Violets Are Blue

This middle grade book deals with some pretty heavy topics and does such a good job of it! Wren is having a big year of changes. Her parents get divorced, her dad gets remarried moves to New York and has twins, her mom decides to move them to a new town and a new school. The one thing that stays constant to wren is her love for special effect makeup. She loves watching videos and experimenting on her mom. Soon her makeup skills are the thing that help her make friends and connect with other people. Her life may be messy, but her makeup is always on point. Violets are Blue deals with tough topics like: divorce, bullying, new families, and addiction. Readers will fall in love with Wren as she tries to find her voice and forge a path into new unknowns. 

Violets are Blue

This is my second ever James Patterson novel. I loved the narrators and I think they made the story a LOT better. Even though this is the sixth Alex Cross novel and I haven't read the first ones, I decided to pick it up. These are all basically stand alone novels anyways. It started off really promising, and I was instantly hooked. The murders were freaky and the bad guys were scary. I wanted to know more. Unfortunately the ending was very anticlimactic. It turns out there was more than one story in this story and it made the ending.... not what I anticipated. Overall, it was pretty decent I guess.

For fans of James Patterson novels and cheap thrills.