Booktomy Review's

Seeing as it has been a while since I’ve been able to post anything, I am hoping to get the blog up and running again and start posting more reviews at least once a week. 

For this week’s review, we have “The Girl on the Train”. I read this novel about a year ago was impressed with the plot line and how well it was written. The author changed point of view each chapter and that helped the reader understand what was happening but not enough so you were still kept wanting to know more.

The plot of the story is a woman who is a severe alcoholic passes by her old neighborhood every morning on her way to work and always sees what seems to be the “perfect couple” a few houses down from her former home. Little does the woman know how broken it is inside and while passing by one day, sees something tragic happen, but doesn’t really know how to report it. 

I enjoyed reading this novel very much and am very excited to see the film version that has come out earlier this year. It was dark and mysterious and kept you wanting more from it. I haven’t looked into the author very much, so I am most likely going to see if anymore has come out from her and check those out too. 

“The Girl on the Train” by Paula Hawkins

Rating: 7/10

So recently I came to the realization that I have started a new series without knowing it. Thankfully, I read the books in the right order, so here’s the first one in the series!

“Catching Jordan” by Miranda Kenneally is a fun and exciting story about a female quarterback at Hundred Oaks High School. The genre of all of Kenneally’s books are romance novels, so obviously there is a little bit of love thrown into all of these books as well!! 

When starting a new year and season, Jordan begins the year as normal, going to school, practice, to hang out with her teammates around town, and then home. One day a new boy moves into town and begins to threaten Jordan’s position as varsity quarterback and captain of her team. 

As the story goes on, Jordan begins to become closer and closer with this new boy, but then later realizes who she’s really meant to be and be with.

I really enjoyed this book and I am currently on the fifth one as we speak! All of these books are more of companion books, seeing as they still take place at Hundreds Oaks High School, but all of the novels include different people who go there. 

The order that the books go in are as follows: “Catching Jordan”, “Stealing Parker”, “Things I Can’t Forget”, “Stealing Savannah”, “Breathe, Annie, Breathe”, and “Jesse’s GIrl”.

I am very excited to read all of them and hope other people can love them as well!!

Stay tuned for my next review for “Stealing Parker”! 

For my first book review I thought I would do one of my all time favorite books. “Anna and the French Kiss” by Stephanie Perkins has been one of my favorite books since the moment I finished reading it for the first time. 

The way that Perkins’ is able to tie the surroundings of Paris into the novel is just amazing. I am one who personally enjoys a good romance novel, so I enjoyed this a lot. The character development throughout this book was amazing and I was impressed. 

The way that Perkins’ was able to make it seem like you were the one living the life of Anna while she starts her new life was amazing. It felt like I was the one who was getting to run all around Paris with an amazing group of friends!

I would definitely give this book a 10/10 and would for sure recommend it to anyone who asked!

Stay tuned for my next review!