Review: The Summer I Found You

Author: Jolene Perry

Publisher: Albert Whitman Teen, 256 pages

Release Date: March 01, 2014

Genre(s): Contemporary, Romance, YA

They were just distraction to each other. But things change and can lead to something much better or much bigger. Kate Walker was just dumped by her boyfriend for a cheerleader. Aidan is an ex-soldier from Afghanistan who is not yet certain of what he's gonna do to his life. How will they gonna find each other's path? What if a secret kept from a person but not from the others will blow up everything? 

OREO STYLE BREAKDOWN:

• TWIST: There's no of much twists and turns that can spin my head away, I daresay. It's not an exciting read. It's just a normal novel about teenagers who are trying to find out on how to catch up with life. 
• LICK:1. I love the way she describes her characters. I mean I appreciate the way she left some spaces for her readers to imagine or add something to the characters' appearance. 2. Not all parents or uncles or aunties are supportive to their children's or nieces' or nephew's love life. So I really appreciate Aidan's uncle and auntie for being supportive of what he's doing to his life even though he's still undecided. 
• DUNK: I love the way the story ended. I mean, with everything that happened because of Kate's stupidity. Well, at least Kate and Aidan still have a chance to be together or to be together forever, right? 

ENCORE:

It is the first Jolene Perry story that I've ever read and I admired it. She always work with her co-authors, I think. But she can make a nice story of her own on her own. I liked reading this story of hers because I stayed up until 3 am just to finish reading it and I was really disappointed to see that there were only 256 pages. Oh come on, it was never enough. I want more, it seems crazy to check on the second page every time I flip to the next page, thinking it would end so soon. And yes, it ended so soon. I love reading from both perspectives or view of the main characters, I always loved that kind of thing. I just really want to know what the other character feels. The story is not something phenomenal but maybe the reason why I loved it is because I can relate. I'm also a teenager. One of the things that melted my heart is that Aidan went to Kate's father's office just to ask forgiveness of what's his done in the hospital. If you're a teenager and looking for a perfect escape, well, this novel's for you. 

MY FAVOURITE:

You can't fuck nowhere. 

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Fearless: Panic

Author: Lauren Oliver

Book: Panic, 416 pages

Publisher: HarperCollins

Release Date: March 04, 2014 

Genre(s): Young Adult

Are you brave enough to join the game called Panic? It's a game designed for the graduating students of Carp. Neither Natalie nor Bishop would have though that Heather will join Panic in the very last minute. She'll join Panic because Matt dumped her but later on her reason of joining the game will change. Wining is her goal because of someone not because of an asshat like Matt. But what will she find out in the end that will break her heart?

OREO STYLE BREAKDOWN:

• TWIST: There's nothing much phenomenal in this story, no thrill that can blew me away. Almost everything was predictable. It was very easy to predict the next thing that will happen  because the foreshadowings were very obvious. 
• LICK:1. I love Heather's bravery for independency. She ran away with her sister from home. 2. I salute Bishop's bravery, he'll do everything he can do for his love to Heather. 3. What made me want to finish the story is that because it talks about reality. About the social status of the characters, it's not impossible. Life sucks and it hurts but that's reality. It's not always fair because there's no such thing as equality. 
• DUNK: 1. It was a happy ending and I'm also happy with that. But it was very predictable from the very beginning who will be together in the end of the story. I was so confused at first because the narrator were Dodge and Heather. I thought they'll have relationship or something, it was very irrelevant since they don't have a connection but friends. Even though, I still like it, at least I saw the different perspective of two people and saw the story through two sets of eyes. 2. What I found out was very shocking, at least that shocked me, but not enough to make me love the story. Bishop is one of the judges. Although I had some suspicion in the beginning of the story on how he's so desperate in persuading Heather to back out from the game. 

ENCORE:

It seems like love is still a disease in this story. I mean you can see love by the way the characters show their feelings but you can't feel it yourself. It means that it was not strong enough to take me away. I promised that I will never read any Lauren Oliver books anymore, after reading the Delirium trilogy, because the author failed to impress me by her writing style. But I decided to read Panic because it seems it's a very nice story. Still the same, the author failed to meet my expectations, again. To be honest, it seems like Miss Lauren writes story so that she can publish something. I don't like the entire story but there are some parts that I like. 

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