This week I continued reading Missing by Kelley Armstrong. As I continued to read it became harder and harder to put the book down. The suspense just built and built. The author used so many descriptive words to make it easier to visualize scenes in the book. For example, Winter Crane said, "and I have this bizarre urge to kiss those lips and see him wake, like Sleeping Beauty."
In this weeks reading Winter went out into the woods to hunt and tried to steer clear of the wild dogs in the woods. She noticed that the wild dogs were surrounding a tree in the woods because a man was dangling in the branches of the tree unconscious. Winter shot arrows from her bow deep into the woods so the dogs would go after them and she could help the man in the branches. When she finally got him out of the tree and into her cabin he woke up and repeatedly said, "You have to leave. He is going to come back."
This is a fabulous book and it definitely has me hooked. I would recommend this book to young adults. It is so easy to fall into the book and to picture yourself where the characters are.

This week I started the book Missing. I am only a chapter in the book and it is so full of suspense already. This book was written for young adults and it keeps the heart racing and mind wondering what is going to happen next. This book is filled with great descriptions and it is so easy to imagine yourself being where the girl is in the story.
The book starts with Winter Crane describing how her hometown Reeve's End is a terrible place to live and everyone there is poor. Winter found an Air Jordan shoe in the woods and said: "That shoe also means he's not from Reeve's End," because it was a three hundred dollar shoe. Once people leave Reeve's End, they don't come back. Winter lives on her own in a shack in the woods with no electricity. Her mother died when she was seven, her sister left Reeve's End and has never returned, and her father thinks she is a burden so she stays away from him.
Winter Crane seems to be very alone in this world. My heart goes out to her already and I have only read the first chapter of the book! I can't wait to keep reading and see what happens to Winter and if she ever makes it out of Reeve's End.

I finished the book "Before I Fall" this week. This was an attention grabber for sure. It was so hard for me to put this book down. Just as I thought I was done reading for the night something interesting would happen and I'd get pulled right back in. This book isn't necessarily geared towards children, but more so young adults.  This book made me feel all sorts of ways. I felt like I was Samantha, like I was living through her and feeling everything she felt. When she was scared, I felt pretty anxious and on edge. When she was mad, I also felt upset as well.

Samantha lives the perfect life, gets everything she wants, and has the perfect boyfriend. Samantha and her friends go to a party and bully a girl from their school named Juliet at the party and on their way home from the party they get in an accident and it causes Samantha to live the same day over and over again. Samantha can't stand living this day over and over because she has hurt someone and can see she has done so. It's like a nightmare she can't escape from and she has to unsolve the mystery of what is going on and how to stop her day from replaying.

Samantha says in the book, "I'm not in trouble. It's not about me. I have to help someone." She wants to fix what she's done and how people have made Juliet feel. I think that says a lot about Samantha as a person. She was my favorite character in the book. She wanted to make right by everyone. This book was a great read. I definitely recommend it!