Boy Proof by Cecil Castellucci

There is no plot to this book. But it's okay, it doesn't need one. Egg is a sci-fi obsessed girl just trying to find herself in a world where she is considered a geek. Her mum is famous in a B-List way, so she has insider information on all the newest sci-fi movies, but she won't tell her friends. Max is a good character, but we have no background story or character development on him, so he isn't really all that great. He had potential, but it was squandered. Egg is a very independent character, but she also doesn't get much character development. She's interesting, but she's also very self-serving, and uninterested in people and being a friend unless it suits her. Maybe she grew up a little through the book, but not much. I won't be reading this again, but for all intents and purposes, it was fairly entertaining.

Here's the Blurb:


What happens when an antisocial cinephile meets up with the worldly new guy at school — a quick-witted artist who's savvy enough to see through her sci-fi disguise? 
Meet Egg. Her real name is Victoria Jurgen, but she's renamed herself after the kick-ass heroine of her favorite sci-fi movie, Terminal Earth. Like her namesake, Egg dresses all in white, colors her eyebrows, and shaves her head. She always knows the right answers, she's always in control, and she's far too busy — taking photos for the school paper, meeting with the Science Fiction and Fantasy Club, and hanging out at the creature shop with her dad, the special-effects makeup wizard — to be bothered with friends, much less members of the opposite sex. As far as Egg is concerned, she's boy proof, and she likes it that way. But then Egg meets a boy named Max, a boy who's smart and funny and creative and cool...and happens to like Egg. Could this be the end of the world — at least as Egg knows it? 


                                   I give this Book Three Stars.

Someone Else's Life by Katie Dale

Wow. This is the first time I've ever heard of Huntington's disease. It must be devastating. How could you live your whole life knowing that the results of one test had ruined it? That you could pass it on to your kids? How? What makes people want to know how they're gonna die? What makes people want to abandon their babies? I don't know, but I loved this book. Rose and Andy are great characters, and they seem very real in their relationship. They handle things in very different ways though. Andy's always running away, and Rose is always thinking she knows best. The dynamics and emotions throughout the book were amazing though.

Here's the Blurb:

When seventeen-year-old Rosie’s mother, Trudie, dies from Huntington’s Disease, her pain is intensified by the knowledge that she has a fifty-per-cent chance of inheriting the crippling disease herself. Only when she tells her mum’s best friend, ‘Aunt Sarah’ that she is going to test for the disease does Sarah, a midwife, reveal that Trudie was not her biological mother after all... Devastated, Rosie decides to trace her real mother, hitching along on her ex-boyfriend’s GAP year to follow her to Los Angeles. But all does not go to plan, and as Rosie discovers yet more of her family's deeply-buried secrets and lies, she is left with an agonising decision of her own - one which will be the most heart-breaking and far-reaching of all...


                               I give this Book Four Stars.

Gil Marsh by A.C.E. Bauer

It was absolutely enchanting. Gil is a very complex boy, and I loved his story. His story is one of letting go, and he definitely told it well. He made you want to laugh and cry in all the right places. It was a little short, but anybody who can pack that much emotion into such a short book definitely gets my vote. Read it today. I dare you. This story was utterly unique, in all the best ways.

Here's the Blurb:


Good looking, athletic, and smart, Gill Marsh is the most popular kid at Uruk High School, even though he is only a junior. When Enko, a new kid from Montreal, shows up, Gil is wary. Yet Enko is easy going and matches Gil's athletic prowess without being a threat. Soon, the two become inseparable friends, practicing, studying, and double-dating. 


Then suddenly, to everyone's shock, Enko succombs to an aggressive cancer. 


When Enko's parents take his body and return to Canada, Gil is unable to even say good bye. He is inconsolable. Determined to find Enko's grave, Gil sneaks away and heads north.


Closely based on the ancient story of Gilgamesh, the Sumerian King from 3000 BC, A. C. E. Bauer has carefully woven the classic elements of myth to follow Gil's quest and explore the grief and growth of a young man.


                                I give this Book Three Stars.