Review: Paradise Road (Paradise #2) by C.J. Duggan

*Review contains spoilers.

Paradise Road

(Paradise #2)
by C.J. Duggan

November 22, 2015

336 pages

Goodreads  Amazon

Goodreads Summary:

The Road to Paradise is never easy

After a year on the coast, Lexie Atkinson can't settle back into country life. She’s missing the glitzy, gritty nightlife of the big city and the group of misfit friends she’d loved to hate. She knows to move forward she has to go back – back to face the guy who stole her heart.

But when Lexie arrives in Paradise City to work out if her future includes bad-boy surfer, Luke Ballantine, he is nowhere to be found.

With no home, no money and no Luke, Lexie gets a job slinging drinks at the wild Wipe Out Bar. Soon her heartache is eased when broody bar owner, Dean Saville, starts taking an interest and stirs more than just her drinks. But nothing is ever as it seems in Paradise City and when Luke barrels back into town, Lexie has a choice to make. But who will end up with the broken heart: Luke, Dean … or Lexie?

Stacking the Shelves #75

Stacking the Shelves is a weekly meme hosted by Tynga's Reviews that lets us share what we've added to our shelves.

I received some belated birthday gifts off my wishlist~ So happy I now own a physical copy of A Darker Shade of Magic *pats the pretty*~ And I can finally start the Shatter Me trilogy!

 

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

Through the Dark by Alexandra Bracken
A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab
Vengeance Road by Erin  Bowman

I requested this one for review from S&S Canada. Thank you!

The Year We Fell Apart by Emily Martin

What did you guys add to your shelves this week?

Review: Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda by Becky Albertalli

Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda

by Becky Albertalli

April 7, 2015

303 pages

Goodreads  Indigo

Goodreads Summary:

Sixteen-year-old and not-so-openly gay Simon Spier prefers to save his drama for the school musical. But when an email falls into the wrong hands, his secret is at risk of being thrust into the spotlight. Now Simon is actually being blackmailed: if he doesn’t play wingman for class clown Martin, his sexual identity will become everyone’s business. Worse, the privacy of Blue, the pen name of the boy he’s been emailing, will be compromised.

With some messy dynamics emerging in his once tight-knit group of friends, and his email correspondence with Blue growing more flirtatious every day, Simon’s junior year has suddenly gotten all kinds of complicated. Now, change-averse Simon has to find a way to step out of his comfort zone before he’s pushed out—without alienating his friends, compromising himself, or fumbling a shot at happiness with the most confusing, adorable guy he’s never met.