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[Top Ten Tuesday] – #110 – Summer Beach Reads (16′ Summer TBR)
Top Ten Tuesday is an original weekly meme created by The Broke and the Bookish.
This Week’s Theme:
Summer Beach Reads
(Or Just Summer 16′ TBR)
Initial Thoughts:
I’m no good in stiflingly hot weather. I melt. So it’s not that I wouldn’t go to the beach at all…it’s that I wouldn’t go to the beach to read. Plus sand makes me all kinds of dry in all kinds of places. You’re welcome.
But with Canadian Summer beginning on June 20, these are probably the books I’ll be reading during that time; by which I also mean I’ll probably only get to reading at least one of them.
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[Review] Tell Me Three Things — Julie Buxbaum
Book Title: Tell Me Three Things (Standalone) Author: Julie Buxbaum Number of pages: 336
Synopsis:
Everything about Jessie is wrong. At least, that’s what it feels like during her first week of junior year at her new ultra-intimidating prep school in Los Angeles. Just when she’s thinking about hightailing it back to Chicago, she gets an email from a person calling themselves Somebody/Nobody (SN for short), offering to help her navigate the wilds of Wood Valley High School. Is it an elaborate hoax? Or can she rely on SN for some much-needed help?
(re: Goodreads @ Tell Me Three Things by Julie Buxbaum)
Should this book be picked up? the tl;dr review:
– Story is narrated via prose, email, and texts; there’s more witty banter in the early parts of the book than later
– The backdrop to this story features a grab bag of standard archetypes (e.g. popular jock, the broodster, the mean girl) under the veil of a privileged school setting. Academics are not passed off as unimportant
– Love polygon is warranted due to the anonymity of the true ship. However, the romance is self-fulfilling as most suitors never feel “right” for the protagonist
Initial Thoughts
I’ll tell you more than three things…
Disclaimer: I received an ARC of Tell Me Three Things from Chapters Indigo at their Teen Summer Preview Event.
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