Title: Being Sloane Jacobs

I rarely do this (in fact this is the first time!) but let me begin this review with a small anecdote.

The other day I went ice skating with a couple of friends at the mall. Having lived in a tropical country all my life, the only ice we do have apart from the ones in the freezer, are the artificial ice in a few number of skating rinks around the city. And so for my best friend's birthday we opted to go ice skating. Yay! I don't even recall the last time I went ice skating, except that I was still very very young and I had an unfortunate incident with a rogue skater who dragged me down with her, so it was kind of my first time-ish (in about 10 years) on the ice that day. 

The whole time we were ice skating the only thing I thought about was Being Sloane Jacobs which I had just finished the day before. I tried to imagine myself as Sloane Jacobs (both of them) and it was funny because I was obviously nothing like them - as I flailed (and failed) my way through the ice. Now, while I was reading Being Sloane Jacobs I couldn't actually relate much as I don't ice skate, but from my small ice skating stint, I found myself appreciating the book more (funnily a day after I finished the book).

Being Sloane Jacobs is about Sloane Devon and Sloane Emily, two girls who are completed fed up with all the pressure and stress they have to go through with their respective sports, ice hockey and figure skating. When they meet each other and realize that they not only look a bit alike but also have the same name, they decide to switch places and go to each other's summer camps - Sloane Devon at figure skating camp and Sloane Emily at ice hockey camp. Will they be able to pull it off? What happens if they get caught?

Hey everyone! 

We've come up with an idea so that you guys will know whose post you're reading. From now on, blog posts will have the name button of the person who wrote that post at the top of each blog post. For example, this blog post is written by us: Kimi and Audrey, so our name buttons are shown above. 

First up on our list is...

1. Isla and The Happily Ever After by Stephanie Perkins

A few years ago, we heard about Anna and The French Kiss, but we didn't read it because we didn't like the title and the cover was too chick-lit for us. But after looking through Goodreads and Amazon to scout for new YA books, we found that Anna and The French Kiss had a really high rating and decided to read it. We instantly fell in love with the book and decided to read the rest of the series. Though we thought Lola and the Boy Next Door was pretty much a downer, Anna and the French Kiss made us actually swoon, so yes, we are reading Isla and the Happily Ever After. 

2. Breathe, Annie, Breathe by Miranda Kenneally

This is the fifth book in the Hundred Oaks series. When we first heard about Catching Jordan, the first book in the series, we didn't read it because we thought it would be a shallow book about highschool. But when we did read it, it turned out to be so much more than that. There are actually some serious issues tackled by the book, such as religion, gender roles, student-teacher relationships, morality, and more. This series certainly isn't the most well-written we've read, but we ended up liking it anyway. We look forward to reading the fifth installment, Breathe, Annie, Breathe.