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Camille wants to find the perfect boy, with an athlete’s body and a poet’s brain. 

Lucy over at Queen of Contemporary asked me to do a guest post for her blog and I was honoured to do so. My topic of the guest post is Blogging Friends. Myself and Lucy were both talking about how much friends help and support you and make blogging a whole new bigger experience. I believe she said: “THEY ARE ABSOLUTELY FULL OF AWESOMENESS” and I totally agree.

Aside from my friends I have daily, who unfortunately like most bloggers, they tend not to be so enthusiastic about YA books in general. From the making of my blog; Never Judge a Book by its Cover I had met some amazing people to help me get started and into the blogging community. They really did welcome me with open arms, as they say. But the friendliest social network is Twitter. I have never been so addicted to a social network, before; Facebook went right through the window. Over Twitter I have a group of friends that I really can’t stop talking about books to:

Zoe at BookHi Blog, Kyra at Blog of a Bookaholic, Jessica at Booked Up and Lucy of course. It’s amazing what you can do with a group of friends such as mine… So far I’ve done read-alongs and author interviews which has been by far the most amazing experience so far. But what it does it brings you closer to book and to think that are many more of us enjoy our passion of reading. What’s nice as well, we are in the 21st Century, Print books are still the favourite between physical and eBook.

Friends support you, guide you, help you and most of all make your life that much different, unique and more amazing every day. Especially if you have a bad day, you know that your friends whether they are close to you or only a tweet away that they will brighten your day!

A book will always be a girl’s best friend, but (Blogging) fiends are like stars, you don’t always see them, but you know they are always there.

“I’ve left some clues for you.
If you want them, turn the page.
If you don’t, put the book back on the shelf, please.”

So begins the latest whirlwind romance from the bestselling authors ofNick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Lily has left a red notebook full of challenges on a favorite bookstore shelf, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept its dares. But is Dash that right guy? Or are Dash and Lily only destined to trade dares, dreams, and desires in the notebook they pass back and forth at locations across New York? Could their in-person selves possibly connect as well as their notebook versions? Or will they be a comic mismatch of disastrous proportions?

Rachel Cohn and David Levithan have written a love story that will have readers perusing bookstore shelves, looking and longing for a love (and a red notebook) of their own.

The year is 2009. Nineteen-year-old Jackson Meyer is a normal guy… he’s in college, has a girlfriend… and he can travel back through time. But it’s not like the movies – nothing changes in the present after his jumps, there’s no space-time continuum issues or broken flux capacitors – it’s just harmless fun.That is… until the day strangers burst in on Jackson and his girlfriend, Holly, and during a struggle with Jackson, Holly is fatally shot. In his panic, Jackson jumps back two years to 2007, but this is not like his previous time jumps. Now he’s stuck in 2007 and can’t get back to the future.
Desperate to somehow return to 2009 to save Holly but unable to return to his rightful year, Jackson settles into 2007 and learns what he can about his abilities.
But it’s not long before the people who shot Holly in 2009 come looking for Jackson in the past, and these “Enemies of Time” will stop at nothing to recruit this powerful young time-traveler. Recruit… or kill him.
Piecing together the clues about his father, the Enemies of Time, and himself, Jackson must decide how far he’s willing to go to save Holly… and possibly the entire world.

It is safe to say that I really wasn’t expecting to enjoy Tempest as much as I did. I thought that my rating would probably be a four so when I rated it 5 stars once I’d finished it I was very happy. I didn’t know a lot about the plot, but the little information I did know intrigued me.

Jackson has a secret: he is a time traveler. I haven’t actually read any books about time travel before and so I was a little apprehensive, but I actually found the concept interesting and thrilling. We first meet Jackson in 2009 where he likes to carry out time-traveling experiments with his friend, Adam. There is also the small issue of his girlfriend, Holly, who doesn’t know about his gift.

As an exciting character, I enjoyed reading the novel from Jackson’s point of view. I don’t know what I expected, but I really didn’t think it would be told from his view. I realise that this was a bit stupid of me as it really couldn’t have been written in anyone else’s. Throughout the novel, Jackson really transformed and even though I liked him from the first page, I loved him at the end. He was so calm and focused and was admirable for that reason. I wouldn’t act like that if I was in that situation!
Holly was a generally sweet character who I enjoyed learning about. The thing I most liked about her was her maturity and ability to stay cool in difficult situations (she was definitely in a few!). What set her apart from other YA characters was the fact that she was natural. Some authors make their characters perfect in every way but the characters in Tempest were true to real life.
Adam was likable and, although not one of the main characters, he felt just as important as Jackson and Holly, and also had his own role.

This novel kept me constantly on my toes, anticipating the plot line and it made me think: Is being normal so bad? Would I really want the pressure that Jackson had?

I really can’t wait to read Vortex as the ending of Tempest left me shocked. Why are authors so cruel to us?! How am I going to cope now, not knowing what happens?!

Jenna Oliver doesn’t have time to get involved with one boy, let alone two.