Review: One Week Girlfriend by Monica Murphy

This book is exactly what I needed right now. You know how you'll read a book, and at the end you feel just emotionally shit kicked? But not in the good wow-what-an-awesome-book way? You feel like someone just dragged you through gravel and there's still some stuck in your skin.. Well, I had just finished a book that left me feeling just like that. And I needed another book to erase that crappy feeling. Dear Monica Murphy, I <3 you. With the first three words "Too caught up" I was restored. I lov...more(I I am I am so lazy I've basically just posted the same review to Goodreads and Amazon. This book is exactly what I needed right now. You know how you'll read a book, and at the end you feel just emotionally shit kicked? But not in the good wow-what-an-awesome-book way? You feel like someone just dragged you through gravel and there's still some stuck in your skin.. Well, I had just finished a book that left me feeling just like that. And I needed another book to erase that crappy feeling. Dear Monica Murphy, I <3 you. With the first three words "Too caught up" I was restored. I loved this story. I loved Drew (poor screwed up and screwed over Drew) I really loved Fable (who really is just one awesomely relatable chick) But most of all I loved how REAL their story was. I could see Drew, and I could see how what happened effed him up, and how someone like Fable was just what he needed. It felt real, occassionally raw, but never needlessly brutal or forced. And how the hell did Monica Murphy manage to make me smile at the end? It was beautiful, and sweet and redemptive. I highly, highly, highly recommend this book. My only real criticism? It was over too soon! I could have gladly wallowed around in their world until I got all pruney. So I am greatly anticipating book 2. ...win.. Tanya

Review: Hopeless by Colleen Hoover

I’ve been on a really lucky bender of excellent books lately. And Hopeless somehow managed to top them all.

Too often I read these squeeing five star reviews where the reviewer doesn’t ever manage to tell you why they loved the book so much. What was so awesome about the character’s and the story. What made them squee?
And those reviews drive me nuts. Because as a reader of reviews I want to know if there’s something in the book that will appeal to me!

Give me something dammit!

And here I am, completely at a loss for words, because words alone cannot express the deep, profound awesomeness of this book.
It was so perfect, so heartbreakingly beautiful and agonizing and funny and serious and every damn thing you could ever want from a book that I’m gobsmacked.

So here’s the best I can do..

I loved this book so much that not only did I read it in one day (ignoring all else, including sleep) I read it again right after I finished it.
I also highlighted half the damn book because Colleen’s writing is just epically full of win that I wanted to hug it.

I sent it to my bestest friend with the note that I envied her being able to read it for the first time.

I will no longer be able to use the words “best couple ever” for another couple in a review, because nobodies no how will ever come close to Sky and Holder.

And still that tells you nothing does it? ::sigh::

Sky is amazing, and funny and so centered. So secure in who she is that you just can’t help but love her and be in awe of her and her amazing wisdom.
Holder is just so beautifully imperfectly real and brave. He’s tortured by his past and the loss of two people he loved more than life. He’s confused and amazed by his feelings for Sky. But he knows more than anything else he wants her in his life and he leaves no doubt as to the depth of his feelings.

And what ensues is breathtaking. The burgeoning romance, the humor, the deep connection that these two have is just epic.

Be warned, there’s real darkness in this book, the unbelievable pain and heartache of betrayal and loss. It will break your heart, and just when you think the last bomb has dropped..you’re wrong, there’s still another.

But this is at its heart a love story. A beautiful, tragic, awesomely perfectly imperfect love story.

Read it. Carve out a day because once you climb into this world you will not want to climb out.
And even when you do finally crawl out, you'll feel disoriented because the characters that Collen Hoover has created are just too REAL...to not be real.

-Tanya