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[New Post] Loss in A Major

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Title: Loss in A Major

Author: Mindy Michele

Page count: 319

Published:  July 27th, 2018

Publisher: Next Step PR

Genre: Contemporary

Received: From the Publisher in exchange for an honest Review

Rating: 4.5/5

Summary:

In each other they found a connection stronger than they could have imagined, but one night of devastation alters everyone they love.

Sometimes we have to walk away. Sometimes we have to trust, and occasionally our biggest regrets carry us back for redemption.

My Thoughts:

Oh my gosh. These ladies have done it again. This book is amazing. There is so much that I want to say but at the same time I don’t want to because I think you need to read it yourself to experience it. Lost in C Minor

This book is filled with so much emotion and heartache. The cliff hanger that happens in the last one I was dying to know what was going to happen and this one. I’m glad that it wasn’t what I thought.

There is an incident that happens that tears Ridley and Reagan apart, there was times where I thought they wouldn’t be getting back together. I’m so happy they did I think that the time that they had apart was needed. Some may disagree with me and that’s okay. Rid an Rea are a great for one another and even better because of the things that happened. I loved the flash backs they had. It added more emotion to the story and I don’t think their story could have been told with out it. It also made there story more heart wrenching and I loved it.

Rid makes it his mission to prove to Rea they are meant to be together. I love the way they he did it.

I’m sad this is the end for Rea and Rid, but I know with the other books in the series we will see them again. I can’t wait to read the rest of the books in the series.

I don’t think there’s anything I can say with out spoiling anything for you. So, you need to go an check out this series.

[New Post] Review: Not Today, But Somday

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Title: Not Today, But Someday

Author: Lori L. Otto

Page count: 204

Published:  September 1st 2012

Publisher: N/A

Genre: Coming of Age

Received: Bought my self

Rating: 4.5/5

Summary:

In December of 1994, when she was a junior in high school, Emi Hennigan discovered her father’s infidelity. Forced to transfer schools mid-year, she wasn’t trying to make new friends. In that same month, sophomore Nate Wilson’s girlfriend broke up with him. Searching for someone to fill the void left by his first love, he meets Emi in his art class.

Nate knows he wants Emi from the moment he sees her. Emi knows she needs Nate after one night together. A life-long friendship is born, and a pact is made to ensure that nothing will come between them.

This novella is the prequel to the Emi Lost & Found series. After the 3-volume series was published, readers wanted more. This is for them – the story of how Nate and Emi met – and although it’s a prequel, it can be enjoyed before or after the series.

My Thoughts:

I read this book ages ago, so my review may be a little off on the things that have happened in the book. I did read this series a few times so hopefully that helps me in my review.

Emi and Nate meet when there both in high school. There is a reason as to why but I’m unsure, I think it was because Emi’s father was cheating. Emi and her family pack up and move in doing so Emi has to go to a new school and that’s where she meets Nate.

Emi and Nate are complete opposite, but I think that makes them more perfect for one another. They blend well together. I loved how their relationship felt real, like you were in the book with them.

I loved Nate as a character he was such a romantic at heart. He is also an artist an I love books that have artiest in them, to me at adds an extra something to the story.

[New Post] Review: The Echo Rooms

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Title:  The Echo Room

Author:  Parker Pevvyhouse

Page count:  320

Published: September 11th, 2018

Publisher: Macmillan-Tor/Forge Tor Teen

Genre: Teen

Received: Netgalley

Rating:  3/5

Summary:

Rett wakes on the floor of a cold, dark room. He doesn’t know how he got there, only that he’s locked in. He’s not alone—a girl named Bryn is trapped in the room with him. When she finds a mysterious bloodstain and decides she doesn’t trust Rett, he tries to escape on his own—

Rett wakes on the floor of the same cold, dark room. He doesn’t trust Bryn, but he’ll have to work with her if he ever hopes to escape. They try to break out of the room—

Rett and Bryn hide in a cold, dark room. Safe from what’s outside.

But they’re not alone.   

My Thoughts:

This is the first book that I have read by this author. I also don’t really read many Sci-Fi books so maybe that’s why I didn’t really get into this till half way. I was disappointed that it happened that way. I think that people that enjoy this type of genre will have a better time reading it.

I did request this from Netgalley because the synopsis of this sounded good. I thought that it was going to be a great read. I’m still going to give this a 3 star rating because of how much I liked the second half.

[New Post] Review: The Upside of Unrequited

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Title:  The Upside of Unrequited

Author: Becky Albertalli

Page count: 358

Published:  April 2017

Publisher: Blazer + Bray

Genre: LQBTQIA +

Received:  Bought my self

Rating:  4/5

Summary:

Seventeen-year-old Molly Peskin-Suso knows all about unrequited love—she’s lived through it twenty-six times. She crushes hard and crushes often, but always in secret. Because no matter how many times her twin sister, Cassie, tells her to woman up, Molly can’t stomach the idea of rejection. So she’s careful. Fat girls always have to be careful.

Then a cute new girl enters Cassie’s orbit, and for the first time ever, Molly’s cynical twin is a lovesick mess. Meanwhile, Molly’s totally not dying of loneliness—except for the part where she is. Luckily, Cassie’s new girlfriend comes with a cute hipster-boy sidekick. Will is funny and flirtatious and just might be perfect crush material. Maybe more than crush material. And if Molly can win him over, she’ll get her first kiss and she’ll get her twin back.

There’s only one problem: Molly’s coworker Reid. He’s an awkward Tolkien superfan with a season pass to the Ren Faire, and there’s absolutely no way Molly could fall for him. Right?        

My Thoughts:

I had this book on my tbr for a while before I got to reading it. I’m glad that I waited.

Molly was an amazing leading lady. She was very relatable which I enjoy when I read a book. she’s crafty with all the things that she makes from Pinterest. I think out off all the things that she made my favourite was the safe to eat cookie dough. I thought the idea was so great that I made some myself and it was delish. Molly has a never had a boyfriend, but she has had crushes and a lot of them. She’s never had a boyfriend because of fear of rejection.

Then comes Reid he isn’t the type that Molly usually has crushes on, but there’s something special about Reid that she likes. It could be that he’s funny, nerdy and sweet.

I loved Reid’s and Molly’s relationship it made me laugh and smile like crazy.

This book has a lot of great messages in it. I think everyone should pick this book up.

[New Post] Review: Bad Days

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Title:  Bad Days

Author: A.S. Kelly

Page count: 284

Published:  July 31, 2018

Publisher: The Next Step PR

Genre:  NA

Received:  from the author in exchange for an honest review

Rating:  4/5

Summary:                   

Jason Lee is the friend everyone would like to have. He’s loyal, sensitive and generous and kind to those he loves. He has dedicated himself completely to his work at the pub that he manages with his friends, who have by now become a second family to him. He is trying to make sense out of a life that is damaged by loss and pain, closing himself into his safe haven of a world that is far removed from his previous suffering, and he is determined not to lose any more than he already has.

Alex McBride returns to Dublin, having been away for five years. She finds her old house, goes to places familiar to her when she grew up there with her friends, but nothing is like it used to be. Coming back is never easy, especially if your absence is responsible for the slow destruction of someone else’s life, someone you had hoped to forget but who actually remained exactly where he was, like an open wound that continues to bleed.

Jason and Alex find each other together again after a long separation: they’ve been friends, confidants and conspirators but now they’re forced to reconcile a past that has never stopped hurting and a future impossible for them to live out together, because there’s something that could separate them, and this time, they might be parted forever

My Thoughts:

Oh my gosh! Be still my beating heart. Jason is such an amazing, wonderful, thoughtful guy. He has loved Alex forever. They had met when they were babies because their moms were best friends.

Jason and Alex lose touch for 5 years because of something that happens between them. Jason feels guilty because of it.

Jason owns a bar Only4You with his friends and plays in a band with them. His friends are an amazing support system for Jason with all he has been though. With the loss of his mom and his dad that lost him self for a while after his wife passed.

Alex is going to collage, and she must be carful with her every day life because she has Long QT Syndrome. Which means that she has an irregular heart beat. When she first found out it probably wasn’t the best way.

I absolutely adored how Jason knew every little detail about Alex. Like what makes her happy, sad, even the little faces that she makes when she’s reading a book and what they mean.

Some of my favourite quotes are:
“I want to be the first and only man you give everything to, and I’d like to give you everything that you deserve.”

“I’ll tell you what isn’t right, that you think I want to take care of you when all I want is to love you. Everything else is a decoration and I’m not interested in fucking picture frames, in what’s inside them. That’s what you are.”

**I was given this book by the publisher in exchange for an honest review**