Crave by Tracy Wolff

When a girl has auburn hair, brown eyes, and freckles. I'm not beautiful" I just want to shake them and yell at them.
Grace when she sees Jaxon and Lia outside talking, and they notice her snooping:

Flint (and Grace) at the snowball fight:


Flint's hat, except make it a dragon instead of a lion. 
How I imagine Jaxon randomly disappears:


Jaxon to Grace:

592 Pages

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Well, this was not what I expected, but I still found it interesting. It often reads much more like a report or journal article, when I wanted something a bit more fiction-like. It also wanders a lot into other realms, and the story isn't told in chronological order, probably as what people are most interested in is how it all came to and end, which means it skips around a lot. I don't mind that, but in a way it reads more like a conversation, where you start on a topic, get sidetracked, wander off into another related realm, and then later pull yourself back towards the story and point.

This is a 3.75 for me, so I obviously rounded up. My favorite part was psychoanalyzing Chris and considering the many different viewpoints and opinions about him. I found that my ideas about him shifted and changed as the story progressed, so that kept me interested.

Book 38 read in 2018

Pages: 207

My Name is Not Easy by Debby Dahl Edwardson

My Name is Not Easy by Debby Dahl Edwardson
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I really love the setting and diversity of this story, especially as I have an interest in Barrow, Alaska and the Inupiat (for various reasons), and therefore, I have done quite a bit of research on that region and the people who live there.

The format of the story itself just never really came together for me, so I don't love the storyline, even though I really was interested in the characters, setting, and history. I stuck around for the unique setting and diverse perspectives, not the meandering plot and random story structure.

Pages: 248

Fire and Ice by Dana Stabenow

State Trooper Liam Campbell has been demoted and reassigned to a remote town in Alaska. But a remote town, doesn't mean a quiet town. Liam is confronted with a murder from the moment he steps off the plane. Standing next to the victim is Liam's former lover, Wyanet Chouinard. There were plenty of twists and turns in the plot and gritty characters to keep me interested. Book one in the Liam Campbell mystery series.304 pages.