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Hello! Many of you may know that I recently read and loved If You’re Gone by Brittany Goodwin (if you haven’t seen the review you can see it HERE ). But now I am here with an amazing interview with the author of If You’re Gone , Brittany Goodwin! For anyone who has not read If You’re Gone , can you describe it in one sentence? “If You’re Gone is a realistic mystery about love and loss that will keep you thinking long after you close the book.” I have to ask the most cliché question of them all, but how did you come up with the idea for If You’re Gone ? That’s not a cliché question at all! In fact, I have to figure out exactly how to answer it! I created the characters of Lillian and Brad when I was not even in high school. Brad was that heartthrob guy that I was dreaming about and Lillian was a fictionalized version of myself. (Very original, huh?!) I began by writing a story about their relationship, but as I got older and began following missing persons c...

If you haven’t noticed, I’ve been rereading a lot of books lately, so why don’t we continue that trend with a book that I’ve now read three times— The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer by Michelle Hodkin.   Mara Dyer believes life can't get any stranger than waking up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. It can. She believes there must be more to the accident she can't remember that killed her friends and left her strangely unharmed. There is. She doesn't believe that after everything she's been through, she can fall in love. She's wrong. – goodreads.com summary “Thinking something does not make it true. Wanting something does not make it real.” For anyone who doesn’t know, I am currently hosting a read along for the entire Mara Dyer trilogy on my Instagram. This is now the third time that I’ve read The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer and the reason I keep coming back to it is the characters. I have become attached to these characters over t...

Hello readers and welcome to this week’s releases! Where once a week I talk about all the new books coming out that week! This week I’m covering the books that have been released from July 15th until July 21th! I could only find one book that I wanted to share with you so that’s all that I’m featuring this week. I’ll try to find more next week but I have band camp next week so no promises… Damage Done by Amanda Panitch  22 minutes separate Julia Vann’s before and after. Before: Julia had a twin brother, a boyfriend, and a best friend. After: She has a new identity, a new hometown, and memories of those twenty-two minutes that refuse to come into focus. At least, that’s what she tells the police. Now that she’s Lucy Black, she's able to begin again. She's even getting used to the empty bedroom where her brother should be. And her fresh start has attracted the attention of one of the hottest guys in school, a boy who will do anything to protect her. But w...