I do adore Amy Harmon. I do. I do. I truly do, do, do. But…I didn’t adore running barefoot.
Running Barefoot by Amy Harmon Genre: YA, Romance. TagsI do adore Amy Harmon. I do. I do. I truly do, do, do. But…I didn’t adore running barefoot.
Running Barefoot by Amy Harmon Genre: YA, Romance. Tags: HEA, Childhood Friends, mild Angst, No cheating, Native American H, 90s. Safety Warnings: Non-major character death. Smut-O-Meter: 0/5 (There’s no sex in this one ...more
This is a culminating review for both Binding 13 and Keeping 13 I don’t have it in me to write out Binding 13——> 4.5 Stars Keeping 13——> 4.0 Stars
This is a culminating review for both Binding 13 and Keeping 13 I don’t have it in me to write out an in-depth review for this duo-logy. I think that it’s safe to say that I’m wiped out. Binding 13 and its sequel Keeping 13 are both massively long, slow burn novels. I’m talking Mariana Zapata level of slow burn and length.
Chole Walsh manages to weave rather heavy, triggering topics into this novel, without letting the humour slip away. The boys and girls of Tommen are each in their own right quite complex, although they don’t appear to be so at first.
Shannon our heroine is the quintessential plain Jane that’s actually a stunner in disguise. She’s shy, painfully so, and reading about her home life genuinely made me cry sometimes. I wish, I really wish she had been just a little bit stronger, but then at times I also understood her weakness, it felt real, for a girl in her situation. Johnny our hero was a sweetheart, he’s without a doubt one of my book boyfriends.
The only reason my rating for Keeping 13, 0.5 stars lower than that of Binding 13, is because I did feel like it dragged a little. I felt like it could have been slightly sped up.
I’m also very glad Chloe Walsh did not go down the route of unnecessary drama or misunderstandings, at-least when it came to Shanon and Johnny’s relationship. A lot of authors would have created stupid misunderstandings between these same characters, and that didn’t happen here. Shanon and Johnny were amazing communicators! Which is the most important thing in a real life, and imaginary relationship! Communication! (I hate misunderstandings in romance novels!)
I have to add that the star of the duology is no one other than Gerard Gibson, aka Gibsie. Every scene with Gibsie on the pages was a hilarious delight to read. I can’t wait for his book. I literally can not wait! I’m buzzing with energy.
Book 3 in the series is Joey’s. I just know that I’m going to cry so hard. In his few scenes Joey made my heart hurt, the beautiful broken boy....more
Adorkable, and heart wrenching...I think I’ve found my new book boyfriend. CUE THE UGLY CRY!
Shay Savage is amazing when it comes to writing a romAdorkable, and heart wrenching...I think I’ve found my new book boyfriend. CUE THE UGLY CRY!
Shay Savage is amazing when it comes to writing a romance in the Male POV.Her book Transcendence is one of my all time favourites, and she’s blown me away yet again!
Genre: Upper YA Steam Levels: 3.5/5 Pacing: Medium Burn Safety Warning: One Attempted Rape Scene
Win some, lose some is the story of Mathew Rohan, an 18 year old with some combination of OCD, autism and aspergers. Life for Mathew is without a doubt hard, but the recent death of both his parents has turned things even worse. Enter, Mayra, she’s kind, sweet and popular, a breath of fresh air in Matthew life, and the only one that can help him, allow himself to experience a whole new world.
“I made you a cake,” she said quietly. Her voice sounded strange—not her normal tone at all. I looked at her and saw her neck and cheeks were tinged with red. “What kind?” I asked. “Chocolate,” she replied. I swallowed hard and closed my eyes for a moment, fighting the urge to drop to my knees and confess my undying love for her and asking her to bear my children and bake me cakes forever...
...It was the most wonderful thing I had ever had in my life. I got hard just from the taste. Aunt Bethany’s cakes never made me hard.
What’s going on with me? I think this has been my fifth or sixth contemporary read - in a row!
Do I like contemporary romance now???
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What’s going on with me? I think this has been my fifth or sixth contemporary read - in a row!
Do I like contemporary romance now???
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To Love Jason Thorn has been my first read by the author, Ella Maise, and I find that I’m quite excited to read more of her work.
Safety Warning: Explicit Sex scene between the hero, and OW. (This occurs before the H and h meet, or re-meet.)
Having to move back home did something to me, I feel like I’m reverting back to my 16 years old self, because this is just the type of book I would have devoured at age 16 - but here I am, 24 and loving the brother’s best friend trope. I never had a brother. Now I wish I did, it feels like there’s a right of passage that I missed. Are you even an adult if your brother’s best friend didn’t break your heart???
#OnlyChildWoes
To love Jason Thorn has been such a cute read. It was just what I was craving, fun and adorable, and also - really smutty!! Yay! ...more
Mariana Zapata sure knows how to take slow burn to a whole other level.
I’m worn out. I don’t know what to say. Kulti was looooooooooooooonggggg, itMariana Zapata sure knows how to take slow burn to a whole other level.
I’m worn out. I don’t know what to say. Kulti was looooooooooooooonggggg, it took 3 days of continuous reading for me to finish it. But it was so worth it!
This book was perfection. Reiner Kulti was perfection.
5 Stars, 5 effing stars for my sad little heart. CUE THE UGLY CRYING
[image] How can one woman’s books have such a bizarre effect on my heart? Amy Harmon5 Stars, 5 effing stars for my sad little heart. CUE THE UGLY CRYING
[image] How can one woman’s books have such a bizarre effect on my heart? Amy Harmon, once again you have ripped apart my heart only to stitch it all together.
Making Faces is not just a love story. It’s a story of loss, heartbreak and healing. It’s a story deserves more appreciation. Why can’t Netflix make young adult movies like this? Instead they spend their budget making movies like the Kissing Booth or Sierra Burgess (Don’t come @ me if you love these movies, but those movies weren’t very socially message oriented, neither were they very realistic. Don’t even get me started on Sierra Burgess, which was a toxic movie.)
Fern has loved Ambrose Young ever since she was 5 and he helped her bury a spider. However to Fern he has always been The Ambrose Young, something unattainable a thing of dreams.
“Why do you always say my full name? You always call me Ambrose Young.” Fern thought for a moment, letting her eyes drift closed as he drew circles on her back with gentle fingers. “Because you were always Ambrose Young to me . . . not Ambrose, not Brose, not Brosey. Ambrose Young. Super-star, stud-muffin. Like an actor. I don't call Tom Cruise by his first name either. I call him Tom Cruise. Will Smith, Bruce Willis. For me, you have always been in that league.”
A few misshapen situations lead to Fern and Ambrose getting to know each other. Ambrose finds Ferm intriguing, but he’s unable to process theses emotions especially with high school ending, and the looming threat of a future before him. This really was so close to home, high school, college, or university is where we spend so many years of our lives, with the same number of people. The ending of these life period’s can be a very confusing time, I know it was for me. And I still feel this same anxiety or confusion especially now, because I’m in my last year of med school and I feel like I have to step into the real world. There are times I just want to give up everything and start a new. So it’s the same with Ambrose, he’s strangely running from the future. He wants more time with his friends, more of the same routine I guess. Ambrose then joins the army and his 4 best friends join him, but only one returns.
Survivor’s guilt can be a torturous.
“You feel guilty because you lived and they died.” Bailey tipped his head toward the four headstones. “Maybe Beans and Jesse and Grant and Paulie are looking down on you shaking their heads, saying 'Poor Brosey. Why did he have to stay?'“ “Mr. Hildy told me the lucky ones are the ones who don't come back,” Ambrose remembered, his eyes on the graves of his friends. “But I don't think the guys are looking down on me from some heavenly paradise. They're dead. Gone. And I'm here. Period.” “I think deep down you don't really believe that,” Bailey said quietly. “Why me, Bailey?” Ambrose shot back, his voice too loud for the sober setting. “Why not you, Ambrose?” Bailey bit back immediately, making Ambrose start as if Bailey had convicted him of a crime.
When Ambrose returns scarred, alone to a punishing life he all but isolates himself. The guilt harrows at him, and the scars on his body make him feel unworthy of love. Fern still loves the boy who stole her heart, she just has to teach him to love himself.
Making faces isn’t just Ambrose’s and Fern’s story. It’s also Bailey’s story, the story of a boy with Muscular Dystrophy who only wanted to be remembered. It’s also Rita’s story, a pregnant teen who gets warped in an abusive marriage. It’s a town’s story of loss, mourning, healing and finally acceptance. [image]...more
Man, a person’s reading taste sure does change as they get older. Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire, it was one of the first contemporary romances IMan, a person’s reading taste sure does change as they get older. Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire, it was one of the first contemporary romances I can remember reading from way back when I was a love struck teen in high school. I never used goodreads as religiously as I do back then, and I never did review or rate it, but I am so so sooooo sure that I loved it when I first read it. So I realized a reread was in order especially since all I remembered was the main hero’s illegal fighting ring name, Mad-dog Maddox.
So I reread it...boy oh boy oh boy. Talk about a mind f**k
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Beautiful disaster is Abby Abernathy aka Pigeon’s story. She’s in college when she visits an illegal fighting ring and her eyes meet with one of the fighters, Travis Maddox. Abby and Travis are the quintessential good girl and bad boy respectively. Travis feels enthralled by Abby, particularly because she won’t let him sleep with her. They then proceed to become friends, their feelings become involved, he then changes his man whoring ways, yadda yadda yadda, all while Abby makes things waaaaayyyy more complicated then they need to be.
I really liked Travis. He was sweet and funny, he had his good qualities and his bad qualities. His bad qualities being his alpha-male me man you woman/ this my woman attitude. [image]
Although Travis and Abby’s relationship was not a good one. They hardly seemed to share what they were thinking with each other. This lead to many pointless misunderstandings between the too. Abby made things too complicated, she came from a background of gambling, alcohol and violence. She was running from it all, making her background a huge reason she wished to stay away from Travis. Yet Abby never explained her reasons. At least I didn’t feel like she did it in the correct way. (view spoiler)[ During a trip to Vegas people from Abby’s past offer Travis a fighting position worth good pay. She tells Travis she’s not comfortable with it but Travis is blinded by the money. Instead of explains her reasoning, or even giving Travis an ultimatum of either noosing her or the fighting. Abby packs her bags and ghosts Travis. Then later on, once Travis has already said that he won’t fight, she doesn’t forgive him, then when she realizes she does want to be with him she doesn’t tell him because she feels too prideful when he tells her that he’s ready to let her go. (hide spoiler)]
This is a prime example of a toxic relationship. Travis cannot stand to be away from Abby. He breaks down, fights and what not when he has to remain away from her.
The biggest failure on the part of the author is that Beautiful Disaster doesn’t really have a plot. There is no plot. There is only their feelings their jealousy their fights and their codependency....more
26/04/2020:For some reason my review for this book, was only saved as a draft all this time and hadn’t been posted. Had to fix that. Ahhh the good ol’26/04/2020:For some reason my review for this book, was only saved as a draft all this time and hadn’t been posted. Had to fix that. Ahhh the good ol’ days when I could stand YA.
I still remember the entire plot of the Avery Shaw Experiment like I only read it yesterday. That’s probably because I used to read it so frequently back in the day, like every other month. I still think Avery and Grayson were cute as heck.
However my tastes have slightly changed since then, now I stay the heck away from YA. Why? Because I need my sex. I do realise now, that this book plays out like a teen rom com and that’s why I loved it so much as a teen. Lol so be gentle, on my 17-20 year old self’s choices. But I won’t lie when I say this is still a great book, even if it’s a little cliche. If I read it today, I’d still enjoy it.
ORIGINAL REVIEW, 2017
There's nothing new in the story. Awkward girl loves someone who doesn't notice her. Hot popular guy gives her a makeover and in the process falls in love with her. A tale as old as time.
Why do I love it though? The writing style. I really loved it. Despite there not being anything new in the book Kelly's style really makes u feel like your watching a movie. There not too much random descriptions like the colour of the sky or the weather, something that a lot of books have and I find quite annoying sometimes. I'd rather there be more dialogue and this book did have lot of dialogue. Lots of conversations and just the correct amount of description.
Also the characters were so cute and lovable. And well the jealousy factor. Grayson tended to get jealous of Avery's love for his brother. I love a good book with jealousy and it's not extreme crazy jealousy, rather mellow funny jealousy.
In the end the book is funny, sarcastic and lovable. A light read. Not too much drama. Just my type. Perfect to make you go Awwww....more
I just saw it, Rick’s video. Believe me when I say that I screamed and then I cried, because PJO is getting it’s own Disney+ Series.
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Do yoI just saw it, Rick’s video. Believe me when I say that I screamed and then I cried, because PJO is getting it’s own Disney+ Series.
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Do you know this man?
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In 2010, this man tried to pass himself off as 12 year old Percy Jackson, but this man is not Percy Jackson. This man is Peter Johnson, who starred in two very mediocre movies, Peter Johnson and the Olympians: The Lightening Theif and The Sea of Monsters.
Peter Johnson, gutted many hardcore PJO fans such as myself when he turned their beloved Percy Jackson series into a teen drama not even fit for the CW. It is suffice to say that I’ve carried the hurt caused by Peter Johnson in my heart for nearly a decade now.
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In all honesty, I do love Logan Lerman. I think he’s a great actor, and I think he was great Percy for maybe book 5, but he was supposed to be 12 in the first movie. And there were soooooo many discrepancies that I couldn’t stand it.
This series may be just what us fans need. The chance to right all wrongs. Yay! Please don’t F this up Disney.
June 2019 Just reread the entire series once again. I do that, every 6 or 7 months or so. Percy Jackson has a special place in my heart, one he shares with Harry Potter. People like to compare this to HP by Rowling, but it honestly couldn't be more different. I was 14 when I first read the lightening thief, I bought the book after watching the first movie. These books are masterpieces. The movies weren't able to pull off their greatness, they changed way too much. A part of me always hopes they will remake the PJ movies, or make a series, but in my mind Logan Lerman is stuck as Percy. This book has everything, humour, action, romance (suitable for the kiddies). Everyone should read these books at least once in their lives. One day when I get married and have kids of my own, I'll definitely make sure they are introduced to the great world of Percy Jackson, because no one should miss out on that chance....more
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