My Review of: Daire Meets Ever (The Soul Seekers 0.5) by Alyson Noel

Daire Meets Ever by Alyson Noel
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: What happens when an immortal meets a soul seeker? Find out in this bonus scene as Ever Bloom and Daire Santos cross paths! From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Immortals, Alyson Noël, comes Fated—a breathtaking novel brimming with magic, mystery, and an intoxicating love story that will steal your heart away. Meet The Soul Seekers. Experience the enchantment of Fated and the new The Soul Seekers series with this special release featuring: the bonus scene, a note from Alyson Noël and selections from Fated.

My Review: I was so excited when I found this! How awesome is it when there’s a crossover in books?! Awesome. Or so I thought. I was dissapointed in this book. I knew it was like, a prequal for the Soul Seekers Series, but this ‘meeting’ between Ever and Daire was boring and brief. I thought it was going to be epic and I was dissapointed. Sure getting to see Ever and Damen one more time was cool, but this wasn’t a story. It wasn’t even a short story. They passed in the halls and had a quick chat as strangers. It’s not what I expected. I don’t say this very often, but I kind of regret downloading it. Though it’s small, it wasn’t worth my time. I could’ve been reading something exciting, and instead I was reading this. That’s all I have to say, except to answer this question. What happens when an Immortal meets a Sour Seeker? Absolutely nothing.

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My Review of: Branded (Fall of Angels #1) by Keary Taylor

Branded by Keary Taylor
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: Jessica’s had the nightmares for as long as she can remember. Nightmares of being judged for people who have died, of being branded by the angels. Her friends and family think she’s a crazy because of it all. Yet she carries the mark of the condemned, seared into the back of her neck, and hides it and herself away from the world.
But when two men she can’t ignore enter her life everything changes, including the nightmares. The two of them couldn’t be more different. She will do anything to be with one of them. Even tell him the truth about angels, why she never sleeps, and the scar on the back of her neck. But one of the two has set events into motion what will pull her toward her own judgment and turn her into the object of her greatest fear.

My Review: This is an amazing book, and I’m glad I downloaded it. I thought it was going to be just like all the other angel vs demons thing, but it wasn’t. it was angels vs angels and also vs humans. Branded is unique to the other stories I’ve read, because she’s different. Every night, while she’s sleeping, she’s pulled up into a trial to be sentenced for someone else. She’s branded, and then pulled back down. She wakes up screaming. This is why she hasn’t let anyone in her life for four years, this is why she disconnected from everyone else, this is why she doesn’t sleep at night. And then everything changes when she meets Alex, and Cole. Alex is a sweet boy who can’t seem to get away from her, and Cole is a cold, hard type of person that her new friend Emily, who also was branded by the angels’ trials, thinks looks familiar. Little do they know that something awful is going to happen. I really liked this book, it was amazing and I couldn’t stop reading it. It has a storyline that I haven’t read anywhere else before, which is always good. The characters were fully formed and rounded, making them easy to get attached to. Especially when they’re their own person. It feels like they could’ve been my friends. I need to read the next book. I was hoping there was another book the whole time I was reading this, and then bam! two more. Day made. I love when that happens. This book was exciting from the moment I started reading it until the end. And I’m sure the next books will also be awesome, once I get my hands on them. I definitely recommend it, and think that more people should check it out! I’ll put a link to the Amazon.ca version, where I got mine. (Though I did get mine on one of those free days that amazon has for their kindle books every now and then.. whatever those really are..) It’s an amazing book and I’m glad I got the chance to read it. Definitely won’t regret it! (‘:

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My Review of: The Owner’s Manual for Driving Your Adolescent Brain by JoAnn Deak, Terrence Deak

The Owner’s Manual for Driving Your Adolescent Brain by JoAnn Deak
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: Think you know everything about your brain? Think again! In this exciting follow-up to Your Fantastic Elastic Brain, you’ll get the goods on glia and the news about neurons, presented in a fun and engaging format. Hang on to your hemispheres, and prepare to have your mind boggled as you learn about the workings of the brain in its first decade.

My Review: I noticed that this book doesn’t have very many reviews, and I’m kind of wondering why. Though it’s a good book for learning about your brain, I thought more people would have read it. It’s a little bit boring, and I wish I could have read it when I was younger, because it tells you things that I had to learn on my own about my brain. It should definitely be in schools for kids to read, I think it would help them a lot, even if it’s just in a class or something. It’s really interesting and has tons of fun facts that I didn’t know. There are also crazy backgrounds on every page, and cool diagrams to help explain everything. I think that maybe I was a little to old to be reading this, but it was a good quick read, nonetheless. Definitely check it out!

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My Review of: Freaking Out: Real-Life Stories about Anxiety by Polly Wells, Peter Mitchell

Freaking Out: Real-Life Stories about Anxiety by Polly Wells
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: That sweaty, gut-clenching, suffocating, racing-heart feeling… that dull, never-ending sense that something’s wrong. What is it? Anxiety, which together with its associated disorders affects millions of young North Americans today.

The 13 true stories in this collection span the anxiety spectrum, from heightened adolescent angst to full-blown disorders, exploring anxiety’s power to run amok and take over your thoughts. The triggers for the teens in this book range from the stress of getting into college, to the loss of a parent, to day-to-day social encounters. Their stories explore the different ways they each learn to unshackle themselves from the weight of overwhelming worry.

Freaking Out offers teens a vivid understanding of what anxiety feels like, positive tools to minimize its effects, and the reassurance that they can live a full and rewarding life, even if they find themselves in its grip.

My Review: Everyone faces some kind of anxiety throughout their lifetime. Some might have particularly strong fits of anxiety, while others might have milder cases. Everyone has it, and that’s what makes me feel better about my own anxiety. This book is all about anxiety, and people’s personal stories with it. They all have happy endings, and that’s what helped me a lot while reading this book. I really connected with most of the stories, especially ‘Stuck’, ‘Applause’, ‘Changing course’, ‘Nowhere to Hide’, and ‘Obsessions’. Those are the stories I connected to the most, and I also felt connected to the authors of those stories because of their own anxiety. I learned new things about anxiety while I was reading this book, and learned that some of the things I do are because of anxiety. I didn’t know that, like routine’s and list making. It happens. I also really liked the story ‘The Bathroom Chronicles’, the author had similar anxiety to mine when I was younger, though I don’t have the disease they suffer from. There’s something for everyone’s anxiety in this book, and you can learn tons of ways to deal with your own form of it. The book was a quick read, perfect to finish up while I’m waiting for my kobo and phone to charge, since I do most of my reading on those devices, the stories are good and they kept me interested with their real-life scenarios. Connecting with the authors of the stories helped me feel better about my own anxiety, like I’m not the only one anymore who feels like this. I really liked that at the end of the book, it told you where you could find help for your own anxiety. Overall, this was a great read, and I highly recommend it to other people who suffer from anxiety. Even just people who know someone who suffers from it. It helps and it makes you learn about it, and feel better about it at the same time. I definitely think more people should read this book. (‘:

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My Review of: ExtraNormal (ExtraNormal #1) by Suze Reese

ExtraNormal by Suze Reese
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: An extraordinary tale of an ExtraNormal girl.
Mira Johns is pretty much like any other teenage girl. Except that she knows how to harness electro-magnetic energy to communicate without words.
And she’s really, really far from home.
Her assignment as an emissary to Earth sounds fairly simple: blend in, observe, and stay away from the planet’s primitive males.
But after she finds one boy too irresistible for stupid rules, she realizes the real reason she’s supposed to keep her distance: mates from her world can die if separated.
Mira’s only hope is to uncover the truth to why she, the most mediocre of candidates, was actually chosen for this assignment–before the agency discovers her secret and sends her back home.
ExtraNormal has characters you’ll love, and a story you’ll never expect.

My Review: I wasn’t totally sure what this book was going to be about when I started reading it. It definitely wasn’t what I expected. I’m sure my rating for this book would be higher if the story had more alien parts to it. You would never expect that Mira is an alien unless she’s constantly talking about it, like she does, or the story tells you. They don’t look different, they don’t talk different, they don’t act different. They can do different things, but they don’t really act like I would expect aliens to act. That’s why the rating is low. I would have liked a little more integration into human society, changes, instead of just boom, she’s there, and now she can act totally normal and no one will expect a thing. It’s a good story, I just wish there was more Alien stuff in it. it just feels like another not so paranormal book to me. I don’t know. I liked it, but I feel like I could’ve liked it a lot more. Check it out and let me know what you think! 😛

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My Review of: Storm Warning (Broken Heartland #1) by E. Lee, C. Quinn, Elizabeth Lee, Caisey Quinn

Storm Warning by E. Lee
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: Sometimes you can’t see the storm coming until it’s too late…

Severe Storm Warning Tip #1:
Be alert to changing weather conditions. Look for approaching storms.

Severe Storm Warning Tip #2:
If you see approaching storms or any of the danger signs, be prepared to take shelter immediately.

Severe Storm Warning Tip #3:
They may strike quickly, with little or no warning.

Situated just outside of Oklahoma City, Calumet County is divided into two drastically different communities: Hope’s Grove and Summit Bluffs. One is the small backward town where dirt roads lead the way to field parties and railroad tracks. And the other, a sprawling suburb where paved drives lead to the landscaped lawns of the wealthy and over privileged.

For five teenagers smack in the middle of Tornado Alley, summer is heating up fast. The winds of change are blurring the invisible line that divides the rich and the rural.

One has a secret.
One has a crush.
One has been lying.
One will get caught.
And one might not make it out alive.

They’re from two different worlds…but one summer is about to change everything.

My Review: This book wasn’t what I thought it was going to be. First thing, I thought it was going to be paranormal, which I’m fine with when it wasn’t. I didn’t really read the synopsis, haha. Second thing is that I thought by the name ‘Storm Warning’ it was going to have a lot more action then in did. I was a little disappointed, not going to lie. I wasn’t really into this book as much as I thought I would be. It wasn’t exciting to me, and I couldn’t connect with the characters, really. I didn’t like the ending either. It’s missing something. I don’t know what, though, it kind of feels like the story wasn’t complete, and the scene was unfinished. I don’t know. This is just what I think. I sped through the book so I could be done with it, and so that I could move onto another book. Check it out and tell me what you think.

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My Review of: The Hangman in the Mirror by Kate Cayley

The Hangman in the Mirror by Kate Cayley
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: “A strong-willed 16-year-old girl fights for survival in 18th-century North America. “
Francoise Laurent has never had an easy life. The only surviving child of a destitute washerwoman and wayward soldier, she must rely only on herself to get by. When her parents die suddenly from the smallpox ravishing New France, Francoise sees it as a chance to escape the life she thought she was trapped in.
Seizing her newfound opportunity, Francoise takes a job as an aide to the wife of a wealthy fur trader. The poverty-ridden world she knew transforms into a strange new world full of privilege and fine things — and of never having to beg for food. But Francoise’s relationships with the other servants in Madame Pommereau’s house are tenuous, and Madame Pommereau isn’t an easy woman to work for. When Francoise is caught stealing a pair of her mistress’s beautiful gloves, she faces a future even worse than she could have imagined: thrown in jail, she is sentenced to death by hanging. Once again, Francoise is left to her own devices to survive . . . Is she cunning enough to convince the prisoner in the cell beside her to become the hangman and marry her, which, by law, is the only thing that could save her life?
Based on an actual story and filled with illuminating historical detail, “The Hangman in the Mirror” transports readers to the harsh landscape of a new land that is filled with even harsher class divisions and injustices.

My Review: I feel like that synopsis is too long for the book. And I always forget that I really don’t like old-timey books. I don’t know how to explain it. Anyways. I was originally going to buy this book a long time ago on amazon for cheap, but didn’t, so when it was on netgalley I jumped to review it for free. I don’t really know what happened there. Anyways. I started reading this book, and realizing my mistake, put off reading it. I thought it would get better along the way. It didn’t really, not in the way I hoped it would, but I actually started to like the story. Only from when she was in the prison with the boy in the cell next to her though. It happens. I thought it was cute, and I wanted to keep reading. I probably would have gone crazy in a jail cell that long, but somhow Francoise didn’t. Which is great. Overall, it wasn’t a bad book. I’m sure someone will fall in love with it. It just wasn’t totally for me.

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My Review of: The Shadow Society by Marie Rutkoski

The Shadow Society by Marie Rutkoski
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: Darcy Jones doesn’t remember anything before the day she was abandoned as a child outside a Chicago firehouse. She has never really belonged anywhere—but she couldn’t have guessed that she comes from an alternate world where the Great Chicago Fire didn’t happen and deadly creatures called Shades terrorize the human population.
Memories begin to haunt Darcy when a new boy arrives at her high school, and he makes her feel both desire and desired in a way she hadn’t thought possible. But Conn’s interest in her is confusing. It doesn’t line up with the way he first looked at her.
As if she were his enemy.
When Conn betrays Darcy, she realizes that she can’t rely on anything—not herself, not the laws of nature, and certainly not him. Darcy decides to infiltrate the Shadow Society and uncover the Shades’ latest terrorist plot. What she finds out will change her world forever . . .
In this smart, compulsively readable novel, master storyteller Marie Rutkoski has crafted an utterly original world, characters you won’t soon forget, and a tale full of intrigue and suspense.

My Review: I can’t believe this book. I’m not going to lie, I kinda thought it wouldn’t be so awesome, but as I worked my way (quickly) through the book, I realized how awesome it was to read. I got attached to Darcy and her Motley Crew of friends. It was like a patchwork quilt, they were all working together equally. I loved it. I want to read more about Darcy’s life. I want to read another story that she goes in. She’s fun, and somehow I see a little bit of me in her. I’d like to at least read another short story. It’s a fun book to read, kind of like a roller coaster, but less bumpy. It’s interesting, it’s a good read. That’s usually how it works, right?

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My review of: Cress (The Lunar Chronicles #3) by Marissa Meyer

Cress by Marissa Meyer
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: Rapunzel’s tower is a satellite. She can’t let down her hair—or her guard.
In this third book in the bestselling Lunar Chronicles series, Cinder and Captain Thorne are fugitives on the run, with Scarlet and Wolf in tow. Together, they’re plotting to overthrow Queen Levana and her army.
Their best hope lies with Cress, who has been trapped on a satellite since childhood with only her netscreens as company. All that screen time has made Cress an excellent hacker—unfortunately, she’s just received orders from Levana to track down Cinder and her handsome accomplice.
When a daring rescue goes awry, the group is separated. Cress finally has her freedom, but it comes at a high price. Meanwhile, Queen Levana will let nothing stop her marriage to Emperor Kai. Cress, Scarlet, and Cinder may not have signed up to save the world, but they may be the only ones who can.

My review: How awesome was this book. It took me a while to finish it because honestly I didn’t want to finish it, I didn’t want the story to end. It was that awesome. And then, at the end, I find out that there’s another book coming out?! I’m so excited. How awesome. Awesome. How about I say awesome a couple more times. ANYWAYS, onto the review part of this thing. Cinder and her gang are in a spaceship. They’re floating around in space. We meet a new character, named Cress, who was in the first book, but I didn’t remember that. She’s basically Rapunzel, only she’s a shell, a Lunar with no powers, and she’s an insane hacker. She’s locked up in her tower, a satalite orbiting the earth, and being forced to hack into earthen things by Sybil. Who knew she was up there? The queen definitely did. She’d been stuck there since she was seven, her only company little Cress, her own voice recorded to talk back to her on her computer. I’m thinking she was really lonely. Anyways. Scarlet is missing, Wolf is depressed, and Cinder is trying to fight the queen. Iko has a new body, there’s tons of action in this book, and I couldn’t put it down at all. The ending is surprising, but not too surprising, if you know what I mean. I’m really trying to keep the spoilers to a minimum, and it’s insanely hard, haha. Anyways. If you haven’t read this series, I highly recommend it, it’s amazing. This book is awesome, as I’ve said many times in this small review. I’m obsessed with this series, and I’m going to be depressed for a while when it comes to an end, which I really hope it doesn’t. Have fun!

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My review of: External Forces by Deborah Rix

External Forces by Deborah Rix
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: It’s 100 years since the Genetic Integrity Act was passed and America closed its borders to prevent genetic contamination. Now only the enemy, dysgenic Deviants, remain beyond the heavily guarded border. The Department of Evolution carefully guides the creation of each generation and deviations from the divine plan are not permitted.
When 16-year-old Jess begins to show signs of deviance she enlists in the Special Forces, with her best friend Jay, in a desperate bid to evade detection by the Devotees. Jess is good with data, not so good with a knife. So when the handsome and secretive Sergeant Matt Anderson selects her for his Black Ops squad, Jess is determined to figure out why.
As her deviance continues to change her, Jess is forced to decide who to trust with her deadly secret. Jess needs to know what’s really out there, in the Deviant wasteland over the border, if she has any hope of making it to her 17th birthday. Because if the enemy doesn’t kill her first, the Department of Evolution probably will.

My Review: I’m still not too sure about my feelings with this book. I liked it in some parts, but I really thought it was kind of just like all the other future dystopia books. It was a little too fast for my taste, I was reading and then I’d zone out for a second and all of the sudden It’d be a whole different thing. How did Jess hack into the army base? Why was she put in Black ops, when obviously she was made for Special forces? I mean, I get that that’s the whole point of the story, but really? It doesn’t make any sense. Does ‘God’ in this book really mean an almighty being, or is it a corporation? I was confused by that. I don’t really have many good things to say about this book. It just wasn’t for me. Too much like all the others.

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