Book Review: A Midsummer's Nightmare

A Midsummer's Nightmare by Kody Keplinger

Genre- Contemporary

Hardcover Edition-291 Pages

5/5 Lily Pads

Would I Recommend It? Yes!

No Spoilers!


Hey there, here is another review. Today I am reviewing "A Midsummer's Nightmare." Before I start my review I want you to know that this is my first Kody Keplinger book. Your probably wondering why I haven't read "The Duff" yet. I really wanna read it and I will definitely get to it some day. Anyway, let's get on with the review.

The Plot

Whitley Johnson's dream summer with her divorcé dad has turned into a nightmare. She's just met his new fiancée and her kids. The fiancée's son? Whitley's one-night stand from graduation night. Just freakin' great.

Worse, she totally doesn't fit in with her dad's perfect new country-club family. So Whitley acts out. She parties. Hard. So hard she doesn't even notice the good things right under her nose: a sweet little future stepsister who is just about the only person she's ever liked, a best friend (even though Whitley swears she doesn't "do" friends), and a smoking-hot guy who isn't her stepbrother...at least, not yet. It will take all three of them to help Whitley get through her anger and begin to put the pieces of her family together.

My Opinion

This book was so good! This book has been sitting on my shelf for like two years and I'm so glad I finally read it. I loved it!

First let's talk about the characters. First of all I loved our main protagonist, Whitley. A lot of people think she's not likable but I loved her. She was so relatable. She was whiny, bratty and selfish but she had a reason to be that way. I would feel the same way if I was in her situation. I loved her because she was just so refreshing to read about. She's a loner which I can relate to. She doesn't have any friends because she doesn't want friends because of a bad experience in school. She was independent but she was also insecure. I love reading about characters that are insecure because its so relatable and I'm sick of reading about confident, kick butt characters. She felt she didn't belong anywhere and no one loved her.  

One of the reasons why I loved this book so much is because the main focus of this book is family. I love reading books about family because I'm a family-oriented person. You don't see books about family a lot in YA because the parents are usually gone. The whole book is basically about Whitley's biological family and her new stepfamily. I didn't like her Dad, I thought he was a jerk. I liked her new stepmom, Sylvia. She was really nice and supportive. I loved Nathan. He was a great guy and I just loved him because he was such a nice person. I also loved his sister, Bailey. She was so cute and lovable. 

I love character development in books. Whitley changed a lot by the end of the book, which was awesome. I love how she became close to her new family. 

I loved the writing style. It was so quick and simple. The pacing was perfect and a lot happened even though the book is so short. 

Overall, I loved this book. It was such a good and very important read. I feel every teenager should read this book because it has a lot of good life lessons in it. Whitley learns a lot and becomes a better person. This book has partying and drinking in it, but it's pretty clean. Whitley stops partying and drinking at the end of the book. I felt I should say that because she did the right thing and I feel lots of teens in this society need guidance. If they read this book, they would learn that drinking and partying isn't okay, and it's really important to quit bad habits because it could really affect your life. Anyway since this book was amazing, I think it is worth a buy. Thank you so much for reading, I really appreciate it. Stay tuned for  more coming soon. Happy reading :)

Book Review: Entwined

"Entwined" by Heather Dixon

Genre- Fantasy, Fairy Tales, Paranormal and Historical fiction

Hardcover Edition-472 Pages

5/5 Lily Pads

Would I Recommend It? Yes

No Spoilers!

Hey there, here is a new review. Today I am reviewing "Entwined" by Heather Dixon. This is a YA stand alone novel. It is a retelling of the fairy tale "The Twelve Dancing Princesses". I really enjoyed this book. Stick around if you wanna know why I liked it. 

The Plot

Just when Azalea should feel that everything is before her—beautiful gowns, dashing suitors, balls filled with dancing—it's taken away. All of it. And Azalea is trapped. The Keeper understands. He's trapped, too, held for centuries within the walls of the palace. So he extends an invitation.

Every night, Azalea and her eleven sisters may step through the enchanted passage in their room to dance in his silver forest, but there is a cost. The Keeper likes to keep things. Azalea may not realize how tangled she is in his web until it is too late.

My Opinion

This book was recommended to me from my sister. 

She really enjoyed this book so I thought I should give it a try.

I was not disappointed. As I read the first chapter, I knew this book was right up my ally. I love books about royalty with castles, Kings and of course, Princesses. I just love reading fairy tale retellings and it was so good. 

I really liked the characters. Our main character is Azalea and she is the oldest girl in her family. She has 11 younger sisters and I loved all of them. I loved reading about her family. I love books that revolve around family and that's mostly what this whole book was about. I loved how close the sisters were, even though they are all different ages. 

There are guys in this book of course and I only liked one guy. His name is Mr. Bradford. He was such a great guy and I loved the romance in this book. 

I loved the author's writing style. The writing was really well done. I loved the dialogue and I could really picture this book as a movie. It would be an amazing movie. The plot was so cool and very different. I never read this fairy tale before so it was cool reading it without knowing the original story. The pacing was pretty good. It wasn't really slow but the book is very long, but I didn't want it to end. The ending was very satisfying and I believe it is a stand-alone. 

I also forgot to mention that this book is very clean. It was very refreshing to me, there's only a couple of kissing scenes and that's it. 

Overall this book was really good and original. I loved the royalty atmosphere and the main characters were developed really well. This book was a little creepy at times, especially towards the end. I think Entwined is worth a buy not just because it's really good but also because this book is very underrated and more people should read it.  I gave this book 5/5 Lily Pads. Thank you so much for reading and stay tuned for more updates soon. Happy reading :)

Book Review: Shiver

Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater (Wolves of Mercy Falls #1)

Genre- Paranormal but reads like a Contemporary book

Hardcover Edition- 390 Pages

5/5 Lily Pads

Would I Recommend It? Yes!

No Spoilers!

Hey everyone I'm back with a review. Today I am reviewing "Shiver". Now before I start this review, I just want you to know that I was a little hesitant about reading this book. I heard so many mixed reviews about this series, but my sister loves this series so she really wanted me to read it, so I gave it a chance. I ended up really liking this book, and I'm glad I didn't listen to the bad reviews. Anyway, let's get on with the full review.

The Plot

Shiver is about a girl named Grace. At first she was just a regular girl, but then one day she gets attacked by a werewolf. She turns into a werewolf but doesn't actually become one. She stopped herself from turning into one. That day she gets attacked, a male wolf saves her. His name is Sam. The book is basically about Grace living a normal life, and then Sam ends up turning into a human. And then the story goes from there. 

My Opinion

I really liked this book. I don't get why this series has such bad reviews. I thought this book was perfect. I loved everything about it. The writing was awesome and simple. The plot for this book was very simplistic but that's why I liked the book. It was easy to read, and it was like contemporary with wolves in it. The biggest reason why I loved this book was the characters. I loved the main characters, they were developed so well. I really liked Grace, she was a good protagonist and I found her relatable at times. I loved that Grace and Sam both love books. I really loved Sam, he was such a good guy and I just loved him. I really loved their relationship. Maggie really knows how to develop characters. The romance was so good, I loved it. It wasn't rushed or insta-love so I thought it was just so perfect. This book was really cute and I just really enjoyed it. I don't know when I'm gonna read the next book "Linger" but I will probably get to it some day. 

That's my really short review. I wanted to keep it short because I don't have too much to say about it because I loved it. I think this book is worth a buy. If you like paranormal books about werewolves, I think you should try this one because it's probably the best YA werewolf series out there. Obviously I gave it 5/5 Lily Pads. Thank you so much for reading, have a great day and keep reading! :)