It's Monday! What Are You Reading #226, October 5th

It's Monday! What Are You Reading is a weekly meme hosted by Book Journey where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week...and anything in between! This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well...you never know where that next "must read" book will come from!

What happened in the past week:

Weekly Memes:
It's Monday! What Are You Reading #225
Teaser Tuesday #233
WWW Wednesday #233
WOW #230
Will the Time Come #226
Third Sentence Thursday #216
Random Reads #201
First Lines Friday #220
The Reward Challenge Update #211
Follow Friday #203
How Well I Stuck to It #55
Wrote that Review Update #60

Week 40 Reviews:
Spinning Starlight
Hunter
The One Thing
The Secret Sister
Tonight the Streets Are Ours
The Dogs
The Scorpion Rules
Fans of the Impossible Life
On the Edge
Light of Day
What We Saw
The Revenge Playbook
A Wicked Thing
My Secret to Tell

Tours:
The Protector Project: Review

Random:
Dobby's Lump's Story So Far
We Have the Cover of Charley Davidson #10!!!!
Erin Bow Author Page
Nina LaCour Author Page
Leila Sales Author Page
Rhiannon Thomas Author Page

OK, so I got 32 posts in 7 days, which is pretty great, so I'm happy with that! What about you guys? Happy reading!

So this week I want to read whatever I want!

Leila Sales Author Page

The Story: I've gotten a copy of This Song Will Save Your Life, and Tonight the Streets Are Ours from NetGalley, and yeah, that's so great, because I've enjoyed the later, and I can't wait to read the former! So yeah, lucky there!

Website

Stand Alone's: This Song Will Save Your Life and her site, my review, Tonight the Streets Are Ours and her site, my review, Past Perfect and her site, my review, Mostly Good Girls and her site, my review, Once Was a Time.

Week 40 Review: Tonight the Streets Are Ours

From Goodreads:
From the author of This Song Will Save Your Life comes a funny and relatable book about the hazards of falling for a person you haven't met yet.

Seventeen-year-old Arden Huntley is recklessly loyal. Taking care of her loved ones is what gives Arden purpose in her life and makes her feel like she matters. But she's tired of being loyal to people who don't appreciate her—including her needy best friend and her absent mom. 

Arden finds comfort in a blog she stumbles upon called "Tonight the Streets Are Ours," the musings of a young New York City writer named Peter. When Peter is dumped by the girlfriend he blogs about, Arden decides to take a road trip to see him.

During one crazy night out in NYC filled with parties, dancing, and music—the type of night when anything can happen, and nearly everything does—Arden discovers that Peter isn't exactly who she thought he was. And maybe she isn't exactly who she thought she was, either. 

My Review:
I enjoyed this book a lot! The beginning was a bit of back and forth, telling the relevant bits of their lives, and then consolidating together for the "night" that was the main part of this book. And that was really awesome to read!

Arden had a slightly strange idea of love. To her, it meant giving everything that she had to that person, to help them. So of course that is hard to reciprocate, and why she felt like she did. It wasn't a healthy idea, and she learns that through this book.

This book was about a life, and how a life can change, and what you can learn. It's about seizing the day-or night-but not going totally crazy. It was about Arden finding out about life outside her own, and realizing how she could change her own. And lots of fun and exploring along the way!

I didn't like Peter all that much. Mostly because I'd read the ending, and knew what was coming. That the truth that he only told his side, not the full, actual truth, to the world through his blog. And what the actual truth was, and how different it was from his, and what he did, just made me not like him!

Totally an awesome book, and I just enjoyed reading it a whole ton!

Author: Leila Sales
Read: September 28th, 2015
Source: NetGalley
Reason Why: Sounded really great, and it's a SAC 2015 Book!
Publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux (BYR)
Published: September 15th 2015

5/5 Hearts

3/5 Books

3/5 Stars

Week 46 Review: Past Perfect

From Goodreads:
All Chelsea wants to do this summer is hang out with her best friend, hone her talents as an ice cream connoisseur, and finally get over Ezra, the boy who broke her heart. But when Chelsea shows up for her summer job at Essex Historical Colonial Village (yes, really), it turns out Ezra's working there too. Which makes moving on and forgetting Ezra a lot more complicated…even when Chelsea starts falling for someone new. 

Maybe Chelsea should have known better than to think that a historical reenactment village could help her escape her past. But with Ezra all too present, and her new crush seeming all too off limits, all Chelsea knows is that she's got a lot to figure out about love. Because those who don't learn from the past are doomed to repeat it…

My Review:
This was such a fun book! I really enjoyed it, more then I did of the previous books, which is such a great thing! Because again, I want to enjoy the books I read! And I enjoyed this book, it was nice and cute and fun!

I loved Chelsea, and her predicament of having the guy she's trying to get over, work in the same place that she is. And then falling for another guy-who works for the rival village. Because yeah, that was really fun and cute to read!

This book was just a lot of fun to read! I loved the "war" between the towns, you'd almost think that they would work together, and send visitors to the other one after visiting their own, but no, they have to have a competition! And true it's only the teens, but some of the things that they pulled were pretty hilarious!

I just really enjoyed the story that this book told, of moving on from one romance, finding another, dealing with all the stress of both, and just hanging out, living life. It was just a great, fun, light book to read!

I enjoyed this book so much, it was just a joy to read it!

Author: Leila Sales
Read: November 16th, 2012
Source: Library
Reason Why: Sounded like a cute book!
Publisher: Simon Pulse
Published: October 4th 2011

5/5 Hearts

4/5 Books

3.5/5 Stars