Tempting the Player REVIEW

By Jennifer L. Armentrout
pages: 200
Publisher: Entangled

He's a player on and off the field...

Chad Gamble, all-star pitcher for the Nationals, is one of the best players on—and off—the field. And right now, the notorious bad boy wants Bridget Rodgers. But with her lush curves and snappy comebacks, the feisty redhead is the kind of woman a man wants to settle down with…and that’s the last thing Chad needs.

When the paparazzi catch them in a compromising position, Chad’s manager issues an ultimatum: clean up his act or kiss his multi-million dollar contract goodbye. To save his career, his meddling publicist says he'll have to convince everyone Bridget isn’t just his flavor of the week, but his girlfriend.

Being blackmailed into a fake relationship with Chad Gamble isn’t easy, especially when the sizzling physical attraction between them is undeniable. With a month to go on their arranged pretense, it's going to take every ounce of willpower they have not to fall into bed together...or in love.
AAAAAAAAAAAAWWWWW WHAT A CUTE LITTLE BOOK!

Seriously. Super mega cute.

I can't help but falling in love with Chad. He is one hawt player.
Everything about this book screams romance and fun.

I love it when Armentrout writes from a guys POW, because their minds are just more dirty and more entertaining to be in.

Not even ashamed to admit that I like it. Nope.

I didn't to like it as much as I did, and that ending was just so freaking beatiful. a solid 4 star indeed.

Unchained (Nephilim Rising #1) REVIEW

By Jennifer L. Armentrout
Pages: 400
Publisher: Entangled

Between the pissed off creatures that want demon-hunter Lily Marks dead and the fallen angel who just...wants her, Lily is about ready to trade in forever for a comfy job in a cubicle farm.

The fact that she and Julian are civil to one another is enough to have her thrown out of the Sanctuary, but she can't shake her not-so-angelic stalker or how he brings her dangerously close to ecstasy.

Her forbidden relationship with Julian provides the perfect fuel for suspicion when a traitor is discovered to be working within the Sanctuary. Lily quickly finds herself hunted by well, everyone.

Her only hope is to discover the real traitor before she loses everything--and she'll need Julian's help. That is, if Julian is really there to help her...and not destroy her.

Yeah, being a Nephilim isn't everything it's cracked up to be.

yay angels!
What a confusing book. 
Without given any details about he relationship with Julian, it all just seemed a bit tacky, and the way she kind of just changed her mind about how she saw things with the angels after being raised with strict rules was quite unbelivable. You don't just change our mind about something you've lived by your life without any second thoughts.

Sydney Sage from Bloodlines is a great example of that. She was changed in a realistic way. 

SO the story. 

Very nice, entertaning and sassy, just like all of her books. I love the easy way her books are written in, even though it's paranormal fantasy she still finds a way to make it a fun summer-read book. 

Something alllllll her characters have in common though in all of her books is that they all use the same slang words. 

No.


Give us something unique with each character, it's like writing about the same character with a different name in a different setting. It just won't hold.


Xoxo Lihini

The Fiery Heart (Bloodlines #4) REVIEW

By Richelle Mead
pages: 438
Publisher: Razorbill

Sydney Sage is an Alchemist, one of a group of humans who dabble in magic and serve to bridge the worlds of humans and vampires. They protect vampire secrets - and human lives.

In The Indigo Spell, Sydney was torn between the Alchemist way of life and what her heart and gut were telling her to do. And in one breathtaking moment that Richelle Mead fans will never forget, she made a decision that shocked even her. . . .

But the struggle isn't over for Sydney. As she navigates the aftermath of her life-changing decision, she still finds herself pulled in too many directions at once. Her sister Zoe has arrived, and while Sydney longs to grow closer to her, there's still so much she must keep secret. Working with Marcus has changed the way she views the Alchemists, and Sydney must tread a careful path as she harnesses her profound magical ability to undermine the way of life she was raised to defend. Consumed by passion and vengeance, Sydney struggles to keep her secret life under wraps as the threat of exposure — and re-education — looms larger than ever.

Oh Mead oh Mead. 

I Have to start of by saying; I love Adrian Ivashkov more that a mother ever loved her first born child. I think Adrian and Sydney are a badass team, they really work together. They are my otp. Don't forget that okay?

TFH starts off where the last book ended, where Sydney goes back to Adrian and they become a couple and all that jazz. 

AND LORDY LORD are they not just swoon worthy? Yes. Yes they are. There is so much romance going on in this book, and I loved it. Because that's what we've been hoping for since book #1 right?

but. 
There romance kept on going strong chapter. after. chapter. 
Every freaking chapter was either about
1. They wanted to make out like animals
2. rip each other's clothes of
3. sex thoughts
4. sex thoughts

But because of Zoe and Jill who would have the front seat to every romantic aspect they had to be careful. But it was always in their thoughts. 

Sydney have changed a lot, like really A LOT. I like that she have become her own person with her own believes, I knew that that would happen eventually. She's a smart person. But at the same time she became a bit careless in a very none Sydney way... 

All that made the plot weak and after a while... pretty boring. 


The best part about this book though is that's it's written from both Adrian's and Sydney's POV, and I don't think I can express in words how happy it makes me to be inside Adrian's head. He is such a complex character and he have always fascinated me. His head works in a different way because of all the spirit and that makes him the most interesting character on earth. Plus he is super duper sexy. 

The only real action happened towards the end, and If you've read Vampire Academy you KNOW that Richelle Mead knows how to illustrate awesome fight scenes. 

But WHY we had to wait to the end to get that? I don't know.
She had so many opportunities to make it more fierce, scenes where she could have put in a strigoi or two, or maybe have Angeline do something really stupid that would've gotten her into trouble etc. but no no, she decided to put alllll that focuse on the romantic aspects.

Back to the end. I think it ended great. Freaking cliffhanger but nonetheless amazeballs. I'm not saying I didn't see it coming because I did out of pretty obvious reasons, but I liked how it turned out. That gives me hope that the 5th book might actually be action-packed. 

xoxo Lihini

Wild Cards REVIEW

By Simone Elkeles
Pages: 342
Publisher: Walker Books

After getting kicked out of boarding school, bad boy Derek Fitzpatrick has no choice but to live with his ditzy stepmother while his military dad is deployed. Things quickly go from bad to worse when he finds out she plans to move them back to her childhood home in Illinois. Derek’s counting the days before he can be on his own, and the last thing he needs is to get involved with someone else’s family drama.

Ashtyn Parker knows one thing for certain--people you care about leave without a backward glance. A football scholarship would finally give her the chance to leave. So she pours everything into winning a state championship, until her boyfriend and star quarterback betrays them all by joining their rival team. Ashtyn needs a new game plan, but it requires trusting Derek—someone she barely knows, someone born to break the rules. Is she willing to put her heart on the line to try and win it all?

And she have done it again. 
Simone Elkeles does this all the time, she leave me with no words!
Her books are easy to read but they are yet so powerful and strong, the way she writes is just magic.
She manages to make ME feel what the characters feel, every single time. It's like it's happening to me, and to be able to do that is what I call skills. Knowing how to use the alphabet.


Wild Cards was so heartwarming, so beautiful and just oooh so perfect. I fell in love with the narrators after 20 pages in, they just captured my heart without warning the way her characters always does. 
Simone Elkeles books really show that just because the book is easy to read and fun doesn't mean it can't be emotional at the same time. I really like that.

I got this book from Simone Elkeles herself as a 'get well' gift, because my friend Linnea told her about my surgery, and  after that she contacted me via facebook. To be able to say "my favorite author cares about me, she is my friend" is just so surreal. She is the the most nicest author out there, no questions 
about that <3

xoxo Lihini

Frigid (Frigid #1) REVIEW

By: Jennifer L. Armentrout
Pages: 252
Publisher: Hill Contemporary 

For twenty-one-year-old Sydney, being in love with Kyler isn't anything new. They'd been best friends ever since he pushed her down on the playground and she made him eat a mud pie. Somewhere over the years, she fell for him and fell hard. The big problem with that? Kyler puts the 'man' in man-whore. He's never stayed with a girl longer than a few nights, and with it being their last year in college, Syd doesn't want to risk their friendship by declaring her love. 

Kyler has always put Syd on a pedestal that was too high for him to reach. To him, she's perfect and she's everything. But the feelings he has for her, he's always hidden away or focused on any other female. After all, Kyler will always be the poor boy from the wrong side of tracks, and Syd will always be the one girl he can never have. 

But when they're stranded together at a posh ski resort due to a massive Nor'easter, there's nothing stopping their red-hot feelings for each other from coming to the surface. Can their friendship survive the attraction? Better yet, can they survive at all? Because as the snow falls, someone is stalking them, and this ski trip may be a life-changer in more ways than one.


I can't believe I'm rating a JLA book 1 stars. 
She is one of my fav authors.
But I am.

You will nothing positive in this review, just so you know.

They have been friends since they were both little kids. And now they are twenty something. And they are both in love with one another. 
That right there is messed up because


1.  They don't act like that. Especially Sydney, she is always so weird around him, her jealousy is so obvious it's almost sad. 

2.  ONE DOES NOT HANG OUT WITH THEIR CRUSH FOR TWENTY YEARS WITHOUT DOING SOMETHING ABOUT IT.
rage 

Sydney could have been Bella Swan's sister, she cried all the freaking time, she is so insecure and it's depressing to read about. And she is doesn't value herself at all!


Kyler is a womanizer okay. He's been with half the woman population according to Syd, and she want's what the other girls have been getting from him 
Oh, okay. he's been with every single girl you know, and you still want him? He's never showed you interest in that way but you still want him? And better yet, you want to be another one of his girls? 
Oh no, I see nothing wrong in that. 
Not at all. 

And the writing! It's duo POV's and since WHEN do people use the same weird words when they think? Like Jesus H. Christ and stuff like that. They are two individuals. 
This book just made me angry, and the plot twist was so predictable it almost made me laugh. Almost.

The Edge of Never (The Edge of Never #1)

By J.A. RedmerskiPages: 426Publisher: Creatspace
Twenty-year-old Camryn Bennett had always been one to think out-of-the-box, who knew she wanted something more in life than following the same repetitive patterns and growing old with the same repetitive life story. And she thought that her life was going in the right direction until everything fell apart.Determined not to dwell on the negative and push forward, Camryn is set to move in with her best friend and plans to start a new job. But after an unexpected night at the hottest club in downtown North Carolina, she makes the ultimate decision to leave the only life she’s ever known, far behind.With a purse, a cell phone and a small bag with a few necessities, Camryn, with absolutely no direction or purpose boards a Greyhound bus alone and sets out to find herself. What she finds is a guy named Andrew Parrish, someone not so very different from her and who harbors his own dark secrets. But Camryn swore never to let down her walls again. And she vowed never to fall in love.But with Andrew, Camryn finds herself doing a lot of things she never thought she’d do. He shows her what it’s really like to live out-of-the-box and to give in to her deepest, darkest desires. On their sporadic road-trip he becomes the center of her exciting and daring new life, pulling love and lust and emotion out of her in ways she never imagined possible. But will Andrew’s dark secret push them inseparably together, or tear them completely apart?

What a ride!

How to read this book:
Make yourself some tea

Bake some cookies to have with the tea

Find a cozy corner with lot's of pillows and blankets

Now sit down and enjoy this roadtrip!

I thought this book was a bit different from other NA books, this book had a lot of other stuff going on a part from the romance, We have tragedies, death, love stories being shared and a lot of arguing about all kind of random stuff people argue about!

I fell in love with them both quickly. This book had some sweet moment's some very intense moment's and some moment's that left you like 

Overall this was a great book that makes me long for summer 2014 more than I should because it's so for away!

I'm quite jealous of Camryn, I wan't to go on  roadtrip with  hot, nice, funny, sweet guy like Andrew too...

The only negative thing I could think about to say about this book is the language, the language wasn't so subtlety.

that's why I'm giving this book 3/5

The second book in this series is coming out in November!

Oh, and this book is recommended for people 17+ But I'f you are younger and used to reading NA, go ahead!

xoxo Lihini

Underbara Helvete / Beautiful Disaster (Beautiful #1) REVIEW

                         Travis                                                     Abby

This is Their Story.

Av Jamie McGuire
Sidor: 363
Förlag: Kalla Kulor Förlag (tack, hoppas att uppföljaren översätts!)

Abby har lämnat sitt mörka förflutna bakom sig, fast besluten att aldrig återvända. Tillsammans med sin bästa kompis America har hon flytt till Eastern University för att börja ett nytt liv. Hädanefter ska hon vara en duktig flicka. Men så möter hon Travis, killen som slåss för pengar på illegala slagsmålsklubbar och som alltid har ett koppel av tjejer efter sig.

Abby lovar sig själv att aldrig falla för Travis och istället inleder de en vänskap. En vänskap som med tiden fördjupas och intensifieras tills den plötsligt har förvandlats till just det Abby med alla medel försökt undvika. Hon vet att de inte är bra för varandra, ändå kan hon inte hålla sig borta ifrån honom.

Deras relation blir snart alltmer kaotisk, destruktivt hänförande och fullkomligt underbar. Samtidigt smyger sig Abbys förflutna allt närmare och hotar att rämna hela deras värld.

Det där var en rejäl berg- och dalbana. Vilken kärleksfull, stark, passionerande, irriterande berättelse!
I början kunde jag inte lägga ifrån mig boken. Boken vart min drog. Jag läste i timmar för att jag ville avsluta boken så att jag bara kunde älska den o krama den. Boken hade starka karaktärer som man antingen älskar eller hatar. Personligen - älskar. 
Can vi bara ta en sekund från våra liv för att prata om Travis Maddox? Han har sina problem, vi behöver inte sopa undan det under mattan, och han är väldigt försvarande om Abby. väldigt försvarande jag säger inte att det är rätt att beté sig som ett psyko ibland, men ingen är perfekt, och Abby var också lite psykad. Enligt min mening är det vad som gör denna bok så bra. Ingen utav dem är perfekta.

Abby och Travis är så underbara tillsammans, det fanns några väldigt söta stunder i boken som fick mitt hjärta att svämma av varma känslor, och jag kan svära vid att jag vid vissa tillfällen kunde känna de exakta känslrna Abby kände. Det är så du vet om en författare är bra - författaren ska få dig att KÄNNA.

Det vore fel av mig att inte tala om Amerika (Abbys bff) och Shep (Travis kusin / Americas pojkvän)
De spelar en stor roll i den här boken, och de båda påverkar Travis och Abby mycket. Ingen av dem skulle kunna stå på egna ben utan Amerika och Shep. Bandet Amerika och Abby delar är okrossbart, har de varit med om allt, men Amerika aldrig lämna Abbys sida.
Vänskap, svek, familj och kärlek. Denna bok har allt. 

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By Jamie McGuire
Pages: 418
Publisher Atria Books

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.

That was one hellova roller coaster. What a, loving, strong, passionate and irritating story!
In the beginning I couldn't put it down. The book became a drug, I could read for hours because i wanted to just finish it and love it. 
The book had some really strong characters that you either loved or hated. Personally - Loved. 
Can we just take a second from our lives to talk about Travis Maddox? He got his issues, no need to deny that, he have a temper and he is very protective of Abby. very protective I'm not saying that it's right to act like a psycho at times, but no one can be perfect, and Abby is pretty Fd up to. I think that is what makes this story so good. none of them are perfect. 

Abby and Travis are so sweet together, there were some great moment's in the book that made my heart warm and fuzzy, and I swear that sometimes I felt the exact things that Abby was feeling. That's how you know the author is good - she gotta be able to make you FEEL.

It would be wrong of me not to talk about America (Abbys bff) and Shep (Travis cousin / Americas boyfriend) 
They play a big part in this book, and they both affect Travis and Abby a lot. None of them would be able to stand on their own feet without America and Shep. The bond America and Abby share is unbreakable, they have been through everything but America never leave Abby's side. 
Friendship, betrayal, family and love. This book has it all.

~Stay smart, stay chic
xoxo Lihini

Fallen Too Far (Too Far Trilogy #1) REVIEW

My Blaire

My Rush

When I say "mine" I mean head vision

She is only nineteen.

She is his new stepfather’s daughter. 

But for twenty-four year old Rush Finlay, she is the only thing that has ever been off limits. His famous father’s guilt money, his mother’s desperation to win his love, and his charm are the three reasons he has never been told no.

Blaire Wynn left her small farmhouse in Alabama, after her mother passed away, to move in with her father and his new wife in their sprawling beach house along the Florida gulf coast. Then there is her sexy stepbrother who her father leaves her with for the summer while he runs off to Paris with his wife. Rush is as spoiled as he is gorgeous. He is also getting under her skin. She knows he is anything but good for her and that he’ll never be faithful to anyone. He is jaded and has secrets Blaire knows she may never uncover but even knowing all of that…
Blaire just may have fallen too far.

what the hell?


By Abbi Glines
Pages 188
Publisher Abbi Gli
I have no idea how to rate this one. Like not at all. Hopefully I will know how many stars I should give this book when I'm done ranting. Let's begin.

The thing that annoyed me the most was the beginning.
A lot of YA/NA guys/men have a hard and raw personality and a soft and mushy inside, It's a cliche thing really, you can read about it everywhere, and I admit that yes, it does become quite predictable. It's like the authors don't know what other way they should write in. Anyway, the thing with Rush, the Male character in this book was that he was a real DOUCHE-BAG in the first scene!

He was this all time player and then all of a sudden he was like oh no your too good for me and I'm like what? Are you kidding me on some level like seriously? And to be honest I don't even understand why she wanted someone like him. They didn't really spend time with each other like people who likes each-other do,  so beside the fact that they were both hot, I don't know why they were attracted to another. 

B U T
The book got better, Abbi Glines irritated me occasionally but there were parts that I enjoyed, and that ending was a really unexpected, It was a brave ending indeed, a cliffhanger of a sort that makes you wan't to read the second one right away, but I really don't know... This is the third book I've ever read written by Abbi Glines, Existence and the Vincent Boys are the two books I've read by her before but the question Im asking myself is, Should I bother reading the second one in this trilogy?

~stay smart stay chic
xoxo Lihini

The Opportunist (Love Me With Lies #1) REVIEW

Olivia                                                                   Caleb

By Tarryn Fisher

Pages: 278

Olivia Kaspen has just discovered that her ex-boyfriend, Caleb Drake, has lost his memory. With an already lousy reputation for taking advantage of situations, Olivia must decide how far she is willing to go to get Caleb back. Wrestling to keep her true identity and their sordid past under wraps, Olivia’s greatest obstacle is Caleb’s wicked, new girlfriend; Leah Smith. It is a race to the finish as these two vipers engage in a vicious tug of war to possess a man who no longer remembers them. But, soon enough Olivia must face the consequences of her lies, and in the process discover that sometimes love falls short of redemption.

Did this book just happen?

“I think that after the first time you give your heart away, you never get it back. The rest of your life is just you pretending that you still have a heart." -Noah” 


WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW WOW.

Me after reading this book:

I am speechless.
My insides turned into something mushy, my heart ache, and my existence stopped making sense. Time slowed down. Why I asked myself. Why can't I just rotten, vanish, disappear? Why am I forced to live when all I wan't to do is die?
I realized what I was feeling.
There was a name for this.
They called it a broken heart.

All because of this book.

So unpredictable and sweet, and the hardest thing to accept about this book was that it was so RAW. It was like seeing someones actual life playing in front of you, and all you can do is sit back and be amazed. And cry.

Let's set my emotions aside now, Tarryn Fisher, You did it. Tarryn Fisher Wanted to write a book that everyone would love. But she knew that that was impossible so she wen't for emotions. She wanted to make her readers FEEL. And the strongest feeling? Sadness.

 I believe this is her debut book and I, blogger for teenbookalover, mark this book as one of THE BEST debut books ever written by mankind. Screw Romeo and Juliet, and to hell with One Day by David Nicholls (both books are overrated in my opinion)YOU are a true author that STAYS TRUE to our nature, you are real, and you don't bullshit around. That much I can tell by reading your book. Cheers.

~ Read this book and freak out

xoxo Lihini

New Adult - the new hype?

New Adult, a genre directed to readers between the age of 18 - 25, because they are the new adults. 

New Adult is the genre between Young Adult and Adult.

What is really the difference between YA, NA and A?

I would say that NA and A are almost identical, or in fact, books labeled NA are almost always also labeled either A or YA. 

NA is a more grown up, that meaning that the characters are often more experienced in life that what YA characters are, and NA is a bit more heated than Young Adult.

I like NA books very much. I hate the label NA though. 

I don't GET the genre, YA readers are not kids (well, it's not supposed to be read by teens) and even if kids read YA books they are obviously mature enough. 

I like NA because there is no hiding around the bushes with NA. Everything is straight forward. I would have wished that there would be more Divergent/fallen angels/hungergames/vampire academy books written in a NA way. Meaning a more mature way. 

I've seen books exploding into the NA world, and it's most YA authors widening their boundaries which I think is great. 

If you are new to the whole NA thing (trust me, it's not that different from YA) you should start with the books down below

I am going to check out these books that I found in the NA category

~stay smart, stay chic

xoxo Lihini

Bully REVIEW (Fall away #1) REVIEW +

By Penelope Douglas

Pages: 290

My name is Tate. He doesn't call me that, though. He would never refer to me so informally, if he referred to me at all.

We're neighbors, and once, we were best friends. But then, one summer, he turned on me and has made it his mission to screw up my life at every opportunity. I've been humiliated, shut out, and gossiped about all through high school. His pranks and rumors got more sadistic as time wore on, and I made myself sick trying to hide from him. I worried about what was around every corner and behind every door. 

So I left.

I spent a year studying abroad and bathed in the freedom of life without Jared. Now I'm back to finish up high school and get the hell out of here forever. I'm hoping that after a year of breathing room, he's moved on and forgotten all about me. 

But even if he hasn't changed, I have. I'm not interested in avoiding him or turning the other cheek anymore. We're going to go head to head, because neither of us wants to back down

By the freaking angel what a irritating main character!!!!
I can't even remember her name for all the money in the world,  ugh I hated her a bit more every time I turned a page.

This book is called Bully.
Bully is when someone makes your life a living hell, you are scared of what this person's next move will be.
People don't fall in love with their bully, they are not supposed to see all the things the bully did not do. Like "he never touched me"
What the f?
Are you serious? Tell me you are kidding PLEASE .

*SPOILER ALERT DON'T READ BEYOND THIS POINT IF YOU HAVEN'T READ THIS BOOK, HOWEVER I DO NOT RECOMMEND THIS BOOK*

And then we have her "friend" K.C
Correct me if im wrong, but shouldn't friends be on your side?
Should friends go and hook up with the guy who have made your life a hell?

Jesus, Bullying is a serious thing, it's a heavy subject a lot of people go through and in my opinion this book handles the whole thing in such a ignorant way. I've been bullied and it felt like the book was laughing up my face. Like being bullied is not that bad. Bullshit.

I read 150 pages, but could not finish it.
I am utterly, truly disappointed.

1/5

UPDATE

I wrote this review yesterday and checked goodreads to get the synopsis. This book has 4,25/5 on GR.

And people keep talking about the end. 

As much as I hate this book im thinking, maybe I should finish it. If I ever do and change my opinion I'll write another review. 

until then

~stay smart, stay chic

xoxo Lihini

Darkness Divine (four short novels in one book) REVIEW +

By P.C. Cast, Geba Showalter, Maggie Shayne, Rhyannon Byrd

Kindle Edition, 432 pages

Published September 1st 2010 by MIRA

In Divine Beginnings, Healer Aine must chose between treating an enigmatic enemy or letting him die, whilst The Amazon’s Curse could kill the passion that Nola and vampire warrior Zane share. 

Toying with New Orleans Voodoo, leaves Tessa haunted by a sinfully sexy man., whilstlast scion of the dragon clan Rhys is tormented by his desire for Alia as he struggles to fight the Edge of Craving.

This book contains four small novels, and since i've already written a review on the first one, Divine Beginnings which you can find HERE I won't write another review of it.

I liked these novels more or less, I felt that they could really have been turned in to something more, something more deeper. The Amazon's Curse kept talking about an Island that made me very confused, because everything that happent in this short novel was founded from everything that happen't on that Island, I felt left out, and that is very very amateur. you should NEVER make a reader feel left out like that. I give The Amazon's Curse 2 stars because I would love to know what happened on that Island.

Then we have Voodoo which I really liked while reading it, I thought It was something extra, and I wanted to know what would happen later (which I never will because there is no follow up book) but now thinking back I have to admit that everything happen't way to fast. 

Edge of Craving was a bit of a joke, the lead male character was just so funny and not in the good way funny, no I just could not hold myself from laughing at this character, the character never laugh's, never smiles, always mean and grim, etc etc, but of course the innocent girl has to fall for this stone, but hey, oh nono, the guy is not a bottle of negativity after all, he actually likes her and want her body. 

And the girl is not so innocent after all, very demanding. This was like a fantasy, very very very short version of Fifty Shades of Grey.

~stay smart, stay chic

xoxo Lihini

Book Releases of the Month: August +

IT'S AUGUST PEOPLE!

SO much to look forward this month but at the same time there are things happening this month that I am not looking forward too. Like school starting August 21th... But at the same time It's going to be fun seeing all friends again!
I was just going through this months releases and YES after 2 awful book-months the authors are back on track again.


The Distance Between Us
By Kasie West
Publisher: HarperTeen

Seventeen-year-old Caymen Meyers studies the rich like her own personal science experiment, and after years of observation she’s pretty sure they’re only good for one thing—spending money on useless stuff, like the porcelain dolls in her mother’s shop.

So when Xander Spence walks into the store to pick up a doll for his grandmother, it only takes one glance for Caymen to figure out he’s oozing rich. Despite his charming ways and that he’s one of the first people who actually gets her, she’s smart enough to know his interest won’t last. Because if there’s one thing she’s learned from her mother’s warnings, it’s that the rich have a short attention span. But Xander keeps coming around, despite her best efforts to scare him off. And much to her dismay, she's beginning to enjoy his company.

She knows her mom can’t find out—she wouldn’t approve. She’d much rather Caymen hang out with the local rocker who hasn’t been raised by money. But just when Xander’s attention and loyalty are about to convince Caymen that being rich isn’t a character flaw, she finds out that money is a much bigger part of their relationship than she’d ever realized. And that Xander’s not the only one she should’ve been worried about.


It's contemporary which mean perfect for kind of ending the summer with, I think this book can be sweet so I will probably give this book a try. If not for the story at least for that sweet cover!

Frigid (Frigid #1)

By J. Lynn (Jennifer L. Armentrout)

Publisher: Spencer Hill Contemporay

Release date: July 15th

For twenty-one-year-old Sydney, being in love with 

Kyler isn't anything new. They'd been best friends ever since he pushed her down on the playground and she made him eat a mud pie. Somewhere over the years, she fell for him and fell hard. The big problem with that? Kyler puts the 'man' in man-whore. He's never stayed with a girl longer than a few nights, and with it being their last year in college, Syd doesn't want to risk their friendship by declaring her love. 

Kyler has always put Syd on a pedestal that was too high for him to reach. To him, she's perfect and she's everything. But the feelings he has for her, he's always hidden away or focused on any other female. After all, Kyler will always be the poor boy from the wrong side of tracks, and Syd will always be the one girl he can never have. 

But when they're stranded together at a posh ski resort due to a massive Nor'easter, there's nothing stopping their red-hot feelings for each other from coming to the surface. Can their friendship survive the attraction? Better yet, can they survive at all? Because as the snow falls, someone is stalking them, and this ski trip may be a life-changer in more ways than one.

IT IS OUT THIS MONTH!

I'ts no secret that Im obsessed with Jennifer's books, I've read two of her books last month, and I have been looking forward for this one for quite a while now!

Dirty Little Secret

By Jennifer Echols

Publisher: MTV Books

Release Date: July 16th

Bailey wasn’t always a wild child and the black sheep of her family. She used to play fiddle and tour the music circuit with her sister, Julie, who sang and played guitar. That ended when country music execs swooped in and signed Julie to a solo deal. Never mind that Julie and Bailey were a duet, or that Bailey was their songwriter. The music scouts wanted only Julie, and their parents were content to sit by and let her fulfill her dreams while Bailey’s were hushed away.

Bailey has tried to numb the pain and disappointment over what could have been. And as Julie’s debut album is set to hit the charts, her parents get fed up with Bailey’s antics and ship her off to granddad’s house in Nashville. Playing fiddle in washed-up tribute groups at the mall, Bailey meets Sam, a handsome and oh-so-persuasive guitarist with his own band. He knows Bailey’s fiddle playing is just the thing his band needs to break into the industry. But this life has broken Bailey’s heart once before. She isn’t sure she’s ready to let Sam take her there again…

There is one thing I do not like with Echols books, and that is that in every book she writes she likes to keep the readers clueless of the characters future which I find rather irritating, but other than that she is pretty decent. 

Of Beauty and Beast

By Stacey Jay

Publisher: Delacorte Press

Release date: July 23th

In the beginning was the darkness, and in the darkness was a girl, and in the girl was a secret...

In the domed city of Yuan, the blind Princess Isra, a Smooth Skin, is raised to be a human sacrifice whose death will ensure her city’s vitality. In the desert outside Yuan, Gem, a mutant beast, fights to save his people, the Monstrous, from starvation. Neither dreams that together, they could return balance to both their worlds.

Isra wants to help the city’s Banished people, second-class citizens despised for possessing Monstrous traits. But after she enlists the aid of her prisoner, Gem, who has been captured while trying to steal Yuan’s enchanted roses, she begins to care for him, and to question everything she has been brought up to believe.

As secrets are revealed and Isra’s sight, which vanished during her childhood, returned, Isra will have to choose between duty to her people and the beast she has come to love.

I do not know what to think of this one but It has a nice cover so, maybe yes?

~stay smart, stay chic

xoxo Lihini