Book Addicts! It's time for a new challenge and we have to share our high fives, meaning, that is time to celebrate our favorite bookish things. There are five categories: book, genre, author, blogger and bookish merchandise. I have picked mine, what's yours?
Book? I just finished The Problem With Heartache by Lauren K. McKellar and after finishing I am the happiest woman alive. I was dying to see how Kate was going to move on after that heartbreaking ending in the first book in the series and I was also wanting to meet Lee Collins more closely. To get to know him really and man... I think I have a new book boyfriend! Definitely a must read book! and a must read series!
Genre? I don't care but it has to have romance in it! I am definitely reading either YA contemporary romances or New Adult romances that will make me swoon. Right now I'm trying to find new ones since I'm obsessed with Abbi Glines, Kelly Elliott and Lauren K. McKellar's story. Any good recommendations?
Author? It has to be Abbi Glines I have found myself craving more of her stories and since I have to wait to read her upcoming books I ended up re-reading all her books. Like literally ALL her books!
Blogger? Alexa at Alexa Loves Books. She's done an amazing job organizing this event and I have having so much fun that I couldn't chose another blogger.
Bookish Things? I have a lot of bookish things in my Pinterest site that some day I'll buy them all and end up broke, but I picked this shirt from a store in Etsy called AppraisingPages that has a lot of bookish shirts. The one in the picture is a quote from Fangirl by Rainbow Rowell and it basically says: "I'm not really a book person. That might be the most idiotic things you've ever said to me." It's perfect!
This is the last post for the event and I just wanted to thank all the participant bloggers and Alexa for organizing it. It's been amazing to be part of something like this. Also, book addicts, there's a second Twitter Chat that will start at 8pm-9pm EST to talk about the event and where there would be a swag giveaway. If you want to participate remember to follow #LoveAThon as well as @alexalovesbooks so you can keep up with the chat. Enjoy, Book Addicts!
Book Addicts! Today's the last day of the 2015 Book Blogger Love-A-Thon, but before it's finished we have much more things to share with you! Now it's time for the fourth mini challenge in this event and it's all about taking snapshots of books. Hope you like mine!
So it's time for the third mini challenge for the 2015 Book Blogger Love-A-Thon! Now is about showing the love and friendship spread in the many pages of our favorite books. I have picked some of my favorite quotes from books I've read and I'm now going to share them with you. Hope you like them! And you can definitely let me know your favorite quotes in the comment section!
Book Addicts! After the first Mini-Challenge from the 2015 Book Blogger Love-A-Thon, another one is coming! And this time is about showing love for a book guy or girl in any way. As you may know I have a long, long, long list of book boyfriends, so it was difficult to just pick one.
I ended up picking up a book I have recently read: Dead of Winter by Kresley Cole. I have a huge crush on Aric and Jack and I can't seem to decide between these two, so I'm still #TeamFence since I read the second book.
THE ROMANCE
Aric or also known as Death can definitely be scary and badass. I would definitely be afraid of him if I was one of the other Arcana cards. However, this fierce and deadly exterior is what makes it not credible that the Death card can have a soft spot in his heart. But he does! And when he brings out all his charm I can assure you is fierce and panty melting! Way to win a reader's heart, Endless Knight ;)
However, Jack also has his romantic side. He was Evie's first love and it's hard to forget that even if the pull to Death is strong and share a unique bond. He's had a messed up live and he couldn't stop taunting Evie, but when he open his heart he truly know how to win a girl. And with those French love sentences no less!
THE SYMBOLS
While Aric is the Death card, deadly, heartless and ruthless, Jack is now the symbol of the revolution, the boy that will lead armies to get a better future. You would think, well, then let's pick Jack because he's the "good" guy, right? Not that easy Book Addicts! Not that easy...
THE LOVE TRIANGLE
This love triangle is one of my favorite love triangles of all times. The main character should be choosing between the bad guy and the good guy if we only take into account what their names and what they are, but everything's what it seems to be.
The author has created a special bond between Aric and Evie that only someone who's an Arcana would understand. They are destined to be together and to kill each other. Shakespeare would be proud of their relationship. Meanwhile, Jack and Evie are the perfect representation of first love, of what could've been but never was until the apocalypse happened. Their love story is one that readers will surely swoon over and resist to let it go, even with Aric in full charm.
THE PAST
The character's past really gave a punch right in the feels. It was difficult not feel for Aric when he told us that what he was killed his whole family. He was just a scared boy, didn't know what was happening and ended up alone and with the guilt of being the cause of his parents' death. Plus, it must be really difficult and lonely to live that long without being able to touch anyone. Aric I cried reading your story!
Then we have Jack's past. Although it's not quite like Aric's, he's had a bad childhood. Being born in the wrong side of the bayou has not helped him and he drinks from time to time to forget the pain of the past. Moreover, losing his half-sister to The Lovers, in such a painful way, did not help at all.
THE DEAD OF WINTER ENDING
I'm not going to write any spoilers here for the ones who have not read the book yet. But the only thing I can say is that Evie finally picks a side (thing that I would not be able to do like... ever!) and when she walks to find her happily ever after, tragedy strikes. Like Oh My God are you kidding me?! And the rejected boy comes to the rescue and to promise revenge. Isn't it romantic? I hope the other one is not dead or will definitely be angry and will probably stop reading the following books. Just a friendly warning.
As a way of showing my love for the two main characters and the book, I've made my own book playlist for Dead of Winter. Hope you enjoy it.
Book Addicts! The 2015 Book Blogger Love-A-Thon starts today and I am super excited because it's the first time I participate. So here are my answers for the event and since this is all about love, remember that my Valentine's Day giveaway is still running until February 28th! Feel the bookish love!
Okay, that's an easy one. My name's Patricia, but you can call me Patri ;)
I'm blogging from Barcelona, Spain. Which is a pretty amazing city unless you are a book blogger and want english books like crazy.
I've always been obsessed with books. So you can get an idea I was the only kid at my school who had forbidden take books into the playground (WHAT?! Who wants to be sociable when you have a book?). So one day I was supposed to be doing some college work with my friend Rosario and saw this cute blog full of books and book hauls. And our faces where like this:
Since we were kind of misunderstood because no one understood our rantings and feelings of depression when a book series ended or our fangirl level for fictional characters, we decided to open a blog just like the "cute one" to do all these things with people who understood us and to have the chance to read even more books than we already read.
It's funny because it all came up after reading one of my favorite YA reads: The Unofficial Zack Warren Fan Club by J.C. Isabella. See the resemblance? All the short names we came up with were already picked up by other bloggers, so we didn't want to repeat name and have readers confuse our blog with another one. So it was kind of original and kind of a tribute to one of our favorite reads at that time.
Also it's funny because I also own the FFBC Tours (The Fantastic Flying Book Club Tours) and that name came up basically the same. We didn't want to repeat other tour services' names and we saw an amazing and touching video called The Fantastic Flying Books of Mr. Morris Lessmore that any book addict and book lover must watch and will definitely love:
So after wanting a book with legs who'll entertain us like the one Mr. Morris has in the video, we decided that it would be a great name for our services since the story was beyond beautiful and represented the life of a book lover like us.
I basically read any Young Adult story and any New Adult romance. However, I started to read some Adult romance from time to time and I'm liking it. Despite this, I will never, ever, ever, ever be able to give up on my Young Adult obsession.
Apart from reviews, I post book blitzes, cover reveals and blog tour stops of any kind. The only requirement I have when I picked those types of posts is that either I've read the book and I liked it/loved it, I think it would be an interesting book and I might have an interest in reading it or that I think my blog readers will be interested in.
However, I have also tried to do a monthly book haul and a Waiting on Wednesday type of posts, but I realized that I'm not very constant with those. And I started an "Express Yourself" post where I sum up my book reviews with gifs, because sometimes is difficult to express all your feelings for a book or the characters and what better resource than trying to express it with gifs? I haven't posted any of this posts in a while, but I will soon enough since I have a lot of fun doing it.
Although I am from Spain, I had the chance to meet lots of authors virtually speaking, and I am proud to say I am friends with them, too, like my British sister Nikki Kelly. The FFBC Tours have helped in this a lot and it's an experience I am not willing to finish soon.
Moreover I have met a lot of amazing bloggers, not only in my FFBC Team that they are simply amazing and work really hard for all their tour stops, but because I have met my US & book sister Anasheh, blogger at A Reading Nurse, that I hope I can meet soon enough when I visit the States!
That we are in the same fangirling level over books. It's easy to go all crazy about books and having the blogger community support you and even join you in that craziness. Plus the conversations about book are the best ones. And because they get jokes like the following ones:
Just 5?! Okay, I'll try to behave. Since one of them was Dead of Winter by Kresley Cole, but I have already read it and review it, I'll take it from the list.
I've recently read Lauren K. McKellar's romantic series: The Problem With Crazy and Eleven Weeks, and I can't express in words how much I loved the stories. Specially the first one. It's an epic read like The Fault In Our Stars, but with even more emotional drama, and I don't know why people haven't read these stories. I can't believe I just found about them!
Also all stories written by Tamsyn Bester. She writes amazing stories and all I want to do when I finish her books it's shouting how good they are. Specially the last one I read: The Line Between, that explores that fine line between love and hate.
Oh, boy, I think you've opened the Pandora Box of fictional characters. I don't think I could be BFF of any book girl, because I will probably want to steal they book boyfriend.
However, I could definitely be friends with Evie from The Arcana Chronicles. She's badass and she's getting crazier in each passing book, but I would love to be part of her Arcana group of friends and kick some ass with her. Moreover, I could be there to comfort either Death or Jack after she dumps one of them. It's all benefits!
And I could also be friends with the Elite boys (Eagle Elite series by Rachel Van Dyken). It would be very awesome to be part of the Family (la famiglia), if you know what I mean, and also kick some ass, too. Man, I swear that those boys know how to be badass, funny and romantic all at the same time.
You mean there's a life apart from reading?! I would say organizing blog tours, listening to music, watching a lot of TV Shows (seriously, a lot) and cooking desserts.
Clothes and complements *insert huge grin here*
Mmmm... Also a difficult want. It would have to be a Taylor Swift song, Radioactive by Imagine Dragons or a rock song (like Eye of The Tiger or We're Not Gonna Take It). But I will definitely go all crazy with this one:
Don't forget to visit all the other participant blogs in the 2015 Book Blogger Love-A-Thon. Click here to see the full list and to enter the Love-A-Thon giveaway!
