Liana Gardner

Katie McCabe is a rebellious teen. Her father is the town sheriff. She loves him dearly. She lost her mother at a very young age. He is all she has. She and her best friend Tommy accidently set a shed on fire. When she gets home she explains to her father it was an accident. She is made to pay for the damages. Then the next morning she is put on a bus and shipped to her uncle’s house. Her dad tells her it is because he has been sick lately and the doctors want to do some tests. Her beginnings with her uncle and cousins is rocky. She meets a young man named Logan who seems to have her back even when she is trying to sabotage herself. When her father dies and they pack up her former house and move her into her uncle’s house permanently she really rebels. She has convinced herself that they have taken her in out of obligation and not out of love. What will it take to prove her wrong? What happens when she makes enemies with someone who believes they are powerful because of their family name? What will it take to survive?
I read this book in just a few hours. It is one of the best books I have read in a long time. I have read other books by this author and highly recommend this book and all her others. I will tell you that you will need a box of tissues all through this book.… (altro)

I really did not enjoy this book at all. I know it's a YA book, but I felt like the 12-year-old characters were more like 5-year-olds. All the dialogue felt forced and awkward and the worst thing? The entire book is an "and then" construction. You could tell the entire story in one sentence: A 12-yr-old girl finds a magical journal that makes everything she writes in it come true and she learns right from wrong in the process of using it to solve her problems. You're welcome. Definitely skip this one.… (altro)