Review: Maybe Someday

Author: Colleen Hoover

Publisher: Atria Book, 320 pages

Release Date: March 18, 2014

Genre(s): Romance

Sydney Blake, a twenty-two year old aspiring musician, just broke up with her boyfriend because she found out from her neighbour that Hunter has been screwing up with her best friend and room-mate, Tori. After her break up with Hunter, the last thing she would do is to fall in love with her new room-mate, Ridge, who was just her neighbour a few weeks back. 

OREO BREAKDOWN STYLE:

• TWIST: I love the story so much it hurts that I have to accept that it has to end. I've never read something like this before. Everything is so perfect. I'll have to let myself be carried away with the flow and would never care less. Your heart can be broke in to million pieces but you'll learn how to pick every single shattered pieces and put your heart back again. Name every single emotion, all in here, in this novel. 
• LICK: 1. Ridge suddenly became my dream guy. He's the exact opposite of Hunter, who broke the heart of Syd. He's the Mr. Right for every single lady who deserves a guy like him. He's so self-controled. Yet he also portrayed that men are really weak when it comes to women. That no matter how they want to be loyal to their partner, they can still be weak and succumb for another woman. I admire his loyalty. 2. Sydney is very talented, the girl I want to be. I love her because she doesn't became Tori yet she almost did. She knows the feeling of being betrayed that's why she's afraid to do what has been done to her. 3. Maggie really loves Ridge, if she doesn't love him, she wouldn't let him go. She knows that he had done enough for her and everything he had done for her is going for nothing. Maggie's disease is life-threatening so there's no assurance of forever with she and Ridge. The best thing she could do is to let him go even if it kills her. I admire her for that. I feel sorry for her, though. 3. I love Warren's frankness, I wish all my friends are like him. 
• DUNK: I love that the story ended with Ridge and Sydney being together. They have been through a lot and they deserve each other so it feels right that they ended up together. 

ENCORE:

It's the very first Colleen Hoover book I've ever read and I want to bang my head on my walls for not allowing myself to read any of her books. It's also my first time to read a novel in which one of the narrators is deaf. It feels so different, so out of the normal but it also feels amazing at the same time. I admire the way the author can make a situation serious and funny at the same time. The story is about reality, things happened in the story really happen in real life. It's also my first time to read novels with songs or lyrics. And I love every single song written in this novel. I don't know how many times I laughed, very loud laugh. I can't also remember how many times I cried. It's very emotional that you get carried away. I really love the way it affects me. The way Sydney affects me every time she cries, my knees usually get weak. I love this book and it's now one of my favourite books. The set-up is so heart breaking. But I enjoyed every single prank that they did to one another.  Right now, I can't wait for her next novel titled Ugly Love. 

MY FAVOURITE: 

It's crazy how being held by someone for just a few minutes can forever change how it feels not to be held by him. The second he releases his hold on you, it suddenly feels as if a part of you is missing.

I hate these moments in life where I'd give anything to be to able to communicate the same way so many others take for granted.

The heart does whatever the hell it wants to do. The only thing we can control is whether we give our lives and minds the chance to catch up to our hearts. 

For the first time that I have three favourite quotes in a novel. I usually have only one and no more. I also want to include my favourite song from the novel.

HOLD ON TO YOU

The cool air running through my hair

Nights like these, doesn't seem fair

For you and I to be so far away

The stars all shimmer like a melody

Like they're playing for you and me

But only I can hear their sound

Maybe if I ask them they will play for you

I try wishing on one, maybe I'll try two

It doesn't look like there's much for me to do

I want to hold on to you

Just like these memories I can't undo

I want to hold on to you

Without you here that's kind of hard to do

I want to hold 

I want to hold on to you

The front seat's empty, and I know

When it's just me I seem to go

To places I never wanted to

I need you here to be a light

Star in the sky brighten up my night

Sometimes I need the dark to see

So come on, come min, turn it on for me

Just a little light, and I'll be able to see

Promise like a comet you won't fly by me

I want to hold on to you

Just like these memories I can't undo

I want to hold on to you

Without you here that's kind of

hard to do

I want to hold

I want to HOLD ON TO YOU.   

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Review: The Summer I Found You

Author: Jolene Perry

Publisher: Albert Whitman Teen, 256 pages

Release Date: March 01, 2014

Genre(s): Contemporary, Romance, YA

They were just distraction to each other. But things change and can lead to something much better or much bigger. Kate Walker was just dumped by her boyfriend for a cheerleader. Aidan is an ex-soldier from Afghanistan who is not yet certain of what he's gonna do to his life. How will they gonna find each other's path? What if a secret kept from a person but not from the others will blow up everything? 

OREO STYLE BREAKDOWN:

• TWIST: There's no of much twists and turns that can spin my head away, I daresay. It's not an exciting read. It's just a normal novel about teenagers who are trying to find out on how to catch up with life. 
• LICK:1. I love the way she describes her characters. I mean I appreciate the way she left some spaces for her readers to imagine or add something to the characters' appearance. 2. Not all parents or uncles or aunties are supportive to their children's or nieces' or nephew's love life. So I really appreciate Aidan's uncle and auntie for being supportive of what he's doing to his life even though he's still undecided. 
• DUNK: I love the way the story ended. I mean, with everything that happened because of Kate's stupidity. Well, at least Kate and Aidan still have a chance to be together or to be together forever, right? 

ENCORE:

It is the first Jolene Perry story that I've ever read and I admired it. She always work with her co-authors, I think. But she can make a nice story of her own on her own. I liked reading this story of hers because I stayed up until 3 am just to finish reading it and I was really disappointed to see that there were only 256 pages. Oh come on, it was never enough. I want more, it seems crazy to check on the second page every time I flip to the next page, thinking it would end so soon. And yes, it ended so soon. I love reading from both perspectives or view of the main characters, I always loved that kind of thing. I just really want to know what the other character feels. The story is not something phenomenal but maybe the reason why I loved it is because I can relate. I'm also a teenager. One of the things that melted my heart is that Aidan went to Kate's father's office just to ask forgiveness of what's his done in the hospital. If you're a teenager and looking for a perfect escape, well, this novel's for you. 

MY FAVOURITE:

You can't fuck nowhere. 

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Review: Seduced by Fire

Author: Tara Sue Me

Series: Book 1, Partners in Play, 

Publisher: NAL Trade, 320 pages

Release Date: March 04, 2014

Genre(s): Erotica

Julie is a florist who is also a natural born submissive. She's been single for how many years because she's looking for the right one to appear. One day, Mr. Right appears on her shop's doorstep and this right one is no other than Daniel Covington. What if Mr. Right has a dark side that she would never want to discover? 

OREO STYLE BREAKDOWN:

• TWIST:1. There's something I'm looking for, as matter of fact. An antagonist to the love story of Julie and Daniel? Sure, what happened to Sasha broke them apart but it was not enough, for me in particular. I'm looking for more intensity. There's no much of the twists and turns that I can appreciate. 
• LICK: 1. Daniel Covington is much better than Nathaniel West. Why? He is much better because he is not afraid to say I love you because he's not afraid to fall. When Julie said I love you, I thought he would be shocked or something because most Doms I've read in books do. I just don't like the way he use the word "pussy." It seems so unprofessional. I mean other good authors engaged in this genre never used the  same word, like Silvia Day. I also admire him being careful 2. I love Julie's bravery but I hate that she has the one to come back to Daniel's arms. I suggest it would have been Daniel since he was the one who broke up with her. Even though Julie  was the one who drifted away because of what happened to her friend, Sasha. 
• DUNK:The epilogue of the story was unpredictable, I wasn't expecting that the last part belongs to Dena and Jeff. I love it, though. 

ENCORE:

I'm so happy that Tara Sue Me has written a much better story. The thing I have noticed about her that hasn't changed is that she still write like a very fast train. I mean the events happened too quickly, it seems like the author herself can't wait for the ending. I think she should prolong the story a little bit, not too long that will bore the readers, but something to give excitement and suspense to what will happen next. I love the way the events can effect me, specially when Daniel broke up with Julie. It felt like there was some piece of me taken away from me. Overall, I like and I love the book, but it's not necessarily that it's one of my favourites. 

MY FAVOURITE:

Sometimes we have to deny ourselves in order to survive.

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Fearless: Panic

Author: Lauren Oliver

Book: Panic, 416 pages

Publisher: HarperCollins

Release Date: March 04, 2014 

Genre(s): Young Adult

Are you brave enough to join the game called Panic? It's a game designed for the graduating students of Carp. Neither Natalie nor Bishop would have though that Heather will join Panic in the very last minute. She'll join Panic because Matt dumped her but later on her reason of joining the game will change. Wining is her goal because of someone not because of an asshat like Matt. But what will she find out in the end that will break her heart?

OREO STYLE BREAKDOWN:

• TWIST: There's nothing much phenomenal in this story, no thrill that can blew me away. Almost everything was predictable. It was very easy to predict the next thing that will happen  because the foreshadowings were very obvious. 
• LICK:1. I love Heather's bravery for independency. She ran away with her sister from home. 2. I salute Bishop's bravery, he'll do everything he can do for his love to Heather. 3. What made me want to finish the story is that because it talks about reality. About the social status of the characters, it's not impossible. Life sucks and it hurts but that's reality. It's not always fair because there's no such thing as equality. 
• DUNK: 1. It was a happy ending and I'm also happy with that. But it was very predictable from the very beginning who will be together in the end of the story. I was so confused at first because the narrator were Dodge and Heather. I thought they'll have relationship or something, it was very irrelevant since they don't have a connection but friends. Even though, I still like it, at least I saw the different perspective of two people and saw the story through two sets of eyes. 2. What I found out was very shocking, at least that shocked me, but not enough to make me love the story. Bishop is one of the judges. Although I had some suspicion in the beginning of the story on how he's so desperate in persuading Heather to back out from the game. 

ENCORE:

It seems like love is still a disease in this story. I mean you can see love by the way the characters show their feelings but you can't feel it yourself. It means that it was not strong enough to take me away. I promised that I will never read any Lauren Oliver books anymore, after reading the Delirium trilogy, because the author failed to impress me by her writing style. But I decided to read Panic because it seems it's a very nice story. Still the same, the author failed to meet my expectations, again. To be honest, it seems like Miss Lauren writes story so that she can publish something. I don't like the entire story but there are some parts that I like. 

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