Rules of Attraction

Author: Simone Elkeles

Rating: 4.5 of 5

Summary from Website: When Carlos Fuentes returns to America after living in Mexico for the past year, he doesn't want any part of the life his older brother, Alex, has laid out for him in Colorado. When he meets Kiara Westford, a good girl totally unlike any of the girls he's usually drawn to, Carlos assumes Kiara thinks she's too good for him. But will he put his pride aside when he realizes that being with Kiara might finally allow him to be his true self?

Perfect Chemistry

Author: Simone Elkeles

Rating: 5 of 5 Stars

Summary From Website: When Brittany Ellis walks into chemistry class on the first day of senior year, she has no clue that her carefully created “perfect” life is about to unravel before her eyes. She’s forced to be lab partners with Alex Fuentes, a gang member from the other side of town, and he is about to threaten everything she's worked so hard for—her flawless reputation, her relationship with her boyfriend, and the secret that her home life is anything but perfect. Alex is a bad boy and he knows it. So when he makes a bet with his friends to lure Brittany into his life, he thinks nothing of it. But soon Alex realizes Brittany is a real person with real problems, and suddenly the bet he made in arrogance turns into something much more.

In a passionate story about looking beneath the surface, Simone Elkeles breaks through the stereotypes and barriers that threaten to keep Brittany and Alex apart.

I Am Number Four

Author: Pittacus Lore


Rating: 4 of 5 Stars


Summary From Website: Nine of us came here. We look like you. We talk like you. We live among you. But we are not you. We can do things you dream of doing. We have powers you dream of having. We are stronger and faster than anything you have ever seen. We are the superheroes you worship in movies and comic books—but we are real.

Our plan was to grow, and train, and become strong, and become one, and fight them. But they found us and started hunting us first. Now all of us are running. Spending our lives in shadows, in places where no one would look, blending in. we have lived among you without you knowing.

But they know.

They caught Number One in Malaysia.
Number Two in England.
And Number Three in Kenya.
They killed them all.

I am Number Four.

I am next.

Beautiful Darkness

Authors: Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl

Rating: 4 of 5 Stars

Summary From Website: Ethan Wate used to think of Gatlin, the small Southern town he had always called home, as a place where nothing ever changed. Then he met mysterious newcomer Lena Duchannes, who revealed a secret world that had been hidden in plain sight all along. A Gatlin that harbored ancient secrets beneath its moss-covered oaks and cracked sidewalks. A Gatlin where a curse has marked Lena’s family of powerful supernaturals for generations. A Gatlin where impossible, magical, life-altering events happen.

Sometimes life-ending.


Together they can face anything Gatlin throws at them, but after suffering a tragic loss, Lena starts to pull away, keeping secrets that test their relationship. And now that Ethan’s eyes have been opened to the darker side of Gatlin, there’s no going back. Haunted by strange visions only he can see, Ethan is pulled deeper into his town’s tangled history and finds himself caught up in the dangerous network of underground passageways endlessly crisscrossing the South, where nothing is as it seems.

Update!!

I have decided to focus this blog solely on the purpose of defining important information in YA books, and posting interesting quotes :) Mainly because when I review I feel like I give too much away...

I have a fairly successful nail blog also, and now I want to get this one off the ground!! (atyourfingertipss.blogspot.com)

I feel like this is something I google a lot, but no one has information on so hopefully you like it!!

Let me know of any comments or suggestions about this new format :)

--Devin <3

Rules of Attraction

Book: Rules of Attraction

Author: Bret Easton Ellis

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Release Date: September 1987

Rating: 3 of 5 Stars

Their Summary:

       The main narrators are three students: Paul, Sean, and Lauren. A number of other characters also provide first-hand accounts throughout the story, which takes place at the fictional Camden College, a liberal arts school on the east coast of the United States. The three main characters (who rarely attend class) end up in a love triangle within a sequence of drug runs, "Dress to Get Screwed" and "End of the World" parties.

Immortals Series

All in all a very good series. Its refreshing to see a heroine who doesn't get what she wants right away. Ever makes many mistakes, but don't we all? Don't read if you NEED a happy ending. However, the last book may provide the ending we all are waiting for :)

Everlasting - Published June 7th, 2011