Size 12 and Ready to Rock by Meg Cabot

I received this book as part of the Library Thing Early Reviewers program and was super exited as I already have all of the previous books in this series :) !

Heather Wells returns! Be ready to put everything you planned on accomplishing for the day on the back burner, because once this book is started, it won't get put down until it's finished. Romance, mystery, action, and lot's of humor, Meg keeps writing amazing, contemporary chick lit.
In this fourth installment of the Heather Wells series, Heather once again finds herself in the middle of a mystery and... mortal peril. But why? Could someone really want Tania Trace or Jordan Cartwright, two of the most beloved pop stars, dead?
While Heather has all the worries of keeping the people around her in Death Dorm safe (along with herself), she's also worrying about how her recent engagement to Cooper Cartwright will be taken by others (most importantly her ex Jordan, Cooper's brother).
Can Heather handle everything and stay alive?


"I've come to the conclusion that, aside from Nazis, the Taliban, and possibly the honey badger, there is no one in the planet more merciless than a teenaged girl, once she's decided she dislikes you."

Divergent by Veronica Roth

Title: Divergent
Author: Veronica Roth
Rating: 5
Genre: YA Dystopian

I loved this book.  It's a fast, fun, action-packed read. This book reminded me of a more grown up version of The Giver because of the ceremony to decide your fate for the rest of your life and that whole dystopian theme.  However, it's for a way more grown up audience (not that The Giver can't be enjoyed at all ages:) because there is a lot of brutal violence and the necessary young adult romance aspect.  The violence part reminded me of the Hunger Games (I was in total shock at parts of that book) but in both books it was necessary in the fact that it showed the reader how far society can fall, but people will still accept it as "normal".

In Divergent, Beatrice aka Tris makes a fateful decision to leave her family's faction of Abnegation to join the Dauntless faction, one of five faction's this Dystopian world is made up of; Candor (the honest), Erudite (the intelligent), Amity (the peaceful), Dauntless (the brave), and Abnegation (the selfless. Tris partakes in the brutal Dauntless initiation, trying to prove herself as a fierce compeitor despite her small size and selfless upbringing. Even though Tris feels more at home in the Dauntless faction, there is still something different about her; her test results were inconclusive and she can easily manipulate the serum induced fear tests. Plus, she senses something isn't right in the Dauntless faction; their faction didn't use to be so senselessly violent and brutal. What will she find out about herself? And what is actually going on in the Dauntless faction?  Will she find out before it's too late?