P.S. I Like You
By Kasie West
Genre: Young Adult Contemporary
Personal Rating: 10/10

I adore Kasie West's books! She writes adorable, fun, and clean contemporaries that I always fly through. This one is my new favorite of hers.

To get through her Chemistry class, Lilly scribbles lyrics and song ideas into her fateful notebook. One day she absently writes some of her favorite song lyrics onto the desk. The next day, she discovers that someone else had continued the lyrics. This escalates into Lily and her mystery pen pal exchanging letters back and forth. At first it's a fun distraction from Chemistry lessons, but soon Lily and her pen pal are opening up to each other, sharing secrets and hopes. So when Lily discovers that her pen pal is a boy, she begins to fall for him. But what if the boy on paper isn't exactly who she's expected?

This book was adorable. I expected to love it, since I love everything Kaise West wrights, but I didn't expect it to be my new favorite contemporary novel. This book was clean and romantic, funny and sweet. The plot line does have a lot of potential to be overly cheesy, but I actually thought it was full of compelling characters and real-to -life problems I actually could sympathize with. These books are the only contemporaries I feel comfortable
recommending to my little sister, and I'm happy to have a new one to give her.

Fight Club
By Chuck Palahniuk
Genre: Fiction
Personal Rating: 7/10

While I have definitely heard of Fight Club before, it never appeared to be a book I would want to read. But then a few weeks ago my brother declared it to be his new favorite book, and I figured I should check it out. To say I was surprised would be an understatement.

"The first rule about fight club, is that you don't talk about fight club."

And that's about as much of an introduction as I can give. I really had no idea what this book was about, except for maybe a club where people fight, and I think that's the
best way to read this book. However, I will say that I was shocked to discover what the real focus of this story is.

While I was entertained and surprised by the end, I did not give this book a very high rating. This is because I wasn't actually a very big fan of the writing style. It was unique, but it also made it hard for me to get into the story. Also, this book has some very mature content in it that I really feel like was just added for shock value and not really to enhance the story. I liked how complex the story was, and how much was open to the reader for interpretation, however.

It was an interesting book to read, and I'm glad that I read it. However, there was just a lot about it that I did not agree with.