Origin Review

Origin by Jessica Khoury

Title: Origin

Author: Jessica Khoury

Series: Origin #1 (Has a Short Story Companion)

Publisher: Razorbill

Publication Date: September 4, 2012

Genre: Science fiction; Mystery; Romance; Young Adult

Pages: 394

Format: Hardback
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Pia has grown up in a secret laboratory hidden deep in the Amazon rain forest. She was raised by a team of scientists who have created her to be the start of a new immortal race. But on the night of her seventeenth birthday, Pia discovers a hole in the electric fence that surrounds her sterile home―and sneaks outside the compound for the first time in her life.

Free in the jungle, Pia meets Eio, a boy from a nearby village. Together, they embark on a race against time to discover the truth about Pia's origin―a truth with deadly consequences that will change their lives forever.

Origin is a beautifully told, shocking new way to look at an age-old desire: to live forever, no matter the cost.

“We are limited only by the questions we haven’t yet thought to ask.”

Pia is perfect. Or at least that’s what everyone tells her. She had unbreakable skin, enhanced reflexes to match those of a cat’s, and incomparable speed and agility (but not strength). Oh, and she’s immortal. Her life expectancy is eternity. She is alone in that she is the first and the only of her kind. She dreams of creating her own race, her own Mr. Perfect, so she won’t have to be alone. Hidden away in the jungle, she has never seen the outside world. She is happy with her home and her family of scientists, never questioning her way of life. Until. One fateful day she escapes into the jungle and gets her first taste of freedom, and meets a boy named Eio. With the help of the natives, she learns the truth of her origin. And it changes everything.

I don’t know what I expected from this novel. A fun story, maybe, that I would quickly forget and never think about again. A filler of space and time that would entertain me and keep my boredom at bay. This book was all of those things. And not much else.

“‘No one should live forever,’ I whisper. ‘Isn’t that how it goes? ‘There must me be a balance. No birth without death. No life without tears. What is taken from the world must be given back. No one should live forever, but should give his blood to the river when the time comes so that tomorrow another may live.’”

While the frequently brought up questions of immortality and ethics were interesting and insightful, and it did add depth to the plot, this book could’ve been so much more. The characters, in my opinion, fell flat in terms of complexity and, well, character. There was only one layer to their personalities, and I wanted there to be more. Pia, for example, was supposed to be smart, agile, and perfect, but all I read was a normal teenage girl who couldn’t get paper cuts. She was raised as a scientist but was ironically incurious about what was going on behind lab doors. Eio, too, was flat and uninteresting. The romance between the two was border-line insta-love (just add water!). This book didn’t connect with me.

The only truly good thing about this book was the insightfulness of the questions it brought up, the creativity behind the science in the book, and the setting. It was just interesting enough that I kept reading until the end of the book, but, honestly, this book was way too long and had too many extraneous elements for what the author was trying to convey. A book this size should have more action, more suspense and climatic moments, and Origin fell flat.

Origin was not an entirely bad book. It was just sub-par to all the other sci-fy books I had read in the past. It had so much potential, and I wanted to love it, but I couldn't. In short: unimpressive, and only the slightest bit interesting

 “They all haunt my mind, waiting for me in the shadow of sleep. Reminding me how fragile this life is and how easily it can be lost. Compelling me to live and to live well, while I still can.

Because sooner or later, we must all face eternity.”

The Winner's Curse Review

The Winner's Curse by Marie Rutkoski

Title: The Winner’s Curse

Author: Marie Rutkoski

Series: The Winner’s Trilogy #1

Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Publication Date: March 4, 2014

Genre: Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult

Pages: 355

Format: Hardback
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Winning what you want may cost you everything you love.

As a general’s daughter in a vast empire that revels in war and enslaves those it conquers, seventeen-year-old Kestrel has two choices: she can join the military or get married. But Kestrel has other intentions. One day, she is startled to find a kindred spirit in a young slave up for auction.

Arin’s eyes seem to defy everything and everyone. Following her instinct, Kestrel buys him—with unexpected consequences. It’s not long before she has to hide her growing love for Arin. But he, too, has a secret, and Kestrel quickly learns that the price she paid for a fellow human is much higher than she ever could have imagined. 

Set in a richly imagined new world, The Winner’s Curse by Marie Rutkoski is a story of deadly games where everything is at stake, and the gamble is whether you will keep your head or lose your heart.

“He knew the law of such things: people in brightly lit places cannot see into the dark.”

I should really stop reading the first book of a series right after it’s released. That should stop. Because, seriously? Now I have to wait a whole eight months before the sequel comes out. You think I would've learned by now, but no.

Kestrel is the daughter of a warlord, forced into a life she doesn't want. Arin is a slave, one of the conquered race that is now forced into labor. Their epic story begins when Kestrel buys Arin at a slave auction on a crazy impulse, not knowing the dark secrets Arin brings along with him. When secrets are revealed and a revolution begins, they are forced apart, even more than they were before. Will they ever be able to find a way back to each other again?

“Music made her feel as if she were holding a lamp that cast a halo of light around her, and while she knew there were people and responsibilities in the darkness beyond it, she couldn't see them. The flame of what she felt when she played made her deliciously blind.”

This book was fantastic. The characters were complex and intricate and the plot was even more so. Of course, the book ends just as its getting good. Instead of fading into black like how books are supposed to, this one reaches the epitome of the story line, and just ends. Just. Ends.

Besides the obvious problem of the Mt. Everest of cliffhangers, I would read this book again. And again. And again. It was that good. The romance? Perfecto. The plot? Suspenseful and enthralling. If you loved Graceling by Kristin Cashore, this book is more than just a must read for you. It is a have to read.  

Everything about this book was perfectly perfect. I loved the setting and the conflict. It was impossible to put it down. Reading this book was all I wanted to do. One piece of advice? Read it when the sequel is out.

“‘Happiness depends of being free’, Kestrel’s father often said, ‘and freedom depends on being courageous.’”

The Winner’s Crime

March 3, 2015

These Broken Stars Review

These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

Title: These Broken Stars

Authors: Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner

Series: Starbound #1

Publisher: Disney Hyperion

Publication Date: December 10, 2013

Genre: Science Fiction; Romance; Young Adult

Pages: 374

Format: Hardback
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It's a night like any other on board the Icarus. Then, catastrophe strikes: the massive luxury spaceliner is yanked out of hyperspace and plummets into the nearest planet. Lilac LaRoux and Tarver Merendsen survive. And they seem to be alone. 

Lilac is the daughter of the richest man in the universe. Tarver comes from nothing, a young war hero who learned long ago that girls like Lilac are more trouble than they’re worth. But with only each other to rely on, Lilac and Tarver must work together, making a tortuous journey across the eerie, deserted terrain to seek help. 

Then, against all odds, Lilac and Tarver find a strange blessing in the tragedy that has thrown them into each other’s arms. Without the hope of a future together in their own world, they begin to wonder—would they be better off staying here forever?

Everything changes when they uncover the truth behind the chilling whispers that haunt their every step. Lilac and Tarver may find a way off this planet. But they won’t be the same people who landed on it.

I’ve been waiting for a good space science fiction book, and it looks like I finally got what I asked for. When I saw the quote on the front of the book broadcasting that Marie Lu liked it, I thought, by golly, if Marie Lu liked, then I better like it as well. Now that I’ve read it, I have to say Ms. Lu has impeccable taste in books.

Very reminiscent of Beth Revis’s Across the Universe, (you can find her praise on the back cover), this novel blends romance with cut throat survival and an enthralling plot. Lilac LaRoux is a legend’s daughter, untouchable by anyone, no matter their status. Tarver Merendsen (cool name, right? I thought so too…) is a war hero, a not-so-rags-to-riches storybook character. He is invited into the high-class parties, but he is not one of them. When calamity strikes the ship Icarus, it is only with the help of Lilac that they both make it off the doomed ship. Now they are stranded together, two people who don’t get along, and definitely would not be seen in the same room together in other circumstances, let alone helping one another. As their differences subside and mysterious secrets are unraveled, will they even accept the help of the rescuers they so badly wanted in the beginning?

I think the writing is what really sold me These Broken Stars. It is so simply elegant and surreal that you can’t help but love it. Written by two authors, it brings a writing style that is so beautiful and unique that you can’t, just can’t, stop reading it. The amount of time it took for me to finish this book? One and half days. Yeah…it’s that good.

While Lilac could be hopelessly helpless and frustratingly stubborn in the worst way, she grew on me towards the end (and thank god because I was about to hate the book just because of her). And Tarver. Oh my goodness, Tarver. If there’s one thing that Kaufman and Spooner know, it’s how to make a love interest to swoon over. Utterly unrealistic and probably never going to happen, of course, but a girl can dream can’t she?

I commend you Amie Kaufman and Meagan Spooner for putting on a performance I couldn’t stop watching and I enthusiastically ask for an encore. Bravo! Fablisimo!

This Shattered World

December 23, 2014

To All The Boys I've Loved Before Review

To All The Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

Title: To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before

Author: Jenny Han

Series: To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before #1

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: April 15, 2014

Genre: Romance; Contemporary; Realistic Fiction; Young Adult

Pages: 288

Format: Hardback
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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 something good may come out of these letters after all.

“When I write, I hold nothing back. I write like he’ll never read it. Because he never will.”

Let me just start out my saying that I loved this book far more than I thought I would and a lot more than anyone should ever love a book. I’m not saying this is the next Fault in Our Stars or Eleanor & Park. I am just saying that this book was the highest level of good that you can give a summer read.

Lara Jean is the middle sister of three, second daughter of an Ob-gyn dad, and was practically raised by her semi-aloof big sister Margot. The book starts out with Lara Jean dealing with the fact that her big sister is leaving for an overseas college, leaving behind her two sisters and a recently broken-up with ex-boyfriend Josh (who Lara Jean is not-so-fortunately hard core crushing on). When letters that Lara Jean had written to all her past crushes are mysteriously sent to all the boys they were addressed to, her love life goes from nil to chaotic and awkward.  

“This is our life; there’s no use in asking what if. No one could ever give you the answers. I try, I really do, but it’s hard for me to accept this way of thinking. I’m always wondering about the what-ifs, about the road not taken.”

While it may not a product of genius or the next mind-imploding novel, I really liked it. I liked it so much that when I turned the last page and saw the word “Acknowledgments” instead of another chapter number, I was this close to throwing my book at the wall. Thankfully, I contained myself until I figured out that there was a sequel. Even if it is coming out in 2015. (UUUHHHH!)

The relationships between the sisters was true, well written and sweet. I was about half-way through the book before I guessed what was going to happen. And I was right. Which made me unexplainably happy. I loved the romance; it fed my girly-girl, romance-obsessed heart.

The writing was awesome, the characters were interesting and the romance was spot on. The sequel cannot get here fast enough. The all-time perfect fluffy and fun book for summer.

  P.S I Still Love You

April 21, 2015

The Eye of Minds Review

The Eye of Minds by James Dashner

Title: The Eye of Minds

Author: James Dashner

Series: The Mortality Doctrine #1

Publisher: Delacorte Books

Publication Date: October 8, 2013

Genre: Science Fiction; Young Adult

Pages: 308

Format: Hardback
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Michael is a gamer. And like most gamers, he almost spends more time on the VirtNet than in the actual world. The VirtNet offers total mind and body immersion, and it’s addictive. Thanks to technology, anyone with enough money can experience fantasy worlds, risk their life without the chance of death, or just hang around with Virt-friends. And the more hacking skills you have, the more fun. Why bother following the rules when most of them are dumb, anyway?

But some rules were made for a reason. Some technology is too dangerous to fool with. And recent reports claim that one gamer is going beyond what any gamer has done before: he’s holding players hostage inside the VirtNet. The effects are horrific—the hostages have all been declared brain-dead.Yet the gamer’s                                                                                  motives are a mystery.

The government knows that to catch a hacker, you need a hacker.
And they’ve been watching Michael. They want him on their team.
But the risk is enormous. If he accepts their challenge, Michael will need to go off the VirtNet grid. There are back alleys and corners in the system human eyes have never seen and predators he can’t even fathom—and there’s the possibility that the line between game and reality will be blurred forever.

I hate writing bad reviews. I really do. I hate reading them and I hate writing them. I don’t think it’s fair to the book, because for every book there is at least one person out there who will love it. I least one person will enjoy reading its contents, and what if, that person destined to love that book reads a bad review? They might never find each other! The book’s soul mate will never find the book they were meant to love.

Okay, maybe it doesn’t happen exactly like that, but you get my point.

Just because one person hated the book doesn’t mean others will. It’s a singular opinion and everyone won’t have that same opinion. So I just want to say right now, that this is a bad review. Well, not literally a bad review–just a review about a book that I didn’t like. Even though I didn’t like it, a lot of other people did. Do not vow to never read, look at, or think about this book. Just consider my and other people’s opinions. Who knows? You may love it. But like every other book you pick up, you may also hate it.

Let’s get one thing straight: I love James Dashner as an author. I think any person who can write a book as brilliant as The Maze Runner is and always will be a genius. It is one of all-time favorites. And don’t even get me started on Dylan O’Brien. Can I just say BEST CASTING EVER! Anyway, this book hasn’t made me change my opinion of him. It just wasn’t my kind of book.

You know when you read those books that make you feel like you should be put in a psychiatric ward, your mind is so messed up after reading it? The Eye of Minds did that to me. It’s like there was no limit on what could happen, so the weirdest, most crazy, will-play-with-your-mind things occurred.  And it seemed like James Dashner was trying to tell me something with every insane event. Like there was a symbolism to everything, but I was wearing an eye patch on both eyes, so I blind to any other meaning. I was so confused and my head was starting to hurt by about page 230. I wanted to get this book but I. Just. Didn’t.

And the ending! Oh, the ending! If all the other pages of the book sent my head spinning, then the end nearly unscrewed my head from my neck. Talk about mind boggling.

I didn’t like this book. At all. I didn’t get it. But maybe you will. I sorry to say, that this is just one of those one-star book for me. 

Second Chance Summer Review

Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson

Title: Second Chance Summer

Author: Morgan Matson

Series: None

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: May 8, 2012

Genre: Realistic Fiction; Contemporary; Romance; Young Adult

Pages: 468

Format: Hardback
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Taylor Edwards’ family might not be the closest-knit—everyone is a little too busy and overscheduled—but for the most part, they get along just fine. Then Taylor’s dad gets devastating news, and her parents decide that the family will spend one last summer all together at their old lake house in the Pocono Mountains.

Crammed into a place much smaller and more rustic than they are used to, they begin to get to know each other again. And Taylor discovers that the people she thought she had left behind haven’t actually gone anywhere. Her former best friend is still around, as is her first boyfriend…and he’s much cuter at seventeen than he was at twelve.

As the summer progresses and the Edwards become more of a family, they’re more aware than ever that they’re battling a ticking clock. Sometimes, though, there is just enough time to get a second chance—with family, with friends, and with love.

I wouldn’t have even thought to pick up this book a year ago. I would’ve thought it was too cliché and ooey-gooey to be a serious read. But, for the heck of summer, I decided to read it. I mean, what other book could be more perfect for summer reading? I also read Amy & Roger’s Epic Detour and thought it was beyond cute. So I had high hopes. And I can’t say that I was disappointed.

Taylor has a habit of taking the cowardly way out of serious situation: running away. All she wants to do is leave the hard stuff in the dust. When the unthinkable happens, she is dragged to the place that she never thought she would return to. Like, ever. There she meets her former best friend and boyfriend, both of which have changed in ways that surprises her. When her past catches up to her, she must face it head on. She will finally get the second chance she needs at friendship and love. She just has to take it and not leave it stranded behind her.

I couldn’t put this book down in the beginning. What could’ve possibly have happened to have caused such a rift between her and her friends? It must’ve been horrible right? I was conjuring up all these ghastly scenarios in my head about betrayal and conspiracy and all those really bad things. When the big secret was finally revealed, I have to say that I was a little underwhelmed. Matson really played it up to be a super horrible thing, but to me, it was not as bad as she made it up to be. Maybe it was my overly-dramatic imagination, but it could’ve been way worse.

The romance was very well done if not just a tad mellow. It sent my heart thump-thump-thumping and was dreamy-sigh worthy. I don’t cry at books (except for Fault in our Stars of course– I do have just a little bit of a soul), but this was one of those books that I wanted to cry at. To anyone planning to read this book, be forewarned: it’s sad. Don’t say I didn’t warn you.

Second Chance Summer was a perfect pool-side read and I don’t regret reading it one bit. I would recommend it to anyone looking for a little bit of summer romance. 

Smile For The Camera: A Memoir Review

Smile for the Camera: A Memoir by Kelle James

Title: Smile for the Camera: A Memoir

Author: Kelle James

Series: None

Publisher: Simon & Schuster

Publication Date: November 2, 2010

Genre: Nonfiction; Memoir; Young Adult

Pages: 392

Format: Hardback
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Kelle James left an abusive home at the age of sixteen and went to the best place she could imagine: New York City. She had big plans of becoming a model, but within a week she was homeless and broke. What follows is her exceptional story of trying to make it on her own with nothing to her name and no one to trust. She encounters a string of people who take advantage of her youth and beauty, endures many disappointments and rejections, and has a surprising connection to an infamous murder trial. This sparse narrative of a girl who loses herself before finding her way is not only utterly compelling; it’s entirely true.

I made a pact with myself that I would pick up at least one nonfiction book from the library every time I went. This was my pick.

I don’t usually read nonfiction, and to be honest what avid young-adult reader does? I always convince myself that fiction is better, but the truth is that sometimes a real life story is more priceless than a thousand made up ones. I learn something every time I read a nonfiction book. For example, I learned that it would probably not be the wisest decision to move to New York and try to become a model. Not necessarily the most sound plan in life. But hey, it worked for Kelle James. As hard as it was for her.

This novel was gritty in every sense of the word. It is a classic story about girls against the world. Kelle James is running from a hard past life when she goes to New York with a dream of becoming a successful model. She and her best friend Rayna try to conquer the concrete jungle all the while trying to escape the exploitations it brings.

I don’t love this novel. I don’t even dislike it. It’s one of those books that I know I won’t forget anytime soon, but not because I loved it or hated it. It was inspiring how, even though she went through things I could never dream of going through, Kelle James still succeeded. Even with the tide going against her, she made it. She did it. And that’s something to admire.

The writing was simple and real. James refuses to sugar coat anything about her story. This story could be brutal at times but heart felt at others.  

Smile for the Camera: A Memoir was an interesting read about a life I’ll probably never come close to living. Overall, definitely not a bad book.

Keeping The Moon Review

Keeping the Moon by Sarah Dessen

Title: Keeping The Moon

Author: Sarah Dessen

Series: None

Publisher: Speak

Publication Date: May 11, 2004

Genre: Realistic Fiction; Contemporary; Young Adult

Pages: 228

Format: Hardback
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Colie expects the worst when she's sent to spend the summer with her eccentric aunt Mira while her mother, queen of the television infomercial, tours Europe. Always an outcast -- first for being fat and then for being "easy" -- Colie has no friends at home and doesn't expect to find any in Colby, North Carolina. But then she lands a job at the Last Chance Cafe and meets fellow waitresses Morgan and Isabel, best friends with a loving yet volatile relationship. Wacky yet wise, Morgan and Isabel help Colie see herself in a new way and realize the potential that has been there all along.

“You should never be surprised when someone treats you with respect, you should expect it.” 

When Colie visits her unexpectedly eccentric Aunt Mira, her life gets flipped around as she meets new friends, learns how to deal with the ordeals of waitressing, and discovers how to love. When you’re the daughter of a famously optimistically person, known for changing her life with her incomparable amount of self-motivation, people tend to expect the same from you. Colie, however, finds it hard to be positive about her life, even with her newly thinned physique and stare-inducing lip ring. She must learn to unconditionally love herself before she can confront her haunting past.

“It's so, so stupid what we do to ourselves because we're afraid. It's so stupid.” 

How do you do it Sarah Dessen? How do you manage to make the most perfect stories with just the right proportions of love, friendship, self-learning? How do you know so much about life and how to live it? The writing in Keeping the Moon was perfect in every sense of the world. Even when the book was finished, that warm fuzzy feeling that I only seem to get when I read really well done contemporary novels still remained. I have yet to read a Sarah Dessen book that I didn’t like. Coming-of-age journeys you simply can't not learn from, and deliciously sweet romances that are realistic in the rawest of ways, all at the same time. Who could say no? Really? 

Keeping the Moon brought up some themes about life that I whole-heartedly agree with. It’s like I’ve always known they were true, but never could put it into words the right way. Like, you have to love yourself before anyone else can. Don’t ask permission to be respected; demand it. Everyone is beautiful in one way or another. This book is so filled with brutally honest quotes, I didn’t know what to do with myself!

“Self respect, Colie. If you don't have it, the world will walk all over you.”

I can’t say that I related with Colie, because I didn’t. At all, really. And sometimes her wallowing pulled just a little bit too hard on my nerves. But one character I honest-to-God loved? Isabel. If I could have one friend from a book it would be Isabel. Pure awesomeness personified in a character from a book. Most of the really good quotes come from her. Her don’t-give-me-crap attitude was amazingly refreshing and inspiring. She expected nothing less than the best. And I admire that.

This book was just another one added to the list of Sarah Dessen successes. Perfect summer read.

All Our Yesterdays Review

All Our Yesterdays by Cristin Terrill

Title: All Our Yesterdays

Author: Cristin Terrill

Series: All Our Yesterdays #1

Publisher: Disney Hyperion

Publication Date: September 3, 2013

Genre: Science Fiction; Mystery; Young Adult

Pages: 360

Format: Hardback
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What would you change?

Imprisoned in the heart of a secret military base, Em has nothing except the voice of the boy in the cell next door and the list of instructions she finds taped inside the drain.

Only Em can complete the final instruction. She’s tried everything to prevent the creation of a time machine that will tear the world apart. She holds the proof: a list she has never seen before, written in her own hand. Each failed attempt in the past has led her to the same terrible present—imprisoned and tortured by a sadistic man called the doctor while war rages outside. 

Marina has loved her best friend, James, since they were children. A gorgeous, introverted science prodigy from one of America’s most famous families, James finally seems to be seeing Marina in a new way, too. But on one disastrous night, James’s life crumbles, and with it, Marina’s hopes for their future. Marina will protect James, no matter what. Even if it means opening her eyes to a truth so terrible that she may not survive it... at least, not as the girl she once was. Em and Marina are in a race against time that only one of them can win.

All Our Yesterdays is a wrenching, brilliantly plotted story of fierce love, unthinkable sacrifice, and the infinite implications of our every choice.

“Time travel isn’t a wonder; it’s an abomination.”

What if you suddenly found that you were in possession of a DeLorean time machine? Or a Time Turner? Or even a Time Sled, right out of H.G. Well’s imagination? Some would say that time travel was a gift. Others a curse. All Our Yesterdays shows the brutally horrific side of time traveling along with some of the advantages of being able to change the past and all the future that goes along with it.

The book opens to Em, a girl incarcerated in a cell neighboring a boy named Finn. Together they try to persevere the torturous activities of “the doctor”. When Em discovers a slip of paper with scratched out phrases written in her handwriting, she can’t seem to forget the final perfectly readable phrase right at the bottom of the list. Just five words holds the future in its hands, but will Em have the courage to do something that could possibly destroy her?

All Our Yesterdays took me on a roller coaster ride that was not limited to turning my mind upside down and backwards. The incomparable complexity of time travel was made surprising simple, even with all its paradoxes and loops. Terrill spun magic into her words, making it impossible for me to put it down for anything other than bathroom breaks and food. The plot twists made my mind implode. The romance made my heart try to break out of my ribcage. Honestly, I’ve only read average books before this one, and I was just so happy to finally have a book to obsess over.

“Basically, space and time are really one thing, a kind of giant film stretched across the universe called space-time.”

Terrill knows how to do time travel right. Incorporating just a dash of science, a pinch of mystery, and somehow concocting the perfect recipe for science fiction at its best. The ending made me slam the metaphorical brake. Should I cry or should I jump with joy? I was so conflicted I didn’t know what to do myself! Let’s just say, that night, I did not sleep very soundly. I want the sequel. Now. Right Now. At this moment. Literally, cannot wait another moment. *slams head on keyboard*

Read this book. Just do it. Please. You won’t be disappointed.

“People weren’t mean to travel in time.”