The Hopeless Romantic

  These Violent Delights Duology by Chloe Gong Fantasy, YA fiction   Whewwww it has been a minute since I said hello on here! How have y’all been? Anyways over here in my world I just finished my 50th book this year, I’m trying to make it to 100 even though I am a month late… I’ve also been super busy reading so I didn’t have time to update my blog for a couple of months, my bad! Anyways, that 50th book just happened to be the second book and one of my new favorite duologies. Our violent ends by Chloe Gong!  I have to say this book I was sort of hesitant to read at first. I wasn’t in the mood to read another fantasy that was probably going to end up being too confusing, but the second I opened it I realized it was a parody of Romeo and Juliet set to Shanghai in the 1920s. Not only did I read Shakespeare’s work of Romeo and Juliet this year in school, I also learned about that section of world history in my history class as well, so I was enthralled that I knew what w...

  A Touch of Darkness Series by Scarlett St. Clair        Romance, Fantasy  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ✨  I finished this whole trilogy in three days because it was such an amazing, action-packed, and romance-driven story that I could not put it down! To be honest these books had been sitting on my bookshelf for a couple months because I was not sure if they were going to be that great…but they were so good. I do have to say that the third book was kind of repetitive before it got to the final last two chapters that included more action. So because of this I would give the series an overall 4.5 stars out of 5!  I absolutely loved how the third book ended with Persephone and Hades' marriage, because I was desperately waiting for them to get permission from the fates to get married before it was too late. Some stupid fights occurred between Hades and Persephone, mainly because of Persephone’s misinterpretation. I think both of them proved themselves worthy of eac...

Reading/Life Update!      Current genres of my life: YA fiction, and a little bit of contemporary vibes  Wow, it has been a minute since I posted here. Even though in reality it has only been like 2 months- but that is still a long time in my opinion. I have officially made it to fifteen years old (almost twenty *surprised face emoji*), and I have been to Barnes and Noble too many times, because I don’t know what to get there. On the good side of going to the bookstore multiple times a week is that I now have 15+ new books on my shelf. :) I have been getting a lot of poetry and trying contemporary novels and even Shakespeare! To be honest I have been kind of in a slow reading phase–probably because I zipped through seventeen books in two months, and honors biology is kicking my butt right now. Other than that, I am doing pretty darn well. Now, onto the main purpose of this post, what I read in the past two months!  In February I read 9 books, most of them s...

  The Spanish Love Deception by Elena Armas     Romance, fiction Just like Helen Hoang said, “Everything you could want in a romance is right here,” is the understatement of the year. This book was incredible in pretty much every way!  From the start of this book, I got a lot of The Hating Games by Sally Thorne vibes, from the enemies to lovers focused in a workplace environment. I also thought that the pace of the book was well executed, because I never once felt the book was going too fast or moving too slow when it came to the characters and their interactions. Even the first scene was building tension, and showed the reader a lot about the characters and their relationships. I also really loved the whole background and family of Catalina, because as a person of descent from Portugal and as I am taking Spanish in school, I loved getting to understand the words spoken and culture added revolving around Spain.  :) Anyways onto the main aspect of this...

  Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World  by Benjamin Alire Sáenz    Contemporary fiction, YA    “We are all cartographers-all of us. We all want to write our names on the map of the world.”  I can say with one hundred percent certainty that this book held the most emotion I have ever read in my life. Benjamin expertly knows how to deliver a timeless, full of life, and humorously blunt story about highschool, love, and life. After reading the first book, Aristotle and Dante Discover the Secrets of the Universe , I was deeply in love with the writing. So when I finally found this book at my school, and it being the only copy, I grabbed it and checked it out. Also I need to take a minute to acknowledge my librarians because they are so sweet and welcoming. When I went to check out this book, they got so excited because they loved the first book and told me to report back to them how it was! Anyways back to talking about this mast...

  Every Day by David Levithan  - Contemporary fiction, YA    Day 6034. I finished Every Day by David Levithan. I think this book is the literal description of my type of genre when it comes to reading. This book made me feel like breathing on a cloud, and running through the sand on the beach at sunset. I can tell that ever since finishing this book, I am going to be keeping this story close to my heart. I loved the short chapters and getting to see how A’s eyes were looking at a total stranger in the mirror every day, because it kind of re-centered myself…   I had seen this movie a while ago, but I did not really remember the specific details included in it, so when I saw this book at Barnes and Noble it called to me. After reading the first sentence “I wake up. Immediately I have to figure out who I am” I don’t think I have ever related more to a quote than I had to this one. It reminded me of who I start my day with every day, every once in a w...

  In Five Years by Rebecca Serle  Fiction, romance   “I used to think that the present determined the future. That if I worked hard, and long, I'd get the things I wanted. The job, the apartment, the life. That the future was simply a mound of clay waiting to be told by the present, what form to take. But that isn't true. It can't be.” I am not really sure how I should start this review, and that says a lot about how this book affected me. But I have decided to start it by saying that many laughs and tears later, this book makes me want a friendship like the relationship that Bella and Dannie had more than anything. I guess as a fourteen year old, it is hard to see and watch other people become happy in stories, after finding their soulmates, as I am stuck being a freshman in highschool with no kisses or loves to tell about. Bella and Dannie were inseparable from babies to snuggling together watching rom coms at thirty years old: so it was so much harder to watch that bri...