If I Tell By Janet Gutler

If I Tell 
by Janet Gurtler (Goodreads Author) 

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review 

May 31, 12  ·  edit

bookshelves: inspirational, young-adult, young-adult-romance

Read from May 22 to 31, 2012

If only Jazzy, had not attended that party that night, then should would not have had to carry around such a heavy burden!! Young, talented with music, and beauitful from head to toe, her looks she inherited from her mother's good looks and her Black father's skin tone. In this story Jaz, spends her entire life raised by loving grandparents and battles living everyday in an almost entirely white neighborhood where racism tends to run a little high. I was very drawn to her charachters' in this book because of each individual person's struggle with everyday life.

The Beginning of After By Jennifer Castle

The Beginning of After 
by Jennifer Castle (Goodreads Author) 

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review 

May 22, 12  ·  edit

bookshelves: inspirational, romantic-suspense, young-adult

Read from May 17 to 22, 2012

This story is filled with everything that I love to read about! Suspense, Loss, Love, Secrets, and Life Altering... Next door neighbors, since they were both born, Laurel and David, has a world and life changing event that send them into a whirl-wind of changes. She loses her parents and brother, while he loses his mother to a fatal car accident that leaves David's father sitting, unresponsive in a hospital. They both take their lives on paths, trying to piece together their lives after their tragedy.

This is a true-like and heartfelt story for anyone who has a heart and enjoys reading emotional novels. This was a great book that had me in tears and saying silent prayers of being thankful that I could relate to this type of emotions that people go threw after the loss of a loved one, but am happy that I still have others that mean a lot to me that I love and still have in my life. I love being able to discover new ways on dealing with the loss of loved ones in different ways.

Forbidden By Syrie James & Ryan M. James

Forbidden 
by Syrie James (Goodreads Author), Ryan M. James (Goodreads Author) 

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review 

May 06, 12  ·  edit

bookshelves: paranormal-romance, young-adult

Read on May 06, 2012

This was a wonderful Young Adult novel, filled with romance, humor, and the most beauitful supernatural setting I have ever read! Top student in her class, Claire finds out everything she ever wished to know about her past and discovers the truth about Angels.

Explosive Eighteen By Janet Evanovich

Explosive Eighteen (Stephanie Plum, #18)
byJanet Evanovich (Goodreads Author)

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review

Feb 15, 12 · edit

bookshelves: romantic-suspense, thriller-suspense

Read from January 18 to February 15, 2012

Stephanie Plum has done it again! While tracking down all the bad guys and trying to make a little bit of money, just enough to pay the bills. Stephanie, is always getting herself into trouble and finding herself wanted, dead! This was a wonderful read, as is all the books belonging to this series. I am "PLUM" crazy for Janet Evanovich's books!!

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.