Life of a Random

Once again, I bring you one of Doug Solter's books in a book blitz. I hope you enjoy reading about it and make sure to enter the giveaway at the end of the post. :) ~~~~ Legends  by Doug Solter Series: Skid #3 Publication date: September 2, 2015 Genre(s): Contemporary, Young Adult Meet Samantha. She drove the car that killed her dad. Now racked with guilt, the 18-year-old-girl racer dedicates her life to becoming what her dad always planned her to be…a racing champion. Now demoted to number three driver, Samantha feels alienated from her friends on the crew and Manny. And the worst part of it is…she knows it was all her fault. Determined to make amends and save her Formula One career, Samantha re-commits herself to winning the championship. But how? How can she convince her boss to give back her car? How can she convince the crew that she’s changed? And how can she win eight consecutive races against the best drivers in the world? That’s what it will ...

Okay. PANIC TIME. I completely forgot to publish yesterday's post. *begs for mercy* You may or may not have noticed that I started posting on Sundays and Wednesdays. Buuut, yeah, kinda forgot. Oops. In conclusion, once again SORRY and this is my 200th post yay! To All the Boys I've Loved Before  by Jenny Han Publication date: April 15, 2014 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers Format: hardcover Source: me Pages: 355 To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is the story of Lara Jean, who has never openly admitted her crushes, but instead wrote each boy a letter about how she felt, sealed it, and hid it in a box under her bed. But one day Lara Jean discovers that somehow her secret box of letters has been mailed, causing all her crushes from her past to confront her about the letters: her first kiss, the boy from summer camp, even her sister's ex-boyfriend, Josh. As she learns to deal with her past loves face to face, Lara Jean discovers that someth...

Courtesy of: RIVALS by Doug Solter Publication Date:  September 23, 2014 Genre(s): Contemporary Eighteen-year-old Samantha Sutton is back for a new racing season in Formula One. The hot new racing star of Wolert Porsche has everything she wants. An awesome team. An awesome car. And the perfect boy. But her optimism sinks when her boss steals arch-rival Emilio Ronaldo away from Ferrari and makes the jerk her team's number-one driver. Stressing about Emilio, Samantha struggles with her new public life as a teen sports star. Finding time to be the best girlfriend to Manny proves more and more difficult. It also doesn't help that Manny's ex-girlfriend Hanna shows up. The girl treated at a mental hospital for poisoning his grandmother's dog. The pressure on Samantha becomes unbearable. Paranoia, mistrust, and jealousy take over. She lashes out at everyone as the world seems determined to bring her down.  Can Samantha rise above it all and win the world ...

I'm just running around in frantic disbelief, wonder, book hangover-ishness because I have read Cruel Beauty. How do I describe the pain? Ah, but not now. That's for a different post, a whole review one to be specific, where I will expound and blabber all about that beautiful book. Not really relevant to this post, buut I had to get it out. Also, I recently did a guest post at Bunnita's book blog, Worth Reading It? , which if you want you can check out here . It's a Top Ten Books of 2014 piece wherein I kinda, sorta tried to explain my deep love for certain books."Tried" is the key word. ;) Now you probably hadn't guessed this by the way I'm darting off into all kinds of topics but this is a review post so I present *drumroll* the review. Publication Date: February 1, 2011 Publisher: Disney-Hyperion Pages: 323 Source: Library Format: Paperback Series: Hex Hall #1 Three years ago, Sophie Mercer discovered that she was a witch. It...

A Flash Review is something I do on my blog once in a while when I'm not in the mood or don't have the time to do a full review of a book. I got the name from the term flash fiction--REALLY short-length fiction. Wallah! (I'm so proud.) Hope you like! Publication Date: October 11, 2011 Publisher: HarperTeen Pages: 303 Source: Library Format: Paperback Hartley Grace Featherstone is having a very bad day. First she finds out that her boyfriend is cheating on her with the president of the Herbert Hoover High School Chastity Club. Then he’s pegged as the #1 suspect in a murder. And if that weren’t enough, now he’s depending on Hartley to clear his name. But as much as Hartley wouldn’t mind seeing him squirm, she knows he’s innocent, and she’s the only one who can help him. Along with her best friend, Sam, and the school’s resident Bad Boy, Chase, Hartley starts investigating on her own. But as the dead bodies begin to pile up, the mystery deepens, the suspe...

First of all, a series of Announcements: 1) I think I got the Rafflecopter problem fixed! The giveaway has now ended. I will announce the winner soon. 2) I got interviewed for Briana's Crazy Creatures of the Blogging World feature. *happy dance* You can check that post out here at her blog Reader, Writer, Critic .  3) I'M SO SORRY THAT I KINDA TOOK A CASUAL/UNINTENTIONAL BREAK FROM BLOGGING. Yeah...about that. Oops. Many apologies and chocolates! Publication Date: April 25, 2013 Publisher: Playlist Fiction Pages: 267 Source: my pockets of change Format: eBook Ellie Sweet is a lot of things—good girl, novelist, silent adorer of the new boy at school, Palmer. But when “outcast” gets added to the list, she decides it’s time to take reality into her own hands … and tweak it as needed. In the pages of her book, she’s Lady Gabrielle, favorite of the medieval Italian court. Her once-friends are reduced to catty ladies-in-waiting, and the too-charming...

Yes, yes, I am aware that I'm extremely late to this...well, hype I guess? Anyhow, I've only just read The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer and was impressed. I think it deserves all the hype and...I guess you'll see the rest of my thoughts below. ;)   Publication Date: September 27, 2011 Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children's Publishing Pages: 452 Source: Library Format: Hardcover Mara Dyer doesn’t think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. It can. She believes there must be more to the accident she can’t remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed. There is. She doesn’t believe that after everything she’s been through, she can fall in love. She’s wrong. I'm just going to say right here that this review will be very hard to write without including spoilers, but I will try my best. I mean, look what I have to work with. A six sentence blurb? Dude.   It i...