My Review of: Mind Games (Mindjack Origins #1) by Susan Kaye Quinn

Mind Games by Susan Kaye Quinn
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: Raf, a regular mindreader, is in love with Kira, the only girl in school who can’t read minds. Raf struggles to keep his thoughts about her private, but secrets are something that only zeros like Kira can keep. As he works up the nerve to ask Kira to the mindware Games, his friends have other games in mind for him.
(Mind Games is a short story prequel to the novel Open Minds. It is the first in a planned series of shorts told from the point-of-view of characters in the Mindjack universe.)

My Review: I’m not sure how I feel about this short story. I mean, I liked Open Minds, it was good. But this book just kind of seemed.. useless. what was the point of it. Sure, we get to know Raf, but nothing we didn’t already know about him from reading the first book in the series. And this book was 18 pages long. That shouldn’t count as another book in the series.. I don’t know. Not for me. Thanks for reading this extra short to the point review for this tiny little book I didn’t like very much.

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My Review of: Will The Real Abi Saunders Please Stand Up? by Sara Hantz

Will The Real Abi Saunders Please Stand Up? by Sara Hantz
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: Abi Saunders might be a kickboxing champion, but when it comes to being the center of attention, she’d rather take a roundhouse kick to the solar plexus any day. So when her trainer convinces her to audition to be the stunt double for hot teen starlet Tilly Watson, Abi is shocked—and a little freaked out—when she gets the job.

Being a stunt double is overwhelming, but once the wig and makeup are on, Abi feels like a different person. Tilly Watson, to be exact. And when Tilly’s gorgeous boyfriend, Jon, mistakes Abi for the real star, Abi’s completely smitten. In fact, she’s so in love with her new life, it isn’t long before she doesn’t have time for her old one.

But when the cameras are turned off, will she discover running with the Hollywood A-list isn’t quite the glamorous existence she thought it was?

My Review: This is a cool book. Abi isn’t really someone you’d want to look up to though. She’s an amazing kick boxer, or so I read about, she didn’t really do much of anything in the book though, a small town girl, and now she’s going to be a stunt double for a movie star. How cool is that? Not as cool as you’d think, because of all the drama going around. Tilly’s an alcoholic pill popping teen who’s out of control. Her personality is bossy and over the top. Her friends are fake, only her friends because of her fame, and her boyfriend is a controlling asshole. Excuse me. I’m sorry he pisses me off. He’s the kind of guy who uses girls to get what he wants, and then talks smack about them when they’re not there. And I don’t like him. Abi’s friends are jealous of her stardom, and I really didn’t think they were the right fit for her.. But I guess they were. I would’ve liked to see Abi ditch them, because I had the worst feeling that they were fake. Even though they weren’t. I don’t know what happened there. I just had bad feelings about everyone in this book. Arrrrgh. I was expecting Abi to learn to stand up for herself, but she really just waited out the storm until people were nice to her.. dumb. I don’t know. I’m sure my rating would’ve been higher if those things were better, but I just can’t do it. As good as the story was, I absolutely hated Jon, Zack or whatever his name was, Tilly, Abi’s friends, and everyone else. Except Vince. He was a good guy. Abi should’ve ended up with him. Thanks for reading.

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My Review of: No Family Tree by T. Katz

No Family Tree by T Katz
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: Tessie Tremaine is mortified when her middle school English teacher, affectionately known as Mean Old Mrs. Parker, assigns a family tree project. As the daughter of parents who were both adopted, Tessie is mortified; she imagines a postage-stamp twig showing nothing but her four immediate family members. As the rest of her classmates begin to create trees filled with many family members, Tessie agonizes over the thought of exposing what her parents call their own little family island. Desperate for help, Tessie turns to her honorary grandmother, who takes her to a rose show where she learns about the art of grafting roses. Suddenly, the family tree project takes on a whole new meaning. In this poignant young adult tale, a girl struggling to find her roots soon discovers that family is much more than who she is related to by blood.

My Review: Though the formatting was bad in this book, (no chapter breaks, etc.) The story was cute. Not my favourite, but cute. It’s about a little girl, I think she might’ve been in junior high? Who is assigned a family tree project in school. But as she knows, her family is tiny! Her parents, and her brother. Not wanting to her dad’s feelings, she cries to her mom, she’d willingly fail the class. Which her mom thinks is a dumb idea. I don’t know. I just wasn’t interested in this book as much as I thought I would be. I requested it off Netgalley because I thought it would be awesome, and it wasn’t great. Cute, sure, but not the kind of things I usually read. I’m sure someone younger than me would read this and love it, but for a 17 year old, I didn’t really like it. I felt too old to be reading it, even though I got it from the young adult section. Whatever. I’m over it. It’s an alright book and you should check it out and figure out how you feel about it! Thanks for reading.

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My Review of: Natural Selection (Forces of Nature #1) by Elizabeth Sharp

Natural Selection by Elizabeth Sharp
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: Book One of the Forces of Nature Series

Average, plain-bodied Amelia Hoffman has resigned herself to a life of mediocrity, unable to escape the shadows cast by her all-too-perfect siblings. Worse, her feelings for her brother’s best friend are getting stronger.

Everything changes after the brutal murder of her close friend.

Suddenly, Amelia’s life is transformed and she is thrust into a wondrous and frightening new world of myths and legends. As she explores this new world hidden within the layers of her own, secrets are revealed. When her body miraculously changes overnight, Amelia is forced to hide in her home for her own protection. But as danger circles closer, Amelia has to figure out who is committing the ruthless homicides.

Otherwise, she could be next..

My Review: Because I finished this book like a week ago, I’m a little iffy on the details.. But here’s to hoping the synopsis jogs my memory! 😀 Anyways. Here’s we go. So, The book started out with Amelia feeling inadequate. Her siblings are better than her, they really are. She pays attention in class, she’s on time, and she’s starting to get some weird electric feelings for her brother’s best friend. And then it happens. She finally matures, gets boobs, you know. Gets old. It happens overnight. She overhears her parents talking about her, and learns some secrets she probably shouldn’t know. Her brother and sister are demons. She’s not human either, but she’s the one they’re protecting. They’re adopted, she isn’t. It’s nothing like she thought before. Who would’ve thought? There are people being murdered all around her, and she doesn’t know what to do. I wouldn’t know what to do either, if I were her. But she.. sort of figured it out. And that’s all I have to say about that story. The characters are a little weird, not totally like people I’d know in real life, but almost like some people you might know. It’s.. different. The writing isn’t the best, but It’s good enough. I probably downloaded this book because of the cover, as crazy as that sounds, but it is a nice cover. I’m pretty sure this is one of the books I got free from amazon forever ago… haha. Anyways. Check it out and see for yourself. Thanks for reading!

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My Review of: The Switch by Dawn Pendleton & Andrea Heltsley

The Switch by Dawn Pendleton
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Goodreads synopsis: Honor and Faith haven’t switched places since they were kids. When Honor begs her twin sister to go on a date with her boyfriend, Cameron, Faith reluctantly agrees. The problem is that she lets things go too far. Now Honor and Cameron have broken up and he won’t stop calling Faith, claiming he felt something more for her. The scary thing is, Faith felt it too. The problem, however, is the one rule that sisters and best friends abide by: don’t date their ex’s.
Honor has her own problems. Breaking it off with Cameron was the right thing to do, but now his best friend, Parker, won’t leave her alone. The more time they spend together, the more Honor starts to heal. Suddenly, Honor sees Parker as more than just a friend who cares – and she wants more.
Neither sister wants to complicate things further and cross those boundaries, but they can’t stop their emotions for the guys in their lives. Turns out, the switch is the one thing that has changed them forever.

My Review: I’m still trying to decide how many stars to give this book. On one hand, it was pretty cool, learning about these two twin girls. On the other hand, it was pretty much just like every other ya fiction book. Only with twins. Ugh. I’ll just put it at three stars. As much as I wanted to love this book, I just didn’t. I could never remember which twin was which, especially at the beginning, and I thought it was a little cool that they traded places, but it was dumb to think that they could trade places for a DATE. Who does that. It’s weird. It definitely shows what really happens in high schools, but it wasn’t as exciting as I thought it would be. I couldn’t really connect with the characters. And I’m sure I’m missing something in this story. What happened to Devon, or whatever his name was? Did Cam and whats her name start dating for real? What about Parker and whats her name? Ugh. I’m so confused. I don’t love it. That’s all I have to say about that. Check it out!

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My Review of: First Impression: A Shadow Maven Paranormal by Pauline Creeden

First Impression: A Shadow Maven Paranormal by Pauline Creeden
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: Chira Kelly thought she didn’t need anyone…until she met Ben.
Because of one ugly rumor, Chira lives as an outcast at her school. Which is fine with her, because she works better alone. Always has, always will. And at least she has her one and only true friend, Tasha. When Tasha insists that they join a group to visit a possibly haunted abandoned old schoolhouse, she’s wary, but joins her friend. Because of that decision, their lives are in jeopardy as a malevolent spirit targets the group. Tragedies and accidents pick them off one by one, and Chira finds herself drawn to the one person who can see the truth. But can he protect her?

My Review: I really enjoyed reading this short book. It was interesting, and I’m excited for the next book. Once I finished reading it, I saw the link for the authors website and newsletter on my kobo, and ran to my laptop to sign up for it. This was an awesome story about Chira, her friend Tasha, Ben, and Matt, finding out what keeps happening to the kids in their school. Chira isn’t really into the whole hanging out with tons of people and partying scene, and usually she just stays at home watching doctor who re-runs (like I do). Her step dad is not really someone she likes to associate herself with, and her mom works throughout most of this story. Though she talks a lot about her dad working at the school, we don’t really get to see him in this. I’m not sure if she means her step-dad or her biological dad, but either way we don’t get to know him, don’t get to see her talk to him, he’s basically non-existent in this. Which is fine, he wasn’t really important to the story. So Tasha invites Chira to come out to an abandoned school house to check it out and then party with her friends, and bam. There’s a ghost. Tasha gets hit by a car, and is in a coma for the rest of the book pretty much. Ben, the new kid, is trying to get closer to Chira, but she doesn’t really know if it’s safe or not, since she doesn’t have very many friends. That’s all I’m going to tell you about that. It’s an awesome story and I definitely didn’t expect what happened, to happen, it was crazy. This book swept me up in it’s whirlwind from the very beginning and I definitely recommend it to anyone who likes paranormal, ghosts, and mysteries mixed into that. Definitely check it out. (‘:

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My Review of: Death Has a Name (Brodie Wade #1) by Jerry Hanel

Death Has a Name by Jerry Hanel
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: There is a Truth that exists. It is active.
Alive.
It fights the bounds of reality to make itself known. It’s not my truth. It’s not anyone’s truth. It is The Truth.
There are times when select individuals can see and interact with The Truth, but Brodie Wade has been able to interact with it since he was a child. It has scarred his mind and body, but it also gives him the ability to know things that he shouldn’t know. Thus, he has taken employment as a psychic detective.
Working together with Detective Phil Dawson, Brodie must summon all of his will to go head-to-head with The Truth to solve the latest string of murders. It appears that Dominick Fredrickton — the Midnight Killer — has returned from the grave, beheading the unfortunate few that get in his way.
When The Truth confronts Brodie and tells him that he must protect the Third Key, Brodie must discover what – or who – The Third Key is.
Can Brodie stop Death from obtaining the Third Key and regaining his physical form?

My Review: This book was crazy to read. Crazy in a good way. Though I wasn’t so interested at first, it grew on me. Like, after the prologue I started getting interested in it. Brodie is a likeable character, and I even started to feel bad for him for a while. It’s an awesome murder mystery kind of thing, and I loved reading it. It kept me on my toes, always guessing who the real suspect was. I haven’t read anything like this before, and I’m glad I got the chance to read it. Do you know anyone that’s psychic? I sure don’t. But if I did, I’m sure that they’d be a lot like Brodie was. A little shy, a little out of his mind crazy, and smarter than anyone you know. He’s cute. And I’d like to know someone like him in real life. I didn’t guess that the person helping out death was who they were until it was right in front of my face, and I liked that. I’d read the next book in the series, when I find it. definitely check it out at least if you come across it. (‘:

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My Review of: Partials (Partials Sequence #1) by Dan Wells

Partials by Dan Wells
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials—engineered organic beings identical to humans—has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by RM, a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island while the Partials have mysteriously retreated. The threat of the Partials is still imminent, but, worse, no baby has been born immune to RM in more than a decade. Our time is running out.
Kira, a sixteen-year-old medic-in-training, is on the front lines of this battle, seeing RM ravage the community while mandatory pregnancy laws have pushed what’s left of humanity to the brink of civil war, and she’s not content to stand by and watch. But as she makes a desperate decision to save the last of her race, she will find that the survival of humans and Partials alike rests in her attempts to uncover the connections between them—connections that humanity has forgotten, or perhaps never even knew were there.
Dan Wells, acclaimed author of I Am Not a Serial Killer, takes readers on a pulsepounding journey into a world where the very concept of what it means to be human is in question—one where our humanity is both our greatest liability and our only hope for survival.

My Review: Wow. Just wow. This book is an amazing read. I didn’t want to put it down, and I couldn’t stop reading it. It’s exciting, the characters are awesome, and easy to connect with, even though obviously no one has been through something like this. Partials were created as super soldiers, and then they took over the world. They rioted, and released a chemical virus and pretty much killed most of the human race. Now, eleven years later, the virus is still effecting people. They can’t have children because the babies aren’t born immune. It seems there’s no hope for the human race. And then there’s Kira, a medic. She has this insane goal to cure the disease, and save humanity. Little do they know that the partials actually need their help, that since they’re created by humans, they can’t have children. They’re dieing off. And I couldn’t be more happy while reading this book. It’s insane. I think more people should read it. I really don’t know why I didn’t read it sooner, or even hear of it sooner. It’s amazing. And that’s about all I have to say. Wouldn’t want to spoil the whole book for you guys, though I could talk about it for a long time. Definitely recommend it, check it out!

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My Review of: Sun and Moon by Elizabeth Paradise

Sun and Moon by Elizabeth Paradise
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: Imagine having your world turned upside down. You realize that nothing is what it seems.
Emily and Ashe were born without magic in a land that ranks you on how powerful your talents are. Suddenly the source of that magic is destroyed. Emily and Ashe are forced to fight their way through obstacle after obstacle to find the truth about who they are, and how they can save the lives of people in not only their own world, but other dying worlds.

My Review: I’m going to be honest here. When I requested this book from netgalley, I thought it was going to be better. The synopsis on there made it sound a lot better than it was. I’m disappointed. I was expecting this epic book that wrapped itself up quickly. What I got was something I couldn’t stay interested in, and kept skimming through it. I know, harsh, but come on. It’s gotta be done. The characters weren’t really interesting. Most of them disappeared and we never read about them again. Though the storyline was a good idea, it wasn’t executed very well. There was a cheesy love triangle between Emily, Ashe, and Blaze. It was awful. She definitely picked the wrong person, in my opinion. The characters were boring to learn about. It started out as a good story in the beginning, but after the rock exploded and no one knew what happened, I lost interest. There was insta-love between Ashe and Emily that I didn’t like. The first guys that the main characters actually fought were a mix of the two things that the characters were most afraid of, and I don’t like that. I dunno. I just didn’t like this book.

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My Review of: Viola Doyle or An Unconventional Gift by Amy Lynn Spitzley

Viola Doyle or An Unconventional Gift by Amy Lynn Spitzley
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis: Riding her bicycle at a speed no proper young woman would attempt, letting her hair fly free, conversing with statues of long-dead heroines—these are all par for the course for Viola Doyle, much to her mother’s chagrin.

Keeping her newfound magical pin safe from those who would use it to unsavory ends and dealing with a handsome young historian takes quite a bit more effort.

And then, of course, there is the dragon…

To save herself and those she loves, it is up to Viola to become her own heroine, or suffer a terrible fate…

My Review: I really liked this book. I got it through netgalley, and although I couldn’t send it to my phone to read, I didn’t mind reading it on the computer. Sure, it would’ve been a lot easier to read on my kindle app, but I got through it. Viola Doyle is the grand-daughter of Leonardo Doyle, a famous person. I can’t recall what he was especially famous for at the moment, but everyone knew who she was because of him. I really liked the dragon’s point of view at the beginning of each chapter, especially since dragons are one of my favourite things. It was an exciting read, though short, and I’d definitely read it again. Though I didn’t really connect with any of the characters, I liked learning about them. I liked reading about Viola and her grandmother, and everyone else. My favourite character was probably the dragon, as crazy as that sounds. She was just so interesting and though her life in the book was mostly walking and flying, she was really awesome. I think that’s all I have to say about this book, definitely check it out! (‘:

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