Name: Ripple
ISBN: 9781595144232

Mandy Hubbard

Amanda Hubbard

Lexi, a siren who has managed to prevent herself from hurting anyone for two years, finds herself falling in love during her senior year of high school.

Ripple

Monicap

The Plot: 5/5
So, we have a girl who’s a siren. And then we have half of a cutesy–tutesy romance. And then, in a predictable way, some other guy comes in and breaks it up and picks the cutesy-tutesy romance right up where it left off. Siren hijinks ensue.
(It’s better than I made it sound. Like, really.)
	
The Characters: 5/5
Lexi: just…wow. Her character was so deep and what she went through was amazing.
Cole: I really wish he’d picked up on the vibes, done his research and come back already knowing about the Siren stuff, but it all worked out just fine anyway.
Sienna: was perfect in her role in this.
Erik: okay, about Erik, the way that he went about breaking up the Cutesy-tutesy romance… well, it happened in such a way that I couldn’t dislike him right off the bat. I could, however, dislike him right off the bat regarding his name. Erik, with a k. As in, Erik, from HoN. If you know me at all, then you know I think he’s a dickwad. So his name knocked off three points for him right away, but I couldn’t really find any other reasons to dislike him (view spoiler)[So I didn’t really, and he fooled ME. ME. I pridemyself on being able to predict, to some extent, the bad guys and who’s gonna die early on in books. But he fooled me. (hide spoiler)]

The Romance: 5/5
I don’t usually go for cutesy-tutesy romances, because I don’t tend to read cutesy-tutesy romance. The stuff I read is usually more along the lines of EPIC OVE STUFF or cheesy instalove that I’m not emotionally invested in. But the romance in this book was a good middle ground. I much enjoyed it. 

Overall grade: 15/15
You can count on me reading more Mandy Hubbard.

Also, just a random thing: last week, I read the Near Witch by Victoria Schwab, and the main girl in tha book was name Lexi and the main boy was called Cole. In this book, the main girl was ALSO named Lexi, and the main boy was named Cole. Coincidence? I think not, as an amateur conspiracy theorist who does not believe in coincidences.


PS- Please go my read my review for In Too Deep so you can watch my inner conspiracy theorist freak out.
http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/...

Mae Erceg

I thought the ending was really sweet and the story did come together but there were a few things I expected that didn't really happen. But nonetheless, Mandy Hubbard did such a great job writing this. I also REALLY liked that you saw the girl's point of view of struggling with being a monster while a lot of books usually are told from the girl's point of view of falling in love with the troubled guy who makes himself out to be a monster but she loves him anyway. It's a nice change :D

madina

i liked lexi's character here. i just wished that there's more than romance to this and that whole 'falling in love' thing - but well, it's the books in my library, so.