Holding Up The Universe

Holding Up the Universe by Jennifer Niven was sat on my TBR shelf for a while before I got around to reading it, and I wish that I had read it sooner. This book wasn’t anything special, just a typical YA book, and to me, thats what made it so great. Jennifer Niven doesn’t seem to try super hard to make an AMAZING book, it just worked for this book.

Everyone thinks they know Libby Strout, she’s the fat girl at school, and it’s so funny to play pranks on the fat girl right? No one has ever looked past her weight to see who she really is. Since her mother’s death, she’s been hiding, but now she feels like she is ready to go to high school. She wants to be the girl that can do anything, she doesn’t let her weight define her.

As for Jack Masselin, everyone thinks they know him too. He’s your typical jock, sexy, aloof, ‘too cool for school’ and with a smoking hot girlfriend. However, Jack has a secret that he needs to keep, he acts confident and like his friends so that no one suspects anything, even though he hates the way his friends are. He needs to be charming and funny and not to get too close to anyone.

And then Jack and Libby meet. Their worlds completely chance. Jack finally has someone to talk to about his secret. Libby can finally feel like she’s pretty enough, and that her weight won’t hold her back any longer.

The thing I loved about this book was how different it was to others. I have never read anything like it. I mean, yes, there was that typical boy meets girl and they fall in love and live happily ever after, but everyone loves a bit of cheesy romance right? Without giving any spoilers, all I’m going to say is I imagined the characters to look completely different to how they are described.

I loved this book because it’s a love story about finding that one person who sees you for who you really are, and seeing them right back. (those who have read this will understand that). But this book is completely brilliant, and I am so glad I bought and read this book, and I would highly recommend you to read it too. Therefore, I will give this book 4 stars.

December 28, 2016December 28, 2016 by dickensreads Categories: Young AdultTags: 4 stars, love, Romance, YA, Young Adult Leave a comment

Lie With Me

Lie With Me by Sabine Durrant was an AMAZING book, i mean, just WOW. I borrowed this from my sister, you can find her blog here. This book had such an amazing twist. It left me needing to talk to someone about it. Thankfully, my mum had already read this book, so I ran straight downstairs to talk to her about it. I was absolutely BLOWN AWAY by it.

Sabine Durrant is such a clever writer. The book starts off with Paul Morris, an unlikeable character right from the beginning. He is arrogant, pretentious and a womaniser. I hated him, and it made me so happy when he had to move back in with his mother and that he was so miserable, he deserved it, he was a horrible person. However, by the end of this book I was rooting for Paul and I felt so sorry for him.

Paul lied a lot, he did it for no other reason than to make himself look better than he actually was, but there was no proper reason behind it, as if to hide something from someone, but he certainly was not evil and did not deserve what happened to him. It was someone else who was evil, but because Paul had lied so much, who would believe him?

This book was so easy to read. There are some books, where you just pick it up and cannot put it down again, where you completely forget that you’re reading a book and you feel like you are part of the story, like you are right there, watching it in real life. This book was just so relatable. Everyone tells little white lies occasionally for no reason at all other than to make yourself feel or look better.

This is probably the best book I have read so far, not only for the plot, but the way it was written and I seriously recommend that everybody reads this book. This book is definitely 5 stars!

December 2, 2016 by dickensreads Categories: Crime, MysteryTags: 5 stars, Crime, love, Romance 1 Comment

You Know Me Well

You Know Me Well by Nina LaCour and David Levithan was such an amazing book, i didn’t want it to end at all. Right from the beginning I was glued to this book, It is both about heartbreak and love which I found so relatable (yes, both! Half way through reading this book I had my heart broken) This book is about two love stories and both of Mark and Kate’s experience of them.

As you already know, the two protagonists in this story are Mark and Kate, they had been sitting next to each other in a class for an entire year, but they had never spoken to each other. However, one night, their lives collide. Kate is running away from the chance of meeting the girl she has loved from a distance, and Mark is in love with his best friend Ryan who may or may not love him back. However, they found each other and an amazing friendship formed. Although, when they met, they didn’t realise how important they would become to each other, and how they will navigate the joys and heartaches of their first love.

This book gave me a roller coaster of emotions, one minute I was so happy and filled with excitement, and they next I was sad and wanted to become part of the story just so I could make the character feel better. This book allowed me to get completely lost in the story. I could have not picked a better ending for this book, there is no way this book could have ended any differently and still had the impact that it had on me.

This book is definitely worth the read, and I would highly recommend it to anyone who loves books with a happy ending, love and in the Young Adult genre. Therefore, I would rate this book 4.5 stars out of 5.

October 5, 2016October 5, 2016 by dickensreads Categories: Young AdultTags: 4.5 stars, love, Romance, YA Leave a comment