AN EMOTION OF GREAT DELIGHT By Tahereh Mafi

September 18, 2023 by Leave a Comment

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AN EMOTION OF GREAT DELIGHT By Tahereh MafiAn Emotion of Great Delight by Tahereh Mafi
Published by HarperCollins on 6/1/21
Genres: Contemporary, Romance, Young Adult
Pages: 256
Format: Ebook
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It’s 2003, several months since the US officially declared war on Iraq, and the American political world has evolved. Tensions are high, hate crimes are on the rise, FBI agents are infiltrating local mosques, and the Muslim community is harassed and targeted more than ever. Shadi, who wears hijab, keeps her head down.

She's too busy drowning in her own troubles to find the time to deal with bigots.

Shadi is named for joy, but she’s haunted by sorrow. Her brother is dead, her father is dying, her mother is falling apart, and her best friend has mysteriously dropped out of her life. And then, of course, there’s the small matter of her heart—

It’s broken.

Shadi tries to navigate her crumbling world by soldiering through, saying nothing. She devours her own pain, each day retreating farther and farther inside herself until finally, one day, everything changes.

She explodes.

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Its two years after 9/11 and tensions are running high, but Shadi has other important things to worry about than people looking down on her for being Muslim.

Honestly, I wish this book was better than it was. I thought it would be more about navigating life after 9/11 especially because our main character is Muslim but the plot in this book is so weird. So Shadi has lost her older brother, her father is in the hospital, and her mother is struggling with her mental health, and I would say Shadi is too but she is like checked out to those around her. Her older sister is unimpressed with her lack of emotion and we can see how disconnected Shadi is. We also see Shade reconnect with Ali, her ex best friend Zahra’s brother. Zahra doesn’t want anything to do with Shadi anymore for whatever reason, and every time they interact Zahra comes in hot, which I felt was common for most of the conversations Shadi had with other characters. I’m not sure this book actually had a plot. It was just Shadi navigating her emotions or lack thereof about situations going on around her.

I really wanted to like this book but I was not interested in what was going on or even our main character. It was hard to be invested in a story when the main character wasn’t even interested.

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A MILLION TO ONE By Adiba Jaigirdar

December 9, 2022 by Leave a Comment

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A MILLION TO ONE By Adiba JaigirdarA Million to One by Adiba Jaigirdar
Published by HarperCollins on 12/13/22
Genres: Historical, LGBT, Romance, Young Adult
Pages: 367
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Josefa is an unapologetic and charismatic thief, who loves the thrill of the chase. She has her eye on her biggest mark yet—the RMS Titanic, the most luxurious ship in the world. But she isn’t interested in stealing from wealthy first-class passengers onboard. No, she’s out for the ultimate prize: the Rubiyat, a one of a kind book encrusted with gems that’s worth millions.

Josefa can’t score it alone, so she enlists a team of girls with unique talents: Hinnah, a daring acrobat and contortionist; Violet, an actress and expert dissembler; and Emilie, an artist who can replicate any drawing by hand.

They couldn’t be more different and yet they have one very important thing in common: their lives depend on breaking into the vault and capturing the Rubiyat. But careless mistakes, old grudges, and new romance threaten to jeopardize everything they’ve worked for and put them in incredible danger when tragedy strikes.

While the odds of pulling off the heist are slim, the odds of survival are even slimmer…

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A thief, an actress, an artist, and an acrobat aboard the Titanic in hopes of pulling off a heist. Josefa is a thief and she enlists her friends Violet, Emilie, and Hinnah to help her because they all come with certain skills that’ll help this mission be successful. The goal is to get the Rubaiyat a book that is encrusted with jewels and is worth millions. Any little mistake could jeopardize this groups mission so they have to be careful not to this heist slip through their hands.

This was such a good book, I love mysteries and I also love a good heist. Each girl has a skill that would help ensure that they could pull this heist off. I will say even though Josefa was friends with each of the girls some of the girls weren’t friends with each other, Violet and Hinnah were weary of Emelie but her being artist was really helpful. We see these girls make plans and scope out the Titanic, I loved seeing the girls do recon and go off and make sure each step of the plan would go off without a hitch. There’s this guy named Lake and he’s the one who’s guarding the book but he also has an assistant, August who has history with Josefa so it just complicated things a little more. The setting of the Titanic was great because it just added to the suspense of stealing something and having nowhere to run when you get caught.

This book was one that I couldn’t put down. The heist was great, the friendship and bond that these girls eventually form was heartwarming and we see that each of these girls really had a reason to trust Josefa and try to make a better life for themselves when all was said and done. I will say the ending was kind of bittersweet but it didn’t take away from all the other amazing things that happened throughout the book.

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PANIC By Lauren Oliver

May 23, 2022 by Leave a Comment

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PANIC By Lauren OliverPanic by Lauren Oliver
Published by HarperCollins on 3/4/14
Genres: Contemporary, Thrillers, Young Adult
Pages: 416
Format: Paperback
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Panic began as so many things do in Carp, a poor town of twelve thousand people in the middle of nowhere: because it was summer, and there was nothing else to do. Heather never thought she would compete in panic, a legendary game played by graduating seniors. She'd never thought of herself as fearless, the kind of person who would fight to stand out. But when she finds something, and someone, to fight for, she will discover that she is braver than she ever thought.

Dodge has never been afraid of panic. His secret will fuel him, and get him all the way through the game; he's sure of it. But what he doesn't know is that he's not the only one with a secret. Everyone has something to play for. For Heather and Dodge, the game will bring new alliances, unexpected revelations, and the possibility of first love for each of them—and the knowledge that sometimes the very things we fear are those we need the most.

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Panic is a game played in Carp by graduating seniors. Panic is a high stakes game where the players are putting their lives on the line and the last person standing gets a reward. Our main characters Heather and Dodge both have different reasons for joining. Heather was basically an impulse decision and Dodge wants to play for revenge. In the book we see alliances formed and broken.

Panic is basically challenges that are supposed to be dangerous and risky and we see a large group of seniors dwindle down until we get to the final two. I honestly was kind of bored, I thought the challenges would be more exciting but I personally didn’t think so and some of the things that happened were just not necessarily unbelievable but just the probability of these things happening are low. The law enforcement in Carp is also a joke, Panic has been going on for years supposedly but the cops have never stopped it even though they’ve been “trying to.”

We see Heather’s home life which isn’t great and although it wasn’t her motivation to win it becomes her motivation to win especially after a string events happens that leaves Heather and her younger sister homeless. Dodge on the other hand is trying to get revenge for his sister who competed in Panic and had an accident. Natalie and Bishop are also characters and their Heathers best friends but Natalie makes an alliance with Dodge and she’s basically using him because she knows she’s not going to be able to make it to the end. Natalie is Dodge’s love interest and I didn’t like the “connection” between the two, she was using him and he was infatuated with her so he was like a little puppy dog. Heather on the other hand had Bishop as a love interest and he was always looking out for her but I feel like she didn’t know exactly how she felt about him. Anyway the ending was okay it wasn’t special and didn’t seem realistic. This was an okay book I thought it would have been better if I could connect to the characters and then maybe I would have felt something when they were doing these dangerous challenges.

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ESCAPE FROM ASYLUM By Madeleine Roux

April 15, 2022 by Leave a Comment

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ESCAPE FROM ASYLUM By Madeleine RouxEscape from Asylum by Madeleine Roux
Series: Asylum #0
Published by HarperCollins on 6/14/16
Genres: Horror & Ghost Stories, Young Adult
Pages: 352
Format: Ebook
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The nightmare is just beginning.

Ricky Desmond has been through this all before. If he could just get through to his mother, he could convince her that he doesn’t belong at Brookline. From the man who thinks he can fly to the woman who killed her husband, the other patients are nothing like him; all he did was lose his temper just a little bit, just the once. But when Ricky is selected by the sinister Warden Crawford for a very special program—a program that the warden claims will not cure him but perfect him—Ricky realizes that he may not be able to wait for his mom a second longer. With the help of a sympathetic nurse and a fellow patient, Ricky needs to escape now.

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Brookline isn’t the first place Ricky’s parents have sent him to try to fix him, but Ricky knows something isn’t right with Brookline. He’s seeing and hearing things, and now the Warden has taken a special interest in him, and even chose Ricky for a special program. Ricky realizes that he needs to get out of Brookline he just doesn’t know how he’s going to do it.

Escape from Asylum takes place before the trilogy and we actually get to see Warden Crawford at work. Ricky is placed into Brookline after being caught with a boy and attacking his stepfather. Ricky becomes friends with another patient Kay, and he’s not sure if he can trust nurse Ash, she makes it seem like she’s playing both sides. I liked this story, I’ve already read the other three books in the series and this book sheds a light on what the asylum was like when it was open. It was interesting seeing Ricky figure out things by snooping around, it was unfortunate that he even ended up at the asylum in the first place. Ricky and Kay were good characters, I wish we saw more of Kay though, but they were kept apart once the warden realized that they were friends. The second part of the book was great, we see more of the mystery unfolding and what the warden has planned.

Overall this was a good book, it can be read as a standalone or a prequel. I honestly love this series and the pictures that are included really add to the creepy vibe.

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THIS WOVEN KINGDOM By Tahereh Mafi

February 2, 2022 by Leave a Comment

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THIS WOVEN KINGDOM By Tahereh MafiThis Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi
Series: This Woven Kingdom #1
Published by HarperCollins on 2/1/22
Genres: Fantasy & Magic, Mythology, Romance, Young Adult
Pages: 500
Format: eARC
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To all the world, Alizeh is a disposable servant, not the long-lost heir to an ancient Jinn kingdom forced to hide in plain sight.

The crown prince, Kamran, has heard the prophecies foretelling the death of his king. But he could never have imagined that the servant girl with the strange eyes, the girl he can’t put out of his mind, would one day soon uproot his kingdom—and the world.

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Alizeh is the heir to the long lost Jinn kingdom but as of now she works as a servant barely making it by. The Jinn people have been forced into hiding and Alizeh is lucky to be alive and have found work. Kamran is the crown prince and he knows that pretty soon his Grandfather will die and the kingdom will be his, but he doesn’t expect that the servant girl would be the one to uproot his kingdom.

I thought this book started off slow, I think this was due to all the world building and learning about the characters. Alizeh just wants to keep her head down and work, she doesn’t even care about being the heir to the Jinn kingdom she just wants to survive in a world where her people have been killed for being different. Jinn’s have abilities that the Clay people don’t which is one of the reasons they were persecuted. Kamran on the other hand I don’t know what his deal is. He would make rash decisions and he was pompous. I would have preferred if it was just Alizeh’s POV because I just couldn’t stand Kamran. When Kamran and Alizeh meet she is trying to avoid him because she doesn’t need unwanted attention but Kamran can’t stop thinking about her.

Kamran’s grandfather the king decides to host a ball so that Kamran can find his future wife. Kamran doesn’t want to get married to just anyone he wants to marry Alizeh and they only had a few encounters so at this point he doesn’t love her he’s just infatuated with her. During this time Alizeh meets a few allies who want her to take her place as the Jinn queen. There’s a lot of twists that occur in the last five chapters and they were pretty surprising.

This was a decent read I liked the story telling and how things picked up in the end but I could have done without Kamran and his childish behavior and instalove.

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CATACOMB By Madeleine Roux

March 4, 2021 by Leave a Comment

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CATACOMB By Madeleine RouxCatacomb by Madeleine Roux
Series: Asylum #3
Published by HarperCollins on 9/1/15
Genres: Horror & Ghost Stories, Mystery & Detective, Paranormal, Young Adult
Pages: 332
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Sometimes the past is better off buried.

Senior year is finally over. After all they've been through, Dan, Abby, and Jordan are excited to take one last road trip together, and they're just not going to think about what will happen when the summer ends. But on their way to visit Jordan's uncle in New Orleans, the three friends notice that they're being followed . . . and photographed. Then Dan starts receiving messages from someone he didn't expect to hear from again—someone who died last Halloween.

When the trio arrives in New Orleans and the strange occurrences only escalate, Dan is forced to accept that everything that has happened to him in the past year may not be a coincidence, but fate—a fate that ties Dan to a group called the Bone Artists, who have a sinister fascination with notorious killers of the past.

Now Dan's only hope is that he will make it out of his senior trip alive.

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Senior year is over and Dan, Abby, and Jordan reconnect to go on a road trip before starting their first year in college. The group is on their way to New Orleans to visit Jordan’s uncle, but along the way they make a few stops and notice that someone is following them and taking pictures. Things only get worse in New Orleans when a group called the Bone Artists seem to have a connection to Brookline.

This is the last installment in this trilogy. I will admit that this wasn’t my favorite book. The first 25% where they kept stopping so that Abby could take pictures for her project was slow. Dan is getting messages from Micah that are sort of like a warning and one of those texts clues Dan in to the fact that the group is being followed. We also get more information about Dan’s birth parents which I liked. The group meets Oliver and Sabrina, Oliver was a friend of Micah’s and he’s also been getting text. Oliver thinks that Dan can help him repay his debt to the Bone Artists. Jordan and Abby don’t trust Oliver and Sabrina and they were really rude to them and spent most of the book being mad at Dan and blaming him for the things that were happening. Abby and Dan are still dating, but I don’t understand why because there doesn’t seem to be any chemistry between them. The ending was good but it also felt a little rushed.

Overall this was a good book but I think the first two books are the best. The plot is good and I liked the mystery surrounding Dan’s parents and how the Bone Artists had a connection to things that went on at Brookline.

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SANCTUM By Madeleine Roux

February 26, 2021 by Leave a Comment

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SANCTUM By Madeleine RouxSanctum by Madeleine Roux
Series: Asylum #2
Published by HarperCollins on 8/26/14
Genres: Horror & Ghost Stories, Mystery & Detective, Paranormal, Young Adult
Pages: 353
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Dan, Abby, and Jordan remain traumatized by the summer they shared in the Brookline asylum. Much as they'd love to move on, many questions remain, and someone is determined to keep the terror alive, sending the teens photos of an old-timey carnival, with no note and no name. Forsaking their plan never to go back, the teens return to New Hampshire College under the guise of a weekend for prospective students, and there they realize that the carnival from the photos is not only real, it's here on campus, apparently for the first time in many years.

Sneaking away from sample classes and college parties, Dan and his friends lead a tour of their own—one through the abandoned houses and hidden places of a surrounding town. Camford is hiding a terrible past, and the truth behind Dan's connection to the asylum's evil warden is more terrifying than Dan ever imagined.

Short and Sweet Review

Dan, Abby, and Jordan are going back to Brookline. After the traumatizing summer they had there it seems like even when they left someone wants to keep the terror going. The trio has been receiving photos and even Felix gave them a set of coordinates to properties close to campus. So the three go to campus as prospective students and try to get answers.

Our characters are back at New Hampshire College and that’s when they realize that the pictures they’ve been sent featuring a carnival is actually happening on campus grounds. Dan and his friends know that the only way to get answers is to sneak away from their guides for the weekend and visit the coordinates that Felix gave them. This book still has the creepy vibes that the first book gave us. Dan still sees things through the eyes of Daniel Crawford and he’s also seeing the ghost of children.

The group learns a lot more about the past of Brookline and even learn that there’s a cult in the midst of everything. It was interesting to see how much the group uncovered. This book had me flipping through pages just to see what would happen next. I was always worried for the characters something about the campus and the people on it are not right.

I’ve enjoyed reading the first two books in this series and I’m excited to see what’ll happen in the third especially because we’re leaving Brookline behind. What I love most about this series is the creepy vibes and the pictures sprinkled in it!

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ASYLUM By Madeleine Roux

February 18, 2021 by Leave a Comment

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ASYLUM By Madeleine RouxAsylum by Madeleine Roux
Series: Asylum #1
Published by HarperCollins on 8/20/13
Genres: Horror & Ghost Stories, Mystery & Detective, Paranormal, Young Adult
Pages: 321
Format: Ebook
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For sixteen-year-old Dan Crawford, the New Hampshire College Prep program is the chance of a lifetime. Except that when Dan arrives, he finds that the usual summer housing has been closed, forcing students to stay in the crumbling Brookline Dorm. The dorm was formerly a sanatorium, more commonly known as an asylum. And not just any asylum—a last resort for the criminally insane.

As Dan and his new friends Abby and Jordan start exploring Brookline's twisty halls and hidden basement, they uncover disturbing secrets about what really went on at Brookline . . . secrets that link Dan and his friends to the asylum's dark past. Because Brookline was no ordinary asylum, and there are some secrets that refuse to stay buried.

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Dan is at the New Hampshire College Prep program for the summer. This is important to Dan, he’s an outcast at his school so this is his chance to make friends before college. The only thing that’s not exactly easing to think about is the fact that the dorm the students are staying in used to be an asylum. Dan does make some friends, Abby and Jordan. The trio end up exploring the asylum and learn some disturbing facts about their new home for the summer.

I found Asylum to be an enjoyable read. I will admit that some parts were predictable but that didn’t really bother me. I thought the setting was creepy and the pictures just added a lot to the book. Sometimes I found the pictures scarier then what was actually happening. Dan, Abby, and Jordan all have some unexplainable things happen to them that kind of makes them feel like they’re losing it especially Dan. We do learn that Dan may have a connection to the asylum which maybe why he feels like things are speaking to him and why he’s having strange dreams about being places in the asylum he’s never seen before. I didn’t really care for the romance I thought it was better when Dan and Abby were just friends. There was a cliffhanger at the end. I plan on finishing the rest of the series just to see how everything works out. Even thought the book may have been predictable it kept me engaged and I just wanted to see what would happen next!

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THE AWAKENING By L.J. Smith

April 5, 2019 by Leave a Comment

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THE AWAKENING By L.J. SmithThe Awakening by L.J. Smith
Series: The Vampire Diaries #1
Published by HarperCollins on 3/1/99
Genres: Fantasy & Magic, Paranormal, Romance, Young Adult
Pages: 324
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ReviewedbyDani

A deadly love triangle

Elena: beautiful and popular, the girl who can have any guy she wants.

Stefan: brooding and mysterious, desperately trying to resist his desire for Elena . . . for her own good.

Damon: sexy, dangerous, and driven by an urge for revenge against Stefan, the brother who betrayed him.

Elena finds herself drawn to both brothers . . . who will she choose?


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“You want everybody and everything revolving around Elena Gilbert.”

I don’t even know where to start you guys so I guess I’ll give you a synopsis because the one from the book isn’t great. Elena is starting a new year in high school and then a new student, Stefan arrives. Elena finds herself attracted to Stefan and will do anything to have him. Here’s the thing Stefan doesn’t seem to feel the same way about Elena and he spends most of his time avoiding her. Okay here’s my problem with the book he obviously doesn’t feel the same way about her so what does she do? She spends half of the book moping and trying to come up with ways to get him to like her honestly its ridiculous. Also once he does start talking to her she starts asking him if he loves her. Like what?! He literally just started talking to her and then the next day she asks him “don’t you love me Stefan?” It’s just weird and put me off and anyway we don’t even find out Damon exists until like 60% through the book and its not like she’s drawn to him like the book says, he uses his powers on her to get these reactions from her. This book was hard to get through I couldn’t stand Elena, she was self-centered and even though she might not have thought so she was. The only thing that was different from the show was Elena’s best friends were Bonnie and Meredith, and Caroline was more of an enemy. Would I read the second book? I don’t know I would have to be bored or maybe in a mood to suffer. I don’t understand why I didn’t like this book because I’ve read the Nightworld series by L.J. Smith and loved it, and now I want to go back and see if I still love them or if I’m losing it.

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BROKEN THINGS By Lauren Oliver

September 25, 2018 by Leave a Comment

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BROKEN THINGS By Lauren OliverBroken Things by Lauren Oliver
Published by HarperCollins on 10/2/18
Genres: Fantasy & Magic, Mystery & Detective, Young Adult
Pages: 416
Format: eARC
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ReviewedbyDani

It’s been five years since Summer Marks was brutally murdered in the woods.

Everyone thinks Mia and Brynn killed their best friend. That driven by their obsession with a novel called The Way into Lovelorn the three girls had imagined themselves into the magical world where their fantasies became twisted, even deadly.

The only thing is: they didn’t do it.

On the anniversary of Summer’s death, a seemingly insignificant discovery resurrects the mystery and pulls Mia and Brynn back together once again. But as the lines begin to blur between past and present and fiction and reality, the girls must confront what really happened in the woods all those years ago—no matter how monstrous.


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Five years ago Summer Marks was murdered and everyone believes that her best friends Mia and Brynn did it, but they didn’t. On the anniversary of Summer’s death Brynn and Mia are reunited and this time they try to prove their innocence and in doing that they have to revisit Lovelorn, a book that the girls were obsessed with and even imagined themselves in.

Characters

Brynn: One of our main characters. Brynn has been spending most of her time in rehab for a drug problem that she doesn’t have but it’s easier being in rehab then dealing with the judgement of people all over the country for being a “killer”. I liked Brynn she has a tough exterior but she’s actually may have been the softest out of all of the girls.

Mia: Mia is known to be the more sensitive and quieter of the girls but we learn that she may be stronger than everyone thinks she is. After everything that has happened Mia has been homeschooled and basically tries to live a normal life.

Summer: Well the only time we read about Summer is when the girls are thinking about her or they’re having a flashback. Summer seems like a victim in the story but we learn that she kind of bullied the people around her. Summer is the one who introduced the girls to Lovelorn and she was really invested in it and liked imagining that she was in Lovelorn.

Abby: Mia’s friend and a famous youtuber. Abby has been Mia’s only friend over the recent years and she loves Mia and is always willing to help her.

Wade: Wade is Brynn’s cousin and for the past five years he’s been obsessed with the Monsters of Brickhouse Lane case and trying to prove his cousin’s innocence. I liked Wade and the fact that he truly wanted to help Brynn out. Wade is a little weird but it makes him more likable.

Owen: Owen was suspected of murdering Summer but got off because of a mistake the police made. I felt bad for Owen because he’s also hated by the community and even though he moved away and came back people never forget.

Romance

Brynn and Abby: This was just one of those things that just happened. These two were spending a lot of time together and it started with a kiss and then that was it. They have a connection but I think Brynn was insecure about the fact that Abby may actually like her back which made her push Abby away, which left Abby with the feeling that she did something wrong.

Mia and Owen: Mia and Owen had been friends for a while and Mia had feelings for a long time but these two just drifted apart and now that they’re back together all of those past feelings are brought up.

Quotes

~ “Summer was awful. We hated her. And she was magical, too, and it was our job to protect her, and we failed.”

My Thoughts

~ My favorite thing that happened was when everyone was reunited because they were all living lives so different from each other.

~ Each character even if they weren’t main characters all played a big part in figuring things out.

~ I loved that it was like a book within a book and the group had to put together clues from Lovelorn to find out what happened in reality.

~ I found it interesting that the girls obsession with Lovelorn ended up being the reason that Summer was murdered.

~ Throughout the book Brynn and Mia learn things about Summer that they didn’t know before, like the fact that someone was helping her write the sequel to Lovelorn.

~ We get to read from Brynn and Mia’s point of view from the past and the present, we also get to read from the original Lovelorn and the one the girls were working on.

Overall

I honestly enjoyed this book more than I thought I would, I was worried that it would be confusing going back and forth from past to present but it actually made the book easy to follow and gave a lot of background. The book also includes some lines from Lovelorn so it was like a book within a book. I loved the characters and I was so glad when they banded together to actually figure out what happened on the day Summer died. I would recommend this book and Halloween is coming up and this would be the perfect read!

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