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Every Last Word

         Every Last Word by Tamara Ireland Stone is a 355 page MUST READ! Throughout the book we view from the perspective of Samantha Mcallister, She's the popular girl everyone loves to hate. Everything she does has to be perfect, her hair, her makeup, her crushes, even her lunch. Her two faced friends are one of the main causes for that (You cant hang out with popular people and look like a social no one), but Sam's influences comes from something stronger than even her friends... Her OCD. No one knows she has it, and if she wants to stay popular no one ever will, until she meets Caroline, the most mysterious and refreshingly humorous person in her life. Caroline shows Sam a hidden room deep below the janitors closet, very much known as the Poet's Corner. Sam seems to instantly fall in love with the place and everyone who comes with it. She wants to feel normal... In fact, she does feel normal, but she keeps second guessing. She wont stop asking herself the same question... "what if I'm crazy!"

      

      Honestly, I loved this book. Its so hard to find something bad about it that I'm just going to list the good things and see what happens as I go.

I loved all the characters in the book, even the mean ones. They truly related with me and their personality made them come to life. It wasn't really like I was reading the book, it was kind of like I was watching the whole thing happen. When I read books, I usually put myself in their position, and in this book it was kind of sad to see her living in a lie, and it was amazing watching her become her own person. My favorite part was all of the poetry they got to read. Stone made the poetry flow into it, so it wasn't to much and it wasn't to little. So if you're not a poetry person, this is still a good book to read... the poetry is noted and accounted for but doesn't take up the whole book. Out of all of the characters, I would say Caroline was my favorite, she had an amazing sense of humor and I think that anyone could pull a little of themselves or who they want to be, out of her character. Of course this book had to have some romance, it was mostly between Sam and AJ but in the beginning it was also between Sam and Brandon. The romance between Sam and Brandon wasn't what I expected, I wanted more back story or more of a character out of him, it was slightly rushed, but I guess that's what happens when your not a main character. Other than that, the only thing that wasn't so good in the book was probably how her friends handled everything. There fighting near the end of the book was a little tiring after a while. The thing covering most of the tiny flaws in the book, was probably the amazing ending...(HIGHLIGHT FOR SPOILER) Caroline was all apart of Sam's imagination, the real Caroline committed suicide years ago, that's the reason she resorts to the question "What if I'm crazy"  /

Overall I give this book a 4 1/2 stars! I'm very excited to read more books by Stone and hope you are to.

"If you could read my mind you wouldn't be smiling"

Love, Rayiah 

  





All The Bright Places

All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven is a story taken from the perspective of two troubled teenagers, who give each other a reason to live. Theodore Finch and Violet Markey literally met on the edge of life and death. Its actually extremely confusing trying to figure out who saved who, but by the time its over you'll just want to call it a tie...the characters have so much more to worry about than who the true hero is. Honestly, I thought the beginning was a little rushed, but getting past that Niven did an amazing job of pushing them into finding each other, themselves, and all that comes with it. 

Now to the hard part of this review, trying to give my opinion without spoiling anything.

I would give this book all 4.99 stars hands down, but I do need to warn readers that if you are a person struggling with depression, this probably isn't the book for you. Mostly because (HILIGHT FOR SPOILER) one character kills himself in the book, and that's probably not the best way to get motivation. Besides that, the only other things to bother me was probably Finch's nicknames for Violet, Come on... UltraViolet ReMarkeyble. It was cheesy and adorable at the same time. I wanted to barf and laugh every time he called her that. And I wasn't extremely fond of Violet. I was more interested in how Finch's mind worked, although a learned a lot about Violet, it wasn't until the end that I really started to realize the impact on Finch's life and how important she is to the story. 

Overall, I fell in love with this book and I'm recommending it to everyone I know. Like Niven said, "The story of a boy called Finch and a girl named Violet." I couldn't describe it any better!

Anyways, I hope you like it

(I think I did good for my first review)