36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You, Vicki Grant

36 Questions That Changes My Mind About You by Vicki Grant

Who could have thought that a psychology experiment could actually make people fall in love with each other?
I am not sure if it is because of the colors of the cover, but everyone just generally seems intrigued by this novel, I now that I was, but I mean, who would have thought that all of my teachers would be really interested in the book? And may I mention that all of them are male teachers? Also, they all thought that it was super interesting, so in a sense, it receives kudos for looking so intriguing and making me look so cool for two days. But they are all correct, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You by Vicki Grant is a very interesting novel. I believe that what makes everyone be interested in this book is the cover. It doesn´t have the most complicated design, but the colors it has, in this case, bright green and dark pink, is very pleasing to the eye and it is very easy to lay your eyes on it.
Vicki Grant tells us the story of Hildy and Paul in an unforgettable adventure created by a psychological test.
Hildy is a high school student that signs up for a psychological test because she is greatly interested in the area of study, but when she gets there, she realizes that maybe the test is not for her once the instructor tells her that the test can spark a little romance for both subjects that are testing. But later, she impulsively decides to take place in the study, which is when she meets Paul.
Paul seems to be the exact opposite of Hildy and of course, the beginning of their relationship is rather bad, their conversation and answers are small and they are not enjoying each other´s company, which makes their idea of finding love by answering 36 questions almost impossible to think about.
After Hildy and Paul have a disagreement, Hildy explodes and leaves, yet after a couple of hours, Paul is able to find her Facebook and they are able to talk again, but only because Paul really wants to receive his payment by answering questions, even after Hildy threw a fish at him.
Their conversations suddenly start changing and they start becoming more friendly with each other once their layers start fading away with their laughter.
Interestingly, their conversations seem to always come back, even after all of their disagreements, almost as if it was meant for them to meet and talk to each other.
My favorite thing about this novel is the plot and the way the story progressed.
I thought the plot of this novel was very creative. I mean, a story was created based on a psychological study. It was interesting to see how science inspired a story, which makes me believe that eventually, novels such as this one will take over the YA world.
Similarly, I really enjoyed the story because although other sides of the characters were not really shown to the readers, we saw small glimpses of them, such as Hildy´s family and all the drama that was surrounding her. Also, reading a little bit about Paul´s family made him much more human. And although I would have loved a more complete story for both characters, I was pretty satisfied with what I got since the novel is written creatively and different from traditional novels.
Honestly, I really liked the family drama since it made the story much more fun and interesting than I expected from small dialogues.
However, my favorite part of this novel was the story itself. I really enjoyed interesting characters and the ways the story progressed. The way the characters fell in love was beautiful and everything that they did together was just ADORABLE! Also, the way the story actually pushes the two characters to be together was very interesting and fun to read, and at the same time, it sounded very normal, it didn´t sound like something out of a book or a movie, on the contrary, it seemed more as if Hildy and Paul were actually meant to be together.
In addition, I liked the characters, although I didn´t love them. I mean, Paul is cute and interesting, but there was nothing that caught my attention and made me obsess myself with him. On the other side, Hildy was pretty interesting, but I did find her to be a little too plain and a little too predictable and common. But a character that I really liked was Max, Hildy´s friend because he is super funny and made everything in the story better, although again, there is nothing much about him either.
On the other hand, I really enjoyed the writing and the drawings. I found it very interesting that the novel was mainly written by dialogues because I am one of those readers that just understand what is happening through dialogues and being able to do that with this book felt different and refreshing. It was interesting to see how readers get to know the characters and the story by reading their dialogues. This story made me want to read more stories with more dialogues and I hope that this novel helps to have more novels published through dialogues.
In addition, I really liked the drawings because they made the story very special and they made me laugh A LOT, but I did want more of them. I enjoyed that we were able to see Paul´s drawings because I think that they made the novel way more special. Although I would have wanted more of them throughout the story, I think that made me treasure them more.
Overall, 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You by Vicki Grant is a short, creative, refreshing and fun novel with good dialogues and funny drawings, along with characters that are just charming! You will want to finish Paul and Hildy´s story in a sitting, and the best thing is that you actually can since it isn´t a long novel! 36 Questions That Changed My Mind About You will open new doors for new novels. 

4 out of 5 stars 

Love, Sua

Paradox Bound, Peter Clines

Paradox Bound by Peter Clines 

Time-traveling through history and future. Doesn´t it sound exciting? I discovered this novel by searching for a book to request through Blogging For Books and the best thing about actually discovering it was that it isn´t the type of novel that I would pick for myself, I mean, it does sound super exciting and adventurous, but it just doesn´t seem like the type of novel that I like, which are usually romantic novels or contemporaries that make me laugh, or even some women fiction titles. I am going to admit that Paradox Bound surprised me in a very positive manner. The novel kept me intrigued and eager to know what happened next, although I didn´t absolutely love it, I fairly enjoyed. 
Peter Clines tells the story of Eli, who lives in Sanders, a small city in Maine, and encounters a strange woman and an old car in his neighborhood, which seems weird since there aren´t many visitors in his town. A couple of years pass and Eli keeps encountering the same mysterious woman, who always seems to look exactly the same and travels in the same vehicle throughout all those years! But he decided to change that one night when he encountered her while on the road with some of his old friends. Eli is the same awkward kid on the inside, except he is now an adult and actually has a job and when he encounters Harry, the strange woman that he keeps noticing throughout his life, Eli decides to approach her once again and after that, there is no turning back, he has invited himself in a journey that will change his life forever. 
After Eli approached Harry, a faceless man appears at his work the next day and he is wanting answers about Harry, that´s when he decides to go all the way to Boston to save her and tell her that men are looking for her. Once he finds her after a long chase from the faceless men, they are on the road finding the country´s dream, which gives the power to control the country and change it in any way they want to the person holding it.
When Harry realizes that she has no other option than to have Eli with her, she decides that it may not be that awful to have a companion, and soon before they can realize it, they are traveling through time and through the country in search of the most precious possession of any traveler: the dream. 
First of all, I want to apologize for the short summary, but the truth is that there are just too many things that make this exciting story that there isn´t  a specific point where I know what is too much to mention in a review, that´s why I have decided to keep it short to actually give the readers more freedom to understand and take in everything that happens in the novel. 
I want to talk about the characters first. 
I really liked Eli as the main character because he is different, he is not the perfect professional character that everyone expects to find in this type of stories, he is actually pretty normal and has a story that people could identify with. My favorite part of him was that it was shown how he was afraid of staying behind, but at the same time afraid of jumping to a lifestyle in the unknown, but at the same time, he always acted so passionately for the things he cared about and he was fearless when he needed to be. I think that I really enjoyed Eli´s character and this is something that has happened to me for the first time with these type of novels because I believe that novels that contain a lot of action and lot of things to narrate tend to forget a lot of how a character may change throughout the novel, yet I believe that Clines did an excellent job with Eli. 
On the other hand, I really liked Harry because she was fearless and although she was cold at times, there is something inside her that seemed so familiar and so soft and warm. Yet she has seen so many bad things that instead of breaking her made her become fearless and create a barrier for herself against everyone else. 
In addition, there are a lot of other characters throughout the novel with different traits and different things that change the story, but there are too many that it seems hard to talk about them all and actually review them.
Although I really enjoyed the many characters that were part of the story, I expected some more character development from every character and I know that it is very hard to do with characters that only appear once or twice in the novel, but I did come across with the realization that maybe the story was too focused on introducing the complicated story to the readers that it left very little opportunity for the characters to grow.
Moving on to the story itself, I found it a little bit confusing from time to time because there were too many things to understand at the same time in the story because the story is very broad and there is a lot to cover in a single novel, which at the same time was very interesting because it really felt like entering a new world. 
However, I did like how the author made everything in the story work and how he planned the novel throughout the pages and how we are given certain scenes and how everything is lined up because those are the things that make this story so unique and creative. 
On the other hand, I really enjoyed having several parts of the story told, for example, we got stories narrated in third person point of view but concentrated in a certain character, like Eli, Harry or Zeke. I think that by having these, readers got the chance to read about all the things that other characters were explaining in other chapters. 
Also, the plot is so creative and entertaining that it will be hard to put the book down, although it is a very heavy reading. 
Overall, Paradox Bound by Peter Clines is a fun and creative novel that narrates a story about time traveling while trying to save the world and all while overcoming personal fears and problems. The novel is similar to the many adventures that Dan Brown writes by including elements of adventure, culture and a new understanding, all of these under the pressure of saving people and staying alive. 
Paradox Bound will keep you reading until the very end. 
In addition, I would like to thank Blogging For Books and the publisher for giving me the opportunity to review this amazing novel. 

4 out of 5 stars 

Love, Sua 

Eight Days on Planet Earth, Cat Jordan

Eight Days on Planet Earth by Cat Jordan

Imagine that you go out of your house once and you find a very skinny and pale-looking girl, she is beautiful , but she just doesn't look normal. Once you approach her, she starts telling you that she is an alien and that she is collecting data to send it back to her planet. This sounds extremely unrealistic, but that is exactly what happened to Matthew Matty Jones.
Matthew is a very average teenager, he has a close friend, Brian, who is always smoking weed and getting high, and he usually hangs out with Brian's older sister, Sam, whom Matty really likes; he lives in a very small town, where there is not much to see and he lives an ordinary life with his parents. Well, that is until Matthew's life changes completely.
DJ, Matthew's father has always loved stars and consequently, Matty used to love them too, but he simply grew out of it. But once his father leaves him and his mother, Matthew is in charge of taking care of her mother, who was left heartbroken after her husband left. While he is trying to make sure her mother is okay, he sees something new near his house.
There's a girl. Very skinny. Very pale. With very white hair. And very beautiful.
Matthew gets closer to her and realizes that she is different, and well, she says that she is different too. Priya, the girl, says that she comes from another planet and that she has come to the Earth to collect data to send back to her planet, where everyone is just like us but with different ways of doing things. For example, they can all share information through their heads. Priya says that her spaceship is coming to get her and that she is going home soon, she says she is sure that the spaceship is coming for her because that's what her calculations showed her. Yet, the days keep passing and Priya continues to be there, exactly where Matty says goodbye to her. 
After a couple of days, Matthew decides to show her around and help her with her investigation. That´s why he ends up showing her his extremely boring town. Later, he decides to go to the lake with Brian, where Priya is in an accident because she doesn't remember how to swim, that´s where Sam tells Matty that there seems to be something wrong with her and that he should be careful with her. This only makes Matty realize that there are many things wrong with Priya and that he should be more careful. This makes him start feeling uneasy with her. Is Sam correct? Is there really something wrong with Priya? Is she even from another planet? If so, why did her ride put her exactly in his yard? 
When I first read that a normal teenager met an alien outside of his house, I thought this was going to be really great story. I mean, I thought that this was probably going to be a little but like Obsidian by Jennifer L. Armentrout, which I REALLY enjoyed reading and made me fall in love with aliens, so I thought I would really enjoy this novel. But honestly, this is just completely different from Daemon. 
I really tried to like this novel a lot, but I found it to be too peculiar for my taste. I mean, I am always open to different plots because after reading the same type of stories, as a reader, I get tired of some plots, and yes, Eight Days on Planet Earth by Cat Jordan is definitely something new and refreshing, but I found out too weird for me. 
I did like the pace of the novel, it was slow, but at the same time quick. By this mean that although there are only eight days (which is the number of chapters), the days pass fairly quickly because so many things happen in such a short time for both characters that sometimes, it is even hard to remember that all of that happened in a single day. But the novel is a fairly quick reading because it only focuses on two things in Matty´s life: Priya and his father. So, overall, it is a reading that you will be able to finish in a sitting.
On the other hand, I did enjoy Matthew´s character a lot because he was a funny narrator and seeing the story from his perspective was very interesting, but I didn't like Priya. I found her a little annoying and the ending just really frustrated me. I just didn't like her attitude at all and at times, I found myself cringing. 
Sam is a character that I was hoping to get to know better because I was expecting to get some drama from her relationship with Matthew, but there wasn't´ anything that kept me going because she only appears in like two chapters, which is exactly what happened with Brian, her brother, too. Although I didn't really like Brian, I was expecting to get to know him better because Priya was just too boring for me, but he just disappears on the second chapter with his family. 
I really wanted to read some character development from everyone, but I didn't really notice any changes from Matthew or Priya, and like I mentioned, Sam and Brian weren't even part of the story. 
In addition, I didn´t really like the story itself because I found it to be too boring because nothing really happened, the whole story just revolved around Priya and although I really like novels focused on the romantic relationship, I found it annoying to notice that Matthew was not caring enough for his mothers although he actually took the time to talk about her. Similarly, I found the story to be weird, as mentioned before. I just didn't really feel the whole dating an alien and eating pizza with a random girl that just didn't look normal and the whole idea of knowing someone that considers herself to be an alien and actually having someone, like Matthew, believing in that without any real proof. For example, Daemon actually shows Kat his powers and how she shines like a Christmas tree, but Matthew was just a naive teenager that believed everything that the beautiful girl told him. 
As much as I disliked this novel, there were some things that I liked as well, such as the way the chapters were organized, which is by days. It was a simple, but at the same time, really effective because it was creative and really enjoyed reading it like that. 
On the other hand, I really liked the writing, in fact, I found it beautiful because Jordan was able to write a story that was fun, romantic and at the same time, realistic in the sense of Matty´s point of view. 
In addition, I really enjoyed the ending because it was realistic and very touching. I think I enjoyed it because it was very different from the whole story since the story was very optimistic while the ending was sad and realistic. 
Overall, Eight Days on Planet Earth is a quick sci-fi book with a funny narrator and the main character that you won´t forget. You will also get to know Earth like never before. 
I would like to thank Edelweiss and the publisher for giving me the opportunity to review this novel.

3 1/2 out of 5 stars 

Love, Sua

Once and for All, Sarah Dessen

Once and for All by Sarah Dessen 

I have read three Sarah Dessen novels and I am not her biggest fan, although I am aware of the fact that many people adore her novels, I have never really liked them that much. I have read this one, The Lullaby and Along for the Ride. Along for the Ride is probably my favorite one out of those three and I will admit that it is a pretty good book, hopefully, I will be able to post a review of that one sometime soon. When I tell people that I am not Dessen´s biggest fan, people immediately ask me if I even like YA novels or summer romances, and I absolutely love those two, but it´s just that her stories have never really stayed with me and I had a similar experience with Once and for All because I was unsure that I was going to like it, but I adore weddings, so I thought that I needed to at least give it a try. I think weddings are special and that they are beautiful. In fact, I live them so much  that at some point when I was growing up I honestly thought about becoming a wedding planner but discovered that I am not that patient, therefore, not really qualified for that business, yet I still have the right to enjoy them, so after reading how many people were actually enjoying Once and for All and how it was set inside the world of wedding planning, I thought that I should give it a go. I mean, there wasn´t really anything to lose. 
Once and for All narrated the story of Louna, a teenager that lives only with her mother, Natalie, who owns a very successful wedding planning company with William, Natalie´s best friend and basically Louna´s father figure. Our main character has to be running around the town running errands and helping the family business as much as she can before she goes to college. Louna´s summer seems to be going exactly like she predicted, with horrible dates organized by Jilly, her best friend, who is trying to make her be back in the dating field after a past relationship. Well, that is until Ambrose starts working with Louna. Ambrose is exactly what Louna HATES. He is very unprofessional, flirts with all the girls, has a hard time focusing on a relationship and takes the poorest decisions (in Louna´s point of view). Louna continues trying to forget her first love and continue with her life, even when it seems impossible to find someone after Ethan. 
I want to start this review by talking about how my favorite character is William! I loved his personality and honestly, I would love to have someone like him by my side because he is funny and caring, which I think was something that Louna needed. Also, he probably made every scene better. 
I liked Ethan because he had a very "magical" story with him, plus he was adorable and just like the type of boyfriend you read about in every summer romance book. 
Surprisingly, Ambrose didn´t really catch my attention that much. I mean, yes, I like him because he is funny and he has different ideas that are very interesting, but I feel like he didn´t get enough recognition for his self, Louna always seemed to like his physical appearance more than himself. But I did enjoy reading about him.
On the other hand, Louna was a character that I found just okay. I really liked her point of view in true love and weddings because she saw so many people that fell apart because of a relationship, yet she held tight her dream of meeting the right person, and I would like to admit that this was probably the first time that someone actually put into words what I think about marriage. But I also found her a little bit annoying from time to time because she acted a little immature with certain people like Ambrose or Jilly, and she was so immature around those that cared about her. 
Jilly is a character that I liked, but she is just the most typical best friend you can think of in a YA novel, she is the opposite of our main character, she likes going out all the time, she sets Louna with weird guys and stuff, but the one thing that made her special and more likeable was the fact that she was always taking care of the family business and her siblings. I think that it showed how there are people that prefer to be more outgoing because they are tired of being stuck with their family all the time. 
Another character that I think is worth mentioning is Natalie, Louna´s mother because I liked her and she is not even one of the important characters, but I hated her character development. Sometimes she appeared and sometimes she didn´t, and her ending is something that I didn´t like at all because it made you feel like all those 300 pages were wasted.
I want to talk about Ethan´s story because I found the whole summer romance thing adorable because when you read it, it is described as your ideal summer romance, yes, one of those that lasts at least a week. Well, Ethan´s summer romance only lasted a night and guess what? They started dating! I mean, I loved the night they passed together and everything, but dating and kind of making all these promises seemed a little too fictional, even when I am one of those hopeless romantics at heart! I liked Ethan and everything, but it felt a little unreal, that´s all. 
Also, I felt like Ambrose wasn´t even one of the main characters because he never really had a story with Louna, I think they never really fell in love, they were trying to be friends while he kept flirting with the bridesmaids. In my opinion, the novel´s pace was just too slow for me.
I disliked all the sub-plots that were added to the story because it made the story SO messy because at some point we had so many things going on at the same time that it started to confuse me! I mean, I liked that there were many diverse stories in a novel, but in this novel, they were just added out of the blue that it confused me. 
I think the one good thing that I want to mention is that the whole wedding planning industry kept me reading because as I mentioned, I love weddings and I think that if this novel was centered in another business, I would´ve probably stopped reading it. 
But like I said, Dessen is just not usually my style, but if she is, you should enjoy this one too, I just happened to not find the right theme on this one. Yet, I will admit that it made me continue reading it, so even though it is confusing and messy, Dessen´s writing still has the factor that pulls you in and makes you read more. 

3 1/2 out of 5 stars 

Love, Sua

Crazy Rich Asians, Kevin Kwan

Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan

I carried this 500-pages book for a week, which is the time that it took me to finish it, and people laughed a lot because of the title, I think that it was funnier since I am Asian, so this book is definitely an eye-catcher and the story it tells is eye-opening because it gives you an insight of a private world that you know for sure that you will never be part of.
I came across this book by accident like I did with Dating You/Hating You by Christina Lauren, and I think that it helped me enjoy the story even more since I didn´t really have high expectations for the story.
Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan tells the story of Rachel Chu and Nicholas Young, the couple lives in New York and they are both professors at NYU. Nick invites Rachel to go to Singapore to attend his best friend´s wedding, and after thinking about it for a while, Rachel accepts and they are soon off to Singapore. As soon as they get there, Rachel realizes that Nick´s world isn´t like the one she knew of, his life is full of expensive things and exclusive treatment, and his family and friends are made out money. His grandmother lives in a house that is more of a palace rather than a humble home, as he mentions it; they have spectacular celebrations that look more like high-society gatherings; they have servants that want to prepare them showers and at least wash their hair; among other amenities that Rachel never thought about. While Rachel is discovering a side of the world that she never knew of Nick, she also finds out that Nick is the most wanted bachelor in the whole country, especially in the high-class society, and girls(including Nick´s family) are willing to do anything to get rid of Rachel because they believe that Nick deserves to get married to a girl from a wealthy family.
Like I said before, I didn´t think that I would like this story as much as I did, I mean, I am Asian and I grew up knowing that there are very wealthy families in those countries, so it is a world that I knew of, but didn´t really think about until I came across with this novel that opened the door for me to visit one of the most extravagant and luxurious societies in the world and I found the journey very fun and I just loved it, which has made me buy the two books that follow this novel.
I loved everything about this story, I loved the characters, the plot, the relationships and the writing.
There are many characters and it can get confusing from time to time, but the many characters create a very complete story and fill the scene entirely making it a very realistic story.
I really liked Rachel because she has a very normal and natural reaction to the environment and she is a very approachable character, she is like the ordinary woman and many could identify with her. Also, what made me really like Rachel is that she wasn´t annoying and she really tried to accept the life that she faced, she tried to make the best out of everything because she truly loves Nick.
On the other hand, Nick is the ideal man that every girl wants. He is smart, good-looking, funny and caring. when I started reading this novel, I wasn´t really looking forward to Nick because I thought that the story would make me focus more on the main characters, but honestly, there were so many sides to the story that it was hard to concentrate on them and it made me like Nick much more because the little bits that we got were the most special.
I liked Peik Lin because she is like the fairy godmother of this story, she buys Rachel a new closet and helps her throughout the journey, she is the best friend that everyone deserves to have. 
As much as I liked Peik Lin, I found a certain charm in Colin, Nick´s best friend, because they shared a lifetime together, they have a different friendship that stood out and I loved reading about their friendship. Also, who wouldn´t love Colin?
My favorite part of each character was that they all react and treat wealth differently and the way they treat it shows their personality a lot.
Although the story wouldn´t be the same without the characters, I just loved the plot because it has the ideal amount of romance, drama, gossip, and laughter. So, the plot really is something else because it is just AMAZING and you won´t be able to put the book down. 
Now, the relationships that each couple has was very fun to read about because they all have different relationships with each other, and therefore, bring different topics to the story that make it stand out from other books. 
There were three couples that I really liked: Nick and Rachel, Astrid and Michael, and Alistair and Kitty. 
I liked Nick and Rachel´s relationship because it is the ideal cute relationship that everyone dreams of, it is sweet and heart-warming. While Astrid and Michael´s relationship is the relationship that needs work, their story is like the typical contemporary novel that I read a lot about, their relationship gave the sense of stories like After I Do by Taylor Jenkins Reid and The Hopefuls by Jennifer Close. On the other hand, I only liked Alistair and Kitty´s relationship because it was super fun to read about them, Kitty wears a freaking see-through dress to meet the whole family! I think that I just laughed too much in that scene. 
I think that the one thing that I loved about the most of Kwan´s writing was the way he mixes Cantonese with English to write the character´s expressions, which makes them super special and unique, making you enter completely into the story and feel comfortable with the characters. Also, the small comments he added for the definitions of words were funny and seemed like he was introducing us the story directly, which created a closer author-reader relationship.
I think that the only thing that I didn´t like about this book was that the pages were too thin in my paperback edition, but that is totally okay because the story it delivered was amazing!
Overall, Crazy Rich Asians is a funny and dramatic reading that will guide you through a luxurious world that you would´ve never thought of, you will experience characters that seem to have come out from movies, and you won´t be able to put it down because you will not want to leave this world that seems to be very far from our reality. 
Also, I cannot wait for the movie! I am really excited!

5 out of 5 stars 

Love, Sua 

I See London, I See France, Sarah Mlynowsky

I See London, I See France by Sarah Mlynowsky

I know this is something
that I shouldn´t
 say as a super big reader, but I really think that
the cover of this book
is beautiful! I think that this is
one of my favorite covers
of all times!

I am a really big fan of summer adventures and summer romances because they are simple, sweet, fun and they always include an adorable male character that will make me fall in love with him since the first time that I get to know him, I even think that I fall in love with this characters ever since the first time that they described in the novel. So, yes, I was very excited for I See London, I See France, but there was also something that was holding me back from reading this novel, I am not sure if it was the plot itself or the fact that I had started to read too many YA novels that had the same plot or the fact that I once started reading Ten Things We Did and Probably Shouldn´t Have by the same author in Spanish, yet I never really finished it because I wasn´t feeling the story, but at the end I actually decided to buy it and once I had it in my hands, I started getting really excited to read this novel that was claiming to be full of fun adventures and a super cute male character named Jackson, and I´ve got to say is that I loved it! I think that I See London, I See France by Sarah Mlynowsky is probably one of my favorite YA summer adventure novels and I was really close to never reading it! 

This adventure-packed novel tells the story of Sydney and her best friend Leela in their fun adventure around Europe. So, Sydney and Leela have been best friends since they were little kids and they have always dreamed of going to Europe together and get to see the best sights, but after they go to college, Leela meets Matt and she completely falls in love with him, which makes her decision to go to Europe with him, but before the trip ever happens, Leela finds out that Matt has kissed another girl, so they break up and their vacation to Europe is completely out of question, but since she can´t get a refund for her expensive ticket, she decides to beg to Sydney to join her and she does. 
The two friends are very excited about visiting the continent, but their excitement seems to go away when they spot Matt in the same plane, but what catches Sydney´s attention is his best friend, Jackson, a total hottie! 
Now Sydney will have to travel Europe knowing that there is a super cute guy that is willing to spend time with her while getting to know new people and while trying to balance her family and friends with her adventure. 
As always, I will start by talking about the characters. I really liked all of the characters in this novel because they all seemed to be created for a purpose because they all shaped Sydney, our main character, in her adventure. 
I enjoyed reading the novel in Sydney´s point of view because she is a very funny narrator and made the adventure, even more, fun with her little comments, I think that I felt very identified with the way she expressed herself throughout the novel. Also, something that made me like her more were the books that she talks about, I remember she mentions One Day by David Nicholls, Daughter of Smoke and Daughter by Laini Taylor, Étienne from Anna and the French Kiss by Stephanie Perkins, The Fault in Our Stars by John Green and she talks about Marie Antoinette, probably one of my favorite historical figures. So, yes, I deeply connected with Sydney.
As always, I loved the male character, in this case, Jackson because he was funny, charming and just GORGEOUS! I think that I liked Jackson the way that I liked Carter from Dating You/Hating You by Christina Lauren, which means that I was completely obsessed with this character and I just couldn´t stop thinking about him. He was the perfect mixture of sweet, cute, funny, adventurous, romantic and charming. Also, he had a backstory that made him a much more human-like character and made the story much more complete, although Sydney never really gets to know him completely, both characters are aware of this and work on their relationship from there, which I really liked.
On the other hand, I really liked the supporting characters in this novel, there was Kat, Sydney´s friend from college, and she meets different people during her adventure, some from Australia and some from back home, and they made her the trip extra fun and different. I think my favorite part of the whole novel was when Sydney met the group of friends that would change her summer adventure completely!
Now, I have so many things to say about the story in general because I really enjoyed it. 
First, I would like to mention that for me, this novel really reminded me of Wanderlost by Jenn Malone, which is one of my favorite YA novels as well, so I was excited to read this. 
I really liked the adventures they lived in every city, I think my favorite was the Monte Carlo adventure because every character was there and it was very fun to read about, it was like the ideal getaway for any college student. I See London, I See France is definitely like the ideal college summer vacation because it is filled with adventure and the main character surrounds herself with people that like her and she has a great time. 
I also liked Sydney´s family story, although I am not really going to talk about it because I believe that it is better to read it off from the novel directly. 
The friendship Leela and Sydney share was something that I found very beautiful because they know the type of person the other is and the way they act around each other was very natural and they seemed to find a home in the other person. Also, speaking of Leela, I really liked the way her story with Matt was included in this novel because it is a very different love story and the beautiful thing about this tragic love story is that the two people that they care about the most fall in love when their own relationship is falling apart, so I found a certain beauty in the starting of something new from something heartbreaking for both of them.
Another thing that I really liked about the story is the way that Jackson and Sydney´s relationship progresses because they are aware that they could easily consider their relationship just a summer fling and they do until they start realizing that there might be much more to their feelings, so, in a sense I really liked the uncertainty they had in their relationship because it made their story progress in a much more natural way. 
On the other hand, I really liked Mlynowsky´s writing because it perfectly balances romance, adventure, fun, and drama, she did a great job narrating an ideal getaway with people that are human and that have things going on in their lives other than the summer vacation that they are taking. Also, I just loved the chapter/cities introductions that she included throughout the novel with the small tips because they were so much fun to read and I looked forward to those the whole time!
At the end, I felt very satisfied with the novel and the way the story progressed, and I loved the story so much that I felt empty once I finished I See London, I See France, which demonstrates how much I loved this story. 
I would like to remind everyone that this book may seem too mature to many people, it includes visiting places that may not be ideal for younger people and it portrays college adventures, which are very different from high school and middle school as many YA novels do. 
I See London, I See France tells the perfect summer getaway adventure that every teenager dreams of, their adventure includes everything that you may want to experience from sex clubs and coffee shops in Amsterdam, meeting a hot French man, staying in a luxurious villa in Tuscany, gambling with your friends in Monte Carlo, and the most important, having fun in every city you visit because you only get to live once! 

5 out of 5 stars 

Love, Sua 

Top Ten, Katie Cotugno

Top Ten by Katie Cotugno

This book will be released October 3,
2017 in the US

I have read Katie Cotugno before, I read 99 Days, which makes Top Ten the second novel that I read from this author. I enjoyed 99 Days a lot, I remember that at first, I thought that I wouldn't like the story, but as I continued reading it, I started enjoying it, and I would like to mention that in Top Ten I think that it happened in exactly the opposite way, I liked it a lot at the beginning, but as the story continued, I started getting annoyed by the main character and started to lose interest as the story progressed. 
Top Ten tells the story of Gabby, a teenager that has always preferred not getting involved with other people at high school, and Ryan, probably the most popular guy in high school being the hockey star. They become friends in an awkward attempt to escape realities and before they can realize it, they share a friendship that has changed their lives and they have become the other´s most important person. 
But that is until they start realizing that they may be liking each other as more than friends, but that idea seems to far away from their reality since they are both in different relationships that already feel like so much work. 
Will Gabby and Ryan be able to let go of their friendship and start a new relationship?
As usual, I´ll start by talking about the characters. 
I really liked Ryan because he gave us a new type of popular jock. I actually found Ryan cute and adorable! Which is unusual for me and for anyone that has read several YA novels that involve jocks, they are supposed to be ONLY hot. But Ryan is the exception, he is HOT and ADORABLE, which creates the type of boyfriend every girl wishes for. I liked that he was the first one that realized that he was completely in love with his best friend, which seems to be first because we are not really used to knowing how the male lead character feels like. In my opinion, Ryan was very similar to Peter Kavinsky from To All the Boys I´ve Loved Before by Jenny Han,  who I absolutely adore, again because he is cute and hot, being a high school jock and all. Also, the whole vibe of not having a perfect family and a perfect life like the main character is very similar. 
Gabby was a character that I didn´t like at all! In fact, I started to find her annoying because she was always ready to criticize others and judge them but got very angry when other told her the truth that she wasn´t willing to accept. I saw too little character development throughout the four years of her high school career, she always had something that she didn´t like and found wrong in her life. So, for me, Gabby didn´t really do it for me.
On the other hand, I liked the idea of having Chelsey and Shay as supporting characters because I believe that for example, Shay was the character that pushed Gabby for some character development and seeing the type of people that both main characters were surrounding themselves with showing us how the characters were changing as we read along, I would say they were the piece that completed the story perfectly.
But although I didn´t like the main character, I did enjoy other things about the story. For instance, I liked the structure of the novel a lot. I liked both sides, although they weren´t in the first point of view, they did give us a piece of their minds, which made it easier to understand them and their actions. Also, the structures of the chapters were very nicely-planned because they are told in different time periods of their relationships and they are a list, which is something that only Ryan and Gabby understand, it´s their THING.
I enjoyed the way popularity was portrayed in this novel because it was realistic, just like the whole high school environment. I really enjoyed that Gabby wasn´t immediately popular because she was friends with Ryan, in fact, everything stayed the same way, which showed how personal their friendship was for both of the characters. 
In addition, I really liked Cotugno´s writing because it is very sweet and touching in an emotional way, I believe her words were very carefully chosen and that she was able to describe feelings in a very beautiful way. 
I believed that Top Ten is the perfect mixture of To All the Boys I´ve Loved Before, with a little bit of Love, Rosie and a fun activity in a Morgan Matson style. 
Overall, Top Ten is a fairly enjoyable reading about high school and the popularity.
I apologize for the short review. Also, I would like to thank the publisher for providing an ARC through Edelweiss in exchange for a review. 

3 1/2 stars out of 5 stars 

Love, Sua

The Chilbury Ladies´ Choir, Jennifer Ryan

The Chilbury Ladies´ Choir by Jennifer Ryan

Jennifer Ryan opens a portal to the past and guides you through the heartbreaking moments and shows you how people thrive to survive what we have created and decided to call "war."
This has been the first time that I have read a historical fiction novel because I have never really had the opportunity, I mean, I am barely 16-years old and I absolutely love young adult novels and contemporary novels that are romantic, but on the other hand, I absolutely love history! I have always believed that history is so interesting and powerful because we tend to learn from our mistake as a society and history probably provides all of these factors and it always shows us different lifestyles and I believe that a lot of people that enjoy literature, probably enjoys history because we can learn about it as a story. So, once I joined Blogging for Books and I read about the Chilbury Ladies´ Choir, I thought that I should give it a try, and honestly, I am so glad that I made that choice because I fell in love with every element in the story and I ended up adoring Ryan´s writing. 
The Chilbury Ladies´ Choir tells the story of a group of powerful women that live in the town of Chilbury in England during World War II. We get to meet every person that lives in the small town through different perspectives. We have the perspective of Mrs. Tilling, whose son will be leaving for war; Ms. Edwina Paltry, who writes to her sister describing her all the illicit jobs she has to get done for money; Kitty, a 13-years old girl that is trying to become her town´s hero during war while being desperately in love with Henry, who likes her older sister;  and Venetia, who writes to her best friend about her encounters with Mr. Slater, a handsome painter that doesn´t even bother with glancing at Venetia´s direction. 
Once everyone leaves for war, the town is left heartbroken and on top of that, the Chilbury Choir cannot continue because all the men left, but Ms. Prim decides to open a ladies choir in town to help everyone get through war and promises that the Chilbury Ladies´ Choir can place in competition, and just like that, the Chilbury Ladies´ Choir is formed and demonstrates that the women that were left behind can still do things by themselves. 
And while the war continues, these powerful women will discover themselves with every note they sing. 
I want to start this review by talking about the characters. I loved every single one of them because each one of them showed a different side to the war. Also, the characters were all from different age gaps, which made it easier for the readers to feel identified with. Personally, I loved Kitty because she is the youngest, but she is probably the one character that really tries to be part of everything, she has this amazing way of taking everything and everyone that surrounds her into her own world, and she wants to be a grown-up so much that it reminded me of myself because when I was 13 too, which was only like three years ago, I felt the same thing, so seeing how a character really wants to become a hero was inspiring at some point. 
Although I really liked the many characters the novel had, I did feel confused from time to time because there were too many and I really liked that there was a map at the beginning, but it had so many elements that it made me go back and forth because it was very detailed, which I liked a lot, but it was a bit confusing. Yet, I really appreciated how much effort the author put into this story because it really showed and made it like we were traveling back in time. 
On the other hand, I really enjoyed the plot and the story itself because it has a pull-factor that makes you keep reading since it is a pretty fast-paced reading. 
I really liked how Ryan portrayed feminism, which is something that is wildly talked about today because it demonstrated that WWII wasn´t mostly about fighting, it also included everyone that lived in the countries that were involved, and seeing the lives that continued while people came and went, made it more lively and real. 
Also, I absolutely loved how the author wrote about WWII because she takes into account the different experiences that different people have during the war, mothers have to let go of their children, lovers have to say goodbye to their loved one, children will have to continue living without a father and so forth, Ryan did a great job showing the heartbreaking moments of war, which I think is one of the biggest themes of this novel. Another thing that I found very interesting about her portrayal of war was the way the characters held onto small moments with those they love like in real life. Ryan also shows that the war not only ends things, it starts things, like the Chilbury Ladies´ Choir, which gives hope to people because, at the end of the day, the one thing that keeps going is the small things that give us hope. 
Before I end this review, I want to talk about how much I liked Jennifer Ryan´s writing because it is beautiful, it really touched me while portraying the story perfectly. I enjoyed the different point of views because as I mentioned before, it tells us the story of the village through different eyes. Also, I loved how the whole story is written through journals and letters, it reminded a little bit of Love, Rosie by Cecelia Ahern (review for that one coming soon!). And lastly, I loved how three-dimensional she made the characters, they seemed very real to me because they all had different things they were holding onto and different things that they hoped for while having several flaws, like real human beings.
The Chilbury Ladies´ Choir by Jennifer Ryan is a beautiful and inspiring historical fiction novel that will transport you to its small village during World War II to show you the beauty of life and holding onto the past while trying to grasp the future before it is too late. 
Also, I would like to thank Blogging for Books for giving me the opportunity to review this amazing novel!

4 1/2 out of 5 stars 

Love, Sua

In Twenty Years, Allison Winn Scotch

In Twenty Years by Allison Winn Scotch

Six students from Penn lived together in a small apartment almost twenty years ago, and before they left, they all made a promise to stay friends and to meet again in twenty years. So, when five of them gets a package from Bea, a friend that has passed away and that was always so happy to keep the group together, saying that she has purchased the apartment and that she wants them to gather for her 40th, the five of them decide to visit, even when their own lives are falling apart.
Catherine, the CEO of a domestic empire, who is struggling to keep her company; Owen, a stay at home dad, who is married to Catherine after they were the cutest couple in college; Colin, a plastic surgeon that is trying to keep Bea´s secret; Annie, a stay at home mom that tries to show an ideal life in social media to cover her loneliness; Lindy, a famous rock star who is struggling to find herself and the music she loves; and Bea, the brightest and the most passionate person anyone has ever met.
They all gather these fourth of July trying to celebrate Bea, one of their best friends, some of them may not be in the best terms with each other, but one thing is clear: Bea is the missing link that they all need, what they need in order to become a family again because that´s how family works, when one person starts disliking someone, there will always be someone else that will bring them back together. And Bea is exactly what they need and they are what Bea needs.
This is the type of novel that you would expect to read when you love novels that narrate stories about a group of people in college, in my case, I have only read one in Spanish, which I absolutely loved, and I am not saying that the characters are similar or the plot, but it follows a group of people that were once inseparable in college, where many dreams start and many ends. It was interesting to read a story that narrated the beginnings and the endings of relationships.
I really liked the different characters because they brought different aspects of adult life, for example, we could see how sometimes your dreams don´t work out and you find an alternative like Owen, or how sometimes those dreams change like Annie´s, or how those you dream of when you are younger can actually come true like Lindy´s. Also, seeing how characters with different traits and dreams could be connected by a friendship that was shared years before, was beautiful because it showed that people change and that is almost inevitable, but small moments and things that become meaningful to us will always stay like that because they will be saved in a special place inside us that may change the way the moment was truly.
I enjoyed the way the characters were created because you were able to see the good and bad sides of each character, they felt very human-like since some of them struggled with things that others didn´t and they all had their different points of view.
I liked how every character was struggling on their own and was afraid to show others about it because it happens in real life too, people are always afraid to show others what they are struggling with because we have evolved into a society that is supposed to not show others what makes us seem weak. Also, this side of the characters really adds to the story itself and the experience because every character has a secret of their own that you start discovering while reading the novel.
On the other hand, I loved the different themes and topics In Twenty Years included, it shows how we tend to act around others and how we change throughout the time and how our lives only change because we decide to make that turn.
I enjoyed learning about their journey from college till their forties because it is a part of life that no one really talks about, especially at my age because we are so eager to go to college that we don´t usually think about what happens next, so reading about it kind of gave me an idea of what could happen and it definitely made me start thinking about my own future because not everything may work out for me. 
Another theme that I liked reading about was how sometimes life is so easy but we decide to take the difficult route to the things that we want or the route that consumes too much time that sometimes makes us wonder and formulate all these what-ifs. 
Moving on, I loved the writing because it was so beautiful and it taught me a lot of meaningful things that really added a nice touch to the novel that already taught you a lot about friendships, dreams and growing up.
I liked how each chapter was about a different character, although the characters didn´t really narrate the novel, they still got their minds read by a third point of view. 
As much as I liked the novel, there were several things that I didn´t enjoy too. I didn´t really like the pace of the novel because it was too slow for me. I mean, there were too many times that scenes were lived again by a different character and it was kind of tiring at some point, but nothing too extreme. Also, I feel like there were many characters that I didn´t get to know too well, like Colin, who was a character that I really wanted to read about since he was the closest to Bea.
On the brighter side, I liked the way that Bea was still present in the story because her being there was like the linking part of the group and it was beautiful to see how a person´s heart can still be there if there are people that want her to be there. 
In general, this was a very pleasant reading, you will be crying and laughing with the characters because they are full of life and they have different personalities and comments that will keep you going for a long time! 

4 out of 5 stars 

Love, Sua

Dating You/Hating You, Christina Lauren

Dating You/Hating You by Christina Lauren

Okay, so I loved this book so much that I want to marry it. It met all the high expectations that I had for it when I first discovered it at Barnes and Noble abandoned on one of the tables and I thought that we were destined to meet. Now, I believe that we were destined to meet each other and for me to fall in love with it.
Carter and Evie meet at an awkward Halloween party at their best friend´s house, and they were basically paired by the couple and they immediately like each other because they seem to have a clear understanding. Well, that´s until they both realize that they are both agents in competing agencies, the problem doesn´t really matter at that point because they adults and they are allowed to like whoever they want. The real problem starts when their agencies merge into one and Carter is now working at Evie´s agency, and their boss makes them compete for the SAME job because apparently there´s only one available. So, after being all flirty and heart-eyes with each other, their relationship turns into a war, where they attack one another trying to follow their passions and the only thing they have left. Carter and Evie start to develop a hot love and hate relationship, which could end with their careers. 
As I mentioned before, I LOVED this book because the story was great, the characters were fun and I absolutely loved Carter and the writing was amazing! 
Dating You/Hating You has a good title because it immediately makes you curious about the type of story it will tell. I mean, even my US History teacher liked the title! But, the title shows only a part of the story because the whole novel talks about many different topics that are not always found in contemporary novels. 
I really enjoyed the insight they gave us to Hollywood because we are very used to reading about famous or rising actors and actresses, or famous singers, but we never really get to read about stories involving people that love Hollywood, but are not dealing personally with the audience, like in this case, the agents that support talents. 
Hollywood is such a big media platform today because I think that pretty much everyone knows what it is since we have had the tendency of wanting to recreate what we are shown as right or correct by the media, and seeing how bad it may be on the inside, was different. I mean, I am aware of the fact that the media is probably horrible because it is managed by people that are eager to be famous and become richer, but seeing it portrayed in a book, where everything is supposed to be fictional was very disappointing since it made me realize how bad we were acting as a society. So, I found it very interesting to read about a story where main characters loved Hollywood, but they also had to deal with its bad sides, like sexism, which is something that Evie, our main character goes through and no one really seems to talk about. I do believe that it is something that happens a lot today, but no one has the courage to talk about it and confront it. 
Also, I thought that putting the main characters was agents was super creative and fun because as I mentioned, it is something that is not mentioned a lot, but it also fits very well the romantic comedy setting that I believe the story wanted to create. 
Adding on to the romantic comedy theme, I loved the part where Carter and Evie start getting competitive because it was so much fun! I thought it was very creative because the things they did to get the other one to be angry were things that were pretty simple but clever, and the best part was that it showed how much they cared about each other because they somehow managed to remember everything they did and what they liked and disliked. This novel has scenes that are just so funny that I was about to laugh very very loud in front of everyone in class. So, if you do read this, please read it in a place where you don't have high expectations like at work.
I loved the relationship that they shared because it was fun to read about, they had their funny moments, but also their sad and real-life moments. I believe that the part that I liked about the most was the way they appreciated their small moments and they cherished them. Also, the way they started falling in love and dealing with it was something that I enjoyed since they fell in love very quickly but softly like it wasn't rushed or forced at all, so I really liked that.
I really liked their first encounter because it seemed like something that would happen only in YA novels, so it was fun to get a little bit of that in a contemporary novel.
Now, I have so many things to talk about the characters because of Carter. 
Carter, Carter, Carter...
I LOVE HIM! 
I think I fell in love with him ever since he was described at the beginning because Evie describes him as the ideal person that every girl would see themselves with. He´s very attractive, but not in the Hollywood style, but more in the type of guy that you would dream about. Also, he has these amazing green eyes that would take your breath away and even though, I have not met him in real life, I was breathless every time he appeared because his green eyes were just SO beautiful. I couldn't stop thinking about him because I became too obsessed with him, a little bit in the sense of Peter Kavinsky, but unlike with Peter, I was never mad at Carter, which made it even worse. 
But aside from Carter being super hot and adorable, I think that the part that I liked the most about him was the way he started growing up on his own throughout the novel, I am aware that he is older and that he is over 25 years old, but I think he grew up in the sense that he realized that there are better ways to live a life and there are many things that may be affecting someone, even though you don't realize it, so I liked reading about someone that is older but learns something new.
On the other hand, I loved Evie too. She is very professional, but she is also really funny and she will keep you laughing the whole time because she has the best comments for everything. 
It was interesting to see a woman that is over her thirties desperately holding on for her dreams because at my age, you are too stuck with the idea of going to college and getting a career that it seems hard to imagine where you are really going to be later in life and what you will want next, so reading about Evie being older and chasing after something she is passionate about was very new, yet inspiring.
The other characters that surround Carter and Evie were fun, it was nice to read about Steph and MC because they had a very different reality compared to our main characters, they were already settled and they had a kid, reading about different stories at the same time was very fun and refreshing.
As I mentioned before, I really liked the writing of this novel, it includes text messages, which I absolutely loved, and it includes both points of view and the thing that I liked about that was that it gave each character a different personality because whenever you were reading, you could always know who you were reading, sometimes they mentioned some characters in a different way, but mostly it was the comments they made, for example, Evie made me laugh the whole time!
Even though the novel is not that long and it stands by itself, the authors did a great job opening a door to their story and giving us a very good insight because I felt like a read a complete story and that I traveled to a different world. 
I had the amazing idea of reading this novel in my second week of school and it was absolute torture because I kept thinking about Carter as I mentioned, and I just couldn't put it down, I was so eager to finish this book that I think I only lasted like 3 days with it, so I think that it is a pretty fast reading, but please clear your schedule because you will be eating those pages. 
In general, Dating You /Hating You is a fun, flirty, sexy and sweet reading, you will want to devour it if you love a good romantic comedy movie and you will want to read this novel over and over again, just keep in mind that it includes scenes that are meant for an older audience. 

5 out of 5 stars 

Love, Sua 

One of Us Is Lying, Karen M. McManus

One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

I don´t usually read mystery novels because even though, I am attracted to that theme, there is always something that holds me back, so after reading that One of Us Is Lying was a mixture of The Breakfast Club and Pretty Little Liars, which is completely true, I decided to take a chance and try something new for my first week of school, and I enjoyed every single word and I was immediately drawn towards the characters. 
One of Us Is Lying starts with Brownyn, the smart girl that is for sure going to Yale after graduation, walking to detention with Simon, the creator of About That, which is the gossip app of Bayview High where every gossip is posted, when they enter the classroom, they notice three other teenagers. Cooper, the athlete, Addy, the beauty queen, and Nate, the criminal. They argue that they were wrongfully accused and that they shouldn´t be there, but something worse happens. At the end of detention, only four of the five teenagers come out of the room alive. 
While Cooper, Nate, Brownyn, and Addy were arguing with the teacher about the cell phones, they are distracted with a car crash outside the window, and before they realize it, Simon is dying because he had an allergic reaction. The four teenagers run around the school, trying to save Simon, Cooper runs to the nurse to get EpiPens while Nate is desperately trying to save him, but everything seems to have been too late when the ambulance comes, and Simon passes away. 
The four high schoolers are left in shock and try to recover from the shocking event they had to witness, but soon, they all become suspects of killing Simon because everyone has a secret that could ruin them if Simon ever published them on About That. Brownyn would have to say goodbye to Yale, Nate is on probation and a wrong move could make him to jail and be treated like an adult instead of a juvenile, Addy will have to say goodbye to her popular reputation and her boyfriend, and Cooper will have to say goodbye to his scholarship to the school of his dreams. After investigators realize that all of these teenagers have something to lose with About That´s entry, they become suspects and the four of them instantly gain fame in the country. Having all eyes on themselves, they start connecting their own dots while being covered on national television, getting to know each other better and forming the Murder Club, learning what real love is like, among others. But how did Simon die? Was it a group murder like they said the first days? Did someone dislike him that much? Did someone care about their reputation so much that they killed someone? 
This novel is simply PERFECTION! 
I loved everything about it. I loved the writing style of the author. I loved the characters, the plot, the themes, just everything. 
I absolutely loved Nate, Brownyn, Addy, and Cooper because they were so easy to like, although I will admit that Addy was the last one that I accepted. I loved how they are so diverse, they all tell different people´s story in high school, not everyone is going to be popular, not everyone is going to be super smart or really good at sports, you could even be the outcast of the school like Simon. I think although the main characters all portrayed very stereotypical characters, most of us can relate to one of them, maybe not completely, but you will find a character in this novel that will make you think that you are or were like that in high school. For example, I could relate with Brownyn because I am mostly in academic clubs and I want to get into an Ivy League university. 
Also, the characters were all flawed, I mean they all had a weakness, they feared something that other didn´t and that was the key factor in creating the Murder Club and showing us that fear isn´t something to be ashamed of by showing us all these powerful characters that had more strengths than weaknesses, like all of us. 
I think that the characters are very smart and they all have their own strengths and the things they are good at and they complement each other so well that they are able to create a complete picture, which is something that I will talk about in the next paragraph. But, seeing how McManus used all these different stereotypes and personalities to show us that somewhere in life we will find a place where we are accepted and needed, was very reassuring and very comforting because this is a young adult novel, where most readers are trying to discover themselves too. 
Now, moving on to the relationships the characters shared, I want to talk about Nate and Brownyn´s relationship because at first, I didn´t really care about it, but as the novel continued, I loved it! They were like this perfect couple that was brought together by this misfortune, life something good that came out of all their suffering aside the friendship they created among the four of them. 
I loved the Murder Club because they all had something different to bring to the group and balance it perfectly. I loved that they created a bond that became really close to them. I know that at some point, they were able to realize that teamwork is important, even when the other person may have thought about throwing you under the bus. I am perfectly aware of the fact that they became a group because of human nature, I mean, when you are in need of something that you know for sure you won't get by yourself, you start joining others and creating a group where everything will be gaining something, but it was really beautiful to see that they also gained a friendship that only they will understand and cherish because other won't understand it. I mean, who would think that you can become best friends with the people you were accused of killing a peer? So, seeing how this also, crossed expectations in our modern society was very inspiring. 
I greatly enjoyed the different sides to a high school lifestyle that were included because they described our journeys so well, from boyfriends to drama to friendships to academics, to pressure and much more! I loved the way that each of these was encountered by at least two of the characters each because they all showed us a new perspective that you could relate to. From someone that is currently attending high school and being a junior, I can definitely identify myself and the way the high school works. Also, I found very interesting how aside from the different stereotypes, we could see how each teen had a family that was different from the others. For example, Brownyn´s family was perfect, her parents graduated from Yale and they are both very successful and they have lots of money, while Cooper´s family is not that wealthy and they seem to be holding onto Cooper´s grandmother and the only way he could go to college is by an athletic scholarship. So, it gave us a perspective of high school and life itself. 
Reading this novel was like riding a roller coaster because it has its high and low moments, and that´s what you will enjoy the most. I almost cried reading some parts, I was eating the words because I was so eager to see what was coming next and I was smiling like an idiot most of the time because of Nate, my new boyfriend. 
I personally believe that having the opportunity to experience different emotions while reading a novel will always make you feel satisfied because you will develop an affection towards the story and the characters, and I believe that´s the exact thing that happened. 
I think that the pace of the novel was good, the days went by slowly, but the actions and scenes happened very quickly, which created the perfect effect of absorbing you in the story and making you so excited and eager to read what was next in the novel, I was basically eating the words. 
I loved the different point of views because at the beginning you start creating a profile of the suspects and kind of by reading their PoVs, you start learning new information and getting closer to them, which makes it way easier for you to fall in love with them. So, McManus did a great job giving a personality to every main character. 
In conclusion, One of Us Is Lying is like binge-watching your new favorite TV show, you won´t stop reading it! It is action-packed, mysterious, swoony and hot, you will want to read it over and over again, small moments will complete your life and you will be eating the pages of this novel that is a good mixture of the Breakfast Club, Pretty Little Liars and Thirteen Reasons Why, which makes it the perfect novel! 

5 out of 5 stars 

Love, Sua