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Review: Get in the Car, Jupiter - Fisher Amelie

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Review: Get in the Car , Jupiter - Fisher Amelie - September 2016 First off, I love this cover so much. It was one of the things that drew me to the book, that and I have previously enjoyed Fisher Amelie's books. Where to start with this book, it was awesome. It had all my favorite things from unrequited love that turns into actual love, road trips and fun along the way. We first met Jupiter - yes that's her real name, and her sister is called Mercury and get this - they live in a UFO house on a lake. Jupiter is about to graduate from college and has never kissed a guy but has always had her sights set on Ezra. Years ago, Ezra was the type of guy who was the life of the party but then tragedy happened, and his whole personality took a 360. Now with only weeks left, Jupiter gets up the courage to talk to Ezra, and one thing leads to another, and they discover that they are both A) enrolled in the same course in college and even better B)...

VBT# Find Me In Manhattan - Shealy James

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  Review: Find Me in Manhattan - Shealy James - 2015 Ever since Sarah was younger she has dreamed of leaving her family farm and heading to Colombia and Manhattan and becoming a Pyschologist. When things on her family's farm aren't looking great, she leaves her on/off again boyfriend Billy and heads back home and defers on graduate school. Now the farm has caught up and she has the chance to head off to Columbia. She finds an apartment in Graduates housing and a great roommate and a cute next door neighbour Jameson who happens to be on the same graduate programme at her and doing his interning at the VA hospital in which Sarah has gotten a spot. The pair start dating and all seems to be going well, that is until he strikes her and she lets the first one go but when it happens again, she dumps him - hoping he will get the message to leave her alone. The thing is though that Jameson doesn't want to let Sarah go and starts going all full-on stalker mode on her an...

Lindsey Reviews: Big Toe People - Kristine Kohut

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  Big Toe People Kristine Kohut 2014 Big Toe people is set in Washington DC and centres around five recent college graduates who have moved to the city to study at the University.   The five girls are completely different to each other: there is Yoli; who is studying law, a Chinese adoptee who has a major chip on her shoulder as her adoptive parents are more in love with their missionary work than being with her and effectively have abandoned her. Yoli is a feisty, outspoken character with a penchant for bad boys and late nights out as in rebellion to her parents’ lifestyle.   Then there is fellow law student Paulina: a studious , hardworking engineering   graduate whose infamous parents former lifestyle has had a major impact on her; rather than rebelling, Paulina has found comfort in converting to Christianity but who resorts to binge drinking when she is stressed.   Ria, in contrast, is the only one of the girls who is engaged ...