Colleen's Conclusions

New York, Actually by Sarah Morgan My rating: 5 of 5 stars This eARC book was provided to my by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. When I first saw this book, the cover immediately grabbed me. Then the title, then the author, and then the description of the book. I had always wanted to try a book by Sarah Morgan, but just never got around to reading one. I was glad that New York, Actually was the first one I read by her. This book was part of the From Manhattan with Love series, but I don't think you have to read all of the other books in order to read this one because I didn't feel lost at all in it. I do want to go back to read all of the other ones at some point though. Sarah Morgan's writing style reminded me of Sophie Kinsella. The book was like a contemporary chick literature type of romance. It was definitely right up my alley. I read the whole thing in a day. I tried to read it in one sitting, but couldn't read it in one sitting. Did I mention that t...

Songs About a Girl by Chris Russell My rating: 3 of 5 stars This book was provided to me by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I liked the plot of the book a lot... it wasn't quite a four star read for me because it was a little bit slow towards the middle, but it did pick up more around 70 percent. The book was like a contemporary girl joins band type of book, though she gets to take photos of them. I really liked the ending a lot, especially when she got recognized for her work even though she didn't think she good enough. I even kind of liked the part about Melissa's secret even though that caused the drama between them. The whole marshmellow best friend scene at the end was really cute. I'd recommend this book to anybody who liked to read about bands and stuff like that. View all my reviews

Gold Rush by Jennifer Comeaux My rating: 5 of 5 stars This book was provided to me by Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I knew I would love this book the moment I requested it on Netgalley. It had my type of cover, my type of plot... I love ice skating stories. And it turned out this book was pretty much what I wanted to expect out of it. I loved the whole friendship to romance part of the book. Sometimes the best romance is always the ones that start out as friends, and that quote was true for this book. This book also reminded me of The Ice Princess, even though the storylines are different. I still had the soundtrack of that movie playing in my head the whole time. The book does get intense with some drama, but I thought it was handled realistically. This was my first book I've read by this author, but I actually felt like I could relate to her characters well. I liked the fact that the girl character read YA, and she also had an e-reader... and I liked the fact tha...

The Selection was a quick reread for me... I have all of the same thoughts and feelings I had as when I first read it, though I raised the rating from four stars to five stars. (I was surprised I didn't already have it set at five stars since I know I loved it when I first read it.)This series is one of my popular yearly rereads. The Selection by Kiera Cass My rating: 5 of 5 stars I really liked this book. I was quite surprised after seeing all the low ratings on this site. I guess it was because all of the Hunger Games fans were expecting something else. Well, it was something else. This book did kind of follow The Hunger Games and the movie Ever After- the one with Drew Barrymore. I liked it a lot because it didn't have the violence to it. I started it yesterday and finished it today. I had two tests later this week that I needed to study for, but I couldn't stop reading this. I had to know what would happen. The only part I didn't like about the book was the clif...

The Book of Whispers by Kimberley Starr My rating: 2 of 5 stars I received this book from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review....I was originally interested in it because it took place in Tuscany, but it was a did not finish book for me because it wasn't my type of book after all. It'd be good for people that are interested in this time of thing. View all my reviews

Red Dust Runaway by Eva Scott My rating: 3 of 5 stars I recieved this from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I'd say Red Dust Runaway is probably a three and a half star for me. It started off a bit slow, and it was slow in some parts after that but I liked the fact that the girl did something she wanted to do for once in her life. I liked the fact that a rock star ran away with her as well. It reminded me of The Lizzie McGuire movie, especially towards the end where everything ended the way it did. The end part of the book was my favorite because that was when it picked up more. It'd be a good book to read during the summer. View all my reviews

Be True to Me by Adele Griffin My rating: 4 of 5 stars I received this book from Netgalley as a early advanced copy. This was a really cute beach type of read! I think was like Dirty Dancing, but it was on the beach instead of a resort. It still had the same feel because the two girl characters reminded me of the sisters in the movie. I really liked the plot, and the time setting it was in. It'll be a perfect book to read while on vacation this summer. I also really love the cover, it makes me happy! View all my reviews

All I Ask sounded and looked like my type of romance book when I first read the summary and saw the beautiful cover. I even tried to get through more than 30% when I realized it wasn't my type of romance at all. It had a decent plot, though I laughed at the part when the main girl character was actually reading on her phone in a bar. That would be something that I might do. And she got caught by one of her friends. Then the rest of the storyline from there almost won me over, though I couldn't finish it. I might one day, but for now it was just an ok read to me, but it's more for people that like to read any type of romance.

I actually finished this book today. Zenn Diagram by Wendy Brant My rating: 4 of 5 stars I recieved this book from Netgalley to read for an honest review. This book was somewhere between a 4.5 through a 5 star for me. Maybe even a 4.8. I really liked the plot of the book. I'm not a math student by any means, but the plot was unique enough to immediately suck me in. A math nerd and an art student was a cute plotline! But wait, there's more. The math student can't touch people and she wants to find out why she has fractals or whatever they're called. I try to not give too much of the story line away, but the story line between these two characters made it a super cute read. It had me at the math jokes in the beginning of the book. The book also gets more intense later on, but again, I don't want to give away anything. I'd recommend this book to high schoolers and above, not to the middle schooler level. I also liked the other characters of the book as well. Th...

Forever Starts Tonight by Barbara Freethy My rating: 5 of 5 stars I recieved this from the author/publishers in exchange for an honest review earlier this year. I feel like I have been waiting for this book for ages! I think at least a year or two. I love this series so much, and I loved this one. I received this as an ARC ebook and I loved every moment of this. The ending did have me a bit worried, but I don't want to say anything about it to spoil it for the rest of you. I loved the plot and the characters. Now I can't wait for the last book! Or should I say can I? I read this book in a day, thanks to having a day off right after getting the ARC. I normally don't read books that quickly, so that's another sign it was really good. View all my reviews

Long May She Reign by Rhiannon Thomas My rating: 4 of 5 stars I liked this book more than I thought I would... it seemed like it was a mixture of Beauty and the Beast and Sleeping Beauty. The Beauty and the Beast side showed out with the mad scientist part... Freya's love for science made me think of Belle's father. Then of course, the fact that so many people were poisioned automatically made me think of Sleeping Beauty because an entire town fell asleep there.... I liked Fitzroy. Freya and Fitzroy's friendship was cute, and I liked the fact that it was forbidden...and their romance seemed more believable than the romances in A Court of Thorns and Roses, The Red Queen, and The Valiant. It was refreshing to actually kind of see it, and they weren't automatically put together like in those books. They were a little bit more developed than those YA books. I do agree that it could've been a little more, but like I said it was still better than what I have seen in th...

  I recieved Death of a Bachelorette by Laura Levine through Netgalley and the publishers of the book in exchange for an honest review. This was the ebook edition of the book.   It has been awhile since I read the Jaine Austen books. I think the last one was book number nine or ten, but they are always cute reads, especially if you just want to dip a toe into the mystery genre but don't want anything quite dark yet.   In Death of a Bachelorette, Jaine Austen gets to go away to write dialogue for a tv show called Some Day my Prince Will Come. I liked the idea of the show a lot because it was about the prince choosing his bride, and I actually wished it was a real tv show because that is something that I would get into watching.   While Jaine is there though, there is two mysteries for her to solve really. One of them is a death that occurs...I don't want to spoil it by saying whose death it is. And the other one is how her cat, Prozac keeps esca...

  I just finished Wintersong, by S.Jae- Jones today. I needed a good young adult fantasy book after reading a steamy romance novel recently.   Wintersong is perfect for fans of Beauty and the Beast, the Tryll series by Amanda Hocking, A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas, The Selection by Kiera Cass, and the movie Frozen. It seemed to have similar elements to all of those.   Wintersong is an enchanting tale about goblins, but it is much more than that. Elisabeth was told to stay away from goblins her whole life, but when her sister gets taken away from them she has to go find her and Elisabeth sacrifies herself to take her sister's place in the Underground world. (I don't want to give much of the plot away!)   I really liked the writing style of the book. It was poetic, like an enchanted captivating dance. I had only meant to read the book for a few moments before returning it back to the library but it proved me wrong. The beautiful writing ...

I received this book as an ARC for an honest review. I was happy that this was my first arc book! I love Barbara Freethy and how she takes even responds to her readers on Facebook. This book did seem to start of slow because the plot almost seem to be the same as the first two, but after the first two chapters I was hooked and wanted to go along for the ride to find out what happens next. I loved that the setting was in Washington D.C. instead of San Fransisco like most other books, and I loved    I received this book as an ARC for an honest review. I was happy that this was my first arc book! (This was my first ARC review from last year...)I love Barbara Freethy and how she even responds to her readers on Facebook. This book did seem to start of slow because the plot almost seem to be the same as the first two, but after the first two chapters I was hooked and wanted to go along for the ride to find out what happens next. I loved that the setting was in Washington D.C. i...

I actually finished reading Lovestruck yesterday and posted the review on Goodreads yesterday as well.   This book isn't usually my type of book, but it ended up being between a three and a half and four for me. I picked it up through Kindle Unlimited. It was cute, it has a hot guy in it and the connection between Ruby and Will was believable. I liked the fact that they knew each other from college...it had a cute plot. It was a little steamier than my usual reads. Not Fifty Shades of Grey (never finished that book!) But it was definitely steamy. I ended up just daring myself to finish it and I'm gl This book isn't usually my type of book, but it ended up being between a three and a half and four for me. I picked it up through Kindle Unlimited. It was cute, it has a hot guy in it and the connection between Ruby and Will was believable. I liked the fact that they knew each other from college...it had a cute plot. It was a little steamier than my usual reads. Not Fift...

This book was a library book, but now I might have to get it because it ended up being the perfect read for me. I was glad that I chose this book for my car trip ride home because I couldn't put it down. I finished it in a day! It's perfect for me because it started off back during the Salem Witch Trial era and I have always liked stories that takes place during those times. One of the witches, Kendra meets her beloved James, but they don't have an easy journey at all. Kendra ends up showing up th This book was a library book, but now I might have to get it because it ended up being the perfect read for me. I was glad that I chose this book for my car trip ride home because I couldn't put it down. I finished it in a day! It's perfect for me because it started off back during the Salem Witch Trial era and I have always liked stories that takes place during those times. One of the witches, Kendra meets her beloved James, but they don't have an easy journey...

I think my rating is between two and two and a half. It was just okay to me. I tried reading this after a book that was just pure fluffy, and I just couldn't get into a book about geeks then. (I am a nerd just so you know.) Then I finally got into it after reading a YA fantasy book, but it just fell short to me after halfway through. There were a couple of sweet spots, but other than that if you aren't into the whole con part of the fandoms then you'll feel like you're just wandering around those hallways aimlessly pretending to care about all of the appropriate nerd references. I wanted to like this book since it was about fandoms, but I just don't think I was the right person to enjoy the concept more. But I tried it anyway.

  I was a little worried about this book because it had mixed reviews and I wasn't sure if it would live up to the first book. But it surprised me by being even better than the first one. I loved it because I'm a sucker for secret relationships. If you like secret relationships you'll like this book. There are cute romance scenes and I liked it when Skylar liked who she was with someone. (Not saying who though it's obvious.) And that ending was just so cute! I read it almost in one setting. I am c I was a little worried about this book because it had mixed reviews and I wasn't sure if it would live up to the first book. But it surprised me by being even better than the first one. I loved it because I'm a sucker for secret relationships. If you like secret relationships you'll like this book. There are cute romance scenes and I liked it when Skylar liked who she was with someone. (Not saying who though it's obvious.) And that ending was just so cu...

I've gotten pretty behind on the whole book blog idea thing, so I'm going to slowly try catching up since I've actually been leaving reviews on Goodreads. One of my favorite books so far this year is Confessions of a Virgin Sex Columnist. This last month I've been reading books that have made me want to drop the microphone and just stop reading because no book can ever be that perfect again. I keep thinking, this is the world's most perfect book. No, this one is...this is the third one in a row that has made me think that. I'm almost afraid of never finding another book like it again. The first thing I want to say about this book is that it is no way similar to Fifty Shades of Grey. The title made me think that it was that type of book, and I thought, oh no. But I was relived that I got through 10 percent...and actually I got to fifty percent the first night even though I was tired from working. That was how much it captivated me. Skylar is a virgin sex ...