Jeri Smith-Ready

Aura’s life is anything but easy. Her boyfriend, Logan, died, and his slides between ghost and shade have left her reeling. Aura knows he needs her now more than ever. She loves Logan, but she can’t deny her connection with the totally supportive, totally gorgeous Zachary. And she’s not sure that she wants to. Logan and Zachary will fight to be the one by her side, but Aura needs them both to uncover the mystery of her past—the mystery of the Shift. As Aura’s search uncovers new truths, she must decide whom to trust with her secrets…and her heart.

Shift

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Point 1: okay, chapter two did  not  happen. It just did not. It is too unfair to all involved. Logan, Aura and Zach. It is just  too freaking unfair . You hear me? Unfair.  too much hope for Logan, too much confusion for Aura, too much being-cheated on for Zach.
Chapter two was just  waaay  too much.
	
Point 2: quote:  “Thank you for your help. You seem like a nice girl.” Ex-Alice vanished.
“No,” I told the empty space she left behind. “I’m an asshole.”

Yes. Yes she is.

Point 3: I absolutely love her dress (or the back of it, which is what we can see) on the cover of this book. Don’t you? 

Point 4: Becca is a cool character. You have to get way to the end for it be obvious, but she is.

Point 5: time for another episode of: Conversations with Zoey!

Zoey Redbird: So, Aura, I hear that in this book you upped the score to three guys. Could you tell me about that?

Aura: Well, towards the beginning, my ex-boyfriend who’s a ghost became solid for about seventeen minutes and we almost did it—

ZR: Almost? Why only almost?

Aura: we didn’t have time to go all the way.

ZR: you say he was solid for seventeen minutes? That is way more than enough time.

Aura: I know! We got enough judgment about that in our own book, thank you very much, and I don’t need from you.

ZR: okay, I can see this is a touchy subject. Let’s move on to Zach. What happened with him?

Aura: Well, we made out a lot, learned that making out switched our powers temporarily, we broke up for a bit, he went prom with this girl named Becca and did naughty things with her—

ZR: who did you go to prom with?

Aura: my ghost ex-boyfriend’s little brother.

ZR: Ooh, drama. What happened with him?

Aura: A couple hot make out sessions.

*This episode of Conversations with Zoey! has been cut short to prevent any more terrible spoilers from happening out of courtesy for those who have not read the book.*

Point 6: this book had a great cliffhanger ending. And, unfortunately, this is the book where I have to wait for he next one. *Urgh*

Now, some quotes I found amusing:

 It was true. I was ready to share Logan with the world. Not just because he could do good, but also because as much as I loved him, he could no longer fill every corner of my life.
Some of the biggest spaces were already taken. 

This is basically as good as saying: I’ll always love Logan, but (let’s face it) he’s dead and I love Zach.

 Could a kiss really change the world? 

No. No it cannot. At least, not between yu and your boyfriend. I mean, when you think about it, Paris and Helena kissed and that started a war, which was impressive… but you, Aura, and your bf? Don’t you think we’re getting a little full of ourselves?

 “Teams? You mean ex-boyfriend vs. ex-almost boyfriend in the World Series of Awkward?” 

I just laughed. I laughed and laughed.

 I tried to make every foot step scream,  I am not even remotely in love with you, so there. Ha.  

I don’t think it’s possible for footsteps to convey that level of sub context, but I could be wrong.

 The normally quiet Connor was the first to speak. “No, dude. Seattle’s where people go to kill themselves. I read that someplace.”
Mickey gave a single nod. “I read that, too.” 

WHERE?!? Where did you read that?

There are other quotes that are more important to the story I could’ve put here, but these quotes really stood out to me, so I put these ones instead.
Now I will wait anxiously to get the third one from the library, where I have it on hold.

Shift

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