Me, myself and I

Hi guys!
I’m a 24 year old girl coming from Slovenia (The chicken country in the middle of Europe).

I used to read A LOT when I was little (I literally borrowed 30 books/month and read them all!), but then I started going to high school and everything else was more interesting than books.

Then I met this wonderful person who is now my best friend ( I love you so much, N! ❤) and sometimes all she talked about was books, and books, and some more books.. So I was like, “Hey, maybe I could read a book or two after so many years!”, and so I started reading. Then I got me a Kindle, so there came e-books, and now I’m a freaky lil bookworm, too!

I don’t get to read every single day, because I still go to school and have other things to do, but I do read as much as possible!

I also own 4 cats (books and cats are best combo, aren’t they?!), and just recently took up knitting, so yeah, SO MUCH TO DO, so little time 😦

That’s pretty much it! I hope you like my blog, I will try to read as much as possible and be as active as possible ❤

Love, M.

Wait for It by Mariana Zapata

If anyone ever said being an adult was easy, they hadn’t been one long enough.

Diana Casillas can admit it: she doesn’t know what the hell she’s doing half the time. How she’s made it through the last two years of her life without killing anyone is nothing short of a miracle. Being a grown-up wasn’t supposed to be so hard.

With a new house, two little boys she inherited the most painful possible way, a giant dog, a job she usually loves, more than enough family, and friends, she has almost everything she could ever ask for.

Except for a boyfriend.

Or a husband.

But who needs either one of those?

• Goodreads

 

Wait For It was so amazing. I actually read from 10am-4am with only 3 half hour breaks. If you’re seeking that over-the-top romance, this book is for you. I like how the story and romance escalate so slowly, softly,.. and it’s not even only about Dallas and Diana, the boys just grow under your skin. Their tragic history, and how much they love Diana with all their hearts, and even though they call her aunt, she’s so much more. She’s their aunt, their mom, byt mostly their best friend. I hope I get to experience that unconditional love somday. But reading stories like this, my standars will get so high I’ll marry books instead of a man.

 

Goodreads rating: 4.22

My rating: 5

For Love And Cheesecake by Misty Simon

“On the menu tonight: Fricasseed Waiter It’s a recipe for disaster…
Take one incurable womanizer
Mix in one pregnant mistress and one delusional fiancee
Add a dash of a chef gone haywire
Stir in one newly assertive shop assistant
Toss with an amateur sleuth who doesn’t want to get involved and the love of her life who is in up to the tips of his spiky hair
And garnish with a couple of detectives who are not amused

Serves one crazy, homicidal maniac.”

So Ivy is back and she’s stellar, except for trying to kick both a nagging cold and the bad habit of always being in the middle of every Martha’s Point murder. Unfortunately, they’re both kicking her as she is harangued by her favorite chef to find out who torched his restaurant and one of his waiters along with it.

Ivy knows what she should do, but when has that ever stopped her from wading in? Only this time she could very well sacrifice everything FOR LOVE AND CHEESECAKE.

• Goodreads

Lovely book, the kind of book that is to be read on the beach. Reads fast, the story is interesting, I like the connection between Ivy and Ben. The plot twist isn’t that surprising, even if it’s not expected. I liked the book overall, read it in 3hours.

Goodreads rating: 4.98

My rating: 5

 

 

The Breakdown by B.A.Paris

If you can’t trust yourself, who can you trust?

Cass is having a hard time since the night she saw the car in the woods, on the winding rural road, in the middle of a downpour, with the woman sitting inside―the woman who was killed. She’s been trying to put the crime out of her mind; what could she have done, really? It’s a dangerous road to be on in the middle of a storm. Her husband would be furious if he knew she’d broken her promise not to take that shortcut home. And she probably would only have been hurt herself if she’d stopped.

But since then, she’s been forgetting every little thing: where she left the car, if she took her pills, the alarm code, why she ordered a pram when she doesn’t have a baby.

The only thing she can’t forget is that woman, the woman she might have saved, and the terrible nagging guilt.

Or the silent calls she’s receiving, or the feeling that someone’s watching her…

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Awesome book. Page turning all the time. Had to put it down at nights to be able to sleep, because it was really frightening at times. And the best of it is that I was suspicious of Matthew the whole book, but then John turns up, and I thought it was him, and then the sudden realisation in the last 3 pages of the book that it was Rachel all along! I actually never thought of her until they got into the Pub.
Amazing story, trully. Deserves more than 5 stars.

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Goodreads rating: 4.23

My rating: 5

 

Dare to Remember by Susanna Beard

Reeling from a brutal attack that leaves her best friend dead and her badly injured, Lisa Fulbrook flees to the countryside to recuperate. With only vague memories of the event, she isolates herself from her friends and family, content to spend her days wandering the hills with her dog, Riley.

However, Lisa is soon plagued, not only by vivid flashbacks, but questions, too: how did their assailant know them? Why were they attacked? And what really happened that night?

As she desperately tries to piece together the memories, Lisa realises that there’s another truth still hidden to her, a truth she can’t escape from. A truth that may have been right in front of her all along.

A clever, sophisticated, psychological thriller, perfect for fans of Gillian Flynn, S.J. Watson, B A Paris and Sophie Hannah

• Goodreads

Beautiful book. Sad. Frustrating at times. But so beautiful. The story is touching. The reader feels as if they were in the story along with Lisa, feeling her pain, her desperation to find out what really happened that night.
I loved the connection between Lisa and Jessica, both suffering, though in very different ways, but they share the pristine friendship. And there’s John. Anyone could get attached to that old lovely man, made me so sad when he died, even though I was kind of expecting it considering his age.
This was one of the few books that got me really interested from the beginning. It usually takes me at least 50-70 pages to start liking the story, but this one was convincing from the very beginning. Would love to read more from the author.

 

Goodreads rating: 3.98

My rating: 5

Ten Tiny Breaths

“Just breathe. Ten tiny breaths … Seize them. Feel them. Love them.”

So, I didn’t really want to read this book, but my friend was so convincing that I decided to give it a try.

It’s the first book of the series Ten Tiny Breaths. It took around 60 pages to get swallowed into the story, but once it began.. Oh. My. God.

I almost skipped NY Eve to finish the book (I didn’t though, but I finished it on January 1st).

Can’t tell you much about the story, because every detail could give up the clues. But it is an awesome book. I totally fell in love with it, and after finishing it, I NEEDED the second part immediately!
Trent is a hottie, Kacey is a hottie, their chemistry is amazing..

To sum it up, though, Kacey was in a car accident that killed her parents, her boyfriend and her best friend, so obviously she was scarred. So she and her sister move in with their aunt and uncle, but uncle seems to be very innapropriate around her sister Livie, so they run away to Miami.. And that’s where the story begins.

I felt so many things reading this.. Happiness, sadness, lust, anger, confusion.. But I totally recommend it. I’ll repeat it again, it’s an awesome awesome awesome book!

 

Goodreads rating: 4.16

My rating: 5

Love, Stargirl

“Do not follow me! Let’s just be fabulously where we are and who we are. You be you and I’ll be me, today and today and today, and let’s trust the future to tommorrow. Let the stars keep track of us. Let us ride our own orbits and trust that they will meet. May our reunion be not a finding but a sweet collision of destinies!”

Love, Stargirl is happening a year after the first book, Stargirl.

This time the book is narrated by Stargirl. She is writing the longest mail ever written, for Leo.

The book is just as extraordinary as the first one, though Stargirl kind of annoyed me in some parts of the book. She is so naive and needy sometimes, though I still adore her. Maybe that’s what we all need in our lives-to be more naive, and trust people without hesitation.

We are all living our individual lives just like we’re expected to-finish school, get a significant other, get married, have kids, find a job, work all day, retire, die.

But not Stargirl. She lives the life she wants to live, does things that make her happy, even if she is not happy most of the book.

She believes in the right moment. When all energies connect, things will happen. You just have to wait. Live and let live. Forever.

 

Goodreads rating: 3.8

My rating: 4

Stargirl

“She was elusive. She was today. She was tomorrow. She was the faintest scent of a cactus flower, the flitting shadow of an elf owl. We did not know what to make of her. In our minds we tried to pin her to a cork board like a butterfly, but the pin merely went through and away she flew.”

Probably one of my favourite books of all times. It’s sweet, it’s funny, it’s sad. It breaks your heart to million pieces, and then it glues it back together.

What I love most about Stargirl is that it makes you feel so many things throughout the book, but in the end it calms you down.

Stargirl is that kind of girl that everyone should learn from, and look up to. She is connected to the roots, she is so genuine, so divine. She shines in her own bright colors.

She’s not that typical kind of girl. She does what she loves, what she feels she should be doing, and she doesn’t care what anyone else thinks. She loves in her own way, even if it’s hard for the “normal” people around her. They don’t like her originality, but aren’t those “weirdos” from school the ones we remember the most when we grow up?