My sister had sent me a book called Matched, a YA dystopian romance by Ally Condie. It sounded like a fun beach read so I grabbed it for my beach day. I ordered the rest of the trilogy on Paperback Swap and read those too. Not bad, but the last book was a slow starter. I liked the ending well enough though.
I was doing a 10 book challenge on Facebook and looked through my bookshelves for inspiration, and saw Alanna, the First Adventure by Tamora Pierce. I LOVED these books, the Song of the Lioness series, when I was a kid. I had the first book, which I had found randomly at a used book sale. I read it in a day or 2 and tried to find the rest. No luck at the library. New set would cost over $40 on Amazon. Luckily for me someone posted them on Paperback Swap soon after and I got them. Yay! So I plowed through the other 3 in less than a week. Such a fun series. I have another set of books (only 2 in that set) by the same author about Alanna's daughter, so that's been put on my to read list.
Yesterday I started another YA book, Before We Were Free by Julia Alvarez. It hasn't really grabbed me so far but I'll give it more time before I decide to give up.
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