Saving June by Hannah Harrington

‘If she’d waited less than two weeks, she’d be June who died in June. But I guess my sister didn’t consider that.’

Harper Scott’s older sister has always been the perfect one so when June takes her own life a week before her high school graduation, sixteen-year-old Harper is devastated. Everyone’s sorry, but no one can explain why.

When her divorcing parents decide to split her sister’s ashes into his-and-her urns, Harper takes matters into her own hands. She’ll steal the ashes and drive cross-country with her best friend, Laney, to the one place June always dreamed of going California.

Enter Jake Tolan. He’s a boy with a bad attitude, a classic-rock obsession and nothing in common with Harper’s sister. But Jake had a connection with June, and when he insists on joining them, Harper’s just desperate enough to let him. With his alternately charming and infuriating demeanour and his belief that music can see you through anything, he might be exactly what she needs.

Except June wasn’t the only one hiding something. Jake’s keeping a secret that has the power to turn Harper’s life upside down again. ~ Summary from Goodreads.com

I give this book 3 out of 5 stars.

I really liked this book. But yet, not. The protagonist and her friends are a bit too angst-y and cliche. Yet still likeable enough to keep me reading it. Jake kinda carried the book in likeable-ness. But his "secret" advertised in the summary. Wasn't that big. And he and Harper's chemistry was kind of weird and volatile. And I understand that they both were reeling from the loss of June, but that didn't explain their unwarranted actions and such. But deep down they were both good people and that's a hard trait to find in people who act like that. And Laney is just careless, but still good. 
  
Harper's mother and Aunt Helen were portrayed as very imbecilic characters. Honestly, if your kid who isn't 18 runs away from home with her sister's ashes in tow and you are pissed about it, then why do you not call the police?... 
Yeah these characters were frustrating... But I still think it is a good read, Jake actually had a half decent taste in music surprisingly. And yeah... 


No playlist because the book actually comes with one.

The year is 2009.  Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy… he’s in college, has a girlfriend… and he can travel back through time. But it’s not like the movies – nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there’s no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors – it’s just harmless fun.

That is… until the day strangers burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, Holly, and during a struggle with Jackson, Holly is fatally shot. In his panic, Jackson jumps back two years to 2007, but this is not like his previous time jumps. Now he’s stuck in 2007 and can’t get back to the future.

Desperate to somehow return to 2009 to save Holly but unable to return to his rightful year, Jackson settles into 2007 and learns what he can about his abilities.

But it’s not long before the people who shot Holly in 2009 come looking for Jackson in the past, and these “Enemies of Time” will stop at nothing to recruit this powerful young time-traveler.  Recruit… or kill him.

Piecing together the clues about his father, the Enemies of Time, and himself, Jackson must decide how far he’s willing to go to save Holly… and possibly the entire world. ~ Summary from Goodreads.com

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars


This book possessed a really confusing plot. Not a good way to start off a review, but it's true. I could hardly keep up with it at times. Essentially the protagonist, Jackson, is a time-traveler containing a recessive gene known as "Tempus" that makes him this way. Jackson is honestly a really good guy who has the ability to never waver from the path of doing the right thing, even if it's difficult and breaks his heart to do so. 


Jackson and Holly are deeply in love, despite all of their little arguments, they are and they seem pretty intent to spend the rest of their lives together. That is until the "EOT's" a really confusing group of antagonists whose intent is never made clear throughout this story appear and shoot Holly, causing Jackson to make a full jump into 2007. Where he attempts to move on with his life after realizing that he is unable to return to his present. There he meets up with a younger Holly and Adam, and tries to fully uncover the truth about his life. And who he should let himself trust.


Tempest by Julie Cross is a confusing yet great read if you can keep up with it and are looking for a book on time travel.


Book Playlist:
Love isn't always fair - Black Veil Brides
I miss you - Blink- 182
Have faith in me - A Day to Remember
Anytime - Eve 6
The Flood - Escape the Fate
 Let it die - Foo Fighters
The Gunsling - Black Veil Brides

Valentine's Day - Linkin Park
Summertime - My Chemical Romance
Memories - Panic At The Disco
Set the World on Fire - Black Veil Brides

Across the Universe by. Beth Revis

Amy is a cryogenically frozen passenger aboard the vast spaceship Godspeed. She expects to awaken on a new planet, 300 years in the future. But fifty years before Godspeed's scheduled landing, Amy's cryo chamber is unplugged, and she is nearly killed.
Now, Amy is caught inside an enclosed world where nothing makes sense. Godspeed's passengers have forfeited all control to Eldest, a tyrannical and frightening leader, and Elder, his rebellious and brilliant teenage heir.
Amy desperately wants to trust Elder. But should she? All she knows is that she must race to unlock Godspeed's hidden secrets before whoever woke her tries to kill again. ~ Summary from bn.com

I give it 4 out of 5 stars.

This is in fact probably the only Semi Sci-fi book I will ever read, despite the fact I absolutely LOVED it.
It got pretty angsty and dramatic at some points, really depressing at others. There were so many emotions flying around in a world where there aren't supposed to be any.  It was awesome.


Wanna know what I found ironic though, Amy was nonessential cargo on the ship. But yet, she's pretty much the most essential person on the Godspeed besides Elder. Irony, gotta love it. And how the people in the mental patient ward were the only sane ones?

But what I didn't get was why Amy NEVER told Elder about what Luthe tried to do to her... I get that Amy was really upset about that, I mean she had EVERY right to be, but why didn't Elder push the envelope on that?... Yeah, you won't get that lil' drabble until you READ THE BOOK! Which all of you should of course. :)

Playlist:
Across the universe - The Beatles (Though I truly, truly prefer the Jim Sturgess version)
Last of the American girls - Green day
Break - Three days grace
I Miss you - Blink-182
Unknown Soldier - Breaking Benjamin
Robot boy - Linkin Park
Jars - Chevelle
Fix you - Coldplay
Bring me to life - Evanescence
The Catalyst - Linkin Park
Fake it - Seether
The Green  Gentlemen - Panic at the disco
Save yourself, I'll hold them back - My Chemical Romance
Roses - Seether


Next up: Carrier of the Mark- Leigh Fallon

Cloaked by. Alex Flinn

I'm not your average hero. I actually wasn't your average anything. Just a poor guy working an after-school job at a South Beach shoe repair shop to help his mom make ends meet. But a little magic changed it all.
It all started with a curse. And a frognapping. And one hot-looking princess, who asked me to lead a rescue mission.
There wasn't a fairy godmother or any of that. And even though I fell in love along the way, what happened to me is unlike any fairy tale I've ever heard. Before I knew it, I was spying with a flock of enchanted swans, talking (yes, talking!) to a fox named Todd, and nearly trampled by giants in the Everglades.
Don't believe me? I didn't believe it either. But you'll see. Because I knew it all was true, the second I got cloaked. ~ Summary from bn.com

I give this book 2 out of 5 stars...

I'm going to go ahead and say that this book seriously disappointed me. I loved Alex Flinn's earlier books like A Kiss in Time and Beastly, they were original and awesome and I adored them. This one, I don't really even know why I bothered to finish it. I had a clear dislike for it... All the character's were stupid and really under-developed and the plotline was okay, just not interesting or motivating enough to make you want to finish. All the characters were so clueless... It was just like UGHHHHHHH really why didn't you stupid people figure that out like 5 chapters ago!!!!!!

Don't get me wrong this is not the WORST book I've ever read, that would be the House on Mango street - Sandra Ciseneros- aka the school required reading book with no plot and has the main character get raped by a clown- but it truly is not the best either...

No playlist for this one guys... Sorry.

Silence by. Becca Fitzpatrick

The noise between Patch and Nora is gone. They’ve overcome the secrets riddled in Patch’s dark past...bridged two irreconcilable worlds...faced heart-wrenching tests of betrayal, loyalty, and trust...and all for a love that will transcend the boundary between heaven and earth. Armed with nothing but their absolute faith in each other, Patch and Nora enter a desperate fight to stop a villain who holds the power to shatter everything they’ve worked for—and their love—forever. - Summary from Amazon.com 

I give this book 5 out of 5 stars, because it truly, truly has earned it!

Silence is the third book in the ever so amazing Hush, Hush Saga and it rocked my Christmas penguin socks off!
Okay since I happen to be a super nerd (Da na na na na), I must explain all of the titles meanings in regards to plotline.

Hush, Hush - It's like they're trying to keep a bunch of secrets quiet, ya know? Like shut up or I'll use you as a human sacrifice! (Despite the fact that, that truly was not the reasoning behind that little piece of plotage). Everyone has something that they're hiding from somebody else.

Crescendo- A steady increase in force or intensity. In Musical terms, your sound starts out pretty softly then gradually grows louder and louder throughout the Crescendo. At the end of the Crescendo the sound is so amazingly loud that you can hardly believe it was soft to begin with. It's a great foreshadow for this story. It begins very, very peacefully, Patch and Nora are very happy together, then stuff gets shook up a bit, tensions rise. Old wounds resurface along with old lies and old enemies. And all of this stuff builds up this giant huge sound that has gotta give somebody a migraine... But at least like always Patch and Nora are together, for then...

Silence- Unlike the others, does not start out happily. Nora's memory has been wiped by Hank Miller, Patch is no where to be found for awhile there, meaning at first there's no danger (Patch is still protecting her!!! :] ). But back to the memory wiping, Hank Miller (Pretty much the worst Dad I've ever heard of) erased every single memory Nora possessed of Patch and kidnapped her for 3 months... Rixon as we all know is very much dead. And Patch/Jev is very much disliked by heaven's angels once more solely because if you remember correctly, he went rogue at the end of Crescendo... 

Dorky name explanation: It's silence because all secrets and all deceptions come clean in this book. And along with all that obviously Nora's mind obviously is pretty silent in regards to her life since the beginning of Hush, Hush... 


Read this book, and the rest of this simply AMAZING series cause, it truly is a book worth reading!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


Playlist- 
Holy image of lies - Sum 41
When they come for me - Linkin Park
Something - Escape the fate 
The only hope for me is you - My Chemical Romance
You make me smile - Blue october
Breath - Breaking Benjamin
Vindicated - Dashboard confessional
Valentine's day - Linkin Park
I will possess your heart - Death cab for cutie
You're Crashing, but You're no wave - Fall out boy
Pictures of you - The last goodnight
Forgotten - Linkin Park
The Silence - Mayday Parade
Ghost of you - My Chemical Romance

Fateful by. Claudia Gray

It's about a servant girl named Tess in 1912, who wants to escape from the house where she works, and most particularly the lecherous young lord of the manor. But that's not her biggest problem. While on a voyage to America, where she plans to escape and start a new life, she meets Alec, who's ruggedly handsome, fabulously wealthy, intelligent and yet so clearly troubled that she'd rather not fall for him, but she does. That also is not her biggest problem. Alec, it turns out, is a werewolf ... one cursed to change every night, unless and until he surrenders his independence and joins the Brotherhood, a pack of violently misogynistic werewolves who have been tracking him for months. You'd think that would be their biggest problem, wouldn't you?

But no. Their biggest problem -- though they don't know it yet -- is that they're aboard the RMS Titanic.  ~ Summary from Goodreads.com

I give this book 4 out of 5 stars!

Holy llamas this book is AMAZING!!!!!!!! You all need to read it like now... Or else! 

This was one of those books that the day it came out I had to buy it and read it THAT DAY. Seriously the second I heard about the book I instantly freaked out, it's werewolves on the Titanic, what isn't there to freak out about?!

The only thing about it that I didn't really like was the fact that the author kept throwing all these exciting little scenes at you to the point of which you were just like WHICH OF YOU IS THE FREAKING CLIMAX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! But that's essentially it, I adored the rest of it. :)


What I really liked about this book was, there was no love triangle, at all. It was kind of an all or nothing in romance Tess and Alec or nothing. It's not like the author threw in some random back up character to be the second choice if Alec or Tess got killed off. No, it's like if Alec or Tess die, that's it no backups to turn to. They're eachothers one shot at love. Forever.

Playlist -   

ＭＹ　ＨＥＡＲＴ　ＷＩＬＬ　ＧＯ　ＯＮ（タイタニック） by ニコチン

The messenger - Linkin Park

Reverse the Curse - Escape the fate

Disenchanted - My Chemical Romance 

Dear Agony - Breaking Benjamin

The flood - Escape the fate

You already know what you are - A Day to Remember

I'll follow you into the dark - Death cab for cutie

Robot boy - Linkin Park

Broken - Seether

World - Sick Puppies

The little things give you away - Linkin Park 

                       

I really would love to elaborate but... I believe that is in fact the books job. ;)
~Em

All you desire (The eternal ones #2) ~ Kristen Miller

Haven Moore and Iain Morrow have been living a blissful life in Rome, an ocean way from the Ouroboros Society and its diabolical leader. But paradise is not to last. The mysterious disappearance of Haven's best friend, Beau, sends the pair running back to New York, where they encounter the Horae, an underground group of women who have spent centuries scheming to destroy Adam Rosier. Only they can help Haven uncover the secret to Beau's whereabouts in one of her past lives. But their help comes at a price: Haven must infiltrate the Ouroboros Society, charm Adam Rosier, and lure him into a trap. It's a plan the Horae believe will save the world-but Haven and Iain fear that it may destroy the happiness they've been chasing for two thousand years. ~ Summary from Goodreads.com


I give this book 4 out of 5 stars. 


Yes, I was serious about the whole, I shall read the sequel part, (despite Haven's happy ending I just had to see if it was possible have an even happier one).
This book DID NOT dissapoint, the only reason for the four stars is because it tends to stick to the normal plotline for a sequel ya know? Distrust, loss of faith in someone, etc. Which is all cleared up before the end. Don't get me wrong I ADORED this book.
In this amazing sequel you find out more about Haven and Iain's countless past lives, Beau's role in them, and a lot more about the character of Adam Rosier. Adam Rosier, is in fact a very, very confusing character. He kinda plays the role of, I hate to say this but, the temptress. He offers up anything anyone could ever want to someone solely to either destroy or end up using someone. But yet in this book, he seems to change, to be a better man. (But remember he's still the temptress!)


The Horae also are a pretty confusing set of characters they're a set of 12 "sisters" who have been reincarnated countless times in order to help the world stay at a balance. According the sisters, in their first lives they were all actually sisters who all lived together peacfully, until Adam Rosier came into the picture ofcourse, he wronged them to the point of which all 12 of them were thrown out onto the streets and stoned to death. Their sole mission in their lives is to lock away Adam Rosier so that the world can be at peace. Adam Rosier is chaos and the Horae is light, but you know what they say. In darkness there is light and in light there is darkness.



Playlist~
Holy image of lies - Sum 41
Calling you - Blue October
Never give in - Black veil brides
Anthem of angels - Breaking Benjamin
Vindicated - Dashboard Confessional
Oh Well, Oh Well - Mayday Parade
Everything you want - Vertical horizon
Dark Blue - Jack's Mannequin
A Praise Chorus - Jimmy Eat World
Mastermind - Mindless Self Indulgence
Valentine's day - Linkin Park
Miserable at best - Mayday Parade
Iridescent - Linkin Park
Sleep - My Chemical Romance






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