Second Chance Summer

Second Chance Summer By - Morgan Malson

 “Cancer. Pancreatic. Stage four. Four months, maybe more. Maybe less.”

Taylor is spending her last “normal” summer with her family at their lake house like old times. However, this summer is different, she has no friends and her dad is sick, really sick. Her dad’s disease is taking his life away faster then she imagined. Taylor doesn’t imagine her summer getting any worse.  But it does.  Her ex-best friend  just so happens to be her co-worker at the beach snack bar.  But wait… her ex-boy friend moved into the house next door! And, he is more gorgeous then she remembers. Will Taylor be able to fix her past mistakes and have enough time with her dying father before the summer ends?

Second Chance Summer was a fabulous book meant for anyone who loves heartfelt  novels. This book made me cry, laugh, and want to shout with anger. The emotion in this book was so real. You feel as if you have known the characters for years. When one character feels sad, you want to jump in comfort them as if you were best friends.  I remember feeling this way when Taylor asked her dad, “Are you scared?” and he simple nodded. Taylor got sad and confused. Her dad was always the strong one but now he is not; I wanted to jump in the book so bad just to comfort her. In addition, the book was a page turner; I could not wait to flip the page to see what would happen next. I recommend this book to anyone who loves heartfelt novels.              

-          Ray <3                                                                                                       

Demon Glass

     

 I just finished reading Demon Glass by Rachel Hawkins. It is the second book in the Hex Hall series. It was a very good book, which I recommend to all but read the first book in the series title Hex Hall first. This book was very suspenseful and you will not want to put it down. I wonder when reading the book, why am I so nervous for Sophie? My answer was Rachel Hawkins made the book seem so real that you were sucked in and placed in the middle of all the suspense.

The book is about Sophie a girl who is a demon. She is sent to Hex Hall a school for troubled witches, fairies, werewolves, vampires, demons and other magical creatures. Sophie was sent there in the first book after she exposed herself to humans at a dance. There she finds out that she is a demon and not a witch like she believed. Strange things have been happening at Hex Hall and students have been disappearing. So when Sophie goes to visit her father the head of the prodigium council in England for the summer she finds out that The Eye, a group out to kill all the prodigrium in the world, has grown and has her ex-crush working for them who is a warlock. But what she finds out about who is making the teens at Hex Hall disappear will surprise all.

Read Demon Glass by Rachel Hawkins.

-Ray <3