Review-PODs by Michelle Picket

PODs by Michelle K. Pickett
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Recieved an ARC from publisher in exchange for an honest review

You guys.......I TOTALLY LOVED THIS BOOK!!!!! I really can't explain it, this was one of those kind of books that I will never forget! This book grabbed me from the first and did not let me go till the very last word and I loved every second of it!!! Michelle Pickett did her thing and is an author that other authors should be keeping an eye on because she is coming up strong. Yeah, she is awesome so she will be seeing quite a few of these lol



Anyway, back to the book....PODs is about a sixteen year old girl named Eva, who is chosen to live in you guessed it a POD. An unknown virus has broken out and is killing people that come in contact with it, so the government has come up with a plan to pick people at random to live in a pod in hopes to save the human race but of course with the government there is always a catch that goes left unsaid because only the ages of 12-24(somwhere around there) are the only ones that were chosen to live in the pods, MESSED UP RIGHT?!!?? I sooo could not imagine only one person out of my family being picked and have to live with knowing that the rest of my family will die. I would totally go BAT CRAZY. Yeah, this kind of crazy.


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"Only seventy thousand of us will live. Twenty thousand have already been chosen. That leaves fifty thousand openings for the raffle winners. The rest of us will be left to deal with the virus, left to die"

Eva is forced to say goodbye to her family and everything she knows to live with 10 random people for a year. Just when Eva thinks nothing can go right after this she meets David. Even though things are rough living in the pods Eva starts to make friends and experience love for the first time. But when the doors finally open after a year and a half later Eva is forced again to seperate from the only person she has left and has come to love over the past year and live the way the government wants them to live. Eva is determined to find David, but she soon finds out that he has left the government compound to seek out Eva. Will Eva ever find David? An is he infected? You will have to find out JUNE 4th!!


Final thought: Like I said I really enjoyed this book mainly because I connected with the main character. She could hold her own and I really liked that about her :) The only negative thing I could say about it was I wish there were more moments where David and Eva got to know each other more, I feel like there wasn't enough so I do believe David and Eva's relationship was an Insta-love one, Maybe book two ehh??? I also wanted more description on the world after the pods I feel like there should have been more. Other thna that it was soo good :)


Rating: Lovin the POD

4/5 Rotten Apples

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Review: Dare You To by Katie McGarry

Title: Dare You To

Author: Katie McGarry

Series: Pushing the Limits #2

Publication Date: May 28, 2013
Genre: YA Contemporary

 *This book was provided in exchange for my honest review*

Synopsis:

If anyone knew the truth about Beth Risk's home life, they'd send her mother to jail and seventeen-year-old Beth who knows where. So she protects her mom at all costs. Until the day her uncle swoops in and forces Beth to choose between her mom's freedom and her own happiness. That's how Beth finds herself living with an aunt who doesn't want her and going to a school that doesn't understand her. At all. Except for the one guy who shouldn't get her, but does....

Ryan Stone is the town golden boy, a popular baseball star jock-with secrets he can't tell anyone. Not even the friends he shares everything with, including the constant dares to do crazy things. The craziest? Asking out the Skater girl who couldn't be less interested in him.

But what begins as a dare becomes an intense attraction neither Ryan nor Beth expected. Suddenly, the boy with the flawless image risks his dreams-and his life-for the girl he loves, and the girl who won't let anyone get too close is daring herself to want it all....

Review:

After reading Pushing the Limits, and finding out that this was going to be Beth's story, I knew I had to read it as soon as possible!! ( I was little surprised it was not Beth's and Isiah's story)  I was not a fan of Beth's in PTL to tell you the truth, I hated her. So when I started reading her story, I was pleasantly surprised when I found myself falling in  love with her character. 

Beth has had a tough life. Her mom is a drunk, an addict, blames her for her father leaving them, and to top it all her mom's now boyfriend, Trent, beats her and her mom. Unfortunately, Beth feels like she owes her mom was picking her over her mom, so Beth feels like it's her duty to take care of her no matter what. So no wonder Beth has an attitude problem, curses like a sailor, doesn't trust people, and doesn't like feeling any emotions because at the end she's going to get hurt; inside she's still the little girl that loved pink ribbons and was waiting for her uncle to come and rescue her. When she gets arrested, her mom signs custody over to her Uncle Scott and she has to move away from everything she knows.

"I don't want anyone touching me anymore. Especially guys that are strong and warm and slightly cute and can make my heart stutter."

Ryan is the the complete opposite of Beth. He is the pitcher in his high school's baseball team, is popular, likeable, and overall a decent and sweet guy. Ryan and his friends Chris and Logan are always daring each other, and Ryan never backs down from a dare; he NEVER loses. That day's dare is about getting girl's numbers. So when this girl enters Taco Bell with ripped jeans, dyed black hair, and nose piercing, the dare is on!

"I don't lose. Do you hear me? I don't lose and that includes losing you."

That is how their story start. I loved how the story was not only about Ryan AND Beth, but about Ryan and Beth. We see Ryan reevaluate his life; can there be more to life than baseball? is college an option? should he pursue writing? We also see that contrary to what we see on the inside, his family is not as perfect as it seems.  What I loved the most was how much Beth changed throughout the book. We were able to see how slowly her walls crumbled and she starts to let people in.

"With him I can believe that I am a princess with a wreath of flowers and ribbons crowning my head and he is my prince sworn to protect me from the evils of the night"

Some characters from the first book do make appearances here and there throughout the story, but they are small enough that they don't take the spotlight. Isiah's story will actually be released later this year.

I strongly recommend this book; you won't regret it! I'm not one to give five-stars freely, but this book made me feel what the characters were feeling; I was able to connect and relate to them. That is what, to me, makes a five-star book. Get it May 28th!

Rating:

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“There is a vulnerability there, hovering just below the surface. And I want to pick at it until I expose it. Then I want to kiss it." 

Two years ago, Emily Burnham, had an epiphany about the shallowness of her life. And she made it her mission to become a different person…a better woman. Out from under the controlling thumb of her mother, Emily is tasting the real world for the first time. And she likes it.

Nixon Caldwell has served his time in the Marine Corps, surviving two brutal tours in Afghanistan. He is back home, surrounded by what he likes best…isolation. It's certainly the best way to avoid confrontation of the consuming guilt that is weighing him down.

When an accident brings Emily and Nix together, he soon learns he is not the master of his own fate. Struggling with his own pain, Nix tries to guard himself against Emily’s charms. He wants her in his bed, but he doesn’t want her in his heart. 

Having grabbed life by the horns, Emily wants it all. But is she willing to accept just the small part of himself that Nix is offering? Can she reach the part of his soul that he has deemed to be Off Limits?

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