Review: Bully by Penelope Douglas

Fall Away series

blurb:

My name is Tate. He doesn't call me that, though. He would never refer to me so informally, if he referred to me at all.

We're neighbors,and once, we were best friends. But then, one summer, he turned on me and has made it his mission to screw up my life at every opportunity. I've been humiliated, shut out, and gossiped about all through high school. His pranks and rumors got more sadistic as time wore on, and I made myself sick trying to hide from him. I worried about what was around every corner and behind every door. 

So I left.

I spent a year studying abroad and bathed in the freedom of life without Jared. Now I'm back to finish up high school and get the hell out of here forever. I'm hoping that after a year of breathing room, he's moved on and forgotten all about me. 

But even if he hasn't changed, I have. I'm not interested in avoiding him or turning the other cheek anymore. We're going to go head to head, because neither of us wants to back down.

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If counting a first half of the book, I wanted to give 3 if not 2 stars, I'm happy to let you know It got less frustrating :)

So, the other day, I saw the cover and the tittle and thought - Whoa! I need to read this!
But then I've read some reviews and wasn't so sure anymore.. There was a lot of people who questioned the reasons behind hero's bullying and my excitement sank! Oh, hell - I thought, what a shame :/ And I left it at that.
Read few more books, but my thoughts kept side stepping me and coming 
right back here.. The I said "screw it" and read it anyway! :)

You know what? It was perfect timing!!!

This book is true teen anxiety and emotional rollercoaster, but I loved it! I loved the thrill and the unknown!

So if you have doubts about this book - DON'T. It was almost perfect to me.
I still had a hard time getting over his reasoning for ... well, let's say a lot of thing, but then I remembered that they're just teens and obviously not everyone can be as smart and I was, when I was a teenager! :D LMAO

So anyway, don't over-think it and just enjoy the ride!

Peace, 
A.

The Edge Of Never by J.A. Redmerski

( Read 30th. November,2012 )

Synopsis:

Twenty-year-old Camryn Bennett had always been one to think out-of-the-box, who knew she wanted something more in life than following the same repetitive patterns and growing old with the same repetitive life story. And she thought that her life was going in the right direction until everything fell apart.

Determined not to dwell on the negative and push forward, Camryn is set to move in with her best friend and plans to start a new job. But after an unexpected night at the hottest club in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, she makes the ultimate decision to leave the only life she’s ever known, far behind.

With a purse, a cell phone and a small bag with a few necessities, Camryn, with absolutely no direction or purpose boards a Greyhound bus alone and sets out to find herself. What she finds is a guy named Andrew Parrish, someone not so very different from her and who harbors his own dark secrets. But Camryn swore never to let down her walls again. And she vowed never to fall in love.

But with Andrew, Camryn finds herself doing a lot of things she never thought she’d do. He shows her what it’s really like to live out-of-the-box and to give in to her deepest, darkest desires. On their sporadic road-trip he becomes the center of her exciting and daring new life, pulling love and lust and emotion out of her in ways she never imagined possible. But will Andrew’s dark secret push them inseparably together, or tear them completely apart?


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5 HUGE Stars!


No spoilers


First of all... This book broke my heart.. It really did! But by the end J.A.Redmerski was capable to put it back together.

And before I say more, I just want to share a song, that was in my head throughout this all book.
I know that Cam and Andrew would probably not be happy 'bout my pick, but I just feel this song is appropriate somehow for this book. And I really want to share that.

The Song:

Short version of the book:

So the story start with a girl, a broken one. She's gone through some horrible things in her life already, and she's only 20. It's hard for her to adapt in this life.
She's dreaming of world-travel and feels like nobody gets her. 
So one day she just does it. Gets up, trow some necessary's  in her bag and leaves... She don't know where's she going, and basically she don't even cares.
And that's when all the fun begins! 

My thoughts:

I don't wanna spoil you all that went on, so I wont! Cause this book...!!!! You need to read it and breath it in! It was such a beautiful, although a little heartbroken story. The pain, and the joy, the love.. all that they went through, I felt it in my bones. I cried when they did, I laughed when they laughed. And although I got the flu, and both of my girls are sick too, I stayed late in the night, as much as possible, read when I could, just to finally get to the end. I was so scared of the ending.. And when I couldn't read,( cause of the two sick kids... well, you can only imagine the fun lol) I thought about Cam and Andrew almost all the time, and Rihanna - Diamonds lyrics playing in my mind.
Even now, it's still so fresh, that remember this book, especially some parts of it makes me wanna cry like mo'fo.

I wanna thank to the Author for this amazing journey! I know that I say this a lot, but I only say it when I really mean it!