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Sketchy by Olivia Samms My rating: 4.5 of 5 stars Warning spoilers ahead!! I devoured this book! From the opening right up until the very end my attention was held. Not once did I get bored, and when I had to take breaks I could not wait to get back to it. Bea, is a recovering addict. She's been clean for 3 months. It's a daily struggle for her, anyone who's had any from of addiction knows what it is like themselves. "So you don't use anymore?" she asks. I take a deep inhale. "No, haven't for three months." She pauses,"Nothing? Not even weed?" "Nothing." I exhale. "Is it hard?" "Hard?" I laugh." "You ever try to stop a semi truch coming at you full speed? Like every day? Every hour? Every minute? Yeah, it's hard, but better then where I was, I guess." I can't even imagine going to rehab at the age of 17. It's her time spent there that she discovers her special ability....

Promise Me This by Cathy Gohlke My rating: 4 of 5 stars I knew when I started reading Promise Me This that I was setting myself up for heartbreak and sadness. How could I not, the story partially takes place aboard the Titanic, and we all know the events of that fateful night. We know about the hundreds of souls lost to the cold deep Atlantic ocean. Then we have World War I, another tragic momentous stain on our past. So like I said I knew what I getting myself into. Both moments in history that has always fascinated me, along with other events in history. Part of the reason I was drawn to reading this book. But those were not the only tragic events, yes they are not wide scale as the sinking of the Titanic or the WWI but the personal tragedies that have happened to those in the story, both living and and those who have past on. This book is about getting past those times, as well as facing them head on. Forgiveness and doing well towards other, no matter who they are or what they ...