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Cryer's Cross by Lisa McMann was amazing!! I've read her other books and they were just as good as this book!! I had already started this book in August but I was only about two chapters in and then school started and I put this book off and then Sunday I decided to read the book and I finished the whole book while watching Godfellas! weird I know but that's how long it took me to read the book! lol I deffenly cannot wait to read The Unwanteds and I also cannot wait for her other book Dead to You to come out! Dead to You comes out on February 7, 2010.

This book is about this small town called Cryer's Cross. It started off when a freshmen, Tiffany had disappeared and no one could find her. Kendall is now a senior and her "boyfriend" / best friend Nico is the only person who understands her OCD but he's gone missing just after school year has started. While cleaning up the classroom one morning she noticed that the desk Nico sat at was Tiffany's desk as well before she gone missing. With such a small town it has a huge dark secret but Kendall doesn't want to saying anything about this coincidence and she needs help from a newcomer, Jacian if she wants to find Nico. In the book there are also some haunting passages from another world which can intrigue but also disturb the readers ( I know I was intrigue but a bit afraid ). This as far as I want to say on this book because any more I'll end up giving y'all spoilers of what's in this book!! 

This book was not boring at all! Even though it took me awhile to actually finish it, it did take me about wish hours to finish pretty much the whole book! That's gotta say something! I loved how Lisa McMann had given the main character OCD because there are not a lot of books that have OCD being the main part of the book and I coming from a place where I'm OCD(ish) and having friends that were OCD, I was able to relate to Kendall as well as Nico and Jacian as they were friends with Kendall and understanding that OCD is a part of her life.

The Nine Lives of Chloe King

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So I finished The Nine Lives of Chloe King by Liz Braswell last night!! It took me awhile to read it all. One of the reasons was that I was a bit busy with work but also because this book was hard to get into it. There were times when I would get bored and end up putting the book aside and do something else.

The book is about a girl who just turned 16 and she had fallen off a tower and survived it! That's when she started getting all of these "superpowers" like claws, being able to see in the dark and jumping from roof to roof. However with those abilities came a death wish, someone is out to get her but who? Because she had nine lives she was considered to be the "chosen one" and not many people were happy with that including the pride leader of the Mai, Sergei who has taken her in to protect her from a "cult" called the Tenth Blade. While in hiding she learns a little bit about her history and the history of the Mai. 

After finding a friend in an alley bleeding to death, thanks to the Tenth Blade members, she decided it's time to take control and end this "feud" between the Mai and the Tenth Blade that's been going on for almost 5,000 years! With the help of her two best friends, Amy & Paul, her mom, Kim (a member of the Mai), and Alyec, who is also a member of the Mai as well as one of her "boyfriends"and Brain who is the son of the leader of the Tenth Blade & Chloe's other boyfriend, Chloe tries to put a stop of the fights between the two groups. Like it says on the back of the book, Chloe has nine lives, but will nine be enough? Go read the book and find out!!

One of the things that I didn't like about the book was that it was really hard to get into it. I had a hard time focusing on the book. There were times when I would have to force myself to finish reading a chapter. I don't know if it was maybe how the book was written or if it was just something else. The book was really good, but it wasn't a cannot put the book down good. 

My favorite part of the book was how she had to choose between Brain, a human and she cannot kiss him or she'll kill him and Alyec who is a Mai and they were considered the It Couple in the Mai. I also loved how she was trying to balance the two lives (Mai and Human) together with the hopes that they can be able to interact with each other without killing or fighting. I would have to say the only time I was not able to put the book down would be the last few chapters. Those chapters was when it really got good and I had to finish it!

Straight Stalk

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Straight Stalk by Tera Lynn Childs was a really good book! It was about this girl, Bethany Lange who is from the South (like me!) and she had a history of boyfriends turning gay. She was signed onto a tv show that's similar to Queer Eye for the Straight Guy ( I read somewhere that they were similar to each other). She was a consultant on for helping with picking out clothes for the guys. There was five other guys on the show (all gay) and one of them was her ex-boyfriend, Evan and she had a major crush on another one, Chris. When she finds out that her ex was on the show, she wanted to prove that he wasn't gay and with the help of Chris and Kit (Chris sister and her helper at her shop) she stalked Evan to find some proof that Evan was really straight. Don't want to give you any more without giving away the ending! 

The book was funny pretty much all throughout the book. I loved how Bethany's southern manners was displayed in the book, I loved how it wasn't just shown in the beginning and then disappear as the book went on. The manners kept popping up and made the book even more funny at certain parts. As for Evan, I kept on guessing on whether he was truly gay or if he was straight the entire time I was reading the book. There wasn't much that made me hate the book, I mean I'm giving it 5 hearts! The book was really well written and there wasn't any parts that made me get confused and have to go back and re-read to understand it. It was a book that I was able to read from beginning to end without any confusion. I definitely can say that I will be putting the rest of Tera Lynn Childs' books onto my to-read list because I'm sure the other books will be as good as this book was! 

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Breathless Review

January 29, 2011

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So I finally finished Breathless by Lurlene McDaniel! I was actually reading two ( maybe 3 ) books at the same time so I was rotating from book to book. Anyway, Breathless was absolutely an amazing book. Lurlene McDaniel knows how to write a good book! I've read pretty much all of her books and with each book I feel like I'm part of the story. Breathless had to do with a champion diver, Travis and over the summer he decided to do a stunt at a lake and all he thought he did was break his leg but as it turns out, he had a rare form of cancer. And to save him, the doctors tell his parents they must amputate. From that moment, his life and the lives of everyone around him are changed forever. Each chapter was from someone's point of view. There was Cooper, Travis best friend. Travis asked Cooper to help him with something, a tough request that no one would ever want to do. ( you'll have to read the book to find out what the request was! ). Then there was Emily, Travis's little sister, who loved her brother and would do anything for him. She was ignored by her parents since they were focusing on Travis and getting him better. And then there's Darla, Travis's girlfriend. Travis saw her for who she was and not by what everyone else see her as. As for Travis, he was a diver and a good one. He wanted to control how the course of his life should go. As I was reading this book and it came to the request Travis asked Cooper to do, I would understand why he would want to do it. If I was in his position, I would want to do it. This is truly a sad book and is definitely one of her best books she's ever wrote! Go out and buy the book! Or check it out from the library! 

My favorite quote out of the entire book was "I know what I did and why I did it. Am I a killer, or a deliverer? I believe I am an Angel of Mercy."

Brinkley Harper Isn't Feeling Herself Today.

Jump Book Review

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So I started reading Jump by Ginger Rue last night and I couldn't put it down!! I ended up finishing around midnight last night! That's how good it was! "Jump into this fun, freaky, fast-paced story about a self-absorbed teen who finds out what it's like to literally become someone else - over and over again!" That's what author of the Dead Girl series, Linda Joy Singleton said about the book! And it's totally awesome and I've never read a book like this ever! It's about a girl, Brinkley Harper, who woke up in another person's body. It's about a rich girl who woke up in many other people's body and live their life just for one day. The book was really fast paced, there wasn't any slow or boing parts throughout the book which I liked. Ginger put all of the problems that many teens would have in their life, she didn't just focused on the rich and skinny, popular girl. She focused on those that were "outcast" or "fat" and a few others. To me this also had magical feeling to it as well. I mean waking up in another person's body? that doesn't happen everyday and so it's kinda like one of those "witch" book but there's no witches in this book at all, it just had that magical feeling to it. Ginger Rue is a good author and I'll be on the lookout for any of her other books if she does write more! so if I were you, I'd go out and buy this book or check it out from the local library!