Review: Roman Crazy by Nina Bocci and Alice Clayton

Name: Roman Crazy
Author: Nina Bocci and Alice Clayton
Published: September 13, 2016





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Avery Bardot steps off the plane in Rome, looking for a fresh start. She’s left behind a soon-to-be ex-husband in Boston and plans to spend the summer with her best friend Daisy, licking her wounds—and perhaps a gelato or two. But when her American-expat friend throws her a welcome party on her first night, Avery’s thrown for a loop when she sees a man she never thought she’d see again: Italian architect Marcello Bianchi.

Marcello was the man—the one who got away. And now her past is colliding with her present, a present where she should be mourning the loss of her marriage and—hey, that fettuccine is delicious! And so is Marcello…

Slipping easily into the good life of summertime in Rome, Avery spends her days exploring a city that makes art historians swoon, and her nights swooning over her unexpected what was old is new again romance. It’s heady, it’s fevered, it’s wanton, and it’s crazy. But could this really be her new life? Or is it just a temporary reprieve before returning to the land of twin-set cardigans and crustless sandwiches?


A celebration of great friendship, passionate romance, and wonderful food, Roman Crazy is a lighthearted story of second chances and living life to the fullest.




I  WAS STARING AT A penis


I LOVED THIS BOOK! The main character, Avery, is great. But Daisy is greater!
This book it's so easy to read, it's fast and it gets you from the first line, literally.

This book also teaches you that you don't have to change for someone, because you come first.

It is fresh, with characters that are real, it may brings you some tears, but it's definitely worth it to read.

Penis gifts. They were penis gifts.


Now I'm gonna write spoilers, so if you don't wanna get spoiled I suggest you to leave now.

Divorced, American, non-Catholic. Fornicator!


Soooo, the book starts with Avery discovering her husband, Daniel, cheating on her with his secretary, Hilary. Daniel's mom, tells he to forgive him because it was "normal".

Avery calls her BFF Daisy, and tells her everything and that she was getting divorced. Daisy convinced Avery to go to Rome, and she agrees.


Her first night in Rome, Daisy takes her out, and then Avery sees Marcello, her love interest when she was in Spain. No one knew about them, not even Daisy, so Avery tells her how they meet in Barcelona and what happened afterwards when she returned to Boston and found out she was pregnant, with Daniel's baby, and then she got married.

“Tell me what happened nine years ago when you left to go back home and forgot all about Barcelona. And me.”


The day after, Marcello went to talk to her, and she tells him that she's going to work, as volunteer, in the vases. Days passed and Marcello asked her for a date.


“I know my timing isn’t right, but I wanted to say something.”
He stopped, turning to me with a blank expression.
“Is it terrible of me to say I’m actually really glad to see you?”
He looked up at the sky, then back to me, allowing a small smile. “It is not terrible.”


So, when the bank, that Daisy and Marcello had been working on, is open, Marcello and Avery kissed. So now they start having dates. Daisy leaves to Amsterdam, and Avery and Marcello start dating.


Marcello takes Avery to the Lake Como. She feels bad with herself for not telling him about her divorce, so she decides to tell the same night they arrive. Marcello now knows what happened this nine years.


“I didn’t realize how much I missed you. Missed your mouth,” he purred, frantically angling me up the stairs.
“Marcello,” I sighed, my lips tangled with his. There was nothing in the world like kissing this man. And I wanted more than ever to kiss him for hours without a care in the world, reacquaint myself with every contour and plane of his exquisite mouth.
But this reunion was anything but relaxed. This was nine years, nine years, of going without this kind of passion.


After the weekend they spent together, they have to return to Rome, where Avery sees Daniel in Daisy's porch, waiting for her. They talk and agreed to divorce without problems because they don't love each other anymore.


Marcello asked Avery to go to Pienza to meet his parents. Once they're there, she meets his entire family. They're nice to her. Allegra, Marcello's older sister, tells her to not hurt his brother again.


When they come back to Rome, Avery talks to Simone, Marcello's ex girlfriend, she tells Avery that Cello was with the both of them at the same time. Avery asks Marcello, and he says it was true. They solve that, and stay together.

“I meet women, I date women. But no one I would have considered bringing home.”
“Never met the right girl, I guess,” I mused.
“I did meet the right girl.” He lifted my hand and dropped a kiss on the back of it. “Many years ago.”


Avery has decided to stay in Rome to work. Marcello has an offer to work in Brazil and asked Avery to go with him, she refuses. Marcello declined the offer because he wanted to stay with Avery in Rome.



Put. Yourself. First.


This book is a perfect goodbye to the summer.
I liked when Avery declined Marcello's proposition to got to Brazil, she knew she didn't want to live again like that.


My other favorite thing in this book was Daisy. OMG! The relationship between Daisy and Avery was so goals! It was so real. All the jokes, the talking, the advices. I enjoyed every dialogue they had. THEY'RE SO GOOD TOGETHER!


“You can at least have the decency to wait until I leave before calling your boooooyfriend.”
I swung open the door. With wide-eyed innocence, I said, “How’d you know I was calling your dad?”
She mock-gagged. “Unfair!”


I liked the moment when Avery and Daniel talked about Hannah, and how they felt after her early death.


There are tons of romance, but my fave was when they're in Pienza, and Marcello took her to his parents big garden and then they declared their love.


“I love you.”
I nodded, smiling and burrowing my head into his chest. I squeezed my arms around his waist. “I love you, too. So much.”
Happy tears spilled, but I was too busy being kissed silly to care. With his hands on my cheeks, he peppered kisses and whispered I love yous all over my face. “I don’t think I ever stopped loving you.”




I hope you like the review.

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Fifty Shades Darker trailer!

Finally the trailer is here!
I've watched a 1000th times!!
The video's too heavy, that's why I can't upload it.

Here's the link: https://www.youtube.com/shared?ci=ROiurLXWU40

Hope you enjoy it as much as I did.

Review: Throne of Glass 5, Empire of Storms by Sarah J Maas

Name: Empire of Storms (Throne of Glass 5)
Author: Sarah J Maas
Published: September 6, 2016


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The long path to the throne has only just begun for Aelin Galathynius. Loyalties have been broken and bought, friends have been lost and gained, and those who possess magic find themselves at odds with those don't.

As the kingdoms of Erilea fracture around her, enemies must become allies if Aelin is to keep those she loves from falling to the dark forces poised to claim her world. With war looming on all horizons, the only chance for salvation lies in a desperate quest that may mark the end of everything Aelin holds dear.

Aelin's journey from assassin to queen has entranced millions across the globe, and this fifth installment will leave fans breathless. Will Aelin succeed in keeping her world from splintering, or will it all come crashing down?



“It’s the calm before the storm.”

I've just finished this book. And it was the best in this series until now! You guys should go and get the book, it's freaking good!

You'll see characters from the other books, actually, from the novellas.

“A storm is coming. A great storm.”


Now I'm gonna write spoilers, so if you don't wanna get spoiled I suggest you to leave now.

OMGOMGOMGOMGOMGOMG!


I really hate Sarah for doing this!! Poor Aelin! Poor Rowan.


So, the books starts with Elide running, and she meets a guy named Lorcan, so they make a deal which helps each other.

Aelin knows that the war is coming, so ahe decided sent Rowan to protect Dorian, and she and the rest of her court will find allies.

Manon was sent, with her Thirteen, to destroy Rifthold, and to take the king with her. When Rowan arrives to the city, he finds that the witches broke down Aelin's glass wall.


“I should die with them,” was the king’s answer.
They reached the bottom of the stairs, the passage now widening into breathable chambers. Rowan again snaked his magic through the many tunnels and stairs. The one to the right suggested a sewer entrance lay at its bottom. Good.
“I was sent here to keep you from doing just that,” Rowan said at last.


Manon saved Dorian's life. Rowan killed 3 witches and then takes Dorian with him.
When they're travelling, Dorian asks Rowan to help to control his magic.



Manon returns to Morath, and when the other witches know about the deads of the other witches, decided to murder her second, Asterin, as a compensation. She refuses to kill her cousin, so she starts a fight with her grandmother, who tells her who is Manon's father and that she killed him. Manon finds out she is a Crochan. The last Crochan Queen.


Her grandmother chuckled, still circling, assessing. “You are stripped of your title as Wing Leader. You are stripped of your title as heir.” Step after step, closer and closer, an adder looping around its prey. “From this day, you are Manon Witch Killer, Manon Kin Slayer.”



Aelin goes to Skull's Bay to talk to Captain Rolfe, because he doesn't want help their cause, but he decides help them because his island is being attacked. Aelin talks to Elena and discovers that her mother was Mala.


After scaping from her grandmother, Manon was very beaten and almost dead, when Aelin finds her. She helps her. After days that Manon had been with Aelin and her court, they finally reunited with Elide.


Aelin is now looking for the Lock, which will help to lock Erawan. She finds it, but it's a mirror, she crossed it with Manon, and she discovers all the truth about her life. Elena tells her that her life has always been planned for her to locked Erawan.


Nameless is my price


At this time, Maeve arrives with the fleet, and tells Aelin, that she also planned a few things, which involves Rowan. Maeve takes Aelin with her.

Then a hand gripping his hair, yanking back his head as a dagger settled along his throat. As Rowan’s face, calm with lethal wrath, appeared in his vision.
“Where is Aelin.” There was pure panic, too—pure panic as Whitethorn saw the blood, the scattered blades, and the shirt. “Where is Aelin.”
What had he done, what had he done—
Pain sliced Lorcan’s neck, warm blood dribbled down his throat, his chest. Rowan hissed, “Where is my wife?”
Lorcan swayed where he knelt.
Wife.
Wife.


Once Rowan arrives to the shore his notices that Aelin is not there, and after that two allies, that his Queen contacted, arrive with their armies.


“Remember who you are. Every step of the way down, and every step of the way back. Remember who you are. And that you’re mine.”


I cried a lot when Maeve took Aelin in a cage and no one did nothing because she didn't want Elide being taken too. This book is really amazing, it was more about the war, but also tons, tons, tons of romance! We see four couple, five if we count Chaol and Nesryn (but they weren't in this book, just mentioned).

On one hand, we have Manon and Dorian, this isn't a real relationship, but they were close, really close, in this book.

A chill ran down her body, peaking her breasts. He watched them, then circled a finger around one. Dorian bent, his mouth following the path where that finger had been. Then his tongue. She bit her lip against the groan rising up her throat, her hands sliding into the silken locks of his hair.
His mouth was still around the tip of her breast as he again met her eyes, sapphire framed with ebony lashes, and said, “I want to taste every inch of you.”
Manon let go of all pretense of reason as the king lifted his head and claimed her mouth.


Then we have Lysandra and Aedion, they are so good together, Aedion confirms in this book his feelings for Lysandra.


“But you know what I told them? I said that they didn’t stand a chance in hell.” Aedion lowered his voice, holding her pained, exhausted stare. “Because I am going to marry you,” he promised her. “One day. I am going to marry you. I’ll be generous and let you pick when, even if it’s ten years from now. Or twenty. But one day, you are going to be my wife”


Now we have Elide and Lorcan, their romance is beautiful, they started faking a marriage but it didn't end well because he betrayed Aelin.


His throat bobbed. “Elide, you need to—”
But she rose up slightly, replacing her mouth where her fingers had been.
The kiss was soft, and quiet, and brief. Barely a grazing of her lips against his.
She thought Lorcan might have been trembling as she pulled back. As heat bloomed across her cheeks.

And for last but not least, our main couple, Aelin and Rowan, i don't even know how to describe this relationship, the only real, Rowaelin is great, they complete each other in a ways any one has. They got married and no one knew until the last pages! Which makes the King of Terrasen


Aelin met Rowan’s stare and said clearly and baldly and without a speckle of doubt, “I love you. I am in love with you, Rowan. I have been for a while. And I know there are limits to what you can give me, and I know you might need time—”
His lips crushed into hers, and he said onto her mouth, dropping words more precious than rubies and emeralds and sapphires into her heart, her soul, “I love you. There is no limit to what I can give to you, no time I need. Even when this world is a forgotten whisper of dust between the stars, I will love you.”


If this book was great, I am sure the next one will be wonderful.

Review: Untamable Greeks 1, What the Greek's Money Can't Buy by Maya Blake

Name: What the Greek's Money Can't Buy (Untamable Greeks 1)
Author: Maya Blake
Published: March 18, 2014



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The forbidden tastes all the sweeter…

Oil magnate Sakis Pantelides always gets what he wants -- after all, he's drop-dead gorgeous, powerful and wealthy beyond words. But the one thing he can't have is his stunning assistant, Brianna Moneypenny -- because she's the only woman this cynical Greek can trust.

But when an international crisis throws them together 24/7, intriguingly buttoned-up Brianna reveals a sensual hunger that rivals his own, and he realizes just what he's been denying himself for so long. But when his perfect PA's secret is discovered, will he pay the price for taking what he wants?



Oh—agapita? It means “beloved”


This book is very short, which is complicated to make a review about it, but here it is.
What the Greek's Money Can't Buy is faat to read and it can be done in less than 3 hours. I recommend it, if you don't know what to read o not have time to read a lot. It only has 12 chapters.





NOW, I'm gonna write lots of SPOILERS, so if you don't want to read and spoiled yourself I highly recommend you to leave.






Brianna works for Sakis, they find out about an accident outside London, so decided to go by themselves and see the problem with their own eyes. They spent a night in the same suite. Brinna hadn't have sex with Sakis because he told her so in the interview.
Sakis' brothers, Arion and Theo, notice that Sakis is different with Brianna, but she doesn't want have any personal relationship with him.


‘What’s another?’
‘Not to get involved with the boss.’
‘Hmm, that’s one I agree with.’
‘Then... what are you doing?’ she asked plaintively.
‘Proving that this isn’t more than temporary insanity.’ His voice reflected the dazed confusion she felt.
‘Won’t walking away prove the same thing? As you said, this might not be exactly wise.’
‘Or this is nothing but a no-big-deal kiss. It’ll only become a big deal if we aren’t able to handle what happens afterwards.’


Sakis doesn't trust someone easily, but with Brianna, he finds very simple to do it. Sakis tells her the problems he had with his father, as Brianna tells her problems with her drug addict mother. Sakis starts having doubts about her because she was texted by someone at 3 am, and doesn't tell him about it.

Brianna decides to tell him the truth about her past and why she'd change her name. Sakis feels betrayed by the woman he loves, so he leaves her without letting her explain.
Sakis discovers the truth and goes to find Brianna and confess his love.

‘When did the rest of you catch up?’
‘In Greece, after I withstood Ari and Theo’s ribbing and I admitted that I didn’t want to live without you. I intended to tell you after the party.’

As I said before, this review was a little make to make. The book's a few words in Greek, and that was the thing the motivated me to read this book. Idk when I'll start the next book, which are about Sakis' bothers, Arion and Theo. Hopefully soon.

Review: A Beautiful Funeral by Jamie McGuire

Name: A Beautiful Funeral (the Maddox Brothers 5, Beautiful 3)
Author: Jamie McGuire
Published: August 15, 2016



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Losing has never been easy for a Maddox, but death always wins. 

Eleven years to the day after eloping in Vegas with Abby, Special Agent Travis Maddox delivers his own brand of vigilante justice to mob boss Benny Carlisi. Vegas's oldest and most violent crime family is now preparing for vengeance, and the entire Maddox family is a target. 

The secret Thomas and Travis have kept for a decade will be revealed to the rest of the family, and for the first time the Maddoxes will be at odds. While none of them are strangers to loss, the family has grown, and the risk is higher than ever. With brothers against brothers and wives taking sides, each member will make a choice—let the fear tear them apart, or make them stronger.


“Stay together. Love one another. I mean it, damn it.”


OMFG!! You guys should go a pick the damn book up!

The book starts after 11 years from the other books. It has multiple POVs, which great. It is really fast to read. It's only, ONLY, 25 chapters.
This is the end of all the Maddox brothers, I think. It gets since the first line. I almost forgot, we have tons of characters in this books!

NOW, I'm gonna write lots of SPOILERS, so if you don't want to read and spoiled yourself I highly recommend you to leave.


You're warned SPOILER ALERT



So, it all start with Thomas having to fake his own death to keep the Maddox fam alive. Only Travis, Liis and Abby know about the plan.

Meanwhile this happen, we have the others Maddoxes with their own problems such as: Falyn and Taylor are NOT together because of Taylor jealousy; and Camille and Trent don't have a child, no matter how hard they try. The good thing is that the rest of them (Tyler/Ellie, Shep/Mare, Travis/Abby) are okay with their spouses.


Abby's pregnant with Travis' third child, Carter, besides Jessica and James. Shep and Mare have three kids: Eli, Emerson and Ezra. Taylor and Falyn have two: Hadley and Hollis. Tyler and Ellie have one: Gavin. And Liis and Thomas have one: Stella.

Travis tells his family that he works for the FBI, and also was Thomas, and that's how he got shot. Trent and Taylor got angry for not telling them, and later Shep join them. When Liis arrives at Jim's, she also tells that she works for the FBI and announces that Thomas has died.

After a few weeks, Thomas appeared in his dad's house saying that what he did was to protected of the family from Benny's daughter. Val, an agent and Liis bbf, tells Tommy that Carlisi’s bodyguard, Chiara, is in the town looking for them.

“Everyone all right?” I yelled. I looked at Dad, and he nodded. I patted him on the shoulder. “Once a cop…”
“Always a cop,” Dad grunted, pushing himself up off the ground.

In that moment, someone started shooting towards them, and Olive was shot and die, protecting Stella. Chiara kills Jim.

Dad smiled. “I’m pretty tired. And I’d really like to see your mom.”

In the last pages we see how Jim reunited with Diane, and he sees their kids saying their goodbyes to him.

I sat in the back row of the auditorium, watching my sons prepare to say their goodbyes to me. Olive’s funeral was the day before, and they all looked weary and heartbroken. I wanted nothing more than to hold them and help them through their heartbreak, but it was the one time I couldn’t be there for them.

We also read how Jim and Diane were when she was pregnant with each of the boys.



I really liked this book, I thought, before reading ABF, that only Jim would die, I didn't expect Olive dying, I didn't remember her as well. Btw, the last chapter was my fave, most of all because we see how the Maddoxes were like when they were kids, and how Tommy was. I love see that the couples had changed, and how supportive they are to each other.

MY FAVOURITE SO FAR!

Review: It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

 

Name: It Ends With Us
Author: Colleen Hoover
Published: August 2, 2016






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

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

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


Just keep swimming, swimming, swimming


I finished this book just a few hours ago and the only I can say is that IT WAS GREAT!
I was a little nervous before I read this book because I knew it was totally different from what I've read from Colleen.
If you're a CoHo fan, you know how Colleen writes, but in this book is totally unexpected! It is an eternal rollercoaster, and you'll laugh and you'll cry.
If you haven't read yet, you must go and pick this amazing book

SPOILERS START NOW! 


“You can stop swimming now, Lily. We finally reached the shore.”

Where do I have to sign to get someone who can turn this in a movie? That was my first thought after six hours of reading this masterpiece.

I thought I was going to fell for Ryle, I really did ship them, and liked him, past tense, until he slammed Lily and she did nothing but blame herself.

It Ends With Us starts with Ryle, a neurosurgeon, a Lily met in Ryle's sister's roof. They started talking, and Ryle tells Lily that doesn't want a girlfriend or children. When the night ends, they go and never see each other.
Six months later, Lily opens a floral shop and hires Alyssa, whose Ryle's sister but Lily didn't know. Ryle and Lily start dating and eventually, get married.

While the story develops, Lily allows us to get a glimpse from her past by reading some journals she wrote addressed to Ellen Degeneres. Those she wrote every night sinve her father started hitting her mother. And also, she wrote about Atlas, the homeless boy she felt in love with when she was a teenager.
She discoveres that Atlas is a successful chef with his own business, and he lives in Boston. He tells her to leave Ryle.

Lily starts living the same way her mom lived with her father. A husband who hits his wife, and the wife does nothing about it. Lily had always thought that it was easy leave an abusive relationship, until she found herself involved into one.
Each time that Ryle hit her, she tried to excused him, maybe it was the wine, because she ran after him or because he loves her so much.
Until one day, Ryle try to rape her and she decides that too much and calls Atlas to help her. Atlas helps her and takes her to a hospital, where they discover that she's pregnant.

Ryle decides to go to England to study for three months. So, Lily goes to their apartment, and leave Atlas behind. Ryle returns before the day, and Lily tells him she's pregnant, he gives her space and Lily stays in the apartment by herself.

In the last weeks of her pregnancy, Lily talks to Ryle, telling him she's not sure about their relationship and they talk about the baby. They get alone, Ryle helps her with everything and anything.

Once the baby is born, Lily asked Ryle the divorce and he accepted.

“Ryle,” I say gently. “What would you do? If one of these days, this little girl looked up at you and she said, ‘Daddy? My boyfriend hit me.’ What would you say to her, Ryle? [...] What if she came to you and said, ‘Daddy? My husband pushed me down the stairs. He said it was an accident. What should I do?’  [...] What if... What if she came to you and said, ‘My husband tried to rape me, Daddy. He held me down while I begged him to stop. But he swears he’ll never do it again. What should I do, Daddy?’  [...] What would you say to her, Ryle? Tell me. I need to know what you would say to our daughter if the man she loves with all her heart ever hurts her.”
A sob breaks from his chest. He leans toward me and wraps an arm around me. “I would beg her to leave him, [...] I would tell her that she is worth so   much more. And I would beg her not to go back, no matter how much he loves her. She’s worth so much more.”

The last pages, we see that Emmy, Ryle and Lily's daughter, is 11 months old, and she is about to spend the day with her daddy. Lily is getting there when she crushed a man and he is Atlas.

I’m out of breath, panting and nervous. “I forgot to tell you Emerson’s middle name.”[...] It’s Dory.”
His mouth twitches like he’s forcing back a smile. “What a perfect name for her.”


I'm in love with this book!! Once i got it, I couldn't let it go. So, after this review, I have to say my favourite scene, and a part of any scene where Atlas was, it was when Lily talks to her mom her doubts about getting back Ryle or not, that scene really got me. I liked that Lily decided to named her baby girl after Ryle's bother, Emerson

“Don’t be like me, Lily. I know that you believe he loves you, and I’m sure he does. But he’s not loving you the right way. He doesn’t love you the way you deserve to be loved. If Ryle truly loves you, he wouldn’t allow you to take him back. He would make the decision to leave you himself so that he knows for a fact he can never hurt you again. That’s the kind of love a woman deserves, Lily.”

Introduction

Hey guys!

I'm Kate, nice to meet you all!
So, I'm gonna tell how this blog is going to work.
I love reading, usually shared my thoughts about any book to my friends, so I've decided I should do the same with the people who reads this!

It is so weird be here because I was that 'better wait for the movie' kind of person.
It all began with me reading the Fifty Shades trilogy, I read it in less than four days! I was amazed because I haven't read any book before, or even the school's books.

The blog will work as a place where I tell you info about the book, a few quotes and my thoughts and how I felt while I was reading the book! And also, you can do the same. Always respecting each other.

Another I have to say is that English is not my mother tongue!

I hope you enjoy this blog. And welcome!