From Bad to Cursed (Bad Girls Don’t Die, #2) by Katie Alender Review

From Bad to Cursed by Katie Alender
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis:
Alexis is the last girl you’d expect to sell her soul. She already has everything she needs–an adorable boyfriend, the perfect best friend, and a little sister who’s finally recovering after being possessed by an evil spirit, then institutionalized. Alexis is thrilled when her sister joins a club; new friends are just what Kasey needs. It’s strange, though, to see how fast the girls in The Sunshine Club go from dorky and antisocial to gorgeous and popular.

My Review:
When I started this book, I couldn’t remember the first one very well, I read it a long time ago. So because I couldn’t remember the characters and the world very well, it took me a while to get into this book. About half way through, however, I realized I couldn’t put it down and really started to like it. It’s such an interesting topic. At first I thought it was about ghosts, then I thought demons? Who knows really what it was but either way it was a good read. The characters are interesting and even though I couldn’t remember what they looked like, I liked them. The cult aspect of the book was really cool too, you don’t read too many books like that. I liked that the most out of the entire thing. I read it pretty quickly, at first just to get it over with but then it was because I wanted to know more, I couldn’t wait to see what happened next. I also think the cover is pretty cool. It’s not the most eye catching one out there, but it suits the story. You should check out this series if you haven’t already!
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The Girl In Between (The Girl in Between #1) by Laekan Zea Kemp Review

The Girl In Between by Laekan Zea Kemp
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis:
Bryn Reyes is a real life sleeping beauty. Afflicted with Klein-Levin Syndrome, she suffers episodes of prolonged sleep that steal weeks, and sometimes even months, from her life. But unlike most KLS patients, she doesn’t spend each episode in a catatonic state or wake up with no recollection of the time she’s missed. Instead, Bryn spends half her life in an alternate reality made up of her memories. For Bryn, the past is a place, until one day a boy she’s never met before washes up on the illusory beach of her dreams with no memory of who he is.
But the appearance of this strange boy isn’t the only thing that’s changed. Bryn’s symptoms are worsening, her body weakening as she’s plagued by hallucinations even while awake. Her only hope of finding a cure is to undergo experimental treatment created by a German specialist. But when Dr. Banz reveals that he knows more about her strange symptoms than he originally let on, Bryn learns that the boy in her head might actually be the key to understanding what’s happening to her, and worse, that if she doesn’t find out his identity before it’s too late, they both may not survive.

My Review:
I wasn’t really sure what I was getting myself into when I started this book. But I’m so glad I read it. It’s such a good story, I didn’t want to put it down for a second. It’s unlike anything else I’ve read lately, and I just want to read more. I’ll definitely be checking out the second book in the series.
Bryn has a rare disease called Klein-Levin Syndrome, that makes her sleep for long amounts of time when she gets stressed out. This wreaks havoc on her personal life, and her family life. She can’t drive herself anywhere, and she probably won’t be able to live on her own unless she’s able to get it under control. However, her particular case has something different from the others, she goes into a dream state when she’s unconscious. It’s a world made completely of her memories, or so it has been for the last five years. A boy has washed up on the shore of her memory world and she saves him from drowning. Thus begins the longest six months of her life.
I loved everything about this book and I’m so glad I got around to reading it. I downloaded it for free from amazon, and I don’t regret it for a second. I’m so glad that there are more books in the series so that I can continue the story, the characters are lifelike and I can picture the world perfectly while I’m reading it. I definitely recommend you check it out if you haven’t already!
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Sweet (Sweet #1) by Emmy Laybourne Review

Sweet by Emmy Laybourne
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis:
PEOPLE WOULD KILL TO BE THIN.
Solu’s luxurious celebrity-filled Cruise to Lose is billed as “the best cruise since the Titanic,” and if the new diet sweetener works as promised – dropping five percent of a person’s body weight in just days – it really could be the answer to the world’s obesity problem. But Laurel is starting to regret accepting her friend Viv’s invitation. She’s already completely embarrassed herself in front of celebrity host Tom Forelli (otherwise known as the hottest guy ever!) and she’s too sick to even try the sweetener. And that’s before Viv and all the other passengers start acting really strange.
BUT WILL THEY DIE FOR IT, TOO?
Tom Forelli knows that he should be grateful for this job and the chance to shed his childhood “Baby-Tom-Tom” image. His publicists have even set up a “romance” with a sexy reality-TV star. But as things on the ship start to get a bit wild, he finds himself drawn to a different girl. And when his celebrity hosting gig turns into an expose on the shocking side effects of Solu, it’s Laurel that he’s determined to save.
Emmy Laybourne, author of the Monument 14 trilogy, takes readers on a dream vacation that goes first comically, then tragically, then horrifyingly wrong.

My Review:
This was such a good book. I got it from chapters because I liked the cover, the description sounded interesting, and it was only six dollars. But I didn’t have any idea what I was getting myself into. I couldn’t put this book down once I started reading it and I absolutely loved it.
The point of view rotates between Bryn, a seventeen year old average girl, and Tom, a nineteen year old celebrity actor. They’re on a cruise ship with hundreds of other people, to try a new product called Solu before it’s released to the public. Thus begins the longest week of their life. This book was different than any other book I’ve read lately, and I’m so glad I picked it up. Another thing I liked is that in the margins of the book, it says what day the story is on. The characters are realistic and act their age, and the story is action packed and exciting. I definitely recommend you check it out, you wont regret it. I really don’t have any bad things to say about it.
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Bloodlines (Bloodlines #1) by Lindsay Anne Kendal Review

Bloodlines by Lindsay Anne Kendal
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis:
Keira Jameson used to lead a normal life, she just had a gift, passed down through the generations of her family. Now, after hearing voices, having strange dreams of others calling out to her, and her grandfather’s last words haunting her, she sets out to find other families like hers. Along with her best friend Lily, the only person outside her family to know about her gift, Keira begins a hunt for her ancestors. A chance meeting with a young man, Lucian Turner, sets them on the right track, but their discoveries change the way Keira will see herself for ever more. Fear, superstition and heritage are shaping Keira’s future and she must face her enemies, even if this could mean losing her life. She cannot escape her destiny.
Part Buffy-style horror, part tender romance, Bloodlines will have fans of the genre on tenterhooks waiting for the next instalment of this gripping and hell-raising tale.

My Review:
I was really excited to read this book, it had been on my to-read list forever, but I kept putting it off. The description made it sound like it was something I’d love, but this book is not my new favourite.
Keira is a young adult searching for anything that can help her figure out her powers and her family’s past. Although I can’t tell you how old she is, I can tell you she can get into a bar no problem. Her friend Lily, who has no powers of her own, shadows her constantly, but not in a bad way. The characters were a little awkward at first, and the story kept moving too quickly and losing me. I feel like the wrong things were described, an example being when Keira mowed down four people with her powers in less than a paragraph, but Lucians house was described for almost half a page, and the most of the characters were just talking at each other, dumping information onto one another. I constantly felt like I was missing a big part of the book when I started it, like it started in the middle.
The story progresses and my feelings towards it don’t change, and they didn’t change, until about three quarters of the way into the book, when although I wanted to know more, I also wanted the story to be over. Why does having powers mean you can do literally anything you want? I feel like I was being told things, rather than being showed them. Keira can cast spells on people and places without a second thought, but when asked to protect the house, she’s appalled. The characters, even though I know they have powers and that’s not realistic, don’t seem like they could be real. They act strange and throw tantrums and just do whatever Keira says. People are apparently using chamber pots? Why was that even brought up? The relationships between characters confused me, like day one they met and then day two they were instantly in love and in the perfect relationship? I really tried to like this book but it just wasn’t for me.

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Tragedy Girl by Christine Hurley Deriso

Tragedy Girl by Christine Hurley Deriso
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis:
Of course Anne would be drawn to Blake. He’s good looking, he’s friendly, and they both bring sob stories to the table: her parents died in a car wreck, his girlfriend, Cara, drowned. Of course Blake would understand what she’s gone through. And of course they can help each other work through the pain. It’s like it was meant to be.
But just as Anne starts to feel she’s finally found something good in all the tragedy, she can’t ignore signs that something’s off. Her friends rarely let her be alone with Blake. Even those closest to Blake seem uneasy around him. And then there are the rumors about the death of Cara, whose body was never recovered. Rumors that suggest Blake’s pain is hiding something darker than Anne can even begin to comprehend . . .

My Review:
I loved this book. I received a copy from netgalley in exchange for an honest review, and although it took me a while to get around to reading it, I’m really glad I did. Although it starts off slow, and I suspected it would be a relaxing easy read, this was a really exciting story once you get far enough into it. I expected it to be kind of slow and boring but was pleasantly surprised when there was mystery and action involved.
Anne with an ‘e’ or E, as her friend calls her, has been through a terrible tragedy. Her parents were killed prior to the story, and she recently moved to a new place, in with her aunt and uncle who have no kids of their own. She then has to attend a new school, make new friends, and deal with her grief all at once. She meets a boy she likes and the story goes on. I did not expect the ending at all, and about half way through the book I realized, I can’t put this down now! I need to finish it!
All in all I read the full story in about 5 hours. It’s a really good read, and I recommend you check it out. The cover is intriguing and I just love the characters, they really seem like they could be real people, and they act their age. I put off reading it for so long because it didn’t seem like anything new at the beginning, but once you get into it you realize how good it really is.

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Time Trap (Red Moon, #1) by Micah Caida Review

Time Trap by Micah Caida
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis:
Micah Caida’s stunning debut young adult book TIME TRAP is like nothing before it, according to early readers.
Time Trap, book one in the Red Moon series
Her memory is blank.
Her future’s in question.
Her power is dangerous.
Waking up in an unknown world, Rayen learns only that she’s seventeen and is hunted by a sentient beast. Terrified that she may never learn who she really is or find her way back to her home, she’s captured in a land that is at times familiar even if the people and the structures seem alien. When local law enforcement delivers her to a private school, she’s labeled as a Native American runaway, and Rayen discovers a secret with deadly repercussions. Forced into an unlikely alliance with a computer savvy street punk and a gifted oddball girl to save their world – and the future – Rayen finds the key to an identity that no person would want.

My Review:
Honestly I didn’t like this book, up until about 30% of the way through. I thought it was confusing, the characters didn’t have much life, and I didn’t know what to expect for the remaining part of the book. Then something changed. I was so sucked into the story that I didn’t realize how much of the book I had actually read. The characters became more interesting, and the story started taking turns I didn’t expect. I wasn’t bored anymore, I couldn’t put it down!
Rayen wakes up in a desert, with amnesia. A ghost tells her that she’s seventeen, her name is Rayen, and that she’s allergic to peanuts. She doesn’t understand the world around her, and she really has a hard time. She gets arrested and taken to a boarding school, and some of the kids in the school are really rude to her, they think she’s a foster child turned criminal, and they’re determined to figure her out. The only problem is, what could they find out? She doesn’t know anything about herself.
The story itself is a little slow at first, but if you give it a chance, I’m sure you’ll feel the same as I do. This is an action packed exciting novel in what I imagine must look like a dr. seuss story type world of tomorrow. Any question I had reading this, were pretty much answered at the end. The characters although a little annoying at first are great once you get to know them a little better. It’s unlike anything I’ve read before, and that’s a good thing. I don’t want to spoil any part of the story for anyone so I’ll end it at that. Definitely check it out! I got it for free on amazon.

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The Last Orphans by N.W. Harris Review

The Last Orphans by N.W. Harris
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Goodreads Synopsis:
One horrifying day will change the life of sixteen-year-old Shane Tucker and every other kid in the world.
In a span of mere hours, the entire adult population is decimated, leaving their children behind to fend for themselves and deal with the horrific aftermath of the freak occurrence. As one of the newly made elders in his small town, Shane finds himself taking on the role of caretaker for a large group of juvenile survivors. One who just happens to be Kelly Douglas—an out-of-his-league classmate—who, on any other day, would have never given Shane a second glance.
Together, they begin their quest to find out why all of the adults were slaughtered. What they find is even more horrifying than anything they could have expected—the annihilation of the adults was only the beginning. Shane and his friends are not the unlucky survivors left to inherit this new, messed-up planet. No, they are its next victims. There is an unknown power out there, and it won’t stop until every person in the world is dead.
A spine-tingling adventure that will have you gasping for breath all the way until the last page, The Last Orphans is the first book in an all-new apocalyptic series.

My Review:
The Last orphans isn’t what I expected, from looking at the cover. Quite frankly, up until I’d read a third of the book, I wasn’t sure I was going to like it. Then something changed, I really got interested in what was going to happen next, and I wanted to know more about how the characters were going to react. All in all, this book took me about 4 hours to read cover to cover, which is 277 pages, despite sitting in my currently reading shelf for the better part of a year. I received this book from Amazon for free.
Shane is a sixteen year old boy, headed home from his granny’s funeral one afternoon. His dad, drunk and driving, decides to pick yet another fight with him, and obviously that doesn’t turn out very well. He’s left stranded in the middle of nowhere by himself, so he decides to head to his granny’s house. That’s when things start getting weird. Swarms of bees are just flying around, lookin for something to attack. Cows in the field are charging around aimlessly. Suddenly, he’s thrown into an apocalypse. Shane bands together with whoever he can find, to figure out what their next step is.
This book is a fast paced, gory action packed story and the characters are pretty lifelike, although traumatized, they seem to act their age, which is always nice. It’s an easy read, and although I wasn’t so sure about it at the beginning, I was sucked into the story at almost the half way mark. So if you try it, give it a chance before you decide how you feel. I had a lot of questions circulating my head while I was reading this book, but by the end of the book they were answered. I also really like the cover, I think that’s what really stood out for me about this book in the first place.
Overall, It’s a good story. I will most likely try to track down the second book in the series, just to see what happens next. If you haven’t read it yet, you might want to check it out if you like apocalyptic stories with a little bit of gore!

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