Review: The Boy Most Likely To by Huntley Fitzpatrick

Title: The Boy Most Likely To 
Author: Huntley Fitzpatrick
Published September 6th 2016 by Penguin Group
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I read Huntley's first book, My Life Next Door, way back when it came out, and I remember loving it so I was excited to finally get around to reading another one of her stories. Now I am sad it took me so long.

This is a complicated story. From the start you know a lot of things about Tim's past, and how he's recovering from being a teenage alcoholic. How can you not root for someone who is trying to climb out of the hole they are in?

And I certainly couldn't stop myself from falling in love with Tim. I loved, loved that we got to see inside his head and it was honestly heartbreaking. It was so different, the kid he portrayed from who he really was, how he saw himself as basically worthless. I wanted him to be better, to get better, and to hope for something better. He is just a seventeen-year-old boy after all.

Luckily a lot of people around his life saw right through his jokester shield and into his real self. Alice Garret being one of those. 

Alice was so easy to sympathize with. I just could tell how torn she felt, she wanted to help Tim, help her family, and through it all stay true to herself and what she wanted. It's horrible, to be stuck between wanting to help others and help yourself too. 

Guys, there's a couple of shocking things happening that had me wrecking my brain (and my heart) because I just couldn't see the light at the end of the tunnel.

But I shouldn't need worry because everything turned right at the end (maybe a little too prettily wrapped with a big bow, but that is the reason I love all this contemporaries, so I'm good here). So though I suffered from watching my dearly loved characters get tangled in a mess that kept getting bigger, I can testify that these are the books that I love the most, the ones that make me so invested. 

Review: Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Title: Illuminae (The Illuminae Files #1)
Authors: Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff
Published October 20th 2015 by Knopf Books for Young Readers
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I have a question. 

To myself.

"Why did it take you so long to pick up this book?!"

Honestly, if I'd known what I was getting into, I would have read Illuminae a long time ago. I guess my reasoning was that it is just so massive that I figured I needed a lot of free time when I finally started it... WRONG. It was a breeze! 

Once you start you can't stop, and it's so action-packed and written in such an entertaining way that it never feels like a long story.

I loved it, if you can't tell by now. I loved Kady and her personality, she is going through the end of her world and you can see her vulnerability bleeding through her words, and yet, so much strength. She doesn't sit around to take a chance to grieve, instead turns to what she knows best: hacking. She was an amazing character. I had my doubts of really getting to know the characters with this format, but these authors are geniuses. 

Then we also had Ezra, who I loved too. He is the yang to Kady's ying. He's always trying to find the bright side and trying to make her laugh. He always made me laugh. He has a huge, warm heart and is basically a dreamboat.

What I really liked about this book is that it showed that in life not everything is black and white. It kept me on the edge of my seat trying to figure out what was going on all the time. From the start you think you know who the villain is, bit then turns out it was just a pawn, and then there is the real villain, but wait, no, he isn't really a villain, now that's the villain, or is it not? and basically you are kept on your toes all the time.

Can't wait to continue reading this trilogy, I hope it only gets better.