Dina

First let me thank the author for sending an early copy my way.

Now, one of the things you should probably know is that you most likely won't be glued to it right from the first pages. I know I wasn't. But truth is that the more I read, the more vicious my reading experience became - I mean that in the nicest way possible, don't get me wrong! I just mean that the more I uncovered some of the secrets (some reeeeeally big secrets!), the more and faster I wanted to read and get to the ending.

I'm telling you, this book sucks you in when you least expect it! And it's so witty... it's definitely my kind of book.

Long story short, this book is about this guy, Leo, who kills superheroes for a living - the book is in his POV, told in first-person. Now, his story is obviously not as simple as that, but I'm sure you won't expect it to be as complicated as it actually is. If you want to read this book, trust no one. Not even the main character, because everyone lies. All the time. Expect a lot of backstabbing too. Until you reach the very end, don't expect to know the whole truth, like, ever.

I really liked the way the book kept me on my toes the whole way to the end. It's been a while since I read a book with this kind of humor and I was so amused by it, you have no idea. It was awesome. One of the best POVs I've ever read, because the dude is great, let's be honest. I also really felt for the guy when he hit his low. Tears in my eyes, man. Tears in my eyes.

Now this little bit may or may not be considered a spoiler, so read at your own risk, but I'm still not quite sold on the idea that Supers get to fake their death and reborn some time later under another alias over and over again and no one will even blink. Sure, some might suspect a connection between the death of a Super and the appearance of a new one, but overall they don't and it makes me wonder why the people in this world are so gullible. You'd think they'd expect the Supers to pull something like that, for admittedly good reasons.

All in all, it was an awesome book. I loved it and I'm really thankful for getting the chance to read it before it's out there!

I just have to say that, regardless of what other reviews here may say, I'm actually satisfied with this ending.

I do have to say, though, that Patch seemed waaaay “softer” in this book and that makes me a bit sad, because I liked him best when he was darker, I suppose.

Apart from that, I enjoyed the plot twists, even if I saw some of those coming a mile away, and I like that it all worked out for the best in the end and that makes me happy.

Okay, I have to admit I was a bit skeptical at first. This is not at all the kind of book I usually read.

However, a couple chapters in, it actually started to become interesting. I like this “Elsewhere” universe. I like how things work there, in a way. I'm not huge on beliefs when it comes to what happens after you die, but this is something I think I'd be quite content with, if it were true.

Anyway, I like that the main romantic pairing in the story isn't a thing at the beginning, nor at the end; it wasn't the central point of this whole story. I like that - and this might be considered a spoiler - it wasn't also the main reason the main character, Liz, went back on a huge decision she was about to make. I'm tired of having it always be the light at the end of the tunnel, that one thing that always changes people's minds about something, so I liked that, in this book, any romantic feelings she had for this other character were not the reason she wanted to hold on and not give up, I suppose.

I really enjoyed all the messages this book tries to send across. Messages about love, identity, about life as a whole and our negative perception of death.

All in all, it was a nice and easy read.

I don't really have much to say about this book, but it was an easy read, because I wanted to know how things would turn out in the end so badly.

This is basically the story of a girl, Katrina, who's helping her grandmother save the family business when a new and more trendy coffeehouse opened just next door and is threatening to take over.

There's also the typical romance thrown in there, but I honestly didn't care much who she ended up with at the end. I only really cared about the coffeehouse and wanted them to turn the tables on the lying douche ruining their business from next door.

For all purposes, if you're in it for the romance and all that, she basically finds a boy lying in the alley and leaves him so food and a warm drink. Turns out he's an angel and wants to reward her for her kindness by giving her what she most desires. Suffice to say that things go a bit downhill from then on, because she doesn't really know what she most desires and keeps saying anything that will make him go away, and so the wishes she makes go wrong and even get in the way of the whole saving grandma's coffeehouse process.

Also, Katrina only has two friends and gets a bit jealous when one of them starts dating, because it means he's not there for her whenever she needs him.

As I said, I wasn't really all that interested in the personal life of the main character, though I'm glad she found something she was really good at (even if the results didn't really come as a surprise for me), but the whole plot surrounding the coffeehouse was good and I kept wanting to read more and more to find out if they could save it or not and if so, how they'd do it.

All in all it was a good book, so I'm giving it 4 stars, even if I didn't care about half of the plot.

I struggled to pick the rating, but even though I liked this book quite a lot, I couldn't really give it 5 stars.

It is a really good book, though, and I like that it makes you think about things. About time, memories, relationships, the way a person can change and build character as time goes by.

It was probably one of the few books I've read recently that didn't make me feel any sort of frustration towards the main character. His thoughts and actions were quite close to what I'd probably think or do in those situations.

The twists and turns of the book were well done, as well. I like how his feelings at the time clouded his reason and made him see things as he'd wanted them to be, and how, many years later, he's remembering what actually happened and feels some regret towards some things he's done and said in the past.

All in all, a great book, easy read (it's also not very lengthy, so you can read it pretty fast), and definitely gives you some food for thought.

I have some mixed feelings about this, which will probably explain the rating I'll end up giving it when I'm done writing this review (as I still haven't decided).

This is the story of Colin Singleton, a prodigy who happens to date lots of Katherines and being dumped just as often.

When the (technically) 19th dumping happens, Colin and his best friend Hassan go on a road trip to try and get his mind off things.

From then on, a lot of things happen. Their road trip is cut short when they end up in Gutshot, Tennessee. They meet Lindsey and her mother, Hollis, and eventually start working for Hollis and end up staying at their house.

In the meantime, Colin is trying to come up with a mathematical theorem meant to determine the curve of any relationship based on several factors of the personalities of the two people in it. This is the Eureka moment that he desperately wishes to accomplish and that he thinks will turn him into a genius and make him matter.

So, basically, while he's coming up with all the different variables and trying to see if the theorem works, you learn more about his past with all those Katherines, he meets a bunch of new people, makes a new friend, learns how to tell a good story, and, finally, has his Eureka moment.

Now, as for the characters, Hassan is probably my favorite. Colin is a good guy, even if he gets lost in his own world from time to time. Lindsey is also nice but not really all that special to me. TOC is a douche. And I felt quite indifferent towards all the other characters, to be honest.

The book has some really good quotes and I really love that whole “dingleberries” thing Hassan and Colin have going on. If you haven't read the book, basically they come to a point where they decide to use that word for when one of them has crossed a line and the other wants him to back off a little and drop the subject. This word is used quite a few times throughout the book, some of those quite creatively, if I may say. It becomes a verb, a noun, everything you want it to, basically. But its meaning remains the same.

The math in this actually makes sense and a part of me really liked that, because it used to be my favorite subject a few years ago. I still feel irrationally protective of it, I guess. But I digress...

All in all, it was a good book, an easy read, and it doesn't have the now-so-typical John Green “sad ending”, so that's also a plus.

Oh, man. Where to start?

They told me I would laugh my ass off reading this, and I did.

It's super funny, filled with all kinds of puns and just tremendously fun to read.

Up until like 3/4 of the book it's mostly the main character, Caroline, moaning about her Wallbanger neighbor and then learning to get along with him and stuff. SpoilerThen there's a romantic phase, followed by a little bit of drama there, followed by an intense sex-marathon, so if that's not your thing, better stay away from this book.

Anyway, I'm not giving it 5 stars because even though it started off really well and even a bit at the end was really good and awesome too, there was also a few pages/chapters in between that were not all that amazing, if you know what I mean.

Still, if you're okay with reading books with some explicit sex scenes and are looking for a good laugh, I'd definitely recommend it!

Well, let me start by saying I don't usually read this kind of book. And by this kind of book I mean the ones who have like 5 different character POVs.

To be honest, in the first few pages I kept wondering “why am I reading this?”. It was quite hard to get into the story, but I don't know if it was the book itself or if it was just me not being quite in the mood for it.

In this book you have 5 different POVs, as I mentioned already. You have Mrs. Oliver, a third grade teacher on her way to retirement; Meg, a police officer; Augie, a 13 year-old girl; Holly, Augie's mother who is miles away in a hospital because of an accident she had; and Will, Holly's father, who's taking care of his grandchildren back in Holly's old hometown (which she despises).

The book starts with what you'd call a “flash-forward”, I think. You first hear about what's happening through Holly's POV, which is the character who's the farthest away from the main action, and a lot of things have already happened by then, as you'll figure out later in the book. Then you kind of go back in time a little to how it all started.

As you change POVs, some flashbacks are introduced. They help you understand why some things are happening or, for example, what happened to Holly, Meg's back story, etc. But it's a bit frustrating, because you have like 117 POV changes, some of them less than a page long, and you never really know all at once. I know it probably would ruin the story or at least make the book much shorter or even make the plot develop much quicker if they were revealed at once, but the flashbacks will start out of nowhere and then stop mid-action and you'll have to wait for some 8 POV changes before you can return to it. Now imagine this happening with 5 characters. It can be a bit messy!

Anyway, as the plot moved along, it started to become more interesting and the whole “who did it” thing going on with people getting killed and accidents happening while you're still trying to figure out who the hell is the shooter, I think it worked well. But again, the POV changes... It's frustrating, but I think it kind of worked? It's not perfect. You sometimes have to go back to that character's POV a few pages before in order to move forward, but if you have some patience and some time in your hands, you won't get too worked up about it.

All in all, it was an enjoyable read, but probably could have worked better with less jumping around between characters and less weird changes between past and present (or even future). I feel like some bits were lost between these changes.

My opinion on this book is slightly divided, hence me going for 3 stars here.

Okay, so this is the story of a girl who hits her head and loses all her memories from the past 4 years.

The book is divided in 3 parts: I was, I am, and I will.

Now, don't get me wrong, I can understand how losing years worth of memories can mess someone up and leave them confused, angry and frustrated. I would be too if I were in the main character's shoes, I'm sure. However, I don't think that should serve as an excuse for all the things she does, thinks or says, or how she keeps hurting the people who are only trying to help her.

Basically, the negative side of this book to me is the way the main character acts in 2/3 of the book. She made me want to climb walls like no other, and I almost threw my book at a certain point. I decided it was better to put it down a bit and cool down first. By the end of the book, I thought she still has a lot to make up for. She was unnecessarily rude, and I hate how we'd see how she was thinking this awful thing, but what she'd actually say to those people would be a slightly softer version of it, as if we're supposed to pat her on the back and congratulate her for not speaking her mind uncensored, as if that somehow makes it any better.

As for the other characters, I really liked Will and I could easily relate to him. I also liked how he would sometimes say what was on my mind in some parts of the book, especially when he pointed out how much of a selfish bitch the main character was being.

James was a bit of a mystery for me at first. I didn't really know how to feel about him. In the end, I think I'm okay with him. He's good.

Also Ace. He seemed a bit... shallow and too pushy I think in the beginning, but when he was lying down on Naomi's bedroom floor, I realized that I probably felt that way because I didn't know much about him, because the main character or the author didn't try to uncover more sides of him throughout the story. I think what they had back then was something real, even though you don't always get that feeling when they talk about it in the beginning, and I feel good about him at the end of the story.

Now for the plot itself... I don't agree with so many of the things the main character does and how she refuses to see things that are right there in front of her simply because she wants to be in control of her life. A little help wouldn't have made her lose that control, in my opinion. I think she is too impulsive and I absolutely hated the way she sometimes treated Will.

I like how she slowly changed and got better. Speaking of which, the character development was good, but I think waiting 2/3 of the story to start working on that may be pushing it a little bit. If I wasn't the kind of person who hates leaving books unfinished, I might have given up halfway through, with the way she was pissing me off.

Anyway, I really enjoyed the ending. I think it was perfect for the story given the circumstances. Giving it a definite good or bad ending wouldn't have felt right. The main character didn't deserve any more or any less than what she got. The ending is probably what made me give it 3 stars instead of 2. Sure, it is an open ending, so you ought to expect some loose ends, but again, I think in order to have a good or bad closed ending, the story would've needed more development first.

Okay, so I was a bit unsure how to rate this.

I know this book has a few details that annoyed me a bit, but those weren't anything big and the story itself made some sort of sense to me, I guess. Even any part I didn't quite agree with at the time I was reading it, in the end I think it all comes together nicely and logically.

It's easily read (I read the whole thing in less than a day) and I think the emotions the characters are feeling are really well shown.

As for the characters themselves, I can understand Delaney's actions based on what she went and is going through in this book. I really liked Decker. I'm pretty neutral to most of their friends. Troy was just... I mean, I get that he thought what he was doing was the right thing. Maybe in some cases it actually was, but I still think that generally it was wrong to do it and his lack of morals made me sneer quite a lot. Delaney's mother got on my nerves often. Especially when she'd tell Delaney she was doing what was best for her, as if that could ever be a good excuse to hurt her the way she continuously did.

I really enjoyed this book and I look forward to the next bit, see if it'll be as good as this one was for me.

To be honest, I'd give it a solid 3.5 stars, but since I can't and it just feels wrong to upgrade it to a 4 stars, I'll stick with 3.

Now, this isn't necessarily a negative review. 3 stars here mean I liked it, but just not enough to consider it a great book or something like that.

I think I probably got into this with the wrong expectations. All the hype around the book/movie may have messed with the way I read this. I expected more of it.

The main character is special alright. I just don't know if, for me, that's a good or a bad thing. And so I'm stuck in that “meh” space most of the time. I get a bit lost in some of the things he writes because he goes on and on about simple things sometimes and I start to sigh without even noticing.

Don't get me wrong, I don't think this is a boring book. You can read it pretty easily and fast. It just didn't have that je ne sais quoi for me.

I also left it a bit confused. I'm not quite sure what happened to him in the end nor what was the whole thing with his aunt. I only got bits of it and I'm pretty sure that's mostly my fault. I think, contrary to what his teacher told him about that one book, I filtered way more than I should. I should've probably tried to soak up some of that.

All in all, the story is good and interesting, but not really something I'd consider great or even a favorite.

I liked it, but not enough to give it more than 3 stars.

There are many different “paranormals”, so unless you're okay with a book with vampires, werewolves, mermaids, faeries, soul sucking people and other weird “beings”, then this is not the book for you.

I think the story developed well, but I guess I kind of expected more of it.

I found myself wanting to slap the main character at times, but her obsession with that teen show and her eagerness to know what it feels like to be “normal” was kinda cute.

Lend was a nice character as well. I can't decide on my feelings about Reth, though.

Anyway, I decided I probably won't continue reading this series, even though part of me feels curious about whatever happens next, but I think it's best if I just stop here.

Okay so this book was a little all over the place for me. There were times where it was really easy to pick it up and read many many pages and other times where it seemed to drag a little.

Some of the reviews I read here before deciding to read this book mentioned something about John Green's characters being all very similar. I must say this is the third book I've read of his (four, if you want to count Will Grayson, Will Grayson) and I don't think that's exactly true. But to each, their own.

About this story, as I said, it had ups and downs for me. It started okay, then there's those exciting moments of Q and Margo going around doing some stuff (trying not to spoil stuff here), but after that night was over, I mean, a few pages after that, it started to go a bit slow for me. Until the whole search for clues and whatnot started, I suppose.

And that was also when the main character got a bit on my nerves, to the point where when one of his friends actually said something about it, I had to put the book down for a bit to applaud him for that. Here's what he said: “You know your problem, Quentin? You keep expecting people not to be themselves.” Man, wasn't Radar great in that moment?

Anyway. I loved the road trip bit. Seriously, I had tears in my eyes for laughing so much. Those four characters were great. The “land whale” part and how Ben kept freaking out after that was great as well.

The end... I'm actually still unsure about how I feel about the ending. I mean, I thought it was fitting for the story, but I guess I expected a bit... more? I don't know. Maybe in a few days I'll be able to have a more fixed opinion on that.

All in all, Ben and Radar are great and make up for some of the times I wanted to slap Q in the face, tell him to think about other people as well instead of just thinking about Margo and to stop judging everyone whose world didn't revolve around that girl. As for the story in general, the good parts made up for the not so great parts.

If I could give it half stars or something, I'd give this book a solid 3.5, but since I can't, I decided to give it 4 stars because of the black Santas. And RHAPAW, which runs on human hope.

it's a simple adventure, a quick read, good for young readers

People who know me know that I'm usually very open-minded with books and will give them a chance if they sound interesting enough and people write good reviews for them. However, when I read “space opera” associated with this, I have to admit I made a less than nice face.

In the beginning, I was afraid I was going to lose track of the different species and names, all the history of this universe and humans' exploration out in space after Earth became less than the home we call it nowadays. I'm not gonna lie, it got better as I continued reading, but there were still some things that came out a bit abstract in my mind. The concept is there, I just can't tell you in complete detail what it is.

The characters are so well fleshed-out, and they all deal with very different yet all very relatable issues. I also love how there are some bad things going on (because even in a better future, there are still beings that think they're above rules and basic common sense), overall, the feeling you get out of this is nice and good and optimistic. I fully support that. We need more books with positive outlooks on things, otherwise we'll always be rolling in darkness, and that's not good in the long run.

I really enjoyed the plot and the little twists and turns of the adventure this crew got into. I could read a few more books following them and not even grow tired of it. That's how deeply engrossed in it I became.

There are some great messages about integration and living in a community of different cultures, beliefs and even species. This team of misfits somehow found itself a little family within this small group. It wasn't all roses, but they worked through their issues and I like the idea it sends to the audience. Again, I'm all for more books like this. It wasn't told in a “preachy” way, but rather woven into the story in a way that made sense.

I don't usually say this a lot, but this whole series is definitely one of my favorite reads of all time.