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Q: Post a photo of your favorite coffee mug (or mugs if you can't choose just one)

Tea aficionado with no artistic coffee mug?!? I'm in serious need of help. Keep seeing these around Chapters lately. The resemblance they share with Harry Potter's owl is appealing.

Review: Her Dark Curiosity

The past always comes back to haunt us.

Although, Juliet's heart still yearns for Montgomery and her body aches for the medicine that maintains her animal urges under control -- Juliet wants to rebuild her live. Creating a cure is her only hope, then she can forget everything. Forget Moreau Island. Unfortunately for her, someone something followed her off the island making sure the horrific secret that happened there is out. Will she be able to cure herself before her Dad's friends decide to keep her as an experiment?

Once again, Megan Shepherd used the retell pattern, basing the story on Jekyll and Hyde. The effect wasn't as moving as The Madman's Daughter but only because Dr. Moreau was an evil genius badass and is a tough act to follow. The love triangle remained with a steamy hot sex scene worth rereading. All in all, the book is a nice follow-up to the first, even if, one can't help but ask themselves ''Where is this all leading to?''

Review: Not Exactly a Love Story

Vinnie's mom is tired of being the sole provider for the family. Her solution: divorce -- marrying Vinnie's gym teacher and moving him across the city. One can't blame his rebellion when he picks up the phone, calls his pretty new neighbor and tells her obscenities. Or can we? Will Vinnie learn to control his impulses before he ruins his chance with the only girl who understands him?

Audrey Couloumbis author of Love me Tender gives us another story that deals with parental separation. Vinnie is so composed with his family's rupture, that we sort of expect him to fall apart sooner or later. As always the parents where very well written. Both mother and father played their role in the end of the relationship, making the story quite believable.

A short yet interesting read taking place in the late 70s.

Top Ten Tuesday: Sun gone shine

 

Hosted by The Broke and the Bookish

TOP SUMMER 2014 TBR LIST

With school behind me, I can fully concentrate on my passion -- books and FIFA 2014. Lots of sports themed books made my list this year.

10-A Blind Spot for Boys

Justina Chen

Romance, sports and Machu Pichu!! Can't wait to dive into this one. 

9-The Bridge from Me to You

Lisa Schroeder

Secrets and sports again. The cover just screams summer to me. 

8-Vengeance

Megan Miranda

Been looking forward to reading this sequel the entire winter. Sadly, exams got in the way. 

7-Pride and Prejudice

Jane Austen

I always try to read a classic as often as possible. This is my summer pick. 

6-Catching Jordan

Miranda Kenneally

Starting this sports novel next week. Comes highly recommended.

5-The Indigo Spell

Richelle Mead

Need to catch up on this series. 

4-No One Needs to Know

Amanda Grace

Love triangle plot -- including twins!! How awkwardly entertaining.

3-Endless

Kate Brian

The end of the series. 

2- Wish You Were Italian

Kristin Rae

Best example of reading to escape -- the country that is. Wishing I was in Italy right now.

1-Only Everything

Kieran Scott

Ahh!! A book about Cupid. How could this not top my list. 

Which book made your list?

Review: Shift

Sometimes a relationship ends not by choice, but because someone dies. 

Logan overdosed on his birthday, and now, everyone born after the shift, including his girlfriend Aura can see him until he decides to cross over. In this sequel to Shade, Aura thought she'd lost Logan forever, but it turns out he's still around with plans to start a band made out of post-shifters. Unfortunately, his presence still means turmoil for Aura's current boyfriend, Zachary. How will they get through this again?

Although Shade had an intense amount of romance and tension, Shift was too explanatory. Why are ghosts visible in the first place? What role does Aura play in it all? This time around, Aura was harder to connect with. Guys are not toys -- and playing with other people's feelings just because one is confused doesn't make it right.

Hope she redeems herself in the third installment.