What Your Friends Are Reading #2

It's already time for another installment of What Your Friends Are Reading.  I cannot believe how fast the reviews are coming in!  Hopefully this can become a weekly post on Fridays.  Let's get down to business.

Pictures of Hollis Woods by Patricia Reilly Giff
Summary:  Hollis Woods never knew her family but hopes to one day find one.  Throughout the book she shares her present day foster family's stories and her almost adopted family's story.
Review:  This book definitely puts your emotions over the edge as Hollis experiences ups and downs.  Overall the book is amazing and deserves its Newbery Honor Award.




Fetching by Kiera Stewart
Summary:  Olivia and her friends are sick of the popular crowd at school and especially Brynne.  They decide to train them like dogs but it really doesn't work like they thought.
Review:  This book was good.  I would recommend it to some others.  I would because it has a great moral at the ending.





Vampire's Kiss by Nicholas Adams
Summary:  Susan has a crush on a TV reporter.  When she finds out that there are mysterious deaths, a ghost, and a band of vampires, things get creepy!
Review:  I liked all of the book.  I would recommend this book to people who like horror and vampires.  If you read this book, you will be amazed by how well done this book is.




Wintergirls by Laurie Halse Anderson
Summary:  Lia and Cassie have been best friends since the 3rd grade.  When they decide to become wintergirls, competing in a deadly contest to become the thinnest, it takes the life out of Cassie leaving Lia behind to try to figure her out life on her own.
Review:  I loved this book because the author accurately portrays the turmoil of losing a friend and fighting through an addiction that she can't give up.  As you read the book, you cheer on Lia during the good, you cry for her during the bad, and you become attached to her and remember the story of Lia for the rest of your life.

Living Dead Girl by Elizabeth Scott
Summary:  When Alice was 10, Ray took her away from her family, friends, and her life.  She learned that she was now powerless and must endure all pain.  Now Alice is 15 and Ray still has her, but he talks more and more about her death.  He doesn't know that's what she wants most.  She doesn't know that he has something worse than death in mind for her.
Review:  Living Dead Girl is one of the only books that contributes mixed emotions.  Sad and terrifying - these are some of the emotions that Elizabeth Scott worked into this book.  What's more scary that the story it self is that it could happen in real life.  And it does.  That's what I like.  It really makes you think.  I would totally recommend this book to anybody willing to read it because it makes you realize how coldblooded these kidnappers can be.  And it makes you think of how you would handle that situation.  Like the Alice telling the story?  Or the Alice before her, who you will learn about throughout the story.  This is a really awesome book!

Dead Girl Walking by Linda Joy Singleton
Summary:  Amber Borden, 17 years old, has a poor sense of direction.  When she almost dies, she has an out of body experience.  But when on her way to returning to her body, she turns the wrong way and ends up in the body of the most popular girl in school, who just committed suicide.  Talk about an out of body experience!
Review:  The book starts out slow, lasting from the first page to somewhere around the middle, and it got boring for me after a while.  So I took a break and started to read another book.  But I returned to it a little while later and finished it in the same day I picked it up.  I recommend this book to anyone who gives up on a book because it seems  boring, because this book does get better after a while, though it takes time to get there.