Christian Harper is a cold, calculated CEO with questionable morals and no tolerance for romance. Except a peculiar fascination with the new tenant in his apartment complex, Stella Alonso. Sweet, caring and introverted Stella is waiting for her perfect love story but right now she neither has the time nor energy to have a relationship. Christian strikes up a deal with Stella to be her fake boyfriend and the two start a fake relationship to grow Stella’s online influencer status. But the two can't deny their chemistry and fake dating turns to not so fake. Just when
Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia is a young adult fantasy novel that follows the story of Ethan Wate, a small-town teenager who becomes infatuated with Lena Duchannes, a mysterious girl with supernatural powers. As they uncover the dark secrets of their town of Gatlin, South Carolina, and Lena's family history, they find themselves entangled in a curse that has haunted their families for generations.
Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter is a rom com about Liz Buxbaum who is certain the guy she’s going to end up with is Michael, who was the person she’s had a crush on since she was a little girl. Michael never noticed Liz before he moved away. Now that he’s back Liz will do anything to get his attention. Even becoming friends with Wes, her annoying next-door neighbor who bugs her every time he sees her since they were kids.
I rated this book a 3 out of 5 for a few key reasons. This book follows a girl named Belly, and her romantic relationships with two brothers, sons of her mom's best friend, during a summer trip. The book itself is light-hearted and nice. But there are a few dark undertones, like the son’s mother having cancer. I enjoyed the fun aspects of this book, and I felt the emotions at all the highs and all the lows with the characters. I liked how complex the characters were.
K-Pop Revolution serves as a sequel to K-Pop Confidential and is written by Stephan Lee. The story follows the same character as the first installment in this series, Candace Park. Candance has now debuted and is adjusting to her new life as a rookie idol. She now has to deal with having her actions in the public spotlight. Her and her love interest, who she met while training, YoungBae are now together and her debut with THE GIRLS is slated to become a record breaking one.
K-pop Confidential is a novel written by Stephan Lee that is centered around Candace Park. Candace is a shy girl who for most of her childhood has been fitting into the role of a standard Asian upbringing with her Korean parents. She takes hard classes at school and plays an instrument. However, she secretly is obsessed with SLK, who is the biggest boyband in K-pop.
Happily Ever After is a novel about many characters featured in The Selection Series. These characters are not the main characters in the main books. Some of these characters are Amberly, Marlee, and Celeste. I loved hearing these characters point of views! My personal favorite part is learning how Queen Amberly and King Clarkson met. There is a lot more behind their marriage than meets the eye.
Belladonna, a fresh new fantasy from Adalyn Grace, got me up with high hopes when I first heard of it. A beautiful cover? An intriguing premise? Young adult fantasy? Sign me up! However, I was incredibly let down with the romance. Literally everything else was fine, just I really wanted the romance to not be the way it was.
Pride and Prejudice was a movie I was dreading to watch. After a rather boring experience with the book, which was extremely slow and hard to read, I had no interest in learning the plot of one of the “greatest stories of all time.” Regardless of my uninterested manner, I ended up watching the movie on a short flight. The experience of watching the movie was extremely different than reading the book. I was addicted from the first scene and loved it till the very end.
Bella isn’t like other girls; she just wants to live with her mom, but understands that she has to move to Forks to live with her dad. So, for her mom, Bella makes the decision to move to Forks and start her junior year there. The rainy temperate environment isn’t anything like what she is used to, but neither is the strange boy next to her in biology, Edward. Bella and Edward can’t keep away from each other despite Edward trying to establish distance. Bella knows Edward isn’t normal but she’s not sure what exactly he is.
