Stacking the Shelves[22]

These are the books I have gotten in the past month. I got a bunch of books this week but I am waiting until they all show up to do a STS for them.

These are the books I found at the Delaware 2nd and Charles. I was sooo excited to find Ruin and Rising and Minders! 

 

The top 4 are from Paperbackswap.com and the bottom 3 are from BookOutlet.

REVIEW: Once We Were by Kat Zhang

It felt good to be back in the hybrid world. I have been wanting to read this since I read the arc of What's Left Of Me.

I love the whole concept of every human being born with two souls in one body. When they hit a certain age that they just become one soul, while others stay as two. 

Though I enjoyed this installment very much it was slow to me. It didn't go as fast as the first one did. That's the only bad thing about this one. 

Now onto the good. In What's Left Of Me Addie is the one that is controlling Addie and Eva's body. Soon Eva starts to get control over their body very slowly and with help. In this book Eva gets control of their body a lot more and I really liked that she did. Out of the two girls I like Eva more than Addie. Though I love how strong Addie is. We get to see how Eva grows throughout the book and see how she starts to make her own choices. She becomes a stronger character than she was in the beginning. 

We get introduced to new characters and a lot of them I didn't like. They had this air about them that didn't settle with me. The one character, Jackson, I did like. Though he made mistakes he did get Addie out of her shell more. At the end he does try and make things right. 

We also got to learn more about what hybrids can do. Such as, one soul can drift away for a while, so that the soul that is controlling the body has complete control. They don't have anyone in their head talking to them. Not only that, but we also got to experience how it is to wake up from drifting away and being disoriented and not knowing the other soul was doing while you were gone. 

We saw the struggles and help there is from having two souls share one body. This whole world is about how society fights against certain types. In this case the single souled are fighting against the doubled souled. Instead of everyone just getting along they rage war and want to control who the doubled souled are. They all start out the same way so why can't they all get along? 

Overall, I enjoyed the message and the characters. I can't wait for the final installment to see how this is all concludes.

 I gave the book 4/5 stars.

Mini Review Monday[18] First Love by James Patterson and Emily Raymond

Before I write this review I just have one question. What is up with all the cancer books? I understand that John Green is making a lot of money and getting fame from his book but why do people feel the need to copy that? Do they think they are going to get noticed too? I am just really sick of the same books over and over again by different authors.

With that said, First Love is the first EVER James Patterson book I have read. And I am not impressed. I know that he wrote the book with someone else but her name is so tiny on the cover that it kind of makes it seem like she was just there cheering him on.

The characters are very one dimensional. They don't seem like they would actually exist in the world and if they did no one would notice them.

Axi is supposed to be this "good girl" with a bad life. Alcoholic father, run away mother and dead sister. If she really had a life like that then there is no way she would be a "good girl" and she probably wouldn't have waited this long to get away.

Robinson is a "bad boy." Oh this story just keeps getting more cliche. He isn't a bad boy at all. I think he was just trying to keep Axi from falling for him because he knew he was sick. The stealing cars thing could also be a bucket list kind of thing because he knew he was sick. I truly didn't see and redeeming qualities in Robinson and I don't know what Axi saw.

The whole story felt like Axi already knew that Robinson was sick. She took him to all these places and she was ALL ABOUT HIM. But she apparently didn't know and I am having a hard time believing that with how the book was written.

This book should have just been a short story or something. Everything was drawn out and the book was STILL over very quickly. I think this book could have been summed up in less than fifty pages.

Needless to say, this "epic" love story fell so short that it didn't even make it to the window to start the jump.

Overall, I have the book 1/5 mini kitties.

Mini Review Monday[17] This Star Won't Go Out by Esther Earl and John Green

There were so many tears. A lot of them were sad tears, but there were also many happy tears. I'm so glad that I read this book.

 I'm glad I got to see how strong, beautiful and loving girl that was Esther. I had to put this book down many times because of how much it got to me. I really wish I could have been part of Esther's life. Seeing how she was while she was alive and fighting a hard battle inspired me so much to keep living.

She means so much to so many people because of the kind of girl she was. I loved being able to see her passion for the things she loved and the love she had for her family and for her friends. I loved seeing how she cared for anyone and everybody. 

She continues to inspire so many people around the world with her story. I know she has definitely inspired me. 

I do not have the words to explain anymore than what I have said, because there just aren't the words to explain how much of a special girl Esther was.

Overall, I gave the book 5/5 stars.

Stacking The Shelves[21]

This weeks STS is going to be the books I have gotten in the past week plus some other items I picked up! I hope you enjoy and feel free to comment down below with a link to your STS post!

These are the amazing finds from 2nd and Charles. I can't believe I found the top 4. some of them are very recent releases.

I already own a copy of Allegiant by my copy is unique and has 40 extra pages that don't belong in the book. They are throw in at the wrong place so it makes the book hard to read because they pages aren't in order. So I found a new copy at Goodwill. I will keep my special copy but I want a copy I can read easily.

These are a result of my Target trip. I have been seeing Yoobi pens all over Instagram so I wanted to check them out for myself.

And then there is these babies. I went to Hot Topic to look for Frozen Funko figures but left with these. They were clearanced and then Buy one Get one free. So I bought the ones with the ears and just picked out a second pair for my laptop. Aren't they cute?

I hope everyone had an amazing week! Cya next time!

Mortal Danger short story available!

I have known about this for a little while now. I was about to start reading Mortal Danger when I came across this link on Facebook, FierceReads to be exact. I forgot about it because I was out shopping when I saw it So I read Mortal Danger and did my review and tonight I came across the short story again. Well, I read it and I loved it. It's from Kian's point of view and it meant to be a prequel to Mortal Danger. So you can either read it before or after I would probably say after because then you get to see just how far downhill Kian went in Mortal Danger His personality and stuff really changed once he was actually able to talk to Edie. Below is a picture and if you click on it it will take you to the short story I hope you enjoy the book and story as much as I did.

Word of the Week Wednesday[8]

Word of the Week - Svelte - To All The Boys I Loved Before AND Mortal Danger

Meaning - Slender and Elegant