Wait for you (Jennifer L. Armentrout)

Synopsis

Avery Morgenstern is a girl with a dark past she chooses to run away from. After finally getting away from her perfect parents to go to University thousands of miles from home, Avery only hopes she'll find what she couldn't find there. Peace and closure. No more name-calling and harassment-bullying. When she runs into the hottest guy in University on her first day to Astronomy class, things change, at least for Cameron Hamilton, they do. Even more do things change when they both realize they're neighbors. And who wouldn't want to live across from pretty blue eyes with abs to die for.

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I give 

★★★☆☆

Well...

I love Jennifer L. Armentrout's books. I really do. Not this one. It was good. Worthy of reading. But not enough to make me want to recommend it. Maybe for readers trying to get into the YA genre, this would be a warm up.
But it's a cliche.
All of it.
The entire freaking book is just the most typical, overused alpha-shygirl bundle of sadness and I, for one, am sick of it. Not the mention that the protagonist was awfully annoying. Why the three stars you ask!? I don't know what it was but I was still curious where everything went. Convinced the ending wasn't going to be so bad.
It was bad.
OR Happy. I guess it depends on how you all see it.
For me, more would've been nice. Shall I start predicting the next books in the series, despite the fact that it's probably another messed up couple that keep lying to each other and have a terrifyingly bad amount of communication and trust. Where it's all about the sex. Yes. This book was all about her not being able to get over rape. It is honestly terrible. These things happen. Her parents not believing her?!
Does that actually exist?! Such parents cannot exist or they should not be named parents.
Their daughter was RAPED and they want to pay off the rapist's family in order to shut up but yet the school still finds out and parents.. what.. they paid them and the word still got out. How inconvenient for them. Really now. I would've liked the book more if her parents were the least supportive, or showed any kind of affection. Their only child and this shit happens and all they can do is worry about their reputation in the Club. I forgot what the Club was even for. Some happy family gathering thing or something. See. Jennifer, help me remember stuff don't make the entire book so unmemorable.
His character, I might've loved and everything around the moments when he kept asking her out and her rejecting him yet wanting to accept so bad. That was pretty great because-it was just cute and the fact that he tried so often and it turned into a joke. That was the perfect little corner of the book. Worthy of three stars. Okay, maybe less, because this is, again, a cliche.

• The fact that it starts with her running into him and him coincidentally being the hot guy on campus is just..

• The fact that he has ripped abs and is beautiful yet also notices her and wants to be all over her because she said "No," is again a cliche. 

• There's also a typical overly dramatic gay character who also happens to be her best friend.

• A slut friend Cam has that keeps throwing herself at him,.

• Molly who could've just sent her emails with the subject: "I was raped too." Which would've saved us from all of the harassment mystery.

• Her parents, I won't even start.

• The part where she throws herself at another guy to get him jealous.

• The part where in the end she gets so drunk he's a nice enough guy to change her. Hmm... How many more cliches can this book haaaave?!

It will not take a genius to know why she's such a freakshow. OR is she really?! Besides the ridiculous part where she runs away from her first class, there isn't really anything to make her seem like a total freak. I did find a part of her reaction understandable (When unknown, drunk boy insists on grinding on her or something.) But Cam being there for the rescue is just a cliche off the charts. More? Oh yes, SOMEHOW they become project partners in class. SOMEHOW he picks her because the other more attractive, lonely girls don't run from getting to class late. Now, here's a ridiculous quote to end this review.


"I'm beginning to think cookies is a code for something else."
"Maybe it is." He tugged on my bag again as he took a confident step back, forcing me down another step. "And just think about it. If cookie was a code word, whatever it symbolizes. it's been in your mouth, sweetheart." 

No! Just No.

Until Next time, Jennifer Armentrout

Can you keep a secret? (Sophie Kinsella)

Blurb

Meet Emma Corrigan, a young woman with a huge heart, an irrepressible spirit, and a few little secrets: " Secrets from her boyfriend: "I've always thought Connor looks a bit like Ken. As in Barbie and Ken." Secrets from her mother: " I lost my virginity in the spare bedroom with Danny Nussbaum while Mum and Dad were downstairs watching "Ben-Hur. Secrets she wouldn't share with anyone in the world: "I have no idea what NATO stands for. Or even what it is. Until she spills them all to a handsome stranger on a plane. At least, she thought he was a stranger....

Review begins here... 

I finished this book just the other day, did I like it?
It's an easy question to answer, yes, yes I liked it, perhaps a lot more than I anticipated. This book immediately got me clinging to it from the first sentence. "Of course I have secrets."  And then this character, Emma, just gets you so attached to her, her personality becomes more familiar to yours, I felt like I could relate to her so much, her clumsiness, her secrets, you'd imagine that her secrets would be something that would put someone's life in danger, but no, it's not, it's the same kind of secrets we have, and after reading the book, after finishing it, I felt the need to just tell all of my secrets, according to this book, according to Emma, it changes you, letting everything out can change you.
This book moved me completely, I might have started seeing things from a completely different perspective, Emma's perspective.
The humor at the beginning of the book, the multiple shock moments it gave me played a huge role in how I generally feel about this book. Reading the story, it didn't quite occur to me that all events happening would somehow connect, that's what made it so interesting and amusing, how each character in Emma's surrounding develops, kind of gives the whole story a background. Her friends, one more or less responsible than the other or herself, the perfect guy and the incredibly mysterious guy, it's like the perfect, cheesy romance novel, only it's not cheesy, not to me, and trust me, I completely dislike cheesy romances sometimes, but this one was the type that just took me in. As soon as Jack appeared, all I wanted to do was flip the pages to Jack moments only because the character Sophie Kinsella created was the type of character you would want to see in any story. I can't form the right sentences to sum up how I feel about this story, it is absolutely amazing. Despite the fact that the use of "fuck" in Emma's thoughts came off to me as a bit of a surprise, because I am not used to that term, at all, but it fit right with the content of the story, with Emma's character, like every time she panicked, you could literally feel what she was going through. I'll admit the break-up came off to me as a bit of an abrupt thing, I'd expected it to be more humorous rather than just sad, I honestly hate feeling bad about characters, so that was not something I really liked, of course, the whole story covers that small bit, so it wasn't much of a bad thing, but with everything going on in Emma's life, that break up was just like another bad thing going on in her life, making it seem really complicated which I liked, therefore my final thought would be that this story is definitely worth reading, I would not stop laughing at everything, you'd imagine that it's exaggerated because all other attempted humor in books and movies are overrated, but this one had just about the right amount and the right kind of humor to make you burst out laughing on your own. I'd find myself smiling and chuckling and laughing like crazy throughout the whole story, and it's a great one. Perhaps we'll all be an "Emma" at some point in our lives, vulnerable, clumsy, and extremely paranoid.  This is a story of an extremely ordinary girl, who's life turns around because of one simple mistake, one we could all make, or perhaps wish to make, in order to meet our "Jack". I used to completely despise Romances, this one's starting to give me hope that there's better stories out there for me to read, especially from an author with such talent and sense of humor.