April Wrap-Up & May TBR! :D

 APRIL WRAP UP! 

 April was a rather busy and tiring month for me as I had my last month of college, exams, assignments and essays all due within April but I still managed to read 9 books! Most of them though were on my kindle, under the covers at night time haha! 



 The first book I read this month was a re-read and it was Divergent by Veronica Roth... I forgot how much I loved this book. I read it back in 2012 and with two years between me reading Divergent and Insurgent I wanted to read it again before seeing the movie (Which I also adored, because Shai and Theo do an amazing portrayal of their characters, Tris and Four). I admire this book for one main reason though, there is no love triangle. Dystopian/YA books do not always need a love triangle in order to be successful (Hunger Games, Twilight, Mortal Instruments etc...) I love that they have each other to deal with the craziness of their world and they don't need another man/woman to mess with them because their world and themselves do enough job of that, without any outsiders.
 
(And have a moment of appreciation for Theo James as Four and all his sexiness that comes with it... Kill me) 
Divergent gets 5 stars from me, there world is so simply thought of yet so complex to understand at the same time! Love it! 


My second read was the Jennifer L. Armentrout's latest release; Don't Look Back, which I have a full review of here; http://blogsomebooks.blogspot.ie/2014/04/dont-look-back-by-jennifer-l-armentrout.html 

But to summarise it in one word; Wow. 



My third read was, The Dysfunctional Test by Kelly Moran. This book is about a young woman, Camryn who loses her whole life in one day; her career, her boyfriend, her home. She hits her breaking point. But, she knows that everything will get worse if she returns home and she is single again. So she asks her brothers best friend to pretend to be her boyfriend. Starting out harmless Troy and Cam start their pretend relationship. Both jaded and hurt by things in their pasts they help to restore each others faith. 
This book was exactly what I needed after Don't Look Back as it's a heavy book to read, so I picked this up in the kindle store and read it in about three days, a nice light, contemporary read! 4 stars! 

 (with a cover like this I should have known)
My fourth read was; Her Brothers Best Friend by T.J. Dell. I'm not going to lie, I hated this book. Sloppy writing, the characters are so back and forth that I almost got whiplash, immaturity is an aspect embedded in their characters and at some points I thought it was too dramatic.
 I would have liked to see a little more of the final relationship because as soon as things were starting to get good for the main couple suddenly the book was over. Disappointing read, 2 stars! 


My Fifth Read was With This Heart by R.S. Grey. This came to me in one of the Amazon 'If you like this you should read...' and they were right, I did like it, a lot. Abbey has been given a new chance at life, after suffering for her whole life with congenital heart disease. But with a transplant as months of recovery she wants to live her life, finally free of her disease. She plans a road trip, alone. But then she meets Beck and she decides to take a chance with him and she invites him a long. This book was the right amount of heart-warming sweetness and cringe worthy embarrassment but I did smile a lot during this book which is always a good sign. 4 stars! 

My sixth read was Choose Us by Caylie Marcoe. This book is about best friends, one who is a major celebrity and the other who is his personal assistant. When Travis breaks his leg while racing he is coerced into being part of a dating show and he doesn't want to end up with a complete bitch he asks his best friend and PA to be part of the show, but little do they know they will fall for one another. But Travis acts like the usual YA player and doesn't know if he should go for, Riley the girl who he's known his whole life, who's always there for him and literally bends over backwards to be the best friend she can be or the other kind of girl who wants his fame and glory more than him. This almost tears them apart both as lovers and as best friends. I was on Riley's side the whole of this book! I really enjoyed it and I'll give it 3.5 stars, because sometimes I just hate the stereotypical girls in contemporaries! 

My seventh read was Be With Me, the third novel of the Wait for me Series! My second Jennifer L. Armentrout book of April and I loved it! Teresa and Jase are a really cute couple, both with secrets and drama riddling their life! I don't think I liked it as much as Wait for You because Cam and Avery were just such an amazing duo and I loved them but Tess and Jase are nearly as cute! The only thing that truly bothered me was Jase's incapability of just making up his mind, he leads Teresa on quite a bit and that annoyed me. But there was mentions of Cam and Avery in here as Teresa is Cams little sister so big YES from me!  But Jennifer L. Armentrout's writing style just kept me hooked and I just love her. 4 stars! :D 



My eight read was Ready Player One by Ernest Cline. This book was so well thought out and I enjoyed this book immensely. Being a 90's girl and I don't really have a lot of knowledge of 80's video games so sometimes the references were lost on me but I did enjoy this book! I thought of it as a spin on Roald Dahl's Charlie and The Chocolate Factory only way more intricate and tech savvy. I also loved the competition in order to win was not only within the world of the OASIS but escalated into the real world, affecting people in very real ways. 
I loved that this was a place people could be who they thought they always wanted to be without anyone knowing who they really were and yet most peoples identities were completely opposite to who they really were. Wade in the end of this book realises that for the first time ever he doesn't want to plug back into the OASIS (The name of this game) which I think is the message of this book, plugging into a made-up reality cannot replace real life experiences. 4 stars for Cline's debut!

 

Now my last read is one I'm considering as part of April as I finished it in the early hours of the 1st of May and I hadn't gone to bed yet! And that book is What I Thought Was True by Huntley Fitzpatrick which I have a full review of here; http://blogsomebooks.blogspot.ie/2014/05/what-i-thought-was-true-by-huntley.html
I'm not completely sure on how I rank this book, definitely not better than My Life Next Door, but nor is it a terrible book. 3.5 stars! :D

May To Be Read (TBR) 

 I've already read 2 books so far (I know it's only the fifth, but they were really short!) And they are; In The Lyrics by Nacole Stayton and Two Way Street by Lauren Bamholout. I will talk more about these two either in a single review or in my May Wrap up! 

The next books I hope to finish this month are; 
1. Easy by Tammara Webber 
2. Silver Linings Playbook by Matthew Quick

And I hope to read; 
1. The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay
2. Living Again by L.L. Collins
3. Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi 
4. If I Stay by Gayle Forman. 

I hope to re-read;
1. The Fault In Our Stars by John Green. 

There are the seven books I hope to read this month, and it should happen as my exams finish on the 13th of May and I'm free from then on so YAY! For Summer! :D 

Interested in reading any of these books you can buy them all on Book Depository at http://www.bookdepository.com/?a_aid=Micaela

Until Next Time Readers... :D