princessjasminefliesaway's reviews
88 reviews

This book is incredible! The start, I admit, was a bit slow but once you got to the third chapter, it just kept getting better and better. You do expect some of the "twists" but that's only because Tom Huddleston (ARE WE GOING TO TALK ABOUT HOW GREAT HIS NAME IS?!) hinted a lot at them.

I love how he set it and without spoiling, it does relate to King Arthur without you really meeting him. If that makes sense.

As you can from when I started and then finished it, I pretty much devoured this book and for good reason to. This book is I N C R E D I B L E!

The music playlists were beautiful! The emotion in the characters were down to earth and REAL, not like the Pretty One (film, not spoiler as it shows it in the trailer) where she doesn't really acknowledge her sister is ACTUALLY DEAD until the right end!

I related with them, I laughed with them! I want to now go on my own road trip! I have a lot of emotions about this one!

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did!

Well, the start made me want to stab something. That is not being overdramatic but realistic, like this book. I guess I am way too used to the cutest romance to grace our earth and not the realistic way of getting a boyfriend/girlfriend but seriously the start was just SO boring.

The middle got better, definitely, and the end was ON. POINT.

I guess maybe I didn't appreciate the book as much as others because I have never been in a relationship so I couldn't relate as much but that doesn't seem quite right.

I loved the references, even though I knew none of them, and I disliked how the whole last chapter was basically her putting herself down, the character we had come to love.

Right, this is a good book if you like other books being spoiled for you as the amount on extracts compared to little stories is huge but I enjoyed it.

My favourite parts being:
Humming through my fingers by Malorie Blackman
Tumbling by Susie Day (IT IS LESBIANS THROUGH TUMBLR AND ONE IS POORLY AND I DIE AND IT'S ALL SHERLOCK REFERENCES AND AHHH I DIEEEE!)
Miss Lucy had a steamboat by David Levithan
Endless Love: The Valentine of Daniel and Lucinda by Lauren Kate
The Unicorn by James Dawson

Ones I forgot but when looking back enjoyed:
More Than This by Patrick Ness
You Against Me by Jenny Downham
13 Little Blue Envelopes by Maureen Johnson
Gentlewoman by Laura Dockrill
Grasshopper Jungle by Andrew Smith
Echo Boy by Matt Haig

Ones that were messed up and I am seriously sickened by:
Junk by Melvin Burgess (SHE'S FOURTEEN AND THEY HAVE SEX! SERIOUSLY?! AND THE PEOPLE LOOKING AFTER THEM LET THEM!!!)
Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma (INCEST, ARE YOU SERIOUS?! WHAT THE HELL?!)

So get this book not for the extracts but for the short stories, there are two that are seriously messed up and just because it says Love Hurts doesn't mean all the love stories are going to hurt you, in fact some enlighten you.

I wanted to give this book 3.5 stars but goodreads wouldn't let me so 4 it is. I do love this book, it is quite a dramatic read and the characters are quite thought out. The only thing that slightly irritated me was the murderer. He was always kind of pushed to the side and the drama with him didn't really matter which for a book about dying, you would think be the opposite.

SPOILERS NOW:

Also... her destiny is to get Jeremy with his soulmate. Bull. Her destiny was to find her murderer, her destiny was to help Hep, her destiny was to wake up Ryan's dad, her destiny was to make Jeremy become more confident. Her destiny was NOT to give Jeremy someone else to lean on. Seriously?!

I love the storyline and characters but the fact that humour is used so frequently and shoved down people's throats, it sort of becomes a parody more than a story.

Good book; liked the originality of it, especially showing the stalkerish romance point of view BUT Emily and Sam's romance is so underdone, like how did they even fall in love? Their time together in the book was so short and never written about. It was more a self development character book than a romance.

This book consisted of a lot of the same plots.

Gay couples facing the world of discrimination and while I love that, three quarters of the book were gay men and the other quarter was straight couples. There wasn't any lesbian couples, there wasn't any transvestites or any in between. It was all either gay men or straight men.

I did like the Jewish Gay Couple though, that was pretty sweet and it had a nice plot twist at the end too but my point still remains.

Well, I don't hate it but the fact that Skye got together with Nico again annoys me, especially since it was like a 180 character spin randomly from a pretty reasonable reason to dislike him and I also thought Skye would tell her friends about her "psyhicness" but she ended up telling a random stranger in the end. Great. Not exactly the ending I wanted in the series but the one I got was alright.

It was definitely a typical children's book with no description and typical children sentences to get them into reading but the storyline was sweet, even though the ending was like the way to stop bullying is to have ammo of your own on the other person (which isn't a good idea).

It was a cute story about a cat okay and I read it within fifteen minutes and it was an enjoyable read about how cats see differently to people.