Review:I gave this book 4.5 Stars but rounded up to 5 since it was closer to 5 than 4.

This book has an absolutely amazing concept. It was engrossing from the very first chapter and I found the characters to be extremely likable while also being real, flawed human beings. I found myself wishing so many times that *somehow* they won’t both die at the end. I knew this was going to be a very painful journey.

I loved how it hops to different people and that it specifies at the beginning of ea... Read more

Review:I was really excited to get approved for My True Love Gave to Me on Netgalley, even more so when I seen reviews popping up in the blogosphere. I couldn’t wait to get started on it! Since it’s a book made up of twelve separate short stories, I decided to individually rate and review each story and then give my overall thoughts at the end.

Midnights by Rainbow Rowell ★★★½

This being only the second story I have read my Rainbow Rowell, I was immediately reminded of why I liked her tal... Read more

Review:it's raw with so much emotion (said from a emotional person perspective). I found myself just as in milk and honey marking page after page. However some of it does sound like it was repeating mostly in the first chaper which was hard and rather boring for me to get through. Some pages are one sentence which saddens me as though she was just trying to make the book bigger or needed to fill a page. Read more

Review:Interesting concept but I found that descriptions of mental states got a bit too long and found that overall the main character did not develop enough to direct his own future rather he seemed to float through every thing that happened to him. Read more

Review:The series was a nice light read. But if you are looking for any character depth, development or a story where everyone isn't living in a unicorn and rainbow world, these are not for you.
I read all 6: the first one I struggled with the most but I wanted to see the how books played out. A few were better than others but it was exhausting living in a world where everything was so perfect. Even if someone experienced any sort of issue, it was resolved in a few days.
I realize for some this... Read more

Review:I really liked this book, the format told from the perspective of various characters, even the minor characters had their own chapter. Great book for high school kids. I gave three stars because the book ended so abruptly, like there should be at least a few more things the author could say. Read more

Review:Powerful and very human stories though several while interesting are less plausible.Great craftsmanship in the structure of the stories and the developemnt of characters. It is not a flattering picture of post-colonial Africa. Read more

Review:A page turner. I love the innocence of the story and the creative ability of the writer where he surprises you with a small detail or takes you to the scene where you can feel the air and hear the conversations. I will read it again in a few years. Read more

Review:This seems like the perfect writer finding the perfect material. Mitchell's imagination, already ferocious and able to make seemingly anything work in his fractured, polyphonic works like 'Cloud Atlas' and 'The Bone Clocks', can also just hone down on a single setting, in this case, early 18th century Japan, and write the HELL out of it for almost 500 pages.

The amount of historical detail and research that went into this is mind boggling, only writers like Neal Stephenson and Umberto Eco... Read more

Review:During the final year of World War II, Japanese forces launched around 9,000 balloons containing bombs over the Pacific Ocean to North America. Thanks to a successful media blackout, the general public was unaware of the threat, and the Japanese gave up the project.

Louis Belk is a teenager who, on the way to join the seminary, stops to enlist in the US Army Air Corps and is assigned to become a bomb demolition expert. While in San Francisco for training, he first encounters one of the ba... Read more