Ruby Rae Reads

Title: The Unexpected Everything Author: Morgan Matson Page count: 519 Date published: 3 May 2016 Genre: Young Adult contemporary Rating: (4.5 out of 5 stars) GOODREADS SYNOPSIS Andie has a plan. And she always sticks to her plan. Future? A top-tier medical school. Dad? Avoid him as much as possible (which isn’t that hard considering he’s a Congressman and he’s never around). Friends? Palmer, Bri, and Toby—pretty much the most awesome people on the planet, who needs anyone else? Relationships? No one’s worth more than three weeks. So it’s no surprise that Andie has her summer all planned out too. Until a political scandal costs Andie her summer pre-med internship and lands both she and Dad back in the same house together for the first time in years. Suddenly she’s doing things that aren’t Andie at all—working as a dog walker, doing an epic scavenger hunt with her dad, and maybe, just maybe, letting the super cute Clark get closer than she expected. Palmer, Bri, and Toby tell her to embrace all the chaos, but can she really let go of her control? I am so caught up on Morgan Matson books, it warms my heart. I’ve like basically read them all and ahhh…

Title: Save The Date Author: Morgan Matson Page count: 417 Date published: 5 June 2018 Genre: Young Adult contemporary Thanks a million to Jonathan Ball Publishers for sending this book my way! Rating: (4.5 out of 5 stars) GOODREADS SYNOPSIS Charlie Grant’s older sister is getting married this weekend at their family home, and Charlie can’t wait—for the first time in years, all four of her older siblings will be under one roof. Charlie is desperate for one last perfect weekend before the house is sold and everything changes. The house will be filled with jokes and games and laughs again. Making decisions about things like what college to attend and reuniting with longstanding crush Jesse Foster—all that can wait. She wants to focus on making the weekend perfect. The only problem? The weekend is shaping up to be an absolute disaster. There’s the unexpected dog with a penchant for howling, house alarm that won’t stop going off, and a papergirl with a grudge. There are the relatives who aren’t speaking, the (awful) girl her favourite brother brought home unannounced, and a missing tuxedo. Not to mention the neighbour who seems to be bent on sabotage and a storm that…

Title:  The Fault In Our Stars Author: John Green Page count: 313 Date published: 10 January 2012 Genre: Young Adult contemporary Rating: (4.5 out of 5 stars) GOODREADS SYNOPSIS Diagnosed with Stage IV thyroid cancer at 12, Hazel was prepared to die until, at 14, a medical miracle shrunk the tumours in her lungs… for now. Two years post-miracle, sixteen-year-old Hazel is post-everything else too; post-high school, post-friends and post-normalcy. And even though she could live for a long time (whatever that means), Hazel lives tethered to an oxygen tank, the tumours tenuously kept at bay with a constant chemical assault. Enter Augustus Waters. A match made at Cancer Kid Support Group, Augustus is gorgeous, in remission, and shockingly to her, interested in Hazel. Being with Augustus is both an unexpected destination and a long-needed journey, pushing Hazel to re-examine how sickness and health, life and death, will define her and the legacy that everyone leaves behind. Um wow!! I had to read this for school and I’d read it when the movie was coming out and really didn’t like it. Like at all. But I was in tears when I finished it? Okay? No, no I am not haha did you…

Title: Lord of Shadows Series: The Dark Artifices book #2 Author: Cassandra Clare Page count: 699 Date published: 23 May 2017 Genre: Young Adult urban fantasy Rating: (5 out of 5 stars) GOODREADS SYNOPSIS A Shadowhunter’s life is bound by duty. Constrained by honor. The word of a Shadowhunter is a solemn pledge, and no vow is more sacred than the vow that binds parabatai, warrior partners—sworn to fight together, die together, but never to fall in love. Emma Carstairs has learned that the love she shares with her parabatai, Julian Blackthorn, isn’t just forbidden—it could destroy them both. She knows she should run from Julian. But how can she when the Blackthorns are threatened by enemies on all sides? Their only hope is the Black Volume of the Dead, a spell book of terrible power. Everyone wants it. Only the Blackthorns can find it. Spurred on by a dark bargain with the Seelie Queen, Emma; her best friend, Cristina; and Mark and Julian Blackthorn journey into the Courts of Faerie, where glittering revels hide bloody danger and no promise can be trusted. Meanwhile, rising tension between Shadowhunters and Downworlders has produced the Cohort, an extremist group of Shadowhunters dedicated…

Title: To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before Series: To All The Boys I’ve Loved Before book #1 Author: Jenny Han Page count: 355 Date published: 15 April 2014 Genre: Young Adult contemporary Rating: (5 out of 5 stars) GOODREADS SYNOPSIS What if all the crushes you ever had found out how you felt about them… all at once?  Sixteen-year-old Lara Jean Song keeps her love letters in a hatbox her mother gave her. They aren’t love letters that anyone else wrote for her; these are ones she’s written. One for every boy she’s ever loved—five in all. When she writes, she pours out her heart and soul and says all the things she would never say in real life, because her letters are for her eyes only. Until the day her secret letters are mailed, and suddenly, Lara Jean’s love life goes from imaginary to out of control. I love these books (even though I picked up on a few things but I’ll talk about that later) like SO MUCH. And oh boy oh boy am I excited for the movie you have no idea!! SO since the movie is coming out and I was really in the mood…