Title: Beau and Bett Author: Kathryn Berla Genre: Young Adult, Contemporary, Romance Trigger Warning: Past sexual assault, Bullying Rating: 4 stars Synopsis After Beau LeFrancois's mother wrecks Bett Diaz’s luxury SUV, his family faces an impossibly large bill—and no car insurance to help pay it. To pay off the debt, Beau spends his weekends working at the Diaz Ranch. Beau’s prepared to work, but he’s definitely not prepared for the infamous temper of Bett Diaz—also known as "The Beast" at school. As Beau learns the secrets behind Bett’s tough exterior, he finds himself falling for her. That is, until he catches Bett in a lie. A contemporary twist on a classic fairy tale, Beau and Bett is a timely story of family, friendship, and the power of speaking out and standing up for yourself. Review ...

It's another Top Ten Tuesday Post! Top Ten Tuesday is a weekly blog meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl . I actually have an old post about adaptations here that you can check out, but for this freebie, I honestly ended up going really free on my list. Some of these following works, I have read and watched. Some I've only read. Some I've only watched and have been too afraid of expectations to start the book. So let's get into it now! 1. The Sun is Also A Star This movie comes out this weekend and honestly, I am just so freaking excited for it. I adored the book so much and definitely would recommend it to anyone and everyone. I'm not going to reread it before I see the movie or else I'll end up judging the movie mostly on differences from the book, but a reread is definitely in order at some point in the near future. 2. The Hunger Games I was in middle school when the trilogy and the first two movies were the hot stuff. Honestly, I was a little...

When I was in middle school and the first Hunger Games movie came out, I remember that while everyone else was concerned with the whole Peeta versus Gale stuff, I was more concerned about other things excluded from the film, things that I thought were important. For me, the best part of the book The Hunger Games was the boy from District 10. He was never given a name, but for me, that really characterized all of the worldbuilding that I needed to know about Panem, the nation that would make a boy that could barely walk participate. Yes, it was awful that teenagers had to fight for the death, but the boy from District 10 was the part that really impacted me, as well as all the motifs relating to hunger. The movie left all of that out. Honestly, it didn't make it seem awful that all these teenagers were forced to fight until they all died, much less how hunger motivated them in playing along. I don't know why some things such as my example get excluded from films, like S...