Book Review: Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire

Beautiful Disaster by Jamie McGuire (1 Star)

Blurb from Goodreads:

INTENSE. DANGEROUS. ADDICTIVE.

Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance from the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University’s Walking One-Night Stand.

Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby wants—and needs—to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days as the ultimate college campus charmer. Intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his appeal, Travis tricks her into his daily life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis’s apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match.

Idle Chat: Blogger Friendship

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Book Review: Reviving Izabel & The Swan and the Jackal by J.A Redmerski

Reviving Izabel and The Swan and the Jackal by J.A Redmerski (5 Stars)

Blurb from Goodreads:

Determined to live a dark life in the company of the assassin who freed her from bondage, Sarai sets out on her own to settle a score with an evil sadist. Unskilled and untrained in the art of killing, the events that unfold leave her hanging precariously on the edge of death when nothing goes as planned.

Sarai’s reckless choices send her on a path she knows she can never turn back from and so she presents Victor with an ultimatum: help her become more like him and give her a fighting chance, or she’ll do it alone no matter the consequences. Knowing that Sarai cannot become what she wants to be overnight, Victor begins to train her and inevitably their complicated relationship heats up.

As Arthur Hamburg’s right-hand man, Willem Stephens, closes in on his crusade to destroy Sarai, she is left with the crushing realization that she may have bitten off more than she can chew. But Sarai, taking on the new and improved role of Izabel Seyfried, still has a set of deadly skills of her own that will prove to be all she needs to secure her place beside Victor.

But there is one test that Izabel must face that has the potential to destroy everything she is working so hard to achieve. One final test that will not only make her question her decision to want this dangerous life, but will make her question everything she has come to trust about Victor Faust.

Blurb from Goodreads:

Fredrik Gustavsson never considered the possibility of love, or that anyone could ever understand or accept his dark and bloody lifestyle—until he met Seraphina, a woman as vicious and blood-thirsty as Fredrik himself. They spent two short but unforgettable years together, full of lust and killing and the darkest kind of love that two people can share.

And then Seraphina was gone.

It’s been six years since Fredrik’s lover and sadistic partner in crime turned his world upside-down. Seraphina went into hiding and has eluded him ever since. Now, he’s getting closer to finding her, and an innocent woman named Cassia is the key to drawing Seraphina from the shadows. But Cassia—after sustaining injuries from a fire that Seraphina ignited—suffers from amnesia and can’t give Fredrik the information he desperately seeks. Having no other choice, Fredrik has been keeping Cassia locked in his basement as he not only tries to get her to recall her past—because she and Seraphina share it—but also to protect her from Seraphina, who clearly wants her dead.

But Cassia is a light in the darkness that Fredrik never believed existed. After a year subjected to her kindness and compassion, he finds himself struggling with his love for Seraphina, and his growing feelings for Cassia—because he knows that to love one, the other must die.

Will light win out over darkness, or will something more powerful than either further destroy an already tortured soul?

The Chocolate Book Tag

So I was tagged... again :D And I am honored! :D

Thank you to Miguel of The Quirky Reader for tagging me in this fabulous post :D

Okay, lets get started

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Update: My ongoing hiatus update

Hi guys!

DID YOU MISS ME? ;)

My babe, Ian says hi! :D

So yeah... I haven't been posting much, actually I've not been posting anything for 6 days now. I know. Sorry I've been uber lazy lately. But I want to thank you awesome people 'cuz you're still visiting my blog even if I'm not posting anything. Just so you know, these will be random/personal update about what I'm doing right now. I'm not sure when I'll have the jive to write reviews, but I am reading a lot right now.

Idle Chats: What I like in a book

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Blog Tour + Review: Torn Away by Jennifer Brown

Full schedule of the blog tour here

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Blurb from Goodreads:

Born and raised in the Midwest, Jersey Cameron knows all about tornadoes. Or so she thinks. When her town is devastated by a twister, Jersey survives -- but loses her mother, her young sister, and her home. As she struggles to overcome her grief, she's sent to live with her only surviving relatives: first her biological father, then her estranged grandparents.

In an unfamiliar place, Jersey faces a reality she's never considered before -- one in which her mother wasn't perfect, and neither were her grandparents, but they all loved her just the same. Together, they create a new definition of family. And that's something no tornado can touch.

The Blogger Test

Thank you to fabulous Ella of The Filipina Booknote and for the ever gorgeous Dre of Sporadic Reads for tagging me in the Blogger Test. So I'm gonna give you both this virtual bro fist! :D Let's just make it a more girlish version :D

I promise not to be too weird or maybe I will... hahaha :D

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Book Review: Riot by Sarah Mussi

Riot by Sarah Mussi (1.5 Stars)

I received this book via Netgalley from the publisher in exchange for an honest review.

Blurb from Goodreads:

It is 2018. England has been struggling under a recession that has shown no sign of abating. Years of cuts has devastated Britain: banks are going under, businesses closing, prices soaring, unemployment rising, prisons overflowing. The authorities cannot cope. And the population has maxed out.

The police are snowed under. Something has to give. Drastic measures need taking.

The solution: forced sterilisation of all school leavers without secure further education plans or guaranteed employment.

The country is aghast. Families are distraught, teenagers are in revolt, but the politicians are unshakeable: The population explosion must be curbed. No more free housing for single parents, no more child benefit, no more free school meals, no more children in need. Less means more.

But it is all so blatantly unfair - the Teen Haves will procreate, the Teen Havenots won't.

It's time for the young to take to the streets. It's time for them to RIOT:

OUR RIGHT TO CHOOSE, OUR BODIES, OUR FUTURE.

Top Three's: Things I learned from books that made me cry

Top Three's is a feature here @ Jules Bookshelf where I list three bookish or non-bookish things from my mind.

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Hi guys! This will be my second post for Top Three's and my topic for today is...

Things I learned from books that made me cry