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Over these past few weeks, I attempted to continue to read the book, Crescendo written by Becca Fitzpatrick. Similarly, to last couple of weeks, i just could not get interested in it again. The more I tried to keep reading it the more I did not want to ever read it again. So, this is what pushed me over the edge to finally make the executive decision of putting down this book for good. As I said previously, I will no longer be reading this book and I will be picking out a new one in the library when we go back. I made this decision due to the fact that I feel as if the same things kept happening and it became almost predictable? Im not too sure how to put it but it just wasn’t near as good as the first one, and it was by a long shot too. Normally I would hate to stop reading a book, especially when I know that I enjoyed the first one so much. some reason why my interest could never get resparked is that like for one, the whole "black hand" is sooooooo obvious to me. like cmon now it is obviously patch, and i was able to put two and two together within a page of reading about it. in the first book, it talked about the origins of the nickname "patch." and you would never guess where it came from: he would beat people so badly his hands would turn black and he would have to patch them up. then also in the first book, they discussed how patch wanted to finish what he started by killing Nora... and what did he not finish you may ask well he killed her father but not the daughter so BOOM more proof. but all in all this is how most of the book went along, with me being able to figure things out before they actually happen since they became so simple and obvious. Since I wasn’t interested in reading my book very much this break, I did lots of other things. As we both know, I turned 16 right before break started and I also go my license (stay off the roads!!) anyways I was able to do a lot more things whenever and wherever. Like one night I wanted a cinnamon roll, so what did I do? I just went and picked one up. Spoiler alert, my mom got mad that I didn’t bring her one back. Anyways in a conclusion I had a very good break and I spent way too much money.

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This past week, I continued to read the book, Crescendo written by Becca Fitzpatrick. Similarly, to last week, this book is yet to regain my interest. I feel as if the author is keeping too much information from the reader and also takes too long to even begin to reveal anything new. Yet, I don’t know how I feel about all of the various situations which seemingly fix themselves to look like they never even happened in the first place. I thought that after Chauncey killed himself that all of those situations would have come to a stop and Nora would be fine and away from danger at least in that sense. Except boy was I wrong, it came back and with vengeance trying harder than ever to 🤬 her and hide the evidence making her seem like she is completely and utterly insane.  I feel like they did this so not only could the potential killers cover all of their tracks(obviously they would want to do this) and make her seem insane so when cops do find real evidence or anytime Nora tries to go to the cops they wouldn’t want to trust her since every other time she has simply “cried wolf.” over break I will try my absolute hardest to try to finish this book. Fitzpatrick has recently in the last chapter introduced the possibility of Nora's dad being alive yet also at the same time, she got a letter in the mail of a hint at who could've killed her father. So in conclusion everything is a big and confusing hot mess im trying to figure out.

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This past week, I started to read the book, Crescendo written by Becca Fitzpatrick. Unlike the previous book I read from Becca, this one has not managed to keep the same interest within me. One part I thought was kind of funny and yet ironic at the same time, was how quickly Nora’s mom changed her opinion on Scott, her childhood best friend. When Scott was first Introduced, Nora hated the idea of him while her mom had other intentions which included her taking him on a tour of the town. As soon as they both found out how suspicious and dangerous, he was her mom was quick to repeal the offer of the tour and to tell Nora there is to be no more hanging around Scott alone. I found this funny just because it sounds exactly like something my mom would do. One thing in specific I was not a fan of, is the ways Nora constantly pushed Patch away. There was absolutely no reason for that, and it was just stupid. As well as the way she decided to break it off with him, she decided to use his insecurities and “disabilities” of not being able to feel touch to say she needs someone to feel what she feels when they are together and not just desire. This is one of the most cruel things in the world that one can do because there is absolutely nothing they can do about it unlike just having a clean break by saying it is not working out or something. Yet, at the same time Patch tortured Nora in ways unimaginable, such as cheating on her with the biggest hoe and her sworn enemy. I will continue to read this but I hope that things will work out and respark my interest.

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This past week, I started and finished the book, Hush Hush written by Becca Fitzpatrick. The more I read this book the more interested I became in it. I am now looking forward to going in the library monday and checking out the next book in this series. I am in LOVE with the way the author was able to constantly keep the reader wonder and never letting them figure out the real truth. The entirety of Patchs’ character was a constant curveball. First, he was introduced as mysterious and alluring which immediately attracted Nora. Then as she started to develop feelings for Patch sudden life threatening situations began to arise all while other mysterious suspects began to enter the picture as well. I liked how detailed all of the incidents were as I felt like I could genuinely see what happened and I was even there to witness it. I would most definitely recommend this book to friends because I feel that is it something everyone can enjoy. My favorite part of the book was about the last 50 or so pages. This was my favorite because I kept getting blindsided. The whole book they made everything seem like Patch was attracted to her then we find out he really just wanted to 🤬 her. So then, we find out Elliot is the one trying to 🤬 her, then it takes a 180 🤬 to Jules being the killer then just to put the cherry on top, we find out that Jules and Nora are blood related and both die together when Nora sacrifices herself. THEN Patch really does love Nora and gives up his only opportunity to become human just to be her guardian angel. You would really have read the book to really understand how much of a shock came with each page.

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This past week, I started to read the book, Hush Hush written by Becca Fitzpatrick. I decided to abandon the last book I started, The Perks of Being a Wallflower, because I could not get attached to any of the characters since they never revealed any personal traits about the characters. I feel like I need to have some sense of a connection to the characters, so I will want to read more and see how their lives are affected by the events the main character was writing about. The new book I have started to read instantly seemed to spark my interest. The instant animosity between the two characters, Patch and Nora, was so quick. Although the reader was quickly let onto the secret that Nora had taken an interest in Patch's mysterious vibes. The way the author is able to portray the rush and desperation in the scenes is amazing. After Nora crashed the Neon, Vees’ car, she was approached by a man who tried to break into her car, she was fumbling to get the car moving again. The ways the author used the figurative language and imagery really put a picture in my mind, especially about the struggle of starting a stick shift. She was able to create a sense of franticness within me, while I was perfectly safe in my room. I have a very sticky feeling Patch has an ulterior motive to taking an interest in Nora, especially after the back to back strange events. I think Patch is extremely creepy, between the way he talks to Nora and the odd sensation I get when she reveals that someone was watching outside her window, or even trying to pry open her car door to snatch her. Overall the book still has my interest and I will hopefully be able to finish it over the break.

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This past week, I started to read the book, The Perks of Being a Wallflower written by Stephen Chbosky. I have not been told too many “outer” characteristics of the main character yet, but the most intimate details have been revealed. My very first impression I get is that they are just super weird and awkward. The things that he revealed were also very perverted in a way, admitting he watched a couple make out and also admitting to a girl that he had dreamed about her multiple times. He seems as if he lived under a rock and didn’t have a sense of morality and common sense. Yet, this book kept me intrigued at the same time, never in my life have I been “inside” the brain of someone this socially inept. One thing I liked that the author did was he wrote him in with having friends who embraced him, because in this day and age no one would even think to get to know him much less become close and party with them. One thing that I wasn’t so fond of, was I feel like the author portrayed him as quite literally missing most of his screws. One reason I think this is because I am very unsure of how someone could miss the fact and be oblivious to the fact that his family has problems at home. Also, when he knew something was wrong with his aunt yet continued to push her to the point where she was sobbing. Overall though, I think I will continue to read this book and hopefully I will be able to get more interested in it

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This past week, I attempted to read the book, The Gathering written by Kelley Armstrong. Over the week I tried so hard to get into the book, but it just never caught my attention. The blurb itself actually seemed very interesting but the actual writing fell short for me. The way I have learned that I read, is that the book has to be so beyond interesting that I will not put it down no matter what else is going on, and if it isnt then I simply will not read. I managed to get more than halfway through the book and nothing had happened what so ever. Anything with the slightest bit of “juice” to it was simply brushed off and never talked about again. Such as the new “bad boy” in the very exclusive town which had an immediate attraction to Maya, the main character. Yet how I mentioned before, this was mentioned pretty early on and nothing else had developed from this at all no interaction between the two characters, and these two were the focal point of the blurb. What seemed to be the most talked about was the sudden sightings of the old cougar. The point im trying to make is this book never seemed to spark my interest and I had to turn the book back into the library. Personally I am not a fan of this writer and I will not pick out another book from her again unless I hear someone else talk about it with flying colors.

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This past week, I started and finished the book, Until Friday Nights written by Abbi Glines. I picked this book out in the library a few weeks ago and I finally got the chance to read it. I was able to read this book in one night because I just couldn’t seem to put it down. The whole plot was so intriguing and kept me constantly wanting to know more. The idea that one person can really open you up and “fix” someone was so beautifully written between the characters. Maggie really was able to pull on my heart strings between all of the hardships she faced in life. How everything was so abruptly pulled away from her with a stroke against the trigger of a gun. Then if you add West into the whole mix of his father going the “comfort” stages of cancer which I know all too well, and him being so private about everything acting so hard on the outside. The way he acted about everything just made me want to write myself into the story so I could tell him that keeping stuff to himself will only hurt him. Thankfully he allowed the one person who was able to really help him emotionally deal with his demons stepped up. I was right along with Brady the entire time he tried protecting Maggie from West. He wasn’t good to her at all and that really gets under my skin when guys use girls to make themselves feel numb to try and escape for a few seconds. This was portion definitely didn’t pan out to how I expected it to, which involved Maggie and West ending up together. I think if Glines wanted them to appear that West actually loved Maggie he should've acted like it and not using her as a “booty call” it wasn’t until after the fact Maggie had finally overcome her own demons and began talking again did he start to love her for her. Overall though, this book kept me on the edge and sparked my interest as I feel like everyone could relate with the characters in some way.

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This past week, I started and finished the book, opposition written by Jennifer L. Armentrout and is in the same series as the previous four books that I have read. Also, this was the final book in the lux series. The part that stands out most to me of things that occurred in this book, is all of the trauma inflicted upon Katy. Between her boyfriend pretending he could care less about her, realizing what had been done to her mom and never being able to see her again, and then to top it all off, she thought daemon had died. When we realized that daemon had died, and Katy woke up in the hospital all alone, my heart dropped. I could never imagine waking up to have nothing else to live for in the world, and the one person who was there with you throughout everything and for him to suddenly be gone because he took the bullet for me? I could never be able to fathom such an occurrence. It seems as if Armentrout loves to incorporate constant curveballs in her writing for the reader, but always seems to have a weird unthinkable way of saving our favorite characters. Although I do appreciate the sense of never being too comfortable, it became too predictable that they were going to make it out alive. For instance, nobody in this world no matter how string or powerful could hide, run and defeat the government so many times and not be caught or die in the process. Although I would’ve changed a few things, overall, I really liked this book including the rest in this series. Lastly, I like how the author ended the book, with an epilogue. This ending was able to give me at least some peace of mind, knowing that they would eternally be safe and could stop running able to live a full and happy life. At the end of the day, that is all I ever wanted for them as I was alongside them their entire journey of their relationship and hardships.

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This past week, I started and finished the book, Origin written by Jennifer L. Armentrout and is in the same series as the previous three books that I have read. This book had my emotions on a rollercoaster constantly going from rock bottom riding all the way up through the clouds. The main event that occurs had me so overjoyed for Daemon and Katy. They had finally escaped from the Daedalus, but also while escaping they had released all of the origins in the process. Also, when Daemon and Katy had met up with Daemons’ group of Luxen friends, I knew something was just way too good to be true. I knew that they had to just be walking into a trap to be sent back into that horrible government facility. The house was too extravagant, too hidden and at the same time, something was obviously very wrong with Bethany, Dawsons’ human/ hybrid girlfriend. At the end of the day, I was right, something was very wrong. Luckily, they had more people on their side who were very powerful, with the ability to read minds and were able to catch that Matthew their only father figure in their life, had called in to government and told them exactly where they were hiding out. My heart shattered, I could only imagine that the only person they had been able to trust besides their immediate family betraying them like no other, and how completely blindsided this had to have made them feel. Regardless though, I was estatic in a sense that both Katy and Daemon were able to make out of Vegas alive, although they lost severely lives in the process and the unknowingness of was yet to come.

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This past week, I started and finished the book, Opal written by Jennifer L. Armentrout and is in the same series as the previous two books that I have read. I had mixed emotions about this book throughout the entire thing. For one, it started off with having me doubting the entire storyline anticipating disaster the entire time. As soon as Blake came back into the picture, I knew trouble was on its way especially when he said he wanted to break into Mount Weather and attempt to get Beth and Chris out. When the Luxens had a meeting about it, I couldn’t have agreed more with the points that they were making about not wanting to trust Blake because every bit of them were true. Skipping around to the last page of the book, Daemon had finally confessed his true deep feelings for Katy as they were being separated unsure of what the future held for them, not knowing if they would be able to survive or ever see each other again. Throughout the books leading up to this, they had always built it up that daemon would never confess and reveal his true feelings for Katy, while she said them and never got anything back in return. My heart fluttered, happy for Katy in a sense that she could at least know this no matter what happened, but my heart also broke at the same time as like I stated before they had a potential to never be able to see each other again. Lastly, I was a little bit confused at the part where Blake had somehow stolen Katys Opal necklace, and escaped all of the Arums, which allowed him to walk right past all 7 of them.

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This past week, I started and finished both of the books, Obsidian and Onyx which both are written by Jennifer L. Armentrout and in the same series. This series has such a popular basic storyline of a human and an alien falling in love, but the way the storyline develops off of the basic plotline is nothing like I have ever read before and I was so intrigued and interested I finished both books in a 3-day period. Each time I would tell myself that I would stop after I finished the chapter I was in the middle of, the author would introduce a new problem or secret and I just had to know what happened. For instance, after Katy had found out that Daemon had accidentally turned her into a Luxen aka an alien, there were constant curveballs thrown. The conflict between, Katy, Daemon and his friends, and the government continued to build especially in the second book, Obsidian, when Blake was introduced to help Katy but ends up being an enemy in a way only wanting to turn them in and reveal who they really are and that Katy was also a mutant hybrid, which would keep Blake and his Luxen safe. After we finally found out that Daemons instincts were wrong I was upset at Katy and although her friends were understanding, I knew if I were in any of her friends positions I would never trust Katy again since she put so many innocent lives on the line and wouldn’t even listen to the person who her life depended on, because if her or Daemon died, so did the other. I understand that mistakes can happen but when there is such a big risk everyone needs to be as careful as possible which she wasn’t.

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This past week, I started and finished the book, How to Ruin My Boyfriend’s Reputation written by Simone Elkeles. This is the third and final book in the series. I was so glad when I finished them but the way that Elkeles decided to end it left me a little bit unsure. I am the type of reader who needs definitive answers and I can't be left with an open ending. She left us with a note from Avi saying that he will always love Amy no matter what, although very sweet she built the book up most of the time with Amy imagining their future together. Although, me as the reader chose to think they stayed together because we knew the entire book that were destined to be together. Another part of the book I didn’t like is how immature Amy acted when she found out Avi kissed another girl and wouldn’t even hear him out, when she did the same thing to Avi a few months back in the second book. This really changed my outlook on Amy because you can't have double standards in life because he was able to put what Amy had done in the past behind them and moved on, but Amy acted immaturely and never even gave him a chance to explain. I really thought that this was going to be the end of their relationship, as the reader this made me question if they were ever going to come back from this. I was so relieved when Avis unit tried to help, even though it should have been Avi putting in the effort but no matter what I knew deep down Amy wasn’t going to step up and be the bigger person and hear him out. One thing I did like about the book is how Elkeles managed to slip some women empowerment into the book especially at the end, when Amys safta was sick and she told her stories of her dressing up to be a Commando so she could be on the front lines of war. Still to this day there isn’t enough of women empowerment and adding this into the book really helped to push the continuous idea throughout the trilogy of how strong Israelis are especially their women.

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This past week, I started and finished the book, How to Ruin My Teenage Life written by Simone Elkeles. This is the second book in the series. One thing I liked about this book is all of the constant curve balls the author put in place, her mom getting pregnant, the entirety of the new character Nathan, and Amy and Avis relationship. The new character of Nathan really put me through a loop. When Amy felt as if she had feelings for Nathan, I was very confused, but I'm sure the true reason she felt this is because of the fact her non-committal relationship which was also stretched halfway across the world had her longing for affection and the feeling of someone else's touch. I do not think that there was true feelings and Amy ultimately created unnecessary problems when Avi finally visited Amy. I feel as if during the entire book, Nathans character continued to develop with the revealing of his past life. Towards the end of the book when Nathan disclosed that he only lived with his aunt and uncle because no one wanted him even in the foster system, and his only friend was in rehab for drug addiction. This really tugged at my heart strings just thinking someone who has only been in the world for 17 years has gone through so much and could be scared to be who they really are in fear of not being able to stay in their own home. Also, Amys character developed and grew a lot as well, maturing a lot along the way. The overall message the author wanted us to learn is that everything will eventually fall into place and that there is no reason to stress over things that you cannot control.

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Since the school year has started I have started and finished two books, Never Never by Colleen Hoover and Tarryn Fisher and the book Perfect Chemistry written by SImone Elkeles. One thing I liked about Never Never is how blindsided I was, sure I like to know what going on but after they figured out who they were and what happened, they lost their memory again. When Charlie lost her memory and Silas didn’t, this broke my heart especially when Silas had realized he had fallen back in love with her and she had no clue who he was. I could never imagine how this must feel but I know it happens when people get amnesia and can’t remember who their partners are. The sweetest part of this though, was that he lied to protect her and make sure she felt safe and not singled out since he knew exactly what was going on and she didn’t have the slightest of clue. The message I got through this book with the characters struggles is that no matter what if you love someone never let them go. It was so obvious that Charlie and Silas were meant for each other and were destined to be together no matter how much their families hated each other. The same message was also conveyed in Perfect Chemistry, but in a much different way. Alex and Brittany threw away their lives to be with each other, Brittany sacrificing her perfect image and Alex risking more than his life to get out of the gang, so he could be with Brittany. After they had broken up because Alex revealed the “truth” behind their relationship my heart dropped. I instantly knew he had messed up the single good thing he had going for him in his life. That they were completely in love with each other and didn’t know what to do about it. I almost put down the book after it seemed as if they had both moved on with their lives. Thankfully i read on and I am so glad I did as Alex cleaned himself up and proposed to Britt. This moment could not have been more perfect, they had Britts sister which meant so much to her and this is exactly how it should be about the love you share and not the lust of it and how extravagant you can make it when one proposes. I would recommend both of these books to any high school girl student who loves a romantic drama and can have their heart strings pulled on.