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This book was absolutely amazing! I started reading this about 9 last night and didn't finish it until about 12 or 1 this morning. That's how good it was! That's why this book is A Must Read! There are not a lot of books that will take me almost 4 hours to read from start to finish. This book was truly a life changing book. It made me see things from a different view. 

Basically the book is about a girl, Hannah Baker who had committed suicide but before doing that, she made tapes. Tapes with 13 reasons why she killed herself. It started in her freshmen year all the way up to the day she died. There was seven tapes, each side with one story (a reason). Which means there was 13 different people that these tapes had to go to so they can learn why they were responsible for her death. This is from both Hannah and Clay's point of view. As Clay was listening to the tapes, he went around their small town. Following along with the stories that Hannah was telling. At each place he discovered new secrets about Hannah and about everybody else that was on those tapes. What Clay had discovered changed his life (and in a way changed mine).

** Some Links **
Listen to the Tapes
13 Reasons Why website

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! 

Do you listen to music while reading? What kind of music do you listen to while reading?

I always have music playing when I'm reading, either off my computer or I'll put on my headphones on. I always have either classical music or songs that are slow. Those fast paced songs tends to distract me and I lost focus of what I'm reading.Most of the time, I end up tuning out the music whenever I"m into a really good book and whenever I'm done reading or take a break I'll remember that I had music playing. The one song that I love listening to while reading (and I don't know why) is A Little Past Little Rock by Lee Ann Womack.

Do you listen to music while you're reading? Why or why not? What type of music do you listen to? Any songs that you always have playing while reading?

A Little Bit About Me!

Heyy! So my name is Shelby! I'm 19 and in college right now! I decided to do a book review blog because I love reading! I mean I have two bookcases and they are overflowing with books and pretty much every surface in my room is covered with even more books! Ask anybody that knows me well and they'll tell you that you'll see me reading a book like all the time, I'm never without a book! This post is basically just an introduction to my blog site and what to expect and information of how my site works! First off since I am new at this, my reviews may seem different from what you would expect in a review but after awhile my reviews will change and fit to the way I would like to review books and so on... I already started a book review on another site and I decided to go ahead and post them on here so that way people can see my other reviews since it'll be awhile before I'll post a new review!