Book Releases: July

Im not so excited for this months book releases, because there are like 2 books im planning on reading that comes out this month, Summer-season always looks like this...

Frigid (Frigid #1)

By Jennifer L. Armentrout (penname J. Lynn)

Expected publication: July 30th 2013 by Spencer 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.

just picture 17 year old Lilo Stitch dancing the hawaiian dance, yeah that's how I will look when I have this book in my hands! Jennifer is such a great author that anything she writes, I have to read. I do not like the summary that much, but heck, Its Jennifer.

Dirty Little Secret

By Jennifer Echols

Expected publication: July 16th 2013 by MTV Books

From the author of the “real page-turner” (Seventeen) Such a Rush comes an 

unforgettable new drama that follows friends-turned-lovers as they navigate the passions, heartbreaks, and intrigue of country music fame.

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…

Jennifers name keep coming up everywhere, I even have "going to o far" on my eBook (unread) maybe I should check this one out? it doesn't sound that bad.

Search Me

By Katie Ashley

Published July 2nd 2013

Twenty year old Lane Montgomery never imagined her usually boring summer in the boonies would require her to trade her toe shoes for hunting boots or her monotonous college textbooks for treasure map deciphering. Never would she have imagined after breaking her grandmother’s precious Native American statue, danger, a lost treasure of Cherokee Gold and a hostage situation would arise. Nor could she predict that the one man destined to protect her and her family was her childhood nemesis and former crush, Maddox Diaz.

Returning after three years in the Army, twenty-three year old Maddox Diaz is confronted with more than he bargained for when agreeing to help his childhood buddy and deepest regret, Lane. Suddenly he is thrust into a dangerous game of cat and mouse with armed and ruthless treasure seekers that results in car chases and gun battles all in the presence of the one girl who still manages to haunt his dreams and drive him wild with desire.

Lane is determined to deny the sizzling chemistry with the man who stole her virginity and broke her heart. She just wants to stay alive with her heart intact. Will she be able to resist the man whose body sets fire to all her senses?

The cover. Im not saying more.

~stay smart, stay chic

xoxo Lihini

The Hobbit / Hobbiten REVIEW +

English Review
By J.R.R. Tolkien

Paperback, 351 pages

Published August 15th 2002 by Houghton Mifflin 

This book was recommended to me by a boy with nice hair that you just wan't to braid, and because he had nice hair I decided to give this book a try.

I have this rule which i know a lot of other people have too "read at least 100 pages before putting it down"

I did and I just could not finish the book, so because of that this review will be short. 
The thing with this book is that It was good. I loved the language, words were used in a marvelous way, great main character that seemed very nice and humble.

everything was there for me to like, I shuld have liked the story but I just... didn't.
I don't know if it was because so much happent so fast I felt like I couldn't cope, or if it was because I just could not see the point of finishing this book. during the time I read this book I found myself looking longingly at my bookshelf, just wanting to read something else but this book.

However, I must point out that I think this is a fantastic children's book and I wish I had read it a few years before, or had someone read it to me as a bedtime story or something, I think I would have appreciated the giants, trolls and dwarves more then.

Bilbo Baggins, a simple Hobbit, never asked for adventure. It literally came knocking on his door -- 13 dwarves (Tolkien's spelling with the "v") and Gandalf the wizard show up to tea to hire Bilbo as a thief in their quest to reclaim a hoard of treasure. It's stashed far away and guarded by a fierce dragon, Smaug. Bilbo will have to cross the Misty Mountains -- troll and goblin country -- and the untamed wilds of Mirkwood, where straying from the path can be deadly. In exchange, he gets an even share of the treasure and quite a story to tell. But is one little hobbit really up for such a big adventure?

Swedish Review

Av J.R.R. Tolkien

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• Originaltitel: The Hobbit

Författare: 

J. R. R. Tolkien

• Översättare: 

  Erik Andersson

• Översättare: 

  John Swedenmark

• Förlag: 

  Norstedts

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Den lille hobbiten Bilbo Secker dras av trollkarlen Gandalf grå med på äventyr tillsammans med tretton dvärgar, ledda av den sturske Thorin Ekensköld. De ska röva bort en stor guldskatt som vaktas av den eldsprutande draken Smaug.

På vägen stöter de på ruskiga troll och vättar, men också hjälpsamma varelser som alver, jätteörnar och den store Beorn. Bilbo träffar också den slemmige Gollum som håller till i en mörk grotta uppe i bergen. Gollum utmanar Bilbo på en tävling och blir där av med sin magiska osynlighetsring. En ring som kommer att spela en viktig roll i berättelsen.


Denna bok rekommenderades till mig av en pojke med fint hår som du bara vill fläta, och eftersom han hade fint hår beslutade jag att ge denna bok ett försök.
 
Jag har denna regel, som jag vet att många andra människor också har "läst minst 100 sidor innan du lägger ner den"

Jag läste 100 sidor och jag bara kunde inte avsluta boken, så på grund av att detta kommer denna översyn att vara kort.
Grejen med denna bok är att Den var bra. Jag älskade språket, var ord användes på ett förunderligt sätt, fantastisk huvudperson som verkade mycket trevlig och ödmjuk.

Det här var en sådan historia jag borde ha gillat men jag bara... gjorde inte det.
Jag vet inte om det berodde på att så mycket hände så fort jag kände att jag inte kunde klarde av det, kändes lite som en soppa på en soppa, eller om det var för att jag bara inte kunde se poängen med att avsluta denna bok. under tiden jag läste denna bok jag fann mig själv tittar längtansfullt på min bokhylla; ville bara läsa något annat som inte var denna bok.

Jag måste dock påpeka att jag tycker att detta är en fantastisk barnbok och jag önskar att jag hade läst den några år innan, eller haft någon läsa den åt mig som en godnatt saga eller något, jag tror jag skulle ha uppskattat jätterna o trollen och dvärgarna mer då.

~stay smart, stay chic
xoxo Lihini

This Girl (Slammed #3) REVIEW +

By Colleen Hoover

Kindle Edition, 304 pages

Published April 30th 2013 by Atria Books

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.

To be honest, I didn't even think I would finish this book.
This book contained everything that we had in the first Slammed book but from Will's POV, I do not know why I even read this one because Í was not the biggest fan of the previous 2 books..
And this book turned out to be just as boring. 
Let me explain why I found the book boring
1. I knew what would happen in the end of almost every chapter.
2. I found some things hard to believe
3. the characters were just not likeable except for the kids.
I didn't even think that I would finish this book but I ended up finishing it to my own surprise...

~stay smart, stay chic
xoxo Lihini

Best Seller of The Month: June +

so sorry that I didn't make this one in June when I was SUPPOSED TO DO IT but I didn't always have internet connection and when I did it was always poor, and If it for some reason was good I didn't have my computer, since these kind of things can be hard to edit on a cell...
June has been a very stressful month for me with long days and short nights, there's been so much going on that I haven't really been getting my beauty sleep, which at the end of the month resulted in a bad fever and the whole package (headache, pain in my ears etc) which is still holding on to me. But Im grateful for being back home.

So last months best seller was no less book than Divergent!
I am a bit surprised to be honest, not because it was a bad book or anything, but because it's on the list again. Why now? My guess is that it's because of all the new movie stills coming out.
here is my previous review

"By: Veronica Roth

In Beatrice Prior's dystopian Chicago world, society is divided into five factions, each dedicated to the cultivation of a particular virtue--Candor (the honest), Abnegation (the selfless), Dauntless (the brave), Amity (the peaceful), and Erudite (the intelligent). On an appointed day of every year, all sixteen-year-olds must select the faction to which they will devote the rest of their lives. For Beatrice, the decision is between staying with her family and being who she really is--she can't have both. So she makes a choice that surprises everyone, including herself.
During the highly competitive initiation that follows, Beatrice renames herself Tris and struggles alongside her fellow initiates to live out the choice they have made. Together they must undergo extreme physical tests of endurance and intense psychological simulations, some with devastating consequences. As initiation transforms them all, Tris must determine who her friends really are--and where, exactly, a romance with a sometimes fascinating, sometimes exasperating boy fits into the life she's chosen. But Tris also has a secret, one she's kept hidden from everyone because she's been warned it can mean death. And as she discovers unrest and growing conflict that threaten to unravel her seemingly perfect society, she also learns that her secret might help her save those she loves . . . or it might destroy her.

as you guys might have figured out, im not very big on those dystopia books, they are all so very depressing, like the hunger games.

But I found myself really like Divergent. i liked the story, I liked the wat they painted up some big places in America.

there were some thing's i liked less, how some things went really slow in the beginning just to go way to fast nearer the end, and some things i found a bit hard to believe but strangely I still like the book."

xoxo Lihini

Dare You To (Pushing the Limits #2) REVIEW +

HEY LOOK, SIMONE ELKELES LIKED THE BOOK

By Katie McGarry

Hardcover, 462 pages

Published May 28th 2013 by Harlequin Teen

Ryan lowers his lips to my ear. "Dance with me, Beth."

"No." I whisper the reply. I hate him and I hate myself for wanting him to touch me again....

"I dare you..."

If anyone knew the truth about Beth Risk's home life, they'd send her mother to jail and seventeen-year-old Beth who knows where. So she protects her mom at all costs. Until the day her uncle swoops in and forces Beth to choose between her mom's freedom and her own happiness. That's how Beth finds herself living with an aunt who doesn't want her and going to a school that doesn't understand her. At all. Except for the one guy who shouldn't get her, but does....

Ryan Stone is the town golden boy, a popular baseball star jock-with secrets he can't tell anyone. Not even the friends he shares everything with, including the constant dares to do crazy things. The craziest? Asking out the Skater girl who couldn't be less interested in him.

But what begins as a dare becomes an intense attraction neither Ryan nor Beth expected. Suddenly, the boy with the flawless image risks his dreams-and his life-for the girl he loves, and the girl who won't let anyone get too close is daring herself to want it all....

judging from my review on Pushing the Limit #1 I thought things went a bit too fast. And I have to applaud Katie for not going down that road again in the same speed. What I mean by that is that I still thought some things wen't a bit too fast, in the beginning Beth seemed to really hate Ryan but then it seemed like a button had been switched off, because at the next moment she was falling for him. Not the way John Green explained love "slowly and then all at once" but more like "dead end, and then you just jumped and fell" 

Beth Is a very self caring young woman, she have had to grow up to be an adult in a teenage body fast because of her mother, and this sets her off from other girls in her age. She have been throe more which makes her more reserved, and then Ryan comes in, a guy who sees everything like a challenge. and Beth must be his hardest challenge. What starts off as a game fast escalates to something more that that, and I think it was something very beautiful to read, how they both kind of seek'd on another for comfort and to kind of just learn. I liked that Ryan was not a typical YA bad boy, he was just a normal boy trying to figure this troubled girl out. 

This book was so much better than the first one in the series, these characters were more vulnerable in a real way, it didn't feel as plastered.  

don't try to figure out Life. You will never do +

Good morning. Or night, or day, whatever, my flight back to sweden leaves in 3 1/2 hour, and i will be home 13:30 swedish time.

God im so tired. I tried to get some sleep but failed miserably,  started to read my last unread book on my ebook and had to stop because I was reading too fast and if i finishef it I would't have anything to read on the plane. And im not the re-reading type of human being.

I think i have finishing reading 8 books in less than 4 weeks, im starting to get sick of reading this much but I just can't stop. I think it's a side effect of having fever. Okey i will stop here because I start to sound like Charlie fron The Perks of Being a Wallflower.
Later.
~stay smart, stay chic
Xoxo Lihini

And I swear, in that moment we were infinitive

... or tired
I have been reading TONS of books as you might tell with almost a new review coming up everyday...
Im still on vacation although it doesn't feel like a vacation at all, we are aways stressed, we go to sleep at 1am and get waked up at 7 (if we are unlucky mum will come and wake me and my sis up at 6)
My week have been all about dinners, shopping,  weddings,  more dinner, luxurious hotel-visits etc... it might sound awesome but I haven't really gotten yo enjoy it all... right now I just miss my room, my room reflects my inner self,  and I miss my friends a lot too, good thing im going home in 3 days. Although i will miss my grandparents. .
All love from bentota beach hotel, rest at last.  Going for  massage tomorrow,  see you and good night!!

Sony Ebook reader PRS-T1

There is no secret that im quite in love with my Ebook reader. I have it with me everywhere, literary everywhere. I'ts the best thing that I own, and I could not be more grateful for it. It have everything that I would wan't in a reader.

There are so many E readers out there, I searched in the ebook jungle for weeks and in the end I had to choose between the Kindle and Sony. I chose Sony. Why? Because the Kindle doesn't support Epub which is a file type, and ALL my books on the reader come in that format.

Epub is probably the most famous Ebook format so it really chocked me that the Kindle would not support that file. they supported Adobe but that can be hard to find.

The Sony Ebook reader have a battery time that last's a month if you read half an hour every day, and 2 weeks if you read one hour every day. It doesn't hurt your eyes to read from the tablet and it's so LIGHTWEIGHTED! It weights nothing, im serious, the first time I held it I thought parts was missing.

The reader serves it's purpose and for me It's just a bonus that you can connect the tablet to WiFi and listen to music from it.

There is a new version out there that you can check out HERE

Dare You To (pushing the limits #2) REVIEW +

"I dare you..."
If anyone knew the truth about Beth Risk's home life, they'd send her mother to jail and seventeen-year-old Beth who knows where. So she protects her mom at all costs. Until the day her uncle swoops in and forces Beth to choose between her mom's freedom and her own happiness. That's how Beth finds herself living with an aunt who doesn't want her and going to a school that doesn't understand her. At all. Except for the one guy who shouldn't get her, but does.... 

Ryan Stone is the town golden boy, a popular baseball star jock-with secrets he can't tell anyone. Not even the friends he shares everything with, including the constant dares to do crazy things. The craziest? Asking out the Skater girl who couldn't be less interested in him. But what begins as a dare becomes an intense attraction neither Ryan nor Beth expected. Suddenly, the boy with the flawless image risks his dreams-and his life-for the girl he loves, and the girl who won't let anyone get too close is daring herself to want it all....

Where should I even begin?
I were not the biggest fan of pushing the limits #1 and I didn't want to read this book either,  but since this was a rex book I kind of had to read this book.
And I'm glad I did because this book was hell of a intense roller coaster!

There was no insta love or anything like that, which i loved!

YA romance books are usually about a girl falling for a bad boy but not this one, in this book the girl is the "bad boy" and Ryan the nice one. That made this book a lot better,  I like it when authors break patterns.

Katie have really stepped up her game, Beth and Ryan are adorable and so REAL that you will fall in love with them whether you want it or not.

4 / 5

My Life Next Door REVIEW +

The Garretts are everything the Reeds are not. Loud, messy, affectionate. And every day from her rooftop perch, Samantha Reed wishes she was one of them . . . until one summer evening, Jase Garrett climbs up next to her and changes everything.
As the two fall fiercely for each other, stumbling through the awkwardness and awesomeness of first love, Jase's family embraces Samantha - even as she keeps him a secret from her own. Then something unthinkable happens, and the bottom drops out of Samantha's world. She's suddenly faced with an impossible decision. Which perfect family will save her? Or is it time she saved herself?

By Huntley Fitzpatrick

Hardcover, 394 pages

Published June 14th 2012 by Dial Books For Young Readers

Rating 2,5/5

I have no idea what to say about this book. It wasn’t great nor was it bad. It was OK.

There wasn’t anything in particular that I loved, but I did have a few things that I didn’t like. You see the Garrets had a big family, and every single family member played a part in the book, but the author described them very very bad. She made them all look like identical twins in my head, she would say things like “George looked like Jase except that George’s hair was a bit darker.” Etc. I just think that is a very amateur way to describe a character, authors should know how to describe a character properly, If you don’t know how to manage making every character stand out then don’t bother, make few characters.

I liked the story overall, it was a sweet story, the book was light until the last fifty pages, the plot twist was unexpected, and made the story a lot more enjoyable.

 ~stay smart, stay chic

xoxo Lihini