Top Ten Tuesday #4 | Books With My Favorite Color On the Cover

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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 8: Books With My Favorite Color On the Cover (or In the Title)

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I have never had one color as my favorite color. So here are a few color combinations or colors that I liked in these book covers.
So this ended up being a Top Twelve

Chalkboard Green

The Big F by Maggie Ann Martin

Purples

A Semi-Definitive List of Worst Nightmares by Krystal Sutherland
Mothership by Martin Leicht & Isla Neal
Let's Talk About Love by Claire Kann
Internet Famous by Danika Stone

Ocean Blues

The Lifeboat Clique by Kathy Parks
The Last Boy and Girl in the World by Siobhan Vivian

Neon

There's Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins
Queens of Geeks by Jen Wilde

Combos

The Graces by Laure Eve
We Are Okay by Nina LaCour

Denim

Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

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Top Ten Tuesday #2 | Frequently Used Words In YA Titles

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Top Ten Tuesday

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.

April 24: Frequently Used Words In [Insert Genre/Age Group] Titles

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I did Top Nine instead cause I have a limited amount of time and I'm sick.

Love

Let's Talk About Love  by Claire Kann

Snow in Love  by Melissa de la Cruz, Nic Stone, Aimee Friedman, and Kasie West

From Twinkle, with Love  by Sandhya Menon

Love & Luck  by Jenna Evans Welch

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Girls

Not the Girls You're Looking For  by Aminah Mae Safi

Undead Girl Gang  by Lily Anderson

Last Girl Lied To  by Laurie Elizabeth Flynn

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Heart

Listen to Your Heart  by Kasie West

Unbreak My Heart  by Melissa C. Walker

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Young Adult Contemporary Romance | Valentine's Day 2018

Happy Valentine's Day!

A long time ago I did something like this where I mentioned books that I hadn't read and it didn't make that much sense. So I'm trying this again. This time with some books I've read. I'm also going to divide them by different categories.

Young Adult Contemporary Romance

Adult Contemporary Romance

No Romance But Cute Stories

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The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You by Lily Anderson

I'd like to say that If you like Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell then you'll love this book too. Its a lot nerdier and a lot more adorable.

It's also an adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing.

I loved this book so much. With references to Saga, Doctor Who, and DC and Marvel comics. And I gave it 5 out of 5 stars.

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

One day Lara Jean Song finds out that all of her in-sent love letters have been sent without her permission and now all her crushes know how she felt about them.

I read this book a while back but still keep the same thought. That I loved every chapter I read. I gave it 5 out of 5 stars.

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Love & Gelato  by Jenna Evans Welch

Lina is sent to live with a man who may or may not be her father and she had just learned this fact.

With things like gelato, Italy, pastries and cute boys, what's not to like. I gave this book 5 out of 5 stars.

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No Love Allowed by Kate Evangelista

They must not fall in love. That's rule number one for Caleb and Didi. Because Caleb needs a fake girlfriend and Didi just got fired The day they both met.

This book got 4 out of 5 stars from me.

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Love Fortunes and Other Disasters by Kimberly Karalius

In a town where love is real will the unfortunate in love Fallon figure out how to change her fortune. Yes she will.

I loved this book so much that I really want to continue the series and read the second book, Love Charms and Other Catastrophes. Wait! I did that.

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How to Keep a Boy from Kissing You by Tara Eglington

Aurora has a secret, she's never been kissed and doesn't want to be unless the right guy comes into her life. But until then she enjoys matchmaking her friends with guys she thinks they would match up with perfectly.

After reading the entire book in one day (minus the first 36 pages which I had read months ago) I can honestly say that this is an awesome book with awesome characters and a great plot. I actually cried reading the last 100 pages. That's how good it is. Totally recommend and gave it 5 out of 5 stars.

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A Week of Mondays by Jessica Brody

Ellison has just gotten dumped by her boyfriend along with having the worst Monday ever.  Now she has to relieve the same Monday again and again trying to fix whatever she did wrong.

5/5 stars!!!

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Waiting on Wednesday #19 - Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases.

Yet another awesome looking Lily Anderson book. Also just look at that amazing cool cover with the jean jacket and the awesome pins.

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Undead Girl Gang by Lily Anderson

Mila Flores and her best friend Riley have always been inseparable. There's not much excitement in their small town of Cross Creek, so Mila and Riley make their own fun, devoting most of their time to Riley's favorite activity: amateur witchcraft.

So when Riley and two Fairmont Academy mean girls die under suspicious circumstances, Mila refuses to believe everyone's explanation that her BFF was involved in a suicide pact. Instead, armed with a tube of lip gloss and an ancient grimoire, Mila does the unthinkable to uncover the truth: she brings the girls back to life.

Unfortunately, Riley, June, and Dayton have no recollection of their murders, but they do have unfinished business to attend to. Now, with only seven days until the spell wears off and the girls return to their graves, Mila must wrangle the distracted group of undead teens and work fast to discover their murderer...before the killer strikes again.

Published by: Razorbill

The Release Date for the book is:
May 8th 2018

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Waiting on Wednesday #17 - Not Now, Not Ever by Lily Anderson

Waiting On Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases.

Another book by Lily Anderson and I can't wait to read it.   
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Not Now, Not Ever by Lily Anderson

The sequel to The Only Thing Worse than Me Is You, inspired by The Importance of Being Earnest.

Elliot Gabaroche is very clear on what she isn't going to do this summer. 

1. She isn't going to stay home in Sacramento, where she'd have to sit through her stepmother's sixth community theater production of The Importance of Being Earnest.
2. She isn't going to mock trial camp at UCLA.
3. And she certainly isn't going to the Air Force summer program on her mother's base in Colorado Springs. As cool as it would be to live-action-role-play Ender's Game, Ellie's seen three generations of her family go through USAF boot camp up close, and she knows that it's much less Luke/Yoda/"feel the force," and much more one hundred push-ups on three days of no sleep. And that just isn't appealing, no matter how many Xenomorphs from Alien she'd be able to defeat afterwards.

What she is going to do is pack up her attitude, her favorite Octavia Butler novels, and her Jordans, and go to summer camp. Specifically, a cutthroat academic-decathlon-like competition for a full scholarship to Rayevich College, the only college with a Science Fiction Literature program. And she's going to start over as Ever Lawrence, on her own terms, without the shadow of all her family’s expectations. Because why do what’s expected of you when you can fight other genius nerds to the death for a shot at the dream you’re sure your family will consider a complete waste of time?

This summer's going to be great.



Published by: Wednesday Books

The Release Date for the book is:
November 21st 2017

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The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You by Lily Anderson | Book Review

Book Review:
The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You by Lily Anderson

Spoilers?

Maybe.

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Title - The Only Thing Worse Than Me Is You 
By - Lily Anderson
Publication - May 17th, 2016 by St. Martin's Griffin
Format - Hardcover, 352 pages

Genre - Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance

Trixie Watson has two very important goals for senior year: to finally save enough to buy the set of Doctor Who figurines at the local comic books store, and to place third in her class and knock Ben West--and his horrendous new mustache that he spent all summer growing--down to number four.

Trixie will do anything to get her name ranked over Ben's, including give up sleep and comic books--well, maybe not comic books--but definitely sleep. After all, the war of Watson v. West is as vicious as the Doctor v. Daleks and Browncoats v. Alliance combined, and it goes all the way back to the infamous monkey bars incident in the first grade. Over a decade later, it's time to declare a champion once and for all.

The war is Trixie's for the winning, until her best friend starts dating Ben's best friend and the two are unceremoniously dumped together and told to play nice. Finding common ground is odious and tooth-pullingly-painful, but Trixie and Ben's cautious truce slowly transforms into a fandom-based tentative friendship. When Trixie's best friend gets expelled for cheating and Trixie cries foul play, however, they have to choose who to believe and which side they're on--and they might not pick the same side.

The Rating :

My Review:

My review in a gif. Which equals 5 stars.

via GIPHY

Book kindly provided by friends. Thank you.

The Cover:

Although they say never judge a book by it's cover I believe the cover should represent what the book is going to be like or at least some aspect of it.

Although after reading the book I'd think the cover is more interesting than my initial thought, but I wish it was less in your face.


The Story:
This story is bout a girl named Trixie Watson and her rivalry with Ben West.
It's like--OK-- Imagine Much Ado About Nothing but with genius high schoolers in an academy for the geniuses and they are also nerds. Like comic books and Doctor Who, and Marvel vs DC references. I love it.


Relationships:

There were more than one couples, and relationships in this book but I will only talk about one of them.

Trixie x Ben
I thought that it was accurate to the thing it was based on (Much Ado About Nothing) in which they hate each other at first. I thought and felt the same way about Ben like Trixie did. Especially with the mustache part. But after the story progressed I did think they were cute together.
And them being all nerdy and stuff really did make their story much cuter.


Family Dynamics:
As for Trixie’s family.
I really did like her parents. Which surprises me because I rarely like the family of the main characters. Her parents were smart, hard working people. Like her dad is a teacher, and her mom is a psychologist. Which prompted Trixie to have some hard times with them because they didn't understand somethings that were going on with her life but besides that they were cool. Like the parts where her dad was almost as nerdy as her wich led to believe that that's where she got it from.


Settings:
As for my favorite settings in this story:
The comic book shop was cool. With the walls of comics and the Doctor Who figurines behind the case next to the cash register. And the park. The school was also pretty cool. And her room. 

This book had more places that felt real compared to other books. 
Like it was more described and more there. It's hard to explain this but I think that the settings just felt more lived in. If that makes any sense.


Overall:
I think I may have finished this book in like 3 or 4 days. Which alone is pretty impressive, but the fact that I read another book based on Much Ado About Nothing. Cause the last book I read and reviewed was also based on the play was really cool and totally not planned. 

I think that with that in mind this book is more based on the play than the other one. Like in this one it's more obvious what scenes correspond to what parts of it. They hate each other and bicker. They overheard that the other might like them and change their thought on each other. Then they start a secret (not so secret) relationship. There's also the friend that gets framed and how the two, being Trixie and Ben, band together to help her out.

The romance was cute, the friends were great friends and also cute, and even the bad parts were brilliant. I truly do love this book and would re-read it.

Check out my previous review for

How To Keep a Boy From Kissing You by Tara Eglington.

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