Love and Other Words

Love and Other Words ✨✨

By: Christina Lauren

• Quick read
• romance
• old friends to lovers

WHOLESOME is the word for this book. I never thought I would like a past and present POV until this one. The way Macy and Elliot’s friendship developed due to their love for books and how they were each other’s ’everything-ship’ ugh… I died.

Let me start by saying: miscommunication is a b*tch.

Losing contact with someone who used to be your everything is probably one of the hardest things in life. Especially if it is over miscommunication. One year turns into eleven years and next thing you know there is too much history to even bring up the reason why you lost communication with that person.

This book dives into how friendship started and how it ended and how it began all over again. Let’s just say; it made me believe in ”if it’s meant to be, it will be”

Favorite word: you

The Unhoneymooners

The Unhoneymooners

By: Christina Lauren

• Quick read
• romance
• ”enemies” to lovers
• quirky

4/5

This is such a cute and quirky read. This started off and stayed about the same. The whole time I was anticipating on what was going to happen. The character development on this was so adorable. Relatable in a way because I am always arguing back for the sake of arguing.

This book also touches the subject of ”bad luck” often times, when life doesn’t turn out the way you planned, you think think of it as bad luck or you are an unlucky person. People believe in four leaf clovers or lucky pennies, but in reality; luck is what you make of it.

A lucky penny or a leaf is does not hold magic, but the actions you take when you associate good things happening when you have these things is what matters. We get so caught up with the bad things that happens all the time that when something good happens, we look at it as ”luck”

The Unhoneymooners is definitely a relatable book for a lot of people who dreams big but have to face the obstacle of reality.

All your Perfects

All your Perfects

By: Colleen Hoover

4.75/5

• Quick read
• Romance
• infertility
• marriage
• loyalty
• trust

Colleen Hoover DOES IT AGAIN.

This book speaks volumes. I cannot recommend this book enough. I absolutely loved it. Let me start by saying, wow. The character development on this one is adorable.

There is no such thing as perfect. One cannot simply exist without a flaw. This book focuses not only people that suffers infertility but it also touches the issue of marriage.

Getting married, it is easy. Staying married, not so much. I too, struggle with this. Each day I wake up next to my husband; perfectly imperfect. But the longer I stay in this marriage, the more it becomes a routine.

Routines are good but thinking about how many times you have to wake up, work, eat and sleep it becomes something you HAVE to do instead of something you WANT to do and you know what? That is part of life. That’s what makes us human.

It takes a lot of fight to stay in a marriage and this book… this book focuses on that fight.

People We Meet on Vacation

By: Emily Henry

• Quick read
• romance
• friends to lovers
• traveling
• career
• ambitions

This book started off strong for me. Then it became a little slower. None the less, I still liked it. This book hits very close to home for me.

I relate so closely to the female MC. In today’s society, it is very hard to juggle career, goals and personal life and this book heavily touches on this subject.

You can spend the rest of your life planning out what your future will look like but sometimes, life throws a curve ball that may alter that plan.

On more days than I want to admit, I have always struggled between my personal life and my career. Growing up, my career and my ambitions always came first. Then life happened. I can’t truly say I want to go back and undo it, but sometimes; I catch myself day dreaming of the ”what if’s”… What if I stuck to the plan? I worked very hard to get to where I am now, but if I had stuck to the plan, I would have gotten here sooner.

Would I be happy then? Would I be content? That I will never know. Because I do love the life I chose, I love the person I have become. I WAS content but sometimes, that contentment has an expiration date. As humans, you will always dream, you will always want more.

This book will make you want to have it all. But like always, things doesn’t always go according to plan.

It Ends With US

I know it has been awhile since I wrote something. Even I am surprised that I was still able to access my log in… Anyway, as of 2022; I decided to pick up reading again. I haven’t really read in 4 months. But this time I am inspired to read AND review.

This is my first pick for 2022 –

• Quick read
• relationship/romance
• domestic violence
• trauma

In my opinion, this book was worth all the hype. In the greater scheme of this, this book shows that everyone heals differently and that past traumas can significantly affect your future.

No matter how much you think you’ve healed, someone out there is always going to challenge you and one of those is LOVE.

At the end of the day, everyone needs love. But sometimes, things are just meant to stay broken, especially if you have to gamble your physical and mental health for it. Sometimes, the best things in life is walking away from something and this book has shown that.