Showing posts with label YA Indie Carnival. Show all posts
Showing posts with label YA Indie Carnival. Show all posts

Monday, June 25, 2012

The Vincent Boys- Abbi Glines

This was the second book I read by Abbi Glines. I started out with Breathe and didn't really feel like reading about Marcus falling in love in the second book, Because of Low{Seabreeze series}. Naturally, this led me to browse Abbi Glines' books on Amazon. I came to the conclusion that The Vincent Boys looked promising. 

This book made me feel like the crazy teenager I once was. It reminded me of how much fun being young, reckless, and in love can be. This is one of those love triangles that doesn't annoy you because you will be rooting for the bad boy who may be able to steal her heart.

Here is the synopsis from Abbi Glines' blog:
Being the good girl isn’t all it’s cracked up to be. Ashton Gray has grown weary of playing the part to please her parents, and to be worthy of the town’s prince charming, Sawyer Vincent. Maybe That’s why she’s found herself spending time with Sawyer’s cousin, Beau, while he’s away for the summer camping with his family. Beau is nothing like her perfect boyfriend. He’s the sexiest guy she’s ever seen, dangerous in ways she’s only day dreamed about, and the one guy she should stay away from. 
     Beau never envied Sawyer his loving parents, his big nice home, or his position as quarterback. He loves him like a brother. Which is why he's tried everything in his power to keep his distance from Sawyer’s girlfriend. Even if he has loved her since the age of five, Ashton is Sawyer’s girl, so therefore she’s off limits. But when Sawyer leaves for the summer, Ashton, the one girl Beau would move Heaven and Earth for, decides she wants to get into trouble. Stabbing the one person who’s always accepted him and stood by him in the back, is the cost of finally holding Ashton Gray in his arms. Is she worth losing his cousin over?.... Hell Yeah.

Loved:
  • rekindled friendship
  • love triangle that is worth reading
  • a bad boy in love
  • swoon worthy boys {fans herself}
  • family being tested
  • first in series!
Loathed:
  • I didn't know beforehand that the romance was a little more new adult than young adult
  • there wasn't much moral on waiting to have sex
I read this book in lighting speed. The best part, was knowing that there was a second book to devour as soon as I finished. I definitely recommend this book for those who would like a light read with some hotttttt romance. 


Make sure to check out The Vincent Brothers by Abbi Glines

Sunday, June 24, 2012

6 books in 3 days

Thanks to Abbi Glines I was officially up for about 72 hours non-stop reading. Abbi definitely creates page turners, and evokes compulsive midnight purchases in the avid reader. 

I loved feeling young and in love while reading The Vincent Boys series and Breathe. All of her books were just such quick and interesting reads. 

Here are all of Abbi's books published to date {as well as all the books I read in 3 days!}:

  • Breathe
  • Because of Low
  • The Vincent Boys
  • The Vincent Brothers
  • Existence
  • Predestined
I'll go over each and every one of these books in the near future. They are all too recommendable for me to clump into one post.

For now visit Abbi Gline's blog and get acquantied with this indie, young adult author!

Summer have brought thee reading

Since summer began I have completely and utterly given myself to the written word. I can't even count how many books I've read in the past two weeks because I'd have to say it may be over... twenty! {guess we'll see when I make the full-on list in a second}

Obviously this {reading} is my passion, but with great passion comes great procrastination, and no I'm not talking about the growing laundry problem in my household. I speak of the entries on all the books I've read, or really the absence of those aforementioned entries. 

Here is a list of what I have read so far, kind of in chronological order {please don't judge me by my ridiculous amount of contemporary romance books, I get going if there is a series! I'll mark those with a * so that if that's not your cup of tea you don't waste your time} :
  • Crazy On You- Rachel Gibson*
  • Rescue Me- Rachel Gibson*
  • I'm in No Mood For Love- Rachel Gibson*
  • Simply Irresistible- Rachel Gibson*
  • Maid for Love- Marie Force*
  • Fool for Love- Marie Force*
  • Ready for Love- Marie Force*
  • Falling in Love- Marie Force*
  • Season for Love- Marie Force*
  • Snow White and the Huntsman- Lily Blake
  • The Vow- Kim and Krickitt Carpenter
  • Breathe- Abbi Glines
  • Because of Low- Abbi Glines
  • The Vincent Boys- Abbi Glines
  • The Vincent Brothers (book #2 The Vincent Boys series)- Abbi Glines
  • Existence- Abbi Glines
  • Predestined (book #2 Existence series)- Abbi Glines
  • Easy- Tammara Webber
  • Callum & Haper- Fisher Amelie
  • Thomas & January (book #2 Sleepless series)- Fisher Amelie
  • Slammed- Colleen Hoover
  • Point of Retreat (book #2 Slammed series)- Colleen Hoover
I plan on writing about most of these. I can quickly say I love Rachel Gibson books, they are contemporary romance novels and are truly fun to read. I enjoyed the Marie Force books but they were too... erotic scandalous... for me {this coming from someone who read all three 50 Shades of Grey books, however I did not run around with a physical copy in my hands for all to see!}. After those first few *** stories, my list moves on to a couple of books that are motion pictures. And finally we get to the great, and I mean GREAT, Young Adult fiction selection I have stumbled upon. That is where I will spend the bulk of my time writing about story lines and wonderfully authors. 



But I insist you get your toes wet by heading over to these sites:


For now I will attempt to refrain from browsing on Amazon for what books I may enjoy, and maybe, just maybe go to sleep at a decent. hour. finally.