Hopeless

Hopeless by Colleen Hoover
My rating: 5 Outstanding Stars











~ One of the things I love about books is being able to define and condense certain portions of a characters life into chapters. It's intriguing, because you can't do this with real life. You can't just end a chapter, then skip the things you don't want to live through, only to open it up to a chapter that better suits your mood. Life can't be divided into chapters.. only minutes. The events of your life are all crammed together one minute right after the other without any time lapses or blank pages or chapter breaks because no matter what happens life just keeps going and moving forward and words keep flowing and truths keep spewing whether you like it or not and life never lets you pause and just catch your fucking breath.


I don't think I will be able to give a worthy enough review of this amazing book!

My friend and I were discussing what were our top books of 2012 last week and I thought I knew, without a shadow of a doubt what would be my number 1.
I THOUGHT nothing will top it, Surely not a week before New Yr, I cant abandon it as my number 1.

WELL I WAS SOO WRONG

Hopeless just knocked it off its throne.

I can't express my feelings for this book into words so I shall use Colleen Hoovers,

I laughed,

I laughed soo hard,

I see the Mormon brought the queen her offering of coffee. Very impressive." I look at Holder and cock my eyebrow. "Do you wish to reveal you offering, hopeless boy, so that I may decide who shall accompany me at the classroom throne today?"
bhahhaha Sky is soo funny!

I Swooned.. OMG THE BEST FIRST KISS IN THE HISTORY OF FIRST KISSES-- WIITHOUT EVEN KISSING.

I swooned soo hard,

"Fuck all the firsts, Sky. The only thing that matters to me with you are the forevers."

Holder is my all time favourite, so swoon worthy I told my husband, "Just a warning, I just read my all time best book boyfriend ever so shape up buddy." Heeehehhe

I want a bestie like Six,

There isn't a fake thing about Six, other than her name.
When she was fourteen and her parents told her they were moving to Texas from Maine, she rebelled by refusing to respond to her name. Her real name is Seven Marie, so she would only answer to Six just to spite her parents.
BHAHHAHAHA thats gold...

I cried,
"I want you to keep them open.... because I need you to watch me give you the very last piece of my heart."

"Sometimes you have to choose between a bunch of wrong choices and no right ones. You just have to choose which wrong choice feels the least wrong."

There was a moment in the book when the words that I read were so profound to me I had to stop, stand up, walk away and breathe

But what terrifies me more than any of that is the fear that I love him too much to want to ruin the rest of his life.
OH MY GOD... then this...

I would of been able to recognise his voice anywhere. There's something about a voice that terrifies you that you'll never be able to forget, no matter what.

TRUTH.... right there

Then... when I didn't think anything could top all of that, I read the MOST amazing words ever spoken to someone,

"Baby, you need to be proud of the fact that you survived everything you went through as a child.
Don't separate yourself from that life. Embrace it, because I'm so fucking proud of you. Every smile I see on your face just blows me away, because I know the courage and strength it took when you were just a little girl to ensure that part of you remained. And your laugh? My God, Sky. Think about how much courage it took you to laugh again after everything that happened to you. And your heart..." he says, shaking his head disbelievingly. "How your heart can possibly find a way to love and trust a man again proves that I've fallen in love with the bravest woman I've ever known. I know how much courage it took for you to allow me in after what your father did to you. And I swear I will spend every last breath thanking you so much for loving me, Linden Sky Hope."
oh my gosh he says that! LOVE LOVE LOVE

Amazing, Incredible, Breathtaking, Heart stopping!

Love love love love love love!!!!!!!!


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On the Island

On the Island by Tracey Garvis-Graves
My rating: 5 Life Changing Stars












I have had this on my kindle for months and months!
1st impression,
I don't think I will be able to read this.






BOY WAS I WRONG!!



I should be ashamed with myself!


This was amazing!
Not at all what I was expecting.
I'm in love… absolutely love love loved it
Just thinking about this I get goosebumps!


Thirty-year-old English teacher Anna Emerson is offered a job tutoring Sixteen year old T.J. Callahan
Anna and T.J. are en route to join T.J.'s family in the Maldives when the pilot of their seaplane suffers a fatal heart attack and crash-lands in the Indian Ocean. Adrift in shark-infested waters, their life jackets keep them afloat until they make it to the shore of an uninhabited island.
Days turn to weeks, and then months, as T.J. celebrates yet another birthday on the island.
Anna and T.J's relationship turn from tutor to friendship, growing stronger everyday.

To be honest I didn't think I would be ok with this story line
Being a 28yr old woman I couldn't picture myself having a relationship with a teenager.

I was worried but intrigued how they were going to get to that point of their relationship.
The way they got there was slow and built so beautifully you really don't even think about it.
By then I started seeing T.J as a man and not a teenager.



To go through what they went through, endured all that together, you would be concerned they didn't have a connection.

The build up was perfect, I couldn't wait for it.
T.J really was just perfect.

"You weren't supposed to fall in love" she whispered.
Well, I did," I said, looking into her eyes. "I've been in love with you for months. I'm telling you now because I think you love me too, Anna.You just don't think you're supposed to. You'll tell me when you're ready. I can wait."






At one point I didn't want them to be saved….

I know right! Crazy



By the time they had returned home I was a mess, I didn't want to read what I knew was coming.


I really loved that both families didn't push them apart.
Though concerned they didn't interfere or cause any drama.


"What kind of relationship did you and Anna have? she asked.
"Exactly the kind you think we did."
"How old were you?"
"Almost nineteen," I said. "And Mom?"
"Yes?"
"It was definitely my idea."


If I hadn't already loved T,J I would of fallen over right then!

I thought T.J handled the transition so much easier.
You really do see him grow to an amazing man. He knows what he wants.

I felt so sorry for Anna.
My heart broke when she returned, You could feel the hurt, pain and confusion she went through.
She really does struggle to figure out where they both fit in each others life.
She is so conflicted.


“I don't fit in your world."
"Neither do I," he said, his expression tender yet resolute. "So let's make our own. We've done it before.”


“I never wanted anyone else, T.J. I just wanted what was best for you."

"You are what's best for me," he said, cradling my head in his arms, his legs intertwined with mine. "I'm not going anywhere, Anna. This is right where I want to be.”




I guess at the end of the day, being in the situation that T.J and Anna were in you can't say how one would act.

All I know is I really did connect to this relationship.
It was real and believable.
I want to go back and experience it all over again for the 1st time. I love it when a book does that to me.

Don't be a fool!
Go and read it now!


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Waiting for You

By Shey Stahl


My rating: 5 AMAZING, EYE OPENING STARS

~ Just like the sky, a change, a thought, a feeling, doesn't happen right away, for me anyway. You don't see it at first. It's nothing but chalky warmth, a glow in the distance completely humbled to the magnificence of Helios. As a dawn starts to shake the ash from the night, revealing the bright red scarlet of morning that ran riot in the sky, a decision is set, but you don't know it. There's something refreshing about a sunrise, It's just as unpredictable what a new day would bring. ~

A child hood that had been scripted for a girl, Bailey Gray.





Bailey Gray is tired of her perfectly planned life, she has perfect grades, the perfect friends, a perfect boyfriend, life was perfect...or so everyone thought.
Bailey can't stand her life, HATED her life. Going to a certain school, her parents picked her friends, a certain boyfriend forced upon her.
During Graduation Bailey snaps right before her Valedictorian speech.

"The truth is that my entire life has been planed out for me. Did you know I couldn't even buy my own underwear? My mom does that for me," I said with a laugh.
My dad, who had shot out of his chair in embarrassment, had reached the stage by then grabbing my arm. Straining to speak into the microphone, I needed to say one more part that was important.
"Looks like my time is up but I just wanted to say one last thing to everyone… Fuck off!"

Bailey Runs,
Runs right into town bad boy Dylan Wade





Dylan was Bailey's 1st kiss, growing up across the street from each they were childhood friends.
But when Dylan's mum died in a car accident, a part of Dylan died with her. He started acting out pushing everyone away. Bailey and Dylan haven't spoken in years.

Embarking on road trip the unknown, they re-discover a friendship they once knew.

~Sometimes you just know a person. It doesn't matter if you never talk. You know them. You have a silent connection. We had that. ~

Bailey questions what she wants out of life. What would you do of a piece of forever? What would you do to love more, feel more, and live more?

~More than anything, I wanted to feel alive. I wanted to feel and appreciate a passion for something that I loved. For most of my life, I felt like a puppet on strings and I wanted that feeling gone.~

Together they experience life, live it, breathe it, enjoy the moment, be present and take a risk.

~When I got in that car, It wasn't a thought out decision. The decision to want something more from my life was but Dylan, what was happening now, that wasn't planned. To me that was the best part of it though, the unexpected.~


Their Summer was spent on the open high way chasing sunsets.
Creating a bucket-list, learning about themselves and each other.

~ You know those moments, whether you're in them or not, you feel something more than you intended to feel, what you wanted to feel. That was right now. It was like watching a sunset, one that I expected to be an average sunset and know what colours would be and the specific setting I would use, but then, with so much as a shift in the clouds, a sunset you never expected is revealed. It's a stolen heart in the rain, sprinkled ray of light that kiss your skin and dance in the rain to sounds of thunder and rolling growls. ~




Slowly Bailey learnt that a lot of times, the best things in life didn't rely on being planned. On that summer road trip Dylan and Bailey feel hopelessly in love.

~To me, love was like the colours of the sun bleeding and spilling over the best part of you and him together and highlighting what needed to be. Love doesn't necessarily mean anything. It's a word, a phrase you give to someone that bleeds the same colours you bleed, feels those same lines.~


Lessons are learnt and secrets come to head threatening to destroy everything they had.
What would you do? Deny the truth?

"I love you, please remember that," he whispered tucking a lock of my hair behind my ear. "Half of me will be with you, barely breathing, watching your sunset."


That one summer, taught Bailey to open her eyes on a lot of things, her family, life, a world she never knew and world she can be herself in.
She lost so much but gain a lot more..


'Waiting for you' is a story of kisses, lust, passion, youth, mistakes, lies, hiding, stupidity, judging, but most of all, love.

~We loved. We made memories. Our love was dangerous. It was asking me to come with him. It was dancing in the rain on the hood of his car. It was making dents that only we knew. It was living in the moment and making memories and deals. It was being in love and having your heart ripped from your chest. Here you take it, I don't want it anymore. It was that kind of shit. It was please don't do this, not here." It was hear me now, listen to me. It was waiting. I waited, and we waited. Nothing.
It was remembering every detail, everything that made him Dylan Wade and remembering nothing at all. ~


When I start a book I normally know what I'm getting into. I know what type of mood Im in for.
I will, most of the time read through a few reviews weighing up my options.
There are some books that make you laugh, cry, swoon and even angry. Some leave you on a cliffhanger making you beg for more. I love all the emotions you feel when reading a good story.
I Love getting lost in a story, love being taken in to the pages, to feel everything I'm reading.

Every once in a while I will be taken on a journey that I wasn't prepared to take. I will be thrown head first into the lives of the ones I'm reading. It invokes all the wonderful emotions you want to feel plus so much more. It's a feeling of pure excitement when my adrenaline kicks in.
But most of all, it's the words that you read that connect to you.
It's like the words are flowing out of my kindle wrapping around me, caressing me, comforting me pouring into my body and soul and speaking to me.
It is freaking amazing when I feel that. It resets you, It opens your eyes to everything around you.

Shey Stahl's 'Waiting for you' invoked all those emotions for me, I can't even begin to tell you. I was not expecting such an intense pull.
Her words came out at me, wrapped around me and opened my eyes.

~Some say a sunset can be too beautiful for words. I'd agree with that. There are a lot of things too beautiful for words for me.
To me, it was the earth's way of saving the best for last.~







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