[REVIEW] License to Spill

Series: Pretenders #2 | REVIEW of #1
Author: Lisi Harrison
Genre: young adult, contemporary, realistic fiction, romance, drama
Published: June 24, 2014
Publisher: Poppy

Five Noble High freshmen fell to the bottom of the high school food chain and decided to claw their way to the top. They wrote in their journals the secrets to their success 

Now one of their own is exposing the private entries as if granted a license to spill. 

There’s no Delete button on the Internet. What kind of future do we have if we can’t escape our embarrassing pasts? I must come off as quite the hypocrite, complaining about our overexposed lives in a book of secret journals I’ve leaked. But these pages hold proof of how this pressure affects the “best” of us… So until the heat’s turned down, keep reading. –X

[Stacking the Shelves] where did my bookbuyingban go?

Stacking the Shelves is a meme hosted at Tynga’s Reviews.

Like seriously.

I think I mentioned in one of my posts that I’ll be on a book buying ban because I’m saving up for something. Unsurprising enough, I just can’t stop myself from grabbing these books when I saw them in the bookstore. SO this is what I call my chick-lit contemporary grabs (okay maybe We Were Liars isn’t completely chick-lit but hey, it’s contemporary!) simply because it’s such a big deal for me since I’m not a big chick-lit reader.

[Top Ten Tuesday] Books on my Summer TBR List

Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly meme hosted at The Broke and The Bookish.

This Week’s Topic: Books on my Summer TBR List. This kind of feels the same as the topic a couple of weeks ago which I edited as Books That Will Be in My School Bag This Semester (and so far one of those have been in my bag and the other one is currently in my bag :D).

So this list for me feels like an edited version of that earlier post since I’ve slashed out two of them and I’ve done some rethinking on some of the books I’ve listed earlier. Add to that the newly acquired books I have for review. SO here’s my current TBR List!

[Waiting on Wednesday] License to Spill

"Waiting On" Wednesday is a weekly event, hosted at Breaking the Spine, that spotlights upcoming can't wait to read.

Series: Pretenders #2 | review of #1
Author: Lisi Harrison
Genre: young adult, contemporary, realistic fiction, romance, drama
Expected Publication: June 24, 2014

Three girls, two guys, five secret journals. 

The five most popular students at Noble High have secrets to hide; secrets they wrote down in their journals. Now one of their own exposes the private entries... 

When our parents were growing up they were encouraged to make mistakes. That's how they learned. But us? Our mistakes go viral. There is no delete button on the Internet. What kind of future do we have if we can't escape our embarrassing pasts? I must come off as quite the hypocrite; complaining about our overexposed lives in a book of secret journals I have leaked. But these pages hold proof of how this pressure affects the "best" of us... so until the heat's turned down, keep reading.

[REVIEW] Pretenders

Series: Pretenders #1
Author: Lisi Harrison
Genre: young adult, contemporary, realistic fiction, romance, drama
Published: October 1, 2013
Publisher: Poppy
ISBN: 978-0-316-22244-0

My picture is on page eighteen of Noble High's Phoenix yearbook. I am one of the PHOENIX FIVE. You nominated me. You thought I was one of the most outstanding students in our freshman class. You were wrong. 

Still, I accepted my award. I acted special. But I couldn't help wondering what it was like to be that way for real. So I broke into Ms. Silver's safe in the faculty lounge and stole all five of our journals. I'm not exposing them out of jealousy or anger. I'm doing this because I am tired of the lies. The bar is too high, and cheating is the only way to reach it. Instagrams are filtered, Facebook profiles are embellished, photos are shopped, Manti T'eo's girlfriend was a fake...is anything real anymore? 

I found the answer in our journals. These are 100 percent real and 100 percent unedited. The proof is in the pages. 

We're all pretenders.