HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO MY WORDS ARE ARROWS!

Well, yes, you have read correctly. It is this blog's 1st birthday! It has been a whole year since I first

got the idea (and confidence) to create a place to share my thoughts about the things I love most- books. So to celebrate, I am going to give you a snippet of my NaNoWriMo project- something very few people have seen.

I'm very busy this month with NaNoWriMo so if you enjoy this please let me know, and I can post more snippets! Check here to see the synopsis first (also feel free to add me as a writing buddy, I'd love to chat!) and to check my progress through this month.

Basically the story is about these teenagers living in this really odd town, where the police seem to be in control of everything, including what times the residents are allowed out of their houses and where they can go. Something catastrophic happens within these teenagers' friendship group, and everything falls apart. And they start to realise something isn't quite right with where they live...

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   “Did the police call you as well?” I murmured, trying not to talk too loudly.

“Yeah. Suicide. Seems unlikely but I suppose they must be right, they’re the police,” he sighed.

He won’t believe you. He won’t believe you, just like Sebastian didn’t.

“I don’t think it was suicide,” I said, much too casually for what I was suggesting.

Gabe’s eyes flicked up from the table. “What?”

“I don’t think it was suicide. I think the police are wrong.”

Gabe continued to fidget with the salt and pepper shakers, growing visibly more nervous. “Ellie. You have to realise the seriousness of that accusation.”

I looked towards the door as the bell rung and a group of kids from school walked in, laughing and joking.

I sighed. The waiter came over with our hot chocolates and muffins.

“Blueberry muffins are my favourite,” Gabe said, poking the muffin with his plastic fork.

I shrugged. “I know. We’ve been friends since we were five, remember?”

He scooped up some of his muffin. “Of course. Everything feels different. Different and wrong.”

I nodded. “I know.”

I glanced at my watch. “We’re going to be late for school,” I muttered.

“You want to go?” Gabe said, looking up at me, his eyes big and innocent, just like they had been the day I first met him. He’d been playing in the sandpit in the preschool, and Tilly and I decided it would be funny to tip a bucket of water on the new boy. And so we did, and then, unexpectedly, Gabe smiled cheekily and begun chasing us with mini water pistols, which ended in Tilly falling into a small ditch and grazing her knee. We were all in uncontrollable laughter as we were rushed into the nurse’s office. We’d been best friends since that very day.

“I really don’t,” I admitted, violently stabbing my raspberry muffin, but not eating it.

“Then let’s not go.”

I just nodded. I never wanted to go back there, never back to the picnic area, never wanted to see anyone again.

“Have you met up with anyone?” I asked.

He nodded. “You and Rena. Rena and I walked back from school together on the day the police told us.”

“Seb and I went back to his place, too,” I thought out loud. There were already divides in the group. 

Previously, we’d never have been alone in a crisis, it would always be all of us in it together.

My problems were theirs, their problems were mine.

But having all four of us together now felt incomplete, broken, just plain sad. Like all of us individually, just amplified.

My phone buzzed in my pocket. “It’s the police station,” I breathed, and Gabe shuffled next to me in my seat so he could hear. I flicked it onto speaker phone.

“Hello, this is Elendra Parker speaking,” I said cautiously.

“Miss Parker. We are sure you know that this is the police station. Could you please come to the police station for further questioning at one o’clock this afternoon?” the gravelly voice on the other end answered.

I tried to slow down my breathing. “That should be fine.”

“Oh and Miss Parker? Please let your friend Gabriel know.”

“Shouldn’t be a problem,” I replied, anxious to get them off the phone.

“We know. He’s sitting right next to you.”

And then a long, soulless beep.

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So I hope that interested you, and that you want to read more! I love feedback, so if you want to contact me through any of my various social media sites, feel free to!

So happy birthday to My Words Are Arrows, and I hope there are plenty more years we can celebrate November 10 :)

Have a lovely day!

Lily xoxo

NaNoWriMo 2014

First of all, I am so sorry I've been so absent lately, but I actually have a real reason. This year, I am participating in NaNoWriMo 2014. For those of you who do not know, NaNoWriMo stands for National Novel Writing Month, and every November, writers all around the world take on the challenge of writing a 50,000 (give or take) word novel.

This year, as it is my first year, I am doing the Young Writer's Program so I don't get overwhelmed (I'm still getting the hang of this thing). You can see my account here, where you can check out the synopsis of my novel and even an excerpt. You would also be able to see the title, but as you know (if you know me and my writing habits), I'm terrible with titles and can never come up with them. If you read the synopsis and think of something that may work, please do not hesitate to send me a tumblr ask to my tumblr, a tweet to @lilypherondale, a comment on this post or even a message via the NaNoWriMo site. I'd be ever so grateful and I'd love to have your opinions!

So I just wanted to fill you in on where I've been over the last month and why I'll be inactive during this month. I hope you'll check out my page, maybe let me know via comments or my various social media sites if you're doing NaNoWriMo as well and then we can be writing buddies.

Have a lovely few weeks and I hope to be back with you soon to celebrate the one year anniversary of my blog, the end of my yearly reading challenge and book-mas!

The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl Review

The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl by Melissa Keil, or TIAOCG, as I will refer to it, is a
cutesy, relatable contemporary about figuring out where you want to go in life and dealing with the future. There's love, comics, friendship and the apocalypse, so basically, it's the whole package.

The story follows Sarah Albany, or Alba, a wannabe comic book artist living in a small, rural town. She lives in a bakery and wakes up to the smell of cooking pastries and cinnamon every morning, and between this and her group of close friends and caring mother, Alba is pretty happy with her life.

But with school over, and her friends wanting to leave, a boy she never thought she'd see again returning to town, a misbehaving superhero and the apocalypse, Alba's life is thrown unexpectedly into the deep end, leaving her confused and unsure.

TIAOCG is a beautiful, 4 star novel by one of my current favourite Australian authors, Melissa Keil, the author of Life In Outer Space. I recommend it as a cute, light read, so if you haven't read it, go grab yourself a copy and head back here to read my review and discuss!

***SPOILERS***
Right. Cinnamon Girl has so many interesting aspects of it, I don't quite know where to start!

Firstly, the setting. TIAOCG is set in a small, rural Victorian (I mean the state, not the era) town called Eden Valley. Eden Valley was made out by the characters to be some sort of farming hell hole that everyone wants to escape, but I couldn't help seeing it as kind of a cute little town. Everyone was so friendly to one another and it seemed like quite the idyllic little community. I loved reading about a town like this, because it is so different to what I'm used to in a community. I barely know all the people in my street, let alone my whole neighbourhood! I definitely understood Alba and that she wanted to stay in Eden Valley, however I also understood Grady and Caroline and their desperate need to get out.

Speaking of which, I'll talk now about the characters and about my love for them. All the characters were so different, from Eddie to Grady, from Alba to Tia, they all had their own distinct personalities and you could empathise and understand each of them even though the story was in first person, in Alba's point of view. It was easy to love Grady from the start, but seeing as though the story ended the way it did, it's easy to assume Melissa Keil did this on purpose. I think she did the same thing in reverse for Daniel, however I my opinion, it did not give depth or explain his character any more.

I feel like Daniel was poorly characterised, because he went from being Alba's cute, doting best friend and then he came back and was this arrogant, careless teenage boy. And that makes sense, I mean he's come from a few years of being a bit of a celebrity, of course he'd be a bit arrogant. And so he's a bit flirty with Alba, and Keil seems to be setting Alba and Daniel up at this point, seeing as though she's eluded to Alba liking Daniel before he left and then Alba saying she gets butterflies when Daniel smiles at her.

But then, he buys her that diet book, which completely horrified me, and I lost all respect for his character. And here's the final catch- he seems to justify his awful behaviour by saying he was trying to set up Grady and Alba? It's a plot twist that completely came out of nowhere (which I'll elaborate on further in the review), and didn't really make sense or fit with Daniel's characterisation. Did Daniel never have any feelings, and was leading her on just to toy with her? Because no friend should or would ever do that. Or did he actually like her, which then doesn't fit with his final conversation with her, before he left? I didn't at all understand what was going on with Daniel, and it was a pretty major down point in this book for me, however it is one of very few down points.

Moving onto my second down point, which follows on nicely from my previous point, is the love triangle situation. To be perfectly honest, I didn't even see a love triangle, because Alba always said in her narration that Grady was like her brother. She made no sly comments or anything like that to let us as the audience know that she had any romantic attraction to Grady at all. In fact, she made more references to a possible attraction to Daniel, both before and after he left, than she ever did Grady. And it is for this reason I found the ending rather unbelievable. It wasn't even as if she said something along the lines of, "I finally realised what I'd been trying to ignore for so long- Grady was definitely more than a friend in my eyes" or "I had a sudden realisation that I'd loved Grady all along". She just basically said she'd loved him forever and that was that. It's hard to believe that she actually did like him, because there was absolutely nothing to foreshadow it at all, despite maybe some comments of how she thought he was beautiful. It was a shame I found the love triangle so unbelievable, because otherwise, this book might have been a 4.5 star.

On my final negative point, I personally felt Alba's narration very hard to get into. I found it bulky and awkward and much to informal for my tastes, but once I got into the story, I was able to shift into her narration style and get into the story more. I am very interested in what you guys think about the prose in Cinnamon Girl, and would very much appreciate a comment or tweet (@lilypherondale) or even a tumblr ask (sherlockcrumpets.tumblr.com) telling me your thoughts.

Shifting back into my positive points, the whole "the world is ending" part of this story was a really clever and interesting addition. If anything, it keeps the audience reading, because there's always that seed of doubt in our minds, just like there is in the characters', that maybe the world is going to end. I was really interested to see whether to world would end at the end of the story, however I was leaning more towards it not actually ending. And I was correct, so props for Lily!

Another thing I liked about TIAOCG was Alba's love of comics. Of course, being a bit of a nerd, I rather love comics, particularly Marvel and DC, so my heart leaped with joy at all the shameless references. I've read so few books where the female main character is geeky. Not "I read deep poetry and classic novels I'm so different" geeky, but genuinely geeky. And I loved Alba's fearlessness to display her geekiness. I know in our world today, lots of girls are told that "you only watched Captain America because of Chris Evans" or "you don't actually read the Avengers, you're just wearing that shirt as a fashion statement". Heck, it happens to me a lot! And so I adored the change of seeing a female main character be really geeky. It is a trend in Keil's books so far, so if you love all things nerdy and geeky and haven't read Life In Outer Space yet, I highly recommend you go find yourself a copy.

Speaking about comics, I really liked the whole storyline focusing on Cinnamon Girl the character, and I was so interested where Alba's art and invention of her character would go. As you can probably imagine, I was very satisfied when Cinnamon Girl worked out.

The Incredible Adventures of Cinnamon Girl was just a very cute, light read that I really enjoyed. As always, please leave a comment, tweet (@lilypherondale) or even a tumblr ask (sherlockcrumpets.tumblr.com) to receive fun things like social media shout outs and follows.

I hope you've enjoyed this review and I'll see you next Sunday for another recommendation!

Lily xoxo

Book Hangover Recommendations Part 2

Welcome book nerdy friends! This week, as promised, I have the continuation of last week's post- guidelines for picking books to read during a book hangover. For the purposes of now, I'm going to call these books "cure books". I often use these rules and they are very helpful to me, so I hope they will assist you guys the same!

Rule #1- Steer away from high fantasy and fantasy epics
I use the terms "high fantasy" and "fantasy epics" quite often here, and I use them when talking about
extremely complex, very built up fantasy series. You know the type, nine-book series and about 500 pages per book. The ones that are hard to get into, hard to explain, but ultimately, just plain brilliant. The world building and the characters are complex, and everything about it just completely engulfs you. And when looking for a cure book, you should definitely, absolutely avoid these at all costs. When you're finding hard to get into stories (a typical symptom of the book hangover) the last thing you want is to try, fail and get frustrated at really good books because you just don't have the patience for them at the time. Battling these series is not what you want to be doing when you're suffering from a book hangover. Fantasy Epics include- The Mortal Instruments, The Raven Boys, Daughter of Smoke and Bone and etc.

Rule #2- Steer away from sad, dismal books
This is less important than Rule #1, but still relatively important. If you're in the middle of a book hangover, chances are you've just finished a series. And everyone knows that the end to a series is super bittersweet, and you're probably in emotional pain from the book. This is why you should not, NOT pick up super-sad books when you're getting over the book you just read. Sad, dismal books include- If I Stay, The Fault In Our Stars (although TFIOS isn't that great anyways) and etc.

Rule #3- Find a book that is short and sweet
The best type of book for book hangovers is the contemporary. These are often short and sweet, set in our real world with easy, relatable characters and an entertaining and fluffy storyline. They're really easy to get into and really easy to keep reading, more often than not, there's no trouble getting through them. The story just picks you up and hugs you, and doesn't let you go until the very end of the book. Contemporaries are just the right thing for a book hangover. Examples of good contemporaries- Anna And The French Kiss, Lola And The Boy Next Door, My Life Next Door, Life In Outer Space, Stargirl etc.

Rule #4- Steer away non-fiction and historical fiction
When experiencing a book hangover, chunky, info-filled books are not going to hook you back into reading. They're fairly dense and tough to get through, with lots of information to get your head around and concentrate. They're not as engaging and engrossing as fiction novels, and so you're more likely to start reading one, read a bit here and there, and then procrastinate reading it because you're getting bored, or you're not able to concentrate. Don't think I'm saying these types of books are bad, however, they most certainly are not, but they're probably not the most helpful during a book hangover. Non-fiction and historical fiction include- informative books, books about historical figures (it's very broad, I know).

Rule #5- Set the atmosphere!
When trying to get back into reading, it's best not to select the right book and be all ready to try again but then read in snippets and unfocused minutes on the bus, or at a function. It's best to start the book with the perfect atmosphere. I'm not going to tell you the "right" type of reading

atmosphere, because they differ from person to person. My ideal environment to read would be in bed, late at night, cuddled up under my blankets with a cup of tea, or on my lounge under a blanket with hot chocolate. But yours might be at a warm coffee shop, in your own little booth, or at the beach. It's really up to you to decide what your ideal environment is, but atmosphere is really important when breaking a book hangover.

So I hope these tips will help you in the future when you're trying to get over a book hangover! If you have any questions, comments, post ideas or more book hangover tips, leave a comment, send a tweet to @lilypherondale or a message/ask to sherlockcrumpets.tumblr.com :)

Have a lovely week and I'll see you next Sunday!


Lily xoxo

Book Hangover Recommendations Part 1

Hello dear book friends! Today I will be writing up a post that I know I would find very helpful, so I hope you guys do too! I will be suggesting books you can read if you are in a book hangover.

For those who do not know, here is the Urban Dictionary (yep, the epitome of all sustainable knowledge) definition of "book hangover"-

"When you've finished a book and you suddenly return to the real world, but the real world feels incomplete or surreal because you're still living in the world of the book."

Basically, a book hangover is when you've read a really, really good book and you cannot move on or concentrate on any other book because they just aren't as good as the last book you read. I find it really difficult to get back into other book when I'm having a book hangover, and since I get them quite frequently, I've had to learn what books to choose to help me get over them.

So here are my top five books to help you get through your book hangover!

1. Anna and the French Kiss and Lola and the Boy Next Door by Stephanie Perkins

Okay, so as you probably know, I love Stephanie Perkins and her books for me are just a fluffy cushion to fall back on when I'm sad or angry or tired of reading bad contempories. Anna and the French Kiss (review here) is about a girl who lives in America whose parents send her off to Paris for boarding school. The book is all about how she adjusts and is focused around a love story. Lola and the Boy Next Door (review here) is about a girl whose dream is to be a fashion designer. Everything in her life is pretty perfect until the Bell twins return to town- one being her worst enemy, and the other being her first heartbreak. These books are perfectly lovely and always lift my spirits, so they're perfect for book hangovers. 5/5 stars for effectiveness, 5/5 for quality.

2. The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin
I don't think I talk enough about how much I love this book and series. It's probably one of my favourite books and it was the book that got me into psych thriller. It is about a girl suffering from PTSD and weird things start happening… I don't want to explain too much, as it will ruin it, however I can say that it is so easy to read, even if it sounds heavy, you just get absorbed so fast. It's a bit dark and scary, actually, it's quite dark and scary, so it's probably not for the light-hearted, but it is very effective in eradicating book hangovers. 4.5/5 stars for effectiveness, 5/5 for quality.

3. Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell
Rainbow Rowell's characters are very real and wonderful, which makes them so easy to read and relate to, at least for me. Fangirl is about a girl obsessed with the equivalent of Harry Potter in their world, called Simon Snow. She writes fanfic, draws fanart and is an avid member of the fandom (see why I could relate to her?). But as she goes to college, she must deal with new relationships, as well as her crumbling relationship with her twin, and juggle all that around writing her fanfiction. The book is very, very good and I really liked it. Once you get about two, maybe three chapters in, you start to really, really enjoy it, and you will easily be lifted out of your book hangover.
4.5/5 for effectiveness, 5/5 for quality.

told you it was beautiful.

4. These Broken Stars by Amie Kaufman and Megan Spooner
Not only is this the prettiest book cover I've ever seen (no exaggeration, it's my favourite book cover ever), it actually had a really good story to match! This book is sort of Titanic in Space, and the story starts when two people who probably would never have ended up in the same room get stranded on a foreign planet together. Their mission? To escape the planet without anything killing them- including each other. But whilst stuck on the planet with possibly no hope of getting off, the two find what they do not expect. This book was just so easy to read, I'm pretty sure I smashed through in something like four hours, including breaks. It's easy to get into and easy to read, and should absolutely help with book hangovers. 5/5 for effectiveness, 4.5/5 for quality.

5. Unearthly by Cynthia Hand
This book isn't so great quality wise, but if you've just spent weeks reading an epic-fantasy series (The Mortal Instruments, Vampire Academy, etc) and you're in need of something super easy and even a little cheesy, then this is your book! Yep, this book is about angels. That's all I'm going to say, because otherwise you'll probably guess the whole plot. But it's not a bad read, it's fun and easy, and, much like The Beautiful Dead series, it's great for if you don't know what you want to read in a book hangover.5/5 for effectiveness, 3/5 for quality.

Now that you've got a few books to start you off, it's time I gave you some rules as to how to pick a book for when you're suffering a book hangover. But unfortunately, because this post is already pretty long, I'll put it up next week, as a part 2, instead of a recommendation. If you're interested in seeing the "Rules for Choosing Books to Cure Book Hangovers" post, leave a comment, send a tweet or contact me in some way and I shall make sure you are notified when it is posted. Additionally, I will be letting everyone know when it's posted on my tumblr (sherlockcrumpets.tumblr.com) and via my twitter (@lilypherondale), so you can check there too.

So I'll see you all next week for the continuation of this post!

Have a fabulous day!

Lola And The Boy Next Door Book Review

My goodness, it's been an age! I'm so sorry, I can't believe it's been almost three months since I last
posted. I am very sorry; it's been so hectic lately juggling proper work, editing my manuscript, writing the next manuscript in my series and reading books, and writing up reviews just hasn't found itself a place in between it all, which makes me sad because I love writing things for this blog, and I love interacting with you guys, I'm just hella busy. I am very sorry.

In better news, today I shall be reviewing a book called Lola and the Boy Next Door, by Stephanie Perkins, who I have now deemed the Contemporary Queen.

Anyways, for those who do not know, LATBND is the sequel to Anna and the French Kiss, which I read and wrote up a review for. You can find this review here. I really liked Anna and the French Kiss, so when I came across LATBND in my library, I just had to pick it up.

This book is about Lola Nolan, an aspiring fashion designer. She has the perfect life- a great best friend, loving parents, a passion for all things fashionable and a rock-band boyfriend. Well, it seems like the perfect life, until the Bell twins return to the house next door.

Twins Calliope and Cricket were two people Lola hoped to never she again, and on the return, her whole world is turned around and she has to deal with years of heartbreak and confusion caused by one of the Bell twins in particular- Cricket.

And yet again, Stephanie Perkins made me feel like, a), I do not have a very exciting life, and b), totally jealous because I can't for the life of me write cute, fluffy contemporaries like she can. I loved this book, it was in some ways, better than AATFK. However, I love both of them, so I highly suggest you read them and then you can come back here and discuss with us about the book! Okay, bye!

***SPOILERS***
Well, this book left me awestruck and amazed and enlightened and just good, and I would even go as far to say that maybe, just maybe, I liked it better than AATFK. Maybe.

As soon as we were introduced to Lola, I was hoping and praying for Anna and Étienne to make an appearance, because I started seeing similarities in Étienne and Lola. I knew they'd make great friends. And when they did show up, I was ecstatic, mainly because not only did I get a glimpse into their life after the end of AATFK, they were also rather important in the actual story of this book, especially Étienne.

It was easy to see the parallels between Étienne and Ellie and Lola and Max. And towards the end of the book, when Lola started to wonder what her relationship with Max was going towards, I imagined Étienne thinking exactly the same things.

And that's one of the things I love about Stephanie Perkins. I've said this before, I'll say it again. Her characters and their situations are so real. Of course a pretty, talented and outgoing girl like Lola would have a boyfriend. And I find that in a lot of YA romances, the gorgeous, wonderful female protagonist doesn't have her eye on anyone, let alone an actual boyfriend. It's just so much more complex and realistic and it makes for a better all-round story, which makes me as a reader very happy.

Another thing that I can now confirm about Stephanie Perkins is that she doesn't just have one story and one set of characters that she uses over and over again. One of my main fears when reading a sequel to a book that has a different set of characters to the first one is that these new characters are just going to be based off the original characters, and just thrown into a vaguely different situation. That isn't what happened in this book. Lola was so, so different to Anna. Where Anna is very worried and highly-strung, Lola is free-spirited and strong-willed. Again I bring up the point that she was more like Étienne than Anna. She had this flair and freeness about her which I seriously loved reading. Even though I am much more like Anna, reading Anna is like reading a gust of wind- calming, peaceful and easy. Reading Lola was like reading a firework- unpredictable and different. I like reading about both girls, but I was just so impressed at how different they really were.

Then there's Étienne and Cricket. Cricket is more quiet, and he was such a sweetheart. Everything he did was genuinely in the best interest of others, and he was just a good person. It's not that common to read a boy like Cricket in YA; most love interests have a very sassy, cocky feel to them, but Cricket was very sweet and quiet and he cared. Étienne was very much more the sassy, charming French Prince, and even though he was a great, fun character, I felt myself "awwww"-ing more whilst reading about Cricket. Honestly, though, if you asked me to choose one, I couldn't, because I love them both.

Just a sidenote, one of my favourite things in this book were the parallels in Cricket and Étienne's heights- Étienne is constantly picked on for being short, whereas Cricket is constantly picked on for being tall. It was really quite gorgeous to see.

Let's talk about Max. I knew he wasn't going to be as perfect as Lola narrated him as, especially once she explained that not only was he twenty-two, he also had a rock band, tattoos and was a bit of a jerk. Even she could admit that. He was just generally not very nice, especially when he kept saying stuff like having brunch with her parents was a burden. He was also super possessive, which I never like in a male character. He wasn't so much controlling as he was jealous, but the way he made her feel guilty for even just talking to Cricket bordered on the controlling side. I was glad when she finally broke up with him, and he finally let everyone know what he thought about Lola. I was even more suspicious, because I only recently read Breaking Beautiful, where there is a major plot twist in the love interest's character… Although I highly recommend it, so if you like crime and mystery stories, try Breaking Beautiful!

Back onto LATBND. This was a delightful book filled with cutesy romance, cutesy characters, cutesy scenes and just all round Stephanie Perkins perfectness. It was a joy to read and I am anxiously awaiting to get my hands on a copy of Isla and the Happily Ever After, and wondering whether Lola, Anna and co. will make cameos! (also pet hate of mine I've seen a few people calling Isla "is-la". It's pronounced "eye-la", as confirmed by SP herself. I just want to clear this up for people before they read the book so their entire world doesn't come crashing down when they realise they've been saying Isla wrong.)

Anyways have a wonderful day and I shall see you all soon!

Hunting Lila- Recommendation

Heyyyy! It's that time again! Time for a recommendation from yours truly! So today I am recommending you a book called Hunting Lila, by Sarah Alderson. I found this book on goodreads (check out my account if you wanna here), and I've had it on my "to-read" list for ages. So when I saw it in my library and was stocking up for a few weeks, I couldn't resist grabbing it.

I really enjoyed it, there was just enough of everything I love in a story in it to make me really appreciate the book. As with lots of books, however, the end of the book sort of deteriorates, but I'm hoping the second book will not let me down!

Lila has two secrets she's prepared to take to the grave. She can move things with her mind, and she's been in love with her brother's best friend, Alex, since forever.

Lila knows she's not ordinary. Dead mother, brother working for a mysterious government operation called The Unit and telekinetic powers sort of give a girl that impression. But after a dangerous and troubling mishap with her powers, Lila flees from her Dad and London, off to go live with her brother, Jack, and his best friend, Alex, in America.

Jack and Alex work at The Unit, a top-secret government military facility which is all too suspicious. Whilst living over in the strange world of odd alarms and midnight missions, Lila must deal with Alex. Lila has been in love with Alex since they were kids, and is determined not to let him or Jack know over her time staying with them.

Not only does Lila have to worry about Alex and The Unit, but also her powers. Mysterious men come up to her asking for her help and other odd things begin to happen, and she realises that maybe, everything here is connected.

So this book was hard to put into a genre. It's sort of crime and mystery, but also sort of psych thriller, and also a tiny bit supernatural, but it was just a really enjoyable story. I recommend this for people in book hangovers or mourning periods, because it's an easy story that you can really get into and enjoy with not too much effort.

I hope I've been able to give you guys an idea of something to read and I'll see you next week, right here!

Have a brilliant day!