Glass Heart by Amy Garvey (+ARC Giveaway)

Glass Heart (Cold Kiss #2)

Author:Amy Garvey

Publisher: HarperTeen

Pages: 320

Rating: 3 Stars!

Wren can do things that other people can only dream of. Make it snow on a clear, crisp day. Fly through an abandoned tunnel. Bring a paper bird to life.

Wren knows her abilities are tinged with danger--knows how easy it is to lose control--but she can't resist the intoxicating rush. And now that she has Gabriel by her side, someone who knows what she can do--what she "has" done--she finally feels free to be herself.

But as Wren explores the possibilities of her simmering powers, Gabriel starts pushing her away. Telling her to be careful. Telling her to "stop." The more he cautions her, the more determined Wren becomes to prove that she can handle things on her own. And by the time she realizes that Gabriel may be right, it could be too late to bring him back to her side.~Goodreads

Cold Kiss was one of my absolute favorite books last year  

(I cried my eyes out and it pretty much shattered my soul)

so I was SUPER FREAKIN’ THRILLED to find out there was going to be a sequel! Although I didn’t quite love it as much as the first installment, Glass Heart is still a story worth reading!

Wren Darby is back and she’s as cool as ever; with her cupcake earrings and docs, she floats around town creating photographs out of thin air and making out with her cute boyfriend, Gabriel. 

And the one thing I love most about Wren? It's that she makes mistakes. And major ones at that. She also reacts to things in such a TEENAGE way that she’s so freakin’ relatable. When she wasn’t making out with Gabriel, avoiding her dad, annoying Robin with her big sister act or hanging out with Dar and Jess...she was hangin’ out with some new cronies. And they were...very...interesting....

The new characters, Bay and Fiona, are cool college kids that “play” with magic and encourage Wren to do the same...but in public. At times they seemed like fun but at others they were terrible influences and perhaps slightly dangerous? It was hard to tell! I found myself second-guessing their intentions with Wren every other chapter. Like I said, sometimes they seemed super cool and other times they seem like total creeps. Garvey kept me on edge with them!

Mr. Gabriel seemed to be the only levelheaded one in this book. He wasn't afraid to tell Wren that doing magic in public is wrong and perhaps here new 'friends' aren't friends at all. But he was also dealing with a lot of his own issues—some of which weren’t played out on the page. So I kinda felt that there was a wall between not only Wren and Gabriel but also me and Gabriel though out the book- which made me sad. 

Overall, Glass Heart was a good addition to the series! And i would love to read about Wren and the gang again! Here's hoping for a third ;) 

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The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin

The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer (Mara Dyer #1)

Author: Michelle Hodkin

Publisher: Simon & Schuster Children’s Publishing

Pages: 464

Rating: 3 Stars!

Mara Dyer doesn't think life can get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there.

It can.

She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her mysteriously unharmed.

There is.

She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love.

She's wrong.~Goodreads 

Don't get me wrong this book was highly entertaining and full of suspense, the beginning hooked me right away and pulled me to keep reading, but the overall story just didn’t click with me. 

As the story developed the suspense dragged and i felt like i was reading in circles. I thought some scenes really didn't make sense or seem to have any actual purpose and that threw off the story's flow a little bit.

But alas i kept reading because A) I love, love, LOVED her brother Daniel! He was absolutely hilarious and adorable! I want him to have his own series!! He’s the smart, over-protective brother that you just can’t help but love! Oh! And he drives a Civic, and that automatically makes him awesome! (Civic drivers UNITE!) :P

B) Noah is a sexy arrogant A-hole!

I liked Noah, I really did, but I’m just not 100% completely sold on him. Of course he’s sexy and English & knows how to whip out a one liner but I feel as a character, his development might have been too drastic. He went from being this notorious man-whore to a sweet (still cocky) one -woman guy. I also feel the relationship between him and Mara was a little too forced.

And C) i wanted to find out what was happening with Mara just as bad as she did. This book is CRAZY i will give it that....just… messed up! And there were a lot of “hmm” and “whaaa??” moments.

I can’t really say much else without giving the story away but I did NOT see the ending coming AT ALL! i was like O_O !! The ending was the best part!

And even though this book didn't blow my mind, i definitely will be picking up the sequel!