The Edge of Never

This book made such a loud disturbing noise in the world of book-a-holics. It got me curious and I didn’t regret I took time to find out. Plot wise-it’s AMAZING!

The Edge of Never

by

J.A. Redmerski

Applause!!- Well, I love the characters for one. The chemistry between the two is way too hot it is literally smokin’ at every turn of a page. The adventure is really interesting and the songs that accompanied the awesome roadtrip is classic and definitely contributed to the cuteness of the flow. The romance was very "pro-female-joy" and I love how its being described. Yeah! I know ladies that you like it too! Who wouldn’t love Andrew Parish??? I am not so fascinated with the getting inked personally but the idea of the tattoo made me smile and approved it. In fact, I did tried to check online how Eurydice really look like.

On same note, the "terrible turn of events" on the last chapter was such a shocker! Talking about heart attack due to brokenhearted readers! I have to stop and breathe,I was so carried away with Camryn’s emotions that I too felt that I couldn’t breathe when she was feeling out of breathe knowing the damned news. Like I said, plot wise, that part earned fireworks!

Aversions!!- Not that I have a lot, just a bit. I gave a five-star rating but since this is a review I can’t deny the fact that I don’t feel 100% with the ending. It’s somewhat rushed. Nevertheless, I did hate for it to end. It is like a speeding car forced to a halt! I felt there’s still a lot more that was left hanging to pack it as an overall conclusion. Anyhow, it is one of the good reads for this year!

The Sea of Tranquility

Tranquility ; noun – the achieved state of being tranquil. Serenity. Calmness. Peacefulness.

– a disposition free from stress or emotions; a steadiness of mind and composure

- an untroubled state, free from disturbance.

 

Nobody recommended me this book. I was just lucky enough to stumble unto this. I never knew the author Katja Millay and I wonder why is that? If she writes good, very-good-as-a-matter-of-fact stories like this, how come I just got to hear of her for the first time? Because, this is her first novel. I believed, it has been a success since the day, about two months ago when it was first published. For die-hard lovers of YA-lit, it’ll be surprising and terrifying if this isn’t in your currently reading shelf.

by Katja Millay

A lot of stars! I know the usual ratings are up to 5-stars only but I have the feeling that it isn’t enough to what this book truly deserves. The Sea of Tranquility is a novel that has been encapsulated with perfectness. It has no flaws, or, even it if it had, I might have love it too much to notice its imperfections. It is a story of two horribly messed up individuals, who both have horribly messed up past, who were trying to hide in a horribly messed up environment in order to live their horribly messed up lives. What ever bad ideas you have now of their drama, hang on to it because reading this will tell you that what they had in their lives were worst.

The characters, oh my you will love them. Nastya, pronounced as Nah-stee-yah, who is fond of collecting names and their meanings, who doesn’t seem to mind the slutty image and reputation that the school population sees at her, who happens to be not speaking for about a year already due to her mysterious past which requires a total discretion from school authorities. At first, I was kinda skeptical because I recently finished Hannah Harrington’s’ book SPEECHLESS, and I was like “ What’s up with these girls having a vow of silence and totally not speaking? Could this be the in-thing for it-girls of the generation?” How about tough and untouchable Josh Bennett? I just think that, the way his character was molded fits so good with how it is being portrayed in writing.

Reading on, I was wondering where the title fits the story. With how troubled the character’s lives were, I didn’t see any relevance that connects it to the title not until I get to the very last two words in the end.

“Your garage”

As soon as Nastya/Emilia/Sunshine uttered these words, I literally felt myself catching my breath and everything around me seemed to stood still. I zombie’d the night away like having a graveyard shift because I simply can’t make myself put this book down and it just downed on me to realized that the title has in fact, described the entirety of the novel. It brought me back to the question that my mind was once asking but never get answered when Nastya recognized the location she was in when she got lost while doing her evening runs and found herself at Josh’s garage, at that very first night she sets foot inside it. I get to understand why she seems to know the place when in fact she was  geographically lost at the moment. I currently don’t have enough adjectives to describe the book now because,saying that this is beautiful, fantastic and awesome are a complete understatement. I love the idea of making the readers not having to find out what happened to Emilia that resulted her name changed to Nastya. I love the originality of the plot and of how it is intricately arranged and written in both voices of the protagonists. I love that the scenes were realistic and believable which makes the story more alive. I love the style of it being a slow-building, character-loving, suspense-driven and ultra-romantic-amusingly-developed-beautiful love story. The relationships among families and friends are light, colorful and significant. I smiled, chuckled and cried and with that I am sure this book will leave the readers emotionally satisfied and fulfilled. Above all, I love that it has a happy ending.

SEMPRE

Crime and suspense novel isn’t my thing. But, for every rule there is always an exemption. Sempre or forever in Italian is a debut novel by a new author J.M.Darhower. There’s nothing that I can compare with for this work of hers as this is her first published book but all I can hope for is for her to write more.

As much as I believed the story ended well, I can’t deny the fact that I was heartbroken  several times reading through it. It revolves around the life of the members of the MAFIA. I may have a hard time believing if these totally exist,but… what the heck- the book was definitely good. The love story between Haven and Carmine is so raw, naive and beautifully promising. Haven as a character is so delicate yet so brave. She is strong and innocent but equally and impressively smart in her own little ways despite the rough life that she had gone through. Carmine on the other hand is like someone that would fit the saying that goes "don’t judge the book by it’s cover" or perhaps by the words that comes out of his mouth with regards to the case of Carmine’s constant swearing, leaving his dialogues more colorful Deep within he is just a typically macho who surrenders to head-over-heels circumstances of true love.

I admire how J.M.Darhower’s style of pulling up descriptions of the heavy action scenes. Violence in the story are cleverly plotted making readers imagine of how believably morbid and brutal that scenarios are. I have to stop reading for a minute or two to be able to catch my breath. I can literally imagine to scene as if I am staring at a movie screen in 3D. I love the Italian quotes that were scattered everywhere at the book. I may not understand those without the translation but it emphasizes the love story even more.

Finally, this book doesn’t deserve the five-star rating for me because i simply love it but of course for the fact that the lessons that comes with it completes the package.

Family is family- even if you have to reach the point when you have to choose. Concentrate on what matters and pick the lesser evil. Too damn easy to say but too hard to even just imagine doing it.

Sacrifice- when there is nothing left good enough as choices, it is the only way out to continue living.

Loyalty- can be a bad thing, specially for the wrong reasons.

Pain- without it, nothing is gained.

Freedom-cherished and valued for some, abused and taken for granted by others.

HOPE-is forever..Sempre

LOVE-it conquers all.

Love Anthony

When my kids started swimming, I met Adrienne. I knew she was different from the very first time I looked at her. What ever it was that made her different, I can’t put my finger to it. I knew her parents because they were educators from where I graduated high school, they still are. I’ve come to meet them again but this time around we are all parents. Talking to her mother confirmed my wondering questions. Adrienne has autism. With regular swimming training my kids and Adrienne attended, I started to knew her and familiarize her. In behalf of her parents, I feel happy whenever my daughter talks about her little conversations with her by the poolside. I appreciate whenever she acknowledged my greetings though this doesn’t happen all the time but once she did, it’s amazing. It never failed to catch my attention that she always have a pink plastic folder slider that she plays with her fingers. Sometimes, it is a green colored slider or white in some days and I remembered how it upsets her when she lost it one time. I wasn’t really sure what it is for but I believe it has something to do with her psychomotor development or to my understanding, diverting her energy. Specialists called it autism but for us, Adrienne is special.

Few days ago, I came across another novel from Lisa Genova. The book title didn’t get me interested but the author did. She wrote the book Still Alice and made me see Alzheimer’s Disease in a very compelling way. Without reading reviews and synopsis, she amazes me once again with her writing about autism and a lot more about true love, relationships and family.

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Love Anthony is the heart warming and life-loving story of Beth, a mother of three girls, who is struggling with her husband’s infidelity, confused and wondering if she can forgive him and Olivia, a recent divorcee who is trying to know herself once again after a heart breaking separation with her husband following the death of her son Anthony, who has autism. In a total coincidence, these two women find answers to life’s questions through the unspoken voice of Anthony in the form of words composing a book written by Beth.

What gets me with this book is Genova’s brilliant way of putting a voice to an autistic child who doesn’t even express a voice but to no other than himself. I only have a very minimal encounter with autism and I can feel the perfect expression of unconditional love of a parent to a child with the writing regardless if the child is autistic or not. The book simply pictures stories of moms and wives and their frustrations in life. The stress they face everyday and the hopes and dreams they wish to acquire. With the unique presentation of autism, the complexity of the reality of life was carefully fed to the readers in details making it quite compelling and moving. The story of both couples and their marital situations became a side dish to the main course. Unfortunately, I find it quite a bit hanging and wish for more sparks emphasized on Beth’s forgiveness to his husband Jimmy. Nevertheless, the package was wrapped nicely with a bow perfectly done. I consider this book among my best reads for this year and with that I highly recommend for you all to grab your copies now.

Magical September Reading

I was once asked by my BFF Jen that if I were to be a fantasy character what would I be? Without second thought, I answered-a WITCH. She picked her choice as being a mermaid. I don’t have any idea what made me choose becoming a witch. I debated in my mind that it was maybe because I love watching the old TV series CHARMED, that I never got tired of watching the replays. That maybe because Sabrina, the teenage witch’s character is pretty cool and that old awesome movie called TEEN WITCH was really funny and cute. That maybe because Hocus Pocus was and still is my favorite Halloween movie and most of all Practical Magic is among my top watched and listed among the best movies for me. So yeah… Witch it is, long before the words Harry Potter were uttered which was an exemption as I am not crazy about it.

I was recently hooked to Young Adult fiction after I splurged with Hunger Games. Who would have thought it? That a full grown adult like me with grade schoolers for kids would enjoy middle-age literature and young-adult fiction. So here’s my Magical September Reading line-up:

 

Book#1 : HEX HALL

Book#2 : DEMON GLASS

Book#3 : SPELL BOUND

written by RACHEL HAWKINS

Synopsis:

The trilogy follows the exploits of Sophie Mercer, a young witch, who is sent to Hecate Hall or also known as Hex Hall, a boarding school for Progodium juvenile delinquents. An awkward, sarcastic girl, she becomes best friends with her vampire roommate, Jenna Talbot, who is an outcast like her. Sophie also gets swept up in a love triangle involving Archer Cross, the school’s resident bad boy, and Cal, her betrothed. Through a series of events, Sophie gets caught up in the secret war going on between the Prodigium and a group of humans who believe the Prodigium should be destroyed. As the trilogy progresses, Sophie discovers more about herself, powers, and the mystery behind her family’s origins.                          -((from wikipedia))-

 

Reading Hex Hall series was entertaining. I love the fact that it is really full of magical creatures. It is like a fantasy reunion. Mermaids are not included with this series though which might disappoint my friend but, what the heck, the story still came out magical. It doesn’t talk about vampires alone which I think has been an over-used character. A pinch of werewolves, a brush of shifters and a dash of faeries which made it colorful and creative. Teenage romance was presented in a cute and very much complicated scenario. Family Ties are valued and emphasized. Since it is a reading for the young, I admire how friendship was portrayed. Though it isn’t noticeable in the plot of the story but, bullying was softly, intricately and carefully dealt with.

This trilogy is a fast-paced easy reading that is surely enjoyable not only to the young ones. It is like a breath of fresh air considering that the books I was reading before this series was very dramatic and emotional. As the little dream girl in me takes a flight to the fantasy world, I can say that it made me like witch characters even more.

Bookshelf

It took me reeeeeaally long to switch to a digital bookshelf. I was so hooked to traditional reading that I still love flipping pages of real books. But, thanks to longtime bookworm friends Rev and ChaEstra who convinced me the advantages of digital reading.

For anybody who loves reading, a busy digital library with over 400 or more books to read is something to really keep the smiles on our faces. May it be a digital library of any kind and to mention a few – Nook, Aldiko, Kindle and iBooks in particular. I am really enjoying the perks of the evolution of ebooks, can’t you tell?!

But, here is a spoiler.

Good friend ChaEstra told me, if I can handle it, I don’t want to read while laying on the bed. Why is that? Laying in bed reading is among my most favorite comfortable position. According to her, it hurts like hell when the reader doze off and accidentally drops the reading gadget to the face. For the record, I dozed off reading and hit my glasses that eventually bumped my nose real hard and damn!!! It does hurt so bad. Not just once, I actually did it countless of times already. The pain always woke me up and I will forget how sleepy I was and would be able to finish the book. So, instead of a disadvantage, I see is as an additional feature. A built in alarm, or something like a wake-up call service at the hotels. It instantly wakes up the reader who is starting to fall asleep reading. Cool right?!

The Fault in Our Stars

20th of August is supposed to be my 1st WordPress Birthday. Yeheeey! Should I be celebrating? Nah! 20th of August marks the birth  to eternal life of my beloved grandmother, whom I fondly called Mama Natz. In lieu to my personally grieving and mourning state, I picked a good book to get me through the pain.

According to my “Date a Girl Who Reads” character, I should know the best writer who never fails to speak perfectly of pain and passing. As a matter of fact,  “Date a Girl Who Reads-Pudding Girl-character” has picked no other than John Green. He may be famous in writing Young-Adult fiction, but, regardless of myself- a no longer young adult yet always young at heart- I find this particular John Green book talking about pain and passing in a great deal of appropriateness to the emotional baggage the I have to carry on a very sad day of August 20th.

by

JOHN GREEN

This book has been with me for months. As much as I wanted to read it the soonest I got it, the mood to do so just didn’t strike. Well, I guess it waited for the perfect state of emotions for me to be able to characterized and be one with John Green.

Ever wonder why it was titled as it is? I wondered, therefore, I found out. The title comes from a famous Shakespeare quote. “The fault, dear Brutus, is not in our stars, But in ourselves, that we are underlings.” This novel however, in one way or the other, serves to contradict Shakespeare’s quote by showing that uncontrollably many faults do lie within “our rotten lots in life”(a quote from Green’s first book-Looking for Alaska, which I happen to love as well). With the title alone, I contemplated on how I wish I am in-charge of who has to go or who will stay.

The book is about Hazel Grace Lancaster. A sixteen year old girl who suffers from terminal stage of Thyroid Cancer, whose malignancy has spread to her lungs making her unable to breath without the help of oxygen.  She met Augustus Waters in a support group counseling for cancer patients to whom she fell in love with and so their story began. Hazel Grace loved a particular book titled An Imperial Affliction written by a so called Peter Van Houten which she was able to share to Augustus Waters and together they were obsessed on finding out for a probable sequel to the book to which they referred most of their cancer humor and weird wittiness. Through cancer perks and Genie wishes, they were able to travel to Amsterdam with high hopes that they will be able talk to Peter Van Houten and for the writer to personally tell them the whereabouts of the book’s characters. I am not going to emphasize more on the book or there won’t be left for you to read. The focus to cancer disease may drive most of the readers away but believe me when I say- This book is worth reading.

Why did I choose to read The Fault in Our Stars for this mourning period of myself and my family. Well, allow me to express with the following carefully chosen quotes from the book.

“That is the thing about pain…it demands to be felt” – In reality, pain is characterized as a feeling. John Green has successfully created a possibility for the readers to be able to experience how pain demands to be felt by crucially describing and writing the painful intensity of someone’s loss over someone who is loved so dear. So yeah, like Hazel Grace, in the rating of 1-10, with 10 being the highest, I felt the passing of someone I love so much as unbearable that to rate it with 10 is an understatement.

“Without pain, we couldn’t know joy.” – so many times in the book, Augustus Waters told Hazel Grace that to be heartbroken because of her is a privilege. At first, I thought, maybe cancer patients really has weird type of humor. Who the hell feels privileged over being heartbroken? With my Grandmother’s passing, I realized, it is indeed a privilege to be heartbroken when it is caused by someone really special. Yes, I felt overly heartbroken when she passed away but relieved to see her suffering from pain has finally stopped. My Grandmother didn’t die of cancer. No, she did not. Her time has come that her birth to eternal life was claimed by the Eternal. According to Archbishop Romulo Valles who celebrated her funeral mass together with three other priest and Bishop Alo, the death of my Grandmother should be celebrated. She has lived a full life of her 93 beautiful years. I may have cried tons but in the end I felt joy. A newly recognized kind of feeling because now, I understand and embraced her death in acceptance that she has finally rest in peace. Without pain, we couldn’t know joy.

“The world is not a wish-granting factory” – Need I elaborate? I don’t think so. It is a fact. It is true. It is real. We cannot have everything we want. The world is not a wish-granting factory.

“You are so busy being YOU that you have no idea how utterly unprecedented you are.” – I had experienced a couple of deaths with relatives and friends in the past. I realized that we are too focused on ourselves, we are unaware that human by nature fears oblivion. When everything else appears to be parallel, without previous existence or never before known or experienced, it is when we become aware that only the world around us demands to be noticed because we are just passing state of matter in this so called exposure named LIFE.

Lastly,  I would like to share to you dear readers, the dialogue between Hazel Grace and Augustus Waters that made me decide to make this book among my favorites. The kind of book that I will have to come back and save it in case of fire or flood.

here goes:

“Some people don’t understand the promises they’re making when they make them," I said.

"Right, of course. But you keep the promise anyway. That’s what love is. Love is keeping the promise anyway.”

GONE GIRL

I acquired the book about two months ago. As a perfect example portraying slow-mo acts, I , queen of procrastination let the copy sit with pages un-flipped.  A constant bugging from friend and my typical walking book review genius, Rev, I got the book starting….and.. Holley Molley!

by Gillian Flynn

This is my first ever reading from Gillian Flynn and after this, I will surely seek for her books. The cover is plain with a dash of white scratches from the left side of it which I actually don’t understand. No, I am not writing a review because of the cover. It is always true, not to judge the book by it.

I was about 25 pages of the book and here goes this line “IT IS DANGEROUS TO LAUGH AT YOUR SPOUSE”. I smiled a few times already on pages before this but this line immensely made me giggle. With that, I tried so hard to put the book down to be able to finish other things I need to attend to because honestly I find it more fun  to burry my nose with the book than to do the chores.

Gone Girl is a novel about married couples with wife disappearing and husband turned prime suspects of the crime. The story didn’t just revolve around how the characters are trying to solve the case but it is digging deeper more than that of what you can think about in a relationship of two people being married to each other. It is drawing a picture of how well you know the person you believed you love and up to what extent are your efforts to prove this. 

If this book was a car, it started accelerating when the husband, Nick, found her wife missing in the morning of their fifth wedding anniversary. In desperate search for truth and answers, lies, cheating and more lies were uncovered as easy as opening soda cans.

The plot is extremely twisted like pretzels and McDonald’s twister fries but very well written and the characters are exceptionally and intensely well drawn. They are all lovable and relatable. Flynn has managed to create characters that are effective and appears to be alive in the minds of the readers. The writing is thrilling, quite vivid  and lucrative in a good sense. The touch of humor made it more lighter yet heavily compelling because the author really knows how to weave a basket of tales.

After reading it, I find the story more about marriage and love sans the missing wife and murder. It is  bounded chapters of Nick and Amy in a narrative voice telling about a love story of emotions and unconditional love. I hate to say this but it is a story that in reality, humans as we are has this dark and evil character wherein lies, insults, pain and hurt can lead a person to do crazy things. Crazy regretful things.

Marriage can be true and honest as it should be or in another spotlight a stage play were the couples are players and actors, portraying drama, living a lie, a facade of pretense presumptions and hoping one day for things to turn out right and fall into its proper place. If Amy and Nick  could have spent extra time knowing themselves better and accepting each other without conditions they could have prevented the lies and problems that came to result a deadly end.

Gone Girl- I say, definitely, is not an easy book to review. Over all, I highly recommend to couples or to everybody. It is a type of suspense-thriller crime story with a little bit of extras. Just the way I like it. As I said it, I will be looking forward to more novels from Gillian Flynn and will seek her other books for a good read.

EROTICA REVIEWS- all of it

I recently accepted a job offer as a book reviewer for a writer and publisher. You guess it right! I am once again employed. I actually don’t see it as a job. Reading is my passion and like they always said, once you love what you are doing , you never feel you are working at all aside from being paid for having fun.

This isn’t the first time I was offered to do a book review. Not always but mostly, I don’t get paid but I will get the book for free which is fair enough for me. I do honest, unbiased  reviews that will benefit the readers.

I am fond of:

• Contemporary Romance – because it is always an easy read and I find it relaxing
• Suspense / Thriller – very selective but I will never pass the opportunity when I get my hands to it
• YA – because it is always nice to feel young at heart
• Paranormal – selective ones
• Children’s Books – only the ones I can read with my children
• Sci fi/Fantasy – Romance related only
• Series –specially the middle-grade books and few of the dystopian literature
• memoirs- reading only those that were recommended by friends

 

EROTICA- not the first time to read literature of this specific genre. Not really a favorite kind of genre but since I was asked for a review, I guess I have to indulge on flipping pages with it. I was actually surprise that there are talented authors who can write a very good plot with full details of romance and erotica for that matter. I ignored this kind of novels before as I always see it a “wham-bam-thank-you-mam” kind of story , fortunately not all. With that, I decide to include erotica on my list this time around. Not to mention that there are lots of erotica writers who seeks for book lovers as reviewers. Hey!- I am available!

I was thinking of creating another blog site solely for book reviews. I can set review policy and maybe I can invite some of my favorite fellow book lovers who might want to contribute with the reviews. Sound like a plan but not so definite yet.

Twin-tastic

Growing up, I always was fascinated with TWINS. It was only later in life, specifically College of Medical Technology years that I understood how cell mutation actually happened. I will never forget first time encounter with twins was way back kindergarten years when I happened to have twins as classmates. Not one, but two pairs. Identical boy twins named Ariel and Alvin whose family names I forgot since I never had any connection or whatsoever with them after prep-school and identical girl twins named Mona and Lisa who graduated with me on the same class in high school.

Interested with “doubles”  I see to it that I will be able to watch the recent Olsen Twins-Mary Kate and Ashley’s movies at that time or at least find ways to know the movie’s plot. Not that I am a fan of the twins, it is just that I like looking at twins. And since I don’t watch movies that often or TV for that matter, I blessed the day I discovered Francine Pascal’s Sweet Valley Book Series long before the TV show began. I am lucky for the fact that my mother supports mine and my sister’s reading hobby that a new book as a present back then is equivalent to an iPod nowadays. For years, I have been in a-rubbing-elbows-kind of relationship with Jessica and Elizabeth Wakefield while I get acquainted with the Laura Lee Hope’s two sets of fraternal Bobbsey Twins on the side.

Sweet Valley’s Elizabeth and Jessica Wakefield in the 90’s

Nan and Bert Bobbsey with younger siblings Freddie and Flossie Bobbsey

Eventually, the addiction to these book series ended when I started college. The book collections, Nancy Drew and Hardy Boys included were still piled up by the wall up to the ceiling in our former bedroom at my grandmother’s house where I grew up. I have this hope in my mind that someday, I will have the chance and the time to read them again and I know I will enjoy them as I did for years and years ago.

Today, book series are popping up like corns in the publishing world that because there are too many, a slow-pace reader like me can easily lost track. Paranormal, Sci-Fi, fantasy, mystery, YA , dystopian and other kinds of reading genre that I simply ignore not unless recommended or with high rank reviews.

Two weeks ago, I was searching online for suitable middle-school books to download for my niece when I stumbled into this series- MY SISTER THE VAMPIRE by Sienna Mercer. I hurriedly checked it on Goodreads and liked what I discovered. This one falls within my normal reading habits if we’re talking about twenty years ago but definitely not now when I myself have grade schoolers. While I’ve developed a bit of a weakness for teen lit/YA/whatever you want to call it after Hunger Games, I don’t typically delve into middle-grade fiction now that I’m so far beyond my middle grades. But hey, what gets me with this series is, the characters are TWINS!

My Sister the Vampire tells the adventures of two identical twins, Olivia Abbott and Ivy Vega, who take turns with the story’s narration. Olivia’s father has a new job and made the family moved to Frankin Grove where Olivia, a talented cheerleader met Ivy Vega , a highly-fashionable, smart Goth teenager who is also a student at Franklin Grove Middle School. They discover that they are long-lost twin sisters, but Ivy isn’t just a Goth – she’s a vampire, and to Olivia’s fright so are most of the Goths living in Franklin Grove. Olivia and Ivy find tears and laughter in breaking the news of each others’ existence to their adoptive parents; never letting the vampire secret see the light of day; finding out the possibility of how a vampire and human can be identical twins; discovering who their biological parents are, but most of all, to cherish the importance of family and friendship bonding.

 

I downloaded the first ten books of this series not just for my thirteen year old niece but for myself as well. I am currently reading book number 7 and by far I can tell I never had a dull moment. If Britney Spears sings I’m not a girl,Not yet a woman. then by reading these books at my age now, my version will be I am a woman but would always be a girl. The author, Sienna Mercer managed to put everything I like together; cheerleaders and vampires which gives the story a mix of paranormal chick-lit, the characters are thirteen year-old twin girls which perfectly belongs to YA-Middle School fiction. It is easy to read and truly entertaining. My daughter started to ask questions already as she wonders what Sugar-my niece and I are always talking about. So, if my daughter is ready to discover paranormal book series, I guess I have the perfect story for her to like and will introduce her to the adorable and lovable twin characters of  Olivia Abbot and Ivy Vega.