The Paige Turner

A blog for young adult book lovers

Thrill Ride by Rachel Hawthorne

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 297 I love all books by Rachel Hawthorne. There so sweet, cute, and innocent, and this one was no different. Sure, they're a little predictable but that's half the fun! (Especially if you predict it wrong and get a total shock at the end!) So, in this short book we follow Megan as she works at an amusement park over the summer, away from her family arguing over her sister's wedding (Pro as Megan would say) and also away from her boyfriend of 3 months (Con). Megan describes her conflicted feelings...

Remember Me Omnibus: Remember Me, The Return, and The Last Story by Christopher Pike

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 789 Seeing as this is an omnibus of three stories, I will give a general plot of the first one and then talk about what I did and didn't like. In Remember Me, Shari Cooper is a teenager in high school and for the first half of Remember Me recounts the events leading up to her death. (Going to a party and at the party attempting to contact the dead with 5 or 6 other friends. At the party she becomes upset with what she hears from the "realm beyond" and goes out to stand on a balcony where she finds...

Anthem by Ayn Rand

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 105 Wow, wow, wow. I read this as a recommendation from my teacher and it was awesome! It took me only about a half hour to read mainly because it was so short, but also because it was so amazing! The writing is a little hard to get used to at first (the way that the characters refer to themselves is "we" which confused me because I thought there was always a group of people) but once you get past that, you are able to enjoy the book so much more! So, this is considered a dystopian novel because...

Jake, Reinvented by Gordon Korman

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 213 When I first read The Great Gatsby in class I LOVED it!! I thought I wouldn't because it was part of the required reading but I ended up jumping ahead of the rest of the class and finishing it up rather quickly. When I stumbled across this alternative take on the story I was thrilled! I quickly checked this out from my library and devoured it within a few hours. In this modern-day retelling, Nick (our main character in The Great Gatsby) is called Rick, Tom is Todd in this story, Daisy is DiDi,...

Why We Love Reading Tag!

I stumbled across this tag on Youtube and really liked it so here we go! 1. What's your favorite genre? Well obviously Young Adult but within that (like a sub genre) I would choose dystopian, romance, historical fiction, and retellings (like classics). The YA genre is so broad so really my answer encompasses a lot of topics but those sub genres are my absolute favorites. 2. At the current moment what's your favorite book or series? Gahh this is such a hard question to answer! So, I'll just list my favorite series' of all time because I love these not just at one specific point...I think that makes sense, anyways here's my...

Let It Snow: Three Holiday Romances by John Green, Maureen Johnson, and Lauren Myracle

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 352 Okay, I liked this book....I just didn't love it. And I wanted too! I love Christmas and it's my favorite holiday, but these three books kinda fell flat for me. I know summer's around the corner and I'm reading a Christmas book, and I liked that this had a lot of the Christmas feeling in it, but the stories themselves? Eh... The stories didn't seem to have a lot of development. I wished they could have been made a little longer so that more could happen. I also felt that in each book it was...

April 2012 Haul!

I only got one book this month!Since I went to the L.A. Times Festival of Books and met Syrie James I just had to order her book from Paperbackswap so I got... I really loved Forbidden so I'm hoping this one will be just as good! What did you get this month? See you soon! Pai...

Distant Waves by Suzanne Weyn

Read a synopsis here! Number of pages: 330 Such an amazing book! I really like historical fiction novels and this was a very interesting take on the sinking of the Titanic. I thought the book would start out from being on the Titanic and then a long, drawn out story of the sinking, but it wasn't like that at all! The book centers around Jane, the second oldest of 5 sisters and her life in a town called Spirit Vale. Her mother, and everyone else in the town, are people who can summon, or talk too, the dead. There are a lot...