The Bastian Effect

What A Boy Wants by Nyrae Dawn

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


My, my. Did I needed to read something just like this. Last night I was a little bummed out because of school and stuff and I wasn't doing anything productive. It had been over two weeks that I could sit and try to read something that wasn't school related. And to be honest I have a to-read list since last year, but as always, when I get a new book I just want to read it immediately, so I have a lot of books waiting. But I do not regret reading this one...IN ONE NIGHT! I just couldn't stop. I wasn't even finish with the second paragraph when I was already hooked! And the whole ride I had that feeling you get in the pit of your stomach.

Sebastian, this amazing guy that just didn't believe in love or falling in love or anything related to love because he had a difficult time every time his mom broke up with the newest boyfriend or end up a marriage. So he wasn't a believer, and that is just so original,right? It is because Sebastian, he is a good guy, a very good guy and not only talking about his good looks, he protected his friends with iron fist. Losing some hook-ups on the way, it didn't matter, Jaden, his best mate, Pris, the sharp tongued girl and, of course, Aspen, the daughter of a hippie couple that was just his best friend since ever. But living with his mom, that was a complete believer of true love, didn't came without consequences. With time he learned his fair share of knowledge about relationships and everything someone needed to do to get the perfect hook up, so he became the Hook-up Doctor. Helping girls getting the guy they wanted helped him perfect his game and the money was much appreciated, and it always is when you want to afford your own car, isn't it? So that how he lived, hooking up whenever he wanted, hanging out with his friends whenever they could and just be. But Bastian doesn't know that is about to change. His latest client, a PA rocks (a privacy policy of his) makes a deal with him, so it will be the usual, he receives the money, she receive the tips, when she gets the guy he gets paid off and everyone happy. Or so he thought.
While everything is going smoothly with his client, things are changing with his friends, particularly with Aspen, and he does not why. First it was Jaden's comment on Aspen's butt, and now she, although Aspen is no different at first sight, whenever he doesn't talk to her or hang out with her or just when he is with her he feels rather strange himself, noticing things he didn't before. when did she had her hair looks so smooth, and why hadn't he notice how she smelled, and why can't he concentrate on an every day hook up, and why can't he stand seeing her talking with other guys.It was just so damned confusing. And then, BOOM, he got it, he was in love, or at least thought he was, but it was a very strong feeling, too strong and real to be just a mirage, and he wanted to kiss her so badly, touch her in a very different way to the way he did before. He didn't want to treat her as any other hook up, it was Aspen after all,he wanted to protect her from every harm. He definitely wanted to protect her, yeah, it must be love. And how to tell your best friend you love her in a very unfriendly way, that you want to be with her, that you want her? It's not going to be easy but he will think of something.
So, one day, before the leave for the coast to celebrate Pris' birthday, he checked his Hook Up Doctor account to see if PA Rocks had some success after he told her some tips of his and what he finds out is very much a surprise. PA Rocks is Aspen, and Aspen likes him, she's been trying to hook up with him. And he couldn't feel any happier and this trip is just the opportunity he need. Nd to make a long story short, because I want you to read all the unmentioned details, he gets the girl, but decides to do the only gentlemanly thing he knows, to brake up with her so she won't be hurt if what they felt was only a passing thing.
And well, here you go, find out if he recovers the girl, discover the real reason Aspen contacted the Hook Up Doctor.

And for the ending, I think I got a hint of a possible follow up story, and if is not, I want to demand a follow up book, and I may or may not mean a follow up on Sebastian and Aspen's story. ;)
Please! Read it. I don't think all my stomach twisting was just because I didn't eat dinner. The rumors are real. Where are the guys like Sebastian?



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The Austen Effect

A Weekend with Mr. Darcy by Victoria Connelly

My rating: 3 of 5 stars


It was...to put it lightly....a turn off...I was expecting so very much of it. The title, the cover and the overview got my attention immediately, making me put other books I've  putting off reading to read this one..but I can't quite say I regret it because I've gave it 3 stars. So I did like some of it but it wasn't what I wanted. I must confess that my experience with Ms.Austen is quite unexistent..I know! And I walk through life calling myself a reader but it is true, and after this one, maybe my Janeite potential was lost..not for good but for quite some time. I hope. I have been allured by Mr. Darcy's advances,yes, but for the time..I'll prefer to wait.



One of the mayor thing that didn't work for me was the whole thing with Robyn. I never got to like her, to know her and to even agree with the author to pair her up with Dan. What a waste! For most of the book she was complaining about her boyfriend who she admittedly didn't love or like, for that matter. Finds herself in love with Dan, perfection in flesh. But she still make the stupidity of saying yes when said boyfriend proposed to her after a few of embarrassing moments.. And she calls herself CONFUSED! Confused was Lochan and Maya from Tabitha Suzuma's Forbidden when they started feeling the way they felt for each other. Confused was Forrest Gump when Jenny told him about his son. A lot of confused characters have crossed paths with my eyes and imagination, but not adorable Robyn, no, she wasn't confused she was just a fool. A fool I say! Everytime a chapter or paragraph was about her I had to stop and just watch something as deep as Toddlers And Tiaras just for me to be able to survive her, Robyn. Let's just say that she was a secondary character with the dreams of a main one. Not good.

But enough with her. The next thing that killed it for me was the whole Austen thing. I know it is a very Austenian book, but you didn't have to say it in every single paragraph of the book. Every.Single.One There is something called the Austen Effect...I had an overdose. Hence my decision of putting off Austen books for some time.



I read this one and finished it just because of Katherin and Warwick. I wanted to know that everything was going to turn out great for them. Besides, they are the ones who appear at the overview,no silly Robyn. And ther is a reason for it. Why it wasn't only with those two and them books. It would've been better.  I even liked Jace at the end. I feel sorry for Dan. What a catch! What a loss.

You can only ask so much of a book.



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Genius...

The Fault in Our Stars by John Green

My rating: 5 of 5 stars


Read it three weeks ago and I still cry a bit whenever I think of Gus.

Being this my first John Green Book...I was not disappointed!
I'm a fan of his and his brother, Hank, in their YouTube channel, VlogBrothers. A nerdfighter to death, my friends. But even though I knew John writes and me being the reader that I am, I couldn't possibly imagine making myself read one of his books. A bit afarid, I think, that I wouldn't like it perhaps. Yeah, I know, he won an award and everything and made a book with David Levithan, one of my top 20 favorite authors of all time, but still I had my doubts. But after watching video after video of him not talking about TFIOS, signing all those books, and all the effort he made to keep it a secret as long as he could, I admit I was curious.
So, after the must awaited release date, I waited to see how it did. Didn't read a review in order to not spoil my own experience in case I decided to read it, but I kept track of the scoring, listen to a word or two about it's awesomeness and well, here I am, unable to decide which book by John Green to read next. Now I'm scare I won't like them as much as I LOVE TFIOS.

Just FYI, one of my best friends gave me this fabulous Christmas present, a Parisian Notebook for Quoting, her words! And I didn't read a really good book worth keeping quotes to start up my Quoting Notebook until THE FAULT IN OUR STARS. Now I always read Gus's words to Hazel, Hazel's own opinions, and whatever line I thought worth remembering. I worry that maybe John will sue me for the amount of quoting I have in this Notebook, almost the whole book if I have to be honest with you. I'm exaggerating, of course, but hey, I came close to do it. It is just such an AWESOME BOOK!

I have to come clean at something, I didn't actually liked Augustus at first. Too cocky, confident, forward...a too much for me. But did I ever regret anything in my life was this. How could I not love Augustus Waters. After some chapters you understand him and Hazel and EVERYONE! Even the freaking writer! Anna and the Hamster!

Every turn was a surprise, even if I guess the way it was already just ahead of me.
Hazel is just so sad, comfortable with her fate that doesn't want to do much with her life, or what is left of it. That when Augustus Waters
appears is just like a new air going through her sickened lungs. I loved how Gus taught Hazel everything she needed to really live her short life at it's fullest. How he made her wish come true. How they made this whole relationship from scratch in a short amount of time. Love ought to be like that, one day it is not, the next it is. And that's exactly how Gus was. Like he said, he didn't have the right to deny himself to say the truth or to live life. Sometimes it is just too late and you wouldn't want to regret it.

Oh, and when he died, he died like 6 chapters before the end or something like that but I cried the whole time. Barely reading because of the non-stopping tears. And yeah, this whole review goes around Augustus Waters but without him what would've been of Hazel. Dying alone, without knowing what life was truly about, even though hers is suppose to be a short one? How? Tell me!
I just love it. I need a physic copy. I need to hug that book. Even if you can hug it, your laptop is just some metal and plastic, not the real deal. I need to shed some tears in my favorite parts. I need the world to read it, too.
I feel just like Hazel did with An Imperial Affliction, a book so good that you want to be the only one to know about it but you can't possibly live with the idea that nobody know of it's geniusness.I don't care if that's not a word. This book is what it is. Genius, Grand...Anything you would use to describe the best thing of all time. 
We need more stars for books like these, GoodReads. Five are just not enough.





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