Piper Perish by Kayla Cagan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I received a sneak preview of Peper Perish and I liked it.

Piper is in high school in Houston. She and her two best friends plan to go to New York for art school after they graduate high school. On New Year’s Eve, her boyfriend, Enzo, decides he can’t be someone else anymore and breaks up with her.

The preview revolves around what happened that night and her tries to get hold of him to make sure their New York dream will still be a reality. This preview was enough for me to know I’d probably enjoy the entire book.

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All the Glory by Elle Casey
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This is the best book I’ve read in a long time.

Jason Bradley is the star football player for his high school team. One night, before a game, he’s arrested after being found standing over the coach’s dead body.

Katy has lived down the street from Jason since they were little kids but they didn’t travel in the same social circles at school. When she watched how Jason’s former friends treated him after he’d been jailed, she decided that she was going to be his friend. No matter what it took, he had stood up for her and her friend, Bobby, when they were being bullied as kids and she felt she owed him that.

I love how the relationship between Katy and Jason develops through the book. They get close and they talk about a lot of things but he does not tell her everything that happened that night at the stadium. Still, Katy feels that there is something more, something important that isn’t being talked about and she sets her course to find out what it is.

This is such a good book. The characters are wonderful, the storyline is intriguing, and I couldn’t put it down once I started. I highly recommend this book. It will make your heart happy.

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Blogger Girl by Meredith Schorr
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I loved this book so much1 I read it straight through, only stopping to sleep.

Kim Long is a legal secretary but what she really loves is reading chick lit and writing reviews on her blog. She sets her heart on hot Nicholas Strong, one of the associate lawyers at her firm. They eventually get together. She then learns that her high school nemesis has written a book. A chick lit book. They want her to review it for her blog but she is hesitant. She talks it over with Nicholas who suggests that what she really ahs against the author is that she wishes she were an author. They argue and break up.

Kim takes a long look at her life and what she really wants from it. This is a great book, a wonderful quick read if you are like me and love chick lit. You won’t want to put it down! 🙂

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The Trophy Child by Paula Daly
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I really liked this book. Very readable and unexpected!

Karen is the mother no kid wants. Endlessly driving her youngest, Bronte, to exhaustion there is never time for the 10-year-old to be a kid. Noel, her dad, is a doctor and is oftentimes late getting home because of the tension that Karen brings to the house. Verity, his daughter from his first marriage, has a tumultuous relationship with her stepmom and the two barely speak. Karen’s son from an earlier relatinoship, Ewan, spends most of his time in his room getting high. The family is dysfunctional.

One day, Bronte goes missing. They are unable to figure out where she went even after involving the police and news media. Then she walked in completely fine but not saying anything about where she had been or who she’d been with.

A couple weeks later, Karen, turns up missing and when they find her, she is dead. This story has great characters and when they finally find Karen is gone, you can almost feel the stress lifting fomr the family. Unexpected. I had no idea the story would turn out this way. I give this book 5 stars. It was easy to read and I never put it down once I started it!

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