April 23, 2014

Wicked Review: This Is What Happy Looks Like by Jennifer E. Smith


Published: April 2, 2013
Publisher: Headline
Acquired: Paperback




Graham Larkin accidentally sends an email to Ellie O'Neill about his pet pig. They began sending witty emails and formed a friendship over the Internet. But they don't know each other's real names.

Ellie lives in Henley, Maine. She's oblivious about who's she corresponding with until he drops by her hometown to film a new movie. Graham wants to take their online friendship in person.

Can Graham succeed into taking their relationship to a new level?


April 17, 2014

Wicked Review: Prodigy by Marie Lu


Published: January 29, 2013
Publisher: Putnam Juvenille
Series: Legend #2
Acquired: Digital copy

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13414446-prodigy?from_search=true




It's been seven days since June Iparis and Day escaped Los Angeles. They find themselves in Las Vegas where the Patriots are. Headed by Razor, leader of the Patriots disguised as a commander for the Republic, he takes in June and Day and suggests that they join the Patriots in exchange for curing Day of his injuries. The Patriots is a secret group living under the guise of Republic military soldiers that is funded by the Colonies.

News travel all over the Republic that the Elector Primo is dead and his son Anden is the new Elector Primo. Under the Patriots, June and Day pledge their allegiance to them and in exchange for their safety, they must participate with the Patriot's plan: assassinate the Elector Primo.


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.