Along for the Ride by Sarah Dessen

3 out of 5 stars.

An insanely slow book. I expect, and assume most others expect, Dessen to write about a romance. This was more about finding yourself and second chances. Which is all well and good. I just hyped myself up about it being a romance, and was disappointed when it lacked just that. Well rounded book. Good story about relationships with parents, friends, boyfriends, and even ex boyfriends. 

Not Sarah Dessen’s best but still worth the read. 

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer

Average rating(goodreads): 4.07 out of five stars
 My rating: 4 out of five stars

Overview:
Mara Dyer doesn’t think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she 

got there.

It can.

She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember that killed her friends and left her

mysteriously unharmed.

There is.

She doesn’t believe that after everything she’s been through, she can fall in love.

She’s wrong.


My review:
Mara Dyer was FANTASTIC. I really enjoyed this book. Once I got into it, (I'm a stubborn reader at times) I could not put the book down. This book got really sketchy, but in a good, exciting way! This was a really fast read. I was able to relate to the characters, even though they have freaky powers. They were still down to earth. Now Noah, I liked him. Even though he has player image, I liked him from the start. I knew things were different with him and Mara. Their relationship is very coincidental. (No spoilers) I am really just speechless, I don't want to give anything away. It was just an edge of your seat, mysterious novel that I love. I cannot wait to read more of Mara Dyer.

5 Reasons why TMI should have stopped at City of Glass

1. It didn’t give me, “I need more” feeling. I felt complete.

2. The two books after it drag

3. Everything was pretty much resolved in CoG

4. If TID was only three books, TMI should have only been three books.

5. Cassie had to create more problems to make more books

(It just doesn’t make sense to me)

Oh well. I LOVE CASSANDRA CLARE.

55 Reading Questions

• 1. Favorite childhood book? Maybird 
• 2. What are you reading right now? City of Fallen Angels, and Insurgent
• 3. What books do you have on request at the library? Anna Dressed in Blood, Cinder
• 4. Bad book habit? Buying multiple books at once
• 5. What do you currently have checked out at the library? Until I die
• 6. Do you have an e-reader? Nook hd+
• 7. Do you prefer to read one book at a time, or several at once? SEVERAL 
• 8. Have your reading habits changed since starting a blog? Definitely
• 9. Least favourite book you read this year (so far)? Matched
• 10. Favorite book you’ve read this year? City of Glass or Divergent
• 11. How often do you read out of your comfort zone? Not as often as I should
• 12. What is your reading comfort zone? Paranormal Romance, Fantasy
• 13. Can you read on the bus? Oh yeah.
• 14. Favorite place to read? My bed
• 15. What is your policy on book lending? Nothing, books that looked well loved are perfect
• 16. Do you ever dog-ear books? Too often
• 17. Do you ever write in the margins of your books? Sometimes
• 18. Not even with text books? Of course
• 19. What is your favourite language to read in? English
• 20. What makes you love a book? Love triangles
• 21. What will inspire you to recommend a book? How well written it is.
• 22. Favorite genre? Paranormal Romance
• 23. Genre you rarely read (but wish you did)? Classics
• 24. Favourite biography? N/a
• 25. Have you ever read a self-help book? Yes
• 26. Favourite cookbook? n/a
• 27. Most inspirational book you’ve read this year (fiction or non-fiction)? This year? um…. Keep life simple therapy
• 28. Favorite reading snack? Graham Crackers
• 29. Name a case in which hype ruined your reading experience. Matched.
• 30. How often do you agree with critics about a book? Often
• 31. How do you feel about giving bad/negative reviews? bad:(
• 32. If you could read in a foreign language, which language would you chose? Italian or french
• 33. Most intimidating book you’ve ever read? Intimidating.. hmm… pass
• 34. Most intimidating book you’re too nervous to begin? The name of the Star.. scary
• 35. Favorite Poet? William Shakespeare
• 36. How many books do you usually have checked out of the library at any given time? 10
• 37. How often have you returned books to the library unread? Too often
• 38. Favorite fictional character? Tessa Gray
• 39. Favourite fictional villain? Valentine 
• 40. Books I’m most likely to bring on vacation? My favorites or the top of my to-read list
• 41. The longest I’ve gone without reading. The first 12 years of my life
• 42. Name a book that you could/would not finish. Clockwork Princess (Too sad to finish)
• 43. What distracts you easily when you’re reading? Tv
• 44. Favorite film adaptation of a novel? Hunger Games
• 45. Most disappointing film adaptation? Idk
• 46. The most money I’ve ever spent in the bookstore at one time? $120
• 47. How often do you skim a book before reading it? Often
• 48. What would cause you to stop reading a book half-way through? Terrible story line
• 49. Do you like to keep your books organized? Somewhat
• 50. Do you prefer to keep books or give them away once you’ve read them? KEEP
• 51. Are there any books you’ve been avoiding? Clockwork Princess and City of Lost Souls
• 52. Name a book that made you angry. Silence
• 53. A book you didn’t expect to like but did? If I don’t expect to like it I don’t read it. 
• 54. A book that you expected to like but didn’t? Matched again.
• 55. Favorite guilt-free, pleasure reading? PARANORMAL ROMANCE<3

Book Blog Questions.

Book Blog Questions :) Feel free to copy and paste:D

1. Which book has been on your shelves the longest?
Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher

2. What is your current read, your last read and the book you’ll read next?
I’m currently reading a few books, and you guys will think I’m crazy for this but here it goes: Delirium, Insurgent, City of Fallen Angels, Whispers at Moonrise, The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer. and I think that covers the ones I have been keeping an eye on. I last read Everneath. and some of the books I’ll be reading next are: The Knife of Never Letting go, Chosen at Nightfall, Starcrossed, Everbound, Endure 

3. What book did everyone like and you hated?
Well Twilight, but I can’t judge it too much, I couldn’t get myself to read it all. and the Matched series, but Im about to give it another chance.

4. Which book do you keep telling yourself you’ll read, but you probably won’t? 
Les Mis. Its such a huge book.

5. Which book are you saving for “retirement?” 
I don’t save I read everything I can get my hands, just not enough time. BUT I am saving Clockwork Princess cause I don’t want it to end. :(

6. Last page: read it first or wait till the end?
Guilty of reading the last sentence first sometimes…

7. Acknowledgements: waste of ink and paper or interesting aside?
Usually a wasted page to me. but some people like them.

8. Which book character would you switch places with?
Tessa, The Infernal Devices by Cassandra Clare

9. Do you have a book that reminds you of something specific in your life (a person, a place, a time)?
Shine by Lauren Myracle always reminds me of summer.

10. Name a book you acquired in some interesting way.
I take trips to Barnes and Noble and get at least six books. But I must admit, some of the best books I have read were an impulse by somewhere like walmart etc.

11. Have you ever given away a book for a special reason to a special person?
I donate books to the library, just ones I know I will not read or life.

12. Which book has been with you to the most places?
Oh, I have a different book with me all the time.

13. Any “required reading” you hated in high school that wasn’t so bad ten years later? 
To kill a mocking bird, but I actually loved it in high school. But its the only book I can think of.

14. What is the strangest item you’ve ever found in a book?
Nothing like that has happened to me, just old library receipts 

15. Used or brand new?
I love new books! BUT I love books that look “well-loved”

16. Stephen King: Literary genius or opiate of the masses?
I’m afraid to read his books lol.

17. Have you ever seen a movie you liked better than the book?
Books over movies, always.

18. Conversely, which book should NEVER have been made into a movie?
Twilight  

19. Have you ever read a book that’s made you hungry, cookbooks being excluded from this question?
Books make me hungry when I have sat down for so long and I just need to move so I go to the kitchen. 

20. Who is the person whose book advice you’ll always take?
None of my friends read, so I dont have anyone “real” to go to. So I use tumblr and goodreads to get most of my book ideas.

Average Rating (Goodreads): 3.84/5 stars

Overview:

Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. Now she’s returned—to her old life, her family, her boyfriend—before she’s banished back to the underworld … this time forever. She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can’t find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists.

Nikki longs to spend these precious months forgetting the Everneath and trying to reconnect with her boyfriend, Jack, the person most devastated by her disappearance—and the one person she loves more than anything. But there’s just one problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who enticed her to the Everneath in the first place, has followed Nikki home. Cole wants to take over the throne in the underworld and is convinced Nikki is the key to making it happen. And he’ll do whatever it takes to bring her back, this time as his queen.

As Nikki’s time on the Surface draws to a close and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she is forced to make the hardest decision of her life: find a way to cheat fate and remain on the Surface with Jack or return to the Everneath and become Cole’s queen

Everneath is a captivating story of love, loss, and immortality from debut author Brodi Ashton

My rating: 4/ stars

My review:

Let me start off by saying I love re-tales of the story of Persephone and Hades. A guilty  please you might say. This one different from others and I loved it. The love story was captivating. The connection between Nik and Jack was so touching. It’s a solid four stars. I could relate easily to Nikki, and her relationship with Jack. However sometimes I felt myself leaning towards Cole. The ending was a cliffhanger, which I love and hate at the same time. But this was a phenomenal cliffhanger. (I don’t write spolier reviews) It took me a while to get into, for you have to read to put all the pieces together. I usually don’t like that, I want to know exactly what happened in the beginning. Brodi Ashton, however, pulled it off quite nicely if I do say so myself. I will be getting the sequel Everbound as soon as possible.

Taken at Dusk by C.C Hunter

Average rating: 4.38 out of five (Goodreads)

My rating: 4.5 stars. 

Overview: Step into Shadow Falls, a camp for teens with supernatural powers.  Here friendship thrives, love takes you by surprise, and our hearts possess the greatest magic of all.

Kylie Galen wants the truth so badly she can taste it. The truth about who her real family is, the truth about which boy she’s meant to be with—and the truth about what her emerging powers mean.  But she’s about to discover that some secrets can change your life forever…and not always for the better.

My review:

Shadow Falls is definitely underrated series let me start off by saying that. It is definitely in my top five favorite series. This book did not disappoint. I fell more in love with Lucas, but I am probably just as torn as Kylie. It was well written and had me laughing out loud many times.  This book definitely kept me on the edge of my seat. The book was full of mysteries that lasted from start to finish. It was a tear jerker, Because yes, “Someone lives and someone dies” The only reason I didn’t give it five stars is there are VERY FEW, but few nonetheless, parts that are predictable.  Luckily I already own the last two books in this series, because C.C. Hunter LOVES cliffhangers, and she is very good at them. Fast read. I am very pleased.