When It Rains 2/26/2014

When it Rains by Lisa De Jong

One night changed my life forever.

Beau Bennett has been my best friend since I can remember. He was my first crush before everything came crashing down, and now he wants more, but it's more than I can give him. Things are different now. I wish I could tell him why, but I can't.

I haven’t told anyone.

I never knew how much I really needed him until the day he left for college, and I was completely alone.

Then one day, Asher Hunt rides into town with his dark, captivating eyes and cocky grin. He doesn't care who I used to be, he's simply breathing life into what’s left. People warn me to stay away from him, but he helps me forget the pain that has held me hostage for so long; something I thought was impossible before he walked into my life.

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 This book was absolutely amazing. This is the type of book that just makes you sob and you just can’t stop. I do not recommend reading this book in public!

Our main character Kate, obviously has a secret and something she is hiding from the people around her. It’s a secret that is killing her and she wants to be able to share it, but she can’t.

We have two main male characters in this book, Beau and Asher, and I loved reading about both of them. They are both huge parts in this story and make everything come together. Beau is Kate’s best friend and has been for a very long time. They used to be extremely close but Kate’s secret has kind of been a wedge between them because she can’t tell him. It was interesting to read about Beau. You may not connect with his character in the same way that you do with Asher’s but he still plays such an amazing role in this story. Asher is a bit different. In the small town that this story takes place, people look at him differently because they don’t know him. He is new and he stands out. Kate and Asher meet and begin to have this wonderful friendship that eventually changes into something more. Kate finally shares the secret she has been carrying for all this time and feels more open and alive than she has in the past two years.

There is a lot of pain in this story and it will turn you into a blubbering, sobbing mess. It was amazing to read about Kate’s journey with her dark past, and how she eventually learned to cope with it. I would recommend this book to everyone! Unfortunately, with all of the possible spoilers, I don't think I am able to go in depth with a review so go out and read it for yourself!

Trigger Warning

Abuse plays a large role in this story. 

Documentary 2/24/2014

Documentary by A.J. Sand

Dylan Carroll, an ambitious college student filmmaker still reeling from the death of her brother, may have just stumbled onto the opportunity of a lifetime.

Musician Kai White is in the middle of a public relations nightmare, and he may be keeping a secret that could turn things around. His manager/publicist wants to create a web series aimed at cleaning up his image. There’s also a promising offer at stake if Dylan can abide by the rule of staying strictly professional, and if she can figure out what Kai is hiding.

But Kai and Dylan already have an undeniable connection, and when they are together, they discover that rules are pretty easy to break. It's battling your own demons that's much, much harder.

Oh how this book took me by complete surprise. One day I’m just browsing amazon and Documentary happens to shows up. I think it looks pretty interesting, so I decide to try it out. When I first read it, there were not many reviews posted about it so I was initially skeptical, especially because the book is pretty long and boy, am I so glad I gave this book a chance!

Dylan and Kai happen to be our two main characters and I love absolutely everything about their story. I love the way they meet, I love the way their relationship starts and I enjoyed reading about all the problems they were faced with. I felt that there was enough angst and drama to keep it interesting but it was still a fun, light read.

Dylan is the main female in this book and I can’t even explain how wonderful it was it read a new adult book that did not feature some innocent virgin who was also painfully oblivious to her natural good looks. A.J. Sand, I want to thank you for this. Also, no insta-love! Yay!

Kai was a character that you really grew to like. I loved the fact that he wasn’t some bad boy that completely changes when the right girl comes along, blah, blah. He was a character that had issues, just like the rest of them and he had been working on change before Dylan came into his life. His issues were very personal though, and once you learn about all of them, very understandable.

There were so many other characters introduced in this book so that you aren’t just always reading about Kai and Dylan, but the other characters did not take away from their story. I’m specifically talking about Wes here but I’ll get to his story another time. I personally thought the issues that Dylan and Kai faced were pretty realistic for fiction and because of this, as a reader, you are able to connect with it more.  I should also add that this book had some very humorous parts. They were small lines that you could easily skip over if you were reading too fast or didn’t understand the reference but they were there and they were hilarious.

This book does lightly cover the topic of sexual abuse, I decided to not put a trigger warning in this review because it’s not the main characters abuse that you are reading about. 

Be With Me 2/18/2014

Be With Me by Jennifer L. Aremntrout

Teresa Hamilton is having a rough year—she’s in love with her big brother’s best friend, but he hasn’t spoken to her since they shared a truly amazing, mind-blowing, change-your-life kiss. She got out of a terrible relationship. And now an injury is threatening to end her dance career for good. It’s time for Plan B – college. And maybe a chance to convince Jase that what they have together is real.





I have officially rated this book at 3 bubbles. I decided on three bubbles because it was entertaining but I don't think I have the desire to read it again any time soon.


We first meet and learn a lot about Teresa in Wait for You as Cameron Hamilton's little sister.  We learn about her past relationships and the trouble she has been through. We are also introduced to Jace in Wait for You as Cameron's best friend and we really don't know a lot about him.

This is Jace and Teresa's story. 


I have many mixed emotions about this book. I believe the story had some strong areas but most of the time it fell under that stereotypical new adult story that so many authors are writing about. There was a lot of writing about how attractive the different characters were, Jace specifically. Teresa was always engrossed with Jace and you really don't know why. They shared a kiss once and it's not a present part of their story. It's just hard to understand where Teresa comes from and why she is even likes Jace, besides the fact that he is just uber attractive, I guess. 


I don't want this review to be completely negative so I will say there were some things that I really liked about this Teresa and Jace's story. I think the incident with Deb added some much needed depth to this story. I think if this incident and more of Deb's story in general was written about in this book, it could have been completely different. There are some characters that make appearances like Avery, Cameron, Jacob, Ollie and Steph, and that added to the story as well. I personally just feel that the author didn't go as deep with the story telling and topics and stuck with the basic plot that every other New Adult author is using. 




Trigger Warning 

Abusive relationships and suicide are major factors of this story and it these are topics that bother you or make you in any way uncomfortable, this book may not be for you. 

Wait For You 2/17/2014

Wait For You by Jennifer L. Armentrout

Some things are worth waiting for...



Traveling thousands of miles from home to enter college is the only way nineteen-year-old Avery Morgansten can escape what happened at the Halloween party five years ago—an event that forever changed her life. All she needs to do is make it to her classes on time, make sure the bracelet on her left wrist stays in place, not draw any attention to herself, and maybe—please God—make a few friends, because surely that would be a nice change of pace. The one thing she didn’t need and never planned on was capturing the attention of the one guy who could shatter the precarious future she’s building for herself.


I have decided to rate this book at 4 bubbles. There were some things in this book that slightly annoyed me but I loved 90 percent of everything in this book. I would definitely read it again and I would recommend it to others looking for a NA/YA read.

In this story, you are introduced to Avery. She is a college freshman and living in a town where she knows absolutely no one. From the beginning you are aware that something serious has happened to Avery and it basically is what makes her tick. You then meet Cameron. The first thing that I loved about this book was the way Cameron was introduced that the role he played in the book. In my opinion, this book has some tiny insta-love factors (can I even call it that?) but I feel that it was subtle and well written. The relationship between Cameron and Avery builds slow and I love the fact that they start out as friends. This isn't a story about a boy and a girl who fall madly in love the first time they meet, become addicted to each other and ride of into the sunset, and for that I am thankful. 

There were different times in the book that Avery frustrated me and I got sick of reading about her self destructive behavior and feeling the need to push everyone away. I completely understand why it would happen but I still got a little frustrated at times. I believe that this is my only complaint about this book and it is a minor complaint.

Oh Cameron. His character was just wonderfully written. I did not feel that he was this alpha male that everyone is writing about these days. While I don't always have a problem with the alpha male character, Cameron was different and nice to read about, especially with the different topics that were covered and what Avery's character went through. If he was made out to be an extremely dominant and demanding character, this book would have completely failed. 

Trigger Warning

There are some topics covered in this story that I feel could be classified as different triggers for some people. If it is hard for you to read stories about rape and suicide, I would be cautious of this book because both topics are covered in this story.