Linger by Maggie Stiefvater – I wanted to like this more than I did.  I think I might have built it up too much in my head, because I love her writing.  I really liked Cole and Isabel, but Grace and Sam kind of grated on me and were too melodramatic.  Parts of the book were a little slow and didn’t hold my attention.  I will most definitely read the last book in the series, Forever, and anything else Maggie Stiefvater writes, but this wasn’t one of my favorite books.

Hate List  by Jennifer Brown – Wow.  This book was really amazing and yet so painful to read all at once.  Part of me couldn’t stop reading and the other part needed a break all at once.   There were a lot of aspects of the shooting that seemed very familiar from the shootings at Columbine and Heritage in 1999.  Probably others, too, but those are the ones I picked up on, since I was a senior in high school when they happened and Heritage was my rival high school.  I cried a lot reading this.

The Search by Nora Roberts – Not my favorite NR ever, but better than some others I’ve read recently.

Hard to Get by Emma Carlson Berne – The Simon Romantic Comedies are kind of hit or miss for me.  Some I love, some just don’t work for me.  This one feel into the latter category.

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Books Received: 11

• The Kid Who Climbed Everest by Bear Grylls (PBS FIFO)
• Intertwined by Gena Showalter (PBS Game)
• Spanking Shakespeare by Jake Wizner (PBS Game)
• Linger by Maggie Stiefvater (Borders because Amazon didn’t change the date so I canceled my pre-order and picked it up in the store)
• Goddess Boot Camp by Tera Lynn Childs (PBS Game)
• X-Isle by Steve Augarde (PBS Friend)
• Windblowne by Stephen Messer (PBS Friend)
• Keys to the Repository (Blue Bloods, Bk 5) by Melissa de la Cruz (B&N Giftcard)
• The Search by Nora Roberts (B&N Giftcard)
• How I Live Now by Meg Rosoff (PBS FIFO)
• Rise of Renegade X by Chelsea M. Campbell (PBS Game)

Books Mailed: 3

• Birthmarked by Caragh M. O’Brien (PBS Game)
• Mossflower by Brian Jacques (PBS FIFO)
• Bras and Broomsticks by Sarah Mlynowski