Paper Towns by John Green

Synopsis:
Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs back into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows.

After their all-nighter ends and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they’re for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees of the girl he thought he knew.

My Rating

-5/5-

I have been hearing a lot of good things about his book so I finally decided to read it. It has lived up to all the wonderful things that have been said about it. 

What I most loved about this book is how its funny, serious, thought provoking. 

The book also has three parts. The first one where Q and Margo go on this adventure which is cool and fun and we learn a little bit about the characters. The second part where Margo is gone and Q tries to piece together the puzzle and we start to see maybe we don't know these characters. Lastly part three is where the puzzle is put together and Q goes on an adventure to find Margo. Where the ending comes out not as expected.

I also just adored the characters. Each one was a awesome character from Margo and Q to Radar, Lucey and Ben. Put the characters with the awesome settings in the book and the story and you just have a really great book.
I think I need to start picking up more books by John Green.

Kill Switch by Chris Lynch

Synopsis:

Some things are best left forgotten. A gripping account of espionage and loyalty from National Book Award Finalist Chris Lynch.

All Daniel wants to do is spend one last summer with his grandfather before he moves away for college and his grandfather’s dementia pulls them apart. But when his dear old Da starts to let things slip about the job he used to hold—people he’s killed, countries he’s overthrown—old work “friends” show up to make sure he stays quiet. Was his grandfather really involved in a world of assassinations and coups, or are the stories just delusions of a crumbling mind? On the run from the police (and possibly something worse) before he has time to find out, Daniel may have to sacrifice everything to protect his grandfather from those who would do him harm

My Rating

-2.5/5-

Interesting book that keeps you wondering what is up with Daniel and his family. Daniel seems to care about his family a lot especially his grandfather who Daniel proves he will do anything for him.

You have some really interesting characters between Da, Daniel and even Daniel's cousin Jarrod. Jarrod a useless character more or less but helps out. Daniel, the one who cares and doesn't know what he is actually capable of tell something happens. Then Da crazy old man!

Also you have a really good story as Daniel tries to get his Da someone where safe where he will be left alone and left in peace. 

I have to say though this book was just lacking a lot of something, I think interested and excitement it would have been so much better with a little more excitement or action or something, it was lacking in my mind.
Overall it wasn't to bad of a book though.

When There's No Tomorrow by H.J. Stephens

Synopsis:
80 years ago the worst war in human history began. 10 years ago it ended. At least that's what the history books say. But everyone knows; history books lie. The war never ended. It's still going; there just aren’t enough people alive anymore to dispute it. 

My name is Kalina. My father is chief of my people, the Forgotten. The rebel scum, you may know us as. Pirates and swindlers. But we're not. We're just people fighting together to make a stand against injustice. Making a stand for our freedom. 

But it's not that simple though; freedom and justice. Who chooses what is and what isn't right? Who chooses who lives and who dies? 

Someone once asked me, who are we to stop a war? I ask you, who are we not to?

My Rating

-3.5/5-

A free copy was received in exchange for an honest review.

Kalina isn't a strong character, as in she can handle what gets thrown at her. While it would make it sound like a horrible book it was actually really good pulling the reader in.

She is the daughter of someone important but Kalina herself is unimportant to the war and she is more or less just there and its her story. She has to go through a lot and she can't really handle it well which makes her feel very real. As opposed to the character you read in other books who almost always are able to hold it together. Kalina talks a lot about people are like, and what is probably propelling them to do all this killing instead of actually trying to end the war. It's actually pretty interesting for being a type of book I'm just to with war and two sides and some girl wanting the war to end. Though it is done in such a different way then most of those other books! 

The ending was a bit of a twist, even if I have read ending like it before. Also in the Author's notes I read that this is the first in a trilogy so it will be interesting to see where this goes and if the war they are in will end.

Me Squared by Jourdan Cameron

Synopsis:
Hildan Hegennerry was an ordinary kid- he had good parents, a great best friend, and a clone. Well, that part's not so ordinary, is it? 

Join Hildan on an action-packed adventure as he unveils dark secrets and discovers what it's like to have a brother. 

Me Squared is more than an adventure- it also tackles some very important issues regarding bioethics and human cloning- whether anybody likes it or not, the future is coming, and with it come questions without obvious answers. Me Squared dares you to begin thinking about those questions right now.

My Rating

-3/5-

A free copy was received in exchange for an honest review.

To be honest at first I thought this book was going to be bad. It actually ended up pretty good though. It's short and doesn't really go into depth on much of anything. We don't get to know the characters very well. Also there is a occasional type and some times the two boys are mixed up.
Other then that it was pretty cool. It was cool to follow Hildan finding out he has a brother and all the things he has to go through. Like the company who made his clone is in big trouble and it leads to lots of problems for Hildan and George (Hildans clone) and you get to see how they deal with it all. I thought it was a pretty neat book and I enjoyed reading it!  

Haunting Joy (Haunting Joy, #1) by Lena Goldfinch

Synopsis:
Joy’s new dress has a secret – one with a little supernatural history, one that’s a little more than she expected.

It all starts one ordinary afternoon, as seventeen-year-old Joy tries on some thrift-store clothes her grandmother gave her. The little white dress fits perfectly. Trouble is, now it won’t leave her alone. Soon Joy is swept up in an extraordinary journey to help a ghost complete some unfinished business.

If only that didn’t involve Joy driving through dangerous intersections...

Or calling up her high-school crush, Nick...

Or getting stuck at a cemetery after dark.

Will Joy accept this ghostly challenge to be "more"? And just how far will she go to uncover the truth?

My Rating

-3.5/5-

A free copy was received in exchange for an honest review.

It's a really good book, It isn't very long less then 150 pages so it was pretty fast to read too. Joy feels like she is being haunted when she gets a new dress. She is and she helps a girl Beth -the girl who is haunting joy and the dress used to belong to- to tie up some loose ends and let everyone know what really happened to her. It was a good little book I liked it.
Even if the characters weren't really in depth and it just focus on this one little point.
Also Joy seems to go a little back and forth with her feelings like she wants to do something but then doesn't. Its not much but its there. Also Joy just excepts that she is being haunted right away. Which I found weird. But honestly other then those few little things it was a really good book I liked it.
I also see that there is a second book coming out next year and I hope to read that and see what that's about!!