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WWW Wednesdays (Oct 9)

Posted on October 9, 2013 | 8 comments

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

My Answers:

 The Truth About You and Me Recently Finished: The Truth about You and Me by Amanda Grace. I hadn’t heard anything about the book before I read it and really enjoyed it.  Review posted.

https://cynthiastacey.com/2013/10/07/the-truth-about-you-and-me-by-amanda-grace/

The Program (The Program, #1)Currently Reading: I have just barely started this on a recommendation from my 15 year old daughter.  She said I HAD to read it.  

Next for me?

It seems like my next up stays the same.  No reason for not reading them yet other than I don’t own them…lol  So I still have these in my desperate to read.  Hopefully I will get to them next.

Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2) Origin (Lux, #4)

Unravel Me (Shatter Me #2) by Tahereh mafi

Origin (Lux #4) by Jennifer L Armentrout

 

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The Truth about you and me by Amanda Grace

Posted on October 7, 2013 | 4 comments

The Truth About You and Me The Truth About You and Me by Amanda Grace.  Published Sept 1, 2013 by Flux.  CDN $9.94 paperback.

Madelyn Hawkins is super smart. At sixteen, she’s so gifted that she can attend college through a special program at her high school. On her first day, she meets Bennett. He’s cute, funny, and kind. He understands Madelyn and what she’s endured – and missed out on – in order to excel academically and please her parents. Now, for the first time in her life, she’s falling in love.

There’s only one problem. Bennett is Madelyn’s college professor, and he thinks she’s eighteen – because she hasn’t told him the truth.

The story of their forbidden romance is told in letters that Madelyn writes to Bennett – both a heart-searing ode to their ill-fated love and an apology. (Goodreads Excerpt)

I have to say that I was drawn into the book with the way it is told. The letter to Bennett was unexpected but a really good way to make you totally feel for Madelyn. It kept me engaged and reading page after page. I think it made me feel more empathy for her and her feelings. I was totally swept away by her feelings of passion and love and it was real. It is an unusual way to tell a story but it works extremely well with the story.

As for Bennett, I like how Madelyn explains his part in their story and I felt really sorry for him. Through her description of the events unfolding I got a real sense that he loved her and you could tell that the truth was going to be devastating for him.

I am still a little torn whether or not I like the ending. This is going to be hard to explain, but I think if the author left the story before she added the ‘two years later’ part I would have been fine with the ending. When she added it, I felt like there was hope…and then it was gone. I hope that makes sense. I am after all a hopeless romantic.

Overall, I enjoyed the story. It was compelling and well written. I am giving it 4.5 stars because I am still undecided if I like the ending.

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WWW Wednesdays (Oct 2)

Posted on October 2, 2013 | 7 comments

• What are you currently reading?
• What did you recently finish reading?
• What do you think you’ll read next?

My Answers:

Shine (Shade, #3)Recently Finished: Shine (Shade #3) by Jeri Smith-Ready.  Really good conclusion to the series.  Reviews to be posted soon.

The Truth About You and MeCurrently Reading: The Truth about You and Me by Amanda Grace. I ordered this book a while back and it finally came in so I thought I would check it out. 

Next for me?

These are still in my sites and I am desperate to read…other things keep getting in the way.  So I am not really sure.

Unravel Me (Shatter Me, #2) Origin (Lux, #4)

Unravel Me (Shatter Me #2) by Tahereh mafi

Origin (Lux #4) by Jennifer L Armentrout

and my daughter is begging me to read  The Program (The Program, #1) The Program (program #1) by Suzanne Young.

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Teaser Tuesday (Oct 1)

Posted on October 1, 2013 | 14 comments

Teaser Tuesdays is a weekly bookish meme, hosted by MizB of Should Be Reading. Anyone can play along! Just do the following:

• Grab your current read
• Open to a random page
• Share two (2) “teaser” sentences from somewhere on that page
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (make sure that what you share doesn’t give too much away! You don’t want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title & author, too, so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR Lists if they like your teasers!

My Teaser:

Dear Bennett,

    You might not read this, but maybe they will, and maybe somehow that will help you.  This letter can’t help us, because there is no us, not anymore.

Just saying that makes it hard to breathe.

(opening lines page 1)

The Truth About You and Me The Truth about you and me by Amanda Grace

 

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