Courtney Lives On In Books

Daughter of Smoke & Bone, Days of Blood & Starlight, Dreams of Gods & Monsters (Daughter of Smoke & Bone #1,2, & 3) by Laini Taylor Published: September 27 2011, November 6 2012, April 8 2014 Hardcovers: 418,517,613 pages Genre: High Fantasy, Romance, Magic Source: Goodreads Summary of Book One: Around the world, black handprints are appearing on doorways, scorched there by winged strangers who have crept through a slit in the sky. In a dark and dusty shop, a devil’s supply of human teeth grows dangerously low. And in the tangled lanes of Prague, a young art student is about to be caught up in a brutal otherwordly war. Meet Karou. She fills her sketchbooks with monsters that may or may not be real, she’s prone to disappearing on mysterious "errands", she speaks many languages - not all of them human - and her bright blue hair actually grows out of her head that color. Who is she? That is the question that haunts her, a...

Confess by Colleen Hoover Published: March 10, 2015 Genre: New Adult * , Contemporary Paperback: 320 pages Source: Goodreads Summary: Auburn Reed has her entire life mapped out. Her goals are in sight and there’s no room for mistakes. But when she walks into a Dallas art studio in search of a job, she doesn't expect to find a deep attraction to the enigmatic artist who works there, Owen Gentry. For once, Auburn takes a risk and puts her heart in control, only to discover Owen is keeping major secrets from coming out. The magnitude of his past threatens to destroy everything important to Auburn, and the only way to get her life back on track is to cut Owen out of it. The last thing Owen wants is to lose Auburn, but he can’t seem to convince her that truth is sometimes as subjective as art. All he would have to do to save their relationship is confess. But in this case, the confession could be much more destructive than the actual sin… My thoughts: ...