Books that made my 2014

It's been a great year for books overall, but when I think about the ones that have changed me or have had a huge impact on me this year I know exactly what I'm talking about.

- Fangirl, by Rainbow Rowell. This is probably my favourite book that I've read in 2014. After wanting to read it for a really long time, I was able to buy it and read it asap. I had never been as excited while reading a book, but everything was just so real! I could relate to everything that was going on, and I am just really proud of being a fangirl. I keep telling the rest of my family to read it, but I know you won't think of it as highly as I do if you aren't a teenager in the 21st century. I want my children to read it in the future and learn about the best things of being a teenager right now. It has nothing to do with all those novels who say they depict teenage life while mentioning alcohol and drugs; this shows what the Internet has done for our generation. It was just so wonderful that I want to keep reading it over and over again. 
Read my review: Fangirl
- City of Heavenly Fire, by Cassandra Clare (TMI #6). The ending book in a saga like this deserves to be recognized everywhere... I can't say I'm happy that I read it because the series which had accompanied my teenage years has ended, and that is very sad. But I really liked the book, even though the ending and some details could've been better. But, we all know Cassie and love her for that. So this is a must-read that I definitely want to read again (when I get over the series ending, that's it). And I'll be waiting for The Dark Artifices this next year 2015 with joy and anticipation. 
Read my review: City of Heavenly Fire
- Allegiant, by Veronica Roth (Divergent #3). This was published at the end of 2013, but I wasn't able to read it until earlier 2014, so I'm just going to talk about it now. This book was the death of me. As the last book in a trilogy, the ending had to be great, but this one was sublime. I want to thank Veronica Roth so much for this. The death of the main character isn't something usual, and it was both one of the best endings and one of the worst (as a reader who suffers and suffers), so I'm glad it exists. 
Read my review: Allegiant

So, what were your highlights of 2014? Do you agree or disagree? And what are you looking forward in 2015? Happy New Year everyone!!

(Late) Autumn Bookhaul

Even if winter is almost here, I have been wanting to post my autumn bookhaul for quite some time now. I bought most of these back in September, but haven't read them all yet (had no time at all). So I'm just going to make a brief introduction to them. 

- Another (Vol. 3 & 4) I got the first volume for my birthday back in June, and really enjoyed it, so I was really looking forward to finishing the series. My friend gave it to me knowing it was a short series, since I am not going to be following typical series with 40, 50 volumes. I have no time and no money for that. But Another was a great manga, and I'm really looking forward to watch the anime. It was creepy and confusing (very, very confusing at first) but everything got sorted out and I'm glad that the ending was unexpected. Sort of. 

- Naked Heat, by Richard Castle (Nikki Heat #2). Yes, my obsession about the show got into my bookshelves. I enjoyed the first book, and since they aren't that expensive I thought about reading the rest of the series. Haven't had time yet, but here it is. It looks good. 

- The Book Thief, by Markus Zusak. This is a book I have to read for my English class in school, but I have wanted to read it for years now. I knew I would have to read it in 12th grade, so I just waited for it. And now that it's here I have only 100 pages left and I really love it but, like always, I don't have that much time to read lately... 

- Looking for Alaska, by John Green. I can't believe I haven't read this yet. After TFIOS, Paper Towns and An Abundance of Katherines, there's only this and Will Grayson, Will Grayson. So I need to read this. And it actually looks really good and, you know, it's a John Green. 

- The Slow Regard of Silent Things, by Patrick Rothfuss. I love Patrick Rothfuss. The Name of the Wind is one of my favourite books ever. And when I saw this had come out, and it was about Auri, a character I have always thought she should be more developed, I got really excited. But, you know, Patrick should've been working on Kvothe's next book which I have been waiting for for ages, and not in other works... But it's great anyway. Can't wait to read it. 

So overall they all look pretty good, and I can't wait to read them! I'm still reading stuff from my spring and summer bookhauls, so I still have lots left... My excitement never decreases, though. 

City of Heavenly Fire, by Cassandra Clare (The Mortal Instruments #6)

Synopsis: 

Sebastian Morgenstern is on the move, systematically turning Shadowhunter against Shadowhunter. Bearing the Infernal Cup, he transforms Shadowhunters into creatures out of nightmare, tearing apart families and lovers as the ranks of his Endarkened army swell.

The embattled Shadowhunters withdraw to Idris - but not even the famed demon towers of Alicante can keep Sebastian at bay. And with the Nephilim trapped in Idris, who will guard the world against demons?

When one of the greatest betrayals the Nephilim have ever known is revealed, Clary, Jace, Isabelle, Simon, and Alec must flee - even if their journey takes them deep into the demon realms, where no Shadowhunter has set foot before, and from which no human being has ever returned...

I can't believe I hadn't written about this yet; but I guess it's true I just needed time to think it all through, to recover from the book. Because it really did kill me. I couldn't stop thinking about it for days and days after I finished it. It was mainly because of what I read, but the fact that The Mortal Instruments, a saga that I've grown up with, spent all my teenage years with, was over also destroyed me... 

Since it's the last book in the series I just need to spill everything out and talk and talk about everything that's happened, which means it's a post full of SPOILERS. I'm just warning, because I've seen people complaining about getting spoiled after reading something, so I'm just saying it in advanced. If you haven't read City of Heavenly Fire, don't read this. 

I am going to start my saying that my favorite thing in TMI and my ultimate ship is the perfect couple that Alec and Magnus make. So after they broke up in City of Lost Souls I was devastated, and nothing mattered most to me than them getting back together and getting the happy ending they have always deserved. And I got to say that they did get it. Which made me the happiest person on Earth after crying for over fifty pages. (If you've read more posts from me you'll probably think I cry a lot but that's it, I'm really emotional, and books and TV shows get tears out of me all the time).

I have to say that I ended up liking the ending. I knew from the beginning that it was the last book, so there was no way it was ending happily ever after for every single character; some of my beloved ones had to die and I was really worried. Since it came out and before I had the opportunity to buy it (which I did halfway through July while I was in Scotland) I spent my time thinking about the characters and who had more chances to die. I am very used to my favorite characters dying, but I knew I wasn't ready for TMI to finish and rip my soul again and again. But for months I was sure Alec was going to die. I was so so so so so worried... My favorite character was in my mind the one with more chances of dying. There was no way that Magnus and Alec could fix the immortality problem (Alec wasn't going to become a vampire or anything because it would be too cliche and nothing like him, and Magnus didn't look like he could lose his immortality that easily), and Alec looked the most likely to die and for his death to have a big impact on his friends. Isabelle wasn't going to be the Lightwood to die, obviously, so Alec had more chances than someone like Jace and Clary (obviously the two main characters couldn't be the ones to die)... Even though we already lost Max so many years ago in City of Glass and losing another Lightwood would be plain cruel... Idk, I just had that constant anxiety and pain in my heart. But then, after everything, Simon was the one to suffer. I must say I loved Simon in the last book, since he got way better than how he started in City of Bones, and I wasn't actually expecting him to be the one who ended tragically. I got so very sad with the scene with Magnus's father. It crushed my heart. For this really brief moment, barely half a page, I thought everything could end greatly and that Magnus could give his immortality to his father in exchange of going back to their world and everything could be perfect. But then I remembered why I admire Cassandra Clare and why I've enjoyed her books so much. Even though the ending of Clockwork Princess was... not that good, since she managed to make everyone happy in different moments of time; I enjoyed this ending way more. Not because it made me happy (which it didn't) but because it wasn't typical or stereotyped and I deeply enjoy that. But the ending ending did have too much happiness in it, which I disapprove of in a last book, but every author does it differently... So Magnus couldn't get rid of his immortality, and they didn't find it that easy to go back home. Someone had to sacrifice themself, and I wasn't expecting it to be Simon... An incredible amount of sadness just suddenly stroke me and I couldn't believe I was crying again. I had been crying some pages before when Sebastian died, because he was one of my favorite characters too and his becoming the Jonathan in Clary's dreams and then dying was too much for me. And everything was sad and sad and sad and the ending came and there were lots of pages left for everything to be more or less fixed in the epilogue. More or less because a happy ending, a completely happy ending, isn't believable after everything that happened. But the wedding was nice, the way they got Simon to the party was good but Simon "remembering" Isabelle and stuff was too nice to be true. Too safe, Cassie. The book should've felt sadder. It should have been more... torture to us. It was too safe and happy at the end. Oh, and Simon's band being named The Mortal Instruments was just epic. 

Speaking of Simon, one of the best things in the novel was the awkward "I swear I am not attracted to you" scene in the tunnels when Simon was supposed to feed on Alec. Vampire & gay shadowhunter. Perfect scene. I laughed so much.

My favorite thing (and one of the saddest ones) was the chapter about their deepest dreams. When entering the demon realm to save Magnus, Luke, Jocelyn and Raphael (RIP, I loved him. Had forgotten he was just a 14-year-old kid, though, until he died... I got really sad), they get absorbed by a demon that feeds on their dreams and then they experience their heart's deepest wishes. Isabelle's made me sad because it revolved around Max and even though I don't remember much about him, since it's been a really long while since I read both City of Ashes and City of Glass, it was really emotional. Clary's was also very sad, because Jonathan (my beloved Jonathan a.k.a. Sebastian) was her brother, her good, older brother and she was getting married to Jace and her mom had had a daughter, Val, with Luke and everything was too perfect to be true... I didn't like Simon's that much because I felt this sort of betrayal towards my Sizzy feelings; I hadn't pictured Simon and Clary as a couple in a long time and didn't thing he could be still thinking about it. But Alec's was also sort of sad. His strict father was proud of him, everyone was happy because of his engagement to Magnus (Malec!) and Max was there too... And Jace's dream didn't appear and he said he had seen nothing and it got me really worried but then afterwards everything was figured out. So I loved that chapter. 

Another awesome thing which was the most popular thing I have since in Twitter, Jem stealing Church. It needs to comments, it was just as epic as it sounds. 

I also liked the idea of introducing our new main characters, Emma and Julian and everyone else that's going to be in The Dark Artifices next year, but after some chapters I got really tired of them and even though I found them cute I couldn't stop thinking that they are going to have a series of their own so they shouldn't steal screen time from Jace and company. But I think Emma's strong and she's going to make a good main character, sort of like Jace. Emma, I'm going to love you so much. 

Someone I am not going to complain about being there is Jem. Let's take a minute to talk about how perfect it was to have former Brother Zachariah in the book as handsome young Shadowhunter James Carstairs. I loved how Isabelle kept saying how hot Brother Zachariah looked, it really made me smile. And then he was there, going to see Tessa! Part of me got really happy, even though I couldn't stop thinking about Will... And then Jem telling Jace stuff about the Herondales and everything... But Tessa. Tessa, couldn't you mention Will's name or even say Jem's name out loud? I needed that. 

There are characters who I liked way more in this book than before. While I didn't like the way Maia had been dealing with dating Jordan, I really did like how she fought for the NY pack and showed how strong she really is. 

I am still mourning for all the lives lost during the books, and mainly in City of Heavenly Fire. Jordan, who I had grown to like and feel sorry for. Raphael, who deserved a bigger storyline. Sebastian, who had always a Jonathan inside. Simon's memories (which ended up being fixed too swiftly and happily for my taste, but whatever). Maureen died, yeah, but she was insane. She had to die. And Amatis did too, which was sort of sad for Luke, but she hadn't been developed that much so I didn't feel it that much. The other known person who died was Andrew Blackthorn, and that was the trigger for TDA, so it was okay. But, even though I couldn't have been able to handle it and I would be complaining now, I wish Cassie would've been a bit more... bold with deaths. 

Let's take a moment and admire Clary and Jace's scene at the cave. Finally. After six books. 

There were so many beautiful quotes in the book, so many sassy comments that I couldn't stop laughing about... I'm going to share some (there are thousands of good quotes, so read the whole book again!): 

“Brother Zachariah,” Isabelle said. “Months January through December of the Hot Silent Brothers Calendar. What’s he doing here?”“There’s a Hot Silent Brothers Calendar?” said Alec. “Do they sell it?”

“You're pining," said Jace.

Alec shrugged. "Look who's talking. 'oh I love her. Oh, she's my sister. Oh why, why, why—” 

“Herondales." Zachariah's voice was a breath, half laughter, half pain. "I had almost forgotten. No other family does so much for love, or feels so much guilt for it. Don't carry the weight of the world on you, Jace. It's too heavy for even a Herondale to bear.”

Sassy Jace. Sassy Alec. I am so glad I met them through Cassandra Clare's writing. I am so thankful for TMI and TID and everything that's about to come... But mainly TMI because it means growing up for me, going through my teenage years and growing up just like Clary. I was younger than her when City of Bones came out, and now I'm seventeen so these books meant so much to me... The characters have grown on me, to story has developed more and more and it ended up being perfect and I am really thankful for it. When you love evil characters like Sebastian, you know that the author is doing something good while giving them the deep stories that make them so lovable. For that and for Clace, for Malec and Sizzy, for being so human that both good and bad characters have died, I am thankful (even though it helped me survive, it was too good to be true to have all the ships stay intact. But if Cassandra Clare had killed Alec, I would've been forever and ever dead. Ever). Thank you for Alec's evolution. He was the best thing that's happened to TMI, because he's learnt a lot from Jace ;)

Thank you, Cassie. 

(PS. I'm probably going to keep remembering more stuff to comment on later on and probably be modifying the post, so... idk)

Update

I feel like I'm always apologizing because since school started I have been incredibly busy and had no time to come around. You have no idea how busy. Exams, essays, extended essay,... I never thought I would have so many things to do until I found myself in the middle of all of it. 

But I'm gonna write a small list of the things I want to post about soon, maybe even later this week when I finish my exams. 

- I went to see Mockingjay Part 1 on Friday! I was really excited about it, but even though I liked it, it felt a bit disappointing because nothing much happened throughout the movie. The next one's going to be the death of me, with so many deaths and tears and action that I won't be able to register it all the first time. I'll try to re-read Mockingjay for then, because I really couldn't make it last week. 

- I haven't been reading much since the summer ended, for obvious reasons, but I still have many books to update about, from the summer and the few reads I accomplished since then.
- City of Heavenly Fire!!!!!!!! I read it back in August, and I can't believe I haven't written its post yet. I just needed time for it all to set down and for me to recover from the death that it meant. 

- I wanted to post the picture of my autumn bookhaul, but I feel like with November almost over, it would be a bit too late... I'll think about whether to post it or not, because I want to do a winter one with everything I'm looking forward to get for Christmas. So we'll see.

- I also went to the Maze Runner premiere, but it's been so long... I should've posted about it when I had a really strong opinion about it after watching it but couldn't make it, so I'll try to say something about it soon. 

- So I've been introduced to the KPop world lately (meaning almost a couple of months ago) and got really, really obsessed with it, so I may even write a post about what I think about it in general and, idk, make an introduction to it for those who don't know anything about it. And talking about Asian culture, I have been watching some Korean dramas lately too. Real good. 

- I know I haven't really talked about my music taste in general or my main idol because I didn't mean to talk about music when I first started writing this blog, but I think it's time to share more about me because, like I've said before, this blog is supposed to be mainly about me and my opinion about stuff (that's why people read it, at least) so I may introduce you to Taylor Swift now that her new album's been out and maybe share my excitement because I finally got tickets to see her!! So yeah, whatever.

- I may even start to talk about TV shows in a more serious manner, because I think I've only posted about Orphan Black and Arrow before, and I really watch a lot of shows. Like, a lot. 

So sorry I haven't been online much lately, but I'm going to try and come back for real very soon. Thank you for everything :)

Fangirl, by Rainbow Rowell

Synopsis: 

Cath and Wren are identical twins and until recently they did everything together. Now they're off to university and Wren's decided she doesn't want to be one half of a pair any more - she wants to dance, meet boys, go to parties and let loose. It's not so easy for Cath. She would rather bury herself in the fanfiction she writes where there's romance far more intense than anything she's experienced in real life. 

Now Cath has to decide whether she's ready to open her heart to new people and new experiences, and she's realizing that there's more to learn about love than she ever thought possible...

This book is the best thing ever. Most relatable piece of YA literature I've ever read. Definitely one of my favorite things these year. It was just... wow. Cath is... me. Like, I feel so identified with every thing she says. All these quotes..., such as "In new situations, all the trickiest rules are the ones nobody bothers to explain to you. (And the ones you can't Google)." Everything is so true. 

The book was really unique in its way, being the exact life of a 21st century fangirl and every day problems. Family. Friends. School. Love. The Simon Snow thing is just exactly like the Harry Potter one. I guess that was the point though, and everything was so accurate... The characters are great, every one in their way, from Reagan to Wren, Levi to Nick... 

All the details in the book were so accurate... Creating FanFixx.net for fanfiction.net, the Simon Snow series for the Harry Potter one (all the quotes, the newspaper articles about it, the story itself... so perfectly done), everything had been thought. 

Fangirl has provided me some of the best and most realistic and relatable quotes ever. From "How do you not like the Internet? That's like saying 'I don't like things that are convenient. And easy. I don't like having access to all of mankind's recorded discoveries at my fingertips. I don't like light. And knowledge." to "Have you been watching me sleep?" "Yes, Bella. Are you awake?" "No.” (the moment when you know you're a 21st century teenager). I'm gonna use all the quotes from now on. And I can't wait to have more of Rainbow Rowell in my life. I need it. It's addicting and necessary. 

I loved the story. And the characters. And the fact that Cath wrote a gay fanfiction. 

And Levi. Wow. I would definitely fall for him too (besides the fact that the guy I'm in love with in RL is exactly like him in almost all the details... Like, who else speaks of bisons?). Levi was a real guy, as in not too fairytale-like, but not too movie-like or unreal. Not too perfect. His behavior was true, it was real, and that's what I appreciate the most in this book. How there's always an outgoing sister, and there's the fangirl one (who I am). There's always people who disappoint you, people who surprisingly friend you and are there for you, no matter how different you are. People who don't look like they are. People you need to care about. People you need to let them care about you. 

Fangirl is a book about life. Just like I said about Eleanor & Park, so I guess that's what Rainbow Rowell writes about. In its better way. Being a teenager nowadays is something special, something different. And, if like Cath, real life is something happening in your peripherical vision, that's being a fangirl. And you should be proud.  

The Fault In Our Stars movie

I finally got to watch TFIOS a couple of weeks ago, and it was everything that I had expected, or even better! :) I was so excited about it, and it did not disappoint me a bit. I am really glad that's happened, because usually almost everything disappoints me... 
The movie, overall, was pretty loyal to the book, and the only things they missed weren't that important, even though I would've loved to see the "Lonely, vaguely, pedophilic swing set seeks the butts of children" scenes :) But I was watching the movie, and I fell for Augustus Waters all over again... Ansel Elgort was great, with his smile and his performance. The cigarette metaphor, all the scenes with Hazel (Shailene did an awesome job too, in my opinion)... I loved it. 
I loved the fact that I finally found out how to pronounce Lidewij's name, which was something I was dying to know while reading the book.
The movie was beautiful... I am so happy about the adaptation to the big screen. John Green should be proud :) And the trip to Amsterdam, and Birdy's Not About Angels in the soundtrack, and Ansel with Shailene... It was great. I was watching, and I suddenly found myself in the part when they're leaving for Amsterdam, and that felt too soon, and then they love each other, and then he says he's sick and then... I started crying in that bench in Amsterdam that morning... And even if everything was sad from that point on, it was beautiful. And the quotes... 
So yeah, it was a great movie, and even if it's sad, which is why some people refuse to watch it, it is so beautiful that deserves us seeing it over and over again. 

Just One Year, by Gayle Forman (Just One Day #2)

Synopsis:

When he opens his eyes, Willem doesn’t know where in the world he is—Prague or Dubrovnik or back in Amsterdam. All he knows is that he is once again alone, and that he needs to find a girl named Lulu. They shared one magical day in Paris, and something about that day—that girl—makes Willem wonder if they aren’t fated to be together. He travels all over the world, from Mexico to India, hoping to reconnect with her. But as months go by and Lulu remains elusive, Willem starts to question if the hand of fate is as strong as he’d thought. . . .

While I was really, really excited to see the story from Willem’s point of view, this one was sort of a disappointment. I expected Willem to be much more of a deep character, one of those I love and will always remember, but, even if there were many things in his life that seemed to be trying to help him become one, the way he acted was too… shallow? I don’t know how to find the right word. The first example of awful behavior in my opinion is the fact that he didn’t even ask Lulu for her real name. Really? And then when they are pushed apart by another accident, he decides all he wants to do is find her?

I loved the way he travelled the world looking for Allyson, from Mexico to India. But I’m not a fan of the way he treats women in general, all there in his way to Lulu, important and useless at the same time. His mother was an interesting character, with a beautiful name and love story as background, and then mysterious attitude in her relationship with Willem. I like Kate, but I don’t think her relationship with Willem is realistic. Meeting in Mexico, and then talking again months later and with all that trust and like they knew themselves since forever? Sort of weird, but nice. Willem meets so many people during his journey, and he grows sort of attached to everyone. Everyone that seems distant (his mom, his uncle) at first, ends up perfectly happy with him. The ending is too perfect. When he gives up, finds something to do, fixes his relationship with friends and family, Allyson suddenly appears. And they kiss. Out of nowhere.

Don’t get me wrong, I love these books. A lot. I’m really grateful to Gayle Forman for writing them. But these cannot end like this! After a year, they find each other. And then what?? I need to know. I really need to know. I see myself in a couple of years acting like TFIOS Hazel and Gus and sending letters to the author for answers. But it’s also a good ending; it makes me think that the purpose of the story isn’t them as a couple, them loving each other, but all the accidents that happen and bring them together or apart, all the small things that happen in life, coincidences and all, that change the path we follow. 

Eleanor & Park, by Rainbow Rowell

Synopsis:

Two misfits.

One extraordinary love.

Eleanor... Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough...Eleanor.

Park... He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises...Park.

Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.

I ran into this book by pure chance. I was looking for Fangirl, but I couldn’t find it, no matter how many bookstores I checked, so I decided to meet Rainbow Rowell by Eleanor & Park instead. And it didn’t disappoint me a bit.

Eleanor & Park is a story about life. It shows us the worst part of it, but also the best one, and it’s both depressing and hopeful at the same time. Eleanor and Park are both so different, but also similar in so many ways. This book made me smile a lot, but it also made me sad so many times. There are all those hopeless scenes when you think everything, no matter how unfair it is, can’t be helped and I don’t know what to do about it. But then there’s another scene where everything, no matter how awkward, is better only because Eleanor and Park are together. They are just so brave, fighting to be together no matter what.

But then the ending arrives, and everything just breaks down into pieces. I don’t understand Eleanor. Then I cry. Then I still cannot understand. Why does it end like that? And then, last sentence, a trace of hope. The end. It’s like the whole novel had a pace, a getting-to-know-each-other pace, and then suddenly she’s gone and everything comes crashing down to the ending.

But I loved the book so much… Hope, dreams, disappointments, tears, laughs, music, comics, family, friendship, love…; the story is life. And we should all read a love story as hopeful and realistic as this one. 

Just One Day, by Gayle Forman (Just One Day #1)

Synopsis:

Allyson Healey's life is exactly like her suitcase—packed, planned, ordered. Then on the last day of her three-week post-graduation European tour, she meets Willem. A free-spirited, roving actor, Willem is everything she’s not, and when he invites her to abandon her plans and come to Paris with him, Allyson says yes. This uncharacteristic decision leads to a day of risk and romance, liberation and intimacy: 24 hours that will transform Allyson’s life.

This book was the best thing I’ve run into for a long, long while. I fell in love with it in the third page, when my mind had processed how beautiful Gayle Forman’s writing is. Even in the first scene, where Allyson and Melanie are just waiting there in line to see a play, everything was told really naturally, really gracefully and with complete honesty. And that’s the kind of writing that I enjoy reading the most.

About the characters... the secondary characters, meaning everyone who’s not Allyson or Willem, were pretty strong in the novel, allowing the main characters to express themselves with other people who reflected different characteristics of theirs. Céline was a part of Willem that he didn’t show to Allyson (or Lulu), just like her friends, both Melanie and the ones she met at university, and her family helped developing the character. Since the story was focused on Allyson, Willem was sort of an unknown character to us readers; we only knew what Allyson knew, which was interesting. He remained sort of a mystery throughout the whole novel, and that’s why the second book in the bilogy is about him, about his life and his feelings.

The story didn’t have much of a plot, since it was mainly about finding that guy Allyson spent a day with. But I like the idea. I don’t think it’s feasible in real life, I mean, it’s only one day; that many things and feelings and obsession happening in a day? I find it beautiful that she spends a full year looking for him, but I don’t see it that realistic. But the thing about the book, how I interpret it, is that the important thing is not the stuff that happens, meaning the action is not the main thing. It’s a story about hope, memories, love, and, above everything else, accidents. 

Walking Disaster, by Jamie McGuire (Beautiful Disaster #2)

Synopsis: 

Can you love someone too much?

Travis Maddox learned two things from his mother before she died: Love hard. Fight harder.

In Walking Disaster, the life of Travis is full of fast women, underground gambling, and violence. But just when he thinks he is invincible, Abby Abernathy brings him to his knees.

Every story has two sides. In Beautiful Disaster, Abby had her say. Now it’s time to see the story through Travis’s eyes.

I really enjoyed this book, way more than I expected. The first one, Beautiful Disaster, was good, but it was quite a typical love story between these two people that are completely different but that are completely attracted to each other and, of course, they have to end up together. And because of it being predictable, even if I found it pretty good, I think I liked the sequel better. Seeing everything from Travis's point of view was awesome. I guess it must be really difficult for a female author to write from a guy's point of view (it is difficult, I've tried it), but I think she managed to do it quite well, even if Travis may have been a bit too soft for the outer image he tries to give, he was too nice, too perfect all the time. Even his flaws were perfect! I don't know, it wasn't that realistic. But honestly, I have no idea about what do guys think about all the time. 

The storyline was good, but it hasn't changed from Beautiful Disaster, so... I liked how Travis really changes during the novel, and seeing the world through his eyes makes everything different. America and Shep were different from Travis's eyes. I like how we got to know more about Travis's family, his parents, his brothers, and Shep. Some details, like the engagement ring he buys before they split up, were nice to know because they had been omitted in the other book. But what I really found too much was the epilogue; knowing about their children, their names (Abby's fake ID names), and what Travis did for a living was a bit out of the theme of the book, like it didn't match the casual way of narrating things in the book. 

But overall, it was a nice book, and it kept me completely absorbed and obsessed during the day it took me to read it, just like the first one. It's easy to read, it's quite nice, and, even if it's a typical love story, we all need to read that sometimes.