Fixed on You (Fixed #1)

Fixed on You (Fixed #1)

When two different people meet each other, can they find common ground? Hudson and Alayna.
Hudson loves to play with women: make them fall in love with him then leaves. Alayna loves the idea of being loved and love to some extent that makes her crazy and likes to stalk the man.

Both of them came together under some unusual situation but both of them cannot keep their eyes off each other. It was a beautiful loves story of two broken people that came together. Despite their love for one another, there are still many mysteries and secrets between them that are not uncovered in the first book.

It was a super easy and quick read, one you can just slip right into. It was both thrilling to read and heart warming to experience.

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Forever with You (Fixed #3)

Forever with You (Fixed #3)

This book was a bittersweet moment for me. It was because I know it's the last book and I am a sucker at saying goodbye to the characters. I hate it, always have. Do any of you feel the same? You get so excited about the book that you rushed through it but when you are at the end, it's so hard to let all the characters, the story, the world, the feelings you felt when you are in the book, and the connect go. You think after reading so many books that it will become easier, hell no. It's harder and harder each time.

Anyways, back to the book. I felt that in this book, the chemistry between Alayna and Hudson is pushed aside. There were more conflict. They spent less time together compare to the first and second book. However, towards the end, every secret came clear. It was so heartbreaking and I was torn. The love they had slowly just faded out and it was so scary. Hudson was broken but Alayna was shattered.

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Found in You (Fixed #2)

Found in You (Fixed #2)

The second book to the Fixed series was more complex. There was more drama and incidences. However, these drama reveals more of the characters bit by bit. Readers get to know the characters more as they go along. 

The characters seem more personal now and the connection between the readers and the characters felt real. It's easier to slip into Alayna's mind set and think like she does.

The end of it was short and sweet, making the readers dying to dive into the next book.

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Dreamology

Dreamology

This book is the cutest love story I've ever read. It has multiple heartbreaks and point where I just want to pull my hair out but it was so sweet, so adorable, and utterly romantic in it's own way. The story carries a powerful vibe of love and relationship throughout the whole book and anyone can easily fall in love with it.

This book is about a girl, Alice, who had bad nightmares when she was a kid. After having some scanning and stuff, she got better. The nightmares become beautiful dreams. She dreams of a boy named Max. In her dreams, they would travel the world, do the impossible, and hold each other. It is only in her dream that she didn't feel lonely. The best part of her day is when she is dreaming of Max. When Alice moves from New York, she is enrolled in a new school. Starting over was hard but it gets harder when her dream Max is sitting in the same classroom as her. It nearly gave her a heart attack. How can someone in your dream be real? How can someone you knew so well in your dream feel like a stranger?

I cannot contain the amount of cuteness in this book nor can I count the number of times my heart threw glitter into the air. It was a very easy read and a very good story, one that everyone dream.

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Afterburn & Aftershock (Jax & Gia #1-2)

Afterburn & Aftershock (Jax & Gia #1-2)

I really like Sylvia Day's writing. She always has a way to capture the hearts of her readers and make them want more. An absolute page turner. 

Gia loved Jax but he left her a few years ago. Now that he is back, she is facing a dilemma on how she could accept him again. Things went ugly but the complication of their relationship was not as intense as Eva and Gideon's. Nonetheless, their love for each other cannot be compared. It's an amazing love story of a lucky guy who got his second change and a brave girl who followed her heart.

Unlike Crossfire, this series only have two books. It's short but sweet. The chemistry in this book was so raw but buried under many complications. As pages are flipped, layers after layers of the complication slowly fade away. It was a very easy read. The story line is fabulous and the writing is brutally heart melting.

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Bitter Sweet Love (The Dark Elements 0.5)

Bitter Sweet Love (The Dark Elements 0.5)

I'm a sucker for romance books right now but this book has a mix of fantasy in it which I surprisingly love. It's so beautifully written. The author knows how to lour you into her book and her words will swallow you up whole. Literally finished this book in an hour. It was so easy to read and definitely a page turner.

This book is about demons and gargoyles. The demons are evil and the gargoyles act as guards and protectors. Dez wasn't only Jas crush but her soul mate. They were in love for a long time but three years ago Dez left without reasons or goodbyes. After three years Dez came back and was going to mate with Jas (a gargoyle thing for wedding). Jas still loves him but felt betrayed that he left without telling her the truth. Before they get married, the two couple have to each say yes within 7 days. Jas took advantage of her seven days to decide but under some conditions, Dez has to take her away, travel the city, and kill a demon. It was dangerous but Dez agreed. Dez has seven days to meet all her conditions and earn back her trust. Seven days filled with terrifying danger and sweet temptation. Seven days to win her heart—or shatter it all over again.

All the feels:

 

Dez is so sweet and so loving while Jas is so strong, fierce and really stubborn. I think these two make a very cute couple. The storyline was beautiful and the ending will melt your heart.

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One with You (Crossfire #5)

One with You (Crossfire #5)

I don't know what to feel about the last book of the series. Guessing it's the last, I expected something more. Not to say I'm disappointed, I'm not. I just wished there was more of something to it.

First of all, this whole series was amazing. It was not just about sex. It was about two very broken people coming together and becoming so strong for each other and for themselves. Broken does not mean worthless. Broken does not mean unfix-able. Broken does not mean its the end. Gideon and Eva fix each other's broken past. This is not your normal fairy tale story. Both Gideon and Eva did not have a good Once Upon a Time, but they sure worked their way up to a wonderful Happy Ever After.

Like the fourth book, it was one chapter of Eva's POV and another of Gideon's. In this book, the readers got to understand Gideon better. The love between them became raw and genuine. Readers get to jump back and forth between the two characters and understand them better in their perspective as well as experiencing the love that Gideon and Eva had for each other.

What I love about this book is that it taught us that love does not only mean you will spend a lifetime with them, be with them through tough times, hold them when they are sad and scared, cherish them, and fight to keep them safe but also believing in them, without needing proof or evidence because their words are enough. What I think I was expecting in this book was the wedding. The whole book revolved around Eva and Gideon preparing for their public wedding with their family but I didn't really feel the wedding bells when the time came. After building up a story rich with wedding detail, the wedding went by faster than probably the sex. It was sad. I wanted to be in Gideon's mind when he saw Eva walked down the aisle. I wanted to be in Eva's mind when Gideon says his vows.

Nonetheless, I love this series. It made me scream, cry, and it tear me apart while still fixing the pieces. It was beautiful. The unconditional love was unbearable. It made the classic fairy tale seem too simple. Life isn't simple and this book proofs that.

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Captive by You (Crossfire #4)

Captive by You (Crossfire #4)

I cannot. It's like running a marathon reading this book. The emotion is like the hills and the complexity of Eva life is like the storm.

This book was different from the first three. In this book, we have a chapter of Eva's POV than a chapter of Gideon's POV. It's so nice and warmly to know what Gideon thinks of Eva because we know how madly in love Eva is with Gideon from the first three books so in this book, we got to understand Gideon a lot more and really uncover layers of him that was so secret to us before. Knowing him more now, his love for Eva is beyond compare. I don't think anyone should settle for anything less if they had someone who loves them as much as Gideon loves Eva.

It's a book that will keep you up on your feet and excited for the next book but knowing the next will be the last is bittersweet.

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Entwined with You (Crossfire #3)

Entwined with You (Crossfire #3)

No words except I wish I have Eva's life.

Firstly, I know there is a lot of sex in adult books but I think I am more attracted to the Alpha male romance. I like how men can be so protective of what is theirs. It's hard to find someone like that anymore because not many really love someone enough to have to need them more.

Secondly, can we talk about all the feels? It's so breathtaking to find a man so in love with a woman that he is willing to do anything for her. He may dominate a lot of things in life but when it comes to her, he is on his knees.

Gideon taught me something about love in this book. He said it right out of my mouth with his perfect words, words that I can't fandom together. Love can be built and it can be tear down. Love comes and love goes. Loving someone is different from needing them as if you need air. 

Sylvia Day has a way of writing that will make her readers hungry for more. It's incredible. I work up at 3 a.m. to finish the book because sleeping without knowing the ending kills me even in my sleep.

A very quick post Fifty Shades and The Royals fix. For sure.

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Reflected by You (Crossfire #2)

Reflected by You (Crossfire #2)

Another page turner. Seriously, I need therapy after this. The emotions are so raw and bare. I feel so naked inside reading it. It turned my feelings under, over, and all around. It leaves your stomach flat and your heart bare.

This book reveals more of who Gideon is but it also shows who both of them are individually. In the beginning of the book, both of them were too consumed with each other but after something happened, they separated. In some way, it was healthy to have some space but it was hell for both of them (and for me to read, honestly). When they were apart, they each found who they were and what they mean to each other.

I would say the feelings in the book is more attachable because we have lived in Eva's mind for an entire book before and understand her better now. Sylvia really knows how to get her readers feel involved. She knows just the word to fill you with excitement and joy but she also knows how to break you.

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Bared to You (Crossfire #1)

Bared to You (Crossfire #1)

What even?

I am sorry for all the adult fiction novels that I have been reviewing and I swear, I do read other YA books. This book is so mixed with feelings and reading it just flattens my stomach. It's sort of a mix between Fifty Shades and The Royals saga.

This book is about a girl named Eva who moved to New York to work in an ad company. She left her mother and her stepfather, who she loved, but wants some space from them. She had a rough past. Her mother had her but didn't marry her biological father because of money. Her mother found someone rich enough and they married but it turned out to be a nightmare for Eva, one that will scar her for life.

Gideon Cross is the man every girl will kneel down for- good looking, rich, well built, not to mention hot as hell. However, he, too, has a past that is both dark and dangerous. When both of them met, things changed. Eva could not get him out of her head. He could not stay out of her life. When they found each other, nothing could break them except for their past.

It's a very dark and mysterious novel that is wrapped with romance, pure love, and warmth. It was a really good and easy read. The characters felt real and the book was so complete. Eva is a very strong female character that I really like. She is vulnerable yet have so much drive in her. She is broken but she refuses to be shatter to pieces. She is like this sculpture of broken glass pieced together, fragile and breakable but strong and still standing. Gideon is just as broken but for Eva, he is willing to fix him for the possibility of them.

Brutally amazing- one that can make you scream and shout with all the feelings that you don't even know how to handle.

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Change.

After what happened in Orlando, I needed time to properly process things. No, I did not know a lot about Christina Grimmie but I wish I had. No, the people who were shot was not any of my family or friends but we are all human. The unknown lost I felt is so confusing and so raw. I don't know them, but I loved them. I don't know them but I feel so lost. I don't know them but I feel like something is ripe apart from me. I know it sounds stupid but after days of thinking, I realized what was robbed from me- hope. I had so much hope that the world could be better. I had hope for humanity, for freedom, and for love. I had hope that we, as human, are better. But I was wrong. I once told myself to never expect and just hope. So I did hope but now, hope is lost.

Everyone wants to have a say in things and to be heard. But, whoever thinks that they have the right to take other's life for what they believe in and to think that their beliefs are superior over others, is wrong. You may believe in one thing but other's don't have to agree. That is what makes us all unique. If we shoot everyone who is different from us, no one will be alive. We can all disagree on things, that's what makes us keep improving. I thought we were more civilized now to understand that disagreements can be solved with agreements, not with blood.

Other countries look to America as leaders. Other people look at America as the land of hope and the land of freedom. But what is freedom, when we cannot freely express who we are and who we love? What is hope when we see people being gunned down because they are different? In 10 years time, how will we tell the next generation, your daughters, and you grandsons, that they can no longer be who they are and that they must be this "thing" that society expects them to be? You said God forbid gay and same sex marriage but God does not forbid love in any way. He and any God out there and any God there is, forbid hate and killing.

I was so sad for the people and for the world but I was also so angry with myself. One of my friends said it was silly of me to feel that way because I couldn't do anything. Maybe that's why I was angry because I couldn't do anything. We live in a generation where we can do anything. We can travel to Pluto, we can cure diseases, we overcome the worst depressions, we walked through storms and hurricanes, and we made the world smaller with technology. I always thought there is nothing we can't overcome but after this event, I don't know anymore. I don't know how we can fix this. I don't know how we can make people understand that it's okay to disagree but it's not okay to hurt. I don't know how I can make people understand that they don't need to spill blood or to carry so much hate in them. Hate does not accomplish anything. Hate will only shadow you with more darkness and once you let the darkness swallow you up, you are gone.

Love won before and love will win again. 

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The Start of Me and You

The Start of Me and You

I wasn't sure if I could recover from The Royals Sage but this book was the cure. It was so broken, torn, and vulnerable but so strong with feelings, so true with lost, and so sweet with unconditional love from friends, family, and the guy who sits next to you in English class. 

This book tells the story of a girl named Paige who had a boyfriend, Argon, but he drowned and passed. Since then she was known as the girl whose boyfriend died. Every day she lives in confusion and in grief but she no longer wants to. She hates how people tip toe around her like she is a broken glass or how when people give her the look when she smiles and laughs in public. It feels as if she is not allowed to feel sad and nor happy and normal. However, Paige is determined to change that. She knows Argon won't want her to live like this so she made a list of things she could do that year to feel alive again.

Along her journey to finding herself and the person she was before, she discovered new things, met new people, did daring and wild things, and fell in love. Paige never thought she could be capable of falling in love again, not because she loved Argon too much, they only dated a few months and there was still much of him she did not know of, but she did not know if there is still a part of her capable of loving. Love hurts. The more you love the more you feel pain. But living life is accepting pain and accepting that everything comes with a price.

This book was so beautifully written. It captures the raw feeling of someone dealing with grief and feeling lost. We are all an individual, not The Girl Whose Mother Died, or That Boy Who Failed His SAT Test. We are who we are and whoever we are or chose to be, we should be proud.

A few quotes that I love from this book are: 

“Knowing what happens is different from knowing how it happens. And the getting there is the best part.” 

“You're always preparing yourself for the thing that is most likely to happen, instead of hoping for the thing that you most want to happen.” 

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Crave Me, Convert Me, and Capture Me

Crave Me, Convert Me, and Capture Me

The first book was stunning. The second book caught me off guard. The third book had me in awe.
I have to say: I cannot count the number of times my stomach flatten and butterflied in me, nor the number of time I find my thoughts twisting it's way back into the book as if I was in it and the characters were my friends, nor the number of times I giggled to myself or cry in silent for all the emotions that were unleashed in these books.

The first book is about Belle, Clare's best friend, finding herself again after her fiance, Phil cheated on her. She swore not to let any man decide who she is and she decides no to let any man get in her way of becoming what she wants to be. The promise to herself lasted until she met Smith Prince. He is a gorgeously hot lawyer who is seeking for a personal assistant. Belle stubble into his office, prepared for anything but him.

She got the job but she also swore to herself and to him that they will not sleep together. Little did she know that both of them were tied together the first time they each lay eyes on one another.

It was so beautifully written. Smith has a way to make you feel so loved even though you are not Belle. He is like Christian Grey but more dominating. His jealousy levels will make you want to scoop in him in your arms but will prey on his jealousy a while longer, just to see how much he wants it. Pleasure in torture.

The second book was mentally good. It had all the elements of love, friendship, and mystery. Even though both Belle and Prince fell apart, they become stronger together. Seeing how the charterers change and grow each passing page is both satisfying and warming to heart because your imagination of what the charterers are, growing along with them, and your mind slowly forms this image of what they are and before you know it, they are like a friend that you are obsessed of.

The third book was unrealistically good. I felt my stomach flatten, my heart sank to the bottom of the floor, and the feels were running all over my system. How can something be so good and addicting?

It wasn't the sex part that draws me towards the book, but the romance and love that drowned me in it. I have never read or seen anyone love another so deeply and passionately. This book will undo all your expectation of love in the future but one can always hope and dream.

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Crown Me

Crown Me

The mystery, betrayal, danger, and of course romance in this book is the next level. I cannot handle. It's hard for me to discuss the book without spoilers but I will try my best. One thing I will say is that: IT IS THE BEST. Utterly overwhelmed by all the feelings.




Every girl deserves to be treated like a princess by men but a queen to the one and only. Alexander does whatever he can to make Clare know that she is not only the Queen of England but also his queen. Their love makes all fairy tale love story seem staged because this story tells the true complication of relationships that often get interfered by duties, friends, and our history. The love that they share sets a whole new level of expectation of love in real life. Its sad to know that not everyone gets to have an Alexander in their life and not every one is lucky enough to ever find one but this book did spark hope that love does exists and when in love, love fearlessly, bravely, and completely because the worth of loving overrides all the pain and danger that comes with it.

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Conquer Me

Conquer Me

Apart form sleeping and watching PLL on the screen on a 22 hour flight, I was reading Conquer Me. Good choice but bad timing. I was laughing, giggling, and smiling like an idiot to myself. I swear the girl next to me thinks I'm crazy.

This book- not as great as the first one- but still was brilliant. It's amazing how Alexander changed for Clare, and how Clare grew stronger because she loves him. I am all for a retell in the Beauty and the Beast story. Alexander finally lets go of the beast inside of him and accepts that his duties and responsibilities and the next King in line were far less important that having Clare in his life. Clare could not accept being his secret. She doesn't want the name nor to be Queen but she does want him. She wants him to not be afraid and to love her as deeply as she loves him.

The feels:



I was craving for more. it was a brilliant book. Beautifully written.

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Harry Potter and the Soccer's Stone

Harry Potter and the Soccer's Stone

Because I've watched the movie over a million times, I could literally remember each scene and words but reading it brings something different. I have never read the book before up until this week because I watched the movie and it spoiled everything for me. Despite that, it was still a good, easy read. No regrets.

 I feel like the book was not a YA fiction but more of a children's book like Percy Jackson but I also understand that it is from Harry's point of view and he was only 11 years old so it made sense. J.K. Rowling has an amazing way of luring you into her woods of fantasy.

I have to admit, I did scan through most part of the book because I knew what was happening but there were parts in the book that was not in the movie and I did enjoy those too.

The characters in the movie represented the characters in the book so well. It was a really great easy read with many adventures of a body who did not only lived through the dark forces of magic but also found himself after being lost. Harry never knew who he was, why he was him, or what he was for until magic found him.

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