Sellout By Ebony Joy Wilkins

Sellout 
by Ebony 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.

Siren's Storm By Lisa Papademetriou

Siren's Storm 
by Lisa 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.

Smokin' Seventeen (Stephanie Plum, #17) By Janet Evanovich

Smokin' Seventeen (Stephanie Plum, #17) 
by Janet Evanovich (Goodreads Author), Lorelei King (Reading) 

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review 

Apr 13, 12  ·  edit

bookshelves: fiction, romantic-suspense

Read from February 15 to April 13, 2012

I was laughing so hard that I could not hold my tears back!! This series always manages to amaze me with the fun, thrills & chills inside of every turn of the page!!

Swimsuit By James Patterson & Maxine Paetro

Swimsuit 
by James Patterson (Goodreads Author), Maxine Paetro 

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review 

Jul 08, 11  ·  edit

Read from June 29 to July 08, 2011

this book has got me hooked..james patterson does it once again a thrilling novel tht i cannot put dwn & i find myself reading n2 the late hrs of the night wit lil sleep bcuz this book is so hard 2 put dwn...wit every pg i turn i am looking 4ward 2 the nxt chapter...& jst wen i think tht i am only goin 2 read 1 more chapter i find myself reading several more..thrilling, scarey, & exciting all the way thru

Switched (Trylle Trilogy, #1) By Amanda Hocking

Switched (Trylle Trilogy, #1) 
by Amanda Hocking (Goodreads Author) 

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review 

Jul 06, 12  ·  edit

bookshelves: paranormal-romance, romantic-suspense, young-adult,young-adult-romance, young-adult-paranormal

Read on June 10, 2012

Wendy was almost killed by whom she thought to be her mother when she was six years old. Eleven years later, she became drawn to a boy that always seemed to be watching her. Not after long from meeting him, he tells her the truth. She is a Princess from another world with powers that she cannot even begin to imagine. She leaves the family that she once knew and is thrust into another world, filled with magic and a Kingdom, that she is told she will one day rule over. This story changes everything I was taught as a child about Trolls, and the world that exists with them living in it. This book was a page turner that I could not put down, filled with romance, magic, and battle.

Thirteen Reasons Why By Jay Asher

Thirteen Reasons Why 
by Jay 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.

Tick Tock by James Patterson & Michael Ledwidge

Tick Tock (Michael Bennett, #4) 
by James Patterson (Goodreads Author), Michael Ledwidge 

Jessica RiffeKincaid's review 

Jul 11, 11  ·  edit

bookshelves: thriller-suspense

Read from July 10 to 11, 2011

The beginning of this book started out kinds of intresting. I loved the way the main police detective in the plot of this story had 10 adopted kids that he continued 2 care 4 & protect even after his wife, whose orginal decision 2 adopt these kids, passed away. The main story had 2 deal wit a psychotic control killer who was able 2 convince others 2 do his "dirty work" 4 him by going after rich & famous executives that ran businesses that dealt with taking money from the poor & spending it on themselves & their loved ones. So these "followers" decided 2 take the verdicts of the jury n2 their own hands & begin with a warning 2 these rich, fat, liars 2 put an end 2 their stealing & pushing the poor, unstable people that were asking them 4 the help that they had originally promised them n2 a more unstable life that eventually lead 2 thier deaths & the loss of loved ones. These killers planted bombs, set fires, & adminstered poison 2 the big-wigs of the rich & famous taking from them their lives & family 2 make their points proven.