Review: Crash into Me

Crash Into Me by Albert Borris Series: Stand Alone Published by Simon Pulse on July 7th 2009 Genres: Young Adult-Contemporary Source: Bought Goodreads "Owen, Frank, Audrey, and Jin-Ae have one thing in common: they all want to die. When they meet online after each attempts suicide and fails, the four teens make a deadly pact: they will escape together on a summer road trip to visit the sites of celebrity suicides...and at their final destination, they will all end their lives. As they drive cross-country, bonding over their dark impulses, sharing their deepest secrets and desires, living it up, hooking up, and becoming true friends, each must decide whether life is worth living--or if there's no turning back." I loved this book because of the hope it brings. Four...

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Review: Banished

Banished by Sophie Littlefield Published by Delacorte Books for Young Readers on October 12th 2010 Genres: Young Adult -Fantasy Source: Bought Goodreads "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.   But when a classmate...

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Review: Anna and The French Kiss

Anna and The French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins Series: Anna and The French Kiss # 1 Published by Dutton Juvenile on December 2, 2010 Genres: Young Adult-Contemporary Pages: 400 Source: Bought Buy on Amazon Goodreads Anna is looking forward to her senior year in Atlanta, where she has a great job, a loyal best friend, and a crush on the verge of becoming more. Which is why she is less than thrilled about being shipped off to boarding school in Paris—until she meets Étienne St. Claire: perfect, Parisian (and English and American, which makes for a swoon-worthy accent), and utterly irresistible. The only problem is that he's taken, and Anna might be, too, if anything comes of her almost-relationship back home. As winter melts into spring, will a year of romantic...

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Review: Extraordinary

Extraordinary by Nancy Werlin Series: Stand Alone Published by Dial on September 7, 2010 Genres: Young Adult -Fantasy Source: Bought Buy on Amazon Goodreads For fans of Beautiful Creatures and Wicked Lovely, New York Times Bestselling author Nancy Werlin delivers a captivating novel of friendship and trust, where the past determines the future and a generations-old curse requires the ultimate sacrifice. Phoebe is drawn to Mallory, the strange and secretive new girl at school. Soon the two become as close as sisters . . . until Mallory’s magnetic older brother, Ryland, arrives. Ryland has an immediate hold on Phoebe — but it turns into something dangerous, as she begins to question her feelings about her best friend and, worse, about herself. Soon Phoebe discovers...

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Review: Crescendo

Crescendo by Becca Fitzpatrick Series: Hush, Hush #2 Published by Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers on October 19th 2010 Genres: Young Adult- Fantasy/ Paranormal Source: Bought Goodreads "Feisty teen Nora Grey somehow survived the crises of Hush, Hush!, but dangers just as frightening loom in this standalone sequel. Patch, her guardian angel and love interest, appears to have a dark side and a wandering eye. Worse yet, he seems intent on obstructing Nora as she hunts for the truth behind her father's mysterious death. Even better than the first."   Crescendo means a passage played with a gradual increase in volume or intensity. That is what this book did. It intensified with each page turn, taking me on one heck of an emotional ride. It was so good...

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