It’s Monday! What are you reading? [4]

It’s Monday!  What Are You Reading is where we share what we read this past week, what we hope to read this week…. and anything in between!  D  This is a great way to plan out your reading week and see what others are currently reading as well… you never know where that next “must read” book will come from!

 

 

 

  

 

RECENTLY READ

Abandon by Meg Cabot: Be warned, this is not a good read.

Forget You by Jennifer Echols: Now this one, i would definitely recommend. This book’s HOT! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 READING NOW

 A lot of peeps have been telling me this is one fantastic adventure. I hope i’m in for a thrilling ride! 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NEXT

 After reading The Knife of Never Letting Go, i did not read dystopia for a while. It’s that good! Eeriely so.  I want to read Enclave because the blurb reminded me of Divergent. 🙂

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

LATER

I have an ebook but i can’t help to buy from Amazon! and now i’m just waiting for my good friend to arrive from the US so i can get my hands on this! Some say this is better than Perfect Chemistry. Could it be?!!

Whew! So what are your reading this week? 😉

 

 

 

 

 

 

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.: maria :.

“giving up is the ultimate tragedy.”

Book Review: Forget You by Jennifer Echols

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WHY CAN’T YOU CHOOSE WHAT YOU FORGET . . . AND WHAT YOU REMEMBER?

There’s a lot Zoey would like to forget. Like how her father has knocked up his twenty-four- year old girlfriend. Like Zoey’s fear that the whole town will find out about her mom’s nervous breakdown. Like darkly handsome bad boy Doug taunting her at school. Feeling like her life is about to become a complete mess, Zoey fights back the only way she knows how, using her famous attention to detail to make sure she’s the perfect daughter, the perfect student, and the perfect girlfriend to ultra-popular football player Brandon. But then Zoey is in a car crash, and the next day there’s one thing she can’t remember at all—the entire night before. Did she go parking with Brandon, like she planned? And if so, why does it seem like Brandon is avoiding her? And why is Doug—of all people— suddenly acting as if something significant happened between the two of them? Zoey dimly remembers Doug pulling her from the wreck, but he keeps referring to what happened that night as if it was more, and it terrifies Zoey to admit how much is a blank to her. Controlled, meticulous Zoey is quickly losing her grip on the all-important details of her life—a life that seems strangely empty of Brandon, and strangely full of Doug.

*****

 

“I don’t think we should spend any more time together unless i have a chance with you.”

HOTNESS PERSONIFIED!

That’s how Echols described Brandon and it seemed fitting that i describe her book in the same manner. 🙂

Gosh, i am definitely having fangirl moments in this review. I’ve got dibs on Doug Fox!

Zoey (she looked like Uma Thurman) reminded me of Brittany from Perfect Chemistry (they wanted to preserve  their perfect-girl-daughter act), but i have to say the latter has more steel in her character than the former. I have nothing against Zoey (except maybe she doesn’t deserve Doug, lol), it just that her refusal to end her relationship with Brandon  so she can be with Doug is idiotic considering she and Brandon just hooked up! But i do love her cussing after the accident – it was funny!

Doug Doug Doug 🙂 How about you park with me, instead? *wink* I do like bad boys, more so if they admit their mistakes and make up for it. They are explanations, not excuses – he says, and i agree with him. His family issues are real enough and i like that the author didn’t delve too much on the drama of it. Doug, you are one swoon-worthy guy!

I hate Zoey’s dad. really, really hate him. Zoey should’ve crashed his benz when she had it.

The backseat scenes are hot and steamy! The author knows how to keep me going and panting after Doug. *huffs*

The story is simple but the characters are not and that makes the story interesting. Forget You is a quick read for me, and boy, did i ever read it again minutes just after finishing it. It was good!

“Or that I couldn’t stand to watch anything bad happen to you, because it was like it was happening to me too.Is that love?”His hand clasped my hand again and squeezed.
I swallowed. “It could be.”

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.: maria :.

“giving up is the ultimate tragedy.”

Book Review: Abandon by Meg Cabot

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(Abandon Trilogy #1)

Though she tries returning to the life she knew before the accident, Pierce can’t help but feel at once a part of this world, and apart from it. Yet she’s never alone . . . because someone is always watching her. Escape from the realm of the dead is impossible when someone there wants you back.

But now she’s moved to a new town. Maybe at her new school, she can start fresh. Maybe she can stop feeling so afraid.

Only she can’t. Because even here, he finds her. That’s how desperately he wants her back. She knows he’s no guardian angel, and his dark world isn’t exactly heaven, yet she can’t stay away . . . especially since he always appears when she least expects it, but exactly when she needs him most.

But if she lets herself fall any further, she may just find herself back in the one place she most fears: the Underworld.

 

What the F this book is supposed to be?!!

I was confused by Cabot’s writing style so it was hard to comprehend the story. The author writes like I already know about Pierce’s past when in fact, i don’t. Rewind, fast forward, double rewind – that’s i felt like when i was reading it.

Should Pierce come across as a resilient young woman or as a problem child who really doesn’t know what to do with her life? Her character was vague enough for me to not connect with her in any way. John is not as engaging as i thought he would be. who the hell falls in love after meeting a 7-year-old girl then rages when that same girl died suddenly when she was fifteen? John is a stalker, that’s what he is. There is no way their love story is in that book – i know, i read and finished it!

The conflict is nowhere near resolved. Just when i thought John and Pierce are going to take some action, i was already reading the acknowledgement page. *big sigh*

I am definitely not reading another Meg Cabot book.

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.: maria :.

“giving up is the ultimate tragedy.”