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