SINCERELY, CARTER by Whitney Gracia Williams

Just like what I've posted in my goodreads profile, I LOVE BESTFRIENDS-TO-LOVERS stories! They're just GREAT! This book got me super happy and weepy, the best kind of stories, with the high dose of kilig and drama.

NOVEMBER 9 BOOK REVIEW

December 18, 2015

Looks like I'm on the roll tonight.
While uploading photos from yesterday's office Christmas Party and today's wedding, AND listening to James Reid's voice (swoon... he's so macho and his voice is so smooth and cold, how old is he anyway, I've been crushing on teenagers lately, the other one's Shawn Mendez, makes me feel like a cougar) I'll write a review about November 9 by Colleen Hoover. Twas release last November 10, but it took me weeks before considering to read it. I don't know why it took me weeks before reading it. Since i'm in love with Hoover's writing, my expectations were quite high.

MADDOX BROTHERS BOOK REVIEW

December 18, 2015

Just finished reading Beautiful Redemption this afternoon. 
I think its the third book of the Maddox Brothers by Jamie McGuire. 

Beautiful Disaster
Beautiful Oblivion
Beautiful Redemption

Let me tell you first that as much as I LOVE books, I have a little problem with remembering them. I've read hundreds of books already (well according to my Goodreads account, I've read 240 books as of today, December 18, 2015) and only a few sticks to me, only my favorites in which I like to re-read. 

So here's the deal, I've read the first book, Beautiful Disaster around three years ago (my Goodreads acount says I read it December 2012), Its about Travis and Abby, I loved it. Why? Because I'm a sucker for bestfriends to lovers stories, though they aren't really friends at first, it all started as a bet, then they became close, there's a lot of jealousy involved (I love the I-cant-love-you-because-im-your-friend-and-i-might-lose-you-but-i-dont-want-you-with-anyone-but-me kind of stories), Abby and Travis' relationship gave birth to problems in which the latter books will, uhmm, solve, right. 

Echoes of Scotland Street Book Review

November 26, 2015

Since, I think I have time in my hands this semester, I'll do a little book review.

I'm currently reading the fifth book of the On Dublin Street series (though its not really a series), the Echoes of Scotland Street by Samantha Young.

So far so good, I started the book last night, and I'm past half of the book. The characters are Cole Walker, the brother of Jo Walker from the second book, Down London Road. It's a little weird, I keep thinking Cole as a 14 year old boy, now he's all grown up, have tats and all muscular, the heroine is Shannon Macleod who hates bad boys and pegged Cole as one. I hated her at first because I know Cole is a good bloke who happened to like tattoos, but now after hating her for about half the book, it turned out she had a shitty past hence the shitty attitude.

So... I need to finish the book first, then the verdict.

ELEANOR AND PARK BOOK REVIEW

FINALLY  had a copy of Eleanor & Park by Rainbow Rowell. I've been searching for it forever!

The moment I read the first paragraph, I knew that my emotions while reading this story will only be going downward spiral. I never expected for it to have a happy ending, I expected someone dying, someone very much maltreated, well, expectations broken. 

Eleanor came from a rough family,many siblings, abusive stepdad, irresponsible father, blind mother. Park was spoon fed all his life,

ON DUBLIN STREET BOOK REVIEW

ON DUBLIN STREET by SAMANTHA YOUNG.

Characters: Jocelyn/Joss Butler, Braden Carmichael, Ellie Carmichael

Everytime I search for my next book to read in Goodreads, I always end up seeing this picture of a girl with her long neck. In thumbnail view, I thought the one behind her was some kind of a monster, since the guy's photo was a little darker and the title won't give anything away with it's plot. I thought it's a young adult book with monsters or vampire (thanks to the neck of the girl). 

So here's how the story goes, 

The girl with the gorgeous neck, Joss had a pretty messed up past, parents dead, sister dead, best friend dead. So, she thinks, she has a very bad luck (yah think?).

CRACKED UP TO BE BOOK REVIEW

CRACKED UP TO BE by COURTNEY SUMMERS . 

I've had this book in my reader for almost five months already. The cover is not really alluring, I can't even remember why I got this book in the first place. I've read Summers' Fall for Anything, with high expectations after reading the plot, but was let down after finishing the story. Talking about a very major cliffhanger. That book was a total waste.

BUT!

This book was the total opposite of "Fall for Anything"., I loved

THE ELITE BOOK REVIEW

So I can't contain myself after I finished Kierra Cass' The Selection. I was on my way home from work when I bought my second book. I didn't have the time to reflect on what I really thought about the first book. 

The second installment of Kierra Cass' The Selection series. THE ELITE. 

Now now, I LOVE The book 1, so my expectations are quite high for the sequel. I was in love with Prince Maxon in the first but in the second, I was second guessing myself. 

Here's how it goes, America Singer, is still confused on who to pick, Aspen or Prince Maxon? She says she needs more time, but she's not the only one who's doing

THE SELECTION Book Review

What drove me into reading this first book, The Selection  by Kierra Cass was the very nice book cover and the two thumbs up of my sister. I now seldom read post apocalyptic books though I've loved the Hunger Games Trilogy so much and the first installment of the the Delirium series, but this one (The Selection) got my attention from the moment my sister told me it's a beautiful book and when I finally read the plot. I didn't say I loved the concept of it, I said it got my attention and made me interested in it. 

America Singer, a simple young girl from a family nearing the brink of

THOMAS & JANUARY BOOK REVIEW

I was so pumped when I finished reading Callum and Harper and decided to find another Amelie Fisher book, and that's when I found Thomas & January.

Thomas was actually Tie Dye Tom from Callum & Harper. Heart broken, he moved fro his friends to another city. Living a life at night, scouting new musicians for he is also a former band member, his path crossed with January. 

January left her scholarship to a well-known University to pursue her

SHUT OUT BOOK REVIEW

I was in LOVE in Kody Keplinger's THE DUFF, I love Keplinger's humor and the story itself.

So I got myself searching for other Keplinger novels, and my second book was SHUT OUT. 

Lissa has a quarterback boyfriend who keeps ditching her to fight some boy fight over the school's soccer team. And Lissa is getting sick of always being second and being ditched so she arranged a strike with the other teams girlfriends. But when her boyfriend can't

CALLUM AND HARPER BOOK REVIEW

My first book of Amelie Fisher is CALLUM & HARPER. It has been in my "to-read" list for a very long time and at last I get to find a copy.

Callum and Harper both has similar situations. They both have no parents and relatives left to claim them, they are now in their dreaded 18th year, no one wants to adopt them anymore and both have nowhere else to go. They met at the most peculiar place,

HOPELESS BOOK REVIEW

Hopeless by Colleen Hoover

Sky doesn't mind her being adopted, she doesn't mind going to public school for the first time, she doesn't mind having no cellphone, television and not having a facebook account. She's

THE STATISTICAL PROBABILITY OF LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT BOOK REVIEW

THE STATISTICAL PROBABILITY OF LOVE AT FIRST SIGHT BY JENNIFER E. SMITH

I'm not a believer of love at first sight. This book didn't convinced me that these things happen. But the concept of falling in love in a span of 24 hours is just so ridiculously exciting you'll root for the characters the moment you read the plot. 

Hadley doesn't want to go anywhere but stay in her home, a home

FORGET YOU BOOK REVIEW

I've been wanting to read a Jennifer Echols book, and my first was entitled Forget You.

Zoey has this neglectful of a father who happens to knock-up one of his employees and a suicidal mother, and in all of these, Zoey blames herself. Her mother was sent away to a rehab, her father, gone to Hawaii for his own wedding, and now Zoey is left all by herself plus cameras in their house.

Now there's Doug, who yesterday hates her guts, and now acting like a major sweetheart. How did these things happen in one night. 

Yeah yeah, the plot sounds amazing, it's like every drama, dream fantasies of having a secret crush on your arch enemy dream come true. But NO. This sounds like filipino soap opera. Accident-Amnesia-Big Reveal-Yey! Halfway through the book, I found myself yawning and stopping myself skipping and flipping to the last page already. And who in this earth prefer parking than staying in once room. I'm thinking this book really is for young people, and not for the young at heart. 

I'm not sure if I'll be reading a Jennifer Echols book anytime soon.

One out of Five.

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LOLA AND THE BOY NEXT DOOR BOOK REVIEW

I've made the mistake of not doing background investigation about this book and about the author and about the author's other books before reading Lola and the Boy Next Door by  Stephanie Perkins.

What I've learned is that I should have read Perkin's previous book, Anna and the French Kiss, but WHATEVER!

I have finished reading and I loved it!

This book is very much similar to Adorkable.

1. Both Lola and Jeane are

DELIRIUM BOOK REVIEW

Arg, I can't help compare books  I'm currently reading from the books I've already read. Like this one, Delirium by Lauren Oliver, I can't help but notice that it has similarities from the Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins.

But let me tell you first what this book is all about, Post apocalyptic time, people are scared of love, they treat love as a disease, which kills, mentally kills people then when they are infected, their actions change and the result of love is what the government is concerned about. They don't see love as a good thing, and children from a very young age despises love, they should not show any care to anything or to anyone, Everyone is being

THE DUFF BOOK REVIEW

THE DUFF: THE DESIGNATED UGLY FAT FRIEND by KODY KEPLINGER

The moment I laid eyes on the first chapter, I knew I would LOVE this book! This one sounded very much like Sarra Manning's Adorkable and God knows how much I love that book. 

Okay, let me tell you what the book is about, Bianca feels normal the minute before Wesley Rush talked to her, but when he opened his big mouth and told her that she was the Duff of her little group of friends, Bianca's life changed,

THE SECRET LIFE OF ELLA AND MICHA BOOK REVIEW

The title of the book: The Secret Life of Ella and Micha, written by Jessica Sorensen.

Ella and Micha are best of friends since they were little. By the age of sixteen, hormones kicked in, Micha developed feelings for Ella and vice versa. But they couldn't admit it to each other until the night when Micha almost lost Ella forever. Ella's family problems, mom

FOREVER BOOK REVIEW

Girl (Katherine) meets boy (Michael), girl falls hard on the boy. Boy says she loves the girl, I mean really loves that girl. And girl is very much attached to the boy, and wants no one else. Parents of girl put the boy and girl's relationship to a test and spends the summer apart.  

“Like my mother said, you can't go back to holding hands” - Katherine, Forever

My thought on Judy Blume's Forever.

I've done some research on this book (THANKS WIKIPEDIA) after I've read some of the reviews on goodreads. The novel was written 37 years ago (written 1975), and during that time, it was in the middle of controversy