May 2020

Books Read: 2
Book Challenge Complete: 71%
So according to my goodreads I am 8 books ahead of schedule, and that’s with me reading Cress and hating it. 



Cress
- Marissa Meyer
The first time I read the book I DNF’d it I was about 350 pages in. This time didn’t go to well. I got to about 250 pages and just skimmed my way through the book and read the last few chapters near the end. I felt that a big chunk of the book wasn’t needed. I did read the Wikipedia page for the book 



The Ice Cream Girls
- Dorothy Koomson 
If you know anything about me you know I love Dorothy Koomson books. I think she is an amazing author and deals with massive subjects that I don’t feel anyone else has done. The Ice Cream Girls is an example of her amazing talent covering such hard topics.  



How I Felt This Month


I’ve felt really deflated with reading this month. I can understand why I didn’t finish Cress before. It’s definitely full of unnecessary filler.  

I watched some YouTube video this month where the content creator had read a lot of books & I felt disappointed that I struggled a lot this month when it came to reading and how many books I’ve read. I did a whole post on it last year I believe and in that post I said I was proud of myself for reading at least one book a month or along those lines, and I am. But when I see people reading in the double digits of books I am disappointed within myself. 

Cress Book Review

Book: Cress
Author: Marissa Meyer
Pages: 550
Start Reading Date: April 28th 2020
End Reading Date: May 18th 2020
My Goodreads Rating: 2*



First Thoughts
Again just like the other two books I own in the Lunar Chronicles it’s been about 3 years since I’ve read it. And according to my GoodReads I didn’t enjoy it as I gave it 2*.  
Looking at the dates, and how many pages I read it seems like it took me ten months and I didn’t even finish the book because when I went to up date the pages I have read I was at 350 pages which is 200 pages short of finishing the book. 


While Reading

* It is a little bit of a struggle to keep up with what’s going on. Because I’m still in the early pages of the book I have to keep remembering that I’m reading Cress’s book, that Cinder and Scarlet have met and are together in the ship. 

* I am really struggling with this book. It’s not that it’s a bad book, it’s just really difficult to get into trying to remember why everyone is split up and stuff. 


* I am getting to the point where I’m 200 pages in and just want to give up and wondering how before I got to 350 pages. 

* Just out if interest I looked up how many pages the next book has. Are you actually serious. 

* I am now at the point where I wanna give up. By this point in reading a book I’m almost done. 

Conclusion 

Why is the book so long? When I got to about chapter 25/26 and I wasn’t half way through the book I 100% just started to feel like the book would last forever. So for me the best thing was to skim read the rest of the book. I had the same feeling with the book as I did with Breaking Dawn in the twilight saga. I did read the last few chapters where Cinder had kidnapped Kai, and felt that was honestly the best part of the book and why it got a rating of 2* rather than one. 

Books I Love That Need To Become A Movie or TV Shows

This is such a hard one because a lot of books that I love have been made into movies (The Help, The Harry Potter Books & The Devil Wears Prada to name a few) 



* The Ice Cream Girls 

I know this has been in to a three part drama on tv in England, but I would love to see this as a movie, and as close to the book as possible. I think it would be a great movie to have out there because it’s a great book to have out there because of the topics that are covered within the book. I know there is a sequel to the book as well






* My Best Friends Girl
This is the first book I ever read of Dorothy Koomson’s and made me fall in love with her. There are a few books which can make me cry. Its a book that I can imagine the characters in real life




* The Brighton Mermaid 

I love books, tv shows, movies that can fall into the true crime category and this is such a great book for that. It’s a book that I can see as a movie or a tv show. 


* Tell Me Your Secret 

I love murder mysteries/who done its, and that kind of thing and TMYS, is such a good book for that. I can totally see it’s as multiple episode series.  




* The Rose Petal Beach
I love books that have twists and turns in it, and boy oh boy does this have that. It would be such a great tv series. 



* Reconstructing Amelia 
With Reconstructing Amelia I wanted to read the book so badly. When I finished the book, I knew it would be such a great made for TV movie.

Best Books For A Lockdown

So I’ve had this post done for weeks. But now we’ve been in lockdown for what feels like forever  I think it’s the right time to post. 

* The Brighton Mermaid 
    * Dorothy Koomson 
        * Two friends find a Murdered woman on the beach, a few weeks later one of those friends goes missing, and 25 years later she’s still missing, and the woman on the beach is still unidentified. 
The Brighton Mermaid is so gripping and completely unexpected that I absolutely love it. 

* Tell Me Your Secret 
    * Dorothy Koomson 
        * Two women are haunted by the same person called The Blindfolder. Pieta was kidnapped by him. And Jodi is hunting him after he says that he’s going to kill those that survived the weekend with him

Tell Me Your Secret takes you on an emotional journey of two women whose life’s have been forever changed by one man. The event changes them forever and now they have to deal with those events. 



* The Ice Cream Girls 
    * Dorothy Koomson 
        * Two teenagers have a relationship with a teacher. He ends up dead. One ends up in jail for almost 20 years and the other is on egg shells all the time.  

When I first read the book I cried my eyes out at the sheer pain the two women have been through. For me I know when a book is good because I read it really quickly and this was one of those books. 


* The Rose Petal Beach
    * Dorothy Koomson 
        * Tami’s life flips upside down when the love of her life is arrested and accused of something unimaginable against her friend. It’s something that Tami could imagine her husbands family to do, but not her husband.

I was really unsure about the book, but as I kept reading its such a heartbreaking book for all the characters involved. 


* The Lucky One
    * Nicholas Sparks
        * When Logan arrives in a small town in North Carolina it makes quite a stir. Especially when people find out he’s walked to NC from Colorado. No one but Logan knows why he’s there. It’s all because of a picture that he found while he’s in the army that people think is lucky. It’s previous owner died after loosing it, and Logan hasn’t since finding it. 

I absolutely love the book. I love some cheesy love with a little heartbreak in it.  



* Safe Haven 
    * Nicholas Sparks 
        * Nothing is as it seems in Katie’s life. Not even her name. She moves to a small town to get away from her abusive husband, falls in love with the local shop owner. Her life before was so different.  
This is such a sad, yet lovely romance. It makes you believe in love again after hard times. It’s such a classic chick lit. 


* The Devil Wears Prada 
    * Lauren Wiesburger
        * Andy gets a job that every girl wants. Yet she isn’t into fashion, and sees it as a stepping stone to her dream job. But soon the bright lights and fashion take hold and she soon finds that she is loosing who she once was. 
This is such a classic chick lit and I love it.  

* The Help
    * Kathryn Stockett
        * Three very different women in the 1960’s who deal with very real problems of racism and social class. 
It’s 100% one of those books that everyone should read not just in lock down. 

April 2020

Books Read: 2
Book Challenge Complete %: 62%

This month has just been crazy boring. I didn’t want to read a lot of books. April has felt just as long as January is. 

Cinder & Scarlet (Book 1 & 2 of The Lunar Chronicles)
Like I’ve said when I reviewed the books that it had been three years since I last read the books. 


How I Felt This Month

* Though I am way ahead on my reading challenge, I feel like I should be reading way more than I actually am, but I just can’t do that. It’s something inside me that I just can’t be reading 2 books a week. 
* Though it’s tough being in this lockdown because of COVID-19 and it’s difficult I am glad that I read some books before all this started because if I’d read them now I would’ve thrown them across the room. I’m looking at you Girl on the Train & Me Before You.