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  Hey All! Holy Moly! I didn't expect how long I would go offline, not only from Blogger but also from my socials. The summer got hectic, then school came rushing in and stole the spot. My schedule has filled up dramatically, but now that I have a routine down, I'm hoping to start blogging a bit more, posting, and engaging with my audience.  Even though I haven't posted, I've still tried to read everyday, which has proved successful. Unfortunately, I'll be skipping a bunch of reviews in order to stay current. I'm going to finish a review that I've already had for a while, then jump into my more current reads.   Also, I've changed the name! From the beginning, Confessions of a Reading Freak didn't really stand out to me as an exciting blog name. I felt that it didn't really draw people in, nor did it fit the blog itself. I'm sure that I'll change it again in the future, but for now I think it's a name that fits better.  Thanks all for ...
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Tahereh Mafi's Shatter Me

 Warning! This review may contain a few spoilers from the book. If you're uncomfortable with that thought, please go ahead and click away. Thanks! Before I began reading this book, I hopped on Good reads to read some Q&As. A lot of the questions were, "Is this book good?" or "Is it worth reading?" Tons of people said this book was trash and wasn't worth reading. Some people who enjoyed the book said it was similar to The Hunger Games and Divergent. Others said it was an insult to compare Shatter Me with The Hunger Games and Divergent.  In my opinion, this book was actually pretty good. I loved the idea and would definitely read the rest of the series to find out what happens. I'm a dystopian fan, so this was right up my league. I felt like you couldn't really compare this with The Hunger Games as it didn't quite fit with it, but Divergent definitely had some similar characteristics. Now, I will say, this was more of a Romance genre than a Dys...
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Marieke Nijkamp's Even If We Break

  Warning! This review may contain a few spoilers from the book. If you're uncomfortable with that thought, please go ahead and click away. Thanks! After reading this book, I like to think that I am a generous person. I gave this book three stars, but it definitely deserved one or two. In the most recent review I made (The Cellar by Natasha Preston), I complained about the book not making much sense. That book wasn't nearly as bad as this one. I thought maybe it was just me and my lack of observation skills, but once I read more reviews on Good reads, I realized that many people had this problem.  The book is about a group of five teens that head up a mountain in Arizona to a cabin owned by one of the teens. There, they planned to play a murder-mystery RPG (Role-playing game) that they created before most of them graduate high school and leave for college. This is my first issue with the book: the RPG game. It's super confusing, especially when we're flopping from POV t...
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Natasha Preston's The Cellar

  Warning! This review contains a few minor spoilers in the book. If you're uncomfortable with that thought, please go ahead and click away. Thanks! A lthough this book was originally written on Wattpad, I found it from a BookTok post a few months ago. The video creator, whom I can't remember, gave it a good review, so I went ahead and bought it. However, this book wasn't it.  Natasha Preston had the right idea when coming up with this book. If written a different way, The Cellar could have DEFINITELY been more popular and gotten the attention of critics. Unfortunately, this book didn't have the right "jazz", and it lost my interest in the first few chapters. I partly want to believe that it was because it was written on Wattpad, but that isn't a very good excuse because I've read plenty of other books published from Wattpad that are just amazing.  The Cellar didn't make much sense. The first few chapters were rushed, and while Summer was getting k...
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