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pages: 331
heard/read: 3/29-30/2019
rating: good, quick read
book: 30 in 2019
When you can see emotions in color, motives become black and white. Even murder.
High school senior Ella Cleary has always been able to read people. And for good reason: she has a rare medical condition called synesthesia that scrambles the senses, allowing Ella to see colors that reveal people’s true emotions. Everyone but Alec’s.
Alec is a mystery to Ella, a handsome, enigmatic young journalist who makes her feel normal for the first time in her life … until he reveals the real reason he sought her out. He wants to learn the truth behind her parents’ deaths. And Ella’s world turns upside down when Alec tells her their deaths were not an accident.
After learning her entire life is based on a lie, Ella doesn’t know who she can trust or even who she truly is. With family secrets slowly revealed and the evidence mixing fact and fiction, the only way for Ella to learn the truth about her past is to find a killer.
MY THOUGHTS
SHORT VERSION
surprised i got into it like i did. went by pretty fast. for a free library read, it wasn't bad.
LONG VERSION
another good one thanks to goodreads.
...and the only reason i got it was because the main character has synesthisia (and so does the rest of her family) and I've been interested in that subject ever since i read about it in another book a long time ago. that and i also liked the cover.
this one was good.
i didn't cheat and jump to the back so i didn't know what was going to happen.
i started listening to it at work and i got suuuuper into it that i got home and listened to it some more. but the narrator wasn't going fast enough so i gave that up and started reading it on my own. and omg!!!!
you get the "twist" right away and you're all "oh no!!! how could..." and you get mad and then it turns out you had it backwards and the twist is even better!!!
i felt kinda bad for Ella but i mean, after everything, the world is basically all hers.
it was a good quick suspense read that gives you twists everywhere. i will admit though, i skipped a few pages, maybe like a chapter or 2 because i found a more interesting part and then just read from there. all that i skipped was them (the kids) basically puzzling it together..ish. also, i think i skipped because my heart couldn't handle the suspense. but either way....i got everything.
anyway, jump over for spoilers.
"You have to give yourself space to grieve. If you don't let yourself feel all the terrible, scary, awful pieces of grief, your magic may never be yours again."
published: 2020
pages: 321
read: 7/4-5/2020
book: 53 in 2020
I cant believe I trusted him with so much of myself.
Hannah Walsh just wants a normal life. It's her senior year, so she should be focusing on classes, hanging out with her best friend, and flirting with her new girlfriend, Morgan. But it turns out surviving a murderous Witch Hunter doesn't exactly qualify as a summer vacation, and now the rest of the Hunters seem more intent on destroying her magic than ever.
When Hannah learns the Hunters have gone nationwide, armed with a serum capable of taking out entire covens at once, she's desperate to help. Now, with witches across the country losing the most important thing they have—their power—Hannah could be their best shot at finally defeating the Hunters. After all, she's one of the only witches to escape a Hunter with her magic intact.
Or so everyone believes. Because as good as she is at faking it, doing even the smallest bit of magic leaves her in agony. The only person who can bring her comfort, who can make her power flourish, is Morgan. But Morgan's magic is on the line, too, and if Hannah can't figure out how to save her—and the rest of the Witches—she'll lose everything she's ever known. And as the Hunters get dangerously close to their final target, will all the Witches in Salem be enough to stop an enemy determined to destroy magic for good?
You've earned the right to destroy the thing that has taken so much from you.
THOUGHTS
I'm split and honestly dont know which way to go.
On the one hand, it was a good read. I was glad to have more of Hannah's story. I'm glad it wrapped up after 2 books (minus the novella). But tbh, couldn't the author just slap on idk 100 and some shit pages to book 1 and told it all in one go?
my reasoning is that...at the end of it all, they way it was resolved....like they really didnt think about it? Doing the EXACT same thing? The old ass coven with all these witches and it took a 17 year old to defeat the bad people using an idea that was already our there?
and tbh, I get it I get that Hannah is still grieving everything that happened (time in this book seems like it's rather fast rather than drawn out to fit everything) but there were so many instances where her magic couldve helped her but instead she didnt access it because she kept repressing it. She knew what she had to do but she was still in denial.
the way she loses her shit when it comes to Morgan but then everyone else is like oh, okay. It isnt till shit hits the fan (one of the many times) that she finally access it but then continues to push it down.
(I get it. As a human being with feelings and emotions its hard to ask someone to do something when they feel like it's the last thing they can do buuuut I'm going with this is a story and well....wtf!)
There are several scenes where you can clearly see where its going and surprisingly I was right but then the twister was that there was some type of "blessing" behind it that I didnt see or think of so it pays off.
In the end, everything works out the way its supposed to but I read a quote from the first book and that quote alone evoked much more emotion from me than the entirety of this book so, yes.
It was a good read but I was frustrated a lot.
Now I'm off to read the novella and see wtf happened in New York.
jump over for spoilers!
released: 2015
isbn: 978-0-553-49664-2 // 306 pages
read from: 10/25-28/2015
guys!!!
this is why i love the interwebs.
i found this book through a link of a link of a link and im so bummed because i cant remember exactly from where to give it proper credit. but anyways,.....look at the cover!!!!
isnt it beautiful!?
i love how its plain and white and then BOOM! color!
love it. shout out to the illustrators. and to her husband for the drawings inside the book.
....ill do this both ways, actually, let me give you the B&N description and then ill do my spoil because i just cant not do it.
Barnes & Noble:
"My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.
But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black—black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly.
Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster."
But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He's tall, lean and wearing all black—black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly.
Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster."
before i jump in and spoil it all, yes, this is a YA book and its very much like The Fault in Our Stars and Eleanor & Park. but be happy knowing that no one dies. i still loved this book but ill keep that for spoilers.
ready?
okay....
****SPOILERS****
maddy lives at home pretty much caged in because she has SCID. a rare form of basically being allergic to EVERYTHING.
so of course she lives at home where she's never seen the outside world. never seen, smelled, or touched the outside world since she was idk 4 months old or something.
its just her, her mother and Carla her nurse.
that is until one day.
the one day when Olly moves in next door and her life changes.
it starts out of curiosity. Olly and his sister deliver a bundt cake to her but because of her allergies her mother declines the cake.
they head home and their father goes crazy. i dont want to make it too long so ill just say it here but his father is a raging violent alcoholic.
curiosity gets the best of Maddy and they become quick online friends.
she some how convinces Carla to allow her to see Olly in person.
it quickly blossoms in to more but then its cut short once Maddy's mother finds out that Carla has been letting Olly in. how she found out, well, i wont spoil all of it!
fast forward, Carla gets fired. and while she gets fired she tells Maddy to remember to live life.
which then leads to her leaving to Hawaii with Olly. (meanwhile, i have to plan in advance just to go eat at chipotle and get the guac without worrying about the extra $$$. le sigh. lol jk jk) everything goes well until the one night that it doesn't.
she goes back home and she's under for a while but of course when she comes around, shes back to the grounded lifestyle.
she is not allowed to have Olly visit and she actually tells him that its best that they no longer keep in touch.
months and months go by when she receives an email aaaaaand (if you really dont want to know the spoiler part please stop here!!!!! you have been warned!)
she NEVER had SCID!!!
never!!!
her freaking mother had her locked up all these years because shes (sorta) crazy!
when she was young, her brother and father were killed in an accident. leading up to it and maybe after (i forgot!) she kept getting repeatedly sick. ear infection, flu, diarrhea, colds, everything.
her mom was paranoid so she decided on her own that her daughter had SCID and locked her up. all because she didn't want to lose her daughter.
WHAT THE WHAT!?!?!??!?!?!
what a freaking crazy lady!!!
can you imagine if your own mother did that to you!?
of course she confronts her mom but she denies it.
she, at the beginning of reading the email, believes its a mistake because you know, how could her own mother do that to her?
but of course, when she asks Carla, she states that she kind of agrees that her mother might be off her rocker.
she goes to the doctors and he of course concludes that she in fact does NOT have SCID which i mean, woah!
the reason she had the episode in Hawaii was because since she wasn't allowed to grow up with the elements, her body went in to shock. other than the fact that her mom basically ruined her life, she was a healthy human.
in the end, she ends up in New York with Olly. oh, did i forget to mention that he moved away?
it was a good ending BUT im wondering where the hell did she end up at in New York?
who did she end up living with? what does she end up doing? how does she survive? cause New York = <3 but i mean its dirty-ish! if your immune system is down is that really where you want to go?
****SPOILERS OVER****
okay, so. did you read all that!? if you didn't, its a-okay. give the book a chance. fall in like with it.
if you did read the spoilers, as always, i left a lot out. i spoiled the main points but i didnt spoil what leads up to it and i truly believe those are just as good as the "main" event.
i really, really, REALLY liked this book and this author. i cant wait to see what else she publishes.
if you give it a read (or already have), let me know what you think!
thanks for reading!
have a great week.
(ps. im not sure why the end is placed in the middle...blogger is acting up but what can ya do?)
published: 2016
pages: 344
isbn: 978-0-553-4968-0
read from: 11/13-17/2016
rating: 1) didn't care for it 2) liked it 3) LOVED IT💞💕❤
"people say these things to make sense of the world.
...no one want to believe that life is random."
-Natasha (pg 34)
SYNOPSIS (amazon)
Natasha: I’m a girl who believes in science and facts. Not fate. Not destiny. Or dreams that will never come true. I’m definitely not the kind of girl who meets a cute boy on a crowded New York City street and falls in love with him. Not when my family is twelve hours away from being deported to Jamaica. Falling in love with him won’t be my story.
Daniel: I’ve always been the good son, the good student, living up to my parents’ high expectations. Never the poet. Or the dreamer. But when I see her, I forget about all that. Something about Natasha makes me think that fate has something much more extraordinary in store—for both of us.
The Universe: Every moment in our lives has brought us to this single moment. A million futures lie before us. Which one will come true?
MY THOUGHTS
just thoughts on the book itself
i finished this book at the nail salon and i was crying and everything and I'm not even ashamed.
there's something about Nicola that makes me fall in love with her all around.
yes, this is only her second book BUT even with this one, there is a voice there that you recognize as hers.
yes they're YA and they're about love but they are both so different while still having the same voice but they are both just so freaking good!!! (everything everything review)
maybe its her style of writing.
i feel like i haven't stumbled upon any other author so similar yet so different.
idk.
you know what I'm talking about?
(probably not!)
anyway.
this book.
i love it.
i love it with all my heart.
i loved it SO HARD!
these two could not have been any more different yet perfect for each other even if i tried.
but they are sooo meant to be!
and what happens but then how it ends!!! my little heart was sad and happy and everything in between!!!
everything that lined up to make it all happen.
the way she views life. how shes a "realist" vs his view and how he's a lover but how he manages to make her see that there's more than just what she thinks as far as the universe and the timing of it all.
ahhh! i just want everyone to read this book and fall in cheesy love for the little bit that they read it.
there's so much i want to say but i don't want to spoil it for anyone down here.
i just really loved this book.
I'm a believer in things happening for a certain reason so this book, in that sense, was perfect for me.
that and karma, 2 things she doesn't believe in. so i really liked Daniel's character.
(and i love even more that he talks just like i do. he'll start a sentence and then add more into it like i do (just like this). he talks within his talks. i love that! i do it all the time.)
i love that she names her chapters based on the character that is speaking at the moment.
and i love that if in said chapter something, or another person is mentioned, sometimes you have a follow up chapter of that thing or person previously mentioned explaining their point.
i love the minor characters here. i feel they play their own part in the book. and had they been removed i don't think the connections could have easily been made.
there's so many things i want to say about this book but i don't know how to get them out. i feel like I'm not making it justice.
but then i remember that I'm not here to review the book just talk about how much i freaking love it.
i loved it so much that i cant even leave you with quotes because i basically tabbed the entire book. (thanks b for my flags!) and to try and do that is to basically type up the whole book for you.
...buuut let me try.
"a word can start off meaning one thing and end up meaning another." ....."words, Natasha thinks, should behave more like units of measure. a meter is a meter is a meter. words shouldn't be allowed to change meanings."
pg 25
"if the person who's meant to love you forever can suddenly stop, then whats there to believe in?"
-the conductor pg 47
"i don't believe in love."
- Natasha
"its not a religion.... it exist whether you believe in it or not."
- Daniel pg 76
"if people who were actually born here had to prove they were worthy enough to live in America, this would be a much less populated country."
- Natasha pg 112 (and so freaking true. specially after this shitty ass election.)
"love always changes everything."
- Jeremy pg 298
there's about a hundred and thirty five million other things that i tabbed that i wont post on here buuut this book gave me all of the loves.
spoilers after the jump!!!
thanks for reading.
published: 2020
pages: 356
read/heard:10/1-5/2020
book: 73 in 2020
read/heard:10/1-5/2020
book: 73 in 2020
A young heroine in Depression-era Maine is navigating the rocky terrain of her new life on Echo Mountain.
After the financial crash, Ellie and her family have lost nearly everything--including their home in town. They have started over, carving out a new life in the unforgiving terrain of Echo Mountain. Though her sister Esther, especially, resents everything about the mountain, Ellie has found more freedom, a new strength, and a love of the natural world that now surrounds them. But there is little joy, even for Ellie, as they all struggle with the sorrow and aftermath of an accident that left her father in a coma. An accident for which Ellie has accepted the unearned weight of blame.
Urgent for a cure to bring her father back, Ellie is determined to try anything. Following her heart, and the lead of a scruffy mutt, Ellie will make her way to the top of the mountain, in search of the healing secrets of a woman known only as "the hag." But the mountain still has many untold stories left to reveal to Ellie, as she finds her way forward among a complex constellation of strong women spanning generations.
After the financial crash, Ellie and her family have lost nearly everything--including their home in town. They have started over, carving out a new life in the unforgiving terrain of Echo Mountain. Though her sister Esther, especially, resents everything about the mountain, Ellie has found more freedom, a new strength, and a love of the natural world that now surrounds them. But there is little joy, even for Ellie, as they all struggle with the sorrow and aftermath of an accident that left her father in a coma. An accident for which Ellie has accepted the unearned weight of blame.
Urgent for a cure to bring her father back, Ellie is determined to try anything. Following her heart, and the lead of a scruffy mutt, Ellie will make her way to the top of the mountain, in search of the healing secrets of a woman known only as "the hag." But the mountain still has many untold stories left to reveal to Ellie, as she finds her way forward among a complex constellation of strong women spanning generations.
THOUGHTS
last night as i was falling asleep, i had written the most perfect post in my head and i was like WRITE IT DOWN BEFORE YOU FORGET and then of course i didn't do it and i then forgot.
U G H !!!!!
anyway, i found this book through an IG ad and i jumped on it because i liked the cover and the premise was good and if i've learned anything its that usually kids books pack a punch like no other so i was all up for it.
and this book does pack a punch.
i genuinely felt for Ellie because she was carrying so much on her and i couldn't believe how her mother was acting with her just because she adapted instead of mourning over what they had lost.
i get it. shit changed. but...well, if Ellie wasnt handy, not that you guys weren't surviving...but would you have survived in the long run had the dad not survived? look, all im saying is....why be mad at the kid who knows how to survive in the wilderness!? she doesn't know it all but she's far ahead....why would you shun her? and i get it, as a parent who lost everything you have EVERY right to be disappointed at the path that life put you in...but why would you be so harsh on your kid?
that made me sad. BUT i love that Ellie did not let that stand in her way.
"nothing about life on Echo Mountain was harder for me than that rift: the idea that i should be sorry for being different. And i made up my mind early on that i might miss my mother, miss my sister, and be lonely, but i would not be sorry for what sent me apart."
and then Esther, her sister...what a bitch....i can see how mom was on her side because she was grieving the loss right along her but i felt like it was sooo mean!😢 like she straight up picked sides instead of being a mother to both. (im not a mother so i dont know what it would even feel like so just know that i know that these are valid feelings...but so are mine and that whole situation bummed me out.)
and the story progresses...
i feel like there's a lot happening here but also, not a lot happening here? if that makes sense?
the story is more so about Eliie and her going through her feels and then trying to bring her dad back and it was good but i feel like not a lot happens.
and then they way her dad comes back...ive never been in a coma, dont know anyone whose been in one but i wasnt too crazy about that ending. kinda like "well, im 300 pages deep, lets close this bitch out real quick now".
if this book is meant to be all about Ell's feels: fuck yea!
but if it was sposed to be about like also bringing her dad back: eh.
idk.
its kinda like being on a roller coaster and expecting a crazy ass dip only to realize that its already over before you realized that it had already started.
not a bad read. im glad i read it because there were some gems in there but over all, meh.
a good chunck of the book was about El's feels. and then it was about tryina wake up dad and then it was about the figurines and finding out where they came from and then it was about Cate and then it was...over.
i have questions.
i feel like some scenes should have just been left out....idk.
idk.
jump ova' for spoilah's
published: 2016
pages: 425 (ebook)
isbn#: 1530771625 (at least that's what it says on amazon)
read from: 5/17-18/2016
stars: 1) hate it 2) liked it 3) LOVED IT
As an Olympic rookie, Andie Foster has spent far more time in her cleats than between the sheets. For 21 years, her Friday nights have consisted of blocking shots rather than taking them. But now that she's landed in Rio, she's ready to see for herself if the rumors about the Olympic Village are true:
- The athletes are all sex-crazed maniacs...
- The committee passes out condoms like candy...
- The games continue long after the medals have been handed out...
In other words: off limits.
It doesn't matter that he has abs that could bring peace to the Middle East and a smile that makes even the Queen blush; Andie fully intends on keeping her focus on the soccer field. But the Village is small. Suffocating. Everywhere Andie goes, Freddie happens to be there--shirtless, wet from the pool, and determined to show her a whole new meaning of the phrase "international affairs".
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SPOILERS
basically (have you noticed i start everything with basically!? sorry guys!), Andie is in Rio to compete in the Olympics. She catches a glimpse of Freddie (hate that fucking name) and shes all woah. only to run into him later on at a party and start from there.
Fred (cause i hate Freddie) is in town as well to compete in swimming.
they meet at a party he basically falls in love and then they go all over Rio messing around. sorta.
all is well and great til she finds out hes actually betrothed to some chick in London names Caroline. she was actually supposed to marry his brother Henry and Henry was supposed to take over all the family duties. then, Henry passed away and it fell on Fred.
he told his mom no and blew it off but was reluctantly i guess willing to go with it sorta low key (meaning he was putting it off as long as possible by not giving a crap). ...til he met Andie.
anyways, they meet up, they say yes, they say no, he finally mans up about telling Caroline no and then shit hits the fan.
Caroline of course agrees to end their "engagement" since they are not in love but she suggests that they keep on pretending to be together just to help him out while he's about to finish his stunt in the Olympics.
but you all know that a woman scorned isn't a woman to trust.
she goes bat shit crazy threatening Andie that if she doesn't back up she will ruin her career...and then of course she does. tries.
she releases a very "graphic" picture of them at the club and of course Andie becomes the "media whore."
("Gene, what did i tell you about finger quotes?" -Bob "Not to "use" them." -Gene.
a) let that show you that my bobs burgers game is hella strong and EVERYTHING in my life, i can relate to a BB moment and that b) i just said all that cause i noticed I'm " " basically everything in this post. i need a life!)
anyyyways, so there. she outed them. you'd think "oh well, they can now be together of course."
eeeer, wrong (you know that noise. i have no idea how you type it out.)
Andie is a slut bag basically but Caroline is the woman of the year and everyone is on her side, so she "forgives" Fred and decides the wedding is still on. he says nah and shes all like "when will you get it through your head that the more you fuck with me, the more i fuck with Andie?" and that's when she drops another bomb on him.
SHE'S PREGNANT!!!!!!
or well, as we all know in these kind of stories, shes really not but how can you prove it when you have a doctors note!?
long story short, she lied about being pregnant, she gets outed (the way she was caught was sooo funny and never in a million years work in real life). its in the media that she was never pregnant and black mailing Fred and Andie all cause she wanted to be Duchess of whatever dafuq. #golddigger
in the end of course Andie and Fred end up together. while their personal love lives took a shit most of the book, their professional life was great for them individually.
and it all worked out in the end. but seriously Andie? all at 21!!?
the end.
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MY RAMBLINGS
(just thoughts on the book itself)
"....never let someone make you ashamed of what you LOVE to read."
-Rae Carson
(this has nothing to do with the book. its just that after reading the xxx stuff that it had and the cover, i honestly feel like, eeeesh. I'm glad i don't have the physical book because that cover is all sorts of cheesy. and its not that it was even that sexually graphic but i usually tend to get all shy about admitting that sometimes i read that stuff. not cause i seek it, just cause its there.)
this is everything 50 shades should have been without the promise of what 50 shades was supposed to be. but this wasn't as graphic so its more like 23 shades or something.
and i guess, i don't know, the main point of 50 shades wasn't a love story (although we all know how that turned out.) it was more of a grown up read.....and this one was a love story with grown up themes but not so, blah. (and I'm talking about the movie not the books. basically, just ignore me.)
anyways, i bought this book because it was on sale for $.99 during the presale. i never say no to $.99 books. specially if i have read something of theirs before.
i read it after i gave up on both the luckiest girl alive AND all the lights we cannot see.
(i just couldn't get in to them at all.)
overall, i liked the book because it did everything that a book of its essence was supposed to do.
i was happy, i laughed, i cried, i was mad, i raged, i wanted to murder a character (several) for being soooo stupid and basically, it had me feeling all of the emotions ever!
for $.99 it wasn't bad and heck for the $2.99 it currently is, it still is a fun, quick read.
this book does have several sexual subjects so i don't recommend this for reading such as book clubs where people can be shy about the subject.
and definitely not with like your mom and stuff unless you guys are cool like that and all.
this is a standalone and I'm freaking glad its not part of a series cause i somehow ALWAYS get those! but there is one other book before this and after that both follow something about the Olympics and Rio. if im being honest, i dont see myself reading those just cause...iduno. i might later on down the line but its not something that im going out of my way to read right now.
but this book, if ya want to feel all of the emotions out there, i recommend.
love, sex, drama! blaaah!
if you pick up the book, let me know what you think!
thanks for reading.
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