On the Fence REVIEW

By Kasie West
Pages: 296
Publisher: HarperTeen

For sixteen-year-old Charlotte Reynolds, aka Charlie, being raised by a single dad and three older brothers has its perks. She can outrun, outscore, and outwit every boy she knows—including her longtime neighbor and honorary fourth brother, Braden. But when it comes to being a girl, Charlie doesn't know the first thing about anything. So when she starts working at chichi boutique to pay off a speeding ticket, she finds herself in a strange new world of makeup, lacy skirts, and BeDazzlers. Even stranger, she's spending time with a boy who has never seen her tear it up in a pickup game.

To cope with the stress of faking her way through this new reality, Charlie seeks late-night refuge in her backyard, talking out her problems with Braden by the fence that separates them. But their Fence Chats can't solve Charlie's biggest problem: she's falling for Braden. Hard. She knows what it means to go for the win, but if spilling her secret means losing him for good, the stakes just got too high.

Easy to read, enjoyable,cliché and romantic. Indeed a nice book to end the summer with! There's not so much to say about this book, other than that it's very sweet and has a nice language. It's a very typical YA lovestory, and I enjoy that kind of books a lot actually.

The Distance Between Us REVIEW

By Kasie West
Pages: 312
Publisher: Harper Teen

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.

I dislike the poor vs rich talk that's going on in Caymen's head. She's very judgmental and I think it has a lot to do with her father. She believes that money changes people, and the richer someone is - the worse. Her mother is even worse. Her beliefs about rich people is so strong that she has even made her daughter believe them. And Caymen just believes it. She's never been friends with someone from the "other side of the road". As I said before, judgmental. And It's quite paradox actually, because she believes that rich people are the snobs and that they are the people who won't be friends with anyone, and she think they are the judgmental people, when in reality she is no better. I don't exactly know why an author would do something like that. It's an embarrassing mistake. 

And then we have the male lead character - Xander. 
Rich in all ways, but he doesn't fit in with Caymen's description of rich. Yes, that DOES make her all kinds of nervous. 

He is nice, considerate and very caring. He has a big heart and I do see why anyone would fall for him. He cares about Caymen a lot. But because of her (STUPID) beliefs she just cannot accept it. She tries to make up all kinds of reasons for him to be playing her. Every slightest single little mistake he does she draw parallels with him being "beyond rich" and that's why he make so unforgetableeee mistakes. Le sigh.

Something I still don't understand is why they even like each other. Or more like, why HE likes her. He is too good for her. 

The story ended very abrupt, like the author just couldn't wait to get it finished. I would have enjoyed another chapter. Xander made The Distance Between Us enjoyable.

Just one Day REVIEW

By Gale Forman
Pages: 400
Publisher: Speak

Allyson Healey's life is exactly like her suitcase—packed, planned, ordered. Then on the last day of her three-week post-graduation European tour, she meets Willem. A free-spirited, roving actor, Willem is everything she’s not, and when he invites her to abandon her plans and come to Paris with him, Allyson says yes. This uncharacteristic decision leads to a day of risk and romance, liberation and intimacy: 24 hours that will transform Allyson’s life.

One of the weirdest books I've ever read in my entire life.
And I'm old.

or at least I am according to my 5 year old cousin.


I've never met a more annoying and stuck up character than Willhem. He doesn't seem to care whether or not he hurts Allyson aka Lulu and is just so insensitive. She doesn't deserve what he did to her. At all.

Allyson is as nice as a person can get. Very lovely. I love her journey, it's very intresting to follow her trough this and see her develop as a character. It's a very important book about finding yourself, and Forman really emphasis the fact that we are always lost. We just handle it in different ways. Where some see unknown streets others see a new adventure.

I went in to this book expecting a nice light summer read, but that was not what I ended up with. This book got me thinking a lot about depression, which wasn't exactly he subject I wanted to think about on my vacation in Crete. But I don't regret reading the book.

This book makes me want to discover Paris all over again. And just discover the world with different eyes.


You should not read this book if you are looking for a funny contemporary book. This is not it.

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

To All the Boys I've Loved Before (To All the Boys I've Loved Before #1) REVIEW

By Jenny Han
Pages: 288
Publisher: Simon & Schuster

To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before is the story of Lara Jean, who has never openly admitted her crushes, but instead wrote each boy a letter about how she felt, sealed it, and hid it in a box under her bed. But one day Lara Jean discovers that somehow her secret box of letters has been mailed, causing all her crushes from her past to confront her about the letters: her first kiss, the boy from summer camp, even her sister's ex-boyfriend, Josh. As she learns to deal with her past loves face to face, Lara Jean discovers that something good may come out of these letters after all.

LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE OMG I'M IN LOVE WITH THE LOVE! Uuugh, just thining back at this book gives me butterflies and heartache. This book was perfection in it's most eternal form - youth. I cannot get over how beautiful this is. I've only been in love once before. Once. But what I felt for this book....What I FEEL. That's true love. I'm in love. I'm so deeply in love. Our time on this planet is counted, We're all going to die eventually and I will gladly spend all my days loving this book, that's how adorkable this book by Jenny Han is. It's a true contemporary masterpiece filled with so much love and joy, I haven't been this happy in a loong time. The characters are so freking loveable, even the ones you dislike, and the narrator is such a breezy, cute and big-hearted person, and she is so hilarious! I laughed trough the whole book, and she just makes my stone-heart all warm and fuzzy with her innocence. It's so freaking nice reading about a normal teenager once in a while, I mean, always reading about brave characters like Tessa, Katniss, Tris and Anabeth can make you feel a bit useless hehe.... All I can say is that this is definitely one of the best (if not the best) contemporary books I've ever read in my whole 18 year old long life. Way to go Jenny Han, can't wait for the sequel!

City of Heavenly Fire (the Mortal Instruments #6) REVIEW

THIS IS THE LAST BOOK IN THE MORTAL INSTRUMENTS SERIES, DO NOT READ THIS REVIEW IF YOU HAVE NOT READ THE PREVIOUS FIVE BOOKS.

By Cassandra Clare
Publisher: McElderry
Pages: 733

Sebastian Morgenstern is on the move, systematically turning Shadowhunter against Shadowhunter. Bearing the Infernal Cup, he transforms Shadowhunters into creatures out of nightmare, tearing apart families and lovers as the ranks of his Endarkened army swell.

The embattled Shadowhunters withdraw to Idris - but not even the famed demon towers of Alicante can keep Sebastian at bay. And with the Nephilim trapped in Idris, who will guard the world against demons?

When one of the greatest betrayals the Nephilim have ever known is revealed, Clary, Jace, Isabelle, Simon, and Alec must flee - even if their journey takes them deep into the demon realms, where no Shadowhunter has set foot before, and from which no human being has ever returned...



Wow.

can we just take a moment to.... wow.
it's over. The Mortal Instruments. it's actually over.

I'm not going to talk about how much I love these characters because you can read about that in every other TMI review. I won't even talk about Cassandra Clare's way of writing, because I've mentioned how captivating it is a dozen times before.

I'm simply going to talk about my love for this whole saga. And how this end affected me.

They say that you can fall in love with someone at first sigh. That's what I did - with City of Bones. And for each passing day, my love just grew stronger and stronger.

TMI has taught me so much. I never knew that I could become so close friends with fictional characters, as if they were real. Which they are, to me.



I remember when I first came across City of Bones in my local library. The book was thick, I wasn't used to reading that heavy books. But something just pulled me to it. Something made me borrow it at take it home with me. That pull I felt towards City of Bones is something I've never felt for a book before. Like I was destined to find it.

No one taught me more about life or myself than Clary did. I could relate to Clary so much, and from the moment I got to know her I knew that she'd make me a better person. And she did. Clary taught me about sacrifice, and about love, and to fight for what you love. She taught me to never give up, ever. I've followed her through six books, and with each book she grew. She became this beautiful woman, and I too, grew with her. Just like a parabatai.

Every time I visit the shadowhunter world I feel loved and happy. That's where I go when I want to escape the real mundane world. That's my safe haven.
I will miss them all so so dearly, but I think there's no secret that I love Magnus Bane a that bit more. I have a thing for gay guys. And Magnus Bane is the sassiest f**king freewheeling bisexual of them all. He is probably the most beautiful character that Cassandra Clare has ever created. He is just so full of everything. May it be happiness, joy, adventure, wisdom or love. And he feels so deeply. He burns so bright, it's almost hard to look at him straight (HAHAHAHAHAHA).

his whole being is just so capturing. He is so hard to understand, and that fascinates me. I've never been so hooked to a character as I am to Mr. Bane. I will never forget him, for he will be my joy when I need it the most.
They all will. The whole city will. I can't believe it's over. It was a beautiful ending. One that I actually can live with.


Thank you Cassie, you gave me something I'll cherish the rest of my breathing life.



xoxo Lihini

Prodigy (Legend #2) SWEDISH / ENGLISH REVIEW

Av Marie Lu

Förlag: Modernista
Sidor: 344

Det har gått en vecka sedan June och Day med nöd och näppe lyckades fly från Los Angeles och Republiken med livet i behåll. Day antas vara död efter att ha förlorat sin bror till en avrättningspatrull som trodde att det var honom de tog livet av. June är nu Republikens mest eftersökta förrädare.

Desperata efter hjälp vänder de sig till Patrioterna – en rebellgrupp som vigt sina liv åt att få Republiken på fall. Men går Patrioterna att lita på? Eller har de själva, utan att inse det, blivit brickor i det mest fruktansvärda av politiska spel?

SOM JAG HAR LÄNGTAT EFTER DENNA BOK!
Jag har gått runt i ett halvår och tänkt på denna bok, ettan var grym och tvåan höll definitivt måttet!
Legend lämnar oss mitt i ett kaotiskt ögonblick. Days bror John har blivit dödad och det råder tumult i Los Angeles. Man vet inte riktigt vart man har Day och June, är de tillsammans? Kommer de att hålla? Ingen som vet, ingen som vet...

Jag hade verkligen höga förväntningar av denna bok och Marie Lu överträffade dem verkligen. Hennes sätt att skildra karaktärerna på är väldigt fängslande, hon tar dig högst upp på en läskig berg-och-dalbana och låter dig vara där ett bra tag. Du känner spänningen och obehaget som sakta kryper sig in under ditt skinn, och precis när du börjat lugna dg och tro att du inte alls kommer behöva åka ner så släpper hon ned dig. Det är läskigt. Det är fantastiskt. Det gör boken så jäkla bra.

By Marie Lu
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile
Pages: 371

Injured and on the run, it has been seven days since June and Day barely escaped Los Angeles and the Republic with their lives. Day is believed dead having lost his own brother to an execution squad who thought they were assassinating him. June is now the Republic's most wanted traitor. Desperate for help, they turn to the Patriots - a vigilante rebel group sworn to bring down the Republic. But can they trust them or have they unwittingly become pawns in the most terrifying of political games?

AS I have longed THIS BOOK!
I've been walking around for half a year and thought of this book. Book one was awesome and the second was definitely just as well!
Legend leaves us in the midst of a chaotic moment. Day's brother John is killed and there is a riot in Los Angeles. You do not really know where you have Day and June, are they together? Will they last? Nobody knows, nobody knows ...

I had indeed high expectations of this book and Marie Lu surpassed them indeed. Her way of depicting the characters on is very captivating, she takes you on the top of a scary roller-coaster ride and lets you be there a while. You feel the tension and discomfort that slowly creeps under your skin, and just when you begin to calm yourself and think that you will not have to go down she lets you down. It's scary yet fantastic.

xoxo Lihini

Elanor & Park REVIEW (Swedish and English)

Av Rainbow Rowell
Sidor: 330
Förlag: Berghs Förlag
Finns att köpa på Adlibris

Två ovanliga människor. En oemotståndlig kärlek...Parks tråkiga tillvaro förändras när Eleanor hamnar bredvid honom på skolbussen. Rödhårig, storvuxen och konstigt klädd passar hon inte in. Men de funkar tillsammans. De möts i musiken, i serierna och en längtan bort. En oförglömlig berättelse om den första kärleken mot alla odds!

Vilken annorlunda berättelse. 
Vilket vågat drag.
Vilken kärlek.
Rowell följer inte alls mallen för hur en Unga Vuxna kärleksbok "bör" vara - alls.
Eleanor & Park handlar om den första, men ofullständiga kärleken, men för alltid oförglömlig.
Det är en väldigt fin berättelse. 
Man blir helt varm i kroppen när man läser Elanor & Park. Det är lite som att vara kär i deras kärlek.

Fick berättelsen ett lyckligt slut? Skulle jag verkligen inte påstå. Men det var det som gjorde hela boken. Som en borttappad pusselbit.

Jag rekommenderar denna bok starkt till alla kärleksfanatiker därute, och gamla som unga, för vår första kärlek är inget vi kommer glömma.

Värt att nämna: Översättningen är KANON, bra gjort Carla Wiberg!

ENGLSH || ENGLISH ||ENGLSH || ENGLISH ||ENGLSH || ENGLISH ||ENGLSH || ENGLISH ||ENGLSH || ENGLISH ||

By Rainbow Rowell
Pages: 328
Publisher: St. Martins Press

Set over the course of one school year in 1986, ELEANOR AND PARK is the story of two star-crossed misfits – smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try. When Eleanor meets Park, you’ll remember your own first love – and just how hard it pulled you under.

What a different story.
What a daring move.
What a love.
Rowell does not follow the template for how a Young Adult love story "should" be - at all.
Eleanor & Park is about the first, incomplete love, but forever present.
It's a vivid and quite beautiful story.
You become all warm inside when reading Elanor & Park. It's a bit like being in love with their love.


I highly recommend this book to all love fanatics out there, and old and young, for our first love is not something we will forget.

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

Dash & Lily's Book of Dares REVIEW

“I want to believe there is a somebody out there for me. I want to believe that I exist to be there for that somebody.” 

By David Levithan & Rachel Cohn
Pages: 260
Publisher:  Knopf Books

“I’ve left some clues for you.
If you want them, turn the page.
If you don’t, put the book back on the shelf, please.”

So begins the latest whirlwind romance from the bestselling authors ofNick & Norah’s Infinite Playlist. Lily has left a red notebook full of challenges on a favorite bookstore shelf, waiting for just the right guy to come along and accept its dares. But is Dash that right guy? Or are Dash and Lily only destined to trade dares, dreams, and desires in the notebook they pass back and forth at locations across New York? Could their in-person selves possibly connect as well as their notebook versions? Or will they be a comic mismatch of disastrous proportions?

The snow is falling outside our hotel-room.
The TV is showing the Idol finale (on mute ofc ugh...) 

And in my hands I'm holding this beautiful book. 'Dash and Lily's Book of Dares'
I absolutely loved this because of five reasons. 

1. The Christmas feeling this book gives. If you are like me and LOVE this time of the year aka CHRISTMAS TIME you'll love this book. Im serious. Love. 

2. Dash and Lily are so smart, I'm talking The fault in our stars smart, and that's saying something. 

3. The red notebook. I really don't have to say more. 

4. The writing style. This book is written by David Levithan AND Rachel Cohn and as a reader I can really see that the collaboration went well, the writing style doesn't change the way it can went it's duo authors, everything is very smooth. 

5. They are both book nerds. I don't know about you, but when I read about characters who loves books just as much as me I get ecstatic because I can really RELATE to that love.

6. The book is H I L A R I O U S. I laughed so much while eading this book, didn't matter that I was sitting on a bus with people around me, I just couldn't stop laughing. I bow down to the authors. Well done!


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

Vad Jag Såg och När Jag Ljög / What I Saw and How I Lied REVIEW

Av Judy Blundell
Sidor: 256
Förlag B. Wahlströms

Sommaren håller på att ta slut och femtonåriga Evies styvfar Joe är äntligen hemma efter att ha stridit i andra världskriget. Familjen har med ens gott om pengar och livet leker för Evie. Men allt är inte så idylliskt som det verkar. 
När den filmstjärnesnygge Peter Coleridge, som tjänstgjort tillsammans med Joe i Europa, dyker upp dras Evie in i en härva av lögner och svek. Hon faller för Peters charm och ignorerar de mörka hemligheter som omgärdar honom. När en tragedi sker förändras hennes liv i ett slag. Sakta men säkert förstår hon att allt hon har trott på är en lögn och hon tvingas välja mellan sina föräldrar och mannen hon älskar. Evie måste förråda någon av dem. Frågan är bara … vem?

Och priset för världens konstigaste bok går till.... Vad Jag Såg Och När Jag Ljög!!!!!!!

Boken var bra, riktigt bra till typ sida 50. Sen gick allt åt skogen. Jag vet inte hur jag ska formulera mig utan att spoila boken totalt, men jag kan väl försöka. 
Det som stör mig mest är Evie. Hon är femton år gammal och allt hon vill är att bli vuxen. Författaren kämpar hårt med att försöka få Evie att framstå som 'vuxen' men att det är hennes mamma som håller henne i koppel.
Men bara för att man köper nya 'vuxenkläder' och får känslor för en 8 år äldre man på 2 dagar gör det dig INTE till kvinna alls! Evie är ung och naiv, beter sig som ett riktigt barn, men kan även då och då säga något riktigt moget som är så ur karaktär att hela hon bara blir en stor litterär flopp. 

Den enda karaktären jag inte ogilla kommer jag inte ens ihåg namnet på, Ingenting var minnesvärt. 

Ingen karaktär i boken tyckte jag var äkta, det kändes lite som att författaren tröttnade på hur de var efter att ha skrivit halva boken så hon ändrade dem. Det gjorde att hela berättelsen tog en helomvändning, en som inte alls passade den tidigare storyn. 
Nej detta var ingen bok i min smak.

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By Judy Blundell
Pages: 284
Publisher: Scholastic press

When Evie's father returned home from World War II, the family fell back into its normal life pretty quickly. But Joe Spooner brought more back with him than just good war stories. When movie-star handsome Peter Coleridge, a young ex-GI who served in Joe's company in postwar Austria, shows up, Evie is suddenly caught in a complicated web of lies that she only slowly recognizes. She finds herself falling for Peter, ignoring the secrets that surround him . . . until a tragedy occurs that shatters her family and breaks her life in two.

And the award for the world's weirdest book goes to .... What I Saw And How I Lied!!!

The book was good, really good to page 50. Then everything went down the drain. I do not know how to express myself without spoiling the book completely, but I can try.

What bothers me most is Evie. She is fifteen years old and all she wants is to become an adult. The author is fighting hard trying to get Evie to appear as 'adult' but that it is her mother who keeps her on a leash.

But just because you are buying new 'adult clothing' and get feelings for an 8 year older man in 2 days, that kind of things DOES NOT make you a woman! Evie is young and naive, behave like a real baby, but may also occasionally say something really mature that is so out of character that the whole she only gets a great literary flop.

No character in the book I thought was genuine, it felt a bit like the author got tired of the way they were after writing half the book so she changed them. That made ​​the whole story take a U-turn, one that does not really suit the earlier story.

No this was not a book to my taste.

~Stay smart, stay chic
xoxo Lihini

Lola and the Boy Next Door (Anna and the French Kiss #2) REVIEW

Fanart from Google

By Stephanie Perkins
Pages: 338
Publisher: Dutton Books

Budding designer Lola Nolan doesn’t believe in fashion...she believes in costume. The more expressive the outfit--more sparkly, more fun, more wild--the better. But even though Lola’s style is outrageous, she’s a devoted daughter and friend with some big plans for the future. And everything is pretty perfect (right down to her hot rocker boyfriend) until the dreaded Bell twins, Calliope and Cricket, return to the neighborhood.

When Cricket--a gifted inventor--steps out from his twin sister’s shadow and back into Lola’s life, she must finally reconcile a lifetime of feelings for the boy next door.

This book took me with storm!
I didn't think I would like it as much as I did, didn't like Anna and the French Kiss THAAAT much but this one was seriously adorkable. 

Lola actually inspired me to buy my own wig, I'm actually looking for a pink bob hehe :)

I've never met a more interesting character than Lola to be honest. She is so different and I love it! All the characters are exciting and fun to get to know, and they stand out in their own way. I think creating interesting characters is one of the hardest things to do and Stephanie did well in that department. 

The story itself wasn't WOOOW, nothing really huge happened, but I was more than okay with that, because this book is more about the characters than anything else. 

9/10 books

~stay smart, STAY CHIC
xoxo Lihini 

Legend (swe) / Legend (Legend #1) REVIEW

Av Marie Lu
Sidor: 289
Förlag: Modernista


Det som en gång var västra USA är nu Republiken, en nation som ständigt befinner sig i krig med sina grannar.
Femtonåriga June är född i en elitfamilj i ett av Republikens rikaste distrikt, och hon får sin utbildning i Republikens högsta militära kretsar. Day, däremot, är född i slummen och är landets mest eftersökta brottsling. Men hans motiv är kanske inte så illasinnade som de verkar
June och Day är från två olika världar, och det finns ingen anledning till att deras vägar skulle korsas förrän den dag då Junes bror Metias mördas och Day blir huvudmisstänkt.

 Indragen i den ultimata katt-och-råtta-leken kämpar Day för sin familjs överlevnad, medan June söker hämnd för Metias död.

Men så upptäcker June och Day, i en chockartad vändning, sanningen om vad som har sammanfört dem. Och hur skrämmande långt deras hemland är berett att gå för att bevara sina hemligheter.

WOW WOW WOW! Vilken bok asso!

Jag trodde verkligen inte att jag skulle gilla den här boken, jag läste 11 sidor och la faktiskt ifrån mig den.

Dystopi böcker är rätt kända för att vara otroligt sega (den Femte Vågen - Rick Yancey) och enda gången något faktiskt händer är mot slutet men det kan jag verkligen inte säga om denna otroligt skickliga bok!

Allt är så sjukt genomtänkt, Marie Lu väver ihop Legend på ett nästan konstärligt eftertänkt sätt.

Vi får läsa från både Days och Junes perspektiv vilket jag tycker gör det hela roligare, man får liksom lära känna båda båda karaktärerna lika bra vilket jag tycker är underbart för de båda har lika stor del i berättelsen.

Dystopi är inte direkt min grej (chockande, med tanke på att jag nästan bara läser det dessa dagar, men det kan vi tala om någon annan gång) men Legend var riktigt suverän.

4/5

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ English~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

By Marie Lu 
Pages 320
Publisher: Putnam Juvenile 

What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem. 

From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths - until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets. 

WOW WOW WOW! What a book!

I really did not think I would like this book, I read 11 pages and put it down. Dystopia books are known to be incredibly tenacious (the fifth wave - Rick Yancey) and the only time something actually happens is at the end but I can not say that about this amazingly awesome book!

Everything is so well thought out, Marie Lu weaves Legend together in an almost artistic way.

We get to read from both Day's and June's perspective, which I think makes it all the more fun, you get to know both characters equally well which I think is wonderful for both of them have an equal part in the story.

Dystopia is not exactly my thing (shocking, considering that I almost only read it these days, but we can talk about that some other time) but Legend was really superb.

4/5

xoxo Lihini

Bittersweet REVIEW

By Sarah Ockler
Pages: 378
Publisher: Simon Pulse

Once upon a time, Hudson knew exactly what her future looked like. Then a betrayal changed her life, and knocked her dreams to the ground. Now she’s a girl who doesn’t believe in second chances... a girl who stays under the radar by baking cupcakes at her mom’s diner and obsessing over what might have been.

So when things start looking up and she has another shot at her dreams, Hudson is equal parts hopeful and terrified. Of course, this is also the moment a cute, sweet guy walks into her life... and starts serving up some seriously mixed signals. She’s got a lot on her plate, and for a girl who’s been burned before, risking it all is easier said than done.

It’s time for Hudson to ask herself what she really wants, and how much she’s willing to sacrifice to get it. Because in a place where opportunities are fleeting, she knows this chance may very well be her last...
2/5



two things I hate 
1. crap ass love triangle
2. crap ass whining Bella-like main-characters.

And I believe this book got it all!

The main character, Avery had a lot going on in her life OK, I'm surprised she got time to sleep, and her "friends" were not really friends but more like Regina and her friends from Mean Girls, well Ok, Avery didn't have that many friends, well she had one, but she was really weird, and not very supporting. 

Then Avery goes and get herself involved in the hockey teams training and all of a sudden that guy, Will, she shared a kiss with ages ago seems to like her, but she likes another guy, but she justcan't tell Will to stop kiss her, how could she, that would be rude 

I'f you are going to make a love triangle MAKE IT GOOD, take notes from Cassandra Clare (not that a lot of authors will ever be as good as Cassie) 

You might ask yourself, "why Lihini WHY did you give this book two stars, you seem to hate it!?"

Well, I happen to like cupcakes and this book talks a great deal about em'


xoxo Lihini