#Review | One Paris Summer

One Paris Summer
AUTHOR:  Denise Grover Swank
SERIES:  Standalone
PAGES: 272
PUBLISHER: Blink
RELEASE DATE: June 7th,2016
SOURCE:   I received a copy via netgalley!
Thanks so much for letting me review this!

Summary:

Most teens dream of visiting the City of Lights, but it feels more like a nightmare for Sophie Brooks. She and her brother are sent to Paris to spend the summer with their father, who left home a year ago without any explanation. As if his sudden abandonment weren't betrayal enough, he's about to remarry, and they're expected to play nice with his soon-to-be wife and stepdaughter. The stepdaughter, Camille, agrees to show them around the city, but she makes it clear that she will do everything in her power to make Sophie miserable.

Sophie could deal with all the pain and humiliation if only she could practice piano. Her dream is to become a pianist, and she was supposed to spend the summer preparing for a scholarship competition. Even though her father moved to Paris to peruse his own dream, he clearly doesn't support hers. His promise to provided her with a piano goes unfulfilled.

Still, no one is immune to Paris's charm. After a few encounters with a gorgeous French boy, Sophie finds herself warming to the city, particularly when she discovers that he can help her proactive piano. There's just on hitch -- he's a friend of Camille's, and Camille hates Sophie. While the summer Sophie dreaded promises to become the best summer of her life, one person could ruin
it all.

            Sophie can imagine doing a million things this summer, however, the last thing she ever expected was to be in Paris. Every other teenager would die to have an experience like this, but Sophie just wants to be home with her mom and her best friend Jenna.....

Review| Hart & Seoul by Kristen Burnham

Hart & Seoul
Author:  Kristen Burnham
Series:  Hart & Seoul #1 
Pages: 256 pages
Publisher: Mascot Books
Release Date: June 4th,2019
Source: Received a copy for review via netgalley

Summary:

Girl meets boy. Boy falls for girl. Girl discovers boy is a runaway K-pop idol in hiding.

Merilee Hart has been doing her best to keep things together since her mother left, her art a welcome escape from her depressing new reality. But things seem to go even more awry the moment her next door neighbor’s enigmatic and mysterious nephew arrives from South Korea. Lee is moody, cocky, and utterly infuriating.
But when Merri’s closest friends betray her and her father crushes her dream of going to art school, Merri finds herself drawn to Lee, who seems to live within even greater shadows than her own. And just when she thought things couldn’t get crazier, Merri’s world is upended when she discovers Lee’s big and bizarre secret…he is none other than a runaway member of the K-pop mega-group Thunder.

It’s not long before Thunder’s fans, the Storm Chasers, begin to close in on Lee, ready to do whatever it takes to return their favorite idol to his rightful place in the band. Faced with the prospect of even more heartbreak and caught up in an international whirlwind that has a life of its own, Merri realizes that she must find a way to mend herself, gain control of her life, and pursue her dreams—her heart and soul depend on it.

So while I've been gone these past couple of years one thing that I really became interested in is K-Pop and k-dramas.  When I read the summary of this book I just knew I had to read it and I am so glad I did! Guys this book made me so incredibly happy! I loved the idea of the book and the actual story itself was so amazing and cute.  

Let me just say that I have yet to read a book like this -- one that really incorporates k-pop and k-dramas like this one did. I loved all the references to Korean Food and Korean words and when Lee and Merri were watching k-dramas that I have also seen, I was in heaven. Living in America I know very few people around me  who are also interested in K-pop bands, so I tend to forget how big of a deal K-pop stars are and the huge fan base they can have. With that being said, it was so interesting to get to experience how a member of a k-pop group may feel. We really got see what it's possibly like under the pressure of being such a huge star and hardly having any privacy. Granted it's fiction, but I am sure that being a K-pop star in real life is even more pressure than displayed here. Even so, I really connected with the characters in this novel.  

Review| Four Days of You And Me

Four Days of You and Me
Author: Miranda Kenneally
Series: Standalone
Pages: 352 pages
Publisher: Sourcebooks Fire
Release Date: May 5th,2020
Source: Received a copy via netgalley
Big Shoutout to Sourcebooks Fire for sending this one to me!

Summary:

A new swoon-worthy romance following a couple's love story on the same date over four years.

Every May 7, the students at Coffee County High School take a class trip. And every year, Lulu’s relationship with Alex Rouvelis gets a little more complicated. Freshman year, they went from sworn enemies to more than friends after a close encounter in an escape room. It’s been hard for Lulu to quit Alex ever since.

Through breakups, make ups, and dating other people, each year’s class trip brings the pair back together and forces them to confront their undeniable connection. From the science museum to an amusement park, from New York City to London, Lulu learns one thing is for sure: love is the biggest trip of all. 

WOW! Okay! Hello friends it’s been a REALLY long time since I’ve done this. I feel like I have to find my reviewing style all over again so bare with me! Let's get in to it, shall we? J

Meet, Lulu Wells. She is your typical, not so typical high school student. Lulu is a very smart and kind, vegan activist. When Lulu comes up with some great ideas to help the school become more eco friendly,  she decides to run for class president of her freshman class. There’s only one problem, Alex Rouvelis. Alex Rouvelis, is Lulu’s enemy  or so she thinks. After one school field trip leads to flirty bantering, suddenly, in Lulu’s eyes, there is more to Alex than just the popular guy. However, just when Lulu thinks things are going her way, they suddenly aren't anymore because let's face it, love isn't easy. Every May 7th, Lulu and Alex are always thrown together, is it faith or is it love? Do they have what it takes to make it through the ups and downs of highschool, love and heartbreak? Follow Alex and Lulu along and find out :)

Top 10 Songs That Will Turn Your Heartbreak into Self-Love

Let's be honest ladies, we've all been there. Heartbreak. It's something that I never want to encounter again, but at the end of the day it's the cycle of love.  As mamma always said, to get to the right one, we all have to experience all of the wrong ones.Throughout the whole cycle of heartbreak, I went through all the emotions-- denial, sadness, acceptance, and finally the self-love stage aka the I'm so much better without you phase. This is the top 10 songs that turned my heartbreak to the, "I'm a bad b*t*h,"phase.

10.) Out of Love by Alessia Cara
Such a bittersweet song that really hit home the second I heard it.
9.) Thank U, Next by Ariana Grande
8.)Make You Miss Me by Sam Hunt
7.)Trust Your Lonely by Alessia Cara
6.)Without Me by Halsey
5.)No Scrubs by TLC
4.) Sue Me By Sabrina Carpenter ( If you haven't heard this song, please go listen now)
3.) Last Hurrah by Bebe Rexha
2.) Don't Call Me Up by Mabel

Of course, the song on repeat right now is...


1.)  Kill This Love by Blackpink
Maybe hoping on the BP train, but this song is the absolute perfect breakup song that makes you realize. Toxic is never good honey.

Always remember to love yourself and that things work out for a reason though you may not be able to understand it right now.