If traveling California is in your bucket list then you must know the popular places before visiting the destination. This destination is the home to a number of national monuments. In this blog, we will discuss all the popular monuments of California. These monuments are open to the public and have their own significance. Don't wait for anything, sign up with Holafares and book your cheap tickets to California. 

Most visited monuments in California

• Old fort national monument

This old fort was the base for the military from the year 1917 to the year 1994. But nowadays this place has a variety of plant species and grassland. Visitors to this place can enjoy biking, horse riding, and hiking. Also, there are a number of spots in the old fort national monument where you can find mountain lions, golden eagles and some other animals and birds that are protected by California.

• Devils Postpile National Monument

This monument is situated in the eastern Cali. It was established in 1911 and has lots of attractions. Visitors can get into the place with the help of shuttles. The Devil's Postpile is formed by lava. In this monument, the visitors can find black bears, deers, and willows. This monument is the protected area as a national monument by the president of California. 

• Lava beds national monument

The lava beds are one of the unique monuments of California. This area is spread over 40,000 acres. This place is really an amazing place to visit as this place has around 700 lava tubes. If you are visiting California, then you must not miss visiting this place with amazing beauty and different experiences. You can see the lava beds in molten states as well as in solid-state. 

• Berryessa snow mountain national park

This park was established in 2015 that is located in Clearlake city of California. This park covers almost 33,780 acres of land. Visitors can find a wonderful view of snow mountains here. Also, the visitors can find historical, cultural and ecological significance over here. This place is home to a number of birds, animals, and plants and this place is considered the most biologically diverse region in the United States. 

So do visit these monuments if you are planning a vacation in California. Book cheap airline flights to California with Holafares for the latest deals.

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At first, it was rather shocking. I listened to my friend's praise and borrowed it from the library without reading the back cover. Somehow I thought T.J. was older, but he was only sixteen, so I almost stopped reading. Now I'm glad I didn't because it was a beautiful story - beautiful, horrible and so exciting. 
Because T.J. seemed more mature, the love story began years later, and it wasn't "typical" teacher student romance (they were more like friends), I was able to read and even enjoy the story. Author took a very sensitive theme and turned it into an interesting but realistic story. The main characters had a lot of challenges on the island (mother nature is wonderful but scary as hell) but I liked that they also had to face difficulties after returning to civilization. Anna and T.J. had to make an effort to have a relationship and get used to the "real" world. Great book.

Cover of the Estonian edition

Please note that I received his via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review.

I had a hard time with this one. I think the back and forth of the story-lines, Cookie being "fat" and Cookie afterwards being "skinny" just made the flow of this book slow to a crawl. We also had to keep re-reading the same point made over and over again. I also thought Cookie's relationship (she's 19) with an older man (he's 31) did not read as loving or even romantic, it was just messed up the whole way through. I also didn't like the resolution between her and her supposed best friend Thomas, he was a jerk and a user who didn't stand up for her at all. DeVos tries to wrap things up in a nice tidy bow, it just didn't really work. 

So I was initially intrigued by the premise of this novel. We have a young woman (Cookie) who is the daughter of a well known model who has struggled with her weight for a number of years. When she has an awful experience trying to fly and is forced to buy a second seat she decides that she is over having to deal with being treated as less than due to her size. Deciding to join a weight loss company (think Jenny Craig but called NutriNation) she finally starts to lose the weight. However, she has a harder time putting to rest a lot of things she has carried with her. 

Cookie Vonn is dealing with her first year at college and is off to interview a well known fashion designer, Gareth Miller. Newly skinny, she meets Gareth on a plane and does her best to resist him. When he offers her an opportunity to design clothes with him she ping pongs between being with him and avoiding her past. 

I honestly don't know about Cookie. I was meh on her for most of this book. Probably because she has a lot of issues that I don't think are worked out very well in the end. She had an absentee mother and father who sound like the worst. A stepfather who is creepy. And a solid grandmother. Until her best friend Thomas ditched her for someone awful, she seemed to be doing alright. I just didn't buy that the girl who are introduced to in this book would be so foolish to get involved with Gareth, there is no substance there at all. 

Speaking of Gareth, I was bored of reading about the lifestyles of the rich and famous (the "Skinny" chapters) with her and Gareth flying everywhere and her being hot for him. I wanted to actually read more about design, the history of fashion, some more descriptions of clothing that Cookie was making. The fashion for the most part takes a back seat. 

The other characters don't work at all either. Cookie's parents are barely in this, but the backstory to them doesn't work very well. Things are also left hanging between Cookie and her parents too so we don't even get a resolution. 

I loathed Thomas. Sorry. All of the mess that went down between him and Cookie, I think that her grandmother telling her to keep taking the high road was nonsense. She was wronged and even arrested (mild spoiler) cause of his actions. He chooses to be with someone who dismisses Cookie and calls her Cankles. His entire actions shows that he doesn't care about her at all. I was fine with him disappearing in the "Skinny" chapters until he shows his face again. 

We get some other minor characters that don't really sing for me at all. 

The writing didn't really work for me in the "Skinny" sections. In the "Fat" chapters with Cookie finishing up her last year of high school and dealing with the loss of her best friend to a new nemesis, I felt that book was more authentic for me as a reader. If deVos could have found a way to make the two versions of Cookie work together, this would have been a different book. 

The flow was not good. I don't even know what to say. Thank goodness for the chapter headings telling me where we were in Cookie's personal journey cause I would have been lost. Sometimes it is better to tell a story through chronologically. This one maybe would have worked better that way.

The locations of this book are Phoenix and New York and some other "exotic" locations. I didn't really get a sense of any of the cities. I would have liked the cities, especially Cookie's hometown and New York coming more alive via the narration. 

This book reads as New Adult to me too by the way. And I usually cannot get into those types of books very well. 

The end was....well it happened. I cannot begin to guess what is next for Cookie.