Authors I’d love to meet

Dorothy Koomson 

When I read My Best Friends Girl by Dorothy Koomson I fell in love. But over this last year or so I have fallen more and more in love with her work. That I actually want to meet her. 

Jacqueline Wilson 

When I was a kid I almost met Jacqueline Wilson. But the line was way to long and we had to leave before we met her. I still have my signed book by her though. 

Nicholas Sparks 

It would be kinda cool to meet Nicholas. It’s rare to find a male author who writes so many books that are based on love and romance. And get made into movies. 

Disappointing Books I Read in 2018

This year I have read a lot of books, some were re reads but I focused this more on books that I have read for the first time this year.  

Honestly I was expecting a lot more disappointment but happy that there wasn’t. 


Eat, Pray, Love
I really wanted to love the book. But I felt that the author was way to high maintenance, and by the end of each chapter when I started to like her I hated her again by the time the next part came alone. 

I ended up re donating the book because I disliked it so much. Which I have no problem with as it cost me only $4 


The Best Of Me
I very much have a love hate relationship when it comes to Nicholas Sparks books. I either love them to the point where they are my favourite or I hate them where I want to have the days back I spent reading them. And unfortunately The Best Of Me was one of those books I want my time back for. The only good part about it was that it finished. And maybe the price. 

The Notebook
Everyone says The Notebook is one of their favourite movies. Not me I hated the movie. Which is probably why I disliked the book as well. 

Reached
I found that The Matched Trilogy and The Lunar Chronicles (Cinder, Scarlet and Cress) are very much set up the same way where the first book is based on one character, and as the series go on more and more, they add more characters to it. In the case with The Matched Trilogy sure all three characters were already in the first book, but it got more complicated as the books went on. I absolutely loved the first book in the Matched Trilogy but by the third I was disappointed 

Books I Never Got To in 2018

2018 was a difficult year for me when it comes to reading. While I completely smashed my Goodreads challenge there were a lot of books I didn’t read that I wish I had. 

Young Adult
There were a few books in this category that I wish I had read. Either to read them or to finish them as they are DNF books 

- The Coldest Girl in Coldstown 
- Will Grayson, Will Grayson 
- Just Listen
- Just One Year
- Since You’ve Been Gone 
- My Life Next Door
- The Daughters Series 
    - The Daughters 
    - The Daughters Take the Stage
    - The Daughters Break the Rules

Classics
Three of the books I haven’t even attempted to read and two are DNFd. I have a hard time with classic books, and I did want to read at least one, I did read The Great Gatsby but I re read it and just didn’t get around to in DNFing a book or read any for the first time.  

- Dr Jeckyl and Mr Hyde
- Great Expectations 
- Jane Eyre 
- Sense and Sensibility
- To Kill A Mockingbird 

Adult 
This year was a heavy Nicholas Sparks year for me, I had gotten a lot of his books on sale, and read almost all of them but 2, and with the year almost over I don’t think I’ll get the last two read.  


- The Choice
- At First Sight
- Chasing Harry Watson
- Everyone Worth Knowing 
- Last Night At Chateu Marimont 
- All Fall Down (Jennifer Wier)

Science Fiction/Fantasy 
I am not really a big fan of SFF, I do have a few books that are in that category that I’ve read, but with The Host it’s a book I’m not 100% sold on reading yet. 

- The Host



In 2019 I want to read at least half, I don’t know if it’s going to be half DNF and half unread books or just half the whole thing. 

The Ice Cream Girls Book Review Again

Book: The Ice Cream Girls 
Author: Dorothy Koomson 
Good reads Rating: 5*


Ok so this is the third time I’ve read the book and second time I have reviewed it. 

The Ice Cream Girls is incredible. I’m not a massive fan of multiple characters narrating a book, or back and forth with memories but it’s brilliant in the book

What I love about the book is that it brings out and quashed stereotypes. Not all white people are set free and not all black people are sent to jail. 

There is something special about this book. It covers topics that should be more widely covered in schools such as underage sex, illegal relationships between students and teachers, abuse, lies, depression and murder.  

I’ve read books with domestic violence in it before but with the Ice Cream Girls is so much more than just adults in the situation. It’s under age girls with a man in an authority position.  

That’s one of the hardest things with the book and why I believe its so well written is because I’ve never seen anyone write about the relationships between someone in a position of authority and trust take advantage of being with impressionable teenagers before.  


Dorothy Koomson had done a Q&A at the end of the book where she talked about how she researched each aspect of the book. From the relationship, domestic violence and prison diary’s.

Change of Heart DNF Book Review From October

Book: Change of Heart

Author: Jodi Pilcoult

Start Reading Date: 26th October 2018

End Reading Date: DNF

I have a love hate relationship with Jodi Pilcoult. I love the fact that she’s an author and I have a good amount of her books, but when I read them I have difficulty.


I had no idea what Change of Heart was all about when I picked it up. There is a few patterns in Jodi’s books that I am not a massive of which are short chapters and multiple narrators. But one of the things that kind of makes it a smidge easier is that everyone had their own font.

I really want to like Jodi’s books but I just can’t. I can’t deal with the short pages and millions of people’s perspective. It gets confusing so quickly.

The blurb of the book indicates three characters and knowing what Jodi does with her books with all the characters I could have dealt with it. But when one of the characters chapter starts way into the book when secondary characters had two plus chapters before makes it so confusing.

I wanted to find a book that I could get into but really couldn’t get into this one. I felt let down and disappointed. I felt that one of the characters in the book is actually pointless

Why Jodi Pilcoult Isn’t The Best Author For Me || Blogmas Day 2

I have a few Jodi Pilcoult books, and I am not denying she is a good author. But most of the books that I have read have ended in being DNFd and I don’t want to read any more.  

- The multiple characters 
One of my biggest pet peeves is multiple characters. Especially when you weren’t expecting it. Or when it’s done poorly. I like to know which character is which and not be confused by them when I am reading the chapter. 

I am not against multiple characters at all. 

- Short Chapters
I am not an massive fan of short chapters. I don’t mind the occasional one if it’s necessary. But it goes alone with the multiple characters. If you don’t expect it. It’s not fun. 


- The Confusion
I hate being confused in a book. And it’s down to the short chapters and multiple characters. And the different fonts that go along with each character. I like books that make sense 



Don’t get me wrong there are some books that I love by Jodi, The Pact being one of them. But for a majority of the books I own by her I am less than pleased with. 

I did try and read two different books that looked so good but felt that they were let down by the multiple characters. In A Change of Hearts I would have loved it to have been just the three characters you see on the blurb. 

So. Many. Feels. Blogmas Day One

I thought this would be a great topic to blog about. But it’s a lot harder than you can imagine.  

I love when bookscan give me the feels. And these books give me so many feels.  

This year I will be doing Blogmas again. 

* My Best Friends Girl
My Best Friends Girl is one of my all time Favorite books.  

It pulls on the heartstrings in so many places. Kamryn being hurt by her boyfriend and best friend. Adele and Tegan being mistreated by their Father/Grandfather. The blatant mistreatment and stereotypes of black women and a white child. Woman’s equality in the work place. Love. Heartbreak. Adoption. Death. 

* The Help
When I first tried to read the book I couldn’t do it. Then when I finally read it all the way through for the first time I had so many feels towards it. I fell in love with the main characters.

* The Ice Cream Girls
You can’t help but feel for Poppy and Serena that at a young age they were taken in by their teacher. A man they both loved who lied and cheated and would make you do the same just for his entertainment.

* Hate List
They say that high school is the best years of your life. But in Hate List is a book where your trying to be a teenager after a school shooting that has left people dead or traumatized, and dealing with getting your life back together.


* Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
The last book for me had so many feels. I was exited the day it came out and to read it. I wasn’t disappointed either with it. I was sad when so many of my favourite characters died, happy that others died. Then when the last movie came out I realized that my childhood was over. Ok sure there is all the extra books, and editions, and memorabilia etc. But when books and movies end it feels like a massive chapter has closed.


The Pact
The Pact literally had me in tears when I read it. It deals with Teenage love and suicide and the aftermath of the family’s who are left behind. I felt so connected with the families.