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After a couple of days thinking I've decided to give this book 3 stars. I love Colleen Hoover. Her writing is elegant, her characters are always witty and relatable and her plots are almost always strong.

Almost.

Point of Retreat was a little disappointing for me. Slammed was an easy 5 star book because of it's poetry and the characters sub-stories, but this one was no where near as good. The poetry was quite bland and was hardly in the book. The plot was so cliché and if you think about it, hardly anything happened.

I will be reading This Girl, but only to say I've finished it up.

Review to come with Hollow City!

3.5 stars

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“I was the Duff. And that was a good thing. Because anyone who didn't feel like the Duff must not have friends. Every girl feels unattractive sometimes. Why had it taken me so long to figure that out? Why had I been stressing over that dumb word for so long when it was so simple? I should be proud to be the Duff. Proud to have great friends who, in their minds, were my Duffs.”

3.75 STARS!

I really enjoyed this YA Contemporary. It wasn't spectacularly written since Kody was 17 when she started writing it, but it was a fun and quick read with a few deep messages.

One thing this book did make me realise if that, I am my own DUFF. And I am fine with that because my imperfections may just be perfect to someone else.

Oh, and that ending had me smiling so hard. So hard!

“"...we’re all fucking Duffs.”
“I’m not the Duff,” Wesley said confidently.
“That’s because you don’t have friends.” (Bianca)
“Oh. Right.”

A cute, quick and sexy read. I loved the characters and their stories and definitely cannot wait to read the rest of the series. Abbi Glines knows how to write some memorable characters!

3.75 Stars

This was my first ever Sarah Dessen novel and she definitely did not disappoint. It was quite dark, but super easy and fun to read, and left me wanting more. The characters were all great including her vain ass father.

The only slight negative was how slow it was in the beginning.

“Maybe if I can just sleep for a hundred years, I'll wake up in a better story.”

I'm not even sure what I think about this book anymore. The first time I read this book, I loved it. This time around, I didn't like it as much. The writing was off and there were a lot of dead ends that weren't picked up, but I still found it to be cute.

Near the end I will agree that Samantha became a little childish and it was all about 'me, me, me', which considering the situation was fucking stupid of her. And the fact that Jase took her back annoyed me even more because it just shows how immature teenage relationships truly are!

“You can't do this. You have to give me a chance to fix whatever it is I've done. What have I done?”

“If you stay, I'll do whatever you want. I'll quit the band, go with you to New York. But if you need me to go away, I'll do that, too. I was talking to Liz and she said maybe coming back to your old life would be too painful, that maybe it'd be easier for you to erase us. And that would suck, but I'd do it. I can lose you like that if I don't lose you today. I'll let you go. If you stay.”

I can't really say much about If I Stay other than the fact it broke my heart. The story starts off slow and steady, but while doing that it also wraps you in a soft blanket, protects you and then without you knowing, it drops you and you can't recover.

I finished the book with tears running down my cheek and a question on my tongue.

What do I want from life?

“Please Mia," he implores. "Don't make me write a song.”

This was a very good Chick Lit book. The only problems I had with it was that it was a little bit too long and something that happened near the end of the book that left me wanting to smack Delia in the face and push her in front of a cab.

3.5 STARS!

This is 3 joining novellas.