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I love to read books, that include every genre! I love getting my opinion out there to not only leave a paper trail of what I read so I could go back later, but also to hopefully help somebody out there decide if they should read something or not from my reviews. I hope you enjoy reading them! None of my reviews are sponsored. All of my reviews contain my honest opinion of what I felt about what I watched. Nothing that I write is influenced by monetary gains, or any other gain.

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Book Review: Breakaway - Grace Reilly (Potential Spoilers)

Rating: 🌗 - .5/5 Title: Breakaway Author: Grace Reilly

Description: Cooper is one heck of a hockey player and his main goal is to become the captain in his junior year and finally make his dad proud. What's standing in his way is his temper and his fighting, so when the coach [Ryder], tells him that he needs to volunteer with the kids and teach them how to skate to really look deep inside of himself to learn what matters and how to keep his cool, he's not for it. Cooper just thinks that he needs to get laid and he'll be good. Enter Penny Ryder. She's the other volunteer and she's struggling on her own. Allowing her past to follow her, her secret list is all she's aiming to complete, and who better than a stranger on her dad's hockey team to help her complete it. Once whisper in his ear and some alone time in a supply closet really does do wonders.

Reason for Rating: This book was boring to say the least. When I first started reading it, it was great! There was a lot of character development, description, and you could really relate to the characters, but that just dragged on the whole book. It wasn't until I was 90% through when there was some "drama" and I put that in quotations to use it super loosely because it wasn't even really drama. Not only that, but the secret that Penny was keeping and freaking out about I think was mentioned too much and harped on to have it end up being the secret that it was. The whole book was anti-climactic, slow, but at the same time rushed, and in my honest opinion, boring. If you're wanting a YA book, it's a bit detailed during the sex parts to be classified as that, but that's the type of story it is, YA young love. I almost forgot that these people were in college and not Freshmen in high school.

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Book Review: Mr. Wrong Number - Lynn Painter (Potential Spoilers)

Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 3.5/5 Title: Mr. Wrong Number Author: Lynn Painter

Description: Olivia Marshall is unlucky, putting it nicely. Everything that could go wrong, usually does for Olivia. The silver lining in all of it is that she's able to laugh at herself and get back up, which is exactly what she needs to do when her apartment gets burnt down and she has nowhere to go, so she has to turn to her brother and stay with him, not realizing that he's rooming with his best friend, Colin. Colin and Olivia were never on great terms, she was always Colin's best friend's annoying little sister, and he was always her brother's jerk of a best friend, but obviously with them now living together for a month while she gets back on her feet, those feelings turn confusing. Along with everything Olivia is already dealing with, a wrong number texting her "What are you wearing?" really turns up the heat for her and sends her life into a whirlwind.

Reason for Rating: I am a huge sucker for anonymity in stories so when it has to do with wrong number texting, I'm all for it. Do I think this could have gone in a better direction? Fersher, which is why I didn't give it a higher rating. Do I think the author did a good job at portraying the wrong number angle? Yes. This book kept me interested until the very end - I did not put it down until I finished it. It was filled with witty banter from multiple people, a little bit of drama, and a lot of flirting that will keep you on the edge of your seat. If you're thinking that Olivia has to choose between the wrong number that she's somehow started an anonymous sexting relationship with, or Colin, you're in for a lot more than that when you read the book!

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Book Review: Punk 57 - Penelope Douglas (Potential Spoilers)

Rating: 🌕🌕🌕🌕🌗 - 4.5/5 Title: Punk 57 Author: Penelope Douglas

Description: Two people become pen-pals when they were children. They had been inseparable even though they hadn’t met each other. Something happens and Misha stops replying although there were many efforts from Ryen to get him to do so. When Misha appears at the school under a different name, he knows who Ryen is, but she has no clue who she is, and she’s different than she described herself through their letters. 

Reason for rating: I actually really loved this book and thought that it was really original and well put together. You don’t read books nowadays that have pen pal situations so that’s what really got me going. The first half of the book, amazing. It had me enthralled, I wanted to flip through every page and get through it really quickly, I had made up my mind that I loved the book at that point. I loved the premise of being pen pals and not seeing each other and then getting to know each other the old fashioned way. The ending was predictable which knocked it down a star, but other than that, it was a great book that kept me flipping through every page.

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Book Review: The Valentine's Hate - Sidney Halston (Potential Spoilers)

Rating: 🌕🌕 - 2/5 Title: The Valentine's Hate Author: Sidney Halston

Description: This is an enemies to lovers, fake engagement rom-com book. It's about Lissette Alonso "Lizzie" always hating Valentine's Day, ever since she met a certain someone - Brian Anderson. It started when she gave him a Valentine and he ripped it up in front of her, then throughout school, he couldn't stop torturing her, with the final straw being that he stood her up to prom. Years later after not seeing each other, they're forced to sit next to each other on the airplane, going to the same destination for different reasons. A ton of events happen that bring them closer together and their hatred for each other spins out into a fake relationship turned fake engagement.

Reason for Rating: I thought this was an okay book. One of the pros for me was that it's a shorter book, which means it left no pages for unnecessary details. There was a goal to the story and it nicely flowed. I think that was the best thing about this story. As soon as I read the part where Lizzie was at the hotel, I knew exactly what was going to happen, how it was going to happen, and how the rest of the book was going to go, and I was right. It's labeled a rom-com and I didn't find one thing comedic about it - I did not think it was funny or witty in the slightest. Overall, I thought it was a cute story, but extremely predictable.