The Girl and the Machine by Beth Revis

Rating: 5 Stars

Summary: Short story about a time traveler. It's a short story, I can't say more than that without spoiling.

Beth Revis is my girl. I've loved everything she has ever written. (You can read my review of her latest book here btw). T]his is part of a bigger collection of stories I need to get to. I got this story for free from a giveaway on her newsletter a while ago and read it right after but kept forgetting to write a review until now.

It was definitely not what I expected. At all. I was sitting at lunch and gasped out loud and then I had to tell everybody the entire story. It's different from most sci-fi. I'm trying not to spoil anything I'm sorry I'm being so vague. The main character is so badass, I was rooting for her so much. This is actually the first anything I've read anything with a asexual main character (maybe any character). I recommend this to everyone and anyone and already have recommended it to a few.

Glory O'Brien's History of the Future by A.S. King

Summary: Glory O' Brien doesn't care about her future. When Glory drinks a dead bat's ashes she begins to see the history of the future and her viewpoint begins to change.

Rating: 4.5 Stars

I've been meaning to read a A.S. King book for ages. I dont think I've ever seen anyone not like any of her books. This did not disappoint. It's so much different from anything else I've ever read. I've read magical realism before, but not this extreme. It was great, flipping the pages so fast and being shocked when realizing I was almost done.

The sub plot of the book she was writing was almost more interesting than the main story. I would love a whole book of just that story.  It was also the first time I've read a book where they talk about feminism and it not be the focus of the book. It's good to see it be mentioned as easily as saying you're favorite color is blue (and I have a shirt that says the same thing Glory's dad's bumper sticker which made me happy). There is romance in this, but it's a sub-sub-sub plot which I enjoyed.

The story was incredibly interesting. original, and entertaining. There was never a time where I got bored or thought the story was going slow. I would definitely recommend and plan on reading more of King's books.

In the Age of Love and Chocolate by Gabrielle Zevin

Summary: The third and final book in the Birthright series.

The first book was good, the second okay and this one was just disappointing.

Everything was spelled out in long dialogue or narration that made you roll your eyes from the cheese and bluntness. A lot of repetition. The same things have been repeating for the past three books.  The ending was cheesy. Anya is annoying. She thinks she's grown so much since the first book but really hasn't. Choices she made and then complained about how horrible they were for a hundred pages I didn't understand. They weren't really that bad?? Or bad at all??Also, no world building. At all. Again.

This series confuses me. How can her other books I've read, like Elsewhere and Memoirs of A Teenage Amnesiac (and I've heard nothing but good things about  The Storied Life of A. J. Fikry) be amazing and this not be.