LingerED Away From This Read

Linger
By Maggie Stiefvater
I was going to rate this 3 stars up until the last 100 pages. Then I changed it to 3.5, but I felt generous so I rounded up to 4 stars. I didn’t feel the spark in Linger that I felt in Shiver. Altogether it felt very filler and not a lot of plot. It made it a slow read and hard to plow through.

In this installment of Maggie Stiefvater’s Wolves of Mercy Falls, Linger, the author introduces new problems facing Grace and Sam. It also includes the point of views of a character known as Cole St. Clair and an already existing character, Isabel. The shifting points of view were done in uniquely different ways.

The story line of the story is that Grace gets sick due to some unknown cause and Cole (a well known rockstar) wants to escape his life. Grace also gets into a lot of trouble by her parents one night when Sam is found in her bed. It’s even harder to be together now that Grace is sick and grounded. She needs Sam so she can dull the pain.
Cole is a new wolf bitten by Beck and is supposedly onto something when he draws up certain conclusions about Sam’s supposed cure and helps to figure out how to save Grace. That happens more towards the end, which was more exciting. He wants to become a wolf more than a human because he wants to escape life and finds out new leads to the werewolves’ condition.

Isabel became a big character in this novel and her character grew on me a little more. It seems like she’s the only one not infected and she’s the voice of reason when it comes down to life or death.

I did have a moment at the end where I was scared about what would happen. I was happy to connect to the book at the end, which is why I rated it 4 stars in the end.

By the Time You Read This, The Reader Will Be Satisfied

By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
By Julie Anne Peters

(*minor spoilers*)
Daelyn Rice has had a rough time growing up, and still does. She’s attempted numerous suicide plots due to her history in bullying and being overweight. She believes she’s beyond saving now and is trying to figure out a suicide plot, which will rid her of this world for good, by visiting a website called www.through-the-light.com on a daily basis.
Daelyn tells people of her life, revealing serious bullying problems including rape attempts and fat camp. These problems date back to when she was very young and still remembers almost every detail of the events.
At school, she’s known as a freak mute. She can’t talk (due to one of her botched suicide attempts) and doesn’t have any real friends until Santana and Emily finally acknowledge her.
I liked Santana, didn’t love him. His personality was cute and how he treated Daelyn was comical and comforting at times. I skipped ahead sometimes to see if he was in the next couple of pages because he was one of the things that kept the novel somewhat exciting.
The scenes weren’t that intense in my opinion. The only parts that were exciting were when Daelyn talks with Santana and some scenes where she meets Emily. The issue of suicide was dealt with good I would say. It’s very hard to write about it and it’s heart wrenching to read about it, which attracted me to the book.
The ending was not what I imagined (which was what the title told me), and I was happy about that. Overall I wouldn’t recommend it, although it was an okay read and very short.

House of Night Novels!!!

I started reading these as soon as they came out and I loved them. I like how the authors developed the characters. By the time it gets to multiple point of views the story sags a little bit. I just started reading Burned and it's okay. The series is about vampyres who go to a school together and a fallen immortal from Nyx (the goddess the vampyres pray to) basically takes over the school with a former high priestess of the school. I heard it' going to be a movie so I'm kind of excited about that. I would recommend this book to all young adult readers. I love series books so that was great especially since theres gona be like 15 of them.

Hush Hush

By Becca FitzPatrick. It was about a girl named Nora who's in her sophmore year and becomes partners with someone she'll never forget, Patch. He turns out to be a pain sometimes but attractive. Becca uses some phrases over but they're not from around here so I liked that. (I'm not sure if you know what I'm talking about but thats ok) It's a mystery/romance type of novel and I absolutely loved it. I fell in love with Patch myself and couldn't wait to get back to him in the story when he wasn't in the chapter. The ending is great and I'm happy there's going to be a sequel, but it's coming next Fall!!! I can't wait! Overall I give this book a B. My friend lent it to me and I suggest lending it to your friend if she's boy crazy or likes angels and the supernatural or seductive seniors =D.

Finished....IraqiGirl {Diary of an Iraqi Girl}

This story is one of the best I've read in a long time. It took me so long to read because I guess it made me feel differently and experience something not part of my everyday life. I suggest this book so much to everyone. It was so provokitive I couldn't give it up and stop reading it. Salaam to you Hadiya <3

Reading...Academy 7

I'm in the middle of this particular story and it's really motivating. It makes me feel like I have it easy with my education. The people in this book have to work so hard to stay in the best school in the universe. How would you feel if you got into the best school in the whole universe? By Anne Osterlund. Genre: Science Fiction

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