Title: I'll Meet You There:
Author: Heather Demetrios
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Release date: February 3rd 2015
Rating: ★★★★
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Alright, let's skip the small talk. Long time no see, it's good to be back. Now, on to this beautiful book!

Title: Last Year's Mistake

Author: Gina Ciocca

Publisher: Simon Pulse

Release date: June 9th 2015

Rating: ★★★★

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With packing and getting ready to move, I haven't been doing much reading and thus, I went back to see if there was a book I could review. Turns out I read Last Year's Mistake a few months back and never talked about it, so... Let's talk about it!

Title: Beautiful Broken Things
Author: Sara Barnard
Publisher: Macmillan Children's Books
Release date: February 25th 2016
Rating: ★★★
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I didn't dislike this book, I was simply expecting more from it.

Title: Watching Traffic

Author: Jane Ozkowski

Publisher: Groundwood Books

Release date: August 9th 2016

Rating:  ★★★★★

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I received this books from some very lovely people over at Groundwood Books, in exchange for an honest  review.

Title: The Hidden Oracle

Author: Rick Riordan

Publisher: Disney-Hyperion

Release date: May 3rd 2016

Rating: ★★★★½

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Alright cupcakes, I've been meaning to write this review for fours months now so lets get this show on the road. Here are all the reasons why The Hidden Oracle is fantabulous!

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Title: I have a bad feeling about this

Author: Jeff Strand

Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire

Release date: January 1st 2014

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A while back, I tried, to the best of my abilities, to review The Greatest Zombie Movie Ever, by Jeff Strand. I say "tried" because in my opinion, I didn't do the book justice. Today, I'm going to try to review I Have a Bad Feeling About This.

Title: The Raven Boys
Author: Maggie Stiefvater
Publisher: Scholastic
Release date: September 18th 2012
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The Raven Boys has been on my to-read list for a long time and now that I read it, I don't understand the excitement that surrounds it.
The one thing that comes to my mind when I think about The Raven Cycle trilogy is this: over-hyped. Okay, fine, it might not be fair to judge an entire series by the first book, but at the same time, if I'm not hooked right away, why bother to continue?

The main thing that turned me off while reading this book was how unreal everything and everyone seemed. The beauty of books is that they make you believe in made-up worlds and magic creatures, they make you believe that whatever the author chose to write about is possible; real. Maggie Stiefvater? She didn't succeed in making me believe her story.

Firstly, the characters. I'm sorry but as rich as you may be Gansey, I simply don't buy your act, especially when you have other rich friends behaving nothing like you. And Blue? One question: what about school! And that name.. I want to take you seriously, but I can't.

Second, the story. I felt like the plot wasn't going anywhere. I was lost with the whole ley lines story, and I felt like nothing really happened. Stuff did happen though, I was entertained while reading, but I wasn't dying to get back to the book, you know?

Also, the relationship between Blue and Noah was a bit laughable. To me, it seemed to come out of nowhere. Plus, Blue is clearly meant to end up with Gansey, Noah and Ronan are probably gay, and the story about Blue killng her true love if she kisses him? Come on! Give me more explanation because right now it sounds like a fairy tale!

The Raven Boys was entertaining, don't get me wrong. It was far from being bad, but after all the good things I heard about it, I felt let down. To be frank, the book felt more like a first draft of something that could be great.

But hey, I'm clearly in the minority here, maybe I just completely missed the point.

Take care cupcakes!

Sophie

The Raven Boys is far from being a bad book, it's simply another case of "over-hype"...

This was the first book featured in WIFSY and while I wasn't overly thrilled by the real synopsis at first, I am SO glad I read it!

This is a difficult review to write for me because I still haven't decided if I enjoyed the book or not.



Title: Go ask Alice
Author: Anonymous
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Release date: 1971
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Synopsis:

January 24th

After you've had it, there isn't even life without drugs....

It started when she was served a soft drink laced with LSD in a dangerous party game. Within months, she was hooked, trapped in a downward spiral that took her from her comfortable home and loving family to the mean streets of an unforgiving city. It was a journey that would rob her of her innocence, her youth -- and ultimately her life.

Hi lovelies!

Nope, you're not dreaming! We are Monday and I am indeed sharing a review!
After being MIA for so long, I'm slowly getting back in the game and I decided to start this week with a review of FLANNERY, by Lisa Moore.

This book was given to me by the lovely Cindy over at
Groundwood Books in exchange of an honest review.

Title: Flannery

Author: Lisa Moore

Publisher: Groundwood Books

Release date: May 1st 2016

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Title: Neverwhere
Author: Nel Gaiman
Publisher:William Morrow
Release date: September 16th 1996
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If you enjoy Neil Gaiman as an author, well this is one of his best work. 

If you've never heard of Neil Gaiman but you enjoy parallel universe or amazing world building, this is still the book for you!

Boy am I glad that this book turned out to be awesome!

Title : Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
Author : Jesse Andrews
Publisher : Harry N. Abrams
Release date : March 1st 2012
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The thing is, I was scared I wouldn't enjoy this book as much as the movie. I had seen a lot of reviews of people saying they found Me and Earl and the Dying Girl boring and I was hesitating on reading it. Thankfully, a friend of mine had the book and she let me borrow it.

Title: Firsts

Author: Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

Release date: January 5th 2016

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Title: Carry On
Author: Rainbow Rowell
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Release date: October 6th 2015
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For a while now, I've had this book just sitting on my shelf and was hesitating to read it for some unknown reason. Finally, I told myself that it was ridiculous and that I should just pick it up. I did, and while it was still a really good book, it did not match the first one in the series.

Like the first one, this book is pretty hard to resume so here's a copy paste of the back cover.

Mara Dyer once believed she could run from her past.
She can’t.

She used to think her problems were all in her head.

They aren’t.

She couldn’t imagine that after everything she’s been through, the boy she loves would still be keeping secrets.

She’s wrong.

Oh boy, where do I even start...

Sorry about last week guys! As I said on Twitter, I was busy finishing my NaNoWriMo calendars and to be frank, I just didn't have a book to review... I know! I've been so occupied in the last two weeks that I only just finished Madly, by Amy Alward.

Hello everyone!
How's it going on this wonderful Monday? Great I hope! For my part, I just had an awesome Thanks Giving dinner with my family yesterday and I ate SO much!

Anyways, I am here today to review a book that has got everyone raving; yes, I'm talking about Dumplin', by Julie Murphy!

I wanted to love this book, I really did. But unfortunately, The Sky is Everywhere turned into a DNF.

I was about 75 pages in and just could not bring myself to really get involved in the story. So I read some dialogue here and there till the end and I'm glad I did not spend more time actually reading the whole book because it was really NOT for me.

THIS BOOK IS FUCKING AMESOME!

You know, I didn't believe it when people said that Stand-Off was as good as Winger. Winger is one of my favorite book and I could not imagine how anything could top it. But here I am, in awe of this sequel.
Every time I try to review one of Andrew Smith's book, I end up babling because there is just so much to say, sorry in advance guys.

WARNING! SPOILER OF WINGER AHEAD!

What a cool concept!
Seriously, Michael Grant always has the best ideas for books. EVER! The Gone series was A-Mazing and Messenger of Fear was really cool!

Where do I start?
Okay, okay, I got it. Messenger of Fear is the story of Mara, a teenage girl who wakes up surrounded by yellow mist. Then, she learns that she is going to become a messenger of fear and her teacher is Messenger (with a capital M yes). This Messenger guy is kind of creepy and he doesn't want to tell Mara anything. She's pist off but the lessons she learns make her understand more and more what's going on and at the end... Well that I can't tell you because it would ruin the book but at the end, she understands everything.