Buy these books! Five young adult contemporary romance books you should buy and read right now.

While I have been contemplating on what to post next here on my blog, I realized that I haven't done much reading this month. Actually, I haven't done any reading at all. So I sat and kept on trying to remember which books i've read and loved for the past couple of months, which books brought upon this reading slump (the phase wherein you can't get over a great book that you don't actually have the strength to start reading a new one). So what I did was, I stood up, took out a few books and took a photo of them to share with you guys. These books that i'm sharing with you in this list are the books which i've enjoyed and actually fell in love with. I'm not going to put any reviews, since I might end up babbling or spoiling too much, i'm just going to share their plots with you guys (well maybe i'll say a few words).

In no particular order since I love them all equally or since I just can't decide how to arrange them, here they are:

Book Review: Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell

Cath is a Simon Snow fan.

Okay, the whole world is a Simon Snow fan...

But for Cath, being a fan is her life—and she’s really good at it. She and her twin sister, Wren, ensconced themselves in the Simon Snow series when they were just kids; it’s what got them through their mother leaving.

Reading. Rereading. Hanging out in Simon Snow forums, writing Simon Snow fan fiction, dressing up like the characters for every movie premiere.

Cath’s sister has mostly grown away from fandom, but Cath can’t let go. She doesn’t want to.

Now that they’re going to college, Wren has told Cath she doesn’t want to be roommates. Cath is on her own, completely outside of her comfort zone. She’s got a surly roommate with a charming, always-around boyfriend, a fiction-writing professor who thinks fan fiction is the end of the civilized world, a handsome classmate who only wants to talk about words... And she can’t stop worrying about her dad, who’s loving and fragile and has never really been alone.

For Cath, the question is: Can she do this?

Can she make it without Wren holding her hand? Is she ready to start living her own life? Writing her own stories?

And does she even want to move on if it means leaving Simon Snow behind?

Format: Trade paperback
Category: Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary, Romance
Ratings: 5 stars

REVIEW:

When I started this book I was really excited to read it because of all the positive comments that it was able to receive from my peers and even from people in good reads and other social networking sites.

At first I was like, okay, maybe the characters are a little crazy but I'm sure they'll grow on me by the middle of the book. Then as I reached almost half of reading it I was so pissed and decided to put it off for a day or maybe I decided to put it off for as long as I could, I even went on and finished two books in the process.

Book Review: Attachments by Rainbow Rowell

"Hi, I'm the guy who reads your e-mail, and also, I love you . . . "

Beth Fremont and Jennifer Scribner-Snyder know that somebody is monitoring their work e-mail. (Everybody in the newsroom knows. It's company policy.) But they can't quite bring themselves to take it seriously. They go on sending each other endless and endlessly hilarious e-mails, discussing every aspect of their personal lives.

Meanwhile, Lincoln O'Neill can't believe this is his job now- reading other people's e-mail. When he applied to be "internet security officer," he pictured himself building firewalls and crushing hackers- not writing up a report every time a sports reporter forwards a dirty joke.

When Lincoln comes across Beth's and Jennifer's messages, he knows he should turn them in. But he can't help being entertained-and captivated-by their stories.

By the time Lincoln realizes he's falling for Beth, it's way too late to introduce himself.

What would he say . . . ?

Format: Ebook
Category: Chick Lit
Genre: Contemporary, Romance
Ratings: 5 stars

REVIEW:

I've read this book after reading Fangirl and Eleanor and Park. Some may argue with this but I think among the three books this by far has the best ending, I couldn't think of a better ending for this one book!

Book Review: Love Letters to the Dead by Ava Dellaira

Love letters to the dead by Ava Dellaira 

It begins as an assignment for English class: Write a letter to a dead person. Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May did. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to people like Janis Joplin, Amy Winehouse, Amelia Earhart, Heath Ledger, and more; though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating new friendships, falling in love for the first time, learning to live with her splintering family. And, finally, about the abuse she suffered while May was supposed to be looking out for her. Only then, once Laurel has written down the truth about what happened to herself, can she truly begin to accept what happened to May. And only when Laurel has begun to see her sister as the person she was; lovely and amazing and deeply flawed; can she begin to discover her own path.

Format: Hardbound

Category: Young Adult
Genre: Contemporary, Romance
Ratings: 3 stars ( more like 2.5 but the quotations I got from it are so good so 3 )

REVIEW:

I first saw this book while browsing for good books on goodreads and I have been excited to buy and read this book for months so when I saw a copy at fullybooked, I bought it even though its a hardbound copy which costs 800+ pesos an amount in which I could've gotten my self three paperback books. I was so excited to read this that I didn't even care that it costs too much because I thought it would be such a great read and the cover is just so pretty.

I was wrong. I didn't end up loving this book at all.

Book Review: If I stay and Where she went by Gayle Forman

IF I STAY

Just listen, Adam says with a voice that sounds like shrapnel.

I open my eyes wide now.

I sit up as much as I can.

And I listen.

Stay, he says.

Choices. Seventeen-year-old Mia is faced with some tough ones: Stay true to her first love—music—even if it means losing her boyfriend and leaving her family and friends behind?

Then one February morning Mia goes for a drive with her family, and in an instant, everything changes. Suddenly, all the choices are gone, except one. And it's the only one that matters.

If I Stay is a heartachingly beautiful book about the power of love, the true meaning of family, and the choices we all make.

WHERE SHE WENT

It's been three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life.

And three years he's spent wondering why.

When their paths cross again in New York City, Adam and Mia are brought back together for one life-changing night.

Adam finally has the opportunity to ask Mia the questions that have been haunting him. But will a few hours in this magical city be enough to lay their past to rest, for good - or can you really have a second chance at first love?

Format: 

Both in Trade paperback

Category: 

Young Adult

Genre:

 Contemporary, Romance

REVIEW:

I wasn't really supposed to read these books and I've in fact been seeing them for years in local bookstores and never really paid any attention to them since the story's a bit too dramatic for my taste. Last month, I saw the trailer of the movie I just really had to buy and read these books and never in my book loving life had I made a better choice.

Book Review: The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy

"They all crossed into forbidden territory. They all tampered with the laws that lay down who should be loved and how. And how much." The year is 1969. In the state of Kerala, on the southernmost tip of India, fraternal twins Esthappen and Rahel fashion a childhood for themselves in the shade of the wreck that is their family. Their lonely, lovely mother, Ammu, (who loves by night the man her children love by day), fled an abusive marriage to live with their blind grandmother, Mammachi (who plays Handel on her violin), their beloved uncle Chacko (Rhodes scholar, pickle baron, radical Marxist, bottom-pincher), and their enemy, Baby Kochamma (ex-nun and incumbent grandaunt). When Chacko's English ex-wife brings their daughter for a Christmas visit, the twins learn that Things Can Change in a Day. That lives can twist into new, ugly shapes, even cease forever, beside their river....

Format: Trade paperback

Category: Classic

Genre: Historical Fiction, Contemporary

Ratings: 4 stars

Review: This books is our assigned novel reading for our literature class this term and with that knowledge in mind I have already prepared myself to read the usual 'i-cant-relate-with-it-damn-this-book-is-boring' ideology that always comes to mind whenever I read assigned novels, not to mention that I don't read such genres. I'm usually more inclined to young adult dystopian or contemporary novels but I'm so glad I gave this book a chance and that our professor assigned this to us.

Book Review: How to love by Katie Cotugno

Before: Reena Montero has loved Sawyer LeGrande for as long as she can remember: as natural as breathing, as endless as time. But he's never seemed to notice that Reena even exists until one day, impossibly, he does. Reena and Sawyer fall in messy, complicated love. But then Sawyer disappears from their humid Florida town without a word, leaving a devastated-and pregnant-Reena behind. 

After: Almost three years have passed, and there's a new love in Reena's life: her daughter, Hannah. Reena's gotten used to being without Sawyer, and she's finally getting the hang of this strange, unexpected life. But just as swiftly and suddenly as he disappeared, Sawyer turns up again. Reena doesn't want anything to do with him, though she'd be lying if she said Sawyer's being back wasn't stirring something in her. After everything that's happened, can Reena really let herself love Sawyer LeGrande again?

People tend to do crazy stuff when they're in love and often times they act based on their feelings without thinking things over. I think that's what this book is trying to prove.

Don't Judge a book by its movie

"Don't judge a book by it's cover", we hear that saying again and again, I myself can't stress enough how many times i've heard these words from my parents and other people around me, yet I still do it.

As a bookworm, I am kind of ashamed to admit how often I take one look at a cover of a book and decide to put it down even without reading about it's plot, just because it doesn't appear appealing to me. Not only that, I also get dictated by these book-hypes that the social media enables book lovers to have. However, lately I have found myself dealing with a different bookworm problem. I, now, tend to buy books because of their film-adaptation hypes!

The first incident was right after my friends and I watched 'The Maze Runner'. I was so fascinated by their story, their world, that I bought the whole book set without even looking more into the plot of the actual book, without looking up if they really did follow the books story or  changed a lot of things from it. 

I took one look at the boxed-set and I was taken. I mean look at these books. Perfection!

With this, I am not only guilty of judging a book by its cover, but by judging a book by it's movie too.