The Wood Queen: An Iron Witch Novel, by Karen MahoneyĪlmost Everything: A Vampire Princess Novel, by Tate Hallaway._The Girls of No Return by Erin Saldin Ebook Epub PDF kiw Once: Before Midnight Golden Wild Orchid, by Cameron Dokey Immortal Longings: A Vampire Novel, by Diane Dekelb-Rittenhouse Northanger Alibi (Jane Austen Diaries), by Jenni James This One Time with Julia, by David LampsonĬhopsticks, by Jessica Anthony and Rodrigo Corral The dialogue occasionally gets a bit stilted, there are some lines ('The words stabbed Cara like a knife') that we've all heard before, most of the secondary characters are two-dimensional and towards the end, the ultimate arc of the story gets a bit LIKE WHOA OVERBOARD, but it's a decent read.Ī Kingdom in a Horse, by Maia Wojciechowskaĭaughters of the Sea #2: May, by Kathryn Lasky 'And most shocking of all, a tourist getting killed! Tourists have never been killed before in this town.' He poked my shoulder as he asked, 'What is your beloved Mayor Spellman going to do about this disgrace?' (pg 53: This, by the way, is a teenager speaking.) 'Like this litter on the boardwalk,' he said. My main issue with the book-and this is very blunt-was the writing. Much of it is stilted and bland, with a lot of telling rather than showing, and the dialogue is rarely believable. A couple of examples (there were others I'd liked to have used, but they were spoiler-y): The Lying Game #3: Two Truths and a Lie, by Sara Shepard.īorn Wicked: The Cahill Witch Chronicles, Book One, by Jessica Spotswood The Miseducation of Cameron Post, by Emily M. Somebody, Please Tell Me Who I Am, by Harry Mazer and Peter Lerangis Lovely, that.īeneath a Meth Moon, by Jacqueline Woodson Polly is angry and hurting and angry some more and hurting some more. But, on the other hand, the last few pages-in which you finally get to hear what Odd thinks-made all of that pain worthwhile, and then going back and reading the first few pages and seeing all of the little details that show how much the roadtrip has changed her. So, on one hand, reading this book was a little like repeatedly punching myself in the face for two hours. The Knife and the Butterfly, by Ashley Hope Pérez

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Racing California, by Janet Nichols Lynch The Shadow Collector's Apprentice, by Amy Gordon It left me feeling wrought-out and wrecked, but in a good, subtly supercathartic way. It never compromises its emotional core, and never feels like anything but The Truth. The Girls of No Return is absolutely, completely gripping-once I’d started reading, I didn’t put it down, not even while I was giving blood-and despite its subject matter, it’s never exploitative.