My Bookish Top3: Contemporary Romances Between Best-Friends.

I’m Team Best-Friend!
I never lied about that. When there is a love triangle, I’m always Team Best-Friend 

(that’s why I hate love triangles too much --> the best-friend never gets the girl). 

Anyway, I noticed that contemporary books have some great romances between best-friends. I’ve read some of them… I’ve loved them all.
But there are some of these romances that I love and I still remember with love.
So, today, in my Bookish Top3 I want to share the best I've read this year! 

1.

She's a tomboy. He's the boy next door…

Charlie Reynolds can outrun, outscore, and outwit every boy she knows. But when it comes to being a girl, Charlie doesn't know the first thing about anything. So when she starts working at a chichi boutique to pay off a speeding ticket, she finds herself in a strange new world. To cope with the stress of her new reality, Charlie takes to spending nights chatting with her neighbor Braden through the fence between their yards. As she grows to depend on their nightly Fence Chats, she realizes she's got a bigger problem than speeding tickets-she's falling for Braden. She knows what it means to go for the win, but if spilling her secret means losing him for good, the stakes just got too high.

Fun, original, and endearing, On the Fence is a romantic comedy about finding yourself and finding love where you least expect.

2.

For Macallan and Levi, it was friends at first sight. Everyone says guys and girls can’t be just friends, but these two are. They hang out after school, share tons of inside jokes, their families are super close, and Levi even starts dating one of Macallan’s friends. They are platonic and happy that way.

Eventually they realize they’re best friends — which wouldn’t be so bad if they didn’t keep getting in each other’s way. Guys won’t ask Macallan out because they think she’s with Levi, and Levi spends too much time joking around with Macallan, and maybe not enough time with his date. They can’t help but wonder . . . are they more than friends or are they better off without making it even more complicated?

From romantic comedy superstar Elizabeth Eulberg comes a fresh, fun examination of a question for the ages: Can guys and girls ever really be just friends? Or are they always one fight away from not speaking again — and one kiss away from true love?

3.

1 crush on your best friend +
1 gorgeous, scheming new girl +
1 Mathletics competition =
1 big mess

SIMPLIFY.

Ashley Price doesn’t have much in life after being bullied so hard she had to leave her old school to live with her aunt and uncle in Pittsburgh. But the camera she borrowed from her best friend and secret crush Brendan, and her off the charts math abilities, make things a lot more bearable. Plus, since Brendan is the captain, making the school Mathletes team should be easy. 

But when gorgeous new girl Sofia rolls in and steals Brendan, Ashley's place on the team, and her fragile foothold on the Mansfield Park Prep social totem pole, it’s on. Sofia is everything Ashley left her old school to escape. The only thing Ashley didn’t count on is Sofia’s sexy twin brother Vincent.

Vincent is not only the hottest boy in school, he’s charming, sweet, and he’s got his eye on Ashley. He’s also not taking no for an answer. There's no real reason Ashley shouldn't like Vincent, but with the
battle lines being drawn between her and Sofia, Ashley’s not sure which side he’s on. Or which side she wants him to be on.

She does know Sofia is trouble with a capital T, and she’s determined to make Brendan see it.

SOLVING FOR EX is a YA contemporary romance that remixes Mansfield Park as Clueless meets Mean Girls in a crazy mix of high school society, mathletic competition, and teenage romance.

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My Bookish Top3: Favorite Couples in YA

 

Happy Valentine Day dear friends!

Today, in My bookish Top3 I'd love to share with you my 3 favorite couples in YA books.
Probably they're not the "best couple ever" but for me, they're are. And I could read the books again and again, just to see them together.

1. Hazel and Augustus from The Fault in our stars

I'm in love with you, and I'm not in the business of denying myself the simple pleasure of saying true things. I'm in love with you, and I know that love is just a shout into the void, and that oblivion is inevitable, and that we're all doomed and that there will come a day when all our labor has been returned to dust, and I know the sun will swallow the only earth we'll ever have, and I am in love with you. 

Despite the tumor-shrinking medical miracle that has bought her a few years, Hazel has never been anything but terminal, her final chapter inscribed upon diagnosis. But when a gorgeous plot twist named Augustus Waters suddenly appears at Cancer Kid Support Group, Hazel's story is about to be completely rewritten..

2. June and Day from Legend

Day, the boy from the streets with nothing except the clothes on his back and the earnestness in his eyes, owns my heart. He is beauty, inside and out. He is the silver lining in a world of darkness. He is my light.

What was once the western United States is now home to the Republic, a nation perpetually at war with its neighbors. Born into an elite family in one of the Republic's wealthiest districts, fifteen-year-old June is a prodigy being groomed for success in the Republic's highest military circles. Born into the slums, fifteen-year-old Day is the country's most wanted criminal. But his motives may not be as malicious as they seem. From very different worlds, June and Day have no reason to cross paths - until the day June's brother, Metias, is murdered and Day becomes the prime suspect. Caught in the ultimate game of cat and mouse, Day is in a race for his family's survival, while June seeks to avenge Metias's death. But in a shocking turn of events, the two uncover the truth of what has really brought them together, and the sinister lengths their country will go to keep its secrets. Full of nonstop action, suspense, and romance, this novel is sure to move readers as much as it thrills. 

 3. Mia and Adam from If I Stay

I look at her there in the shadows of the shut-down city, her hair falling onto her face, and I can see her trying to figure out if I’ve lost it. And I have to fight the urge to take her by the shoulders and slam her against a shuttered building until we feel the vibrations ringing through both of us. Because I suddenly want to hear her bones rattle. I want to feel the softness of her flesh give, to hear her gasp as my hip bone jams into her. I want to yank her head back until her neck is exposed. I want to rip my hands through her hair until her breath is labored. I want to make her cry and then lick up the tears. And then I want to take my mouth to hers, to devour her alive, to transmit all the things she can’t understand.

It's been three years since Mia walked out of Adam's life.And three years he's spent wondering why.

When their paths cross again in New York City, Adam and Mia are brought back together for one life-changing night. Adam finally has the opportunity to ask Mia the questions that have been haunting him. But will a few hours in this magical city be enough to lay their past to rest, for good - or can you really have a second chance at first love?.

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My Bookish Top3: Best Magical Worlds

 

Hey! 

Wecome to another day of My bookish Top3. 
Today I want to share with you my favorite magical worlds from the books I have read (I don't read a lot of high-fantasy, though I know those books have some wonderful worlds).

What I look in some fantasy books are cool names, an unique and special setting and magic, a lot of magic!

That's why today I want you to meet my 3 favorite (the best!) magical worlds from the books I've read!

1. Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas.

I was lucky enough to meet the awesome world of Thone of Glass this month and I am still thrilled of how awesome it was.

I am one of those persons that put all the attention in the names. And if I like the names, that means that I want to know everything about the thing with those names. So, I was, and I am absolutely in love with terms like: the Wyrd. Places like: Rifthol, Eyllwe, Erilea, Endovier, Calaculla. Titles like: the Assassin’s Guild, Adarlan’s assassin, the Lord of the Pirates, The Silent Assassins of the Red Desert, etc.

Sarah J. Maas has created a magic world so unique and beautiful, plus awesome characters and an incredible plot.
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2.  The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

One of the main reasons why I love this series so much is because Cassie Clare was the reason I became a full-time reader. It was the magic world of the shadowhunters that took my breath away since the first time I found out about these books.

The Mortal Instruments has all the things I was looking as a young adult, charming characters, half blooded warriors, angels, vampires, werewolves, fairies, and a lot of magic!

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3. The Iron Fey by Julie Kagawa.

And then Julie Kagawa made me love fairytales. The Iron king was my first time in the Summer and Winter courts (Seelie and Unseelie). And yeah, since a lot of people knew about Oberon, Titania, Mag and Puck, it was Julie who came with the awesome idea of “Iron” fey.

This series take us to the Nevernever, Tir Na Nog, the Wyld Wood and so many magical places that –to be honest– I can’t remember the now. Anyway, with each book, Julie Kagawa brings to life new and more deadly kinds of faeries. 

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My bookish Top3: Best adaptations of Greek Mythology

 

If you have been putting attention to all those new series, you certainly realized that greek myth is very popular these days. I have read a lot of books where Greek gods have a special role.

So, today for my Top3 I want to share what I think are my favorite books starring greek mythology.

Probably they're not the best of all the time. But they have been the best for me. 

1. The covenant series by Jennifer L. Armentrout.

This is a story about descendants of gods -pure and half blood. We can see in these books: gods like Poseidon, Hades, Apollo, furies, oracles, sentinels, etc.
 

The Hematoi descend from the unions of gods and mortals, and the children of two Hematoi pure bloods have godlike powers. Children of Hematoi and mortals--well, not so much. Half-bloods only have two options: become trained Sentinels who hunt and kill daimons or become servants in the homes of the pures. Seventeen-year-old Alexandria would rather risk her life fighting than waste it scrubbing toilets, but she may end up slumming it anyway. There are several rules that students at the Covenant must follow. Alex has problems with them all, but especially rule #1:Relationships between pures and halfs are forbidden. Unfortunately, she's crushing hard on the totally hot pure-blood Aiden. But falling for Aiden isn't her biggest problem--staying alive long enough to graduate the Covenant and become a Sentinel is. If she fails in her duty, she faces a future worse than death or slavery: being turned into a daimon, and being hunted by Aiden. And that would kind of suck.

2. Everneath by Brodi Ashton.

More than a greek adaptation, this is a great love story that reminds me of the tale of Persephone. And it's placed in the Everneath - the underworld, the Hades, whatever you learned to call it.

Last spring, Nikki Beckett vanished, sucked into an underworld known as the Everneath. Now she’s returned—to her old life, her family, her boyfriend—before she’s banished back to the underworld . . . this time forever. She has six months before the Everneath comes to claim her, six months for good-byes she can’t find the words for, six months to find redemption, if it exists. Nikki longs to spend these precious months forgetting the Everneath and trying to reconnect with her boyfriend, Jack, the person most devastated by her disappearance—and the one person she loves more than anything. But there’s just one problem: Cole, the smoldering immortal who enticed her to the Everneath in the first place, has followed Nikki home. Cole wants to take over the throne in the underworld and is convinced Nikki is the key to making it happen. And he’ll do whatever it takes to bring her back, this time as his queen. As Nikki’s time on the Surface draws to a close and her relationships begin slipping from her grasp, she is forced to make the hardest decision of her life: find a way to cheat fate and remain on the Surface with Jack or return to the Everneath and become Cole’s queen.

3. Doomed by Tracy Deebs.

Like the name of the main character, this book is a modern adaptation to the story of Pandora, the woman created by Zeus to bring the evil to this world.

I've read some people didn't like this book because they didn't believe the world could be destroyed without technology. But I think that this book was a great adaptation to the story of Pandora, and since it was "fiction" for me, it was amazing!

Pandora's an average teen, glued to her cell phone and laptop, until the day her long-lost father sends her a link to a mysterious site featuring photos of her as a child. Curious, Pandora enters the site, unwittingly unleashing a global computer virus that plunges the whole world into panic: suddenly, there's no Internet. No cell phones. No traffic lights, hospitals or law enforcement. Only Pandora's Box, a virtual-reality game created by Pandora's father, remains up and running. Together with her neighbors, gorgeous stepbrothers Eli and Theo, Pandora must follow the photographs from her childhood in an attempt to beat the game and track down her father—and rescue the world. Part The Matrix, part retelling of the Pandora myth, Doomed has something for gaming fans, dystopian fans, and romance fans alike.

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My bookish Top 3: Best first lines

 

Have you ever felt "trapped" by a book since the first line you read?

Well, there are some books that leave you so excited to read the next lines, the next pages, the next chapters! just by reading the awesome introduction the authors create!
That's why today I want to share with you my favorite (and the best, for me) first lines of a book.

1

 

"My name is not Mara Dyer, but my lawyer told me I had to choose something. a pseudonym, a nom de plume, for all of us studying for the SATs. I know that having a fake name is strange, but trust me—it’s the most normal thing about my life right now..."

2

 

“My father took one hundred and thirty-two minutes to die.

I counted.

It happened on the Jellicoe Road. The prettiest road I’d ever seen..."

 3

I’ve been locked up for 264 days.

I have nothing but a small notebook and a broken pen and the numbers in my head to keep me company. 1 window. 4 walls. 144 square feet of space. 26 letters in an alphabet I haven’t spoken in 264 days of isolation.

6,336 hours since I’ve touched another human being.

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My Bookish Top 3: Favorite Time Travel Books!

 

This week my Top 3 is about Time Travel books. Yes! because I love to be in another time, and I love to read how modern guys act in those places or situations!
Check out my 3 favorite Time travel books.

1

 

One hour to rewrite the past...

For seventeen-year-old Emerson Cole, life is about seeing what isn't there: swooning Southern Belles; soldiers long forgotten; a haunting jazz trio that vanishes in an instant. Plagued by phantoms since her parents' death, she just wants the apparitions to stop so she can be normal. She's tried everything, but the visions keep coming back.

So when her well-meaning brother brings in a consultant from a secretive organization called the Hourglass, Emerson's willing to try one last cure. But meeting Michael Weaver may not only change her future, it may also change her past.

Who is this dark, mysterious, sympathetic guy, barely older than Emerson herself, who seems to believe every crazy word she says? Why does an electric charge seem to run through the room whenever he's around? And why is he so insistent that he needs her help to prevent a death that never should've happened?

 2

IT'S A RACE AGAINST TIME.

In Remembrance, Lizzie and Drew changed the course of fate so they could be together.

In Vengeance, Chelsea set fate back on its original, deadly path. 

Now, strange things keep happening to Lizzie. Things that are omens of darkness to come. A curse has doomed her to die an early death, just as she did in her past life. To make matters worse, even if she can figure out who cast the curse, it's irreversible. There's only one option left for her to save herself. It's crazier than anything she's heard yet, and to do it, she'll need Drew and Chelsea's help.

Because to make things right, they must go back to when it all began ... and Lizzie discovers that the final events in her past life were more sinister than she ever imagined.

3

When tragedy strikes Michele Windsor’s world, she is forced to uproot her life and move across the country to New York City, to live with the wealthy, aristocratic grandparents she’s never met. In their old Fifth Avenue mansion filled with a century’s worth of family secrets, Michele discovers a diary that hurtles her back in time to the year 1910. There, in the midst of the glamorous Gilded Age, Michele meets the young man with striking blue eyes who has haunted her dreams all her life – a man she always wished was real, but never imagined could actually exist. And she finds herself falling for him, into an otherworldly, time-crossed romance.

Michele is soon leading a double life, struggling to balance her contemporary high school world with her escapes into the past. But when she stumbles upon a terrible discovery, she is propelled on a race through history to save the boy she loves – a quest that will determine the fate of both of their lives.

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My Bookish TOP 3: Best Dystopian of 2012

 My bookish Top 3 is a weekly segment where I show you my favorite 3 favorite things about books.

I'm a huge fan of list. But sometimes my lists are too long that I prefer to do a lot of little list. And that's why I'm posting my bookish Top 3.

One of my favorite genres of recent times are the dystopian. But I have read many dystopian books, and all they were very good, so, I began to categorize them by tags. 

Today I present my tags: dystopian, 2012. 

You could say they were my 3 favorite dystopian books of this year. I hope that if you haven't read them, decide to give them a chance because they deserve it.

1. The Immortal Rules (Blood of Eden #1)

Julie Kagawa.

 

I loved all the books in the Iron Fey series of this writer and I was one of the lucky ones to have a copy of the book before publication. I must say I fell in love! This book is the beginning of a fantastic trilogy.  

Besides being a dystopian book with all the factors of this genre that I love, it is also about vampires, friendship and feelings of people like trust, love and disdain. It's wonderful!!

2. Pandemonium (Delirium #2)

Lauren Oliver

 

After Delirium broke my heart, I was afraid of what would Pandemonium. Again I was lucky to read an advance copy and again it broke my heart. This was the only book in a while that has left me depressed for a week ... and not only due to the end so stupendous, but the fact of knowing that I have to wait so long to read the end ... I'm dying!  

In this sequel you can expect the best of the author, although a little less action, romance, contradictions, pain and love.

3. Insurgent (Divergent #2)

Veronica Roth

 

This time, the continuation of Divergent takes third place, because to my view it was a bit weaker than the first book. This story is amazing, yes, but there was a "I-don't-know-what" that left me wanting more. But on this journey through the world of Tris, we find more action than before, doubt, guilt, longing, betrayal. It's totally brilliant.

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