Book Review: Biggest Flirts by Jennifer Echols

Title: Biggest Flirts (The Superlatives #1)

Author: Jennifer Echols 

Pages: 336

Genre: Contemporary, Romance

Published: 20th May 2014 by Simon Pulse

Source: Library Book

Synopsis: 

Tia and Will’s lives get flipped upside down when they’re voted Yearbook’s Biggest Flirts in this sassy novel from the author of Endless Summer and The One That I Want.

Tia just wants to have fun. She’s worked hard to earn her reputation as the life of the party, and she’s ready for a carefree senior year of hanging out with friends and hooking up with cute boys. And her first order of business? New guy Will. She can’t get enough of his Midwestern accent and laidback swagger. 

As the sparks start to fly, Will wants to get serious. Tia’s seen how caring too much has left her sisters heartbroken, and she isn’t interested in commitment. But pushing Will away drives him into the arms of another girl. Tia tells herself it’s no big deal…until the yearbook elections are announced. Getting voted Biggest Flirts with Will is, well, awkward. They may just be friends, but their chemistry is beginning to jeopardize Will’s new relationship—and causing Tia to reconsider her true feelings. What started as a lighthearted fling is about to get very complicated…

Review:)

Firstly there is a song that goes perfectly with this book and that is Cruel by The Veronicas. 

I picked this book up for only one reason and that reason is that its written by Jennifer Echols. Now me and Jennifer's books tend to either have a love or a hate relationship, which is why this book is odd to me, because I didn't either love or hate this. 

There are definitely times where I really wanted to throw this book across my bedroom, or I felt such copious amounts of second hand embarrassment (like you have no idea) that is was actually insane. But really what was I meant to expect from a book titled Biggest Flirts? 

The book starts off at a party and this is where we meet Tia, Tia is a girl who doesn't want relationships, only hook ups and this is due to the failures of relationships her three older sisters have had. She doesn't believe in love, she doesn't want it. In comes Will. Will was an odd ball of a character to me, he didn't sit well, it kind of got to the point where i really wanted to tape his mouth shut. 

When these two meet, its like BAM they want each other, so they get talking, and Tia is like "he is a pirate", I did not understand this, she only thought this cause of his earring... I don't know why Will is instantly attracted to Tia (not that there aren't reasons, i just did't get it).

Basically what happens is they get voted BIGGEST FLIRTS. 

I really want to be able to say what they did in this book was morally okay, but I don't think I could feel okay if i did. So much in this book infuriates me. LIKE IF YOUR GIRLFRIEND CHEATS ON YOU WITH YOUR BEST FRIEND THAT IS NOT A FREE PASS TO CHEAT AS WELL.
Like i am actually confused like did Will and his girlfriend actually ever break up? I feel they didn't. Because throughout the WHOLE book, he refers to her as his girlfriend. LIKE JUST BREAK UP ALREADY. 

Five things I liked:

• I liked how Tia's dad is always trying to support his family, even if it meant giving up his dream of renovating places
• I quite liked Tia's bestfriends. They were kind of like "stop messing around already" 
• I liked that band teacher (who i've forgotten the name of), she was taking no shit from Tia and Will
• Overall I liked the story, even though it did annoy me
• That this is a trilogy, here I was thinking it was a stand alone. SO YAY

Five things I didn't like:

• THE COVER. i, just nope. It doesn't work, after reading the book, looking at it makes me feel uncomfortable 
• Will and how he played with girls. Or just really dealt with situations involving the opposite gender.
• How this relationship grew between Tia and Will. It seemed really good, but then there is like another girl added to the mix, and I decided no thanks
• That Will got voted biggest flirt on his first day of school, like get lost. No one would really know who he is, let alone his full name
• That no one got ridiculously sun burnt when they stripped down at band practice. Like come on you're out in the sun for HOURS on end, and no one got burnt? 

Overall this was an okay book, I am always sucked into Echol's books, and I always enjoy them even when I can't stand the characters. I am so looking forward to the next two books!!!!

Rating: ★★★

howdy, hey, hi

So I haven't posted in a while, and for that I am sorry. To say this year has been a little hectic is an understatement.

What i've done recently is move back on campus for my second year of university. I live with lots of girls this year, which is a little odd, since it was the complete opposite last year.

I've read and finished my first ever graphic novel series. I read locke & key at the request of one of my friends AND I LOVED IT.

And really there isn't much more to add, life's been a little boring. But some reviews should be up relatively soon!

Enjoy your weekend

:)

Book Review: How to Love

Title: How to Love

Author: Katie Cotugno

Pages: 389

Genre: Contemporary, Romance

Published: 3rd of October 2013 by Quercus

Source: Self purchased

Synopsis: 

This is a love story. But it’s not what you think. This is not a first kiss, or a first date. This is not love at first sight. This is a boy and a girl falling in messy, unpredictable, thrilling love. This is the complicated route to happiness that follows.

This is real. This is life. This is how to love.

BEFORE:

Reena has loved Sawyer LeGrande for as long as she can remember. But he’s never noticed her, until one day… he does. They fall in messy, complicated love. But then Sawyer disappears from their humid Florida town, leaving a devastated – and pregnant – Reena behind.

AFTER:

Three years later and there’s a new love in Reena’s life: her daughter Hannah. But just as swiftly and suddenly as he disappeared, Sawyer turns up again.

After everything that’s happened, can Reena really let herself love Sawyer again?

Review: this review contains slight spoilers, so read at your own discretion

I believe the most important thing to remember or know about this book, is that it is full of horrific flaws, that you may or may not forgive. I think its about finding a balance between all the terrible and the not terrible within this book.

I feel like people either decide this is a hit or a miss of a book. I somehow fell into the middle of that hit and miss nature, because while I did enjoy this, I knew it wasn't an entirely healthy book, and I will happily mention or point that out. I know why people dislike this book, and believe me I agree with you, but I still liked it.

Time for the actual review.

This book had such an amazing promise, I loved the opening chapters, as you really delve into Reena (who I didn't connect that dots to was actually Serena, oops..). The more this book progressed the less I liked it, but I think that had to do with the self destruction of a certain character, and that character leading another astray.

I think with this book, you really get a good look into how different people function when put in a certain position, and then having that situation flipped and then torn out of proportion.

There are so many things I like and I don't like about this book, so lets make a list:

Bad:

~ The situations that Reena was put in, no thrust upon, when the other party (person) willingly knew that Reena disliked crowds.

~ Sawyer. Like him as a person 100% equaled bad, less so in the after parts. But really, the amount of times I just really wanted to shake him so hard, that he'd puke or something is just incredible. The way he destroyed himself, and then the people around him. What he did to Reena, is just NO. I think rather than Sawyer's name meaning "person who cuts wood", it should be person who destroys families, because he just UP AND LEFT. He did so many horrible things, and he just believes he can get away with every horrible thing he's done in the past after being back in town for a few weeks.

~ Reena's and Sawyer's family and the way they treated Reena in those two years, was just so horrible

~ How Reena changed for Sawyer

~ I think I could continue with more bad, but I don't feel like it.

Good:

~ The fact that Sawyer GREW UP. I think it really did show/provide him with a character arc, I just wish with him growing up, he was less of a meanie.

~ Hannah. Hannah is just a beautiful bundle of toodlerness.

~ Shelby. I want a best friend like Shelby. That is really all you need to know about Shelby, is that she is like so awesome.

~ I liked the ending, though I believe having like a little novella about after the novel would be a really great thing.

~ That Reena and Sawyer were together in the past and the now. Even though they were dysfunctional, you knew they were going to end up together, because really they just fit. Sawyer just needed to grow up.

Overall I think this is a good novel, I enjoyed it, even with all the parts I disliked.

PS: I bought the orange cover, because I looked at it on here, and it looked like a blood orangey colour, and it arrived and its like FLURO ORANGE/PINK, what the hell. Like I am so disappointed by that, but it has like such a pretty spine.

:)

Rating: ★★★★

Howdy

Hello lovely people of the interwebs, I am sorry that I haven't been around in a while, I guess the new year brought a few new things to catch up on within my actual life.

I decided on a few bookish new year resolutions, so I guess these are my goals for the year:

• Read at least 50 books
• Read lots of books I own that I haven't read
• Try to read a book starting with EVERY letter in the alphabet
• Review more books!!!
• HAVE FUN WITH WHAT I READ

Those are basically my bookish goals, what are yours?