Getting Over Garrett Delaney by Abby MacDonald

From Goodreads: Seventeen-year-old Sadie is in love: epic, heartfelt, and utterly one-sided. The object of her obsession — ahem, affection — is her best friend, Garrett Delaney, who has been oblivious to Sadie’s feelings ever since he sauntered into her life and wowed her with his passion for Proust (not to mention his deep-blue eyes). For two long, painful years, Sadie has been Garrett’s constant companion, sharing his taste in everything from tragic Russian literature to art films to '80s indie rock — all to no avail. But when Garrett leaves for a summer literary retreat, Sadie is sure that the absence will make his heart grow fonder — until he calls to say he’s fallen in love. With some other girl! A heartbroken Sadie realizes that she’s finally had enough. It’s time for a total Garrett detox! Aided by a barista job, an eclectic crew of new friends (including the hunky chef, Josh), and a customized self-help guide, Sadie embarks on a summer of personal reinvention full of laughter, mortifying meltdowns, and a double shot of love.




Sadie knows exactly what she wants and that is Garrett Delaney because for the last two years she has been hopelessly in love with him but thats ok because she is finally going to tell him how she feels at lit camp this summer, but when she receives her rejection letter she is distraught, its only six weeks, what could happen in six weeks? Whilst away at camp Garrett calls Sadie to tell her that he is in love.... with someone else! Sadie goes into meltdown and with the help of her friends she decides to put into motion a twelve step plan to get over Garrett for good.


Now lets all face it at some point of another we have changed ourselves to look better in the eyes of our crush, whether it be choice of music, film or books we have all been guilty of doing it, this is the hilarious and heartwarming story of Sadie realizing that she doesn't know the real her and she has spent far to long trying to be the perfect girl for Garrett.

I really loved Sadie I enjoyed watching her change as she tried new things and made new friends and she was likeable and fun.  Her twelve step programme with the help of her co-workers was both sweet and funny in parts. 

Getting over Garrett Delaney is a very light romantic read and after reading so many heavy books recently it was exactly what I needed. The story was refreshing and funny and is a perfect summer read. 


Getting over Garrett Delaney is published by Walker and is out now.

Letterbox Love #4

Welcome to Letterbox Love, this is a UK meme, hosted by the lovely Lynsey at Narratively Speaking and inspired by The Story Siren's In My Mailbox. This post is a means by which to highlight the books we get in the post and beyond, and especially to bring attention to those books which may be sat on our shelves for a little while yet that we love all the same.

I was given some WH Smiths vouchers for my birthday so I ended up taking advantage of the current 3 for 2 offer this week!

Brought

Soul Beach by Kate Harrison - I've heard a lot of good things about this one so had to pick it up

You Don't Know Me by Sophia Bennett - Again I've been hearing lots about this one too

Hysteria by Megan Miranda - I love the sound of this one

The Next Forever by Lisa Burstein - I loved Pretty Amy and this novella is only 38p at the moment so I had to snap it up!

Hope you all had a great week.

Two Pound Tuesdays

Welcome to Two Pound Tuesdays a blog feature shared by Pruedence at TheLibraryMouse and myself!

We're here to bring you twice a month a delectable bargain price selection of 6 Young Adult e-novels ranging from fiction, fantasy, paranormal, contemporary, romance and dystopian. Our aim is to make you aware of amazing books for a great price that just have to be shouted about because it would be a crime not to acknowledge them! Well at least we feel that way, but then again we are slightly book obsessed! All descriptions taken from Goodreads.

This Tuesday's deals include:

Going Under by S. Walden

Brooke Wright has only two goals her senior year at Charity Run High School: stay out of trouble and learn to forgive herself for the past. Forgiveness proves elusive, and trouble finds her anyway when she discovers a secret club at school connected to the death of her best friend. She learns that swim team members participate in a “Fantasy Slut League,” scoring points for their sexual acts with unsuspecting girls.

Brooke, wracked with guilt over her friend’s death, decides to infiltrate the league by becoming one of the “unsuspecting girls,” and exact revenge on the boys who stole away her best friend. An unexpected romance complicates her plans, and her dogged pursuit of justice turns her reckless as she underestimates just how far the boys will go to keep their sex club a secret.

(This is a New Adult fiction book with mature themes. It contains a description of sexual violence.)

Going Under is 65p and you can find out more here.

This is self published title and is definitely New Adult due to the themes.

Born by Tara Brown

"It's us and them, Em. There are no regular people anymore."
Ten years ago when the world ended she ran for her life.
Five weeks ago the world she'd hidden from came knocking on the door of her secluded cabin.
Ten days ago she found salvation hiding amongst the dead.
Yesterday she went back for the living.
Today she wonders if she will live to see tomorrow.

What do you do when the world you were born to is gone?Where do you hide when even your own body isn't safe?


Emma ran when her daddy told her to. She hid like he said she should. He was the first person she turned her back on. The first one she let die.
Ten years has gone by and she still lives by the simple rules he taught her when she was nine years old.

"Don't help anyone. Don't go where other people are unless you have to. Trust no one. Always pull the trigger."

Until one night she hears the worst sound in the world, a knock. A simple, timid knock, on the door to her cabin.
Only the voice of the brave little girl, ready to die for her brother, persuades Emma to open the door.
As her fingers turn the lock, she has a terrible feeling she will regret her decision.
But even as regret fills her world, so do love and companionship. Things she never imagined she would ever have again.

Everything comes at a cost, you decide what you'll pay.

Born is the first book in The Born Trilogy and is 77p, you can find out more here.

This is a self published title.

Unlikely Allies by Tiffany King

Eighteen-year-old Kimberly gets the shock of her life when she learns the father she thought was dead is not only very much alive, but never even knew she existed. Angry with her mother for lying all these years, Kimberly flies to Colorado to meet the father she knows nothing about before heading off to college in the fall.

Her father’s world turns out to be nothing like she expected. Rather than the typical nine to five lifestyle, Kimberly’s father runs a summer foster camp that teaches young children skills to build their confidence and self-esteem. The Colorado Rocky Mountains are a different world than the sunny shores of California, taking Kimberly completely out of her element, and causing her to second-guess her spur of the moment decision.

Never being one to quit anything, Kimberly is determined to show her father that a surfer girl can fit into this rugged mountain wilderness. That is if she can deal with Mason, an arrogant nineteen-year-old guy who has made it his mission to point out every mistake she has made since her arrival. While she would love nothing more than to rub it in his know-it-all face, Kimberly can’t deny the feelings he stirs up inside her, or the chemistry between them, even during their verbal assaults.

When a tragic accident leaves them stranded in the mountains, Kimberly must use her shaky skills to save Mason and survive the elements. Suddenly, fighting is the last thing on their minds as they must rely on each other if they want to live. In their struggle for survival, they realize what they thought they knew about each other isn’t true after all.

Unlikely Allies is £1.95 and you can find out more here.

This is a self published title. Doesn't it sound awesome!!

For more Two Pound Tuesdays unmissable deals check out Pruedence's Selection

These are the prices found at the time of posting this feature. They may change subject to Amazon, so if you'd like to see some more don't miss out on the next Two Pound Tuesday! 

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this new feature, or if you have any particular genres you are looking for or would like us to look at next time.

Letterbox Love #3

Welcome to Letterbox Love, this is a UK meme, hosted by the lovely Lynsey at Narratively Speaking and inspired by The Story Siren's In My Mailbox. This post is a means by which to highlight the books we get in the post and beyond, and especially to bring attention to those books which may be sat on our shelves for a little while yet that we love all the same.

I was very lucky and received alot this week as it was my birthday and my friends and family brought me lots of books!

For Review

Lockwood and Co by Jonathan Stroud 

Doll Bones by Holly Black

 Massive thank you to Random House for these two

Ketchup Clouds by Annabel Pitcher

Thank you to Indigo for this I've wanted to read it for ages

Received 

Die for Me by Amy Plum

This was from Caroline from Big Book Little Book and Pruedence from The Library Mouse as part of my birthday gift I've been meaning to pick up this series for a while so I couldn't be happier!

A Royal Match by Tyne O'Connell

The Evolution of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

The Last Academy by Anne Applegate

Pop Kids by Davey Havok

Morning Glories vol 2 and 3

And lastly though technically not a book my amazing birthday present from Caroline and Pruedence!

Hope you all had a great book filled week!

Geekhood: Mission Improbable by Andy Robb

From Goodreads: 
Archie is a Geek to his core - and despite having a Close Encounter with Sarah at the beginning of term, he's still completely clueless about girls. Enter Clare - an older woman (she's sixteen) who Archie meets on his weekend trip to see his dad and his nightmare step-mum, Jane. Clare and Archie hit it off - and she's got a brilliant, foolproof way to get their crushes to notice them: pretend to be going out with one another! What can possibly go wrong? In the midst of school, getting Sarah to forgive him and dealing with his insane family, Archie and his mates step-up the nerdiness and go Live Action Role-play gaming. Ladies and gentlemen, we are entering a new era...

**This is book two in the Geekhood series so there may be unintentional spoilers**





I will start this review stating that I love this series and I love Archie, this is going to be a very fangirling review but you know what this book deserves it, trust me!

Loveable, slightly awkward and always geeky Archie is back and still trying to win the affections of the girl of his dreams, Sarah. On a train journey to York to visit his dad he meets Clare after telling her the situation with Sarah and her having a similar problem with her crush Oliver they hatch a fool proof plan of becoming "train boyfriend and girlfriend" to make Sarah and Oliver jealous, surely nothing could go wrong?

Geekhood Mission Improbable starts two weeks after the end of Close Encounters Of The Girl Kind and follows Archie as he gets used to his dads recent move to York and his tolerance of Tony (who maybe isn't such a Tosser) and he seems to have more in common with then he thinks.
Archie has definitely grown up since the end of book 1 and his attitude towards Tony and his father is proof of that, but don't worry there are still some silly moments that will make you laugh out loud and his IM is still as sarcastic as ever.

All of the characters from book 1 are back including Beggsy, Ravi and Matt and it is because of them that they step up the geekiness by going LARPing (Andy explains all here) but to give you an idea it includes dressing up as a character and fighting with weapons (made out of foam) along with Big Marv and Sarah. I loved Big Marv he is a brilliant character who was very funny.

The time that Archie is in York is one of my favourite parts of the book and I loved the way he interacted with Lucas about his dad. It definitely showed a more mature side to Archie as he realised he's not the only person getting used to having a new family. 
I really grew to like Sarah once Archie stopped putting her on a pedestal, I'm glad we got to see a little bit about her past and about more of the real her.

I love Andy's writing, it is clever, witty, slightly silly and sarcastic. I honestly could never get bored of reading about Archie's antics, but don't be fooled under all that geekiness and sarcasm there is a serious story of acceptance and trying to move on.


Mission Improbable is as good as I was hoping and follows on from CEOTGK perfectly. I am sat here with my fingers crossed for book 3 as I am not ready for this series to be over.

Geekhood Mission Improbable is published by Stripes and is out now.

Waiting on Wednesday

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming releases that we're eagerly anticipating.

My pick this week is:

3:59 by Gretchen McNeil
Published by HarperTeen
Publication date 17th September 2013
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Josie Byrne's life is spiraling out of control. Her parents are divorcing, her boyfriend Nick has grown distant, and her physics teacher has it in for her. When she's betrayed by the two people she trusts most, Josie thinks things can't get worse.

Until she starts having dreams about a girl named Jo. Every night at the same time—3:59 a.m.

Jo's life is everything Josie wants: she's popular, her parents are happily married, and Nick adores her. It all seems real, but they're just dreams, right? Josie thinks so, until she wakes one night to a shadowy image of herself in the bedroom mirror – Jo. 

Josie and Jo realize that they are doppelgängers living in parallel universes that overlap every twelve hours at exactly 3:59. Fascinated by Jo's perfect world, Josie jumps at the chance to jump through the portal and switch places for a day.

But Jo’s world is far from perfect. Not only is Nick not Jo's boyfriend, he hates her. Jo's mom is missing, possibly insane. And at night, shadowy creatures feed on human flesh.

By the end of the day, Josie is desperate to return to her own life. But there’s a problem: Jo has sealed the portal, trapping Josie in this dangerous world. Can she figure out a way home before it’s too late?


Seriously HOW good does this book sound? I am counting down the days until its released.


What are you waiting on this Wednesday?

Two Pound Tuesdays

Welcome to Two Pound Tuesdays a blog feature shared by Pruedence at TheLibraryMouse and myself!

We're here to bring you twice a month a delectable bargain price selection of 6 Young Adult e-novels ranging from fiction, fantasy, paranormal, contemporary, romance and dystopian. Our aim is to make you aware of amazing books for a great price that just have to be shouted about because it would be a crime not to acknowledge them! Well at least we feel that way, but then again we are slightly book obsessed! All descriptions taken from Goodreads.

This Tuesday's deals include:

Afterlife Academy by Jaimie Admans

Even being dead isn’t enough to get you out of maths class.

Dying wasn't on sixteen-year-old Riley Richardson's to-do list. And now, not only is she dead, but she's stuck in a perpetual high school nightmare. Worse still, she's stuck there with the geekiest, most annoying boy in the history of the world, ever.

In a school where the geeks are popular and just about everything is wrong, Riley has become an outcast. She begins a desperate quest to get back home, but her once-perfect life starts to unravel into something not nearly as great as she thought it was. And maybe death isn’t really that bad after all...

Welcome to Afterlife Academy, where horns are the norm, the microwave is more intelligent than the teachers, and the pumpkins have a taste for blood.

Afterlife Academy is 99p and you can find out more here

This is a self published title.

The Kissing Deadline by Emily Evans

Deadline: March 24th. Miss the deadline and the unthinkable happens.

Cassie will turn Sweet Sixteen and Never Been Kissed. Too shy to even talk to a guy, she has no hope of pressing her mouth against one. According to her BFFs, she must change. Starting with her hair, her clothes, and her strategy. Or else. 

Being a member of the un-kissed is not Cassie’s only secret. She has a crush. A massive, skin tingling lust for Ryan the hottest guy in school. She’s too shy to ask him out, much less offer her lips to him. Now, as her birthday looms, she must make a choice: stay in the shadows, follow her friends’ lead, or go for the hot guy

The Kissing Deadline is £1.99 and you can find out more here

This is a self published title

Swift by Heather London

A girl totally unaware of her destiny.

Two men who will stop at nothing to take her power.

One family who will do whatever it takes to protect her.

After graduating from high school, Meredith is ready to leave the place that has been a constant reminder of what happened to her as a child. She was just eight years old when her family died in a mysterious car accident, taking the secret of her destiny with them. It’s not until a new family moves to town that she realizes leaving may not be as easy as she once thought. 

Meredith feels an instant connection towards the Harpers, especially the good-looking, mysterious Blake and his overly friendly sister, Abby. After a series of bizarre events that happen too often to be coincidence, Meredith begins to realize that she is at the center of something larger than herself—possibly the same thing that killed her parents and twin sister many years ago. Nightmarish visions and resurfacing memories push Meredith closer to Blake, leading her to discover her destiny and other buried secrets. 

As Meredith tries to understand her new world, she will be put to the ultimate test, and her strength and courage will be challenged more than she ever imagined.

Swift is 77p and you can find out more here

This is a self published title

For more Two Pound Tuesdays unmissable deals check out Pruedence's Selection

These are the prices found at the time of posting this feature. They may change subject to Amazon, so if you'd like to see some more don't miss out on the next Two Pound Tuesday! 

We'd love to hear your thoughts on this new feature, or if you have any particular genres you are looking for or would like us to look at next time.