Everything, everything by Nicola Yoon. A review

Title: Everything, everything
Author: Nicola Yoon
Illustrations: David Yoon
Young adult stand-alone
Rating: 4/5 stars

REVIEW:
How you know what life is if you have never actually lived it? Living a lie your mother told you in order to protect you from the whole world, your existence could you accept that without a question? I have found it incredible the way Maddy teaches you how to live, to start fresh no matter your age. Her and Olly's love story manages to get through the ugly part of the universe and win a battle of lies and sorrow they knew nothing about.
Maddy an 18-year-old girl who has a rare, but famous disease making her allergic to the world. Her whole life is inside the house, she doesn't remember how it is to be outside. The only people she gets to see are her mother, Carla her nurse and from time to time one of her teachers. That was her life for 17 years, but when a family is moving next door, when she meets Olly something changes inside her. He's tall, lean and wearing all black, always black.

"Maybe we can’t predict the future, but we can predict some things. For example, I am certainly going to fall in love with Olly. It’s almost certainly going to be a disaster."
The way Nicola Yoon makes you live through her characters is simply amazing and more. The emotions are so real and it's so easy to connect with Maddy as a character that I found it hard to stop reading in order to do chores. Even with a busy schedule I this book is a quick summery read. I loved so much the concept and the execution of it, the fact that it doesn't use the love story as the main focus but more as a way to discover your true self. The diversity of the characters and the sneak peek of each and every problem they had, both together and separately outlines the idea that life will never be even close to perfection and the idea that we all go through tough times.

The reason why I gave this book four out of five stars was the "disappointing" ending because that is how I see it. From my point of view, it needed a little more development. Of course, I loved that Maddy ended up whit Oliver and the whole idea whit the book and the reward, but after they see each other in that shop what actually happens to them? How did Maddy know she is going to find Olly in his old house from New York? Perhaps if it wasn't a stand-alone it wouldn't have bothered me because I would have known I am going to get more of their life, of their own world, but as it is I could not leave it as it is. Maybe it only bothered me, maybe I over analyses the story trying to find some hidden meaning that is not there...
 Overall I think this book is a great read no matter your age. I would highly recommend it to anyone who is looking for a quick, emotional read that will catch your interest from the beginning.
I hope you enjoyed and until next time make the best of your time! Bye... 

August TBR another try to failure

I am one of the worst people when it comes to lists of books I want or have to finish mostly because I am a mood reader. Also, I cannot only read one book at a time which makes it hard to get motivated and finish the multiple books I am currently reading or re-reading due to the fact that there are so many other books I want to start. As I see it know this is also the main reason why I get into reading slumps and my lack of activity on this blog, or at least I think it is. What happens is that I end up with no motivation to finish any books, having so many to read at the same time, and I have no desire to write if I haven't finished a book in a while. This also makes sense to you, right? This month I will try my best to read no more than 2 books at a time and to choose from my shelf with books I still have to read the ones I am most excited or least excited to get to and anytime I have to start a new book I am only going to pick one from this list. So here we go, these are the books I am hoping to finish this month:
1. The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne -Read

2. Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

3. Macbeth by William Shakespeare

 4. Vampires Academy by Richelle Mead

5. Frostbite (Vampires academy book 2) by Richelle Mead

6. Twisted Perfection by Abbi Glines - Read

7. Simple Perfection by Abbi Glines -Read

8. The Mistake by Elle Kennedy - Read

9.The Score by Elle Kennedy

10. Harry Potter and the philosopher's stone by J.K. Rowling -Read

I hope you are enjoying what is left of this summer and you will have discovered some incredible reads by the end of the month! Bye!

A court of thorns and roses review

 Title: A court of thorns and roses
 Author: Sarah J. Mass
 The first book in the A court of thorns and roses series
 My rating: 5/5 stars 

REVIEW (spoiler-free)
What would you do if you were offered a much better life than the one you had; with no worries and no work to do? Would you accept if that meant to leave your beloved family and the only life you knew behind just so you will live with a high fay for the rest of your days? Probably most people won't ever think about that considering that fairies do only exist in stories, but when a beast-like creature arrives in Feyre's house and demands her that, she has no other choice but to accept his offer. Dragged in a magical world, she only heard in legends, Feyre tries her best to return home.
Feyre's survival rests upon her ability to hunt and kill - the forest where she lives is a cold, bleak place in the long winter months. So when she spots a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she cannot resist fighting it for the flesh. But to do so, she must kill the predator and killing something so precious comes at a price ...Dragged to a magical kingdom for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jeweled mask, is hiding far more than his piercing green eyes would suggest. Feyre's presence at the court is closely guarded, and as she begins to learn why her feelings for him turn from hostility to passion and the faerie lands become an even more dangerous place. Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever.
I have found her stubbornness and strength to be astonishing. Given the chance of an easy life, with as much food as she could ever want, plenty of time for painting breathtaking canvases and being said that her family is well taken care of, almost anyone I know would accept the situation happily. Also, when she manages to get back at her family and see again her father and sisters she decided she is in love with Tamlin, the high fay she lived with, and decides to return alone to his home even if she doesn't really know how to get there. That is a fool move in my opinion I mean she could have seen understood that so much earlier and skip us a lot of trouble. But I like the story and the characters nonetheless.
I also found surprisingly how much power she holds on to the promise she has made her mother; putting her family at first and later on Tamlin and his people above her safety, even above her life. This, from my point of view, is one of her biggest strengths.
I highly recommend this book to anyone who loves a good fantasy action-packed book, that will keep you guessing all along while reading. So what are you waiting for? Go on and try it on your own, I am dying to know your opinion about it after you have finished the book and learn about everything that's behind each scene.

I hope you enjoyed and until next time make the best of your time! Bye...