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"He was like one of her novels, still unfinished and best understood in the right place and at the right time.." Lucy and Owen meet somewhere between the tenth and eleventh floors of a New York City apartment building, on an elevator rendered useless by a citywide blackout. After they're rescued, they spend a single night together, wandering the darkened streets and marveling at the rare appearance of stars above Manhattan. But once the power is restored, so is reality. Lucy soon moves to Edinburgh with her parents, while Owen heads out west with his father.  

If Naomi had picked tails, she would have won the coin toss. She wouldn’t have had to go back for the yearbook camera, and she wouldn’t have hit her head on the steps. She wouldn’t have woken up in an ambulance with amnesia. She certainly would have remembered her boyfriend, Ace. She might even have remembered why she fell in love with him in the first place. She would understand why her best friend, Will, keeps calling her “Chief.” She’d know about her mom’s new family. She’d know about her dad’s fiancée. She never would have met James, the boy with the questionable past and the even fuzzier future, who tells her he once wanted to kiss her. She wouldn’t have wanted to kiss him back. But Naomi picked heads.

In this story, we meet Hazel Grace Lancaster, a not so normal teenager because she's been diagnosed cancer when she was twelve.  Now she has lungs that doesn't work as it should, but trying to get by, one day at a time. Almost seemed a routine for Hazel - until Augustus Waters. Augustus Waters is a 17 year old guy who had survived Osteosarcoma. They met in a cancer support group, which Hazel regularly attends in the insistence of her mother while Augustus attends one meeting in the request of his best friend Isaac. And this is where their story starts.

Cath is a Simon Snow fan. Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan . . . But for Cath, being a fan is her life — and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving. Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere. Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to. Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words . . . And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has ...

Julianna "Juli" Baker met Bryce Loski when they were seven. His family just moved into the neighborhood and being the good neighbor that she is, went to help. One look at his beautiful blue eyes and she knew she was a goner. Bryce met Juli when they were seven. Or more like she barged into his life and never left him alone since then. First time he saw her, Bryce knew she was dangerous. Unavoidably dangerous.

Looking back, I wonder if I had an inkling that my life was about to go from ordinary to extraordinary.   This was a page turner with a very interesting twist in the romantic angle. When I started reading it, I was already jumping to conclusions about star crossed lovers, typical girl shouldn't be with boy type of obstacles. It was a high point to find that it was definitely more than that. The writing was good, the pace flowing, the characters likeable and relatable. However, I also felt that there could have been more depth to them. It felt like it was skimming the surface of who Lillie and Tom were, as individuals and as a couple. Again, the unique plot device was good but the ending felt a little too pat, not rushed but more as a convenience. Execution wise this felt flat like it could have been more. It was still a very good entertaining book with a good plot device and interesting characters for the most part I could relate to. Still recommend this to lovers of...

Abbey Garner is used to killing time by reading questions from the snarky tabloids in Granny Po's struggling beauty shop.  It's not like there are a lot of customers to help, anyway.  Mostly just the feisty Gray Widows, who are there to primp, polish, perm... and of course, gossip.   Abbey is there to work- to get a head start on the million dollars she intends to earn by the time she's thirty-five.  She doesn't have much time for boyfriends, parties or hanging out with friends.  But with the arrival of a trendy young woman who rents the beauty parlor and turns it into a modern-day spa, at least Abbey has a chance to make some real money.  Then all of this fades into the background when Abbey's mother, who abandoned her on Granny Po's doorstep four years ago, suddenly shows up with a wild scheme of her own.  ( Book Blurb)