43. Carry On - Rainbow Rowell

Carry On by Rainbow Rowell.

Where do I even begin.

This was a cute book. Not as serious as Fangirl, but still very cute. Some terms were very childlike and it has some obvious issues with some point-of-views within the novel but I still enjoyed it a lot.

Agatha wasn't the best at any point but I like where she ended up. To be honest, I didn't see her point of being in the story at all other than to prove that Simon was bisexual instead of gay but even that didn't seem necessary to me.

Baz is great, my favourite character by far and also the best name.

Simon was weird the whole time honestly. And for fucks sake, just please use the term bisexual. I just wanted to see it once in this book and it wasn't.

Penelope was also the best. 100%

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42. Where'd You Go, Bernadette - Maria Semple

Alright let me start off by saying that I picked this up because my Aunt lent it to me saying she really liked it and then after having it sit there for a month I went to a friends house over the weekend and knew the bus ride to get there would be long, so I brought one book only to read and it was this one. I didn't finish it on the bus there or while I was there or on the bus back. However, I did finish it two days later because wow there's a lot to take in. So much to try and figure out.

Too many things I want to know!!!

This story is told a little differently. It's a fourteen/fifteen year old girl who lives in Seattle with her two awesome parents. They're both a little crazy but they are super awesome.

Her mom is literally the coolest mom ever (besides my mom obviously) even if she seems to need help. She doesn't REALLY need help, she just needs to be shoved in the right direction once again. And that's exactly what happens.

The way it's written is a bunch of documents like; emails, FBI files, memos and notes. It's very weird and a tad harder to get into but I still loved it very much. Every once and while you see a note Bee made or one of her memories from when these things happened which is very nice.

I was also told this was supposed to be a humour book? Not too sure about that still. There are some humorous moments but nothing that I think (personally) that would classify this under the category of humour.

I just found it a tab suspenseful and I wanted to keep reading it to find out where it goes. The characters were so interesting I wanted so badly to learn more about them and that's what kept me hooked.

There is still so much I want to know about and here are some of them: (SPOILERS MAYBE)

-The baby?? Like?? Tell me more!!!
-The baby's mom? (I can't remember her name)
-Their crazy neighbour and her son?
-The neighbour's husband?
-What did her mom do about that lady and the baby? Like I want to know more!!
-Tell me everything about that new building she's making!
-Does Bee like her knew half-sibling?
-Does she get along with the other lady's kids?
-Or the mother to her half sibling?
-How does her dad feel really?
-Where does he work now? Also, is he loving it?
-Basically just let me know how all the characters are doing.

Please, please Maria Semple! Please give me more

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41. The Dream Thieves - Maggie Stiefvater

The Dream Thieves by Maggie Stiefvater is a perfect roller coaster of emotions.

Alright, it took me a whole month to read this whole thing, let's see how well I remember what happened.

To be honest, I thought switching into the Gray Man's point of view was a waste of time for about half the book until he met Maura, and well I'm not saying the rest of that will be a spoiler. Don't make assumptions! You could be thinking something happened but really nothing happened.

Can I also just say that this book made me love Ronan even more. Like he's so good and so scary all at the same time. Sometimes I wish I could come across as scary as Ronan. He's like my new roll model.

Adam pretty much made me angry this whole book until him and Persephone helped out Ronan. I really just want him to be the Adam that was in The Raven Boys because I loved that Adam so much.

I also love that Gansey and Blue's relationship. Gansey calls her just for her to talk and to get his mind off things. Then Blue asks him to just talk and drive anywhere to get her mind off things. It's so cute and so heartbreaking.

I would say goals, but we all know what's going to happen eventually and that is not goals.

I gave this book a 4 star rating on Goodreads rather than a five star like the first book but I have a reason. This book really seemed like they were just hopping along and nothing was really happening. Like they were doing things but none of it felt like it was going anywhere.

Then - at like the 400th page - everything awkwardly fell into place and Ronan and Kavinsky fought and it was epic but not epic enough for me to be honest. Like, I wanted more to happen than that. Or for it just to last a bit longer.

Just something more.

Then the darn thing ends on a cliffhanger and no one even knows how we got to the dang cliffhanger.

Right now I feel like this book was kind of a mess, but I do intend on reading the next one very soon!

(I love that the Starbucks barista just crossed out my name and started again.)

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40. Etiquette and Espionage - Gail Carriger

Etiquette and Espionage by Gail Carriger is

I have to admit that this took me a while to read. I started reading it in the dark in my room super late at night when I should have been sleeping. Then the main character started to annoy me so I stopped for a bit. (This happens to me a lot.)

The main character annoyed me a lot for the first half of the book and I continually put it down at certain parts. But that's just how main characters roll.

It took me so long to finish this and I repeatedly put it into my bag to bring to work so maybe I'd read it at lunch time however, I never did. So I pretty much forced myself t sit down and read as much as I could to get it down.

However, after I forced myself to do that, the book got really good. I actually ended up liking it a lot! And I have the next book in the series ready to go!

The main character may suck but the book was good. The idea is fantastic and honestly this universe would make an amazing tv show. Part of me hopes it will make it that far.

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