New June Upcoming Books

June, 4th: The Moon and More by SARAH DESSEN

                         
                          Siege and Storm by LEIGH BARDUGO

June, 11th: Linked by IMOGEN HOWSON

June, 18th: Vampires, Scones and Edmund Herondale (The Bane Chronicles) by CASSANDRA CLARE AND SARAH REES BRENNAN

My Bookshelf!

I've got YA books, and classics, and contemporary books, and some chick lit books. So, here it is! For the moment! New books to come of course, cause a bookshelf for an avid reader, it's always in constant transformation! 

Forbidden By Tabitha Suzuma

OMG, this book. What can I say? It's brilliant.

How something so beautiful and natural for someone can be seen as repulsive and illegal and sickening for others. (The interrogation part! I felt just like Lochan at what they were saying).

It’s all about perspectives.

When I read the summary, I didn’t want to read this book. Brother and sister? No way! But a friend recommended it, and I decided to give it a try.
I don’t believe I’ve ever cried so much with a book before. I cry a lot with movies and TV shows, but I don’t know why, not so much with books. It should be the other way around, with all the descriptions and inner thoughts and feelings that you got in a book… I guess I’m weird that way.

Lochan and Maya are the oldest of five brothers, with a careless, alcoholic mother, who leaves them alone all the time, under the care of Lochan and Maya. They have the role of ‘mother’ and ‘father’ in their little family, sharing the burden and the responsibilities. Just by reading it I got stressed. I can’t imagine what it would be like to be a teenager in charge of other three kids, with their own demandings and needs.
Through the years they have formed and unbreakable bond, feeling closer and closer to each other everytime. They began to have feelings for each other, realizing that they have always felt towards the other more than fraternal love.
"He was always so much more than just a brother. He is my soul mate, my fresh air, the reason I look forward to getting up every morning. I always knew I loved him more than anyone else in the world." 
Even after they realize what they felt, they kept struggling. They never feel it completely right, despite how happy they made them. And the questions start coming: What would people think? How can we have a future? How could we possibly avoid the law? What could happen to the children if anyone finds out? 
So they keep fighting it, until they finally return to each other’s arms, the only place they feel at peace.

Lochan is such an atypical main character: he has social anxiety, panic attacks at times, he has never had a girl (ALWAYS the guy has had a girlfriend or a laid before the story), and it’s completely selfless. He’s always taking care of the situation, taking responsibilities and thinking and planning.
Maya is really mature for her age. She had to grow up quickly, but she’s also very very wise, and caring, and loveable.

Their love is epic, and eternal, and selfless and so beautiful. I didn’t feel disgusted by it once I began the story, and you get to be inside Lochan and Maya’s heads and in their household.
The writing style is amazing, both POVs completely descriptives and rich in details, and the pace of the story is reliable and catching.
I LOVED THIS BOOK. I cried so much because it was beautiful and real, and I think I will never read something like this again. There’s not even a slight of happy ending. It was a heart- breaking, yank your hair, cry your eyes out, ending. But ending it any other way… it would have been cliché and not believable. Thank you, Tabitha Suzuma for this amazing ride, and giving life for such a fantastic, one in a life time story.

Top 5 favourites male characters

1. Will Herondale (from The Infernal Devices series): great sense of humour. Greatest, biggest heart. He's so very honorable. He sacrificed everything he was and everything he wanted  for the well- being and happiness of the people he loved. He's my hero.
2. Will Cooper (from Slammed): he took everything the world threw at him, with strength and an unbreakable will. He made lots of sacrifices and never asked anything in return. 
3. Magnus Bane (from The Infernal Devices and The Mortal Instruments series): he's so fucking awesome. He drools charm and everywhere he goes is a party. He's very special, but he still wishes to be treated like everybody else. He's always looking and finding the good in people and trying to fix the broken. 
4. Percy Jackson (from Heroes of the Olympus): the best word to describe Percy Jackson is loyal. He goes to hell and beyond for the people he loves, and they always, always come first. He faces every obstacle with a smile and a snarky comment. He's the guy who sees the glass half full and makes people laugh even in the dark times. He's completely lovable and a natural leader.
5. Daemon Black (from Obsidian): once he passed the jerk phase... perfection. 
   

The Sea Of Tranquility By Katja Millay

This book was mind-blowing. I can't explain just how great this book was. It's so intense and emotional, and real. This is the kind of book for which you just have to stop once in a while to exhale and have your emotions leveled. Nearly impossible not to cry with Josh's and Nastya's histories. 

Josh and Nastya are two teenagers who had to grow up too fast, cause shit happened in their lives, that changed who they were. They both now they're fucked up and they react differently: he isolates himself and she tries to call for attention to her outside, so no one can see the true her. 
"I don’t dress this way because I like it so much or because I want people to stare at me in general. But people are going to stare at me for the wrong reasons anyway, and if they are going to stare at me for the wrong reasons, then at least I should get to pick them." 

I love Nastya and Josh's relationship. Love how they're inevitably pull to each other from the beginning, and how little by little she infiltrates in every aspect of his life, until there's domesticity between them. I LOVE how he become the first person she talks too after such a long time silent and feel the specialness in him. Love how even though he didn't understood her a bit, he left her come back every single time. 

So, at one side we had Josh, who since he was a kid started to be left alone little by little by all the members in his family, until he's the only one. We see the loneliness and the acceptance and resignation in him. And we see the strength in persuing his passion (carpentry) despite everything else. 
Then we had Nastya, his Sunshine , who has a secret buried deep, with which she has been struggling for a very long time. She hated herself, and hated everything, and was full of anger and resentment. We find out about it little by little, taking hint until she showed us 'the event'. I had to stop reading, cause I started to hiperventilate and my stomach twisted. It was such a sad and heartbreaking scene. We understand the way she is, and how she lost the most important thing in her life: her passion, the thing she was excellent at. 

Drew was a surprise. In the beginning, you can't help thinking he's the typical winner, big grin, high school jerk. But he's so much more than that: he's a true friend, and an incredible smart guy, with a good heart under his false appearance. I love how much she loved Nastya as his family and how he always knew and encouraged what happened between Josh and her. 
Clay was amazing as well. He didn't missed a beat, completely awake with everything and everyone, with a talented gift and an unique soul.

I know that at the end she didn't have complete closure, but it was ok. She found how did it to her, and I was glad that she didn't forgive or forget. She wasn't supposed to. When there's so much grief involved, you can never completely let it go, cause it has become part of you. It's how you decide to act with it, that really matters. And even though, her first dream was taken away from her, she had the strength to found and not letting go her new one. 

This book is a must read. I recommend it to everyone and hope to read more about Katja Millay 's books in the future.