The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson

The Sky is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson.

3/5 stars.

Sat down and read this book yesterday. Its a good book but not good enough for me to buy it. Yes I kept reading it like I was in one of my reading coma's but overall I won't buy it.

The Sky is Everywhere is about a girl named Lennie or later called John Lennon in the book. Lennie is a shadow, or used to be a shadow until her older sister, Bailey, just dropped dead one day. After a month of staying home Lennie returns to school and meets Joe, from France, "a music prodigy" everyone in the band calls him. Lennie is in a depressed state and Joe is like a freaking beaming ray of smiles, that Lennie gets sucked into his easy going, weird smiling when she first meets him.

Joe is not the only love interest in this book. There is Toby, Bailey's boyfriend. Basically Lennie has two guys; Joe, who makes the sadness go away and Toby, who she can be with and let it all out. Lennie's and Toby's emo-sit together eventually take a sick twist, to the point they almost have sex. There is one scene in the book where Bailey notices Toby has an erection when he is hugging her and she pulls away and later in the book, she thinks " This is what I hear in my mind: boner, boner, erection, hard-on,woody, boner, boner, boner--". Lennie is somewhat of a girl with crazy sexual needs, though she is a virgin and has only been kissed 3 times.

Besides the two boys in Lennie's life there is her Gran and her Uncle Big. Yes. Thats what they call him. Apparently Uncle Big is like a pimp in the town they live in. Every woman fawning over him, lets not forget he is a major pot head, with a booming voice, and a knowledge of plants. Speaking of plants, there is a plant in this story that according to her Gran and Uncle Big, it is Lennie. And Plant Lennie is dying and they don't know what to do. So basically the plant symbolizes Lennie and her no longer being a shadow or a mini pony (reference from the book.)

My opinion, read it. Its a good book to sit down and read. Yeah sure Lennie gets the emotional hots for her dead sister's boyfriend. Don't we all? Just kidding, I thought about that and was like I don't see how that possibly could happen, but hey not my book. I would love to spoil it and tell you who she ends up with but that would be mean XD

Enjoy it!

Mistwood by Leah Cypess

Mistwood by Leah Cypess.

0/5 stars.

I did not finish this book. Nor will I ever. I read 107 pages of the book and literally could not go any further.

The storyline is different from what I expected. It hurts to read it. When I read a summary on a book site, I had assumed she was just one shifter, not multiple shifters. The story is rather boring. No suspense. No action. No romance.

Its basically her thinking "I am the shifter. Powerful. Intelligent." etc etc etc. Yet she has no memories of the past kings she protected. Nor does she remember how to even shift.

Basically a boring boring book. Read it if you want, maybe your brain can handle reading it, mine sure as hell couldn't.

Hourglass by Claudia Gray (Contains Spoilers)

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3/5 stars.

Bianca, what happens to you, sucks. Very stupid of you to choose that over the other thing.

Angry with this book. Angry with the characters. Angry with the author.

Seriously. I did not want that to happen.

This romance seriously sucks. 2 okay books, then this one is great. I was excited, excited she was finally becoming a vampire, but nooo Claudia Gray screws me over and gives me exactly what I don't want. And then I was okay fine, she is going to please me again, she has too. She doesn't.

So here we go anyways.

This is book 3 out of the Evernight series. It follows Bianca, who is a child born of two vampire parents. With a twist that you learn in book #2, they had help from wraiths aka "ghosts" to get prego with Bianca, there was a whole deal set in place; that when Bianca "died" she would become a wraith. Though her parents didn't want that, so thus the whole book #2 story. Vampires vs Wraiths. Etc etc. Read book #2.

So like I was saying, this book follows Bianca and basically her boyfriend Lucas. At the end of book #2, Evernight academy was being raided by Black Cross (vampire hunters). They successfully burned down the school. Black Cross believes Bianca is a human student at the vampire school and take her with them. Black Cross goes into lock down after the raid on the school, hiding from the vampires who they believe would want revenge, when they really just want Bianca back.

Anyways, her and Lucas are there together. They go through a series of event: Bianca going through training with another human student from the school, finding ways for Bianca to get blood, and vampires attacking. Eventually they break away from Black Cross after two serious event. A.) A vampire is captured that her and Lucas know and B) I will not reveal.

So yes basically, this book is about Bianca and Lucas getting away from the vampires and vampire hunters. They find a peace in a place a friend helps them get for awhile, until things start happening to Bianca; which leads to me getting very upset and wanting to stop reading.

I won't reveal anymore, just that I'm extremely pissed with the end and how Bianca gave up near the end.

Can't say I'm excited for book #4. Why would I want to read a book after the last one highly disappointed and upset me?

New Books

Went to the library the other day to return two books that were due, sadly couldn't recheck them. And I never even began to read them.

I had books waiting for me. They are....

• Flipped - Wendelin Van Draanen (could not get into - returned unfinished)
  
• The Turning - Jennifer Armintrout (paranormal romance)
• Love Eternal - J.R. Ward (paranormal romance - returned)
  

These books are in such horrible shape, its sad. Flipped it like about to fall apart on me, so I'm going to have to take super good care of it while I have it, so I don't return it duck-taped up. Lover Eternal and The Turning aren't exactly falling apart, but I can see it in the future for them. The Turning's cover is almost coming off. The spines are soo horrible, what did the people do to them?! Bend em like crazy?!

Maybe I should start taking pictures of the books, so you can see how terrible shape they are in. I feel like I'm talking about someone, but no I'm talking about the poor sad books.

*I'm making brownies*

If I Stay by Gayle Forman

I finished "If I Stay" last night.

2/5 stars.

Quick little summary, Mia and her family are in a tragic accident, everyone but her dies. Mia is left in a coma and is I believe having an outer body experience, where she can hear and see everything around her. She can hear her relatives, boyfriend and best friend talk to her, some telling her its okay to move on and others begging her to stay. So the story revolves around Mia's decision on whether to move on with her family or to stay behind with her boyfriend and everyone else. It takes you through the moment before the accident, how she met her boyfriend, her friendship with her best friend, and more experiences in her life, that will affect whether she stays or not.

I wish I could say what she chooses but the ending itself is rather disappointing. You just have to read it to find out.

Some things that did bother me is that her parents and little brother weren't there, yeah so they are dead but I wished she had seen them and everything. I don't know why but I want to say I didn't really care for some of the memories. I don't know what I wanted out the book, but I wanted more of something.

Not much more I can say about the book without spoiling it. Do I recommend it? Yeah, sure. Do I suggest buying it? No. Just check it out from your library.

It's Not Summer Without You by Jenny Han

This will contain spoilers most likely. Don't read unless you have READ book one, The Summer I Turned Pretty.

I am amazing myself. I said I would read and I did. One book down, 14 to go. Woo!

Anyways, this book is number #2 in the series. There will be a third book that will be released in 2011, and you guessed it, Summer will be somewhere in the title! We'll Always Have Summer.

It's Not Summer Without You is the continuation of The Summer I turned Pretty. Both books are told mostly from Isabel aka Belly's point of view, though in some cases in this book Jeremiah tells his side to things. The book begins in the beginning of Summer obviously, but this Summer is different. Belly's family isn't going to the beach house after Susannah loses her battle from cancer.

It starts with Belly daydreaming about the good days when Susannah was still alive and all was well in her troubled "love triangle". This book doesn't wander further from The Summer I Turned Pretty. Belly is still an annoying heroine, who thoughts revolve around Conrad maybe 100000000% more. Belly's babyish behavior pretty much puts her on the outs with the boys and she avoids them after the death of their mom. Yet she can't stop thinking about Conrad...and more about Conrad....and some more about Conrad. Basically her thoughts are a zillion times about Conrad even when she is hating him and wanting to "dump" him in their really non-existing relationship.

So when Jeremiah calls and says Conrad is missing, she springs into action. That is basically the story. Okay he doesn't go missing, if you had half a brain you'd know where he went. But okay you don't know why he went there. So find that out yourself. And just like last summer, Belly's relationship is still at .01%

"Just like that, the moment was over. It was an almost moment, where almost anything could have happened. But he had made it over."

To me this book was way better than the first one. The first book recalls to many of their childhood memories and not enough romance. Though this one doesn't have much action, meaning kissing, etc. it is still better. And still I didn't feel bad for Belly in this book, just like I didn't in the first one. Though I can't explain why I liked this book so much, it was an easy read. It wasn't torturous to my brain or anything. It was simple.

I gave this book a 4/5 stars.

I'm still trying to get the hang of typing up things about the books, so bare with me for awhile.

Picked Up Today

Library Whore. Yep thats me. Officially.

I went to the library today. I picked up 6 books and returned only one. I have 15 books checked out. I'm overwhelmed with the amount of books I have checked out. About 5 are due back soon and I haven't even started reading them. So Library Whore needs to get her ass in gear and start reading like a maniac.

Well here is the goodies I got today.

Red = Read / Purple = Sucked and did not finish / Green = Returned

• Hourglass by Claudia Gray (Book 3 of the series) (Vampire Series - Young Adult)
• Mistwood by Leah Cypess (Paranormal Romance - Young Adult)
• If I Stay by Gayle Forman (Life/Death - Young Adult)
• Iron Kissed by Patricia Briggs (Paranormal - Adult)
• A Rush of Wings by Adrian Phoenix (Paranormal Romance - Adult)
• Heart of the Dragon by Gena Showalter (Paranormal Romance - Adult)

Basically all those above, I can't wait to dig in. Esp. the Gena Showalter book! Also "If I Stay" seems interesting!

I did finish Charlie St. Cloud by Ben Sherwood, but having trouble doing a post on it.

*sigh*

I need to read!