Recenzie/Review EASY by Tammara Webber

A girl who believes trust can be misplaced, promises are made to be broken, and loyalty is an illusion. A boy who believes truth is relative, lies can mask unbearable pain, and guilt is eternal. Will what they find in each other validate their conclusions, or disprove them all?

When Jacqueline follows her longtime boyfriend to the college of his choice, the last thing she expects is a breakup two months into sophomore year. After two weeks in shock, she wakes up to her new reality: she's single, attending a state university instead of a music conservatory, ignored by her former circle of friends, and failing a class for the first time in her life.

Leaving a party alone, Jacqueline is assaulted by her ex's frat brother. Rescued by a stranger who seems to be in the right place at the right time, she wants nothing more than to forget the attack and that night--but her savior, Lucas, sits on the back row of her econ class, sketching in a notebook and staring at her. Her friends nominate him to be the perfect rebound.

When her attacker turns stalker, Jacqueline has a choice: crumple in defeat or learn to fight back. Lucas remains protective, but he's hiding secrets of his own. Suddenly appearances are everything, and knowing who to trust is anything but easy.

MY OPINION

What can I say about this wonderful book? What can I add to make you to love if you don't yet?

To say that reading itself is a life lesson? To say that the main characters are perfectly normal, that go through situations that may accompany each of us, at any time? That if you leave the book will touch your heart, you will definitely find yourself in one of the two main characters? Than you have part of life experience, invaluable, priceless?

If you need to repeat all this stuff, over and over, just to make you read it, I'll do it with all my heart. Perhaps you wonder why ...

Because I didn't stop crying during the entire reading, and when I got the end ... all those critical circumstances, the whole story, and the realization that each of us can hide a Jacqueline and Lucas, hit me with such force and realization, that tears began to roll down my cheeks, happy that can take place after a deep reading.

To read such a book, need to know to follow your dreams, and know to look beyond the appearance of a person. To know to remark whatever gives your life, and reveal your feelings, when you feel you have to do.

But if you can't do all this, "Easy" will learn you.

" Choosing to be with you isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline,... It's easy. Incredibly easy"

MY RATING: 5+/5

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PAREREA MEA

Ce va mai pot spune eu in plus despre aceasta minunata carte? Ce va mai pot adauga sa va fac s-o iubiti, daca nu o faceti inca? 

Sa va spun ca lectura in sine este o lectie de viata? Sa va spun ca personajele principale sunt absolut normale, ca trec prin situatii ce ne pot insotii pe fiecare dintre noi, oricand? Ca daca lasati cartea sa va atinga inima, o sa va regasiti cu siguranta intr-unul dintre cele doua personaje principale? Ca o sa aveti parte de o experienta de viata, inestimabila, de nepretuit?

Daca e nevoie sa va repet toate chestiile astea, la nesfarsit, doar sa va fac s-o cititi, o s-o fac cu toata inima. Poate va intrebati de ce... 

Pentru ca m-am abtinut sa nu plang pe parcursul intregii lecturi, iar cand am ajuns la final... toate acele situatii-limita, toata povestea, si realizarea ca in fiecare dintre noi se poate ascunde o Jacqueline si un Lucas, m-au lovit cu o asemenea forta si realizare, incat lacrimile au inceput sa-mi curga pe obraji, fericite ca se pot desfasura dupa o lectura profunda. 

Sa citesti o asemenea carte, trebuie sa stii sa-ti urmezi visele, si sa stii sa privesti dincolo de infatisarea unei persoane. Sa stii sa remarci tot ceea ce-ti daruieste viata, si sa-ti dezvalui sentimentele, atunci cand simti ca trebuie sa o faci. 

Daca insa nu stii sa faci toate astea, "Easy" te va invata.

" Choosing to be with you isn't a difficult decision, Jacqueline,... It's easy. Incredibly easy"

NOTA: 5+/5

THE DIFFERENT GIRL by Gordon Dahlquist

Four nearly identical girls on a desert island. An unexpected new arrival. A gently warped near future where nothing is quite as it seems.

Veronika. Caroline. Isobel. Eleanor. One blond, one brunette, one redhead, one with hair black as tar. Four otherwise identical girls who spend their days in sync, tasked to learn. But when May, a very different kind of girl—the lone survivor of a recent shipwreck—suddenly and mysteriously arrives on the island, an unsettling mirror is about to be held up to the life the girls have never before questioned.

Sly and unsettling, Gordon Dahlquist’s timeless and evocative storytelling blurs the lines between contemporary and sci-fi with a story that is sure to linger in readers’ minds long after the final page has been turned.

Expected publication: February 1st 2013

WINTERGIRLS by Laurie Halse Anderson

“Dead girl walking,” the boys say in the halls.
“Tell us your secret,” the girls whisper, one toilet to another.
I am that girl.
I am the space between my thighs, daylight shining through.
I am the bones they want, wired on a porcelain frame.

Lia and Cassie were best friends, wintergirls frozen in matchstick bodies. But now Cassie is dead. Lia's mother is busy saving other people's lives. Her father is away on business. Her step-mother is clueless. And the voice inside Lia's head keeps telling her to remain in control, stay strong, lose more, weigh less. If she keeps on going this way—thin, thinner, thinnest—maybe she'll disappear altogether.

In her most emotionally wrenching, lyrically written book since the National Book Award finalist Speak, best-selling author Laurie Halse Anderson explores one girl's chilling descent into the all-consuming vortex of anorexia.

Published March 19th 2009

ALL THE BROKEN PIECES by Cindi Madsen

What if your life wasn’t your own?

Liv comes out of a coma with no memory of her past and two distinct, warring voices inside her head. Nothing, not even her reflection, seems familiar. As she stumbles through her junior year, the voices get louder, insisting she please the popular group while simultaneously despising them. But when Liv starts hanging around with Spencer, whose own mysterious past also has him on the fringe, life feels complete for the first time in, well, as long as she can remember.

Liv knows the details of the car accident that put her in the coma, but as the voices invade her dreams, and her dreams start feeling like memories, she and Spencer seek out answers. Yet the deeper they dig, the less things make sense. Can Liv rebuild the pieces of her broken past, when it means questioning not just who she is, but what she is?

EXPECTED PUBLICATION: December 11th 2012

Recenzie/Review ONE MOMENT by Kristina McBride

This was supposed to be the best summer of Maggie’s life. Now it’s the one she’d do anything to forget.

Maggie Reynolds remembers hanging out at the gorge with her closest friends after a blowout party the night before. She remembers climbing the trail hand in hand with her perfect boyfriend, Joey. She remembers that last kiss, soft, lingering, and meant to reassure her. So why can’t she remember what happened in the moment before they were supposed to dive? Why was she left cowering at the top of the cliff, while Joey floated in the water below—dead?

As Maggie’s memories return in snatches, nothing seems to make sense. Why was Joey acting so strangely at the party? Where did he go after taking her home? And if Joey was keeping these secrets, what else was he hiding?

The latest novel from the author of The Tension of Opposites, One Moment is a mysterious, searing look at how an instant can change everything you believe about the world around you.


MY OPINION

ONE MOMENT is a intense, disturbing story. It is the story of Maggie, but can be of any of us. One single moment, one single stroke, are enough to mark our alive, to change it entirely. In one moment, we realize that we are people. That we can not prevent fate take its course. One single moment is enough to make us wonder what, and who we are. 

ONE TIME is written to show that we are people. That we can suffer. That we can complain about life after that, in some moments, it seems unfair.

But it is right to complain for the perfect life that we believed? Is right to face death? Let us want to change the past? We can suffer the loss of the person who gives us reason of the existence, and then leave it behind, and on with our lives? Is fair to let the past be past, and to focus on the present?

It is because we are humans, and have feelings. It is because we can love, we can hate, we can forgive.

ONE TIME gives a life lesson. It shows how fragile we are in front of life, and how, in one moment, we can become a memory.

The book is so deep that, during the reading, actually start to cry, no matter how you resist. You can't repress your feelings, and they come up, making you wonder if you ever told someone "I love you", just when you feel it. It makes you think of loved ones passed away, who have not ever had time to share your feelings, what they meant for you. And if, after they died, you have forgave them if were wrong... If forgive after you find out, after their death, that were wrong...

ONE TIME is in my opinion, the high book of its kind. It marks you. Follows you for days after finish. CHANGE YOU!

Read the book, because you have what to learn, because describes painful moments, tragic moments, that can happen to any of us anytime.

MY RATING: 5+/5

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PAREREA MEA

ONE MOMENT este o poveste intensa, tulburatoare. Este povestea lui Maggie, dar poate fi a oricaruia dintre noi. Un singur moment, o singura miscare, sunt suficiente pentru a ne marca viata, pentru a schimba-o total. Intr-un singur moment, realizam ca suntem oameni si ca nu putem impiedica soarta sa-si urmeze cursul normal. Un singur moment, este suficient sa ne faca sa ne intrebam ce, si cine suntem. 

" I didn't say anything. Just focused on my breathing.

Tanna rubbed her fingernails along my back, giving me goose bumps. "You're still alive, Mags. You might not feel like it. But you have to keep going."

" I love you, Tan, but I need you to leave," I said. "Please."

"You have all of us here to help you through this," Tanna said. "When you're ready. Don't forget that."

She stood then, without another word, and walked away. "

ONE MOMENT este scrisa sa ne arate ca suntem oameni, si putem suferi, putem plange dupa viata care, in unele momente, ni se pare nedreapta. 

Dar este drept sa plangem dupa viata pe care o credeam perfecta? Este drept sa ne confruntam cu moartea, si sa ne dorim sa schimbam trecutul? Este drept sa suferim dupa pierderea persoanei care ne da motivul existentei, si mai apoi s-o lasam in urma, si sa ne continuam viata? Este drept sa lasam trecutul sa ne fie trecut, si sa concentram pe prezent? 

Este, pentru ca suntem oameni, si avem sentimente. Este, pentru ca putem iubi, putem ura, putem ierta.

"  "Will we ever be friends again?" Shannon asked.

I shrugged. Thinking about it made me feel all that I had lost. Joey's death should have brought the five of us closer together. Instead, it had ripped us apart."

Ca si in "Cele treisprezece motive", ONE MOMENT da o lectie de viata. Ne arata cat suntem de fragili in fata vietii, si cum, intr-o singura clipa, putem deveni o amintire. 

Cartea este atat de profunda incat, pe parcursul lecturii, efectiv incepi sa plangi, oricat te-ai abtine. Nu-ti poti reprima sentimentele, si acestea ies la iveala, facandu-te sa te intrebi daca ai spus vreodata cuiva "Te iubesc", exact in momentul in care ai simtit. Te face sa te gandesti la persoanele iubite trecute in nefiinta, carora nu ai apucat sa le impartasesti vreodata sentimentele tale, ce au insemnat ei pentru tine. Si daca, dupa ce au murit, tu i-ai iertat daca ti-au gresit... Daca ii ierti dupa ce afli, dupa moartea lor, ca ti-au gresit...

"Cele treisprezece motive" este o carte care te face sa-ti pui intrebari, este trista, curajoasa, in felul ei, insa ONE MOMENT este apogeul. Te marcheaza. Te urmareste zile in sir dupa ce o termini. TE SCHIMBA!

Cititi cartea, pentru ca aveti ce invata, pentru ca descrie momente dureroase, tragice, ce se pot intampla oricarui dintre noi, oricand.

NOTA: 5+/5

EASY by Tammara Webber

When Jacqueline follows her longtime boyfriend to the college of his choice, the last thing she expects is a breakup. After two weeks in shock, she wakes up to her new reality: she’s single, attending a state university instead of a music conservatory, ignored by her former circle of friends, stalked by her ex’s frat brother, and failing a class for the first time in her life.

Her econ professor gives her an email address for Landon, the class tutor, who shows her that she’s still the same intelligent girl she’s always been. As Jacqueline becomes interested in more from her tutor than a better grade, his teasing responses make the feeling seem mutual. There’s just one problem—their only interactions are through email.

Meanwhile, a guy in her econ class proves his worth the first night she meets him. Nothing like her popular ex or her brainy tutor, Lucas sits on the back row, sketching in a notebook and staring at her. At a downtown club, he disappears after several dances that leave her on fire. When he asks if he can sketch her, alone in her room, she agrees—hoping for more.

Then Jacqueline discovers a withheld connection between her supportive tutor and her seductive classmate, her ex comes back into the picture, and her stalker escalates his attention by spreading rumors that they’ve hooked up. Suddenly appearances are everything, and knowing who to trust is anything but easy.

Author Recommendation: Mature Young Adults (language, drinking, sexual situations)

PUBLISHED: May 25th 2012

TORN by Cat Clarke

Four girls. One dead body. A whole lot of guilt.

Alice King isn’t expecting the holiday of a lifetime when she sets off with her classmates on a trip to the Scottish wilderness, but she’s not exactly prepared for an experience beyond her darkest nightmares… 

Alice and her best friend Cass are stuck in a cabin with Polly, the social outcast, and Rae, the moody emo-girl. Then there’s Tara – queen of mean. Powerful, beautiful and cruel, she likes nothing better than putting people down. 

Cass decides it’s time to teach Tara a lesson she’ll never forget. And so begins a series of events that will change the lives of these girls forever...

A compelling story of guilty secrets, troubled friendship and burgeoning love.

PUBLISHED: December 22nd 2011

PRETTY AMY by Lisa Burstein

“A coming-of-age story without the comfort of padding…a relatable and compelling character [with] a lot of wonderful snark.” —New York Journal of Books
Amy is fine living in the shadows of beautiful Lila and uber-cool Cassie, because at least she’s somewhat beautiful and uber-cool by association. But when their dates stand them up for prom, and the girls take matters into their own hands—earning them a night in jail outfitted in satin, stilettos, and Spanx—Amy discovers even a prom spent in handcuffs might be better than the humiliating “rehabilitation techniques” now filling up her summer. Worse, with Lila and Cassie parentally banned, Amy feels like she has nothing—like she is nothing.

Navigating unlikely alliances with her new coworker, two very different boys, and possibly even her parents, Amy struggles to decide if it’s worth being a best friend when it makes you a public enemy. Bringing readers along on an often hilarious and heartwarming journey, Amy finds that maybe getting a life only happens once you think your life is over.

PUBLISHED: May 8th 2012