Review: Paradise Lost

Book: Paradise Lost
Author: Kate Brian
Series number: 9
Rating: 5 out of 5
Cover Rating: 4.5 out of 5
This is one of my favorite covers in this series! I love the dresses and the background. However, the girl in the green looks so terribly snotty, doesn't she?

Reed now knows who the culprit of Cheyenne's murder was and Noelle has befriended her again. Now, she is off to a carefree vacation with Noelle and a few other Billing's girls to the Caribbean - or...maybe not so carefree. Trouble always seems to find Reed and someone seems to be stalking her again, unless the handlebars on the just checked over jet ski locking up was a coincidence, I think not! Will Reed's stalker accomplish her mission? Or will Reed end up safe like usual?

"Paradise Lost" was terrific! I loved reading this book! Just when you think that Reeds life is looking up, something new happens to change that all around. This book is very entertaining, and even has a bit of romance in it as Reed starts falling for Uptom and he seems to be falling for her. The end of "Paradise Lost" left me really really really wanting to read the next book in the series, and to bad that one dosen't come out for another few months! Very disapointing! Kate Brian's "Private" series are so exciting and this one was no exception!

Review: "Flirting With Boys"

Books: Flirting With Boys
Author: Hailey Abbot
Pages: 240
Rating: 4 out of 5
Cover Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Celeste Tippan is bummed that her boyfriend Travis isn't going to be around while she's stuck working at her family owned resort. Soon that changes though after Travis and his friends get into trouble and he is stuck with a job at the resort with her! Yay for Celeste! However, Celeste starts to wonder why Travis isn't so excited. Does he not want to spend time with her? Throughout "Flirting With Boys" Celeste starts seeing the not so good side of Travis and starts to see the good in Nick, one of the resorts clients. Will Celeste be able to decide who she should be with?

"Flirting With Boys" is a cute, light, and summery read which would be perfect beach read! I really enjoyed this book. However, at times it felt that Celeste should really start seeing who Travs is and that she could do so much better, so that got a little annoying at times! Overall, "Flirting with Boys" is a nice read for the hot months of Summer!

Review: Its not you, Its Me

Book: "Its Not You, It's Me"
Author: Kerry Cohen Hoffmann
Pages: 176
Rating: 3.5 out of 5
Cover Rating: 3.5 out of 5

Zoe has had her dream boyfriend for six months now. Six whole months! She is in love. So what if she she stopped helping with the big school artistic newsletter that she had started. So what if she stopped spending as much time doing the things that she used to love. He's worth it - isn't he? Zoe is devastated. Her 6 month long term relationship boyfriend has broken up with her. Why? It must have been a mistake! Zoe is determined to get him back, no matter what it takes. Gushy poems snuck into his locker, dressing up, or even kissing another boy, just to make him realize that him breaking up with Zoe was a mistake. However, will it work?

This was for sure not the greatest book that I have read. I felt that the characters were not developed as well as they should have been. Zoe wasn't really written in a way that I could feel for her. Overall, I didn't especially enjoy this book, however you might love it! I just like it when you are able to relate and bond with the characters so that if something disappointing happens in the characters lives you can really feel for them! However, "Its Not You, It's Me," could make a nice book for someone who has just broken up with her boyfriend.

Waiting on Wednesday: All Unquiet Things

Book: "All Unquiet Things"
Author: Anna Jarzab
Release Date: January 10, 2010

"All Unquiet Things centers around the murder of teen heiress Carly Ribelli, who was found shot to death a mile from her house in a wealthy Northern California suburb. Carly’s uncle, a dissolute alcoholic, was convicted of the crime, but a year later his daughter still doesn’t believe her father is guilty. Determined to prove his innocence, Audrey Ribelli contacts Carly’s ex-boyfriend, Neily Monroe, the boy who found Carly’s body. She is convinced that he knows more than he thinks about the events that led up to Carly’s death. Despite Neily’s initial reluctance, he and Audrey begin their investigation at the posh private school they attend, identifying prime suspects from among their spoiled classmates and digging up secrets about Carly’s past to get to the truth behind her murder."

Thoughts: Oh my!! This looks fabulous!!! I am so excited to read this one! Doesn't it just look awesome? I am really looking forward to it!

Visit Anna here: www.annajarzab.com

30 Days To Finding and Keeping Sassy Sidekicks and BFF's

Book: "30 Days to Finding and Keeping Sassy Sidekicks and BFF's"
Author: Clea Hantman
Also author of: "30 Days to getting over the Dork you used to call your Boyfriend"
Rating: 4 out of 5
Cover Rating: 4.5 out of 5

"Friendships are like bras,
Providing support and strength,
Uplifting the girls"
Pg. 28

Looking for friends and don't know where to start? Feeling like you want to make your already started friendship even better? Or maybe your just trying to figure out ways to develop your already good friendship into something that will last a lifetime! If so, "30 Days to Finding and Keeping Sassy Sidekicks and BFF's" by Clea Hantman is the book for you! Clea Hantman put together a great collection of advice, tips and activities to help you have great friendships!

I really liked this book! Clea Hantman is a terrific young adult writer. One of my favorite aspects of the book was her writing style. Her style wasn't cheesy or like she was trying to hard to sound cool to a teen, her writing style was just natural, fun and relatable! She also offered some great advice! I am a teen and I liked a lot of the activities such as activity 15 were you took something that you normally do and spice it up, however, I did think that a few of the activities were maybe closer to tween than teen. Overall, Clea put together a great friendship book that I hope gets a lot of readers!

Finished the 48 Hour Reading Challenge!

Wooohoo! I just finished the 48 hour reading challenge!

It worked out perfectly because yesterday and today were such rainy/gloomy days - perfect for cuddling up with a good book!!

I started the challenge on Friday night at 10:45 P.M.

I finished 3 books and read but did not finish in others.

Books I finished:
-Prophecy of the Sisters
-20 Boy Summer
-30 Days to Keeping and Finding Sassy Sidekicks and BFF'S

I also read a bunch in "Private: Revelation" and a few pages in "It's Not Me, Its You!"

So, overall, I read about 13 hours and 30 minutes! I might mention that I went to the Sarah Quigley book signing event which also took away quite a bit of the reading time, but it was muchos fun, so I don't mind!

My goal for next year is to read for 20 hours!

IMM Post: Vlog

I decided to actually follow through and post my vlog this week! Let me know if you would like me to keep doing them!!