Ash Reads Stuff

Lies You Never Told Me by Jennifer Donaldson  Publication Date : May 1st, 2018 Pages: 336 (hardcover) Genre: Young Adult My Goodreads Rating: 3 stars Goodreads Synopsis:   Gabe and Elyse have never met. But they both have something to hide. Quiet, shy Elyse can't believe it when she's cast as the lead in her Portland high school's production of Romeo and Juliet . Her best friend, Brynn, is usually the star, and Elyse isn't sure she's up to the task. But when someone at rehearsals starts to catch her eye--someone she knows she absolutely shouldn't be with--she can't help but be pulled into the spotlight. Austin native Gabe is contemplating the unthinkable--breaking up with Sasha, his headstrong, popular girlfriend. She's not going to let him slip through her fingers, though, and when rumors start to circulate around school, he knows she has the power to change his life forever. Gabe and Elyse both make the mistake of falling for the wron...

The Promise of Amazing by Robin Constantine  Publication Date: December 31, 2013 Pages: 370 (hardcover) Genre: Young Adult My Goodreads Rating: 3 stars Goodreads Synopsis:  Wren Caswell is average. Ranked in the middle of her class at Sacred Heart, she’s not popular, but not a social misfit. Wren is the quiet, “good” girl who's always done what she's supposed to—only now in her junior year, this passive strategy is backfiring. She wants to change, but doesn’t know how. Grayson Barrett was the king of St. Gabe’s. Star of the lacrosse team, top of his class, on a fast track to a brilliant future—until he was expelled for being a “term paper pimp.” Now Gray is in a downward spiral and needs to change, but doesn’t know how. One fateful night their paths cross when Wren, working at her family’s Arthurian-themed catering hall, performs the Heimlich on Gray as he chokes on a cocktail weenie, saving his life literally and figuratively. What follows is the complica...

Nothing Left to Burn  by Heather Ezell Publication Date: March 13th, 2018 Pages: 320 (hardcover) Genre: Young Adult My Goodreads Rating: 4 stars Goodreads Synopsis: The autumn morning after sixteen-year-old Audrey Harper loses her virginity, she wakes to a loud, persistent knocking at her front door. Waiting for her are two firemen, there to let her know that the moment she's been dreading has arrived: the enormous wildfire sweeping through Orange County, California, is now dangerously close to her idyllic gated community of Coto de Caza, and it's time to evacuate. Over the course of the next twenty-four hours, as Audrey wrestles with the possibility of losing her family home, she also recalls her early, easy summer days with Brooks, the charming, passionate, but troubled volunteer firefighter who enchants Audrey--and who is just as enthralled by her. But as secrets from Brooks's dark past come to light, Audrey can't help but wonder if there's danger ...

Uuuuuuuggggggghhhhhhh. This is me, thinking about reading. I have seriously been struggling with finding interest in reading and books for several months now. I really want  to read all the books and write the reviews and talk about everything...but I just can't. I'm not really sure why I'm not interested. I've got plenty of books on my TBR list, on my kindle, in my house. Trust me, I am not lacking in the book department. I just don't want to read anything. There's not really a reason for the rut. I'm busy, but it's about like it always is. I've taken on a few extra projects but I always manage to find the time to do everything I need to do and have time to watch TV, do a workout, or go for a run. There's not really a struggle for time. It's mostly me just not finding an interest in anything. I've been sitting on a few things that I was dying to read and I can't bring myself to pick them up right now. A lot of the times ...

I Have Lost My Way  by Gayle Foreman Publication Date: March 27th, 2018 Pages: 304 (hardcover) Genre: Young Adult My Goodreads Rating: 4 stars Goodreads Synopsis: A powerful story of empathy and friendship from the #1 New York Times Bestselling author of If I Stay. Around the time that Freya loses her voice while recording her debut album, Harun is making plans to run away from everyone he has ever loved, and Nathaniel is arriving in New York City with a backpack, a desperate plan, and nothing left to lose. When a fateful accident draws these three strangers together, their secrets start to unravel as they begin to understand that the way out of their own loss might just lie in help­ing the others out of theirs. An emotionally cathartic story of losing love, finding love, and discovering the person you are meant to be, I Have Lost My Way is best­selling author Gayle Forman at her finest. My Review: Sigh. I love Gayle Foreman. She just has a way of pullin...

I'm super excited to find out that Top Ten Tuesday lives on with That Artsy Reader Girl ! It's almost Wednesday by now but I'm going to try to get this done. I love quotes, so this week's topic is great and easy. Here goes nothing! Swoons. Always look for the light.  Relevant.  Sigh.  I cry every time I read this book.  My favorite demigod.  This series. Wow.  Absolutely my favorite book as a child.  Forever a Fangirl. This series is magic. What are some of your favorites?

Midnight at the Electric by Jodi Lynn Anderson Publication Date: June 13th, 2017 Pages: 272 (hardcover) Genre: Young Adult My Goodreads Rating: 4 stars Goodreads Synopsis: Divided by time. Ignited by a spark. Kansas, 2065 . Adri has secured a slot as a Colonist —one of the lucky few handpicked to live on Mars. But weeks before launch, she discovers the journal of a girl who lived in her house over a hundred years ago, and is immediately drawn into the mystery surrounding her fate. While Adri knows she must focus on the mission ahead, she becomes captivated by a life that’s been lost in time…and how it might be inextricably tied to her own. Oklahoma, 1934 . Amidst the fear and uncertainty of the Dust Bowl, Catherine fantasizes about her family’s farmhand, and longs for the immortality promised by a professor at a traveling show called the Electric. But as her family’s situation becomes more dire—and the suffocating dust threatens her sister’s life—Catherine must find the...