Once Dead,Twice Shy

Summary:My name is Madison Avery, and I'm here to tell you that there's more out there than you can see, hear, or touch. Because I'm there. Seeing it. Touching it. Living it.

Madison's prom was killer—literally. For some reason she's been targeted by a dark reaper—yeah, that kind of reaper—intent on getting rid of her, body and soul. But before the reaper could finish the job, Madison was able to snag his strange, glowing amulet and get away.

Now she's stuck on Earth—dead but not gone. Somehow the amulet gives her the illusion of a body, allowing her to toe the line between life and death. She still doesn't know why the dark reaper is after her, but she's not about to just sit around and let fate take its course.

With a little ingenuity, some light-bending, and the help of a light reaper (one of the good guys! Maybe . . . ), her cute crush, and oh yeah, her guardian angel, Madison's ready to take control of her own destiny once and for all, before it takes control of her.

Well, if she believed in that stuff.

Rating: 3 stars

This was one of those books, I bought because of the covers, which I still love. I tried so hard to like this, but I just couldn't get into it. I couldn't connect with Madison, she was senior in high school but talked like she was 13. The world building was awkward and long-winded. When it finally got to the heart of the story, I just didn't care enough to stay awake to finish it. It wasn't because the writing was bad, it was just so BORING. I put this book down 5 TIMES and read like four other books while trying to read this. I really wanted to like this,  and it saddens me to throw this one into the DNF graveyard, but this book was just nothing to special.

Paper Towns

Summary:Quentin Jacobsen has spent a lifetime loving the magnificently adventurous Margo Roth Spiegelman from afar. So when she cracks open a window and climbs into his life—dressed like a ninja and summoning him for an ingenious campaign of revenge—he follows. After their all-nighter ends, and a new day breaks, Q arrives at school to discover that Margo, always an enigma, has now become a mystery. But Q soon learns that there are clues—and they're for him. Urged down a disconnected path, the closer he gets, the less Q sees the girl he thought he knew...

Rating:4.5

I want to say, John Green is one of my Auto-buy Authors, because no matter what, he always leave me wanting to read more, and sometimes in most cases shattered in a thousand tiny pieces. I honestly feel like this book, was better than The Fault In Our Stars. Granted I loved The Fault in Our Stars, and it made shed all sorts of tears in the middle of class, but since I've never had anyone close to me, pass away from Cancer, or had any situation like that in my life * But bless those people who did and do* I really didn't feel like it related to my life.

But this book on the other hand, having recently graduated from high school, this made me really nostalgic for my school, but then again it reminded me, of how happy I was to leave.

I really wanted to like Margo, I really tried to, but I just couldn't. For awhile, I thought I understood why Margo left, because honestly I felt like that. Wanting to just get up and leave, and go somewhere, where no one knows my names, and just get lost in a city, that wasn't my own. 

But Margo, just turned sour for me, when Jacob with through all that trouble, in finding her "clues" and then skipped out on Graduation to go and find her. Now if that doesn't scream I love, I don't know what does. Plus his friends went along with his cray Idea, and then for Margo to turn around and just be ungrateful to them all, I just felt the pit of anger grow inside me. 

Now if someone was to go through all that trouble for me, I would be AT LEAST somewhat grateful to him. I get Margo, didn't want to be found, but you know, someone cared enough for you, so be grateful.

None the less, I love this book, like I do all of John Green's books, but out of all of his books Margo is honestly my least favorite out of them all.