Review: The Ghost and The Goth by Stacey Kade

Title: The Ghost and The Goth
Author: Stacey Kade
Hardcover, 281 pages
Published June 29th 2010 by Hyperion Book CH
Goodreads description.

I LOVED this book! I don't know if I have a soft spot for ghosts (yeah, right) or for KICK-ASS characters, or something but lucky for me, this book happens to have both.

I randomly found the book description in goodreads and was blown away by how

similar it sounded to The Mediator my all time favorite YA series. And opposite to what others might do,

going like "Aw there's no way this is as awesome, I'm not reading it!", I'm open-minded

and was glad to find something similar so I decided to give it a try, and went and get the book by all means

-begging, crying and acting like a 2 year old- and oh man! I'M SO GLAD!

PLUS: JUST LOOK AT THE COVER! I don't think I've loved a cover so much, like, EVER! (I'm thinking about getting a full back tattoo of it) I loooove how accurate it actually is,

it's like THOSE are Alona and Will, they're exactly like that, clothes and everything.

Since the very first chapter things are attention grabbing and I find myself immersed in the story, it starts when Alona, the queen bee of her high school, seemingly perfect in every way possible... *gasp* DIES!

But despite what people like to think about her, and what you're already imagining (snotty bitch), she's not! far from the truth!

GIRL IS FIERCE! she's a fighter and has the master mind of Brain

from Pinky and the Brain, no really, she could totally take you in a 'guess the murderer' contest.

Not that there's a murderer in this book, just tons of hilarious, interesting, sad, hot, fun, and kickass moments. I can't complain here, cause I got everything I was asking for, so I will just continue summarizing the plot,

so yes, Alona dies ):

but hey! stop sobbing, girl is not going anywhere for now, and that is because (if you ever read a ghost's book or have been going to the movies/ watching tv this past 20 years you already know this) :

she has unressolved issues.

And what's her to do, she doesn't know anything about being dead, and no one can help her, right?

WRONG! There's someone out there...

someone who can help Alona with her newly acquired troubles...

and that someone is Will Killian! aka Will Kill, you might recognize him as the pseudo-goth guy sitting in the farthest cafeteria table that apparently talks to himself out loud and wears his hoodie over his head all the time

to keep the voices out.

Yeah, Alona thinks that too: NO WAY I'M GETTING NEAR THAT FREAK.

But the only other person who she knows can communicate with the dead is in Puerto Vallarta and I mean it's a long walk to Mexico D: .

So Alona and Will make a deal, he would teach her everything he knows about ghosts, death and moving on If she serves as his bodyguard, that is, keeping the other ghosts off of his face so he can finally have some peace and quiet after years and years of ghosts 'haunting' him.

I bet you can guess where that leads...

me= fun fun fun,

Will & Alona= *headdesk* *headdesk*!

Despite what you might think after reading this (that is if you're still with me after all this babbling) :

"Oh but it sounds SO clichéd!" I have only one thing to say about this, okay two:

a) what's not cliche these days?, I mean, come on! nothing is 100% original now, after all this is 2011.

and b) Cliche can be FUN.

Besides, it's the characters who truly take an story to the next level. This book is infinitely entretaining and with very real (and funny) main characters,

a realistic MALE teenager and a realistic GIRL teenager, and that's not easy to pull off let me tell ya, not everyone can portray a boy and a girl so relatable.

So yeah this book is ALL ABOUT THE FUN (plus some twists you might have not seen coming).

If you just came back from a trip to a child's hospital, got out of jail, witnessed an animal massacre, got your heart broken, read Mockingjay or lost your favorite lipstick at the mall and are SO DEPRESSED you can't take it anymore, I suggest you read this, it won't dissapoint IT'S MADE OF FUN, no seriously, read the tag it says it's made with the same stuff SIX FLAGS is made of.

4 hearts and a kidney.

On Beth Revis and her awesomesauce

It's no secret that I'm in love with the Universe.

I am obsessed with everything that has to do something with it.

So you can imagine how thrilled I was when I first heard of Across the Universe.

To say I loooooved it, it's like saying I just "dislike" bugs.
Miss Revis, to my eyes, is a goddess! I cannot express with words how incredible

she and her book are, so I won't even try. I'd just dance around.

And you guys, I'm soooooo excited for her second book in the series which now has a cover,

a beautiful cover! (I think it matches perfectly the new paperback!)

And now, if you live in North Carolina, or Tennesse or in between them you might have a chance to see

Beth Revis in flesh and bone and clothes! :D! and not only her! there's also Myra McEntire author of Hourglass (haven't read it but sounds awesome)

and Victoria Schwab author of The Near Witch (sounds awesome too!)

So if you live near don't forget to go to their tour! I'm sure it'd be lots of fun!

Visit their page to enter a fabulous giveaway too!

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Review: Never Eighteen by Megan Bostic

Title: Never Eighteen
Author: Megan Bostic

Expected publication: January 17th 2012 by HMH Children's Books

Click to go to its goodreads page

It might be a little early to review this book, seeing as it comes out about six months from now. But I saw the description on goodreads and it's been raining for a few days now and I guess I was in the moon cause I just knew I had to read it. Soon.

It was a beautiful story,

I loved it. This book is about Austin, a 17 year old boy that has cancer. He wakes up some day

and decides to do something meaningful with the time he has left, so with the help of his best friend and secret crush, Kaylee,

he's off in a mission to help the people he's known all his life, whose problems were always obvious to him but he never do anything

about it. But the time has come for him to face the fact that if he loves this people, he needs to do something to make them enjoy

their lives. Because that's something he no longer has, life time.

The journey was interesting, definitely interesting. ALL this people in Austin life were FULL of problems, they were literally sunk in an ocean of darkness that sometimes it was

difficult to believe, I mean from a girl that was raped and turned into an anorexic drug addict to a gay friend still in the closet, to a lonely working mom that lost her child (one of Austin's bestfriends) a few years before,

and there was also the guy with a drinking problem and the separated parents that didn't speak to eachother anymore, and the renagated grandma. So yeah I might have found myself rolling my eyes at the pages a few times.

I just couldn't understand why a such a nice boy like Austin would let all this time passed without doing something about it before?

But I can't blame him, though. I mean he had cancer, he was just a teenage boy, I think it's safe to say he might have been absorbed in his own problems.

The good thing is that he decided to change things and just in time. I loved him. I think he was sweet and loyal and selfless, but most of all, he was brave.

Not anyone would have spend his/her time (much less when he/she had so little time left) trying to help people that were by no means interested in getting help.

I really liked the parts when Austin and his best friend Kaylee were together. Those times when they were hiking, when they went to the fair or the music museum,

or just when they were riding in her car. It was an emotional ride; reading Austin struggling with his feelings was hard, but at the end I got rewarded with a beautiful

ending. The perfect ending. That last letter was perfect! I think it gave us the perfect last glance of who Austin Parker was, a joyful teenager that loved indie music,

the ocean, good books and most of all, he loved Kaylee. Epic romance, everyone that reads this will close this book wishing they had something half as amazing as Austin's love for Kaylee.

You will shed a few tears with this one!

Favorite quotes:

It's three hearts and a kidney, actually, but I don't know where my kidney pics are ):

Review: What Happened To Goodbye by Sarah Dessen

What happened to Goodbye
Author: Sarah Dessen
Published May 10th 2011 by Penguin Young Readers Group
Click to go to its Goodreads page

I know you don't know me (yet) but I have to say that everyone in real life knows what a HUGE Sarah Dessen fan I am. I even have her name tattooed on my bicep ;)

She's one of the first YA authors I ever read and her books have a place close to my heart. So excuse me if I might have been over-excited when I heard about this book. She didn't published anything in about 2 years so I almost had a heart attack and maybe just maybe I set my expectations HIGH.

WHTG is the story of a girl named McLean. Her parents divorced after her mom cheated on her dad and McLean has been angry at her mom ever since, so she lives with her dad. Problem is that her dad is a chef and he has to travel a lot, checking on his boss' restaurants and McLean, hurt as she is, doesn't want to get involved too much with anyone.

So she lies. She makes up names and personalities for her to have at each town they go to. But this time is different, she didn't choose it, she didn't think about it but she find herself changing this time around.