First up

Starting this off with White Oleander by Janet Finch.
       I was looking forward to this book.But in the end was very disappointed. Astrid is a 12 year old who basically watches her mother go crazy after a man dumps her. Ingrid (Astrid's mother) finds ways to try and get her ex-boyfriend back.She goes to all of his favorite place basically just spends all her time stalking him or breaking into his house. Anyway she ends up killing him and Astrid is sent to a foster home. Where the journey begins for her. She sleeps with her foster mom's boyfriend,gets shot by her foster mother and then sent to a new home.The next home she becomes obsessed with the next door neighbor,performs a sexual act for drugs and is attacked by some dogs.Her face scarred she is sent to a new home again.This next one seems perfect from the outside but she finally realizes it's not. Astrid and the other girls are practically starved to death. She gets a new case worker who gets her into a new home. Clare seems like the perfect fit for Astrid. But she soon realizes that her new foster mother has a problem with depression. After meeting Ingrid,Clare becomes more depressed and in the end she finally commits suicide. Astrid is moved to MAC before finally going to her last foster home. She learns that anything is for sale,she sleeps with that foster mother's boyfriend. In the end she finally gets away and her mom is released from prison.She debates if she wants to go back to her mother or stay with her boyfriend,Paul. She stays.

 It just got boring to me.I thought with all this stuff happening it would be exciting but it fell flat for me.There was so much information that I felt was unnecessary to know. I read other peoples reviews and thought maybe I just wasn't as connected as I should have been.I gave it a 2 out of 5 stars.


White Oleander the movie
    First off let me tell you how much I loved the cast in this movie.Everyone fit the roles they were suppose to play perfectly. I loved this movie. It cut out a lot of stuff but I thought that was kind of perfect in this situation! Honestly a great movie.
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Coming up next for me is Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klause

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