Sleeper by MacKenzie CadenHead #Bookreview

Title: Sleeper
Author: MacKenzie CadenHead
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Published Date: August 1st 2017
Genre: Science Fiction, Mind, YA
Page Count:272
Format: Paperback
Source: Giveaway win

My Rating: ★ ★ .5

Goodreads Summary: 
As if surviving high school wasn’t hard enough, Sarah Reyes suffers from REM Sleep Behavior Disorder, a parasomnia that causes her to physically act out her dreams. When she almost snaps her friend’s neck at a sleepover, Sarah and her nocturnal habits are thrust into the spotlight and she becomes a social pariah, complete with public humiliation.

When an experimental drug comes onto the market that promises nighttime normalcy, Sarah agrees to participate in the trial. At first, she seems to be cured. Then the side effects kick in. Why does a guy from her nightmare show up at school? Are the eerily similar dreams she’s sharing with her classmates’ coincidence or of her making? Is she losing her mind or does this drug offer way more than sleep? 

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 My Review:

Sarah has a sleep disorder that causes her to have such vivid dreams that she actually acts them out in real life, causing possible harm to her and those around her as well. In the past, she's tried medicines and therapy but they haven't worked. So instead she gets tied to her bed each night to stay safe.
At her first sleepover though things go wrong, causing her to seek out a new medicine to stop her vivid dreams.
This medicine though is still in trial and is one that could have not so good effects. In the trial, she also meets another teenager who has the same disorder. This seems like a really great thing, they'll have something in common and maybe they won't feel so alone. But things quickly get weird once they've started taking the medicine.

Honestly, I really wanted to like this book, and the first third of it I did like. But at about the halfway point, things took a bad turn that you just can't recover from. The other teenager starts wanting to and encouraging Sarah to do things that aren't good, and have real life causes to those around them.

While Sleeper does mention sexual and physical abuse, it never really goes in depth into them. Also,  emotional abuse happens quite a bit towards the end. Nothing gets fully addressed in this book and most things just get glazed over and not mentioned again unless it is to cause some form of emotional trauma to get the victim to comply.

One thing I did like about this book is Sarah's friendship with her best friend. Everyone needs a friend like her one that will help them and not judge and go along with them in order to stop something bad from happening.

Assassin's Heart by Sarah Ahiers #Bookreview

Title: Assassin's Heart
Series:Assassins Heart #1
Author: Sarah Ahiers
Publisher: HarperTeen
Published Date: February 2nd 2016
Genre: Fantasy, Romance
Page Count:420
Format: Hardcover
My Rating: ★ ★.5

Goodreads Summary: 
In the kingdom of Lovero, nine rival Families of assassins lawfully kill people for a price. As a highly skilled member of one of these powerful clans, seventeen-year-old Lea Saldana has always trusted in the strength of her Family. Until she awakens to find them murdered and her home in flames. The Da Vias, the Saldanas’ biggest enemy, must be responsible—and Lea should have seen it coming. But her secret relationship with the Da Vias’ son, Val, has clouded her otherwise killer instinct—and given the Da Vias more reason than ever to take her Family down.

Racked with guilt and shattered over Val’s probable betrayal, Lea sets out to even the score, with her heart set on retaliation and only one thought clear in her mind: make the Da Vias pay.

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 My Review:

"My family had been murdered, and it had been partially my fault. They'd left me alone to avenge them, to do right by them and by our Family. They could never be replaced."

One of my most disappointing reads of 2017. Assassin's Heart had so much potential to be a good book, but it just didn't happen.

There are nine families who are skilled and favored by the Goddess that this country believes in. To keep the people and the Goddess happy they go on hired missions to kill people and then place a coin on their tongue to help them transfer over to the afterlife successfully.
Now the families only marry each other, which means it's a bit like the royal families we have. Due to past conflicts though the two most powerful families hate each other, making a marriage between the two impossible for Lea and her love Val. Also all of the families are extremely secretive about where they live and have multiple secret entrances.
Instead what happens is Lea gets betrayed and her whole family ends up dying, and she thinks she knows who gave the location away.
With Lea now having to be on the run and trying to stay alive until she can find a way to get revenge the story seems like its just going to get even more interesting.. wrong... instead Lea ends up falling fr another guy, even though she still kind of like Val even after everything that happened.

Add in the constant romance and I dont know who I love, and the oh I'm just going to do everything alone despite not knowing what she's doing most of the time. Not to mention Lea takes unnecessary risks that almost get her caught multiple times, all while injured and yet still always manages to get away.. how?
I just found myself getting annoyed time and time again with these characters and what was happening in the story.

The only reasons this book didn't get a 1 star rating is because of how Lea kept on with her original plan despite the feelings she was having towards someone.

Chasing Red by Isabelle Ronin *ARC #Bookreview

Title: Chasing Red
Series: Red #1
Author: Isabelle Ronin
Publisher: Sourcebooks Casablanca
Published Date: September 5th 2017
Genre: NA, Contemporary
Format: Kinde

My Rating: ★ ★.5

Goodreads Summary: 
Find out why millions of readers love Chasing Red

Chasing Red is the Wattpad phenomenon with over 130 million reads, and one million reads each week. Revised and with new original content, it will be published in two volumes, Chasing Red and Always Red. New readers and fans alike will fall in love with Red and Caleb--over and over again.

HER HEART MIGHT BE THE ONE THING HE CAN'T WIN...
When cynical straight-A college student Veronica "Red" Strafford gets kicked out of her apartment, notorious basketball player Caleb Lockhart offers her a place to stay. Intensely drawn to her, Caleb wants something for the first time in his life. But Veronica's painful past makes trusting difficult, and her heart might just be the one thing Caleb can't win.

They said she was going to be my ruin...then let her ruin me. 

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 My Review:

Thank you to NetGalley and Sourcebooks for an e-ARC of this book in exchange for my honest review.

Chasing Red was a book I finished in a day! Most of it in fact in just one sitting. I liked Veronica she was a hard working young woman who was just trying to protect herself from the mistakes her parents had made. She was afraid of love and for understandable reasons. She also didn't want charity but also liked feeling safe which is something we all should be able to feel. 
Caleb was a player at first in my opinion, but the more we got to know him and actually see his real personality and not this persona he has created with his friends I actually started to like him.

I also liked the friendships that Veronica made with Kara and how they were truly thier for one another when the other needed them. It was so nice to see especially in a book more focused on romance. 

As for the romance, I'm glad it was mostly taken slow and that Caleb after awhile realized he needed to chill and just let things happen slowly instead of straight to bed like he's used to. The fact that he was willing to wait and actually noticed things about Veronica was something that I did like about him.

Having said that though, he is also extremely possessive of her to a point that it was actually scary at times. Which is why this is getting such a low rating for me. Without the possessiveness, this  would have been a three-star book for me (means I enjoyed it). Also, the unnecessary drama of Beatrice was just annoying, and Justin was just creepy and I hope Caleb realizes that Justin has gotta go.


However I still kind of want to read the next one to see if Caleb starts chilling on the possessiveness and realizes that it isn't okay to do that. 

The Gilded Cage by Lucinda Gray #BookReview

Title: The Gilded Cage
Author: Lucinda Gray
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Published Date: August 2nd 2016 
Genre: Historical Fiction, Mystery, YA
Page Count:245
Format: Hardcover

My Rating: ★ ★

Goodreads Summary: 
After growing up on a farm in Virginia, Walthingham Hall in England seems like another world to sixteen-year-old Katherine Randolph. Her new life, filled with the splendor of upper-class England in the 1820s, is shattered when her brother mysteriously drowns. Katherine is expected to observe the mourning customs and get on with her life, but she can't accept that her brother's death was an accident.

A bitter poacher prowls the estate, and strange visitors threaten the occupants of the house. There's a rumor, too, that a wild animal stalks the woods of Walthingham. Can Katherine retain her sanity long enough to find out the truth? Or will her brother's killer claim her life, too? 

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 My Review:

"Don't open your heart to pain that has no place there."

Kathrine and her brother are orphans living with foster parents until everything changes. Off to their new life in England things take a hectic turn. With learning how to behave like proper upper-class people and all of the rules things get chaotic, and the two siblings start to not see each other as much.

As time goes on and they are pulled in different directions in their new life tragedy's start happening. With the add on of the servants stories about scary things in the forest. Katherine is very unsure of what to believe. Which is easy to understand considering how different things are in her new world, and Grace trying to keep her hidden away from certain important things that could help her understand what happened to her brother.

 With the help of John, Elsie, and her lawyer Mr. William Simpson, Katherine finally starts to get answers about what happened to her brother. That is until the cousins start causing chaos again. (also I just felt bad for Grace, she was just a product of society and was willing to do anything to keep her status.)

"I see now that she's formed an existence based on the certainties of class and the rules of decorum, but without those supports, her delicate world is nothing but confection."

This book really started off strong for me and I thought it was going to be a new favorite. Sadly about a quarter of the way though the book, I knew what was happening, and who was causing things to happen. It was just to obvious for me. Also the add in of the institution that happened also made me not like it.

Overall if you want a fairly typical and easy read when it comes to suddenly getting money this is the book for you.

The Black Butterfly by Shirley Reva Vernick #BookReview #Blogmas2k16

Title: The Black Butterfly
Author: Shirley Reva Vernick
Publisher: Cinco Puntos Press
Published Date: 
Genre: YA, Paranormal, Christmas
Page Count:242
Format: Hardcover

My Rating: ★ ★.5


Goodreads Summary: 
Our heroine Penny must spend her Christmas vacation alone in an ancient hotel, the Black Butterfly, at the coldest, bleakest edge of America—the coast of Maine. This "vacation" was the brainchild of Penny's mother who had to be elsewhere, hunting ghosts. Weird, huh? Lucky for Penny she doesn't believe in ghosts. Or love. Or "family." Well, not so fast. Two ghosts appear—her friend Alipak, and her enemy, the Girl Ghost. Then there's George, a real boy, the handsome son of Bubbles, who owns the Black Butterfly. Maybe he will become a boyfriend. Maybe he won't. To her surprise, Penny has her sly wishes. And she has her troubles too. Especially when the Girl Ghost wants her dead. And Alipak disappears for good. Will George save her? Is this how Penny comes of age?

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 My Review:
MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS

"She's flipped. My mother's precarious sanity has left the building. She's fallen in love with a stranger, she's pulling up every stake, and she's taking me down with her. Nothing could be more obvious. Or more horrifying."

Penny is a teenager who has lived in more places and gone to more schools than anybody should because her mother is chasing a dream. A dream that never pans out no matter how many time she's tries. But this time she thinks it will work out so she sends Penny to one of her old friends places for Christmas and goes about her work. Even though Penny doesn't she want to go, she does and things actually work out pretty good for her. She meets a guy named George and likes all of the people that work at this inn as well. She learns a lot in this time and realizes that she has a certain ability as well. Which takes her on an even stranger journey that she is afraid to tell anyone about. So instead she keeps it quite until she can't and then she tells the person she has grown the closest to and hopes for a future with.

"You like this junk?""I happen to love it. What's so terrible about liking a clean story with a happy ending?"

Overall this book was disappointing to me, I was expecting a paranormal story with a side of romance, instead I got the opposite. Penny while she does see ghosts, would rather spend most of her time worrying about George than helping said ghost. Plus she appears to have feelings for one of the ghosts which just makes everything complicated. As for Penny's mother I had no real use to her, I felt annoyed at her for not growing up and making things happen like they should be for Penny. Penny herself is grownup in some ways she's had to become responsible, but she also is still naive enough that this story was slightly enjoyable. While I wouldn't say this book is awful it is rather slow paced and is more focused on the romance than I was hoping it would be.

"You cannot tell if cooking is really for you when you only make what is sweet and easy. You have to take on all of it, even the damn stinking artichokes. Then if you still want to cook, you know you must love it." 

Decked With Holly by Marni Bates #Blogmas2k16 #BookReview

Title: Decked With Holly
Author: Marni Bates
Publisher: Kensington
Published Date: September 25th 2012
Genre: Contemporary, Christmas, YA

Page Count:257
Format: Kindle

My Rating: ★ ★.5

Goodreads Summary: 

Holly Dayton is about to go way out of her comfort zone. . .

Spending Christmas vacation on a cruise with her two cousins from hell isn't Holly's idea of a good time. And when in a moment of seasick-fueled desperation she lurches into an open suite--she's greeted with an eyeful of pepper spray. The culprit? A gorgeous guy calling himself Nick. But when Holly goes to make her exit, she gets the shock of her life: a corridor crammed with screaming teenage fans. Because Nick just happens to be Dominic Wyatt, drummer for ReadySet--one of the hottest bands in America.

Suddenly rumors are swirling, and Holly's face is captured on countless phones and plastered all over the Internet. But the band can't risk a scandal destroying their family-friendly image, so Dominic convinces Holly to be his fake girlfriend--just for two weeks. How bad could it be to be fauxmantically involved with one of the cutest rockstars on the planet? Holly's about to find out. . .
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 My Review:

"I've got a security escort. I'm wearing a slutty elf costume, and Santa just groped me. Now might not be the best time to tell me it was all for nothing!"

And that's how Holly's Christmas Break started out. With being humiliated in front of all her family, and becoming grounded just days before going on a Christmas cruise. As for why they are going on a Christmas cruise? Well that's because her grandfather want to his for his birthday. It sounds like such a great idea, until you meet Holly's cousins and aunt and see that this is going to be an awful trip. 

That is until Holly stumbles into another guests room in search of a bathroom, and just guess who's room that turns out to be? Dominic who is in a very popular boy band. 

"Our story was supposed to be sweet. The rock star and the average girl: That's how it was supposed to play out to the press, and I thought I could handle it. Except I didn't want to be seen as too ordinary and dull and generally uninteresting for anyone."

From this point on things take a fan-fic turn.. One that I didn't particularly enjoy though, because of how awful the characters were to each other. Because this felt like fan-fiction as well, you could tell it was most likely going to end up with them together and where they live happily ever after.

"This was my one shot to experience life as a Somebody, and I didn't want to miss out on anything because I had failed to brainstorm with Jen."

Overall for the first half I didn't really mind this story and found it funny. But as time went on the characters grew annoying to me. I didn't enjoy the duel perspectives of both Holly and Dominic and felt like that was the only thing that keep me reading. With the slut-shaming and body shaming that happened multiple times as well from a good majority of the characters I just couldn't like it.

I Was A Bitch by Emily Ruben : Book Review

Title: I Was A Bitch
Author: Emily Ruben
Publisher: Inkitt
Published Date: October 10th 2016
Genre: YA, Romance
Page Count: 521
Format: Kindle
Source: Given to Review

My Rating: ★ ★.5


Goodreads Summary: 

Discover the story of Lacey Jones, former queen bitch, as she tries to put together the pieces of the puzzle that has become her life.
After a horrific accident, Lacey Jones wakes up from a two month long coma only to realize that she’s lost all memory of the last two years. In this time, she has turned from a wallflower into the gorgeous and popular Queen Bee of her high school. Adding to the confusion, she is confronted with two guys who claim to love her; her football star boyfriend and the mysterious and attractive Finn.

Now Lacey has to figure out who she can trust as she starts to put her life back together and slowly discovers what really happened on the night of the accident.

Will she be able to resist her developing feelings for Finn and stay loyal to her boyfriend? 
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 My Review:

"Maybe being in a coma and losing two years of my memory was a chance at a fresh start- a way to reinvent myself"

In This Life by Christine Brae : ARC Review

Title: In This Life
Author: Christine Brae
Published Date: January 22nd 2016
Genre: Contemporary, NA, Romance
Page Count: 
Format: Kindle

My Rating: ★ ★.5

Goodreads Summary: 
Lovers don’t finally meet somewhere,
They’re in each other all along.
RUMI

It starts out so simply. Anna runs away to Thailand, drags her best friend Dante with her and spends a few weeks away, taking on other people’s problems while getting away from her own. She meets the enigmatic Jude Grayson, and for as long as it’s clear to both of them that it ends when they leave, she thinks she’s got the perfect fling planned out.

Or does she?

Anna returns home to find that her life is no longer the way it once was, and that she can’t stop thinking about him. She learns through tragedy that nothing she’s ever believed in has turned out to be true. The worst part? The people she loved were keeping a secret from her. And that no matter what she does, no matter how hard she fights against it, every path she takes keeps leading her back to Jude.

This is a story about love, found in a faraway place by two very unlikely people. It is also a story about friendship and loyalty and fighting for what you have despite the illogical mystery of fate. With the struggle between morality and guilt, faith and acceptance, there comes a learning that even the best-laid plans are powerless against the alignment of the universe.

From the beaches of Thailand to the streets of New York, three friends, Anna, Dante, and Jude will learn the hard way that once providence steps in, there is nothing in the world that can change what is truly meant to be.
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 My Review:

"There is sacredness in tears, someone once said. What I learned that day was that without pain there could be no deliverance; without sin, no salvation. That in this life, it is only through sadness that one could truly experience joy."

First off I would like to say I am not the normal target for this type of book. I don’t really read much new adult nor do I really like reading it. I accepted the chance to read this book though without realizing that this was new adult, and after I found out I decided to go ahead and continue reading and to give it and this genre a chance.

 Anna was a very real character, but she was extremely flawed and at time those flaws became very annoying.  Anna goes to Thailand in order to get away from her mother who she feels has betrayed her and the rest of the family through having an affair.  I got why she felt this way, but when certain things happened I wished she would have left Thailand and gone home.  Instead she didn’t and ends up greatly regretting that decision and it massively changes her and how she deals with things.  While she was in Thailand though Anna meets Jude who is also running from something (we don’t find out what this is for a very longtime.) while mostly their relationship is platonic it all changes when Anna gets a tragic phone call and basically needs comfort/distraction from what’s going on at home. 

Fast-forward several years Anna is now with Dante and they have a somewhat happy life. Until Anna see’s Jude again and then everything spirals out of control and Anna starts going back and forth between the two being unable to make a decision of who she loves more/ who she wants to be with.

This is when I really started disliking the book. Anna to me got so annoying throughout this time because every time she would act like she had chosen one she would panic and then leave and go to the other one.  It was just way too much back and forth and was just destroying all of their lives and was very confusing and could have been avoided. (If you ever find out something about someone who someone had previously had a thing for and still possibly loves tell them. Just do it.)

I do feel like some of the romance was rushed because of the time frames they needed to fit into and it made it seem like the connection shouldn’t have been as strong as they apparently were.

Overall I did have a lot of problems this book, which were mostly because this genre is just out of my comfort zone and I just don’t like reading about certain things.  

I received this book as a gift from Red Coat PR and Christine Brae in exchange for my honest review.

Very Like A Queen by Martin Lake : Book Review

Title: Very Like A Queen
Author: Martin Lake
Publisher: Lake Union Publishing
Published Date: January 26th 2016
Genre: Historical Fiction, Adult Fiction
Page Count: 389
Format: Kindle

My Rating: ★ ★.5

Goodreads Summary: 
The King’s favor was her sanctuary—until his desire turned dangerous.

Alice Petherton is well practiced at using her beauty and wits to survive in the Court of King Henry VIII. As the King’s favorite, she enjoys his protection, but after seeing the downfall of three of his wives, she’s determined to avoid the same fate. Alice must walk a fine line between mistress and wife.

She finds a powerful protector in Thomas Cromwell, and Alice has every reason to believe that she will continue to enjoy a life of wealth and comfort at Court…until she puts everything at risk by falling in love with a Frenchman, Nicholas Bourbon.

When Cromwell is executed, Alice loses her only ally and flees to France. There she hopes to live in peace with Nicholas. But Alice is lured into a perilous game of treason, and peace doesn’t last long. Will Alice get back the life and love she’s fought for? Or will she lose herself to the whims of a capricious monarch?
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 My Review:
"Women have ever had to use subtle means to make their way int he world: their charm, their beauty, their wit, their grace. Some, such as Anne, added other qualities in order to attain their ends. Until now I had found advantage without really planning it."

Before I start this review, I would just like to say that I have never been a huge fan of Tudor England and I am still not. Now you're probably thinking, then why did you read this book? Well I thought maybe my tastes had changed and it looked like it would be a really interesting read as it was about Henry VIII. While it was interesting at times, I also found myself getting bored with it rather quickly and it took me far longer to read it, then I ever thought it would.

Alice Petherton is the King Henry's Mistress, (I didn't know this before I started reading.) she is his favorite and the only one who can change his mood from awful to okay. The people around the King love that she can do that and are always happy to see her when the king requests to see her. She also has several friends in the kings court and has a close friendship with Thomas the Kings adviser who is quite, found of her. This all so starts to change though when she meets a French man named Nicholas. She falls for him and has to hide it not only from the king, but also from her greatest enemy Richard (who is a vile man and I disliked immediately).
As this romance progresses and the king gets more distrustful of all his court she is put into a difficult situation.
But with the help of her servants she is able to stay alive and keep in mostly good favor with the king.
As time progresses in her time in the Kings Court he marries several times, and the last one we see it to a child bride who he took as a new mistress at first and was head over heels for. The only problem though was the bride did not feel the same and this ultimately ended in her demise. Throughout all of this Alice is trying to find a way to be with Nicholas without falling out of favor with the King and being killed. 

Overall I did think this book was okay. I did think it could have done without going into detail on some of the deaths. I also could have done without the sex scenes. I found them unnecessary to me. 

"Men, They are all like little boys really. Even Dukes and Kings."

Thank you to Netgalley and Lake Union Publishing for giving me a galley of the book in return of my honest review. 

Review: I Heart Bloomberg (86 Bloomberg Place #1) by Melody Carlson : Blogmas Day 3

Review

Title: I Heart Bloomberg
Series: 86 Bloomberg Place #1
Author: Melody Carlson
Publisher: David C. Cook
Published Date:  January 1st 2010 
Genre: Christian Fiction, Contemporary, NA
Page Count: 315
Format: Kindle

My Rating: ★ ★ .5

Goodreads Summary: 
Kendall's managed to wrangle her grandmother's house free and clear except for the rules. No male roommates. But that's ok; with the right ad she'll pull in some girls, their rent and, if she's lucky, she won't have to go to work any time soon.

For their part, Anna, Lelani, and Megan all have their reasons for wanting to move in: Anna has got to get out from under her overprotective parents; Lelani can't take another day in her aunt's tiny crackerbox house overflowing with toddlers and Megan needs a place free of her current roommate from Hades. Though they come with assorted extra baggage filled with broken hearts and dreams, they will discover they also have a vast array of hidden strengths.

As they struggle to become the women they want to be, they'll find new hope, and maybe even Kendall will learn a thing or two about life, love and the true meaning of friendship.
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The Retribution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

Title: The Retribution of Mara Dyer
Author: Michelle Hodkin
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published Date: November 4th 2014
Genre: YA, Fantasy, Paranormal
Page Count: 
Format: Kindle

My Rating: ★ ★.5

Goodreads Summary: 
Mara Dyer wants to believe there's more to the lies she’s been told.
There is.

She doesn’t stop to think about where her quest for the truth might lead.
She should.

She never had to imagine how far she would go for vengeance.
She will now.

Loyalties are betrayed, guilt and innocence tangle, and fate and chance collide in this shocking conclusion to Mara Dyer’s story.

Retribution has arrived.
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 My Review:

While I didn't hate this book as much as the others. I still had a lot of problems with it. But first lets go with what I liked.

I liked that we learned so much about how a lot of it happened somewhat and that they weren't the first people to have it.
I liked Stella and Mara's "friendship" and how Stella wouldn't always go with whatever she said.

Now what I didn't like was that almost everyone just went with whatever Mara said even though she was always the most clueless. All she ever cared about was Noah. She didn't care about trying to figure out what type of damage her ability could do, or what everyone else could do. She didn't even care about the experiments done one other people that Kell's did. All she ever cared or wanted was Noah and while some people might think that was super romantic I found it to be rather pointless in this situation.

Also if Noah's dad didn't want them to ever be together then why did he make certain things happen that would bring them together. Why did he leave Noah there alone with Mara, if he really didn't want them together shouldn't he have forced Noah to leave with him.

What was Lukumi problem throughout the whole thing and why didn't he talk to them all in person and try to explain better why he did certain things. I got that he had tried to change certain things through his letter he wrote to Mara but still he should have known better then to make certain other things happen or try to control them.

Were the last 20 pages even really needed? I didn't care about that, we knew what choice they would make because they had made it before and will continue to make it until they do eventually die. 

The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

Title: The Evolution of Mara Dyer
Author: Michelle Hodkin
Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers
Published Date: October 23rd 2012
Genre: YA, Fantasy, Paranormal
Page Count: 528
Format: Kindle

My Rating: ★ ★.5

Goodreads Summary: 
The truth about Mara Dyer's dangerous and mysterious abilities continues to unravel in the New York Times bestselling sequel to the thrilling The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer. Mara Dyer once believed she could run from her past.She can't. She used to think her problems were all in her head. They aren't. She couldn't imagine that after everything she's been through, the boy she loves would still be keeping secrets. She's wrong. In this gripping sequel to The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer, the truth evolves and choices prove deadly. What will become of Mara Dyer next?
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 My Review:

After having a lot of up and downs with the first book in this series I wasn't sure if I would want to continue with it. I am so glad I did though. This book was everything I hoped the first one to be. It was creepy, and gave us insight on possibly why she has this power. It also showed us that she wasn't alone in it and there is a lot more people with it then I ever expected it to be.

While their still was some romance elements they were drastically cut back thankfully and it was more about Mara, and what is happening to her, and who is doing certain things to her.

That doctor has to go though. Something very fishy is going on there and I don't like it all.

Now on to the third book and I hope it doesn't leave me feeling like the first one did.