Pretty Girl-13 by Liz Coley

This book was one I just picked up at my local library, I had run out of books that were on my immediate to read list and went searching through the teen section.  This book was AMAZING!

I started reading it and could not put it down.  It was so interesting and emotional.  Angela is just a fabulous character and getting to live the story through her recovery is a roller coaster.  I wish I could put into words how much I loved this book!  This is definitely my favorite book of the year so far that I've read. 

Sever / Unravel Me / MORE House of Night Novellas?

So Sever (The Chemical Gardens #3) by Lauren DeStefano came out.  It was the final book in the trilogy, and honestly, I sat with the book in my lap for at least a half hour before I could bring myself to read it.  The series has just been so good, I didn't want it to end!  Alas, I did finally read it!  I'm pretty satisfied with the way it turned out, I was surprised in some parts, and I thought other parts were a little stretched, but all in all it was good.  I so badly wanted the ending chapter to be like " 50 years later " so we could find out about the cure, and what was going on in the world at that time.  I wanted to know if Rhine had children!

Unravel Me (Shatter Me #2) by Tahereh Mafi also came out.  This is the second book in series (Trilogy?  I'm not sure).  There was a novella put out between the first and second books, I have downloaded it, but haven't read it.  I can honestly say I am on Team Warner.  I know he's evil, or supposed to be evil, one of the bad guys in the series for sure, but I just see him and Juliette fitting together much better than her and Adam.  This book was also really good, once I started reading it I couldn't put it down until I finished and now I have to wait another year to see how it's going to go.  I think just once an author should write the whole series and then release a new book each month, or every other month.  That would be different!  And I don't mean like James Patterson who seems to have his name on half the books released every year.

So the newest House of Night book came out, Neferet's Curse, where we finally get to see why supposedly she's so whacked out now.  I can see why the events in the book would definitely have an impact in her life, but I just can't say that I'm satisfied with just that being the reason she's crazy. 

Jesse's Girl Cosmetics - Julie G Nailpolish

Hi everyone!  So I just got a new nail polish!  I went to my local Rite Aid to look for the new Julie G nail collection (which they didn't have yet!) but decided to get one from the 2012 line since I was there.  I decided to get a purple color called "Royal Rebel".  You can see the website here:

http://www.jessesgirlcosmetics.com/products/view/346

The Julie G line is a nailpolish line by Jesse's Girl that is working with YouTube guru JulieG713.  Here's a link to her youtube:

http://www.youtube.com/user/julieg713

She has some great videos so I really wanted to check out the nail polish!  In her new video where she shows the 2013 collection, she says throughout that you can get "really opaque coverage with just one coat" and I was skeptical about this, simply because this nail polish is $3.99.  However, she's right!  Well at least with the purple one I got.  The first coat is really opaque.  I will likely use another coat anyway, but it defiantly covered the nail good.  It dried really fast too, so if you needed a simple manicure quick, this polish would work great.  I will try to find a picture to put in as to the color I got, and maybe one of the color I wanted to get.  Also I will update with how it wears!

Thanks for reading!

Fuse - Julianna Baggot (Book 2 of the Pure Trilogy)

Currently reading....

3/15/2013 Update....
I was really excited to read this book, because the first one was so good!  I started reading it, and it was moving along, but I think I only made it to maybe page 50 and then so many other books came out that I got sidetracked - I will hopefully pick this book back up soon!

Bar Code Tattoo Trilogy

Hi all - I finished reading The Bar Code Tattoo/The Bar Code Rebellion/The Bar Code Prophecy all by Suzanne Weyn.  I enjoyed the first two, but didn't much care for the third.  I felt that The Bar Code Tattoo could have been a stand alone book, it had a good progression of events and I thought the characters evolved.  The addition of The Bar Code Rebellion to the series was good too though.  I thought that it was a good second book.  Again I felt character growth and the plot was as solid as the first.  However the third book was just blah.  It did have a plot, but I didn't think it was a good follow up to the other in the series, and I didn't feel the character growth.  The doomsday senario is worn out in my opinion, and Weyn left the book at a precarious spot.  It was very disapointing. 

The Madman's Daughter - Megan Shepherd

OMG SOOOOO GOOD!

Okay now that we got the nonsensical part out of the way!  This book was inspired by H.G. Wells's classic The Island of Dr. Moreau.  I've never read that particular classic, but it is now on my list.  I just could not put this book down.  I even learned new things, disgusting and disturbing things, but things none the less.  Vivisection?!  I wish I could have gone on with my 26 year old life without having to have googled that particular term.  However, the book was just so good.  It was a thick book, but it was a fast paced book, I just wanted to keep reading!  The only downside that I found was that I now have to wait over a year to read the next book - I have so many questions! 

Blizzard!

Hey all!  I just wanted to update everyone quick.  One of my new years goals was to write something about every book I read.  However since I'm book like 19 of the year, you can all see that didn't go according to plan.  I have a few blogs that I started to write and never published because I just didn't have enough to say about certain books.  Some books I read I just love and have to tell everyone about it, and others I read and when I'm done I just don't have any strong feelings about it either way, so I just move on to the next book.  I have a pile of books to read and I'm hoping that one of them will give me strong feelings either way and hopefully I will be able to do a book post soon.

I also haven't bought any nailpolish recently, other then a matte top coat - but hopefully I will get another nailpolish blog up before the month is out too!

In other news, it's a total blizzard outside!  I love it!  Snow is my favorite thing ever!  I can't wait for it to slow down tomorrow so I can go outside and enjoy it.  We live right down the street from a park and I know there will be a ton of kids out sledding tomorrow, so that will be something fun to watch!  I hope everyone is having a good year so far!