Review - Did I Mention I love you? by Estelle Maskame

Did I Mention I Love You? by Estelle Maskame
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

This book gave me so many emotions! I was angry at the parents, annoyed at times, happy, and sad but did not cry. It's about a girl named Eden age 16 who went to her dad and stepmom's house for the summer. The stepmom has 3 boys from a previous marriage. Tyler one of the son's has serious issues. I was disappointed in the ending.

Warning: This book is for mature audiences, it deals with major topics drugs, alcohol, child abuse, and sexual content.

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January 2016 Wrap Up #ContRom2016

One of the 2016 Reading Challenges I signed up for this year is the Contemporary Romance Reading Challenge hosted by Jess of Gone With the Words and Danielle of Love At First Page.  January Links are here.

I read 3 books for this challenge.  My bookshelf and reviews for this challenge are here.

1. November 9 by Colleen Hoover (4 1/2 stars)
2. Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella (3 stars)
3. After You by Jojo Moyes (4 stars)

My goal was to read 1 to 5 books for the year so I think I'm doing very well.

Review: After You by JoJo Moyes

After You by Jojo Moyes
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

Listened to this on audio. First want to say that I did not enjoy the person narrating the book. She had an accent and at times I had to rewind to figure out what she was saying. But over all I enjoyed the story. At one point I had to pull my car over and listen as I was crying my eyes out. The end I had to listen to twice because I just couldn't believe it's how it ended.

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Review: Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella

Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
My rating: 3 of 5 stars

3 1/2 stars. I listened to this on audio and followed along with the physical book. It's a funny story about a woman who lives in London and has a spending problem. It was a funny read and I saw myself in some of her situations. The money part was a bit annoying since it's not the same as mine and the narrator's voice started to annoy me. I will continue on with the story though.

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Monthly Topic: Ten Most Anticipated Romances for the First Half of 2016

One of the 2016 Reading Challenges I signed up for this year is the Contemporary Romance Reading Challenge hosted by Jess of Gone With the Words and Danielle of Love At First Page. Each month of 2016, the girls will be hosting a monthly link-up and they’ll announce a topic that anyone who signed up for the challenge can participate in. This month’s topic is the 10 most anticipated romances for the first half of 2016.

 TEN MOST ANTICIPATED ROMANCES FOR FIRST HALF OF 2016

The Unexpected Everything

by Morgan Matson 

Never Never: Part Three (Never Never #3)

by Colleen Hoover 

Abruption

by Riley Mackenzie

You Were Here

by Cori McCarthy

Kinky Sexy Dirty (Kinky Bastard #1)

by C.D. Reiss 

He Will be My Ruin

by K.A. Tucker 

How to Save a Life

by Emma Scott 

Bookishly Ever After (Ever After #1)

by Isabel Bandeira 

Misconduct

by Penelope Douglas

Wicked Fall (The Wicked Horse #1)

by Sawyer Bennett

Review: November 9 by Colleen Hoover #ContRom2016

November 9 by Colleen Hoover
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

4 1/2 stars. I read this book very fast which is out of the ordinary for me since I have a very bad attention span but I wanted to read on. I love Colleen Hoover's writing style. I love that in every book I have read from her there is a plot twist I don't see coming. I may not agree with the plot twist but her books are unique and they keep me reading so it deserves a high rating. Not many authors can manage to do that. Dropped it down a star because some of the things in this book is not acceptable in real life. And this book did make me cry yup about 140 pages in I was in tears and had to put the book down. Colleen Hoover is one of my favorite authors and a must buy author.

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Challenges for 2016

It's time to set challenges for 2016

Here's one I found called Rock My TBR.  Use #RockMyTBR

It's a challenge to read stuff you already own.  I'm going to try to do this next year along with my 2016 Reading List Goal.  Of course, a lot of the books on my 2016 reading list will also qualify since I've collected some along the way.

You can sign up here.

MY GOAL

I just want to read two book each month that I already own.  Some could be from my 2016 Reading List.

THE BOOKS

2016 Reading List Goal.   Remember I'm a mood reader so I'm not going to choose my books quite yet except for the 2016 reading list goal which has 50 books listed.  Where I think I own 36 of those books so they will all count towards my goal.  The rest I will probably use the library.

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Another Challenge I found was Finishing the Series

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Yup I am not a fan of series yet I tend to collect a lot of them.  My problem is that I love the first book and each additional book goes down a star.  I haven't read one series that I liked the entire thing.  

MY GOAL

My goal is Level 3 (Experienced) - to complete 3 to 6 series.

THE BOOKS

Now this is a hard one but here are the ones which I want to read soon.

City of Bones by Cassandra Clare (I plan to attempt to read this in January)  (book 1)

Do Not Disturb by A.R. Torre (book 2)

If you Dare by A.R. Torre (book 3)

Stand Off by Andrew Smith (book 2)

Reckless Hearts by Sean Olin (book 2)

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Another Challenge  Contemporary Romance #ContRom2016

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MY GOAL

Since I read a lot of different genres I'm only going to set my goal to 

• 1st Base: read 1 – 5 books  

I think that will be a doable number.

THE BOOKS

I'm not going to pick out my books quite yet.