Review: P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han

P.S. I Still Love You by Jenny Han
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Lara Jean realizes that she really likes Peter. Not in the fake way like they started, but as in she wants to really date Peter now. Real boyfriend and girlfriend.

But then she also just wants to keep it casual and light, like what they have been doing during their fake relationship... Really, Lara Jean is just not sure what she wants right now.

Just when things seem to be working out, two things happen. One, Peter is hanging out a lot with Gen, and Lara Jean doesn't like it. Especially since Peter wont't tell her what they are doing when they are hanging out, except "they are just friends". And two, Lara Jean got a letter in the mail. A letter from John - 1 of her 5 loves that she wrote an email to - saying that he finally received her letter since he moved from the last known address Lara Jean had known.

John was always the one who got away and now that Lara Jean is reconnecting with him, she realizes how much she really liked him.

There is a lot of miscommunication and wild feelings going around, and Lara Jean is going to need to figure out exactly what she wants in life, before she loses it for good.

I liked this sequel. It was a bit slow at first, but then things started to pick up and drama was flying all around with these characters. The drama between the Lara Jean/Peter/Gen situation got to be redunant and annoying honestly. I just wanted everyone to make up their mind and figure everything out, because living in doubt and jealously is so tiring after awhile.

And the whole drama between Lara Jean/Peter/John was an interesting development. I'm glad Lara Jean was able to figure out her brain in the end and not let just her feelings jerk her around.

Overall, this was a good novel, and I'm very intrigued to see what the next novel is going to bring. Oh, and I will say that this book had a lot of the same features that the Netflix movie had, so I'm going to be interested to see how things are different when movie #2 comes out.

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Review: To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han

To All the Boys I've Loved Before by Jenny Han
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Lara Jean is a romantic. She has been in love with 5 guys in her 16 years and she has written each one a private letter professing her love and made them as her closure to her young love. These letters were never to be seen in the light of day, mind you. These letter were for her to keep and re-read whenever she wanted to.

But somehow, they got out. As in, they got mailed to the 5 boys. And now Lara Jean has to deal with the questions and reactions.

Because one of those letters was for Josh, her neighbor, and also her older sister, Margo's, ex-boyfriend, Lara Jean does something very...drastic. She tells Josh that she is dating someone else. Someone who also got a letter from Lara Jean. Someone named Peter, and someone who decides that they can pretend to date for their own advantage.

So now Lara Jean, a girl who has never dated before, is now dating one of the most popular boys in her class. And she has no idea what she is doing. She just knows that she has to avoid Josh until everything dies down and he doesn't ask about the letter, and that Margo never finds out.

But of course things don't go according to her plan, and things slightly fall apart. Lara Jean is usually an optimistic point of view girl, but hopefully her looking on the bright side can get her through the bumps she's about to face.

So I made a mistake...I watched the TV movie on Netflix before reading this book. I know, I know, it was bad of me, but I just really wanted to watch it!! And I loved it! And I did enjoy this book, but I think I would have liked it way more if I had read it first.

But that's okay. I'm still glad that I read it because I am also reading the other two in the series to see how everything goes with these characters.

Lara Jean is just a good girl. She reminds of me of myself in high school in a way, but then also not in a way. One I was never that romantic, nor did I care for high school boys because they were always so immature and I just couldn't handle them in the hallways, let alone actually date one. And two she is a baker and a girly girl, whereas I was always reading and I was a tomboy when doing sports.

For this to have happened to her is just craziness! Poor girl. But I'm also glad that it happened to her because she needed to live a little and get out in the world. No one goes anywhere in life by staying home and watching life outside their window.

The movie was a bit different than this novel, but for the most part it was pretty close to the story. I'm interested to see what happens after the way it ended! I will definitely be recommending this to friends and patrons at work!

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Review: Just Pretending by Leah Rooper

Just Pretending by Leah Rooper
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

I received this eARC from NetGalley. This is my honest review.

Eva is now Queen of her people, and she couldn't more more thrilled about it. But let's face it, she is still a teenager and she wants to live a normal life for a brief moment. When she gets the chance to go visit her brother in Chicago, Eva is over the moon about it. But it seems that Daniel is determined to keep her extremely busy doing touristy stuff and not just roaming around and having fun.

Tyler met Eva once, and thought she was an amazing person, so he was excited to see her again. But their first meeting didn't go too hot, and then Tyler was doing a favor to Daniel by picking up Prince Tiberius from the airport, when Eva mistook him for Tiberius! Now Tyler is a fake prince, but he is finally finding the connection with Eva that he had the very first time they met.

Tyler knows he needs to tell Eva the truth, but honestly, a poor motherless boy like him isn't going to see Eva, a Queen, again, so what's the harm in pretending?

Well a lot when he ends up falling for her, and then gets dragged to her home, her castle, for Christmas...

Now the cat is going to be out of the bag, and life is going to change dramatically for everyone...

This was a cute novel. I haven't read the first or the second book, but from what I can guess, each of these books have the common denominator of mistaken identities.

I didn't really connect with the characters as well as I would like, but I feel like if I had read the other books I may have had a better connection. I can't imagine being a Queen at only 16, but Eva seems to know what she is doing. She just wants to be a teenager too, which sadly doesn't always happen all of the time.

And Tyler has had a rough go lately, and I really do feel for him for his condition. But I feel like he was struggling for no reason because he could have told his dad or a teacher and gotten the help that he needed.

Overall this was a cute novel and I'm glad I got a chance to read it.

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Review: Bad Judgment by Meghan March

Bad Judgment by Meghan March
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Justine has been working her whole life to get to this moment. She is in law school to become the best lawyer to help kids like her when she was growing up. And Justine is not going to let ANYTHING distract her, not even the sexy Ryker who has been trying to date her for the last two years. He's only mad that she is the only girl who has turned him down, and in order to make sure her future is secure, Justine has to keep ignorning what could be with Ryker.

But when her scholarship for school gets taken away, Justine literally has no way to continue her schooling to be a lawyer. She's not able to apply for student loans, and she has no one else in her life to borrow that money from.

When a professor/advisor offers to pay for her schooling in exchange to tutor Ryker and get him through law school, Justine does not want to do it. It feels wrong. But after looking at all of her options, she really can't turn it down.

The problem is that the more she is around Ryker, the more she is starting to REALLY like him... And now taking money for tutoring him is definitely wrong, so sh has to make a decision: date Ryker and fall in love while feeling guilty, or risk her law school education to have a good future.

This was a great novel. I loved the connection between Justine and Ryker, and I seriously have no idea how she was able to avoid temptation for 2 years, because I would have caved way before then! He is so sweet and sexy and he may want to be played off as a dummy in school, but he is really smart. He goes after what he wants, and boy did he want Justine! It would make any girl swoon :)

Justine's life growing up was really terrible. I can't imagine parents like that and with everything that they did to her? I'm so glad she got the chance to have a normal life with someone who loves her when she was with her grandpa, but it was bittersweet when he passed away.

Justine is a tough little cookie and she was determined to make everything right in the end, which I admire so much. And I loved how everything ended despite the fact that I know things don't end that nicely, especially when it comes to student loans!

So glad I got this off Amazon and I will be looking for more books by this author!

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Review: The Big Dark by Rodman Philbrick

The Big Dark by Rodman Philbrick
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

This was an interesting novel. It definitely made me think about how I would react if the power and electronics in my life just stopped working. I do know that I would not want it to to happen in the middle of winter, because I HATE being cold.

The TV, video game, cellphone going away wouldn't bother me too much, because that was my childhood when I grew up. I was always outside or reading my book instead of having my face stuck in electronics.

But the no light, heat, plumbing? Yeah, that would be really hard for me to cope with. I like having those abilities in my life, and I'm not too keen on losing those.

This was a great novel that makes the reader really wonder how life was, and how it could be if anything catastrophic were to heppen. I'm just hoping that the world won't come to that!

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Review: The Darkest Star by Jennifer L. Armentrout

The Darkest Star by Jennifer L. Armentrout
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

I loved this so much! Review to come closer to release date!

I received an eARC novel from the author and Edelweiss. This is my honest review.
Release Date: October 30, 2018

Evie has a normal life with normal expectations. She is the buffer between her friends at times, and she loves to take photos in her spare time - especially with her new camera that she just got.

So when she goes with her friend, Heidi, to the nightclub that has humans and Luxen - well more Luxen than humans - she's a bit intimidated and freaked out. She's never done anything that wild, and Evie is completely out of her element at Foretoken club.

After Heidi left her, Evie found herself being escourted by the bouncer, she's freaking out. And when she's sitting down next to THE gorgeous guy who stole her breath from her the second she met his eyes. But once Luc opened his mouth, Evie knew she was going to have problems with his cocky attitude.

From the moment Evie talked to Luc, her entire life changed. And pretty much not for the better, since her life was falling around her every day.

But now that Evie has been thrust in a world she had no clue about, she needs to find a way to survive this chaotic mess. And she needs to figure out what she is feeling when it comes to Luc and his arrogant/presumptuous demeanor.

O. M. G.!!!!!! I AM SO GLAD THAT WE 1. GOT LUC'S STORY AND 2. GET TO REVISIT THE LUX UNIVERSE!!!! Seriously, I loved this so much! Luc is an eerily similar version of Daemon, and reading his interactions with Evie made me blush just as much as the other series!!! And Luc has no qualms keeping away from Evie, unlike how Daemon was with Katy at the beginning, so we got all of the great stuff thrown at us at once and it was just AMAZING!!!

Evie is a tough bird, She's also stubborn and a bit naive at times, but for a girl who hasn't engrossed herself with the knowledge of the Luxen, I'm not too surprised. Though I have to say, if I was in this world and aliens came to my home, I would so be doing as much research as I could to know about these foreign people who are here to stay. Plus it doesn't hurt that they are so dang attractive!! :D

The big secret that was revealed I called a mile away, but that's okay because it was amazing to see how all of the characters responded to the news. And Evie's reaction was so real and something that any normal person would have done, and I loved that. It may have been a bit much, but it was real and emotional and raw. And I loved it.

I am so, so, so glad I got an early copy of this book, and I am already antsy to get my hands on the next book because I can only imagine what is going to happen drama wise and attraction wise between Luc and Evie!

Fans are going to LOVE this book and will be sitting on the edge of their seat the whole novel!

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Review: Hollow Earth by Amy Miles

Hollow Earth by Amy Miles
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

I received this eARC novel from Red Coat Publishing. This is my honest review.

Taryn is being tortured. Going on the royal tour to other lands is downright miserable for her and she is ready for it to be over. She is very grateful for Prince Aed saving her life by saying she was his intended wife, but now she has to suffer through the royal protocols.

And she is also trying to forget her feelings for Devlin, even though she knows that nothing could happen between them being a banshee and human, but that doesn't stop the way she feels. Hopefully her and Aed will find some common ground with their new future.

Devlin is determined to get to the Netherworld. One, so he can find Taryn and make sure she is okay, and two, so he can find Tris and figure out how to help Seamus, who is getting sicker and sicker with the Lorcan bite that he got.

Finally Devlin was able to get into contact with Tris, and they were able to be smuggled into the Netherworld. When he finds Taryn, the situation is far more complicated than he could have imagined.

And with the Lorcans changing and attacking out of normal, Taryn is determined to save her people, even if Aed is all about the ridiculous royal tour.

But things are about to become very complicated when everyone realizes just how much the Lorcan has changed, and the fate of everyone's lives are in very grave danger.

I seriously am enjoying this series so much! There were SO MANY twists and turns in this book. One that made me disappointed, because I really am Team Aed, and now that isn't in the cards, which is very upsetting, but I'll get over it.

I have so many questions after the big bomb went off at the end, and none that I can ask because it will contain spoilers to everyone who hasn't read this book yet, but they are killing me!!

And it also is killing me that I have to wait for FOREVER to get the next book and find out what happens. Have I mentioned that I hate cliffhange endings in series...? Sigh...

Anyway, I really loved this book, I really love these characters, and I really love this world that Amy and Danielle have createad. I wish that I had the eniter series to binge read through fast, but I guess I will have to contain my frustration of having to wait.

Fans of Amy and Danielle and this series are going to love this book with the twists and turns and action that is jam packed into this novel! I'm so glad I've had the opportunity to read it!!

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Review: Whiskey Prince by Toni Aleo

Whiskey Prince by Toni Aleo
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Anberlynn has had a very trying life in her 18 years. She lost her father when she was 12, and then it was just her and her mom. Then they found out that her mom had cancer, and Amberlynn took care of her for the past 2 years. When her mom died, she was lost on what to do, but then she got a letter her mom wrote to her telling her to go stay with Amberlynn's aunt and uncle in Ireland and finally live her life like a normal 18 year old.

At first, she didn't want to leave her home that she has lived her whole life, but eventually she decided that it was the right move to make.

Declan is the Whiskey Prince. His family, from as far back as he can remember, has been in the Irish whiskey business, and Declan is more than ready to become the next person to take charge of this business. The problem is that he can't take over the business until he marries. Declan hasn't found the right woman to fall in love with, so he isn't sure who he will marry within 6 months of the timeline his father gave him.

The second Declan saw the "american" across the lake, he was done for. He knew that Amberlynn was the one for him. Once he finally got up the courage to talk to her, he was ruined for any other girl in town.

Things were moving slowly between Declan and Amberlynn since both were not used to dating or being in a relationship. But then their lives are threatened, and Declan and Amberlynn have to figure out how much they care for each other, and if they will have the chance to see how things progress.

For the most part I liked this book. I liked the storyline and the intent the book was going. There were some slow moments where I got a bit bored, and it seemed like there were a couple of moments that really didn't need to be included in this book, but overall I enjoyed it.

I feel so much when I think about Amberlynn. To have one person go through all of that heartache and pain and sadness is just so sad. And to see her still being an uplifting, light spirited girl gives me hope that there are people like her out there. She was so in love with her parents and so close to them, that when she lost them she lost a piece of herself as well. Her mom was her best friend, and she lost that person to turn to for happy and sad events to talk about. So I was really happy she found her cousin and became best friends with her, so Amberlynn could have another close connection with someone.

Declan seems like a great guy and he is so loyal to his family and his family business. I do have to say that he is very quick to anger when he gets mad, though. I don't like that side of him and it always made me worried that he was going to go to far when he lost his temper.

Overall, I did enjoy this book, and I may eventually read the next book, but I'm not dying-right-not-that-I-have-to-have-it, so I think I'm going to read the 1,000+ other eBooks that I have.

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