Amelia Unabridged by Ashley Schumacher

Summary:

Sparks fly between two teens as they grapple with grief, love, and the future.

Eighteen-year-old Amelia Griffin is obsessed with the famous Orman Chronicles, written by the young and reclusive prodigy N. E. Endsley. They’re the books that brought her and her best friend Jenna together after Amelia’s father left and her family imploded. So when Amelia and Jenna get the opportunity to attend a book festival with Endsley in attendance, Amelia is ecstatic. It’s the perfect way to start off their last summer before college.

In a heartbeat, everything goes horribly wrong. When Jenna gets a chance to meet the author and Amelia doesn’t, the two have a blowout fight like they’ve never experienced. And before Amelia has a chance to mend things, Jenna is killed in a freak car accident. Grief-stricken, and without her best friend to guide her, Amelia questions everything she had planned for the future.

When a mysterious, rare edition of the Orman Chronicles arrives, Amelia is convinced that it somehow came from Jenna. Tracking the book to an obscure but enchanting bookstore in Michigan, Amelia is shocked to find herself face-to-face with the enigmatic and handsome N. E. Endsley himself, the reason for Amelia’s and Jenna’s fight and perhaps the clue to what Jenna wanted to tell her all along.

My Review:

Amelia Unabridged was such an unforgettable read. I really did love the storyline and the characters in it. The book deals with lost and finding yourself along the way. I thought it was well written and I like the cover to it a lot. You see the main character, Amelia on the cover looking lost.

I really like Amelia in this book. In the beginning she becomes a huge book nerd and have fallen in love with a new fantasy series. Jenna and her been friends forever, have their lives plan out even going to same colleges. I enjoy how they first met at the bookstore.

Sadly after a fight during a signing event, the girls drift a part. Then one day, Jenna suddenly passed away. Amelia is left alone to pick up the pieces and carry on Jenna plan for her. Suddenly a mysterious package arrives and now she goes looking for answers in Michigan. Soon Amelia starting to feel like she to belong here, but she can’t disappoint her friend wishes even after in death…

What will Amelia will do?

This book was so many emotions. It deals with grief and finding out where you belong. Amelia deals with the pressures to stick to Jenna plans for her, and Jenna’s family happy. When she goes discover what Jenna left her, Amelia starts enjoying things she loves again. Also questions what she wants out of life, beside the plan. She just wants to make everyone happy, despite making herself happy. Its one of those books you read in one sitting and fall in love.

Amelia Unabridged is prefect for people who love the setting that takes place in a bookstore and have a cute doggie in it. Such a cute read on learning to love and dealing with grief…..

WWW Wednesday

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The three Ws:

What I’m currently reading?

What I finish reading?

What I plan to read next?

Finish Reading:

This book was a enjoyable read and I think it’s a series.

Currently Reading:

I’m loving this book so much. It very different on what I read.

Reading Next:

I’m excited to read this book next. I love Alyssa Sheinmel’s books so much. You need to check out RIP Eliza Heart, A Danger to herself and others and What Kind of Girl. This author books are amazing and can get lost in the story and fun twists at the end.

This is Not the Jess Show by Anna Carey

Summary:

Black Mirror meets My So-Called Life in this fast-paced, timely YA thriller about separating fact from fiction–and how far we’ll go to create our own version of reality.

Like any other teenager, Jess Flynn is just trying to get through her junior year without drama … but drama seems to keep finding her. Between a new crush on her childhood best friend, overprotective parents cramping her social life, and her younger sister’s worsening health, the only constant is change–and her hometown of Swickley, which feels smaller by the day.

Swickley is getting weirder by the day, too. Half the population has been struck down by a mysterious flu. Conversations end awkwardly when Jess enters the room. And then one day, a tiny, sleek black device–with an apple logo on it–falls out of her best friend’s backpack and lands at Jess’s feet.

My Review:

Welcome to the 90s.

This is not a The Jess Show is set in the 90s. Jess seems to have her life together. Good friends and the family life. Then one day he friend drop some weird object on the ground. Soon she starts to questions what really going on around her. Who can she really trust, when everyone seems to be lying to her?

I really enjoyed The is not The Jess Show a lot. Kinda feel old reading the book. I love it’s set in the 90s with so many references. Brings back so many memories. This book is like a mystery for Jess when one day strange things start happening to her. It has a nice twists within the book. The cover is prefect for the book, a room in the 90s.

Jess seems to want to get out of town for college, but her parents has plan for her. Her mother tells her how to dress and how to wear make up. Her friends whispering behind her back like they hiding stuff. And a weird device was found. Suddenly her guy friend seems to have the answers for a price.

This book was so much fun and another quick read. Something different and very hard to put down.

Welcome to this is not The Jess Show!!

Happy Reading!!!!

What I’m Reading Monday

Summary:

“Make a way out of no way” is just the way of life for Rue. But when her mother is shot dead on her doorstep, life for her and her younger sister changes forever. Rue’s taken from her neighborhood by the father she never knew, forced to leave her little sister behind, and whisked away to Ghizon—a hidden island of magic wielders.

Rue is the only half-god, half-human there, where leaders protect their magical powers at all costs and thrive on human suffering. Miserable and desperate to see her sister on the anniversary of their mother’s death, Rue breaks Ghizon’s sacred Do Not Leave Law and returns to Houston, only to discover that Black kids are being forced into crime and violence. And her sister, Tasha, is in danger of falling sway to the very forces that claimed their mother’s life.

Worse still, evidence mounts that the evil plaguing East Row is the same one that lurks in Ghizon—an evil that will stop at nothing until it has stolen everything from her and everyone she loves. Rue must embrace her true identity and wield the full magnitude of her ancestors’ power to save her neighborhood before the gods burn it to the ground.

The Girls I’ve Been by Tess Sharpe

Summary:

A slick, twisty YA page-turner about the daughter of a con artist who is taken hostage in a bank heist.

Nora O’Malley’s been a lot of girls. As the daughter of a con-artist who targets criminal men, she grew up as her mother’s protégé. But when mom fell for the mark instead of conning him, Nora pulled the ultimate con: escape.

For five years Nora’s been playing at normal. But she needs to dust off the skills she ditched because she has three problems:

#1: Her ex walked in on her with her girlfriend. Even though they’re all friends, Wes didn’t know about her and Iris.

#2: The morning after Wes finds them kissing, they all have to meet to deposit the fundraiser money they raised at the bank. It’s a nightmare that goes from awkward to deadly, because:

#3: Right after they enter bank, two guys start robbing it.

The bank robbers may be trouble, but Nora’s something else entirely. They have no idea who they’re really holding hostage…

My Review:

The Girls I’ve Been was such a fun read. I love the storyline about an ex-con girl goes up against bank robbers. Also I love the cover of the book so much. So different than other covers I have seen.

Nora life was never easy. Her mother taught her the ropes of conning people at a very young age and being so many different people. She kinda looses herself there. Her sister was lucky to get out and will do anything to save Nora from their mother abuse.

Years later Nora is living a good life, her past behind her. When she goes to the bank with her friends, her past catches up with her. Now she must use her conning ways to save her friends and the people in the bank, even if she must expose her dark past.

This book was pretty much fun from the beginning until the end. You get a look at Nora dark past and what she suffer through with her mom. She is a good kid and will do anything to just survive and live a normal life. Her sister is kinda cool, helping her out along the way.

When her friends learn more of her dark past, will they still be together in the end???

The Girls I’ve Been may some trigger warning about mental abuse the main character deals with and her mother deals with physical abuse.

This is a very good book, if your into con reads.

Happy Reading!!!!

WWW Wednesday

Thanks to my editor Stay Fetters at Acourtofcoffeeandbooks for this new banner.

The three Ws:

What I’m currently reading?

What I finish reading?

What I plan to read next?

Finish Reading:

I liked this book. It was a little bit predictable, but such a good read. Will be reviewing it soon on blog.

Currently Reading:

I love the cover so much. I’m enjoying this book so far. Really need to focus more on what’s happening in the story.

Reading Next:

I love this cover so much and the summary sounds awesome. Trying to read more fantasy

Summary:

Choose your player.

The “ironborn” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family.
A tempestuous Fury, exiled to earth from the Immortal Realm and hellbent on revenge.
A dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne.
The prince’s brooding guardian, burdened with a terrible secret.

For centuries, the Eight Courts of Folk have lived among us, concealed by magic and bound by law to do no harm to humans. This arrangement has long kept peace in the Courts—until a series of gruesome and ritualistic murders rocks the city of Toronto and threatens to expose faeries to the human world.

Four queer teens, each who hold a key piece of the truth behind these murders, must form a tenuous alliance in their effort to track down the mysterious killer behind these crimes. If they fail, they risk the destruction of the faerie and human worlds alike. If that’s not bad enough, there’s a war brewing between the Mortal and Immortal Realms, and one of these teens is destined to tip the scales. The only question is: which way?

Wish them luck. They’re going to need it.

Maybe take a fantasy break. Been in the mood to read standalone book lately.

Summary:

Eighteen-year-old Amelia Griffin is obsessed with the famous Orman Chronicles, written by the young and reclusive prodigy N. E. Endsley. They’re the books that brought her and her best friend Jenna together after Amelia’s father left and her family imploded. So when Amelia and Jenna get the opportunity to attend a book festival with Endsley in attendance, Amelia is ecstatic. It’s the perfect way to start off their last summer before college.

In a heartbeat, everything goes horribly wrong. When Jenna gets a chance to meet the author and Amelia doesn’t, the two have a blowout fight like they’ve never experienced. And before Amelia has a chance to mend things, Jenna is killed in a freak car accident. Grief-stricken, and without her best friend to guide her, Amelia questions everything she had planned for the future.

When a mysterious, rare edition of the Orman Chronicles arrives, Amelia is convinced that it somehow came from Jenna. Tracking the book to an obscure but enchanting bookstore in Michigan, Amelia is shocked to find herself face-to-face with the enigmatic and handsome N. E. Endsley himself, the reason for Amelia’s and Jenna’s fight and perhaps the clue to what Jenna wanted to tell her all along.

Ashley Schumacher’s devastating and beautiful debut, Amelia Unabridged, is about finding hope and strength within yourself, and maybe, just maybe, falling in love while you do it.

You Were Never Here by Kathleen Peacock

Summary:

Cat hasn’t been to Montgomery Falls, the town her family founded, since she was twelve years old. Since the summer she discovered she could do things that no normal twelve-year-old could do. Since she had her first kiss with Riley Fraser. Since she destroyed their friendship.

Now, five years later, she’s back and Riley has disappeared.

For the last three months no one has heard from or seen Riley. And while there are all sorts of conspiracy theories about where he went, neither the police nor his parents are any closer to finding him. When Noah, Riley’s brother, asks for help in discovering what happened, Cat is torn between wanting to learn the truth and protecting the secret that she’s been guarding ever since that summer she and Riley stopped speaking.

But then a girl is discovered floating in the river, barely alive with no knowledge of who attacked her or why. With the possibility that someone out there is hunting teens, Cat must make a choice: Use her unusual ability to discover the truth and find Riley or keep running away from a power she can’t control. Only one choice will put her in a killer’s sights…

My Review:

You were never here was a good read. I liked how the mystery of the book involves a little paranormal. I like the details in the cover of the book.

I feel bad for Cat in the book. She tries to have a normal life at school, but then she end up back home. When she returns home, she finds out her ex best friend is missing. Cat may have the powers to find him. If she willing to learn how to use them.

This book was a quick read for me. You see how much the characters change over the years that Cat left town. I like the idea Cat having a gift, just wish we could explore it more in the book. Like why she has this gift and where it came from. It was a nice mystery with a twist I did like at the end. It just one be guessing game on what happen with Riley and Cat may be the key to solving it.

If you like a good mystery, then you might enjoy You Were Never Here.

Happy Reading!!!!

What I’m Reading Monday

Summary:

Sixteen-year-old Deka lives in fear and anticipation of the blood ceremony that will determine whether she will become a member of her village. Already different from everyone else because of her unnatural intuition, Deka prays for red blood so she can finally feel like she belongs.

But on the day of the ceremony, her blood runs gold, the color of impurity–and Deka knows she will face a consequence worse than death.

Then a mysterious woman comes to her with a choice: stay in the village and submit to her fate, or leave to fight for the emperor in an army of girls just like her. They are called alaki–near-immortals with rare gifts. And they are the only ones who can stop the empire’s greatest threat.

Knowing the dangers that lie ahead yet yearning for acceptance, Deka decides to leave the only life she’s ever known. But as she journeys to the capital to train for the biggest battle of her life, she will discover that the great walled city holds many surprises. Nothing and no one are quite what they seem to be–not even Deka herself.

Summary:

Face your fears, fight the battle.

Emberfall is crumbling fast, torn between those who believe Rhen is the rightful prince and those who are eager to begin a new era under Grey, the true heir. Grey has agreed to wait two months before attacking Emberfall, and in that time, Rhen has turned away from everyone—even Harper, as she desperately tries to help him find a path to peace.

Fight the battle, save the kingdom.

Meanwhile, Lia Mara struggles to rule Syhl Shallow with a gentler hand than her mother. But after enjoying decades of peace once magic was driven out of their lands, some of her subjects are angry Lia Mara has an enchanted prince and magical scraver by her side. As Grey’s deadline draws nearer, Lia Mara questions if she can be the queen her country needs.

As two kingdoms come closer to conflict, loyalties are tested, love is threatened, and an old enemy resurfaces who could destroy them all, in this stunning conclusion to bestselling author Brigid Kemmerer’s Cursebreaker series.

Summary:

The Cruel Prince meets City of Bones in this thrilling urban fantasy set in the magical underworld of Toronto that follows a queer cast of characters racing to stop a serial killer whose crimes could expose the hidden world of faeries to humans.

Choose your player.

The “ironborn” half-fae outcast of her royal fae family.
A tempestuous Fury, exiled to earth from the Immortal Realm and hellbent on revenge.
A dutiful fae prince, determined to earn his place on the throne.
The prince’s brooding guardian, burdened with a terrible secret.

For centuries, the Eight Courts of Folk have lived among us, concealed by magic and bound by law to do no harm to humans. This arrangement has long kept peace in the Courts—until a series of gruesome and ritualistic murders rocks the city of Toronto and threatens to expose faeries to the human world.

Four queer teens, each who hold a key piece of the truth behind these murders, must form a tenuous alliance in their effort to track down the mysterious killer behind these crimes. If they fail, they risk the destruction of the faerie and human worlds alike. If that’s not bad enough, there’s a war brewing between the Mortal and Immortal Realms, and one of these teens is destined to tip the scales. The only question is: which way?

Wish them luck. They’re going to need it.

The Obsession by Jesse Q. Sutanto

Summary:

A classic sort of love story… except somebody might wind up dead.

Nobody knows Delilah like Logan does. Nobody. He makes sure of it by learning everything he can through her social media and watching her through a hidden camera he has trained on her house. Some might call him a stalker. Logan prefers to be called “romantic.”

But after Logan sees Delilah killing her abusive stepfather, he realizes there’s still more about her to discover. His sweet, perfect Delilah isn’t so perfect after all.

Delilah knows she should feel guilty, but all she feels is free. She’s so over the men in her life controlling her. Except Logan saw what she did, and he won’t let her forget it.

Delilah is done being the victim. And she refuses to be a character in Logan’s twisted fantasy. If Logan won’t let her go… she’ll make him.

My Review:

I’m very obsessed with this book!! The book was so tense and very crazy. That’s why I love it so much. Also I love how the cover just draws you in. The main characters are just plain messed up in the head.

You have Logan who was obsessed with another girl before she died. Then he becomes crazy in love with Delilah. He starts stalking her online and set up cameras at her place. Logan caught Delilah killing her abusive stepfather, now he wants to save her. He forces her date him and give him a chance.

Then you have prefect Delilah, never gets in trouble or do drugs. She dealing with abuse by her stepfather who is a cop. Delilah got her furture line up until she could not take the abuse anymore. Little does she know her stalker saw her kill him and force into an unwanted relationship. Will Delilah be able to set herself free from Logan grip?

This is not your typical love story. Delilah and Logan are just crazy and mess up. They both kinda evil on the inside. Sometimes I think they could be both prefect for each. It was a nice quick read. Could read it over and over again. I’m still processing on what I just read also.

Also that ending drove me mad…

Looking for some crazy characters, a little mystery and some twists then book might be for you.

Happy Reading!!!!!

WWW Wednesday

Thanks to my editor Stay Fetters at Acourtofcoffeeandbooks for this new banner.

The three Ws:

What I’m currently reading?

What I finish reading?

What I plan to read next?

Finish Reading:

I love this crazy book. Will review it soon for blog.

Currently Reading:

Looking forward to diving into this book. A little bit more series tone.

Reading Next:

I’m going back to fantasy reads hopefully. Can never make up mind on what to read next.