"Top Gun" Started It All

I am 22 years old and I truly enjoyed this YA novel. I usually dread reading YA novels, just because the main characters are usually too whiney, and way too much drama usually goes down, but Leslea Wahl did a wonderful job creating a relatable main character, and she was very sparce with the drama, which I enjoyed. Josie, the main character, is truly a girl after my own heart. She is clumsy, a lover of musicals, and old movies which definitely made her a relatable main character for me. I loved the references to old movies, and plays and I proudly understood them all. Maybe these references will motivate some of this new generation to look up some of these classics. The romance in the book was very well written, and believable and it made me relive my high school dream of having a summer romance in a quiet little beach town. (That tends to be a popular theme in YA books.) If you want to read an uplifting book, with a bit of mystery, romance, and a clumsy, relatable main char

"Where The Fire Falls" first drew my attention when I saw it was set in Yosemite National Park, and when I saw it was also set in the late 20's with a bit of mystery and romance, I was hooked. I felt like the book had a bit of a slow start, and it took me a bit to really get into it, but when I did it met my excited expectations. The writing of the author really helped me visualize the area. I felt like I was actually at Yosemite, and one day I hope to be. It was interesting to read a bit about the history of a few of the places and people depicted in the book in the Author's Note, and I was happy to hear that The Fire Falls were a real thing, but sadly they stopped doing it back in the 60's. The romance between the two main characters unfolded beautifully, and figuring out both of their stories and pasts was well worth the wait. I would highly recommend reading, "Where The Fire Falls" if only to go to Yosemite in your mind, because the author t

Suzanne Woods Fisher has always impressed me with her writing, and "Phoebe's Light" did not disappoint. The book follows a young Quaker woman named Phoebe, back in the mid 1700's on Nantucket Island. The Quakers are a part of history that I do not know too much about, and this book gave me a bit of insight that I always love from historical fiction. If a book can surprise me and not end up with what I assume is going to happen, I am always overjoyed and this book did that for me. The ending was what I had expected, but the middle did throw me for a few loops that I truly enjoyed. My only complaint would be that I wish their may have been a bit more romance between the two main characters, but all in all it was a very good book. The second book in the series will be released this summer, and I am already anticipating it. We got to read the first chapter at the end of this book, and I'm pretty sure it will be just as good, if not better, than "Phoebe'