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It's wedding week! And where have I been? Reading. I started one of my new favorite series on Monday and had it finished by Tuesday night. Yeah. It was that good. I also had to finish it because if I didn't, I would be thinking about it my entire honeymoon and wondering what had happened. I HIGHLY recommend the Shatter me series by Tahereh Mafi. The covers themselves had me so intrigued. Within twenty pages, I was sucked in. The writing is very poetic and Mafi experiments with how she lays the words across the pages. There were so many twists I didn't see coming, yet they were perfect. They were needed.

There's also two mini stories that go between these stories. Destroy Me which goes between the first and second book, and Fracture Me which goes between the second and third. Usually, I don't read in-between stories. But I was stuck at work when I finished the second book and needed more right away so I downloaded the story onto my phone and was sucked in. These two stories really added insight that made me perfectly ok with how the story went. NOTE-These books WILL NOT make you cry. This is not Allegiant my friends. But there are twists that seem, hey at first but then once more is revealed they seem perfect. The two short stories are combined in one book called Unite Me if you want to get them all at once. 

I could keep writing about this series for forever. Sammy is already very, very familiar with the plot because I've talked his ear off and made him read all my favorite parts. And he agrees the writing in poetic. Haha!

Another book I just finished is The Secrets of Lily Graves. I absolutely LOVE the cover. The colors are so beautiful. This was a nice reprieve from dystopian novels. It's about a girl who lives in a funeral home who gets blamed for the murder of a popular girl in their town who attacked Lily hours before she showed up dead. It was relaxing which is strange since it's a murder mystery, lovely, romantic, and I. Didn't. See. It. Coming. I hope I'm not the only one who was utterly surprised by whodunnit! 

The other book I just finished up was The Program. I was a little iffy about this story. It's about in the future how there is an epidemic of suicide so anyone showing any signs of depression is thrown into the program where they then have their minds erased. Suicide is a very iffy subject with me, but I've been trying to read all my sisters books before I leave so I decided it was time to just give it a try. The beginning was rough because the descriptions of the suicide and depression are very, real. A bit triggering. 

Once the book was done, I still didn't know how I felt. There were aspects that were very intriguing, but I just didn't know. After reading an except of the second book though, I'm definitely going to read it. I want to know what happens in these peoples crazy lives. 



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