The Maze Runner by James Dashner

This book was strange.  But when I looked up the picture for the blog post I noticed it will be coming out as a movie next year, so that's exciting.  I think it will be better as a movie.  Again, I didn't realize this is book one in a series so I will be reading more of these in the future.  So basically what happens is a boy finds himself in this place where they are locked in.  Only boys.  They are provided food and other life necessities through a box which enters wherever they are once a month or so.  They want to escape but have never found a way out.

Best Friends Forever by Jennifer Weiner

This was a book about a friendship that falls apart in high school and years later they reunite under strange circumstances.  It was ok.  I don't have anything else to say about it.

Defending Jacob by William Landay

Ok so.  A kid gets murdered and someone is charged and it goes to trial.  It appears to be a happy ending and then BAM something else happens.  And after that....another twist.  And at the end of the book I'm left wondering who was right?  Who actually did it?  All the evidence is pointed to one person, but it still never tells the story of the murder.  Like for sure what actually happened.  So that is a loose end for me.  I'm not sure I liked the book.

Why We Broke Up by Daniel Handler

I loved the pictures and the glossy, heavy pages, and the colors.  The story was ok.  The writing wasn't the style I like.  This is exactly what the title implies.  A girl has a box of items from her relationship with a boy and she goes through them one by one in a letter to the boy, explaining why they broke up.

The Scent of Rain and Lightning by Nancy Pickard

A friend of mine recommended this book to me and am I glad she did!  It was fantastic!  So well written with an element of the unexpected.  This book is about a family on a ranch and one night one of the sons from the family on the ranch gets murdered.  It starts at present day when the daughter of the man who was murdered learns that the killer has been let out of prison.  It then goes back to tell the story of events leading up to the murder (which is most of the book) and returns to present day near the end of the book.  It was interesting!

Entwined with You by Sylvia Day

This is third in the Crossfire series...I thought it was only going to be a trilogy but by the end of this book there was a part that said their adventure isn't over yet.  Which I'm glad about because there was a lot to still write about by the end of the book.  It was so long since I read the second book that I was a little lost, and there are small details I couldn't remember.  But the story wasn't too bad.  Things are starting to look up for the couple and they appear to be in a stronger relationship. 

Loving Frank by Nancy Horan

I didn't like this book in the least.  I found it boring, not my style but yet I had to keep going, once I've invested 60 pages of my time into it, I just don't like throwing a book to the side.  It got interesting near the end when things are looking up.  Boy that was trickery.  Just when I had hope for the characters there is a terrible twist of fate!  Anyway it was ...oh god I think last month's book club book.  Not being in the club anymore it has gotten harder to keep track of.  My next read (although I am 2/3 through another book I had on the go at the same time as this) has been recommended by a friend and she couldn't put it down so I'm hoping it will make up for this one.