Category: Book Review

Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Read from Sep 22- 25

Summary -n Rainbow Rowell’s Fangirl, Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan, but for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving.

Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.

Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to.
Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.

For Cath, the question is: Can she do this? Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?

Review- This Book Is about Cath she is obsessed with Simon Snow she writes Fanfiction since forever it’s all she knows now she is going to college with her twin sister and her sister wants to not room with her and Cath is mad when she get there she meets her roommate Reagan she is kind of sour and moody and Levi he’s very smiley and happy and bubbly . Cath is Taking creative writing and is an english major (like me ) and She meets Nick and she and him are writing together and she thinks that she likes him I really see Cath in me like the awkwardness and the writing and being so into a fandom that it’s like a part of you . Cath and Nick start going to the library to write and Levi picks her up every time how sweet and Cath reads Levi her fanfiction that was so cute and then she helps him study and they end up falling asleep together and kissing and then Regan comes in and she also explains that her and Levi aren’t dating she and Levi have been broken up for awhile . Levi texts Cath to come to his party she doesn’t text back after allot of thinking she goes with Regan and when she gets there She see’s Levi kissing some girl and she storms out she doesn’t want to ever think about that again she avoids Levi until she gets a call that her dad is in the hospital and she tries to get her sister to go with her but Wren is to wrapped in her life drinking her mom back into her life and doesn’t come she reluctley calls Levi and asks him to drive her and he does and when they get there he asks why she is avoiding him and she tells him and he also tells her that the kiss didn’t mean anything like WTF Levi I love you but what are you thinking you like Cath and then she tells him to leave and to leave her alone and after time and allot of writing Simon Snow . Nick also wants to submit the story that her and he worked on and she gets no credit what an ass . so Levi comes to her door and tells her how he feels and they start dating and Oh my god Cath and Levi are adorable together she doesn’t really want him touching her but when she does she can’t stop that’s what made me laugh and Wren is in the Hospital for drinking to much and her mom is there Cath hasn’t seen her mom since she left and she doesn’t even want to see Wren when they can that is kind o messed up . So apparently Wren has a boyfriend it was the guy who threw the punch at the bar that time ( I like them together ) Wren and Cath make up . Levi and Cath are good together they’re happy oh and Nick has the guts to come to Cath and say well I need you to put your name on the story so I can win and she doesn’t I was like you go Cath . and in the end when the last Simon Snow book comes out her and Levi read together this book was amazing I loved it I would of loved more and to know where her and Levi end up but we can figure that out ourselves.
…. Christina

Favorite quotes .I don’t trust anybody . Not anybody . And the more that I care about someone , the more sure I they’re going to get tired of me and take off.

Idea … if your board and you miss me you should write some dirty fanfiction about us . you can read it to me later page

Thats the ultimate kind of broken . the kind of damage you never recover from.

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Nantucket Blue by Leila Howland
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Started June 29 – July 21

Summary For Cricket Thompson, a summer like this one will change everything. A summer spent on Nantucket with her best friend, Jules Clayton, and the indomitable Clayton family. A summer when she’ll make the almost unattainable Jay Logan hers. A summer to surpass all dreams.

Some of this turns out to be true. Some of it doesn’t.

When Jules and her family suffer a devastating tragedy that forces the girls apart, Jules becomes a stranger whom Cricket wonders whether she ever really knew. And instead of lying on the beach working on her caramel-colored tan, Cricket is making beds and cleaning bathrooms to support herself in paradise for the summer.

But it’s the things Cricket hadn’t counted on–most of all, falling hard for someone who should be completely off-limits–that turn her dreams into an exhilarating, bittersweet reality.

A beautiful future is within her grasp, and Cricket must find the grace to embrace it. If she does, her life could be the perfect shade of Nantucket blue.

Review –
This book was the book I needed I’ve been in the worst reading slump of my life about a month ago I went to a signing and got this book signed I had a blast I related to this book in many ways loosing a parent loosing a friend cricket was about to have a great summer her crush Jay was starting to notice her , she and her best friend Jules we’re going to Nantucket for the summer and jay was going to be there but then it goes bad SPOILER ELERT Jules mom dies and it puts Jules in a funk she can’t get out of Jules is mean to cricket ruins her chance with Jay but cricket got a job working at a cute little inn she gets a interning job for this guy writing about this life of a really rich guy names boaty Jules mostly tells cricket she doesn’t want to be friends harsh right and then something big happens cricket and Jules younger brother Zach start secret dating I love them together there adorable the ending was good to I loved this book I highly recommend it as your beach read .
Favorite quote
“Forget girls who died decades ago; words were ghosts. They were what haunted me.”
― Leila Howland, Nantucket Blue

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Pushing the Limits by Katie McGarry
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Source – own

Finished April 30,2013

Review – Echo use to be normal until one night she got scars on her arms and doesn’t remember why now she is a freak. Noah lost his parents and now he’s trying to get his brothers back . Echo and Noah don’t get along at first but it seams they have allot more in common and Echo falls for Noah and the other way around Echo still doesn’t remember why her mom tried to kill her and Noah is trying to adopt his brothers problem Carrie and joe the parents that his brothers have now . But why Echo and Noah fall for each other they know there for each other they go through allot I loved this book it felt so real out of all the contemporary’s i’ve read .

Favorite quote – “If you’re scared, tell me. If you need to cry and scream, then do it. And you sure as hell don’t walk away from us because you think it would be better for me. Here’s the reality, Echo: I want to be by your side. If you want to go to the mall stark naked so you can show the world your scars, then let me hold your hand. If you want to see your mom, then tell me that too. I may not always understand, but damn, baby, I’ll try.”

“It doesn’t get better,” I said. “The pain. The wounds scab over and you don’t always feel like a knife is slashing through you. But when you least expect it, the pain flashes to remind you you’ll never be the same.”
― Katie McGarry, Pushing the Limits

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