That Boy Series by Jillian Dodd

I saw this book a couple of times when I looked for something to read.
At first glace, it looked like a teenage book, so I skipped it.
But Maryse suggested this book very recently.
Actually I think I just bought it right on the day she posted the series' reading order.

Ok. I'll admit, first I only had the sample version. But before I finished it I was already laughing and grinning. A colleague walked in while I was reading and she asked why I was smiling at the screen. Ha. That's when I decided to buy the book and man, it didn't disappoint. :)

Top #20 Amazon Best Rated.Top #50 Amazon Best Seller

That Boy - a romance about falling in love with the boy next door.

One boy will give me my very first kiss.
One boy will teach me to make out.
One boy will take me to prom.
And finally, one boy will ask me to marry him.
They will both be my best friends.
But only one of them will be the boy I fall in love with.
Only one of them is That Boy.

Top #5 Amazon Hot New Release. Top #100 Amazon Best Rated. Top #100 Amazon Best Seller

 That Wedding - a romance about marrying the boy next door.

I know he's that boy. The boy I want to marry, my prince, my happily ever after. I feel like I'm living in a dreamy fairytale. But then, Pastor starts asking questions I don't know the answers to. 

 I have horrible wedding disaster dreams.
I can't find a dress.
I have to manipulate him to get my way.
An old boyfriend asks me to run away and marry him.
My best friend tells me I'm going to ruin everything.
And forever is starting to sound like a really long time.
Which makes me start to wonder.
I wonder if best friends should get married.
I wonder if I'm settling.
I wonder if the fact that sex with him is so amazing that it's clouding my judgment.
I wonder if it's just cold feet.
I wonder if marriage is all that fun.
And then I have to decide. Am I willing to give up on true love forever, or should I say, What the hell, and marry him anyway?

 I've been getting books from The Kindle store since April. And That Wedding was the most expensive purchase I've made so far. But hey, I don't regret any penny! ;)

And today, I found the official website from Jillian Dodd, the author. And she has this very cool page, That Wedding Photos. It's like wow.. the book comes true. :)

And here are my three favorite quotes from this book.

"No boy is worth your tears, but once you find the one that is, he won't make you cry. " - although I'm pretty sure JJ will argue with you about that ;)

"Love makes you feel out of control." - Danny Diamond, the hot NFL quaterback :)

"Realize that people screw up, and you need to at least listen to what they have to say. Let them explain before you convict them of whatever you think they did. " - Jadyn James Mackenzie. :)

Bone Deep by Bonnie Dee

Bone Deep

I got this book free from Amazon a couple of days ago. The cover didn't push itself up on my to read list. I have scrolled past it a couple of times until yesterday when Maryse recommended it.

Once started, it was really difficult to put down. The second half of the book I found myself patting my own chest a few times in attempt to relieve the tension in there.

Tom - the tattooed man who's covered all over with tattoo. And I mean all over.  Literally. It won't be a problem until this story set back to 1945 when tattoo was taboo and worse when he didn't chose to have those tattoos  himself.

Sempre

I've spent a total of three days reading Sempre. 

This is abnormal. Or is it normal? 

Normal for a really good 531 pages book, I guess.

Normally I finish a book in a day. 

The speed of reading tells me one thing though. 

The slower I read, the better the book is. 

Like I said on Facebook, I had 3 other tabs on while reading. 

The last time I needed a dictionary together with Google Translate and Google Images was when I read Gabriel. 

Something rings? 

This book is much better than Gabriel. 

Sempre

Sempre is the book mainly about Mafia and Slavery. 

It's about love. Or it resolves around it. 

Talking about love.. Carmine said

"People use the word too loosely as it is. They say they love this and they love that, when they don't. They just like the shi- uh, stuff. Love is something that changes you, and if you really loved all the crap you say you love, you'd never know who you were because you'd constantly be changing. Once you love, you love forever. You can't help it."
 

And talking about thoughts, this is how JM. Darhower, the author, put it when Haven felt guilty for wasting so much paper. 
"Trees lived and breathed, enduring so much and still surviving, growing stronger and bigger no matter the conditions."

I always envy how these good authors come up with these thoughts.
And I think these thoughts are just the tip of an iceberg. JM. Darhower must have so much going on in her head. This book has everything in it. She even managed to squeeze a couple of good jokes and La Vita Nuova in.

I love Vincent for his pure soul. 

I love the interaction between him and his son. 

I love how he tried to wrap around things, to do good, given bad circumstances around it. 

At least, he tried.
I hate it that Carmine was so f*cked up. He kept screwing things. 

And he cursed too much. 

I like how Corrado ended up. It must be the result of his own karma.

I didn't read the book description before I read it. So I didn't have any expectations. Now that I finished the book and looked back at its description, I couldn't agree more.

 

This is a story about sacrifice... death... love... freedom. This is a story about forever. 

If you have time and looking for a book to read. Choose this one. 

I promise you won't regret it. :)

Sempre (Forever) by JM Darhower

I haven't even finished the book but I have the feeling I'd like to share it so badly. 

The story and the way it's told. 

The characters. 

I love them and have to share them :)

Sempre

Here's the note from the author.

While Sempre is a work of fiction, the concept of modern-day slavery is not make-believe. There are an estimated 27 million people inthe world today, coerced and forced into sexual or labor slavery. The majority of them are female, half being young girls. They're our mothers, our fathers, our sisters, our brothers. They're our friends, our lovers, our neighbors, our kids. They're us. It could happen to anyone, even you.
 
Human trafficking is the second most lucrative crime in the world, making more money every year than Google, Nike, and Starbucks combined. It happens everywhere, from the poverty-stricken providences of Cambodia to the affluent suburbs of California. Two children are trafficked every minute-that's 2880 a day.
 
Become an abolitionist.
If we don't fight for them, who will?