Book Haul! #1

Hello fellow book lovers! So I noticed I have never done a book haul on my blog, and so I was trying to work out which books I should haul, as I regularly update the books ive bought on my youtube channel (booklovingjess.)

So I decided I would show you books ive bought in September and also a couple that I bought right at the end of August. I hope you enjoy!

     First here's a photo of all ze books! (Arent they preeety)

First up is Isla and the happily ever after by Stephanie Perkins.

I'm sure you have all heard about this... and if you havent... where have you been?

This is the final Anna and the french kiss installment.

Anna and the french kiss remains my favourite... however this was an amazing read.

I especially loved the ending ;)

Next is The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon.

Honestly I dont know much about this book apart from the fact that its about books.

And it has a cool cover.

And the author has a cool name.

And it was only 50p.

HOW COULD I NOT GET IT!

This one is Boy meets Boy by David Levithan.

Its basscially what the title says.

Its a very literal title.

I won this one in a giveaway on youtube.

Its also signed.. no biggie. (I forgot to take a pic of this, but it is signed, I promise.)

Next one is in my opinion one of the more exciting ones.

Not that their not all exciting of course.

This one is Heir of Fire by Sarah J Maas.

The third installment to the throne of glass series.

Its epic and has assassins.

I suggest you read it.

Next is another pretty exciting one, The Infinite Sea by Rick Yancey.

This is the 2nd installment to the 5th wave series.. trilogy.. I'm still not sure.

The 5th wave is being made into a movie! Excitement is being felt right now!

I loved the 5th wave, cant wait to get stuck into this beauty!

The Cuckoos calling by Robert Galbraith (aka... Im just kidding you should know by now.)

Yes.. I already had this in paperback, but I have the sequal in hardback.

Plus it was 50p

DONT JUDGE ME!

Next is the third new release of this haul (autumn is an amazing time for new releases)

This is The iron trial by Holly Black and Cassandra Clare (aka queen)

I just had to get this.

Its Cassandra Clare.

Plus it has Magicians!

Next is My Sisters keeper by Jodi Picoult.

Its a movie. 

It was 50p.

And it sounds like its going to break my heart.

I can't wait.

Next is the lovely bones by Alice Sebold.

Also a movie.

Also 50p.

Also sounds like its going to break my heart.

I also cant wait.

This one is Sabriel by Garth Nix.

This sounds like its going to be epic.

Epic Reads made me buy this.. so it should be.. considering.

This next one I'm super excited for. 

Its called The Snow Child by Eowyn Ivey (good luck pronouncing that one)

It basically sounds like a snowman comes to life. (or a snow child)

Remind you of anyone...

If your not thinking Olaf I hate you.

This next one is And the mountains echoed by Khalid Housseini.

I now own all of her books.

I have yet to read one.

I need to get on that!

Next is Perfect chemistry by Simone Elkeles.

Yes I hate the cover too.

I was meant to read this in summer as its a contemporary.

But then I got distracted.

Opps.

Next is Along for the ride by Sarah Dessen.

I also own most of her books (8 to be exact)

I have yet to read one.

I need to get on that.

I also bought this to read in summer.

I also got distracted from this one.

Opps.

AND FINALLY....

Before we met by Lucie Whitehouse.

Im not sure what this is about.

But is was 50p and pretty.

Sooo... it just happened? *shrugs shoulders*

SO THATS MY BOOK HAUL! Thanks for reading... now I need to get reading... because I have far to many unread books... I blame charity shops.. and the internet... always blame the internet.

THANKS FOR READING!! LOVE YOOOOUUUSS!

Hiya guys and welcome to my August Wrap up!

This month has been absolutely terrible! Seeing as I said I wanted to read about 20 books this summer... you can see why 2 books is very very shameful.

I have no excuses other then the fact that i genuinly just did not feel like reading. I wouldnt call it a reading slump. More like a reading pit stop (which lasted for an entire month.) I was really looking forward to reading loads this summer and the fact that i didnt is extremely dissapointing, but at least now I can talk in more detail about these books, and seeing as I read 14 or 15 books in July, I don't feel to bad!



The first book I read was Since you've been gone by Morgan Matson. I have read all of her other books and I have absolutely loved each and every one of them, and this was no exception. Morgan Matson has this way of making the story cute and fluffy and perfect for summer (I can just imagine sitting on the beach with a nice cool drink in one hand and a morgan matson book in the other.) Yet she has this way of adding these serious topics into the books like getting over a death or dealing with the idea of death, and also becoming a more idependent person and becoming happier with who YOU are.

Her books I find are so relatable, and Since you've been gone is no exception to that. Its about two best friends, who rely on eachother so much, one more then the other, and one day one of the friends dissapear and leave in place a list of challenges that the other friend must complete before the end of the summer (psst! she may inlist the help of a hot guy along the way!)

This book literally had everything! Friendship, romance, humour and best of all.... FLUFFINESS!!

I gave this book 5 out of 5 stars and would recommend it to EVERYONE!



The second (and last) book I read in august was Isla and the happily ever after and honestly i dont even know if i can explain to you how much i enjoyed this. I'm sad that this amazing series is over, it was honestly amazing and i LOVE st clair. It was honestly amazing and i loved how it all tied together. Again 5 out of 5 stars. Perfection!

Top 5 Authors I really NEED to read.

So I'm going to start doing Top 5 posts, where I create a theme and then tell you my top 5! If you guys have any suggestions on what top 5's I should do then let me know!

This week is Top 5 authors I have yet to read, and trust me this was very hard to narrow down, so I hope you enjoy it!




5. At number 5 we have Sarah Dessen. She is a  contemporary author who mostly
    writes summery romances. She has written over 12 books, and I have yet to read one! However... I do own 6 of them, so my goal is to read at least 2 by the end of the summer! which I think is very doable!





4. Number 4 is J.R.R.Tolkein who is best known for the lord of the rings trilogy.      
    I don't even know why I haven't read those books yet (or watched the movie)
    they sound like the exact kind of thing that I would love to read, and by the end
    of this year I promise myself I will have at least read the hobbit!







3. Author number 3 is Patrick Ness. I'm not really sure if I should count       this cause I have read a couple of chapters of more than this before         putting it down, but i have never read an entire book of his, and i don't     know whats wrong with me! I  own 5 of his books, I really should           get to them!








2. The second to last author is Charles Dickens. You think a 6th former who has
    completed her GCSE's would've read a Charles Dickens book by this point, but     nope, I haven't. I never did an exam on one of his books while in secondary
    school and was never interested in it myself, but now I am, and I cant wait to           give one of his books a try!      







1. This was definitely the hardest to choose, cause again there are just so many
   authors I really want to read. So lastly I chose George R.R Martin. The game         of thrones series is so huge and you have no idea how badly I want to read              them, this inter I am going to read as much of the game of thrones series as I            can!






So those are the top 5 authors I have yet to read, let me know who your top author to read is.

Thanks for reading!
xxx

Beautiful Disaster by Jaime Mcguire ~ Book Review!

Title: Beautiful Disaster & Walking Disaster

Author: Jaime Mcguire

Genre: New Adult/ Romance

Goodreads Rating: 4.22

My Rating: 3.5 stars.

Summery...

Abby Abernathy is a good girl. She doesn’t drink or swear, and she has the appropriate number of cardigans in her wardrobe. Abby believes she has enough distance from the darkness of her past, but when she arrives at college with her best friend, her path to a new beginning is quickly challenged by Eastern University’s Walking One-Night Stand.

Travis Maddox, lean, cut, and covered in tattoos, is exactly what Abby wants—and needs—to avoid. He spends his nights winning money in a floating fight ring, and his days as the ultimate college campus charmer. Intrigued by Abby’s resistance to his appeal, Travis tricks her into his daily life with a simple bet. If he loses, he must remain abstinent for a month. If Abby loses, she must live in Travis’s apartment for the same amount of time. Either way, Travis has no idea that he has met his match.

Review.

Beautiful Disaster was the first ever New Adult book I had ever read and honestly it was exactly what I expected it to be, hot bad boy who all the girls love and loves playing with girls hearts falls for girl who at first hates him and is disgusted with how he treats woman, and just as i expected, I loved it! Sure the writing was nothing to be wowed at and the ending was a little disappointing for me, but I loved the romance at times and loved the cheeseness of it. 

However i did give this book  a 3.5 (along with the sequel Walking Disaster) and there was a reason for that... multiple reasons actually. First of is the romance. Yes at times it was addictive and cheesy and obsessive and everything i expected it to be, but at times it was seriously annoying me. I cant even count how many times they broke up and got back together and then broke up again and then got back together again and then.... well... you get the picture. Kind of reminded me of the Taylor Swift song 'We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together' and Abby really should have just taken Taylor's wise advice because things were getting a teensy bit repetitive.

Another thing that annoyed me about this book is that the main male Travis literally beat up people over the simplest of things. They say one thing that annoyed him just a little bit and suddenly they were on the ground with a bloody nose and a broken rib... he had some serious anger issues and no one ever did anything about it! I feel like this situation should have been dealt with much more seriously then it was! I mean, they were in a school for Pete's sake! A teacher should have talked to him or given him detention! But it was just brushed aside. 

Jaime Mcguire tried to do a plot twist in order to drift it away from the stereotypical bad boy falls for good girl by making the good girl a bad girl... but the reason for this for me was ridiculous! I was expecting this amazing reveal at the end that she had robbed a bank or something.. cause that was how she was acting the entire time.. but when we find out what it is i was actually disappointing and not really shocked, so that part for me was a little underwhelming. I was also disappointing immensely by the ending and thought it was a bit to abrupt.

This review may seem rather negative but please don't let it put you off. Yes there were many things i did not like about this duology, but that doesn't mean i didn't love the addictive romance and how quick and fast paced it was. Its the perfect beach read and I really do recommend it. Just some aspects where a bit disappointing. 

Thanks for reading!
Love

Booklovingjess xxx

We were liars - Talk! (SPOILERS!

DO NOT CONTINUE READING IF YOU HAVE NOT READ WE WERE LIARS!

Hiya Guys! So I've recently finished reading we were liars by E.Lockhart and it was absolutely amazing! I found there are so many things i needed to discuss so I am doing a spoiler AND a non spoiler review!



While reading this book I had so many thoeries on what had happened to make Cadence loose her memory, I was convinced Gat had raped her or hurt her in some way! Not once did i think all three of them had died in the fire!

It was so surprising and yet once i knew what had happened I thought back and remembered all of these things that happened that pointed to the other three being dead. For example how none of them replied to her emails (which i remember thinking was odd at the time) how her mum kept pushing her to play with the other kids (which i just figured it was because something had happened with Gat) and also how they were never at dinner... looking back i feel so stupid for not guessing it!

Apart from the whole shocking ending, another thing i loved about this book is how E . Lockhart personifies Cadences emotions, like when she says her dad shot her! At first i literally thought he had.. then i was confused cause it was so sudden.. and THEN i realized that it was just a way for her to express how she was feeling. She felt like he'd shot her in the chest.

Let me know what you thought on this book! What were your theories and did you guess the ending?

Wonder Review (Non Spoiler)

***** 5 stars

First I want to say that I loved this book... It was so eye opening and has really left a huge mark on me.... I will never look at face 'disfigurements' (hate that word but it's the best way to describe it) again.

This book is about a boy who was born with a face 'disfigurement,' and about his life and his encounters with other people.

This book follows a variety of different points of views (POVs) including his sister and people he has just met. It follows their story on seeing him for the first time, what they thought, and also their own stories about their own difficulty when dealing with other people. Things that are really relate-able, which I was not expecting when going into this!

Our main character, August, is about to start school for the first time and he is petrified because all his life people have done nothing but stare at him, making him feel scared of what people will think of him. 

I loved when he started school because you could really see a change in his personality, he became more out going and more like a regular 10 year old boy. It was so inspriring because he could have easily hidden away in his room and never having to face the world (I mean he did have a pretty good excuse) but he didn't do that. Instead he went out and he faced his fear, and he overcame it. A true role model.

Another thing about this book was when I was reading his sisters point of view, that is really what opened my eyes and really made me feel for her. August's situation was difficult no doubt about that. But reading from her point of view made me realize that she is also suffering, which never would have occurred to me before. I also loved how I could really relate to her as she was having difficulties with her friends and lets be honest we've all had that, not really knowing where you fit in anymore. That and her home situation for her was so interesting to read about, she is easily one of my favorite characters.

I never realised just how cruel this world could really be until I read about August. August was just a normal kid who was born to stand out, and I loved how he dealt with situations when other people where behaving like an A$$. 

There where many points where I laughed, I cried, and was just plain shocked by the cuelness and how ignorant people can be. Overall I would recommend this book to anyone, as this is a book that will stay with me for a long time. 

This quote describes this book quite well...

This book is worth a lot.

Thanks for reading!

xxxx

My Bookshelf!!

Hello Fellow Fanatics!

Here are some pictures of my bookshelf!!

Just so you can get a feel on what types of books I like to read!


Overview!

I have two bookshelves next to each other.
Though I am slowly running out of space so.... may have to buy another one ;)


Here are the shelves.

From Top to Bottom.

Here are my tall hardbacks.
Mostly fantasy.
Some Dystopian.
3 Adult Books.
....And my beautiful Harry Potters.

Top shelf is all my favourite dystopia's (as of right now)
2nd shelf is mostly fantasy... some dystopian.
....Isn't Ignite Me beautiful!

Top Shelf is entirely Fantasy
2nd shelf is entirely contemporary/realistic fiction

Top shelf is my mystery and then historical fiction (sort of)
2nd shelf is.... random bits and bobs which will one day in the near future be filled with lots and lots of lovely books!

Here are my children's books!!
Top is Jacqueline Wilson (with three random Cathy Cassidy's on the left)
And bottom are just loads of children's books and some classics.
And no I don't have more copy's of Harry Potter.... Don't judge me!!



And Finally....

Top is non fiction and all my Harry Potter merchandise!
And bottom shelf is all my classics and some more children's.
And yes.. I do have three copy's of goblet of fire.. but they're all different formats!
I have English paperback, English hardback and then American paperback!!



Hope you enjoyed staring at my beautiful books!

If you have any review requests then just ask!! I'd be happy to do them!

Thanks for reading!!

Bye!!
Love, Jess xx