Waiting too Long for Never Too Far

Published February 26, 2013 by bookbesties

By: Abbi Glines

I reviewed this book when it first came out in December, but now that Never Too Far(Part 2 of the saga) is releasing TOMORROW!!!! (can you tell I’m excited), I thought I’d post my mini review of if in honor of it.

Abbi Glines has outdone herself with this book. I had been hearing about this book all over social media and while I had intended on getting this book because I am a huge fan of Abbie’s having read many of her books in the past; I still had a huge TBR pile and this was just going to be added to it. But once I saw SO many great reviews I had to move this book to the top of my pile and boy am I glad I glad I did!. Where do I start? Blair set’s out to go and live with the father who abandoned her and her mother years ago, after her mother died from cancer and left Blair not having any where to live as she sold everything to pay off her mother’s medical bills. Blair is thrown into this lush world with fancy-schmancy everything and being a southern homely girl feels out-of-place.

RUSH is her new step-brother whose mother married Blair’s father (who he can’t stand) and has to offer her a room under the stairs (very harry potter, but not) until their parents get back from their honeymoon. Blair is not some helpless female that needs to be saved, she is strong and fearless and I LOVE that. As she starts to trust Rush and other people around her more she finds that there is a running secret it seems the whole town knows EXCEPT Blair and when she finds out, it’s too late.

I love that it wasn’t a typical girl falls for guy, guy breaks her heart love story BAM story over.WHILE the story did break MY heart its far from over and I can’t wait until March for Never Too Far!.

And TOMORROW the story continues and I for one will be ready with my Kindle at 12am and then glued to it like a fat kid and Nutella!

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The Perks of Waiting…

Published February 23, 2013 by bookbesties

By: Stephen Chbosky

When I first heard about this book it was about 7 years ago before it was being made into a movie and I read the first few sample chapters from Kindle then got to reading something else and it fell to the waist side. Then the movie came out and all this hype was put around it, now I’m not one for watching movies based off of books before I read the actual book so I avoided the movie and all mentions of it like the plague.

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The movie is out on DVD so I figure OK, NOW I can read it.

The book is set in the 90’s and is written in a series of letters by “Charlie” to “Dear Friend.” It chronicles his life as a high school freshman who is a loner and awkward to say the least. He meets this brother and sister duo Patrick and Sam who are seniors at a football game when he was trying to “participate” and the three instantly hit if off even though Charlie is younger than them. The Book or letters tells his story of going through his experience with his friends and you come to find that Charlie is a strange fellow but also special. He cries, A LOT throughout the book and has an odd way of looking at things, through his experience he gets his first kiss, first girlfriend and first breakup, and has his first acid trip and is just exposed to all the things older kids are exposed to as he is again younger than they are (15). I was pleasantly surprised there was a lot of book time given to The Rocky Horror Picture show as it’s one of my favorites and I hope they kept that in for the movie.

We find out later, not until the very end; when all his senior friends are heading off to college why Charlie is the “way he is” and it blindsided me.

I thought it was one of those quirky coming of age stories and it is, it just has something deeper behind it in the end and Charlie last letter kind of leaves me feeling that he really will be OK. All in all I gave it a 4 out of 5 stars because I did like it, but I am glad I waited on this one.

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Chapter Breaks Necessary

Published February 22, 2013 by bookbesties

Hopeless: By Colleen Hoover

This Book

ok…

I can’t say anything BAD about this book! it was amazing the best Colleen has written so far! If you are a fan of her other works then you should be warned that this book is NOTHING like her last two, it has mature subject matter and language(although not much on the language). She made Sky so likable, and then Holder; the two of them together! Don’t even get me started.The book is told in a journal entry format by Sky, the main character with her starting her first time in high school after being home schooled all her life and her best friend six moves away all in the same week! (whoa, right?) She meets Holder who dropped out of school for being just bad in general and one other friend at school who is “Mormon”. Because of the reputation her best friend had she is a slut by reputation and is hated by all, but she is drawn to Holder or rather he is drawn to her. With some flashbacks added in here and there we get to unravel the story of sky (and, the insanely hot and hot-headed Holder) at the same time that she does.We find that sky is not who we or she even thinks she is, and when that story is FULLY.. unraveled

The emotional twist and turns the book took me for was just amazing! I couldn’t put it down! Just when i thought “OK, i can breathe, what more could happen right? WRONG! I love the ‘terminology’ she makes up for all her books! (at this point you should be running out and getting Slammed and Point of Retreat). I don’t want to give too much away but I needed countless ‘Chapter Breaks’ (read the book and you will understand) throughout the book and If you haven’t read this book yet, you NEED TO, like NOW. Five stars to Colleen and

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Finally!

Published February 22, 2013 by bookbesties

OK i’d like to call my self ~~tech savvy~~ not stupid, I mean I’m no Steve Jobs, but I’m also not great-grama Ida who has no idea what the internet is either.

But with that being said, getting this Blog up and running was dare I say it…HARD! (for our first one) I found out things I had no idea about. so If you are out there and join our blog and see some boneheaded mistakes I’ve made in setting it up, please tell me! But if not hey…