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I just finished the book The Odds of Lightning . The book was written by Jocelyn Davies and was published in 2016. The plot revolves around Tiny, Will, Nathaniel, and Lu, a group of friends that are all faced with their worst fears and no way out. The book mainly focuses on these four friends, but the author also includes multiple side characters who each have their important role in the book. Warning: There are some spoilers and this review will be based on the whole book even though I've already done a smaller review on the first half of this book. The book starts off with this group of friends all meeting at a party. They've been estranged for years, and they are all excited about meeting each other again. They decide to take a trip to the roof, where they somehow get struck by lightning. They wake up with new abilities, looks, and "powers". No one knows why this has happened, but they all want to fix it so they can get back to their normal lives. Tiny is inv...

Hello, it’s Lili again with the start of a two blog post series. Currently, I am halfway through All That Wa s by Karen Rivers, published in 2018. It tells the story of two best friends Piper and Sloane. Piper is a cheerful, beautiful, and popular girl, while Sloane is more of the shy, quiet, and some might even say, weird girl. They grew up together and do everything together, their friendship was supposed to last forever. However, all that changes when Piper falls for the cute boy in town Soup. They fall in love and the reader can tell that Sloane and Piper’s friendship is starting to fade. Little does Piper know that Sloane has a secret crush on Soup. Piper is later found dead washed up on the beach. The book starts off in the present where Piper is dead but she’s not sure what's going on. You get a feel for her inner thoughts and the deep emotional pain running through her. Then it moves on to Sloane's point of view and what happens when she receives the news. After that...

I started The Odds of Lightning (written by Jocelyn Davies) a few weeks ago and I'm just about halfway through the book. It's an imaginative book that describes the struggles of teenage life and how friendships can be remade over time. The story focuses on four friends: Tiny, Lu, Will, and Nathaniel. Each person has their own internal struggles and throughout the book, the reader can see how these struggles affect each individual's daily life. The book starts off by describing each person's individual struggle. Tiny has an affection for Josh and is insecure about herself. Luella (or Lu for short) is dealing with her dad leaving her. Nathaniel is worried and stressed that he won't live up to his brother, and Will is nervous about how the rest of high school will turn out. Each of the descriptions in the book goes into depth about how these characters are feeling, and it sort of establishes a personal connection between the reader and the characters in the book. The...

I recently finished reading The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton and really enjoyed it. The book came out in 1967 and was eventually turned into a film in 1983. The plot is based around two gangs. One gang is known as the "greasers" and their rival gang is the more wealthy "Socs" or Socials. The Outsiders  mainly focuses on the stories of two teenage greasers named Ponyboy and Johnny, but includes a lot of other characters such as the hardened Dally and wisecracking Two-Bit, who appear often enough to be significant, but not enough to be considered main characters. These are my thoughts on the book: Warning: This Review Contains Spoilers. Skip to the 5th paragraph to avoid plot spoilers. The book starts with Ponyboy getting jumped by some Socs while leaving the movie theater. Ponyboy's two older brothers, Darry, Ponyboy's father figure, and Sodapop, one of Ponyboy's closest friends, and other greasers come to help him up. The next night Ponyboy, Johnny, an...

Recently, I read the novel Everything Everything by Nicola Yoon. The story is set from the point of view of an 18-year old girl named Maddie. Through a mixture of traditional prose, online conversations, hand-drawn diagrams, and even “book reviews,” she tells her story, which occurs over the span of about half of a year. Maddie has a disease called SCID, or Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease. Basically, it means she’s allergic to almost everything, and lives almost completely isolated in her house. The only people she comes in contact with are her mother and her nurse, Carla, and she has only ever experienced the outside world through books. She’s basically accepted her life as it is, until one day, a new family moves into the neighboring house. Maddie begins watching them from her bedroom window, and is particularly intrigued by the younger brother, a boy named Ollie. Ollie becomes interested in Maddie when her mom turns away a cake that he and his sister bring her, since she ca...