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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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