The Mockingbirds
By Daisy Whitney

4.5 out of 5

Alex Patrick wakes up in the bed of a boy she barely knows. This boy, Carter, tells her that they had sex. Humiliated, Alex heads back to her own room, where she tells her roommate and best friend, T.S. T.S. tells Alex that if Alex was unable to remember last night, due to being drunk, then Alex was raped. With this, Alex and T.S. go to the Mockingbirds. The Mockingbirds are the student run police of Themis Academy. In a school where the teachers are oblivious, it falls to the students to police themselves and punish those who wronged others. Will the Mockingbirds hear Alex's case? Will they be able to help her get over this ordeal?

I really liked this book. I hadn't known what the book was about when I first picked it, so I was a little taken aback by the subject content, but I loved it. The story is so flawlessly realistic, and at the same time tremendously inspiring. Alex deals with her emotions in a really real way, and I feel like this could be any girl I know. Very good, going to read the next one (The Rivals)!

I've Got Your Number
By Sophie Kinsella

1 out of 5

Poppy Wyatt is living her dream: engaged to a handsome and brilliant man, working her dream job, and her wedding only a week again. Then she loses her heirloom engagement ring. Then her phone is stolen. She finds a phone abandoned in a trash can and takes it. This phone belonged to a former personal assistant of a man named Sam. Sam is rough and impersonal, but Poppy slowly develops a relationship with him by reading his emails and texts before forwarding them to Sam.

I gave up on this book a few days ago, I've just been to busy to post it. I really thought I was going to like this book. I generally like Sophie Kinsella. I like the light, British, cutesy aspects of her writing. The stories are funny and adorable and British. But I really didn't like this. I didn't finish it, I didn't even read half of it. This book reminded too much of Love the One Your With by Emily Giffin. Same thing with Giffin, I had liked her other books but I didn't like that one. I don't like the story line of Love the One Your With and I had a feeling that I've Got Your Number was heading the same way, and I didn't want to read a story like that again.

The Cardturner
By Louis Sachar

3 out of 5

Alton Richards had never even heard of bridge before his "favorite uncle" asked him to be his cardturner. Trapp (Alton's uncle) is a master bridge player, but due to health complications has lost his eyesight. Alton is Trapp's eyes and hands. He tells Trapp what cards he has, and then plays the cards Trapp tells him to play. But there is much more going on than what appears on the service. Lost love, betrayal, humor, and a lot of bridge fills the pages of this book.

This is my brother's book, and I picked up one day and started reading it. It was pretty good. There is a lot of bridge in this book. I think I could play a game of bridge now, it's very thourough. But the story line is nice and enjoyable. Louis Sachar is a good writer and he makes the characters very relatable, but with just the right touch of humor. And it's not overly romantic, for those of you who feel like throwing up at the idea of epic love stories.

Crescendo (Hush, Hush #2)
By Becca Fitzpatrick

3 out of 5

Sequel to Hush, Hush, this book picks up about two months after the end of Hush, Hush. Patch and Nora are finally together, but that lasts for about a second and a half. Patch is suddenly spending all sorts of time with the evil Marcie Millar, and Nora keeps seeing her dead father wherever she goes. Will Patch and Nora be able to get over their numerous obstacles and be together, or will they let the archangels and their pride get in the way?

If I had hated this book, I was going to blame my English teacher. Luckily for him, I loved it, but up until the last few chapters I was full prepared to blame my English teacher. Earlier this week our English teacher asked our class the question of why do we start at the beginning of a book and read it straight to the end? Why don't we start in the middle? Or start at the end and read it backwards? So thinking about what he had said, I read passages of this book out of order. And because of that, I found out things that were not revealed until halfway or at the end of the book. This made the reading a little unenjoyable. But overall I really liked this book. It was just as captivating and fabulous as the first book. I really liked it, and I will be reading the next one as soon as I can get my hands on it!

Hush, Hush
By Becca Fitzpatrick

5 out of 5

Nora Grey was just a normal girl until the mysterious and sexy Patch walked into her life. Patch frightens Nora, but he also excites her in a way she can't even admit to herself. Then wierd things start happeing. Nora hits someone with her car, but there is no damage. Someone ransacks Nora's room, but when the police get there, the room is spotlessly put together. And Nora has the bad feeling that someone is following her, and maybe even trying to kill her. Is is Patch? Or is Patch here to protect her?

This book was amazing! I read this book in about two seconds, it was so good! When I did finish it, I flipped it over and started reading it again. This book reminds me a lot of Cassandra Clare's City of Bones series. Like A Lot! But it was so good, I don't care. But just saying, at one point at the end, Hush, Hush got so sappy I almost gagged. But other than that one sentence, it was amazing. I'm dieing to get my hands on the sequel, Crescendo.

P.S. the scene in the kitchen is my favorite! The rest of the book could have sucked and I would have loved the book for just that one scene.

Paper Towns
By John Green

3.5 out of 5

Quentin Jacobsen has lived next door to the amazing and mysterious Margo Roth Spiegelman all of his life. He has always marveled at her from a distance. They used to be friends when they were young, but have grown apart when they got into high school. Then, on one fatful night, Margo asks for Q's help in one of her crazy and intricate plans. After spending the entire night driving around causing mischief, Q is sure things will be different between him and Margo. But when he gets to school the next day, Margo is gone, and isn't coming back. This sets off a wild chase for Margo, but will Q ever find her? And if he does, will she be what he wants her to be?

Let me just start by saying, that I love John Green. I have a number of his books (Will Grayson, Will Grayson; An Abundance of Katherines, Looking for Alaska) and I loved them all. In the beginning of this book, I loved it too. Then somewhere in the middle, it became a little pathetic and seemed to lag. But then it picked back up and ended in the typical John Green fantastically moving way. The ending of this book is so powerful and it made the book for me!

Two Truths and A Lie (The Lying Game #3)
By Sara Shepard

3 out of 5

We once again join Emma Paxton as she attempts to uncover Sutton's killer, and stay alive herself. Sutton's friends have finally been ruled out as suspects (or have they?) but now the mysterious Thayer Vega is back in town, and he is making Emma nervous. There are rumors that Sutton and Thayer were secretly together before he disappeared, but is that true? Did Thayer kill Sutton out of jealousy? Read to find out!

This book was average. When I got it from the library, I was dieing to read it, but this one just didn't grab me the way the other two did. I enjoyed the book, and I am excited about the next one, but I felt that this one wasn't as thrilling, and I didn't feel as completely enthralled in Emma's mission.