4 stars — This was a solid YA contemporary, dealing with grief, body image issues, new relationships, and just the basics of being a teenager and all the normal angst that inspires. I really enjoyed Maddie, and she felt very real in so many ways. It was so hard to read about the way she […]
3.5 stars — I read this in a boxed set, so didn’t have the updated 10th anniversary editions. I will admit that I found the story to read a bit jumbled, especially in the beginning. It feels like we’re thrown in, and then plot things just keep happening and happening, but we haven’t really had […]
3.5 stars — This one started off super flat for me. Honestly, if it wasn’t a book club book and I wasn’t buddy reading, I would have DNFd and moved on to something else. I don’t really read MG books, but this one definitely read more like MG than YA for me. The characterizations were […]
4 stars — This review is going to be a bit lacklustre and all over the place, but I’m leaving it as I wrote it after reading. Read it while I was sick, might have affected my enjoyment because I couldn’t read it in a short period of time. The pacing felt a little slow […]
4.5 stars — I will admit, I’m not good at reading mystery/thriller books. I find myself to be too impatient, just wanting to know the answers, and getting frustrated knowing that I probably don’t have a chance in hell because my mind doesn’t work that way. And while I had a million suspicions, I can say […]
DNF @ end of Chapter 1 — Wow. I mean, I had a feeling this might not work for me because I have very mixed reactions to books by this author (who I think I’m officially marking as not for me). But I still expected to get farther than the end of chapter 1. It […]
4.5 stars — Okay, I will admit that I remember feeling pretty satisfied until the twist at the very end of Defiance, and thinking that Fenn and Peree didn’t need another book. But after reading The Gatherer short story (highly recommend before reading this one), and having just finished the story, I will admit that […]
4.5 stars — Well wasn’t that all that and a bag of chips! This is technically my 3rd time reading this book, though it has changed over that time. I think this final copy is just about perfect: it has humour, action, suspense, mystery, great friendships, and a splash of romance. Tessana is everything I […]
ORIGINAL REVIEW: 4.5 stars — and maybe part of the reason I rate it so highly is that I wasn’t sure if I would like this book. I had it on my wishlist a long time ago b/c of a giveaway I entered, so by the time it went on sale and I got it […]
3 stars — Huh. I remember loving the first book, but this one felt like it was missing something. I almost DNF’d it because it just wasn’t pulling me in, but I really wanted to finish another series for my challenge, and it was only 200 pages… Honestly, the characters had some great moments/qualities, but […]