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4/5 The Selection by Kiera Cass takes place after World War 4, when the USA is no longer a thing, and to survive, Canada and Mexico join the USA to create Illéa. Illéa is a nation that blatantly separates it's people into a ranking system. The higher the number, the less money you make and the harder it is to survive. America Singer is a five, so she doesn't make a lot of money, but she at least has food on the table.   She has no intention of entering the Selection to find the next queen, but she does to make her boyfriend, Aspen, who is a six, happy. But she's chosen, so to the capital she goes. She's not happy about it, but it's a lot of money for her family and will greatly help them fend off hunger in the slow months. During her time at the palace, America and Prince Maxon become close friends and grow to like one another. But they're faced with an enemy they don't really understand, and that is very dangerous. It's obvious this could be ...

Rating: 4/5 Beastly by Alex Flinn is a modern take on Beauty and the Beast. Kyle Kingsbury is a jerk, but he was raised by a jerk, so it kind of makes sense. He gets everything he wants because of who is dad is and how handsome Kyle is. But he plays an awful practical joke on a girl named Kendra, who happens to be a witch. She curses him to look on the outside as he is on the inside. "You are ugly now, on the inside, where it matters most, and if you ever lost your good looks, I bet you wouldn't be smart or strong enough to get them back. Kyle Kingsbury, you are beastly." (8%) "Two petals, two years to find someone willing to look beyond your hideousness and see some good in you, something to love. If you will love her in return and if she will kiss you to prove it, the spell will be lifted, and you will be your handsome self again. If not, you'll stay a beast forever." (20%) After the first year passes, Kyle (now Adrian) kidnaps the gir...

Rating: 5/5 A Higher Loyalty: Truth, Lies, and Leadership by James Comey shows the distant past to a more current time frame. From the Clinton administration to the Trump presidency Comey has been part of politics or the judicial scene for a long time. Comey lays everything out on the table, from interrogation techniques that weren't legal or effective during the Bush administration, to Trump famously asking him for his loyalty.  Going into this book my opinion of James Comey was neutral leaning towards unfavorable. I blamed him for what happened in the election. I blamed him that Clinton lost because of when he announced they were looking into her emails again, due to finding some on Anthony Weiner's server. But I wanted to hear his side of the story. After finishing this book, I understand the decisions he had to make, and I would've made the same ones. No matter when he released the information about the Clinton emails, it was going to be bad, he just ...

3.5/5 The Princess Trap by Talia Hibbert starts with Prince Ruben on a business trip when he meets Cherry Neita at the school that she works for HR at. She's confident and knows how to get what she wants, but Prince Ruben gets under her skin. To keep her out of the press, Ruben lies to the paparazzi and says she's his fiancée while out on a date, so to keep up appearances, he takes her to his home country of HelgmØre where his brother is king and abusive to everyone. Cherry is bitter about the relationship at first, even though it's earning her a lot of money to take care of her sick sister at college in the United States. The couple that plots together stays together though as Ruben and Cherry work to free Ruben's sister-in-law and his two nieces from the King. The Princess Trap is a cute book and exactly what I expected from it. I expected smut and that's exactly what I got. It was easy to like the characters and feel for them when their life was...

Author: Seth Grahame-Smith Read: 2/9/2019 Pages: 345 Rating: 1.5/5   Format: ebook   Response: Elizabeth could not help but roll her eyes as Mary continued. (6%) "I am sure my dinners are good enough for her, since she is an unmarried woman of seven-and-twenty, and as such should expect little more than a crust of bread washed down with a cup of loneliness.” ( 15%) “It is not Mr. Bingley, you senseless old cur,” (15%) Did this fat little priest mean to take her as a wife? She was horrified at the thought of marrying of man whose only skill with a blade was cutting slivers of gorgonzola. (22%) Mr. Collins, awkward and uncommonly round, gave her all the shame and misery which a disagreeable partner for a couple of dances can give. (22%) before her fat cousin Mr. Collins came up to them, and told her with great exultation that he had just bee...

Rating: 5/5 When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Menon is a contemporary romance novel. Dimple is an Indian girl who just wants to live a somewhat American life. Rishi is an Indian boy that wants to follow tradition and make his parents proud. Dimple wants to go college to start her career in programming, while her mother wants her to go to get an "Ideal Indian Husband". Though her parents agree to send her to a programing camp of sorts, there are ulterior motives that Dimple doesn't find out about until Rishi sees her for the first time. "Hello, future wife," he said, his voice bubbling with glee. "I can't wait to get started on the rest of our lives!" Dimple stared at him for the longest minute. The only word her brain was capable of producing, in various tonal permutations, was: What? What? Dimple didn't know what to think. Serial killer? Loony bin escapee? Strangely congenial mugger? Nothing made sense. So she did the only thing she...