30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 2

Where you'd like to be in ten years?


This is the million dollar question.. I honestly have no idea where I want to be. Ten years from now I will be 30. I would HOPE to be a Registered Nurse (which I am in school for currently), married, with maybe a child or two. If I am single, with no children.. well that's perfectly fine with me. I'm not one of those people who spends a lot of time dwelling on a plan and trying to stick to it. I like to say that I am a open minded, open spirited, free person.. I attempt to let things "go with the flow" although it is difficult to do sometimes. Also, ten years from now I would love to have traveled out of the US, this is one thing that I determined to accomplish, whether I have to wash dishes at a Mexican restaurant to save the money or not. I AM GOING TO ENGLAND. SPAIN. FRANCE.. That's all for now, I didn't enjoy this topic. :(

XOXO, Amanda

30 Day Blog Challenge: Day 1.

You're current relationship. If single, discuss being single.


My current relationship status ... Is SINGLE. Lots of people tend to have problems with being single but I'm currently at a point in my life where I am sufficiently content. I have only had 2 serious relationship and dates with plenty of people. Being single is nothing that I am ashamed about, I'm a busy 20 year old girl in nursing school and that basically occupies ALL of my time. I'm not looking for a relationship NOR am I avoiding one, if someone's comes along then I will gladly pick it up but I'm not on the hunt for a boyfriend.

XOXO, Amanda.

30 Day Blog Challenge :)

Hello! Hi, I am doing a 30 day blog challenge. I'm excited to start this & it will give everyone more insight to my life and who I am. I'm attaching the challenge below in case you'll would like to do it as well. [:

Fragments by Dan Wells

*spoiler free review*


*I got this book as an ARC from Epic Reads.


After I finished this book I rated it a mere 3 out of 5 stars until I started really thinking about everything that happened.

Partials ended with Kira finding the cure for RM as well as finding out that she is a new type of Partial that they hadn't come across... Ever.

Fragments is about Kira's journey to self discovery.. She has already found the RM cure but doesn't know how to synthesize it. She sets off on a trip to discover secrets that were meant to stay hidden. On her way to ParaGen headquarters she meets up with Samm and Heron who join Kira on her trek to the truth about what she is. During the duration of Kira's trip Dr. Morgan's partials take East Meadow hostage in an attempt to find Kira(for more testing) which causes Marcus to take matters into his own hands and step up to help save East Meadow. Kira's self discovery may help save the world or destroy it...

I took a step back after reading the book(which I was intensely immersed in for 3 days) and though about it as a TRILOGY which, obviously, it is! I realized I was being biased because I wanted to know what happened in the end so I change my rating to a 4 star. As you can tell... I CAN'T WAIT FOR THE NEXT BOOK. It left off so INTENSE.

Partials by Dan Wells

Synopsis: The human race is all but extinct after a war with Partials--engineered organic beings identical to humans--has decimated the population. Reduced to only tens of thousands by RM, a weaponized virus to which only a fraction of humanity is immune, the survivors in North America have huddled together on Long Island while the Partials have mysteriously retreated. The threat of the Partials is still imminent, but, worse, no baby has been born immune to RM in more than a decade. Our time is running out.

Kira, a sixteen-year-old medic-in-training, is on the front lines of this battle, seeing RM ravage the community while mandatory pregnancy laws have pushed what's left of humanity to the brink of civil war, and she's not content to stand by and watch. But as she makes a desperate decision to save the last of her race, she will find that the survival of humans and Partials alike rests in her attempts to uncover the connections between them--connections that humanity has forgotten, or perhaps never even knew were there.


My opinion: Hmm.. I don't know how many people think like I do but I was not the biggest fan of YA dystopian novels. They were popping up everywhere as if no one had any orginal ideas. Therefore, I was hesitant to read this because I thought it was going to be the same thing that I have read before. IT'S NOT. This is not a love triangle, sweet, romance type of dystopian novel which I love! It's a medical mystery that in order to cure will unravel many deep secrets humans did not want seeing the light of day. Conspiracies, cover ups, and sabotages basically sums up what you will read in the book.



On a side note: There is minimal romance in this book, but I am rooting for Team Kira & Samm (with two M's)

The Edge of Never by J.A. Redmerski

Synopsis:

Twenty-year-old Camryn Bennett had always been one to think out-of-the-box, who knew she wanted something more in life than following the same repetitive patterns and growing old with the same repetitive life story. And she thought that her life was going in the right direction until everything fell apart.

Determined not to dwell on the negative and push forward, Camryn is set to move in with her best friend and plans to start a new job. But after an unexpected night at the hottest club in downtown Raleigh, North Carolina, she makes the ultimate decision to leave the only life she’s ever known, far behind.

With a purse, a cell phone and a small bag with a few necessities, Camryn, with absolutely no direction or purpose boards a Greyhound bus alone and sets out to find herself. What she finds is a guy named Andrew Parrish, someone not so very different from her and who harbors his own dark secrets. But Camryn swore never to let down her walls again. And she vowed never to fall in love.

But with Andrew, Camryn finds herself doing a lot of things she never thought she’d do. He shows her what it’s really like to live out-of-the-box and to give in to her deepest, darkest desires. On their sporadic road-trip he becomes the center of her exciting and daring new life, pulling love and lust and emotion out of her in ways she never imagined possible. But will Andrew’s dark secret push them inseparably together, or tear them completely apart?

My opinion: WOW, there's always that one book that you read and it blows all the others out of the water. Let's just say that this book is INTENSE, EMOTIONAL, AND SEXY!!! Andrew and Cam's relationship is so raw and intriquing, they're the missing pieces to each other. Cam is dealing with what life has given her and needed a break from doing the same thing over and over again... So she takes a trip to no where. She meets Andrew, sparks fly and they take the trip of a lifetime. Both Andrew and Cam are secrets that make or break the friendship... In the end, all is revealed... So will they stand strong or crumble?

Raring: 5 out of 5. I loved this book and took my time reading it because I didn't want it to end!!

Goals for 2013.. Resolutions.

Hey guys, just a few knick knacks to know about me for this coming year! 

My new years "resolutions":
1. Read at LEAST 100 books throughout 2013, more if I can.
2. Eat healthier (everyone wants to do this)
3. Get A's.
4. Take a NICE summer vacation for my 21st birthday..




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Much love, 

Amanda