Two way street by Lauren Barnholdt

Jordan broke Courtney’s heart when he dumped her for a girl he met on MySpace, but now they have to spend three days together on a pre planned road trip to college. Courtney is just going to pretend she doesn’t care, but the problem is she does and so does Jordan, but Courtney can never find out the real reason why Jordan dumped her.

 This book was one that i found on the Kindle and I brought the preview, loved it but never got round to buying the full book. I loved the idea of this book and thought it was very original and I’m sure it is a situation that none of us would ever want to be in.

 The chapters are split equally between Courtney and Jordan and they are from the couples first meeting up to and including each day of the trip, I really enjoyed reading both characters views on their friends and relationship and i felt like i had a better insight into both characters. 

 I don’t think this book had many twists and turns and i could see what was going to happen from very early on in the book as it is practically spelt out to you at the time, but that didn’t take any enjoyment away for me and i still really enjoyed this book.

4 out of 5 stars

Looking for Alaska by John Green

From Goodreads:
 Miles Halter is fascinated by famous last words and tired of his safe life at home. He leaves for boarding school to seek what the dying poet Francois Rabelais called the "Great Perhaps."
 Much awaits Miles at Culver Creek, including Alaska Young. Clever, funny, screwed-up, and dead sexy, Alaska will pull Miles into her labyrinth and catapult him into the Great Perhaps.












Looking for Alaska is about Miles Halter, a nobody from Florida who begs his family to enroll him into Culver Creek boarding school. He leaves Florida with a love of last words and dreaming of  finding Francois Rabelais's "The Great Perhaps" . He quickly becomes friends with his prankster of a roommate the Colonel, and gorgeous, sassy, and slightly screwed up Alaska Young. He learns lessons about life, love, relationships and religion all whilst trying to out prank the weekday warriors.

This book is divided into two parts, before and after, i won't say what the event is which causes the pivot point, but it is powerful moment and gives the reader  a chance to see different sides of the characters involved.

I don't think i will ever be able to find the right words to describe how much i loved this novel. By far my favourite book of all time.

Peyton Amberg by Tama Janowitz

 From Goodreads: Peyton Amberg is a young woman growing ever restless in her marriage, and ever hopeful that the next bed will produce someone more exciting. As she moves from man to man, she slowly but surely loses her youthfulness, her good looks, even her sanity, as her paramours become rougher and the sex more brutal.
A savvy riff on the classic figure of Madame Bovary, Peyton Amberg is a caustic and brilliant satire of contemporary marriage, as it charts the free-floating lust and exploits of a woman yearning for fulfillment outside of rigid societal structure.

Two things made me pick this book up, number 1 the name (at the time i had been watching one tree hill alot) number 2 the front cover which showed a goth girl which intrigued me - however i don't think it is a very good cover.

Peyton Amberg is from a very troubled background, her brother has been in jail, her sister has two kids and a husband who left her, and her mum is screwed up from years of severe depression treated with electric shock treatment during long stretches of time in mental hospitals. In her mid twenties she goes into a bar with her best friend Victoria and meets Barry a Jewish dentist from a good rich Long Island background. She marries him and settles to a life in the Upper East side of Manhattan in a nice apartment with a part time job as a travel agent, but soon Barry starts to annoy her as he doesn't want to do anything exciting and is allergic to nearly everything and always complaining.
 She gets offered her first free trip to Rio and leaves dressed as her mother in law thinks she should and nervous, on the plane her wallet gets stolen by a Brazilian family sat next to her, in a panic she gets help from a very rich older man Germano, from that meeting onwards she sleeps with strangers where ever she goes as her relationship with Barry gets more strained. The story chops and changes between 3 different times, her time in Brazil with Germano, from meeting Barry through to her wedding and subsequent birth of her son Cash, and in Hong Kong with Xian Rong a chinese wannabe gangster. The constant feeling of the story is a woman who can not accept what she has and believes it will be ruined so has mindless one night stands to get away from her life and her constant hatred for herself.
 Overall i thought it was a great novel it is thought-provoking and funny in places, and dark and intense in others. The story and all the people in it will stay with me for a long time.  I will be researching more titles by Tama and hopefully they will live up to this great novel.




4 out of 5 stars

Night School by C.J.Daugherty

From Goodreads: Allie Sheridan's world is falling apart. She hates her school. Her brother has run away from home. And she's just been arrested. Again. 
This time her parents have finally had enough. They cut her off from her friends and send her away to a boarding school for problem teenagers. 
But Cimmeria Academy is no ordinary school. Its rules are strangely archaic. It allows no computers or phones. Its students are an odd mixture of the gifted, the tough and the privileged. And then there's the secretive Night School, whose activities other students are forbidden even to watch. 
When Allie is attacked one night the incident sets off a chain of events leading to the violent death of a girl at the summer ball. As the school begins to seem like a very dangerous place, Allie must learn who she can trust. And what's really going on at Cimmeria Academy.


Allie is a bad ass, she hates her school, her brother has run away and she keeps getting in trouble with the police, her parents finally have enough and send her to Cimmeria Academy a boarding school for wayward teens, at first Allie argues back but quickly she begins to like Cimmeria Academy with its strange ways and even has two boys fighting for her attention Sylvain and Carter.

I have to be completely honest, I started Night School expecting another paranormal story filled with werewolves, witches or vampires and spent the majority of the book trying to guess  when said creature would finally appear, what I actually got was a nice refreshing change instead of your very common paranormal story Night School blew me away with a story full of mystery, suspense, lies and secrets. Cimmeria Academy is definitely not what it seems. 

The world that Daugherty has made is very real and very scary the true story of Cimmeria only starts to become apparent near the end of the book, leaving me eager to read book two. I loved Night School even though I am still sat here trying to work out exactly what was going on, the second book in the series Legacy is due for release early 2013 and I can't wait to delve back in and catch up with Allie.

5 out of 5 stars