Annoying, boring, exhausting, depressing, never-ending inner dialogue... it bothered me to no end. I started this story because I thUmmmmm..... [image]
Annoying, boring, exhausting, depressing, never-ending inner dialogue... it bothered me to no end. I started this story because I thought there was gonna be something unique and special about it and its characters. There wasn't. There was nothing different or new about this story. The beginning wasn't good: insta lust. The second half of the book was a little bit better. But then again... the misunderstanding (ridiculous) and the ending. NOT GOOD. I found the story as shallow as the characters. Not my cuppa, at all. ...more
Not my cuppa I'm afraid... As a romance reader this is not the type of book I enjoy. Still, easy to read, with beautiful descriptions, some really hilaNot my cuppa I'm afraid... As a romance reader this is not the type of book I enjoy. Still, easy to read, with beautiful descriptions, some really hilarious moments and a witty and really cute narrator. I read this because of a reading challenge :) It's not something I'd choose to read otherwise. It took me ages to finish it but I'm really happy I did! Yay! ...more
More like 2 1/5 Stars. Ok, so I don't really like classics, I chose this book because of a reading challenge and I was supposed to read a romance but IMore like 2 1/5 Stars. Ok, so I don't really like classics, I chose this book because of a reading challenge and I was supposed to read a romance but I just wanted to try something different from Austen and Brontë. This was a real challenge for me, not only because I don't like this kind of books but also because reading it was an actual challenge for my brain. It was exhausting... I'm not used to this type of literature and I found myself only reading about 30 pages per day, at least at the beginning. Then I got hooked and well I got to read a hundred hahaha (still a lot less than what I'm used to, though). It was a big surprise for me to realise that I could actually enjoy a book like this. And I did, a lot. Near the end I couldn't put it down. But that was all, the rest was only ok. I didn't particularly like either of the MCs, the decisions they made pissed me off big time... Then, the fact that the narrator itself was as important as the MCs and the story was not something that I enjoyed. He was actually Godlike, he could change the story and tell us so, more than once. He spoke from the future (the story is set in the 1860s and he is living in the 1960s) and he was part of the story in a really creepy way. It's not that I like my reads simple, it's just that I don't like them so complicated. I can see that this is a great piece of literature, it's simply not my cuppa....more
Why oh why do I read books without reading the blurbs or knowing the genre LOL
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I'm a romance reader, so what the hell am I doing reading this? IWhy oh why do I read books without reading the blurbs or knowing the genre LOL
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I'm a romance reader, so what the hell am I doing reading this? I really don't know. I can enjoy other genres, really. I thought this one would be a kind of Fangirl (a book I loved and enjoyed a lot), but it wasn't. And not only because of the lack of romance, I just didn't find the story (a geek becomes a model, seriously? ¬¬'') appealing at all. Harriet, the MC, is hilarious sometimes annoying and I did laugh out loud a couple of times, but the rest wasn't that funny and some of the characters were kind of ridiculous. I get the message, being different is not bad, it's actually cool. Fine. There are lots of books that talk about this and they are, IMO, definitely a lot better than this one without trying too hard to be funny constantly.
Will I read the rest of the series? I might read the second book just to see where this is heading......more
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Thank God it's over... It's been a long time since I last looked forward to finishing a book so badly. It's not because I was so hooked I couldn't put it down, not at all. I just wanted it to be over, but I didn't want to DNF it, because I was hoping it would get better at some point. And it kind of did a little bit at the last part of the book, but still. NO. So... it was torture. Really, I couldn't concentrate, there was so much inner dialogue the story was slow and BORING as hell. The MC were not even funny! I read other books by Penny Reid and loved them, but this one was simply full of silly clichés and I felt it took me ages to finish it. I really can't understand what all the fuss is about. It's not the worst book ever, but it's been a complete and utter disappointment. HUGE MEH ...more
Have I ever read such a pretentious book before? I DON'T THINK SO. I couldn't wait to finish it and forgWe were IDIOTS... and oh so incredibly BORING.
Have I ever read such a pretentious book before? I DON'T THINK SO. I couldn't wait to finish it and forget all about it, erase it from my mind COMPLETELY. I hated it, hated it BIG TIME.
The story?
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Let's just write a bunch of words, put them together without any sense at all, three and four words sentences (AT THE MOST), a little bit of poetry and some fairy tales in italics. And there you go! You've got yourself a book!
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And this is a Goodreads choice winner!!!!!!
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Goodreads, I don't think I can trust you anymore. ...more
I'm not feeling this story... at all. I'm bored out of my mind and both the hero and heroine are annoying and dull. This is my first book by KriDNF 18%
I'm not feeling this story... at all. I'm bored out of my mind and both the hero and heroine are annoying and dull. This is my first book by Kristen Ashley and will probably be the last. Not my cuppa....more
I can't even rate this book. It fucked with my head big time. I can't make up my mind whether I liked the story or not. Did I enjoy it? No. Could I puI can't even rate this book. It fucked with my head big time. I can't make up my mind whether I liked the story or not. Did I enjoy it? No. Could I put it down? Definitely not. Then what? I don't even know... I'm so confused right now. Oh! And I kind of liked the ending. ...more
I'm a huge fan of Karina's writing... but I'm really sad I didn't enjoy this book as much as I wanted. I didn't feel close to the characters at all, VI'm a huge fan of Karina's writing... but I'm really sad I didn't enjoy this book as much as I wanted. I didn't feel close to the characters at all, Vera was absolutely childish and annoying and Mateo was... just boring. I didn't get butterflies in my stomach with their love story and I definitely didn't suffer for them... I can't help but feel disappointed because of all of this. Karina made a really thorough job on the Spanish culture though, and I appreciate that. But the Spanish language and words in the book? Bad... really bad. Some sentences didn't make sense and others were Latin American Spanish words. You know for instance how British and American people have different accents and different words, right? Well, Spanish is different depending on the country too. So... not what I expected :( Big MEH....more
Why would you write this book Lisa??? Seriously, we would all have been much happier if Joe's story had remained a mystery. Now the Travis series is kiWhy would you write this book Lisa??? Seriously, we would all have been much happier if Joe's story had remained a mystery. Now the Travis series is kind of ruined, well no, cause I'm gonna erase this boring predictable and pointless book from my memory FOREVER.
WASTE OF TIME. But it was short, easy to read and the epilogue was cute. So there, 2 Stars.
Some beautiful moments... some beautiful quotes and memories, steamy moments, that made my hea3 Maybe-I'm-getting-too-old-for-these-books STARS
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Some beautiful moments... some beautiful quotes and memories, steamy moments, that made my heart ache and other times raced. But that's all...
"Fucking hormones"
Exactly ¬¬''
These characters....
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I tried... but couldn't find a connection with any of them. I have read YA before, like a lot, but Tate is one of those heroines that I can't understand. I get it, teens and their mood swings, hormones and insecurities. But come on!!! I understand her love/ hate relationship with Jared because of their friendship when they were kids (it was really sweet *.*)
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I really have no complains about their relationship and how it developed, the reasons behind his actions for being a bully (I understand but don't justify them, never). But I kind of liked the story, it was sweet.
What my mind can't process is Tate's relationship with her BFF K.C.
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Thanks to my BR girls Sonia, Gema, Lau and my Sis :) This book wasn't for me, but I love reading with you guys ;) You are awesome XoXo ...more
I was gonna write a proper review on this one... but fuck it LOL Dex is waiting for me and I really think I have spent too much time reading Cassie anI was gonna write a proper review on this one... but fuck it LOL Dex is waiting for me and I really think I have spent too much time reading Cassie and Jack.
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So I really enjoyed the first book, had a lot of fun with these two flawed characters and the way they kept fucking everything up. But this book was unnecessary and boring.
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I appreciate all the explanation at the beginning of the book and that's probably the reason behind those 3 stars, and well they were sweet at certain points and I liked that. I'm still being generous though... hahaha And well, the big turning point in the story was simply not enough for me, much ado about nothing. Even if Cassie and Jack seemed to have matured in some way their characters were still full of contradictions and that annoyed me too much.
And Matteo?? Probably one of the most useless characters ever... ¬¬''
Ok don't know if it's just me, maybe my mind can't handle this shit anymore... but seriously, I tried, but couldn't What an absolute MINDFUCK!!
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Ok don't know if it's just me, maybe my mind can't handle this shit anymore... but seriously, I tried, but couldn't possibly enjoy this book. It's so wrong in every possible way you can imagine...
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I admit I had issues with some of the things from the beginning but got over them quickly, like the age difference between the main characters (he is 18 years older than her). I even found their impossible and forbidden love sweet, beautiful and hot in certain moments.
But how can the hero be the same asshole after more than 20 years and keep making the same fucking mistakes? I need to see some development in the characters when I read... and I get that life in a MC must be really fucked up, you fight or you die, but that doesn't justify some actions or their way of living. So there, my biggest issue with this book... MC lifestyle.
I'm not jugding how this book portrays the way these people live, I'm pretty sure it's accurate or that it's even uglier than in this book. It's just not for me and it's definitely not enough for me to like this story or just look the other way reading how badly women are treated in this book.
So I'm gonna finish this review with something that Eva (heroine) said:
"You assholes love to spout about brotherhood and the code of the road but you never think about the trail of women you're leaving behind you."
They sure don't... ¬¬'' Even the ones (and I'm especially talking about Deuce here aka the hero) who claim to love a woman and respect her... respect, my ass!
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Anyways, thanks to my buddies Gema, Lau and my Sis for reading this one with me. It definitely was a wild ride LOL And thanks Sonia for being there listening to all our bitching hahaha But so you know... payback is a bitch!! be ready :P...more
Jack and Laurelyn's no strings attached relationship has finally come to an end and now more than 9 thousand miles separate them. La3 STARS
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Jack and Laurelyn's no strings attached relationship has finally come to an end and now more than 9 thousand miles separate them. Laurelyn thinks Jack doesn't love her and Jack can't look for her because he doesn't even know her last name. They both need to continue with their lives without each other. Laurelyn will try to fulfill her dream of becoming a famous singer and Jack must work in his vineyards, while he regrets day after day not telling Laurelyn he was in love with her before she left without saying goodbye. They both try to cope with the lost of the other in different ways and even if it seemed almost impossible for them to recover what they had lost, Jack finds her and they realise they can't possibly live with each other.
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Pretty nice until there right? Yes. Because after this, and I'm talking about probably the first 25% of the book, nothing really happens. Nope, nada. They break-up, they make-up, they have stupid fights and lots of sex, they sort of break-up again, and they half make-up and so on, until the book ends. I really enjoyed the first book even if it reminded me a lot of Fifty Shades, but it was super sweet and I really cared about Laurelyn and Jack. But this second book wasn't what I expected. It was really sweet and there were moments I really loved but I got really bored at certain points and some moments were completely surreal. But above all, there was something that really pissed me off... (view spoiler)[
"I once thought of you as my beauty from pain - when I thought I'd never see you again - but you're something entirely different. You're my beauty of surrender because that's what you're doing - relinquishing the person you once were to give yourself to me wholeheartedly."
What??? I mean... No. I get that one of them needed to sacrifice their job and dreams, but seriously? She wanted to be a singer so bad, and then she suddenly wants to get married and have kids and forgets about her other dreams. Why can't she do both things? Or why can't Jack be the one to make some sacrifices so they can work it out in some other way? She realises that she doesn't want to spend most of her life on the road, I get that. But there are other ways to be a singer, right? I just don't get that, sorry. (hide spoiler)]
Or well, maybe it's just me and this kind of stories don't work for me anymore :S
So this story is another one of those romantic and sweet. Avery and Cam find each other when both of them are living in a different s4 STARS!!
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So this story is another one of those romantic and sweet. Avery and Cam find each other when both of them are living in a different stage of their life. Cam is ready to fall in love and Avery is running from doing so and from everything that will make her trust another person and reveal her tumultuous past. Avery has many obstacles to overcome if she wants to go on with her life and be happy some time in the future. The attraction that surges between Cam and Avery is immidate and soon that becomes more than a friendship. But, will Cam be by her side to help fight her demons and wait for her to be strong enough to do it?
I did enjoy this book, there sure were many memorable moments, but for some reason I couldn't feel close enough to Avery. She is a really damaged character and I can understand many of her actions but I still found that the real reason why I kept reading was Cam. He is truly one of those characters you can't help falling in love with.
Ok, so this one wasn't for me... I really thought I was about to read a great story, and I really enjoyed the first half of the book, A LOT. That's theOk, so this one wasn't for me... I really thought I was about to read a great story, and I really enjoyed the first half of the book, A LOT. That's the reason I gave this book 3 stars. I loved all that alternating present and past moments of the story and I really enjoyed that for once the characters were not damaged because of some trauma they went through, they were just ordinary flawed characters. I understand how difficult it is to make choices in life, I also understand that sometimes you make good decissions and other times you make really bad ones. But for the second half of the book I just felt that both Caleb and Olivia were not making bad dumb choices, they will simply trying to hurt each other, without any reason at all, pure and absolute stupidity, just for the sake of drama. That both characters kind of redeemed themselve in the last 2% of the book it's not enough for me, sorry.
(view spoiler)[I think it was one of the few times in which I didn't want the two main characters to end up together... I couldn't believe that I was starting to feel that way while reading the second part of the book... but everytime I found out something that Olivia did in the past my faith in them disappeared a little, and finally when I found out Caleb had cheated on Olivia... that was the end of it for me. (hide spoiler)]...more
So the story between Blaire and Rushh continues in this second book. The young lovers are gonna face new problems and still have to f3.5 STARS
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So the story between Blaire and Rushh continues in this second book. The young lovers are gonna face new problems and still have to fight old ones. Family and trust issues are still gonna be very present as well as a new mistery to solve that might keep Blaire and Rush together or separate them for good.
This was an easy read, like the first book in the series. I did enjoy it but I found it too full of drama. It was like the first book all over again and the main characters have disappointed me in so many ways... it's true that they have also matured in certain ways but there were some reactions that were kind of contradictory. I still have hope for the third book and expect something good :) ...more
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