Burnout By Adrienne Marie Vrettos

Burnout
byAdrienne Maria Vrettos (Goodreads Author)

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Dec 05, 11 · edit

bookshelves: mystery, young-adult

Read on December 05, 2011

Who am I? What did I do last night? Where am I? Am I dead? These were the questions the young lady in this story was constantly repeating to herself. Dealing with the pain in her life by drinking so much alchol that she became numb to her emotions and was able to drown out the screaming inside her heard. Peace was what she was looking for, but could only find it in the bottom of a drink and then came the memory loss. This was a pretty good book that looked into the life of a young person who has a problem drowning their problems in a bottle. And it became such a habit to feel numb to the pain that it became her life and way of living and was the only thought that mattered, which is addiction.

Sellout By Ebony Joy Wilkins

Sellout
byEbony Joy Wilkins (Goodreads Author)

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Dec 05, 11 · edit

bookshelves: young-adult

Read on December 05, 2011

NaTasha was used to living in the suburbs with her mother and her daily routine, aside from school, was ballet. In her community she was the only person with dark-colored skin and her best friend was as white as snow. Her grandmother, whom volunteered at a young teens shelter, offered her grand-daughter to come and spend the summer with her, living her recent life behind her. She chose to come and help at the youth center for girls and that is where she finally discovered who she really was. Where her roots came from and how to live the life of helping others reach their dreams and to also help find the answer of who she really is. I loved this book based on the fact of how you live your life doesnt always show who you really are down deep inside.

Clousburst (Storms #1) By V.C. Andrews

Cloudburst (Storms, #2)
byV.C. Andrews

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Dec 05, 11 · edit

bookshelves: fiction, romantic-suspense, mystery, thriller-suspense

Read from November 21 to December 05, 2011

After having lost her mother and having lived the life of being homeless, Sasha Porter, is beginning to get used to living the life of the rich and famous. After losing her mother to a car accident that fault lay at the hands of her foster parents blood daughter, she was taken in and given a chance at having anything her dreams desired, except for the one thing she wanted the most was unreachable, having her mother back. She attends an exceptional school for the rich and enjoy being one of the popular people whom the other girls admire and wish they could have just an ounce of their own fantasies come to reality. There she meets a boy and falls in love, but in the end there is tradgedy when the only person she comes to trust and love leaves her too, in a way that by now she should have become use to.

Falling By Doug Wilhelm

Falling
byDoug Wilhelm

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Nov 21, 11 · edit

bookshelves: romantic-suspense, young-adult

Read from November 11 to 21, 2011

15 Year old, Matt walks and listens to his music, only to drown out the noises of the world around him. He goes to school and as soon as he is out, he walks and listens to his muisc lost in his own universe. Why does he do this? No one knows. He was a famous basketball player before high school and then his freshman year he just stopped playing. All of his fans, after being ignored, just quit asking him why he did'nt want to play ball anymore. He trusted no one. Until, one fateful night while in an online chat room he met a girl and they became friends. And after meeting online they realized they were from the same neighborhood as well as in the same school and grade. They would meet after school and walk and talk about anything and everything, except why he became so enclosed to everyone else around him. And then he trusts her with his story and answer why and so does his friend that lives near him who then tells one of her friends, and then so on and so forth the storm builds. He tells her about how him and his older brother used to be very close, playing and practicing basketball together, attending their games when they were playing, sharing their hopes and dreams of going pro, until his brother does'nt make his dreams and any other offers from the other colleges were'nt good enough for him. They stop talking. And his brother turns to escape into his own other world. A world that consists of dishonesty, fear, violence, the wrong people, and most important of all...death. In a fit of anger, of having his story told without permission, Matt takes his anger out verbally on his new girlfriend that he was falling in love with, and instead of hearing her side of the story he jumps to conclusions. Kate, being heartbroke and devastated runs off to find Matt and explain and try to make him understand how much she cares about him and how she would never destroy the trust she built with him. At his home instead of Matt, she finds his brother and that is when the storm erupts. Matt finds out the truth and finds his Kate in his brothers room, unconscious and his brother about to commit a crime of forceable rape. He stops him and that is when the whole town discovers his secret and why he was trying to protect his family from the truth that his brother was addicted to Heroin and was now dealing the drug as well. The authorities come and provide the help that his needed for his brother and now he can begin rebuilding his family again. This book was a wonderful story told about the struggle of a family member that is stuck in the middle of a current growing addiction problem in the world today.

Trapped By Michael Northrop

Trapped
byMichael Northrop

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Nov 11, 11 · edit

bookshelves: thriller-suspense, young-adult

Read on November 11, 2011

Do you know how you would react if you became trapped in high school, snow so deep you could'nt go anywhere and no adult supervision? This is what happened to seven teens, a mix of them that knew each other by name and three that grew up together as best friends. Four days go by as these young adults get to know each other better and their personalities combined together to survive hunger, fear, sleep deprivation and the cold. Terrified of freezing to death with no heat and only canned fruits and peanut butter and jelly to eat they fight to find ways to keep their minds focused only the only thing they have to hold onto and that is hope. On the fifth day it was discovered that no one knew where they were and that they were trapped, panic exploded within the small group of boys and girls. Chaos erupts when the weight of the snow causes the roof of the school to begin caving in on top of them and they have no where to run to so one brave boy decides to attempt facing the weather and going for help. There is an accident and he doesnt make it only leading to more bouts of fear and terror. The basketball star decides to try next at least in honor of the best friend he just lost to this natural diaster. Just when he has spent hours walking and fighting in the snow and thinking that he was lost and never going to find help he is rescued by the National Guard and he is able to tell his story about his friends that were still alive, left behind at the school that was being buried alive under the snow and the fear that they would not be able to last much longer. Did they get the help they needed?

I'm Not Her By Janet Gurtler

I'm Not Her
byJanet Gurtler (Goodreads Author)

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Nov 11, 11 · edit

bookshelves: young-adult

Read from November 06 to 11, 2011

Star of the girl's volleyball team in her high school, worshipped and loved by everyone in the school, guarenteed winner for any type of beauty/social school event, and voted most popular girl in school has a secret...one that devastates her little sister and their family. After she is diganosed with osteocarcenoma (a form of aggressive bone cancer) this high school girl's hopes and dreams are shattered when she has to go through all the changes that are forced upon her with no choice by having rounds of chemotherapy treatments. Known for having the most beauitful long, flowing hair and winning smile, both of her prized possesions are taken from her with no choice. Also, after going through all the procedures to try and save herself from losing her best trophy, her leg is taken too.

The mother begins trying to find solace in shopping and in her best attempts at turning her youngest daighter into the "other daughter" by making her act, dress, and socialize as her sister once did as Queen of the school. The father, spends more time "working" than home with his "girls" to avoid having to address the situtation that is falling apart around the seams. The young sister, feeling her sister's pain at everything she is losing, and everything that she is dealing with emotionally, physically, and mentally only wants the best for her sister and the rest of her family. But, still she wishes for success as an artist, on the honor roll, and to be able to just be invisable once again, will never be able to escape what has been thrust upon her now.

Now You See Me (Gifted #5) By Marilyn Kaye

Now You See Me (Gifted, #5)
byMarilyn Kaye

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Nov 06, 11 · edit

bookshelves: young-adult

Read from October 23 to November 06, 2011

A young girl that has been ignored by her family finds that she has an unusual gift for becoming invisible. By attending classes with other friends with the same, but different, gifts she finds herself able to fit in with a family of her own.

There are people out there that would love to get ahold of these teens and turn them into their puppets so that they could have them use their strange powerful gifts for all the wrong reasons and to also use for them to gain anything they want. In this book she disappears for the longest time she has ever in her life and is scared that she will never come back. While she remains invisiable she fights to find the truth behind those "bad" people that want to use her and her friends for their own reasons.

Angelina's Halloween By Katherine Holabid

Angelina's Halloween (Angelina Ballerina)
byKatharine Holabird, Helen Craig

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 23, 11 · edit

bookshelves: childrens

A wonderful treat of a read that teaches and explains all the fun parts of Halloween and the most important trick of all...sticking together! After visiting a haunted house big sister finds herself having lost her little sister after having a fun time at a party. When she discovers where her missing sister was, she realizes the importance of sticking together and how much family means to her. This was so cute and pefect to read for a nice little Halloween treat!

Goodnight, Goodnight, Construction Site By Sherri Duskey Rinker

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Goodnight, Goodnight Construction Site
bySherri Duskey Rinker (Goodreads Author), Tom Lichtenheld (Goodreads Author) (Illustrator)

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 23, 11 · edit

bookshelves: childrens

This was a really cute ryhming book that is good to help explain why going to bed at night by a certain time is important to young kids. It also explained what different construction machines were used for and the jobs they performed and what they were called. I think this was a wonderful book for reading to any young child, weather it is a boy or a girl!

Ella Bella Ballerina and Swan Lake By James Mayhew

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Ella Bella Ballerina and Swan Lake
byJames Mayhew (Goodreads Author)

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 23, 11 · edit

bookshelves: childrens

My 4 year old daughter loves every form of dance invented and of course the storie that are about princesses. This story about a young girl who loves the dance and beauty of ballet is drawn into the classic tale of Swan Lake. While she dances alone on the stage her mind drifts off to the story of the princess who is under the spell of an evil sorceor who turns the princess into a swan, and can only be a princess by night. The only way the spell can be broken is if the prince professes his undying love to her! Almost tricked by the evil spell caster the prince almost lost his one true love and then the story is over, the princess falls in love and lives happily ever after with her prince and is once again turned into her true self. Told by ballet, the little girls find herself not only in love with the story but with the dance itself.

Bailey By Harry Bliss

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Bailey
byHarry Bliss

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 23, 11 · edit

bookshelves: childrens

Bailey, spotted white dog who loves going to school explains the process to little school aged kids on how to go to bed early, and upon waking how to get dressed, groom themselves, brush their teeth, etc. I had fun reading this to my kids because both of them are in school and are very young, so this helped them understand the meaning behind why we have schedules and time limits for the things that we do when involved with school.

Bailey By Harry Bliss

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Bailey
byHarry Bliss

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 23, 11 · edit

bookshelves: childrens

Bailey, spotted white dog who loves going to school explains the process to little school aged kids on how to go to bed early, and upon waking how to get dressed, groom themselves, brush their teeth, etc. I had fun reading this to my kids because both of them are in school and are very young, so this helped them understand the meaning behind why we have schedules and time limits for the things that we do when involved with school.

Siren's Storm-Lisa Papademetriou

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Siren's Storm
byLisa Papademetriou (Goodreads Author)

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 23, 11 · edit

bookshelves: young-adult

Read from October 18 to 23, 2011

A young man struggling with the loss of his brother. Seeing people and things that are not there, messing with his mind. All taking place on an island that is known for it's ability to attract tourists to come spend the summer and their money. Dealing with this pain has driven him to the brink of madness, a twister churning inside his soul, and a storm that blows his thoughts all over the place and cannot be calmed.

I had trouble in the beginning of this book, reading it was a little hard and then as I turned the pages and got more towards the middle of the book, it became better. A little slow in the first 10 chapters but as I got further in the book, the true excitment of the story unraveled itself.

Persistence of Memory-Amelia Atwater-Rhodes

Persistence of Memory
byAmelia Atwater-Rhodes

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 18, 11 · edit

bookshelves: paranormal-romance, young-adult

Read from October 10 to 18, 2011

Trapped in her own mind, consisting of it's own world that is different to the normal world around her, a young lady is forced to battle the demons running rampant inside her own head. Trying to exist in a public school setting and aviod her past violent behavior, suffering from a strange form of multiple personality disorder, she tries to battle her own mind that takes her to another person, another being..a vampire! The battle between both personality comes to an end like no other.

However, a little slow and a little hard to read and understand at times, this was still a good book.

Kissing Kate-By Lauren Myracle

Kissing Kate
byLauren Myracle

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 10, 11 · edit

bookshelves: young-adult

Read from October 06 to 10, 2011

High school is probably the main point in a young woman's life when she is just beginning to understand who she really is and who she really wants to become in the future. Growing up with your best friend, all the time spent together, laughing, playing, sharing secrets and discovering themselves together.

One night, while enjoying themselves at a high school party, these two girls whom have done nearly everything together decide to escape to more private settings. During their moments and confessions to each other about how "curious" they are about exploring other possible love alternatives, Lissa's best friend Kate, makes the first move and begins by slowly kissing, touching, and providing sensuality to each other. Lissa, on the receiving end, felt emotions and feelings that she had never experienced. Then as quickly as it had started...it ended.

Walking thru the halls, keeping their distances from each other began to get to both friends and with this they both decided that trying to make up the friendship was never going to work because everytime Lissa approached Kate about "that night", Kate would throw up denial and brick walls thick in form. Slowly, Lissa found herself and realized that her sexuality did not make her a "freak" but made her, her.

This was a very good read and I would recommend it to any yound lady that questions her sexuality or is even friends with someone or close to someone or even has a family member that is confused about their individuality, maybe within these pages they may find the answers.

Thirteen Reasons Why-Jay Asher

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Thirteen Reasons Why
byJay Asher

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Oct 06, 11 · edit

bookshelves: fiction, young-adult, bio-auto-self-biography

Read from September 27 to October 06, 2011

A girl, feeling alone, depressed and let down by those closest to her, prepares everyone that she was close to and had confided in, with cassette tapes explaing in her own words, 13 reasons why she committed suicide. She begins by providing tapes to someone left in charge to see to it that her message is carried on thru the delivery of a box containing nothing but her final words, recorded in her own voice, about why she decided that she was not meant to live in the world anymore and about the people that drove her to making that decision. Her high-school crush, who was too shy in the end to tell her how he felt about her, thinking that he maybe could have changed her mind about her taking her own life, finds out everything about her by receiving those tapes and listening to them in a day. He discovers the rumors that where visciously spread about her where un-true, that those that were "supposed" to be her true friends and the lies they spreaded, how girls were raped, pushed around and forced upon in physcial, and sexual manners by young men, still just boys, and unable to defend themselves against them, going un-punished for their actions. Girls, pretending to be straight A students and the mindset expected of them in that type of position, faslified, pretending to be someone they are not. How, a teacher could have prevented this girl's suicude from happening if he had only asked the right, simple questions by showing that he cared about her as a person. Her legacy and those of the students at her school that show everyone who their "fake" person is but reveals their "true" selves by hitting and killing someone that goes to their school after leaving a party, having been too drunk to drive, but decided no one could tell. How boys took advantage of young girls that were too drunk to put up a fight, behind closed doors, taking something from them that was'nt theirs to take, but did so without their permission while laying unconscious and their male counterparts allowing these atrocious acts to take place with their knowledge.

This was wonderful, dark, scarey, and so close to the truths of those in school growing from young kids into young adults.

Vesper-Jeff Sampson

Vesper (Deviants, #1)
byJeff Sampson (Goodreads Author)

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Sep 27, 11 · edit

bookshelves: young-adult, paranormal-romance

The book began a little slow in the beginning and then picked up the pace, however it was a little hard to understand at times.

A girl who has the same first name of another girl she once went to school with is shot killed after she mysteriously wonders the streets late at night dressed only in her pajamas and before this began acting "strangely" around her family members. Trying to keep herself hidden from having more than one friend and being recgonized by fellow class-mates, she hides herself in clothes too big for her body, making her curves invisable to the eye. After another classmate comments on a social website that the other "Emily" that was murdered was a sad loss of perfect beauty and that the world would have been a better place had it been the "ugly Emily" that was killed instead, she feels a change that takes place deep inside her and decides to take revenge on the boy who posted this comment. She finds a hidden power that surfaces and becomes a "vasper", a member of an elite force that is magical and fearful of discovery.