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 Thank you to NetGalley for the chance to read and review Jillian Cantor's new novel, The Code for Love and Heartbreak set to release on October 6th! This book has been advertised as a modern re-telling of Jane Austen's Emma , which I have never read and know nothing about. But if it's similar to what this book presented, then well, sign me up! This book was actually adorable and I loved every second of it! Even if our main character, you guessed it, Emma, was a little ignorant for 75% of the book. The Code for Love and Heartbreak  takes place during Emma and George's senior year of high school. The two of them are total nerds and are co-presidents of the coding club and every year they have to come up with an app idea to present at a statewide competition to try and win to move on to nationals. Emma comes up with the idea for a matchmaking app that matches students up based on science and numbers. (After all, she loves numbers and numbers never lie). But when some thin...

 Guys, I just finished the most DELICIOUS book! One to Watch has become a book that is on many individual's most wanted list, and has gotten raving reviews. I, of course, picked up the BOTM version of this story due to the hype and I was so glad that I did. This book was... addictive! I am not a fan of the Bachelor, but this book is basically that show in a novel. It is full of drama, fake relationships, and more drama. It is SO good. Each chapter is labeled as one of the episodes, which I thought was a fun twist! And, there are little pieces of media in the chapters such as text messages, blog posts, podcasts, and e-mails. It's easy to follow and is inserted in a way that makes sense and allows the book to continue to flow, without the interruption of social media format to distract you.  This book also deals with some heavy, and important topics such as sexual harassment, cyber-bullying, body-image, cheating, asexuality, and body positivity  and the author DELIVERS (and...

Hi Friends!  I am back with another NetGalley E-ARC! Thoughts & Prayers  by Bryan Bliss is a three-part novel that comes out at the end of September. This story follows three characters, Eleanor, Brendan and Claire a year after they survived a shooting at their high school and hid under a stairwell together.  I wanted this book to be so much more than it was. The topic was handled very well, as it is an emotional and delicate topic, but it felt like I was reading three different short stories, with no connection, and with nothing really happening. Each part seemed to deal with a different type of diagnosis in how they handled their grief. For example, we see PTSD in Claire, anger and resentment in Eleanor, and OCD in Brendan.  The first part follows our character Claire, who moved to Minnesota with her brother, who is a pro-skater, after the shooting. We follow her as she is processing the trauma and meets a group of guys at the skate park who befriend her and on...