April 12, 2014

Wicked Review: Maybe Someday by Colleen Hoover


Published: March 18, 2013
Publisher: Atria Books
Acquired: Digital copy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/17788403-maybe-someday?from_search=true



Sydney Blake is an aspiring musician and she has everything in life a twenty year old could ask for; a job, a handsome boyfriend, and her best friend. She finds out on her birthday that her boyfriend and her best friend are cheating on her behind her back. What a birthday gift. She's homeless, jobless, and everything in her life came crashing down. If it weren't for Ridge Lawson.

Ridge Lawson is a computer dude who works at home and writes songs for Sounds of Cedar, the band that he and his brother formed. He's born deaf but that didn't stop him from writing music. He became enamored by Sydney and her lyrics. Sydney became enamored by his melody. A perfect combination.

Wicked Review: Lola and The Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins


Published: July 9, 2013
Publisher: Speak
Acquired: Paperback

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9961796-lola-and-the-boy-next-door?from_search=true



Lola Nolan has everything she wants. She has amazing parents, she has a job, a great best friend  and she has a hot rocker boyfriend. Until one day, her neighbors the Bell family, moves back to their neighborhood.

You see, Lola had feelings for Cricket Bell, the tall inventor with a figure skater twin. Lola couldn't believe her eyes that she's seeing him again. And that after all these years, Cricket has feelings for her too.

If this happened two years ago, then things would've been different. But it's not. She has to choose obviously.

April 8, 2014

Wicked Review: The Statistical Probability of Love At First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith

(That's probably the longest title of a 200+ pages book I have ever seen.)

Published: January 2, 2012
Publisher: Poppy/Little Brown
Acquired: Digital Copy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/10798416-the-statistical-probability-of-love-at-first-sight?ac=1





Of all the things that could go wrong the day before her life changes, Hadley Sullivan is four minutes lates for her flight. FOUR MINUTES! She has to be in London the next day for her father's second wedding to a lady she has never met in person and she doesn't really plan to meet her in person.

Stuck in the JFK airport, she meets Oliver and just like her, he is bound for London. And they even get to sit in the same row at the airplane.

The night passes with them talking about mayo and flies. Suddenly, Hadley doesn't want to land in London if it means parting with Oliver.


April 6, 2014

Wicked Review: Anna and The French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins


Published: August 4, 2011
Publisher: Speak
Acquired: Paperback






Anna Oliphant is shipped off to Paris, the City of Lights, because her best selling author father thinks it's a good idea. All alone in the City of Lights, she wants to go home. She then meets Meredith, a fellow American, who lives next door to her and offers her choco chaud or hot chocolate and it the homesickness becomes bearable.





Enter Étienne St. Clair (Eh-t-yen), the beautiful half American, half French with a French name and British accent. Only, he's a few inches shorter than her. And she has a gorgeous boyfriend.

Étienne takes her around the City of Lights on her first weekend. Anna is in love with the city. And with him too.

April 2, 2014

Wicked Review: Legend by Marie Lu


Published: February 29, 2011
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Series: Legend #1
Acquired: Digital copy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9275658-legend?from_search=true




Legend is set a hundred years in the future where United States of America is divided into two, the military Republic of America and corporate owned Colonies of America. Daniel Altan Wing, aka Day, is the Republic's number one criminal. Having failed his Trials and having his body experimented, he is believed to be dead.

Day is fifteen years old and he can climb buildings taller than him. He moves fast like he's flying making him very impossible to track. There is a plague spreading in the slum sectors, where he is born. And unfortunately, his family has been hit by the plague. He is desperate to save his family.

Enter June Iparis, the Prodigy. As the name suggests, she is the only one who scored a perfect score 1500 in her Trials at age 10. A known troublemaker at school, she is the youngest Republic agent at age 15.

Their lives become intertwined when June's brother, Metias, is murdered and everyone believes that it was Day who killed him.

But not everything is what it really seems to be.