TBR Tuesday #17

Hello reader/s! I hope you’re well! For a while now, I’ve been writing a weekly or bi-weekly post about books that are on my TBR. TBR, if you don’t know is the abbreviation for To Be Read. My goal here is to shed some light on books that I’ve otherwise forgotten about. These books could be books I’ve been meaning to read from the library, or books that have been collecting dust on my shelves at home. My goal though is to say a little about the book and also give a little reasoning of why I want to read them.

Wow, it’s been so long since I’ve posted a TBR Tuesday! How are you? It’s been getting colder and colder every day this Autumn. I don’t remember being this cold this time of year last year! And my window blinds are still broken, so the cold seeps into my room making it even colder than it actually is. Now, I know you’re here for the books, so lets get onto talking about books!

This weeks books are two books that I’ve been wary about for a while now. One is a Science Fiction book, and the other a New Adult/ Young Adult Fiction novel. In my opinion, they’re both pretty popular! I’ve seen them all over the internet (aka, tumblr).

It Ends With Us, by Colleen Hoover | Book Review #149

“Sometimes it is the one who loves you who hurts you the most.

Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels a spark with a gorgeous neurosurgeon named Ryle Kincaid, everything in Lily’s life suddenly seems almost too good to be true.

Ryle is assertive, stubborn, maybe even a little arrogant. He’s also sensitive, brilliant, and has a total soft spot for Lily. And the way he looks in scrubs certainly doesn’t hurt. Lily can’t get him out of her head. But Ryle’s complete aversion to relationships is disturbing. Even as Lily finds herself becoming the exception to his “no dating” rule, she can’t help but wonder what made him that way in the first place.

As questions about her new relationship overwhelm her, so do thoughts of Atlas Corrigan—her first love and a link to the past she left behind. He was her kindred spirit, her protector. When Atlas suddenly reappears, everything Lily has built with Ryle is threatened.”

Trigger Warning: Suicide Mention, Gun Mention, Abuse, Attempted Rape

Let me just start this off with: I enjoyed this book. I managed to read the entirety of It Ends With Us just under (or a little over) 4 hours. Lily is a great character who we see through many different situations. Ryle is a character who is a interesting; with some series faults. Together Lily and Ryle are good; they’re really good with each other. There were some instances though, that had the two of them at odds; the instances I’m talking about are very serious.

By the time I finished reading the book, I had gone through a large variety of emotions that seem to come along with reading any of Hoover’s books. I teared up nearing the end of It Ends With Us, which doesn’t happen to me that often.

“Cycles exist because they are excruciating to break.”

I absolutely love this quote. It’s true that cycles exist because they’re excruciating to break. They can be extremely hard to break, and the fact that this quote stuck out the most to me screams volumes at me.

Nearing the end of the book, and the end of the book was incredibly poignant to me. Yet, as sad as the ending is, the way that everything turned out to be, is incredibly important.

The rest of this review will contain spoilers.

Library Reads #18

Library Reads: I’m a Library Lover, so these posts are where I document the books I’ve borrowed from libraries. I’ll tell you a little bit about what I expect from the book, or the author’s writings. Whether what I say is a sentence long, or a few sentence’s. From doing these posts, I hope to spread a little of my love for libraries, while also informing you of books that you may or may not have known of!

Hello lovelies! Today’s post, as you can see, is a post about the books I’ve gotten recently from a few libraries that I visit semi-regularly. I’m so happy! There were two books that I had requested a few months back, and now I finally have them! Onto the books!

Books You Wish Had Sequels | Top 5 Wednesday #22

Hello, all! Today’s top 5 wednesday post is about ‘Books You Wish Had Sequels’! And I don’t really know what to write for this, because I’m usually satisfied by the endings of books… Here’s the example that the Top 5 Wednesday group gave:

“Standalones that you wish had a sequel or the last book in the series that you wished wasnt the last.”

Books With Difficult Topics | Top 5 Wednesday #11

This weeks Top 5 Wednesday is focusing more on the “hard” books. Meaning: books that deal with (but not secluded to) mental health, sexual assault, illness, etc. I feel so bad for leaving the et cetera in there. But it’s there.  Let’s get to it, shall we?

Biggest Book Hangover | Top 5 Wednesday #5

Hello everyone! If you don’t know what Top 5 Wednesday is, it’s a weekly book meme created by a booktuber named Lainey. Her channel is Gingerreadslainey on youtube, or if you’d rather join her group, Top 5 Wednesday over on Goodreads, you can!

Today’s post is about Biggest Book Hangover’s. 

Worst Love Interests | Top 5 Wednesday #4

Hello bookworms! I hope this week has treated you well so far. Today’s post is about Worst Love Interests (male or female). I know that a lot of people will have different opinions about love interests for their beloved characters. That’s totally okay! It’s really good that we all have these differing opinions, as long as we all respect these opinions we have.

So to avoid me spoiling anything for you, please avoid reading this post if you haven’t read the books I’m going to be talking about. The said books are: Confess by Colleen Hoover, The Darkest Minds trilogy by Alexandra Bracken, The Darkest Part of the Forest by Holly Black, If I Stay by Gayle Forman, and The Mortal Instruments series by Cassandra Clare.

If you’ve read these books, then continue on ahead! I just don’t want to spoil anything for you. 

Best Suggested Books You Loved -Top 5 Wednesday #3

Hello loves! Today’s Top 5 Wednesday post is about Best Suggested Books You Loved. Basically books that were suggested to me and I ended up loving. I’m sure there are many, I just can’t remember them! Don’t you hate that? When you feel like you were put on the spot, and you forget every book you’ve ever heard of. There are a few books that I remember being recommended to me, and five of those book are…

This Girl by Colleen Hoover | Book Review #69

‘There are two sides to every love story. Now hear Will’s.

Layken and Will’s love has managed to withstand the toughest of circumstances and the young lovers, now married, are beginning to feel safe and secure in their union. As much as Layken relishes their new life together, she finds herself wanting to know everything there is to know about her husband, even though Will makes it clear he prefers to keep the painful memories of the past where they belong. Still, he can’t resist his wife’s pleas and so he begins to untangle his side of the story, revealing for the first time his most intimate feelings and thoughts, retelling both the good and bad moments, and sharing a few shocking confessions of his own from the time when they first met.

In This Girl, Will tells the story of their complicated relationship from his point of view. Their future rests on how well they deal with the past in this final installment of the beloved Slammed series.’

This Girl is the third and last book in the Slammed trilogy.

This book was a pleasant surprise!

Point of Retreat by Colleen Hoover | Book Review #60

‘Layken and Will have managed to overcome the obstacles that threatened to destroy their love, proving that they are destined for one another. What they are about to learn, however, is that the things that have brought them together may be the very things that ruin their connection forever…

Layken is left second-guessing the relationship whilst Will is jumping over hurdles to prove his love for her. What the young lovers discover about themselves along this journey may change their entire world, and the lives of those who depend upon them the most…‘