All The Bright Places by Jennifer Niven

All The Bright Places 

By: Jennifer Niven

Release Date: January 6, 2015

Spoiler Free Review by Rachel





Synopsis:

An exhilarating and heart-wrenching love story about a girl who learns to live from a boy who intends to die.

Theodore Finch is fascinated by death. Every day he thinks of ways he might die, but every day he also searches for—and manages to find—something to keep him here, and alive, and awake.

Violet Markey lives for the future, counting the days until graduation, when she can escape her small Indiana town and her aching grief in the wake of her sister's death.

When Finch and Violet meet on the ledge of the bell tower at school—six stories above the ground—it's unclear who saves whom. And when the unlikely pair teams up on a class project to discover the "natural wonders" of their state, they go, as Finch says, where the road takes them: the grand, the small, the bizarre, the beautiful, the ugly, the surprising—just like life.

Soon it's only with Violet that Finch can be himself—a bold, funny, live-out-loud guy, who's not such a freak after all. And it's only with Finch that Violet forgets to count away the days and starts living them. But as Violet's world grows, Finch's begins to shrink.

This is a heart-wrenching, unflinching story of love shared, life lived, and two teens who find one another while standing on the edge.

******

Letting Go (Keaton # 1.5) by B.A. Wolfe

Letting Go (Keaton # 1.5) by B.A. Wolfe

Released September 28, 2015

Spoiler Free Review by Krystal

Jason Bradley is a simple, country guy thrust into a life most wouldn't consider normal. He’s dealt with his share of heartbreak and pain, and now he keeps his secrets close to his heart to avoid getting hurt again. Living the only way he knows how.

Until Cassandra Pierce crashes into his world. After a life-changing moment he never anticipated, he realizes that loving her is only the beginning.

A whirlwind of days…

Beautiful moments…

Then it all comes tumbling down, and Jason learns that the hardest part of living…of loving…is letting go.

This is Jason's story.

WARNING: If you haven't read Away, I would not go any further. Letting Go is NOT meant to be read as a stand alone.

Forever & Always (The Ever Trilogy #1) by Jasinda Wilder

Forever & Always (The Ever Trilogy #1) by Jasinda Wilder

Released December 2013

Spoiler Free Review by Krystal

Ever,

These letters are often all that get me through week to week. Even if it’s just random stuff, nothing important, they’re important to me. Gramps is great, and I love working on the ranch.

But…I’m lonely.

I feel disconnected, like I’m no one, like I don’t belong anywhere. Like I’m just here until something else happens. I don’t even know what I want with my future. But your letters, they make me feel connected to something, to someone. I had a crush on you, when we first met. I thought you were beautiful. So beautiful. It was hard to think of anything else. Then camp ended and we never got together, and now all I have of you is these letters.

S**t.

I just told you I have a crush on you. HAD. Had a crush. Not sure what is anymore. A letter-crush? A literary love? That’s stupid. Sorry. I just have this rule with myself that I never throw away what I write and I always send it, so hopefully this doesn’t weird you out too much. I had a dream about you too. Same kind of thing. Us, in the darkness, together.

Just us.

And it was like you said, a memory turned into a dream, but a memory of something that’s never happened, but in the dream it felt so real, and it was more, I don’t even know, more RIGHT than anything I’ve ever felt, in life or in dreams. I wonder what it means that we both had the same dream about each other. Maybe nothing, maybe everything. You tell me.

Cade

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Cade,

We’re pen pals. Maybe that’s all we’ll ever be. I don’t know. If we met IRL (in real life, in case you’re not familiar with the term) what would happen? And just FYI, the term you used, a literary love? It was beautiful. So beautiful. That term means something, between us now. We are literary loves. Lovers? I do love you, in some strange way. Knowing about you, in these letters, knowing your hurt and your joys, it means something so important to me, that I just can’t describe. I need your art, and your letters, and your literary love.

If we never have anything else between us, I need this. I do. Maybe this letter will only complicate things, but like you I have a rule that I never erase or throw away what I’ve written and I always send it, no matter what I write in the letter.

Your literary love,

Ever

Taking Chances (Taking Chances #1) by Molly McAdams

Taking Chances (Taking Chances #1) by Molly McAdams

Released April 2012

Spoiler Free Review by Krystal

"Her first year away is turning out to be nearly perfect, but one weekend of giving in to heated passion will change everything.

Eighteen-year-old Harper has grown up under the thumb of her career marine father. Ready to live life her own way and to experience things she's only ever heard of from the jarheads in her father's unit, she's on her way to college at San Diego State University.

Thanks to her new roommate, Harper is introduced to a world of parties, gorgeous guys, family, and emotions. She finds herself being torn in two as she quickly falls in love with both her new boyfriend, Brandon, and her roommate's brother, Chase. Despite their dangerous looks and histories, both men adore Harper and would do anything for her, including taking a step back if it would mean she'd be happy."

Wow, what can I say about this book? This book should have came with a warning label letting you know your heart will break like an earthquake with little aftershocks to follow painfully ripping it just as it starts to heal again.  Everybody on the planet needs to go out and buy this book (along with a box of Kleenex) right now!!! This is amazing, yet heartbreaking story about love, family and friendship. 

Away (Keaton #1) by BA Wolfe

Away (Keaton #1) by BA Wolfe

Released November 2013

Spoiler Free Review by Krystal

"What good is running AWAY when you only end up lost? 

Cassandra Pierce had her whole "perfect" life planned out by her parents. One night of pure weakness and lust has her running away from it all and seeking refuge in Alamosa with her best friend. But it seems life has other plans for her when she finds herself lost in the small town of Keaton. 

Jason Bradley is a charming country guy. He lives a simple life that’s nothing like what Cassandra is used to. A single moment in life changed everything he thought he once knew, leaving him with a broken heart and an unplanned future. 

What happens in Keaton is nothing Cassandra or her heart could have ever prepared for. The instant connection she shares with Jason is no secret, but what they're keeping hidden from one another is. Will these two be able to find a way to trust each other or will their secrets tear them apart?"

You know when a book has touched you...when it grabs your heart so strong, that when its over, it's ALL you can think about? Yup, that was Away for me. I ABSOLUTELY positively felt every single emotion. Away has completely shattered me.

Releasing Kate (The Acceptance Series #2) by D Kelly

Releasing Kate (The Acceptance Series #2) by D Kelly
Released November 24, 2014
Spoiler Free Review by Krystal

OMFG!!! Are you ready for a friggin' EMOTIONAL ROLLER-COASTER?! If you have NOT read Breaking Kate (The Acceptance Series #1), you can read this review for it will not contain ANY spoilers AT ALL...but then you need to scroll to the bottom...find the review for book 1...read it...then PURCHASE IT!!!! 

Beyond the Orange Moon (Mathews Family #2) by Adrienne Frances

Beyond the Orange Moon (Mathews Family #2)

By: Adrienne Frances

Book Description:

"Sometimes fate strikes in unexpected ways...

Lucy Dalton was tired of living a life she didn't want.

Charlie Mathews was living the life he always wanted.

But one night, fate changes the course of their lives forever. A year later, Lucy and Charlie's paths meet again, igniting a spark that neither can deny.

Lucy knows he doesn't remember her, but she's already in too deep.

Charlie knows the unwritten family rule: Mathews men never admit when they're broken. Can they leave the past where it belongs and find a way to look beyond the orange moon?"

Falling into You (Falling #1) by Jasinda Wilder

Falling into You (Falling #1) by Jasinda Wilder

Released 2013

Spoiler Free Review by Krystal

"I wasn't always in love with Colton Calloway; I was in love with his younger brother, Kyle, first. Kyle was my first one true love, my first in every way.

Then, one stormy August night, he died, and the person I was died with him.

Colton didn't teach me how to live. He didn't heal the pain. He didn't make it okay. He taught me how to hurt, how to not be okay, and, eventually, how to let go"

“This book is for anyone who has ever lost a loved one, for anyone who has woken up crying and gone to bed the same way, for anyone who has had to learn that it’s okay to not be okay. Surviving isn’t strength, it’s continuing to breathe one day at a time; strength is learning to live despite the pain.”

Chasing Abby (Shattered Hearts #4) by Cassia Leo

Chasing Abby (Scattered Hearts, #4) by Cassia Leo

Released September 29, 2014

Spoiler Free Review by Krystal

"Five years, six months, eight days…. 

It’s been eighteen years since Abigail was born with a hole in her heart. Five years since she collapsed on the soccer field. Five years, six months, eight days since she found out she was adopted. 

Abby has spent five years wondering about the family she never knew and waiting for her eighteenth birthday. When Abby shows up on the doorstep of Chris and Claire Knight, her birth parents are overjoyed to see the little girl they lost eighteen years ago. 

One summer is all they have to make up for the years they lost. But when opposing ideals collide, a summer of love soon turns into a summer of heartache."

WOW. The most anticipated book in the Shattered Hearts Series, Chasing Abby was every bit of emotional and beautiful. I would suggest grabbing a box of tissues, because its about to get real. If you have NOT read the first book in the Shattered Heart series....DO NOT GO ANY FURTHER THEN THIS REVIEW. Chasing Abby is NOT a standalone.