Top Ten Tuesday #5 | Books I Disliked but Am Really Glad I Read

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Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.

May 15: Books I Disliked/Hated but Am Really Glad I Read

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This time I did a Top Six.
I chose to do YA books because they are the type I have read the most. And the ones I chose are the only ones I disliked to some extent.

Looking for Alaska by John Green

After Hours by Claire Kennedy

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The Good Sister by Jamie Kain

Firsts by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

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180 Seconds by Jessica Park

Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead

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The Good Sister by Jamie Kain | Book Review

The Good Sister by Jamie Kain

I have been putting off reviewing this book since I don't really know what to say about it but I'll be sure to find something to say about it. 

The Good Sister by Jamie Kain

Publication: December 8th, 2015 by St. Martin's Griffin

Format: Paperback, 304 pages

Source: It was sent to me by St. Martin's Press.

Genres: Young Adult, Contemporary

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Rating: ★★★

Synopsis:

The Kinsey sisters live in an unconventional world. Their parents are former flower-children who still don't believe in rules. Their small, Northern California town is filled with free spirits and damaged souls seeking refuge from the real world. Without the anchor of authority, the three girls are adrift and have only each other to rely on.

Rachel is wild. Asha is lost. Sarah, the good sister, is the glue that holds them together. But the forces of a mysterious fate have taken Sarah's life in a sudden and puzzling accident, sending her already fractured family into a tailspin of grief and confusion. Asha has questions. Rachel has secrets. And Sarah, waking up in the afterlife, must piece together how she got there.

Jamie Kain brings us The Good Sister, a stunning debut young adult novel about love in all its joyful, painful, exhilarating manifestations, and about the ties that bind us together, in life and beyond.

Thoughts:

This book was sent to me to review by the publishers and here it is.
It did take me a long time to finish this book even though it was only 304 pages long but I was glad I didn't give up on it. The ending was in a way perfect because it made everything that had happened and was happening clearer to understand. At least for me.

So there are three sisters. Rachel, Asha, and Sarah but Sarah died. So from the beginning, I thought that one of the other sisters might have killed her because she supposedly fell off a cliff by accident. And the entire family suffers in many different ways because of that. 
This story is basically the sisters trying to deal with the aftermath of losing their older sister. It tells you the story through Rachel and Asha but Sarah also tells her story because of she's in some kind of purgatory.


My favorite character has got to be 

Asha just because she was truly trying to figure out what happened to her sister. When all along Rachel knew everything and just decided to keep quiet. Which was a dick move.

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Instructions For The End Of The World by Jamie Kain | Book Review

Instructions For The End Of The World by Jamie Kain 

I have gotten so much better at taking photos that I got a little carried away this time.

So I got the opportunity to read this book and to review it and I really was surprised because I actually genuinely liked it. It was a fast read for me and that surprised me the most . It usually takes me weeks to finish a book but it only took me three-four days to finish this one. then again it was only 214 pages so I should have finished it in two days but I liked that I took my time with it and read it slowly. Books usually start getting boring if I've been reading them for hours without break or even with a break.