Colleen's Conclusions

How to Hang a Witch by Adriana Mather My rating: 1 of 5 stars How to hang a Witch by Adriana Mather was a DNF at 26%. I was so excited about starting How to hang a Witch because I love reading about witchcraft stuff and the Salem Witch Trials and all that jazz. This seemed like it would be right up my alley. I got past the "Mean Girls" part of the blurb and actually got into the story. Until right around fifteen percent. And then everything just seemed to slow down and I just decided to put it down at 26%. It was fascinating until that point. And I loved Jaxson. He was my favorite character in the book. I don't know exactly where this book went wrong for me since it seemed like a match for me. Maybe I'll give it a try in the future again. It was a shame since I LOVE this type of stuff usually. View all my reviews

Just One of the Boys by Leah Rooper My rating: 5 of 5 stars I received Just One of the Boys by Leaving Rooper and the other author from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I've always been fascinated by ice skating or hockey stories. I don't know why, but whenever the two are in a story I am all for the story. Just One of the Boys was pretty much a perfect read for me. I tried to find at least one thing I did not like in the story, but I don't think there was one thing. Alice and her brother tried out for the Chicago Falcons, a junior league team. Alice made it at first, but then her coach realized she was a girl and made her brother be the one who had the spot instead. Something happened to her brother and she ended up pretending to be him so he would still have his spot on the the team when he got back. Alice actually was adorably convincing at playing her brother. I thought that part of the story was actually well written even ...

Approximately Yours by Julie Hammerle My rating: 3 of 5 stars I recieved Approximately Yours by Julie Hammerle from Netgalley in exchange for an honest review. I was attracted to Approximately Yours when I first saw the cover. Then I was a little bit intrigued by the plot about a girl texting a guy while hiding her true identity. And then I was even more sold on this book when I realized it was going to be a Christmas season book! I love Christmas season books. I sadly couldn't get into the fact that a guy just basically spent the whole book trying to be with somebody while really he wished he was with the other girl the whole time he was with the girl he was supposed to be with. I was glad when the girl called him out on that...not saying when or how, so that isn't really a spoiler. I did like the secondary characters and the whole Christmas plot though. Not everything about this book was bad, I just couldn't get into the romance drama...

Wicked Beginnings by L.A. Cotton My rating: 4 of 5 stars My Kindle died after I finished reading this because I had read the last half of it within a few hours one day. I wasn't sure what I was expecting from this book going into it, but it seemed like it was similar to L.A. Cotton's book series, Chastity Falls. (I'm sure I'm probably the only one that noticed, but there were only a few similar characteristics that I saw. I also LOVED that series after the first book.) I didn't get into the plot of this book until later on, though I had that same issue with the first book of Chastity Falls. I did like Lo and I'm interested in finding out more about Maverick in the next books that are coming out. Overall, there was drama, and romance of course. I do like L.A. Cotton's writing style and can't wait to see what book two will bring us to learn more about this new world. I recieved this ARC in exchange for an honest review. ...

Coming Up for Air by Miranda Kenneally My rating: 4 of 5 stars Coming up for Air by Miranda Kenneally is the last book in the Hundred Oaks series. I have only read one other book in this series that was about soccer, so you don't need to read the other books in the series before reading this one, not even for the epilouge in the end. Coming up For Air was about Maggie and Levi. They were swimmers trying to compete for the Olympic trials. Maggie realized she didn't have much experience outside of swimming and she wanted to learn how to hook up. It ended up being a steamy best friends to lovers kind of read. I liked the aspect of this book. I've always been interested in sports romances for the last few years, and I'm even more of a sucker for best friends to lovers stories. It also helped that I was also still in the mood for young adult contemporary romance. Levi also became my book boyfriend in this book. I'm a sucker for guys th...

Lucky in Love by Kasie West My rating: 5 of 5 stars Have you ever read one specific book and just knew that something spectacular was going to happen in your life because of it? I knew when this book came out that it was going to be something else. I didn't know why I felt that way at the time, but I did and I kept holding off on buying it and reading it. Then I finally bought it and had the ebook checked out from the library too to have the best of both worlds. And then I opened the book to the dedication page and it just felt like the dedication alone spoke to me. The dedication was, "To all you readers who feel down on your luck. May your fortune soon change." I feel like Kasie West wrote that dedication specifically for me, because I had an awesome job opportunity that came up while reading this book. This may seem a bit silly, but I feel like I owe Kasie West a thank you for writing that dedication alone. That was just magical. I d...

Words in Deep Blue by Cath Crowley My rating: 4 of 5 stars Words in Deep Blue had a really good plotline...people wrote each other letters and stuck them into books around the bookstore in the letters library collection. I loved that idea a lot. There were lots of beautiful quotes about love, life, and books. It was hard to remember all of them. I liked this book and would recommend it to readers who like Sarah Dessen and other authors like her. It was a four star read for me. View all my reviews