Book Traveling Thursdays #28 – Share the Love!!

Today is thursday which means that is Book Traveling Thursdays, a weekly meme created by me and Danielle @ Danielle’s Book Blog. This weekly meme consists in picking a book relaMy Sitested to the weekly theme that is announced in the group Goodreads page (if you want to join click here) at the beginning of each month. After that you can write a blog post where you explain why you choose that book and choose different covers from different countries. To make it a little bit easy you are going to choose different editions of the original cover, the cover from your country, your favorite cover, and your least favorite cover. This weeks theme is Share the Love!! Choose a underhyped book that you think everyone should read. I know a lot of you might know the author I choose today. I decided to have a book from Colleen Hoover because I think this book doesn’t have as much love as the others and for me it’s one of my favorite Colleen Hoover books. The book I decided to choose for today is Slammed.

3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge #4: Day 1

Hi guys! I was tagged again for the 3 Days, 3 Quotes Challenge. Because it was so much fun to do the first three times I decided to do this again. I was tagged by Keira @Signing On, Paige  @The Wild Readers and Fadwa @Word Wonders so thank you all for tagging me 🙂 . Because I was tagged three times I’m going to have three quotes each day instead of only one.

Book Recommendations: New Adult

Hi guys! It’s time for a few more book recommendations. Today I decided to recommend you a few of my Favorite New Adult books. If you haven’t noticed I’ve been reading a lot of new adult and I love to read new adult so why not recommend some of my favorite books to you right?  So let’s see which books made to this list 🙂 .

T5W – Favorite Self-Published Books

It’s that time of the week again when I bring you the Top 5 Wednesdays, created by gingerreadslainey. If you want to know how T5W works you can go to the Goodreads group by clicking here. This week theme is Favorite Self-Published Books. When I first saw this theme I thought I would have a hard time in finding self-published books that I’ve read but after looking to my read shelves on Goodreads I actually found a few. Because I’ve read most of these books as ARCs I won’t be talking about any of the books but I’ll leave the link for each review (and also the remaining books of the series) on this post. Here’s some of my favorite self-published books 🙂

Slammed by Colleen Hoover – Review

Publication Date:

January 4th 2012

Publisher:

Simon & Schuster

Goodreads Synopsis: 

Following the unexpected death of her father, 18-year-old Layken is forced to be the rock for both her mother and younger brother. Outwardly, she appears resilient and tenacious, but inwardly, she’s losing hope.
Enter Will Cooper: The attractive, 21-year-old new neighbor with an intriguing passion for slam poetry and a unique sense of humor. Within days of their introduction, Will and Layken form an intense emotional connection, leaving Layken with a renewed sense of hope.
Not long after an intense, heart-stopping first date, they are slammed to the core when a shocking revelation forces their new relationship to a sudden halt. Daily interactions become impossibly painful as they struggle to find a balance between the feelings that pull them together, and the secret that keeps them apart.

Review:

If you follow my blog you already know that I love Colleen Hoover. All of the books I’ve read written by her have been amazing so I had really high expectations for Slammed. While this was not my favorite Colleen Hoover book it was still really good. I was reading it and thinking what the hell is going to happen to end Lake and Will’s relationship right in the beginning of the book. I wasn’t expecting what happened mainly because of Will’s age. I’m not going to give you details in what happened because I think it will be a better experience if you don’t know it right away. This is a really beautiful book and the story is amazing. Sometimes I would get mad at Lake, the main character, only because she would be immature in some situations but I think it was important for her to be like this because it allowed to see her development and growth during the book. Once again I was heartbroken while reading a Colleen Hoover book mainly because of Lake and Will’s past. They have both lose so much that it was heartbreaking. I also liked how Will’s past helped Lake’s struggles and how he was always trying to help her.

Another thing that was amazing in this book is the way the author used poetry in the story and how it was used to express the characters feeling. I think it’s pretty cool how she is always able to use different arts in her books and I always love that aspect in Colleen Hoover’s books.

So, if you love contemporary novels read this book. It’s a beautifully well written story and maybe you will be like me and read it in one sitting (like I always do with Colleen Hoover’s books).

Rating:

Have you read this book? If so, what did you think about it?