One Choice Will Define You

Allegiant (Divergent #3) by Veronica Roth

I am literally at a loss for words.  I have just finished Allegiant and I am speechless.  I’m sitting here thinking about the last few weeks that I have read all three of these books and I cannot believe the wild ride I have been on.

I fell in love with Tris and Four from the very beginning.  I was angry at her when she would do something stupid, I was happy when they could finally be together and I balled like a baby when the book ended. 

I absolutely thought that the series was going to end with Tris waking up from a serum induced coma and either the entire series was a dream or maybe just after her Dauntless initiation was a dream, especially after she finished first in her initiation class. 

The ending was a surprise to me, other readers thought that it was obvious, but books just don’t end like that.  Especially not YA books, there has to be a silver lining and a happy ending so that the audience wants to read other books by the author.  I have heard such crazy and differing opinions about this book that I wonder how the author is doing. 

I did not like the first 200 pages of this book.  It was slow going and I felt like I was trying to run in sand.  But the last 100 pages moved like the first two books.  I think the reason it was so slow was because Roth had to introduce and explain the whole idea of the Genetically Pure and the Genetically Damaged people.  She had to explain why it was a big deal to both sides and show what it was doing to the US.  Those facts and ideas were so boring, but after it’s over, I now know why she had to go through all of that to get us to see why the ending had to happen the way it did.  I think another reason that it moved slow for me was because of the switch of the point of view.  Whenever there is more than one character in a book it makes me want to take a break between each character, it doesn’t matter what is going on, I’m just not very good at reading those types of books.  I understand now that it’s over why it was written like that.

My heart goes out to Tobias, or Four as I like to call him.  It makes sense that he just wants to forget it all.  Poor guy, I’m glad he has some friends to keep him together.  Along the lines of Tobias and his chapters, it was genius how after chapter 54 there were no more chapter clarifiers, that made me sad all over again.

I hope I haven’t given any unintentional spoilers, I tried to be as cryptic as I could for those who haven’t read, but that those who have were able to know what I was referring to.  I gave this book 4 stars where Divergent and Insurgent were both 5 out of 5 stars, I gave the small difference not because of her bravery in Roth’s ending, but because of the slow pace of the beginning of the book.

Let me know what you thought about the entire series! Keep Reading my friends!

Does She Love Me? Maybe Not.

Maybe Not (Maybe Someday 1.5) by Colleen Hoover

A SURPRISE NOVELLA FROM MY MOST FAVORITEST AUTHOR EVER!!! Who has two thumbs and freaked out when in less than a week we were going to read a Colleen Hoover book?  This girl (Pun intended)!

Colleen has the best secondary characters.  I loved Warren’s POV, I mean, really, who wouldn’t?  Poor guy, we all judged him for his porn addiction, makes so much more sense now.  We all judged him on his ridiculous conversations, again, it all makes sense now.  We also judged Bridgette for her crazy behavior that constantly had us not liking her, well maybe that was justified. 

Can I just say (of course I can, it’s my blog) that I love Novella’s?  It’s an entire story wrapped up in a little over 100 pages.  We got the whole story wrapped up in a nice little bow.  What happens after the last page?  Who cares, we didn’t expect to hear as much as we got.  We loved Daniel in Finding Cinderella and we loved Warren in Maybe Not.  Keep the fantastic Novella’s coming Colleen!

I think one of the most wonderful things about being a CoHort is seeing Colleen’s generosity rub off on people.  Colleen bought lots of books for people who couldn’t afford them, but wanted to read them.  Then it set off like wild fire on our CoHort’s Facebook page, everyone was buying each other books, it was amazing.  I really appreciate that group and the kindness that I saw through that. 

So, what’s Maybe Not about?  Well I usually give a great little description, but I don’t feel like it.  Read Maybe Someday, it’s excellent, and read Maybe Not, it’s just as great! 

This book does have an age restriction and I would say it’s 18 or older.  This is not a YA book, Warren is a dirty guy and is written that way.  Keep Reading my Friends! 

Nash is the Hard Looking Softy of the Marked Men

Nash (Marked Men Novel #4) by Jay Crownover

Nash Donovan is the silent type of bad boy.  He is overly misunderstood or just people automatically put him in the bad boy department because he has flames going up the side of his neck and has a ring in his nose like a bull.  When Rome gets busted up from a bar fight back in his book Nash and Saint see each other after many years of growing up after high school.  Saint is now a nurse in the ER and Nash is about to be the joint owner of the Marked Tattoo shop that he, Rule, Rowdy, and Cora work in.  Nash is sweet and kind, he works hard and loves deeply.  I enjoyed his story very much.  I loved watching the drama that is Saint Ford unfold and see her grow into a person that could fully handle all the love that is Nash. 

I enjoyed the story and wanted to slap Saint most of the time.  She was not loveable like Shaw, Ayden, and Cora.  She was a little harder to love even though in reality her life wasn’t as hard as most of the other characters.  I loved Nash though.  He’s the sweetest of the Marked, but I have a feeling that Rowdy is going to be my absolute fave.  He’s funny and sweet and carefully put together.  I just have a good feeling that it’s going to be a great read.  I love how Jay and the timber that she writes in.  It flows well and it’s easy to follow.  I put her books in the beach read category and stand by it.  They are easy reads that give you hope for the characters and you cry with them, and laugh with them and love with them.  On a whole, the Marked Men series is great. 

There were a lot more emotions in the book than have been in the previous books.  I felt right along with Nash as he was going through the hardest time of his life.   

Of course I would be ashamed of myself if I didn’t mention that there are typos in the book.  I overlook them because I like the characters and love the stories.  I understand that you can’t catch them all.  I can’t wait for Rowdy!  Keep Reading my Friends!