No One You Know and Pledged

Over spring break I got sick, lucky me I know, but some good did come out of it I guess. I finished the two books I've been reading that were kinda slower reads. The first was a book called No One You Know by Michelle Richmond. I'm just gonna come right out and tell you, it was a snore-fest. The story itself looked really good, it had a good plot, and the librarian at school told me she really liked it. It's about a girl named Ellie whose sister Lila is murdered. The police never figured out who Lila's killer was but it always haunted Ellie. So the story is really about Ellie's search for the killer, but then there is all these weird math facts and stuff that really slow down the reading. Lila was a brilliant mathematician so Ellie looks through Lila's old math journal for clues. That's when the book gets really really boring for a while. Not to mention I didn't really get into the story until over halfway through it. So all in all I wouldn't recommend this book, unless you really like math and you want a lot of math in the story. Or else you'll end up skipping a whole bunch of paragraphs like I did.
The other book I finished was Pledged: The Secret Life of Sororities. It was actually a pretty good book, it has four different girls perspectives on sorority life. My only complaint was that the sections about each girl were really short and then it moved on to the next girl, so it took me a while to remember which character was which. Also, there were these essay-like things every once in a while that explained things about sororities and fraternities and those were kind of boring. But if you're thinking about being in a sorority it's a very informational book, if not a bit dramatic. I would recommend this one for sure.

p.s. There was pretty much no worthwhile quotes in either of these books. Bummer...