ada's bookshelf

 "we're all united by grief but somehow divided by the same thing." I would describe this book as the sad, comfort read we all need. it has the perfect amount of emotion and grief and anger and happiness I wanna cartwheel and cry of joy at the same time. okay maybe I'm overreacting but after reading this book you'd understand why I'm behaving like this. Juliet Young lost her mother four months ago. her death doesn't stop Juliet from writing her letters. she leaves letters at her grave even if there's no way for her mother to read it. the young seventeen year old is torn with grief and the pain she feels inside is so severe no one can fix it. Declan Murphy is a guy no one would want to mess with. he's the stereotypical bad guy everyones assumes he is. one time he got high and crashed his car. he's a total disappointment to everyone around him. if only someone understood him and saw him for who he really is.  Declan works at the local cemetery. o...

 "we tell ourselves there are reasons for things that happen, but we're just telling ourselves stories." it took me a whole of ten minutes to pick the perfect starting quote. I still haven't, you know? BECAUSE ALL OF THEM ARE PERFECT. literally every single word in this book is magical and worth reading. yes, it's that good. first of all, this whole book is set in a timespan of a single. day. (p.s.- this book cannot get anymore interesting) Natasha is a type of girl who believes in science and facts. not fate. not destiny. she is definitely not the type of girl who meets a guy on a New York City street that would change her life. not when her family is 12 hours away from being deported to Jamaica.  Daniel has always been a good son, with parents' high expectations. never the poet. or the dreamer. but when he see's her, everything changes. the universe has brought them both to this single moment. a million futures lies before them. but which one would com...

" it's pretty reckless going out at three am in the moring. unless there's no reason for you to be afraid. unless you're the one who people should be afraid of. " third murder mystery in less than a month and every book by Karen M. McManus makes my jaw drop. this book was so not what I expected it to be. well, it's not like it ever is.  Ellery and her twin brother Eli have never been to Echo Ridge High. it was where their aunt went missing at the age of sixteen and never returned and five years ago a homecoming queen, Lacey, was murdered.  it's almost certain that the person who killed Sarah (the aunt) could have killed Lacey too. looks like the small town has secrets to hide. I don't want to give too much away but this novel has a bit of action too. thriller and action? they make a scary pair when you don't know what's coming.  I love this book because it has a ton of unexpected and interesting plot twists. (not gonna lie, I saw some of them ...