Love you, Hate You, Miss You-Book Review #8

Love You, Hate You, Miss You by Elizabeth Scott is an amazing book that I read a few years ago and just have to review it. At the time I first read this book I was going through something similar to the main character and because of that, this book will always mean a lot to me.

Love You, Hate You, Miss You is about a girl named Amy who lost her best friend  Julia in a terrible car accident. Since Amy was also in the car she feels survivor's guilt, considering Amy was driving under the influence at the time. When Amy's psychologist tells her she could keep a diary to write down her thoughts, she decides to write letters to Julia instead. These letters are very raw and brutally honest as she writes about her life and how she feels like it no longer has any meaning. This book definitely describes the different stages someone goes through after losing a friends such as still loving them and missing them but also hating them for leaving you behind. 

Slowly Amy begins to reshape her life and meets a boy named Patrick who has experienced hardship and loss and begins to relate to Amy. The closer the two become the more Amy realizes she can move on from her loss and start her life again.

This book is beautiful but it was also kind of hard for me to read because I had lost one of my best friends a few years ago shortly before reading this book. I can definitely relate to the emotionlessness the narrator is feeling. I would 1000% recommend this book to everyone whether you have experienced a loss or not. It is beautifully written, emotional and makes you think a lot about life and death.  

Inception-Book review #7

"The most dangerous enemy is not the one who lingers behind you in the shadows, but the one who walks beside you as a friend. They shape the world around you with well-constructed lies, entombing you in the gossamer of their deceit. You'll never know their true faces, for they shed their masks in layers-meticulous and devious, like the skin of an every-changing snake." 

This is the first paragraph in Bianca Scardonis book Inception it is a part of a series called The Marked. I was first attracted to this book based simply on the first paragraph, it is so well written which is very important to me and it makes you want to read more. Inception is about 17-year-old Jemma who goes to live with her uncle after returning from a mental institution after seeing her father get killed by a vampire. She is told that vampires are obviously not real and she simply had a psychotic break after a "traumatic event" but Jemma is not entirely convinced. So now without parents, Jemma lives with her uncle in an old victorian house. Jemma attends a new school, meets friends (and enemies) and becomes fascinated with broding Trace, a boy at her school with his own secrets. After meeting a mysterious guy named Dominic who is really a vampire, or Revenant; Jemma gets thrown into a dangerous love triangle of the supernatural variety. Soon after stealing a mysterious book from her uncles office in search for answers, Jemma finds out she has a very important role in her new found world. Jemma's uncle finally tells her the truth about her destiny and what is expected of her she immediately becomes wary and denies her fate as a warrior to vanquish evil. 

I love this book mainly because it doesn't seem like the characters are flat or immature like you see in a lot of vampire romance novels and things alike. This book is original which is also rare in such novels and Scardonis does a great job being descriptive and sucking (no pun intended) people in. So if you enjoy with books with vampires, spells and fallen angels I highly recommend Bianca Scardonis book series The Marked. Although this review is only for Inception I highly recommend you read the others too. 

Wow has it really been five weeks?

Okay so it has obviously been a while since my last post and there are several reasons for this:

1. I have not read any books to review other than "Math In Society" which no one wants to read.

2. School has kept me pretty busy because it is math class so I have to try really hard and study all the time and I have even been trying to read ahead so I have an idea of what to expect next week.

3. The final reason why I haven't done any book reviews is because I have no new books to read! It takes me a while to find a book that I am interested in and I am very picky about a lot when it comes to books. 

Since I did promise a review on the other book I was reading then I will do that for you as soon as I finish up with this update. Also every other monday I have to go to an Alpha Sigma Lambda meeting at 2pm which takes even more time out of my day. Alpha Sigma Lambda is an honors society for adults at my school, and we have this cool lounge where there is free food, coffee, computers and a television that I am allowed to use anytime I want. So I might use my time in the lounge to read or write since I have a hard time doing it at home. 

Also, I am graduating in about 3 months which is pretty crazy. I ordered my cap and gown the other day and now I get to wear a special A.S.L sash and be recognized as an honor society student at graduation. It will look fantastic on my resume and I get a lot of scholarships for it too which I need. Hopefully everything is settled with financial aid about my schools next year, I still have to get in contact with my transfer adviser from my one school. I am really nervous about graduation and of course my anxiety is thinking of all the things that can go wrong. I will be that person who falls on stage on the way to the podium. I also have a fear that they won't call my name at all and I will just be sitting there like an idiot. Buutttt i'm sure these feelings are normal, right?