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Blind by Rachel DeWoskin My rating: 4 of 5 stars This YA contemporary was fantasic! I couldn't put it down. The author wrote it in such a way that I didn't want to put it down because I needed to know what happened next. I loved Emma's character and her siblings, especially her twin older sisters. I really felt like I was walking next to Emma as she went through everything. Emma has been is an accident and lost her sight. After spending a year at the braile school learning to live all over again, she returns to her regular high school. She knew everything would change and things would be different she just didnt realize how much. Right before school starts back a girl from her grade washed up dead locally. Emma finds herself consumed with trying to figure out why the girl's death was considered accidental. Did she actually kill herself? Did someone else kill her? Did she trip and drown? The author really portrayed the difficulties wit

The Spy with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke My rating: 4 of 5 stars I really enjoyed this book just as much as the first in this series! They read in a way that if you read them out of order you would be okay but I don't recommend missing either book. The way the author intertwines magic and history into a ya fantasy novel is brilliant. Ilse and Wolf are siblings with a special type of magic that comes from their blood. This is World War II and they are both tricked into using their magic for the war. Wolf is a spy working on the Germans to try to keep Nazi Germany from being able to succeed with nuclear weaponry. Ilse is actually working with Americans to help further the Atom bomb along. Ilse cant bear not knowing if her brother is okay and sends him letters that he holds dear. Wolf has a flying incident and Ilse's letters are found. She has to prove she isn't a traitor in a time period of great war and distrust. ​Thank you to Edel

Body Swap by Sylvia McNicoll My rating: 4 of 5 stars This book was a real treat. It's a comedic contemporary with a heartfelt emotional relationship between an elderly woman and a teenager. It has some great lessons in humility, respecting the elderly, the positives and negatives of technology and even crossing racial divides. I highly recommend this novel for a good emotional read! Hallie is completely nervous. The guy she has been crushing on is at the mall. She and her friend Addy just arrived and she's discover a huge zit on her forehead. All she can think about is finding out what Khael said about her while texting her friend when she gets hit by a car in the parking deck and dies. She finds herself at a wonderful carnival and Eli leads her to the rollercoaster. She knows once she rides this there is no coming back and she's never even been kissed! She says she doesn't want to ride alone and waits. Susan appears along side Hallie

The Girl with the Red Balloon by Katherine Locke My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book was amazing! I love the way time travel worked with the rich emotional and historical journey the author takes you on. The world building was great and the author definitely did her research. The character building was done really well especially for the time period the book is set in. I felt like I was there to witness history. I highly recommend! Jewish American high school student Ellie Baum has left Pittsburgh and arrived in Germany for a spring break trip with her German Language class. Ellie thinks this trip will give her an excuse to practice German and give her perks for her college applications. Her Saba, a Holocaust survivor, didn't want her to go and she doesn't completely understand why but she will. "We are strange, sometimes, in the ways we choose to bear witness" When her friend Amanda wants to go flirt with a boy by the Berlin Wall Me

The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson My rating: 4 of 5 stars This was a fun read! I have really enjoyed everything I've read by Morgan Matson so far. The characters are very believeable and Clark was too cute. I loved how much influence the dogs in her dog walking job took on in the story. We need more books with animals being important characters. This was a great book about different types relationships like family, friendship, and romantic but the main focus is friendship. I would definitely re-read this book. Andie is seventeen years old. She has serious plans this summer and want to start a pre-med internship. Everything is set, until it all falls apart. There is a scandal with her congressman father and her letter of recommendation is taken away. She decides to get a job and focus on making herself happy. She spends a lot of time with her close friends and gets a job walking dogs. Her job introduces her to Clark, a very handsome guy b

Starry Eyes by Jenn Bennett My rating: 5 of 5 stars This was a quick read but a feel good adorable ya contemporary that I may re-read just because. After reading Alex,Approximately I knew I had found a new auto read author. This book did not let me down at all! I loved the romance and awkwardness and everything about it. I highly recommend this to ya contemporary romance fans and invite you to fall in love! Zorie is an astronomy geek with future plans to work at NASA. For now, she is working part time at her parent's wellness clinic as a receptionist. Her step-mom, Joy, is determined to get her and her ex best friend Reagan back together (even though Reagan tossed her aside for the rich and popular crowd) and collaborates with Reagan's mom to have Zorie invited to Reagan's glamping trip. It just so happens to be the same week as a meteor shower trip with her astronomy club that Zorie does not want to miss. While at work her step mom asks

Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book was beautifully written. No weak damsel in distress MC with Celaena Sardothien at the reins. Celaena is an assassin and one of the most notorious at that, but she was captured and sentenced to serve out her days in a salt mine prison camp. Until the day Prince Dorian and Captain of the Guard Chaol Westfall come to claim her as the prince's champion. If she becomes his champion she fights in a competition to become the king's champion and after fulfilling a four year contact, gains her freedom. Since her only other option is staying in the salt mines she accepts. The competition is brilliant and Celaena makes several friends with her new fake identity as Lady Lillian, a jewel thief. Magic was banned long ago by Dorian's father but Celaena feels like it was wrong to do and wants nothing to do with this monsterous king who has killed thousands of innocent people. Her hope of