To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han Review

To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han is about a girl named Lara Jean who has written a love letter to every boy she has ever liked and keeps them in a special hat box. Never to be seen by anyone but Lara Jean herself. When one day during her dad's spring cleaning, she finds her hatbox missing and her letters sent.


To All the Boys I've Loved Before definitely wasn't what I was expecting. I was expecting a lot more drama than there actually was. I went into the book thinking that once the letters have been sent, she would go back to her school and everyone would know who she had ever liked and how personal the letters actually were. I went in expecting to feel a lot of anger towards most of the characters and a lot of embarrassment for Lara Jean. I was wrong.

In the beginning we focus more on her older sister, Margot leaving for college then the actual letters themselves. Then we move onto boys and the letters (still without too much drama or embarrassment), back to Margot, boys and we end with boys.

With Han's short chapters and easy to read writing style, it's not too difficult to fall in love with To All the Boys I've Loved Before. I read this for a read-a-thon for the category of 'new to you author' and I rate it 4/5 stars.

Splintered Review

Splintered by A. G. Howard pulls you into another sick, twisted version of Lewis Carroll's Wonderland. The story follows Alyssa, one of The Alice's descendants. But Alyssa definitely isn't what you would Alice to be; all prim and proper. Alyssa is a skater girl, colored hair extensions in all.

Alyssa can hear nature. Literally.  Flowers and bugs whisper to her, leaving a constant white noise. When a moth constantly reappears and random memories she doesn't remember living, she finds herself in Wonderland.

It's easy to be pulled into to world of Splintered, as I read it in three days when I hadn't finished a book in over a month. Howard has created these mysterious characters that takes a whole book just to scratch a layer of the characters as a person. All the characters you know and love haven't been forgotten, but with the White Rabbit without his fur, and Mad Hatter without any face structure, I wouldn't say these aren't exactly the characters you know and love.

With Howard's writing style, you feel everything Alyssa's feeling. Her confusion, her sadness, fear, even her heartbreak, we all feel it with her. She describes everything beautifully, which is why I'm giving Splintered 4/5 stars. Leaving me longing for the second book in the trilogy, Unhinged.

The Titan's Curse Discussion

As the third installment in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians series, The Titan's Curse was a beautiful sequel. It was obviously hilarious, being that it is a Percy Jackson book, I wouldn't say that it was my favorite out of the series, being that Annabeth was kidnapped and there was little Percabeth action. Even the friendship moments get to me!

At the beginning of the book, we see Percy's mom driving him to find two new half-bloods, Bianca and Nico di Angelo. Automatically I get a bad vibe from Bianca. I guess she's supposed to have this protective thing but I just kinda ehhhhhhhh out(I was totally right, too). I totally loved Nico though, he was cute a cute little fanboy who loved his board game and obsessed when it became real. Then we get this Dr. Thorn monster whom I wish would just die already. You know, that'd be great. And because of his aliveness, Annabeth falls off a cliff and is kidnapped and then throughout almost the rest of the book, I am Percabeth deprived.

We are introduced to Thalia, and it took me a third of the book to decide whether I liked her character or not, until I decided I did. She is a little stuck up, but I think she has good intentions.

Now let's skip to the good stuff , blah, blah, blah, Artemis' Hunters come to try to recruit Annabeth/Thalia, blah, blah, blah, Artemis runs to fight some monster and ends up getting kidnapped herself, blah, blah, blah, Bianca joins the Hunters, blah, blah, blah, Thalia, Grover, Zoe, and Bianca go on a rescue mission for Artemis while Percy sneaks in to save Annabeth, blah, blah, blah, Blackjack's the best Pegasus in the world, blah, blah, blah, aaaaaaand here we are! The good stuff! I'd say this mission went pretty well, we lost Bianca (don't try to fool me with your little gift to Nico, you're still a traitor). The epic big battle scene was really impressive, I mean, who knew that Atlas was Zoe's father!While on the subject of fathers, Annabeth's is pretty cool.
When Percy took the sky from Artemis my back physically hurt and I almost died reading it, but it was a perfect plan to trick Atlas into getting the burden of the sky again!
I  was sad when Zoe was killed (she was growing on me) but the prophecy had to be fulfilled...

All in all, The Titan's Curse was an epic ride and I'm glad I was able to experience it. Rick Riordan has done it again!