Colleen's Conclusions

The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan My rating: 4 of 5 stars Edit: Just thought it might be safer to say here that there's TINY spoilers in the review. I try not to give out spoilers too often in reviews. I don't think they are anything too major. I'm typing a quick review of this book on my phone because I really don't think I will be able to leave a review this week otherwise. I checked out this book from the library via Overdrive. I don't really understand why I didn't like the first Percy Jackson book other than the fact that I don't get the hype. Besides Harry Potter, I tend to stay away from stuff that is really hyped up. I don't know what made me just check out this book from Overdrive either. I wasn't going to even finish reading this book, I only planned on reading just a couple of paragraphs or a couple of chapters even. But the moment Apollo went from Greek God to mortal my opinions changed. He even tried t...

The Hidden Oracle by Rick Riordan My rating: 4 of 5 stars I'm typing a quick review of this book on my phone because I really don't think I will be able to leave a review this week otherwise. I checked out this book from the library via Overdrive. I don't really understand why I didn't like the first Percy Jackson book other than the fact that I don't get the hype. Besides Harry Potter, I tend to stay away from stuff that is really hyped up. I don't know what made me just check out this book from Overdrive either. I wasn't going to even finish reading this book, I only planned on reading just a couple of paragraphs or a couple of chapters even. But the moment Apollo went from Greek God to mortal my opinions changed. He even tried to relate to "us mortals" but failed and made his thoughts on being a mortal funny. THIS was what I had expected Percy Jackson to be like... Despite not liking the first PJ book, I reall...

Spies, Lies, and Allies by Lisa Brown Roberts My rating: 3 of 5 stars I received Spies, Lies, and Allies by Lisa Brown Roberts from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review, but that has no impact on my thoughts. As a whole, I thought Spies, Lies, and Allies was a strong 3 and a half stars which means I did like the book, but it didn't quite have the REALLY liked it star rating. I stuck around with the book because I appreciated all of the Star Wars references in the book, and some of the Harry Potter ones that were made. My favorite one was when all of the interns met each other and Laurel tried to remind Jason how they knew each other. I liked how all of the characters bonded throughout the book. The thing that didn't make me REALLY like the book was the slow plot. The pacing took awhile to pick up, but around 40 percent after the truth or dare scene was when I decided to stick it out because the characters made up for that slow bit. I...

Windfall by Jennifer E. Smith My rating: 5 of 5 stars I checked out Windfall by Jennifer E. Smith from the library but I ended up buying because I didn't leave my airplane mode on my Kindle at the end of the lending period again. But it was cool because it was one of those books that made you feel like you had just purchased the winning lottery ticket..... Get the pun I kind of made there? Sorry, I sometimes just have to make those jokes. But if you guessed what the book was about by now, yup! It was another book where someone wins the lottery and the person has so much where they just spend it in risky ways before learning a lesson. I thought Windfall was going to be like Kasie West's Lucky in Love lottery book, but this one seemed deeper. I liked how this one fleshed out with real life problems. Teddy lived in an apartment with one bedroom and hardly ever saw his mom because she worked night shifts a lot. Leo was in love with Max but they h...

The Rules of Rebellion by Amity Hope My rating: 4 of 5 stars I received The Rules of Rebellion by Amity Hope from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. It does not impact my review. I liked The Rules of Rebellion much better than the last Crush book I read and most people should know I do like these books. They are usually quick, easy reads for me. The Rules of Rebellion met my expectations. You don't have to read the other books in this series to know what is going on, but Luke and Meg do appear in this book so if you read this book first you will want to have the first book on hand right away. I liked how this book kind of had similar elements to the first one with the rebellion and the artist, but they weren't exactly the same. Kylie had a bucket list and on her bucket list she wanted to cause some trouble to make her life seem more interesting. Leo was a baseball player, but what he liked to do was to turn stuff into artwork. I like...

Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum My rating: 5 of 5 stars I checked out Tell Me Three Things from the library originally but I ended up having to buy the book since I forgot to turn airplane mode on during the last few days I had the book and I of course had to finish it! Tell Me Three Things is a typical YA high school type of book, but I liked it because the characters were so relatable. I knew SN wouldn't be who everybody thought he would be because in Pretty Little Liars A was supposed to be who everybody didn't expect. (Sorry, got off topic there a little bit.) I just really liked this book because it was the first book in about a month almost to make me want to continue reading it as much as I could. I was like that with Ally Carter's book until the book slump came back in United We Spy so I hoped this book would be different for me. It was one of those books that seemed like it was just what the doctor ordered when you need som...