their relationship will forever stand between them. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Life is so much easier when you pretend you are fine, but it's a lie. Your boyfriuend comes back to town or I should say you ran into him in the most unlikely place. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">And now you must get over yourself and allow him to achieve what he nees to all the while you are struggling with your feelings and trying to understand why he is back in your life without actually wanting to be. Do you want him to be. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">Do you love one another, can you move past the past and be happy. More and more these questions are ones that plague them both. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">in the end the truth comes out...it tears people apart, but brings others closer together. I am incrediably happy with the end of this.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: white; font-family: inherit;">4 stars</span></div>
ley2003http://www.blogger.com/profile/01708056297094952018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714230299744447403.post-88798400168148564052014-08-26T23:22:00.003-04:002014-08-26T23:22:56.600-04:00BEHIND!!!!<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: inherit;">Sorry fans, </span><br />
<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: inherit;">I am 2 months behind on the post. I will catch up.....but between my schedule and everything I don't get on but about once a week.....if that! I have several post that need to be made but will try for four a week. No promises, I don't get much time off and then when I do I feel like I need to catch up at home as well. I do keep notes on all that I read in order to keep up. Notebook is getting pretty thick!</span><br />
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<span style="background-color: black; color: orange; font-family: inherit;">Thanks for following!</span>ley2003http://www.blogger.com/profile/01708056297094952018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714230299744447403.post-68247185151793612992014-08-16T00:00:00.000-04:002014-08-26T23:33:35.479-04:00The Nature of Jade by: Deb Caletti<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;">March 2008</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; font-family: inherit; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="color: #38761d;">Jade DeLuna is too young to die. She knows this, and yet she can't quite believe it, especially when the terrifying thoughts, loss of breath, and dizzy feelings come. Since being diagnosed with Panic Disorder, she's trying her best to stay calm, and visiting the elephants at the nearby zoo seems to help. That's why Jade keeps the live zoo webcam on in her room, and that's where she first sees the boy in the red jacket. A boy who stops to watch the elephants. A boy carrying a baby. </span></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">His name is Sebastian, and he is raising his son alone. Jade is drawn into Sebastian's cozy life with his son and his activist grandmother on their Seattle houseboat, and before she knows it, she's in love. With this boy who has lived through harder times than anyone she knows. This boy with a past.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
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<span style="font-family: inherit;">Jade knows the situation is beyond complicated, but she hasn't felt this safe in a long time. She owes it all to Sebastian, her boy with the great heart. Her boy who is hiding a terrible secret. A secret that will force Jade to decide between what is right, and what feels right.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">This is one of those ramblers, where the author let the character go on and on. And sometimes it's about things that don't seem to matter. I mostly give up on these but after reading the summary I was intrigued and kept on. I am glad I did though. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">I think the story touched me more then most I have read lately. I know elephants are amazing creatures, but at the end of the day that relationships that are emotional and touching are the ones that draw you in the most. And this one isn't a let down. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #38761d; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">Love should be able to conquer all, but at times things are more complicated then that. Life gets in the way or occurs and sets you off track. Other peoples actions and emotions affect you. It's the way of life and this story shows us that.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;">April 2008</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;">Nothing has been the same since Caleb Becker left a party drunk, got behind the wheel, and hit Maggie Armstrong. Even after months of painful physical therapy, Maggie walks with a limp. Her social life is nil and a scholarship to study abroad—her chance to escape everyone and their pitying stares—has been canceled.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;">After a year in juvenile jail, Caleb’s free . . . if freedom means endless nagging from a transition coach and the prying eyes of the entire town. Coming home should feel good, but his family and ex-girlfriend seem like strangers.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;">Caleb and Maggie are outsiders, pigeon-holed as "criminal" and "freak." Then the truth emerges about what really happened the night of the accident and, once again, everything changes. It’s a bleak and tortuous journey for Caleb and Maggie, yet they end up finding comfort and strength from a surprising source: each other.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;">Falling is love is hard enough, but when it's your best friends brother...your entering a "no-go-zone." Then when you go and get hit by a car, that messes up the rest of your life. Now your dealing with people staring you down and giving you dirty looks. You lose your best friend and your best friend losses her brother. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;">Thinking the brother hit you with his car makes you hate him, but was it really him or his fault. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;">his life isn't any better, his mom is having a private breakdown and your sister is now a gothic recluse. And his ex- girlfriend keeps coming by for a booty call all the while dating his bf.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black;"><span style="color: #cc0000; font-family: inherit;">4 stars</span></span></div>
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ley2003http://www.blogger.com/profile/01708056297094952018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714230299744447403.post-60097406616687960592014-08-14T13:40:00.000-04:002014-08-14T13:40:13.412-04:00Wild Roses by: Deb Caletti<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: purple; font-family: inherit;">March 2008</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.400001525878906px;"><span style="color: purple; font-family: inherit;">Seventeen-year-old Cassie Morgan lives with a time bomb (a.k.a. her stepfather, Dino Cavalli). To the public, Dino is a world-renowned violin player and composer. To Cassie, he's an erratic, self-centered bully. And he's getting worse: He no longer sleeps, and he grows increasingly paranoid. Before, Cassie was angry. Now she is afraid. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: inherit;">Enter Ian Waters: a brilliant young violinist, and Dino's first-ever student. The minute Cassie lays eyes on Ian she knows she's doomed. Cassie thought she understood that love could bring pain, but this union will have consequences she could not have imagined. </span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: inherit;">In the end, only one thing becomes clear: In the world of insanity, nothing is sacred....</span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.400001525878906px;">This girl is crazy and so is this book. She is such a rambler, but Lord she will not shut up. I didn't make it all the way through...because it was like sitting through one of my sisters hourly talks about her life and every little tiny detail that she think she has to portray. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.400001525878906px;">Maybe this character has ADHD, I don't know I just know that getting through this book will take more patients then I have.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: purple; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.400001525878906px;">1 star</span></span></div>
ley2003http://www.blogger.com/profile/01708056297094952018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714230299744447403.post-25244252239914155772014-08-06T00:00:00.000-04:002014-08-06T00:00:04.867-04:00Things I can't forget by: Miranda Kenneally<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: purple; font-family: inherit;">March 2013</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: purple; font-family: inherit;">SOME RULES WERE MEANT TO BE BROKEN</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: purple; font-family: inherit;">Kate has always been the good girl. Too good, according to some people at school—although they have no idea the guilty secret she carries. But this summer, everything is different...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: purple; font-family: inherit;">This summer she's a counselor at Cumberland Creek summer camp, and she wants to put the past behind her. This summer Matt is back as a counselor too. He's the first guy she ever kissed, and he's gone from geeky songwriter who loved The Hardy Boys to a buff lifeguard who loves to flirt...with her.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: purple; font-family: inherit;">Kate used to think the world was black and white, right and wrong. Turns out, life isn't that easy...</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: purple; font-family: inherit;">Kate decided to escape for the summer and signed up to be art director at a church camp she attended as a kid. Working here was suppose to heal her from the sin she thought she committed. but really all she did was help a friend in need, dire need. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: purple; font-family: inherit;">But going to camp opened a can of worms. She met Matt as a child, he was her first kiss and probably her first idea of love. She wants him to be her first everything but will she let go! </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: purple; font-family: inherit;">Matt is everything she wants but can she let herself have him.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: purple; font-family: inherit;">5 stars</span></div>
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ley2003http://www.blogger.com/profile/01708056297094952018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714230299744447403.post-52524117884639683352014-08-04T16:56:00.002-04:002014-08-04T16:56:29.595-04:00Stealing Parker by: Miranda Kenneally<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">October 2012</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">Parker Shelton pretty much has the perfect life. She's on her way to becoming valedictorian at Hundred Oaks High, she's made the all-star softball team, and she has plenty of friends. Then her mother's scandal rocks their small town and suddenly no one will talk to her.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">Now Parker wants a new life.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">So she quits softball. Drops twenty pounds. And she figures why kiss one guy when she can kiss three. Or four. Why limit herself to high school boys when the majorly cute new baseball coach seems especially flirty?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">But how far is too far before she loses herself completely?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">Parker's life is rough, she feels like her mom abandoned her (due to her being a lesbian and running away). Her brother has turned to drugs and alcohol and her father is oblivious. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">So she decides to find her own way in life and signs up to help the boys baseball team. Which she then meets new assistant coach Brian, whose 23. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">But when your 17 no one can tell you that numbers are important. you figure life is worth living no matter the age and you want what you really want, which in her case is a grown man.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">Brian should know better but lets lust get the better of him and things turn a bit crazy for the duo. When things fall apart she leans on Will for support and help and that makes Brian less desirable. But when her archenemy discover her thing with Brian she reports it and set off a chain of events.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: magenta; font-family: inherit;">5 stars</span></div>
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ley2003http://www.blogger.com/profile/01708056297094952018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714230299744447403.post-84686855418583963712014-08-04T16:34:00.003-04:002014-08-04T16:34:54.468-04:00Catching Jordan by: Miranda Kenneally<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: inherit;">December 2011</span></div>
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<strong><span style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: inherit;">ONE OF THE BOYS</span></strong></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: inherit;">What girl doesn't want to be surrounded by gorgeous jocks day in and day out? Jordan Woods isn't just surrounded by hot guys, though–she leads them as the captain and quarterback of her high school football team. They all see her as one of the guys and that's just fine. As long as she gets her athletic scholarship to a powerhouse university.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: inherit;">But everything she's ever worked for is threatened when Ty Green moves to her school. Not only is he an amazing QB, but he's also amazingly hot. And for the first time, Jordan's feeling vulnerable. Can she keep her head in the game while her heart's on the line?</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: inherit;">This is a fun filled story about love and relationships. I just have to say this girl is pretty lucky to have all these guys for friends. I had a few and they are real and honest, better then girl-friends. Even if she is a football tar and a kick butt chick she has the star studded power that most girl long for. She can still be hot and have a boyfriend, but most think she can't. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: inherit;">After trying things out with Ty, which mean losing her v-card and much more. She realizes that Henry- the best guy friend, is more her type and really something is looking for. My fingers are crossed that things can work out between them.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: yellow; font-family: inherit;">4 stars</span></div>
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<span style="font-size: x-large;">Winter Angel</span><br />
<b>by Mia Hoddell</b><br />
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<b>Genre:</b> YA Romance<br />
<b>Release date:</b> 25th June 2014<br />
<b>Length:</b> Novella<br />
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<b>She was on holiday. He was tricked into returning. <br />Neither of them wanted to be there, but neither could avoid it.</b><br />
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Amy wants to be back under the sun in Portugal. However, when her suggestion is overruled in favour of a skiing holiday, even she can't turn it down. What she couldn't have predicted is that the holiday could make her break the one, and only, rule she has: not to get into a serious relationship again.<br />
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When Amy first sees Luke, she knows something is wrong. He's struggling to cope with everything and her need to help people makes him the perfect distraction from the cold. He hasn't been to the Alps in five years and he swore to never ski again. But as his defences are broken by Amy's persistence, the winter paradise begins to reawaken his desires.<br />
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However, with constant flashbacks triggering his anxiety, he's torn, battling conflicting emotions as he becomes increasingly captivated by Amy. She has a rule though. She didn't go on holiday to fall for someone and the last thing she needs is to ignore her own advice. Whether or not she can move past her insecurities will depend on whether Luke can face his biggest fear.<br />
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<i>Winter Angel is a standalone, young adult romance novella, but is the second book in the Seasons of Change series.</i><br />
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">White. Gazing out of the small, circular window, it
was the only colour he could see surrounding him. The bursts of light—which had
broken through the heavy, grey clouds—were reflected back as the ground grew
closer with each passing second. Not too long ago he had been blissfully
unaware of the location his sister was dragging him to for a holiday. A bubble
of excitement had surrounded him throughout the early morning as he got up, and
stayed with him through travelling to the airport and catching the flight. However,
it had burst as soon as the icy tips of the mountains appeared and the plane
began its descent. Until that moment, he had hoped his guesses had been wrong. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">His sister had carefully planned
the trip, making sure to hide all clues as to where they were heading, and as
she glanced across at him, it seemed as if she had been successful. Luke’s
knuckles were white on the arm rests. He had claimed both of them, gripping
them so hard they looked like they would snap under the force, or at least be
moulded to the shape of his hands when he removed them.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">Ellie watched as he took in a
shaky breath, but she heard no exhale.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Luke?”<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The silence that filled the space
around them was icier than the Alps they had just flown over. Her brother’s
gaze remained fixed on the window, watching as the ground, and his fate, drew
ever closer. Deep, ragged breaths steamed up the window, which was almost
touching his nose. Desperately, he tried to control the tremors shaking his
body, and his pounding heart, from the fear that washed over him in waves.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Luke, please, say something.”
Worry had crept into Ellie’s tone. She had thought her idea would do him good,
that forcing him to face everything would turn him back into his old self.
Ellie missed the brother she had grown up with and wanted him back. However,
seeing his eyes wide with fear, his jaw clenched in anger, and his arms tense
with both, suddenly she wasn’t so sure about her plan.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“You promised, Ellie. You swore
you wouldn’t pressure me, and I trusted you with that. You know how I feel
about this.” His voice was sharp and curt as he spoke through clenched teeth,
trying to keep a hold on his emotions.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">The urge to flee surged within
him. He wanted to go home, to get off the plane and board the next flight
straight back to England, but he couldn’t. Not only was the plane still minutes
from landing—trapping him in the confines of economy class, which felt even
smaller as realisation forced him to understand Ellie’s plans—but he also
refused to waste more money on the pointless trip Ellie had conned him into
taking. If he was going to use the money he had earned from before everything
changed, it would be on his own terms.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“You’ll enjoy it when you’re
there,” Ellie stated, brushing off his comments like they meant nothing to her.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“That’s easy for you to say. You
don’t have to live with, or through, what I have.” Luke was trying hard to
control his voice. Had they been in private, he would have already been
shouting. The cramped environment meant that Ellie was getting off lightly, but
he swore that when they reached their chalet, he would not hold back. She had
no right to interfere with his life.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Never tell me I didn’t live
through it, Luke. I was there when it happened, in the hospital, and when you
got home. I was there through it all. It may not have been me, but it wasn’t
like it had no effect on my life,” Ellie hissed. It was the only way she could
convey her anger without disturbing other passengers.<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span lang="EN-US" style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; mso-fareast-font-family: "Times New Roman"; mso-fareast-language: EN-GB;">“Why though, Ellie? Why is this
such a big deal to you?” Luke’s eyes were full of sorrow as he turned to face
his sister for the first time, begging to understand her reasoning for putting
him through something she knew would hurt him.</span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">Mia Hoddell lives in the UK with her family and two
cats. She spends most of her time writing or reading, loves anything paranormal
and has an overactive imagination that keeps her up until the early hours of
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<span style="font-family: "Times New Roman","serif"; font-size: 12.0pt; line-height: 115%;">With three poems published before the age of
sixteen, Mia moved on to short stories but finding she had too much to tell
with too little space, Mia progressed to novels. She started her first series (<i>The Wanderer Trilogy</i>) at the age of
fourteen and since then hasn’t stopped writing. <i><a href="http://www.amazon.com/Mia-Hoddell/e/B0093M18QQ/ref=ntt_dp_epwbk_0" target="_blank">Elemental Killers</a></i> is her second series and with an ever growing
list of ideas, Mia is trying to keep up with the speed at which her imagination
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">July 2013</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">Year 2300</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">Protea: Capitol of the Eldanarian Isle</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">Two hundred years have passed since the lands of the Outerworld humans were destroyed, save but a handful of rebellious cities. In their ruin, the last gods of Earth, the Illyrians, rose victorious. And ever since, it's with a cruel iron fist they've ruled over their subjects--desperate to keep their thrones.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">Fast approaching his teens, Ionikus Reaves knows the gods' malevolence all too well, orphaned by them after their call for a military draft on Eldanar, his home island. But when a power once dormant in Ion boils to the surface, he's whisked off to a hidden world of the island, where he comes face-to-face with the mighty Illyrians.</span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;">For Ion is a Guardian--a reincarnated god bound to serve and protect the pantheon he's so quickly learned to hate. Now torn between his obligations as a Guardian and his hatred of the gods he's to guard, Ion finds himself in the middle of a war within himself. A war that could uncover a dark secret of the gods'...and split the pantheon in two.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">I have to tell you that I had many thoughts going through my head before I read the book. I thought it was childish. My cousin read it and loved it but we have many different taste in books and so I just just thought this was another and never planned to read it. Then the author contacted me </span><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">and</span><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> and asked me to read it </span><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">and</span><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">; therefore I gave it the chance it deserves. </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">I'm going to tell you that I am a huge Potter fan and have never found anything that compares til now. I'm not saying this is a replica or really similar it just has these touches that takes you back. The magic, mystery and </span><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">mayhem</span><span style="line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"> that occurs in this book is quite something.</span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">I couldn't imagine walking around in life with a piece of metal attached to my face, that alone is the most awful thing I could think could occur. But then the whole slavery thing is bad on another level and I hate for something like that to happen to anyone. </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #b45f06; font-family: inherit;"><span style="background-color: black; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;">The look at this boys life and how he gets himself out of this and that is great the futuristic feel to this keeps us thinking and amazed.</span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: white; color: #333333; font-family: Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px; line-height: 22.399999618530273px;"><br /></span>ley2003http://www.blogger.com/profile/01708056297094952018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714230299744447403.post-88098804115370892182014-07-06T15:57:00.001-04:002014-07-06T15:57:20.865-04:00My Forever by: Kira Adams<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">May 2014</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">Grief and loss can make a person act out in all the worst kinds of ways. Madalynne Johnson has always been a bit of a handful, but with the loss of her brother, separation of her parents, and her boyfriends unexpected news of joining the army she has gone into a full on tailspin. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">Parker Grant experienced loss firsthand when his brother took his own life. Darkness closed in. Madalynne saved him; showed him the light. And even though he isn’t sure what the future holds--he wants Madalynne and this time he won’t give up without a fight.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">I really thought this would be another book that I just couldn't handle. At the beginning it goes smoothly but then there are fast forwards and things that I didn't like. Then thinking and hoping things would go better, it goes into a repeat of things. Her brother's death and the depression and anger. I know things like that are normal in grief. I have dealt first hand with someone who goes through that, and it is nice to see the truth of things coming out. That makes things a plau and I loved that part of it!</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">More things come into light and play as the book goes on, things that could be helped but are thrown in seemingly as a surprise. I hate the way things happen off and on through out the book. But dealing with grief is never easy.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #990000; font-family: inherit;">3 stars</span></div>
ley2003http://www.blogger.com/profile/01708056297094952018noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-714230299744447403.post-51712509934248260812014-07-04T14:51:00.000-04:002014-07-04T14:51:00.621-04:00The Reflections of Queen Snow White by: David Meredith<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">January 2014</span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">On the eve of her only daughter, Princess Raven's wedding, an aging Snow White finds it impossible to share in the joyous spirit of the occasion. The ceremony itself promises to be the most glamorous social event of the decade. Snow White’s castle has been meticulously scrubbed, polished and opulently decorated for the celebration. It is already nearly bursting with jubilant guests and merry well-wishers. Prince Edel, Raven's fiancé, is a fine man from a neighboring kingdom and Snow White's own domain is prosperous and at peace. Things could not be better, in fact, except for one thing:</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The king is dead.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">The queen has been in a moribund state of hopeless depression for over a year with no end in sight. It is only when, in a fit of bitter despair, she seeks solitude in the vastness of her own sprawling castle and climbs a long disused and forgotten tower stair that she comes face to face with herself in the very same magic mirror used by her stepmother of old.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">It promises her respite in its shimmering depths, but can Snow White trust a device that was so precious to a woman who sought to cause her such irreparable harm? Can she confront the demons of her own difficult past to discover a better future for herself and her family? And finally, can she release her soul-crushing grief and suffocating loneliness to once again discover what "happily ever after" really means?</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="color: #6aa84f;"><span style="font-family: inherit;">Only time will tell as she wrestles with her past and is forced to confront The Reflections of Queen Snow White.</span><span style="font-family: inherit;"> </span></span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">This is a Snow White after my own heart. The truth be told she is incredibly mood and has many issues that are faced among today's youth. I also was very curious to know what happened after the "Happily" part. Which let's face it is a real idea to what a glimpse of. Walking by Charming side can't be easy and wondering why things have happened to her as they have can be a real page turner. I think it is a great way to show readers another side of things. This is much more then a re-telling, it's an after thought. </span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">Great writing, strong characters.</span></div>
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<span style="background-color: black; color: #6aa84f; font-family: inherit;">4 stars</span></div>
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