Published: August 14, 2014 

Publisher: Dutton

Author: Stephanie Perkins

Pages: 400
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Love ignites in the City That Never Sleeps, but can it last?

Hopeless romantic Isla has had a crush on introspective cartoonist Josh since their first year at the School of America in Paris. And after a chance encounter in Manhattan over the summer, romance might be closer than Isla imagined. But as they begin their senior year back in France, Isla and Josh are forced to confront the challenges every young couple must face, including family drama, uncertainty about their college futures, and the very real possibility of being apart.

Featuring cameos from fan-favourites Anna, Étienne, Lola, and Cricket, this sweet and sexy story of true love—set against the stunning backdrops of New York City, Paris, and Barcelona—is a swoonworthy conclusion to Stephanie Perkins’s beloved series.

Maybe my expectations for this book were way too high. I am still having trouble with how to rate this.

Book Review: Queen of Shadows by Sarah J. Maas (Throne of Glass #4)

Published: September 1, 2015 

Publisher:  Bloomsbury USA Childrens

Author: Sarah J. Maas

Pages: 656
Genres: High Fantasy, Young Adult, Adventure

Everyone Celaena Sardothien loves has been taken from her. But she's at last returned to the empire—for vengeance, to rescue her once-glorious kingdom, and to confront the shadows of her past . . . 

 She will fight for her cousin, a warrior prepared to die just to see her again. She will fight for her friend, a young man trapped in an unspeakable prison. And she will fight for her people, enslaved to a brutal king and awaiting their lost queen's triumphant return.

 Celaena’s epic journey has captured the hearts and imaginations of millions across the globe. This fourth volume will hold readers rapt as Celaena’s story builds to a passionate, agonising crescendo that might just shatter her world.

I CAN READ THIS SO MANY TIMES and I will not get bored of it! (easily)

This is an intense book  let me tell you that. There isn't a space where there isn't something happening. My plans to read it as fast as I can crumbled miserably on page 40.

I was under so much pressure that I hadn't realised until after I finished this book. My whole existence seemed and felt lighter.

Book Review: The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin (Mara Dyer #1)

Published: September 27, 2011 

Publisher: Simon and Schuster Books for Young Readers

Author: Michelle Hodkin

Pages: 456
Genres: Young Adult, Paranormal, Romance, Mystery

Mara Dyer believes life can't get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.
 It can. 

 She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her strangely unharmed. 
There is. 

 She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love. 
 She's wrong.

I can’t get over the amazingness of this book. 

 I was freaking out, it was so creepy. 

Book Review: Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon

Published: September 1, 2015 

Publisher: Delacorte Books for Young Readers

Author: Nicola Yoon

Pages: 320
Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance

 

My disease is as rare as it is famous. Basically, I’m allergic to the world. I don’t leave my house, have not left my house in seventeen years. The only people I ever see are my mom and my nurse, Carla.

 But then one day, a moving truck arrives next door. I look out my window, and I see him. He’s tall, lean and wearing all black—black T-shirt, black jeans, black sneakers, and a black knit cap that covers his hair completely. He catches me looking and stares at me. I stare right back. His name is Olly.

 Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster.

Received from publisher in exchange for an honest review. 

 2.5 - 3 stars? 

Book Review: Heir of Fire by Sarah J. Maas

Published: September 2, 2014

Publisher: Bloomsbury USA Childrens

Author: Sarah J. Maas 

Pages: 562
Genres: High Fantasy, Young Adult , Adventure

Celaena Sardothien has survived deadly contests and shattering heartbreak—but at an unspeakable cost. Now she must travel to a new land to confront her darkest truth...a truth about her heritage that could change her life—and her future—forever.

 Meanwhile, brutal and monstrous forces are gathering on the horizon, intent on enslaving her world. To defeat them, Celaena must find the strength to not only fight her inner demons but to battle the evil that is about to be unleashed. 

 The king's assassin takes on an even greater destiny and burns brighter than ever before in this follow-up to the New York Times bestselling Crown of Midnight.

 In terms of fantasy, especially where YA is concerned, this is some pretty exceptional work. YA doesn't do so hot with fantasy and barely touches High Fantasy, I assume because authors just can't manage it: boring romantic relationships swallow any interest I can have in character development or the world in which they reside in. And speaking of the world they reside in, it is bad AND boring. They are BORING. And boring universes in fantasy is just not the business.

Sarah J. Maas has something very good going on. Magic system development, an immense universe with a bunch of different countries and cultures and languages and dimensions.