Ink and Bone by Lisa Unger

I was given an ARC in exchange of an honest review.

In this explosive psychological thriller by New York Timesbestselling author Lisa Unger, a young woman’s mysterious gift forces her into the middle of a dangerous investigation of a little girl’s disappearance.

For as long as she can remember, twenty-year-old Finley Montgomery has been able to see into the future. She dreams about events before they occur and sees beyond the physical world, unconsciously using her power to make supernatural things happen.

But Finley can’t control these powers—and there’s only one person who can help. So Finley moves to The Hollows, a small town in upstate New York where her grandmother lives, a renowned seer who can finally teach Finley how to use her gift.

A gift that is proving to be both a blessing and a curse, as Finley lands in the middle of a dangerous investigation involving a young girl who has been missing for ten months and the police have all but given up hope.

With time running out there’s only so much Finley can do as The Hollows begins to reveal its true colors. As she digs deeper into the town and its endless layers, nothing is what it seems. But one thing is clear: The Hollows gets what it wants, no matter what. 


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I was talking with a friend today about how hard it is to write a review about a book that you didn´t like.

Because someone took its time to write about something and for you just say it´s awful, It´s not the best feeling.

But to write about a book you loved it´s really easy, you almost can´t stop writing about it.

So, to make a long story short, I loved this book.

It´s a well written mistery with a well done twist to keep you alert and hooked to the story.

Lisa Unger has certainly become one of my fav authors.

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Eu estava falando com uma amiga hoje sobre o quão difícil é fazer uma resenha sobre um livro que você não gostou.



Porque alguém tomou seu tempo para escrever sobre algo e para você, apenas dizer que esse livro é horrível, não é o melhor dos sentimentos.



Mas escrever sobre um livro que você ama é muito fácil, você quase não consegue parar de escrever sobre ele.



Então, para encurtar a estória, amei este livro.



É um mistério bem escrito com uma reviravolta bem feita para mantê-lo alerta e engajado na estória.




Lisa Unger certamente se tornou uma das minhas autoras favoritas.

One of the guys by Shiloh Walker

I was given an ARC in exchange of an honest review.

One of the Guys Shiloh Walker Jaynie knew that her fiancée had some serious menage fantasies going on, but she never expected to catch him acting them out. As if that pain isn't enough, he tells her she couldn't be a real woman if she tried. Reeling from the double blow, confidence shattered, Jaynie turns to Brian, her sexy partner at work. One night, she tells him. She wants one night with him, no strings attached. Brian feels plenty of strings and it's as if all of them are pulling him toward Jaynie. She's sexy, she's funny and she haunts his dreams. Memories of that one night keep him awake and he's dying for another taste of her. But Jaynie doesn't seem at all interested. What's a man to do?

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It was a good book, if you take the cheating part aside. 

Jaynie and Brian has a lot of chemistry. Brian it´s a sweetheart towards Jaynie, and deals quite well with her request.

Not really original, but its worthy the time taken to read it.


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Foi um bom livro, se você colocar a traição de lado.



Jaynie e Brian têm muita química. E ele é um amor para Jaynie, e lida muito bem com o pedido dela.




Não é realmente original, mas vale o tempo necessário para lê-lo.

Playinf defense By Cate Cameron

I was given an ARC in exchange of an honest review.

Sixteen-year-old Claudia Waring has never kissed a boy. Never been popular. Never been to a hockey game. All that’s about to change. Assigned to tutor Chris Winslow, a prank-loving, gorgeous hockey player, Claudia’s perfectly planned life immediately veers off course. And she kind of likes it. But as fun as Chris is, she knows she'll never fit in his world.

After his latest prank lands him in hot water, Chris has to get serious about school or lose hockey. Not an easy thing for someone as carefree as the defenseman. The biggest problem, though, is how much he wants to help his cute, buttoned-up tutor loosen up a little. But while confidence has never been a problem for him, around Claudia, Chris is all nerves. Why would a girl as smart as her ever fall for a jock like him?

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It certainly was a sweet and easy read. 

Nothing really exceptional, but a nice way to spend a lazy afternoon. 

What I like it best about this book was the idea of a women (girls) club to support and help each other become your better self. And Chris was the first man(boy) to join the club. 

It has a nice ring to it, I only wish we women were as supportive of each other as they were in the book. Girl power all the way and back.

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Certamente foi uma leitura fácil e doce. 

Nada realmente excepcional, mas uma ótima maneira de passar uma tarde preguiçosa. 

O que eu mais gostei deste livro foi a idéia de um clube de mulheres (meninas) para apoiar e ajudar umas as outras a se tornarem a melhor versão de si mesmas. E o Chris foi o primeiro homem a se juntar ao clube. 

É uma grande idéia. Eu só queria que as mulheres se apoiassem umas as outras na vida real, como fazem na estória. Girl power indo e voltando.

Remember to forget by Ashley Royer

I was given an ARC in exchange of an honest review.

In Remember to Forget from Watty Award-winning author Ashley Royer, Levi has refused to speak since the tragic death of his girlfriend, Delia, and can't seem to come out of his depression and hindering self-doubt. Desperate to make some positive change in Levi’s life, his mother sends him to live with his father in Maine. Though the idea of moving from Australia to America seems completely daunting, Levi passively accepts his fate, but once he lands faces personal struggles and self-doubt at the same time he and his dad battle through resentment and misunderstanding. And then, while at therapy, Levi meets Delilah, a girl who eerily reminds him of someone he lost

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This book was a good surprise. You realize the author really researched about mental illnesses, and took her time to make it believeble, though it was kind of rushed form the second half on.

But, if you consider that it was written by a teenager, it was really great. I think she was really brave to write about a subject so hard, and where many has failed before her.

If you want read this book waiting for a romance, you´ll be severely disappointed. It focus on Levi his mental illness and how he cope, or not cope, with it.

It´s really worthy of your time.

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Este livro foi uma boa surpresa. Você percebe que a autora realmente pesquisou sobre doenças mentais, e levou o tempo necessário para tornar o livro crível, embora tenha sido meio apressado na segunda metade.



Mas, se você considera que foi escrito por uma adolescente, foi realmente ótimo. Eu acho que ela foi realmente corajosa por escrever sobre um assunto tão difícil, e onde muitos falharam.



Se você quiser ler este livro aguardando um romance, ficará seriamente desapontado. Ele se concentra em Levi, sua doença mental e como ele lida, ou não com isso.




É realmente digno do seu tempo.

How to catch a falling star by Gabrielle Aquilina

I was given an ARC in exchange of an honest review.

The much anticipated sequel to the new adult bestseller "How to Catch a (Rock) Star"

Johnny Moretti, bassist of American rock band The Dead Hour, is hot, single and in demand with women, but he’s becoming disillusioned with the rock star lifestyle. Not that he wants to settle down like his band mate, Jed. Hell, no. He just wants something more out of life than meaningless hook-ups.

While filming for a popular UK chat show, he meets American TV actress Darcy Swanson for the second time. As with the first time they met, there’s no love lost between them so when their lives are thrown together unexpectedly when a traumatic incident involving movie superstar Jack Ford occurs, neither knows quite how to handle it.

With Johnny facing prison and Darcy’s hard-earned career in serious jeopardy, they both need to confront their pasts and face up to the truth, but are they be brave enough to do it?

A web of Hollywood cover-ups begins to surface, but will Johnny and Darcy be the first spark to light the fire and run the risk of getting seriously burnt or will they stay silent and suffer the consequences? 

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I really don´t know why I requested this book, since the first one wasn´t one of my favorites, far from it, it barely made two stars. 

This one, wasn´t good as well. I know women empowerment is all the rage right now, but it was more a whiny woman than a empowered one, and it was quite difficult to finish.

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Eu realmente não sei por que solicitei esse livro, já que o primeiro não foi um dos meus favoritos, longe disso, quase não fazia duas estrelas.



Este também não foi bom. Eu sei que o empoderamento fminino é um tema super atual, mas ela era mais uma chorona do que empoderada, e foi bastante difícil terminar.

The curse of tenth grave by Darynda Jones

I was given an ARC in exchange of an honest review.

As a part-time PI and full-time grim reaper, Charley Davidson has asked a lot of questions throughout her life: 

* Why can I see dead people? 
* Who is the hot supernatural entity following me? 
* How do I get gum out of my sister’s hair before she wakes up? 
* But, “How do I trap not one malevolent god, but three?” was never among them. Until now. And since those gods are on earth to kill her daughter, she has little choice but to track them down, trap them, and cast them from this dimension.

There’s just one problem. One of the three stole her heart a very long time ago. Can the Razer, a god of absolute death and destruction, change his omniscient spots, or will his allegiances lie with his brothers?

Those are just a few of the questions Charley must answer, and quick. Add to that a homeless girl running for her life, an innocent man who’s been charged with murder, and a pendant made from god glass that has the entire supernatural world in an uproar, and Charley has her hands full. If she can manage to take care of the whole world-destroying-gods thing, we’re saved. If not, well…

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Darynda Jones has become one of my favorite authors since I read the first book of Charley Davidson´s series.

Charley it´s a witty, badass P.I. who hook me in with her sassiness and banter with Sookie and Reyes, the ultimate stud. OMG, he´s just perfection in every way possible.

The Curse in tenth grave it´s a long way from the first grave on the right, all the characters has grown in its depth and Charley prove to be not only, sassiness, but a woman who would do evrything to save her loved ones.

Charley and Reyes forever.

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Darynda Jones tornou-se uma das minhas autoras favoritas desde que li o primeiro livro da série de Charley Davidson.

Charley é uma espirituosa, e fodona detetive particular. que me cativou com o seu atrevimento, ironia e gracejo com  a Sookie e o Reyes, o garanhão, :). AMD,  ele é apenas a perfeição em todas as formas possíveis.

The Curse in tenth grave está muito longe de The first grave on the right, todos os personagens cresceram em profundidade e Charley se revela não só, atrevimento e gracejos, mas uma mulher que faria tudo para salvar seus entes queridos.

Charley e Reyes para sempre.

A new beginning / Um novo começo

Hey everybody, it´s been two years since everything went downhill in my life. I utterly changed it all of it. From address to job, weight, clothes, hair. Who knew me two years ago, may not recognize me anymore.

It was hard, really hard. I was afraid to change. I cried myself to sleep for many nights. But now, I feel like I´m the person I was always supposed to be, but was to afraid to take the reins of my own life.

It´s been lonely, after all, I lost my friends pre-marriage because of him, and I did not make new friends during my time with him, It was always his friends and family. Wich I left all behind.

Now I work in tourism, my passion since I was a teen, and I´m back to college, which is not easy when you are a 30, almost 40 year old mother of 3 teenagers, who will likely be in college at the same time as me, but I´m extremely happy, and I could never ask for more. Except, maybe my own house. That would be perfect.

Well, thank you all for your messages through the dark times, and know: " Baby, I´m back"

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Oi, gente, já tem dois anos que tudo foi por água abaixo na minha vida. Eu realmente mudei tudo nela. Do meu endereço ao meu trabalho, peso, roupas, cabelo. Quem me conheceu há dois anos, talvez não me reconheça mais.



Foi difícil, muito difícil. Eu tinha medo de mudar. Eu chorei até dormir por muitas noites. Mas agora, eu sinto que sou a pessoa que eu sempre deveria ter sido, mas tinha medo de tomar as rédeas da minha própria vida.



Foi solitário, afinal, perdi meus amigos pré-casamento por causa dele, e não fiz novos amigos durante meu tempo com ele. Foram sempre os amigos e familiares dele. E deixei todos para trás.



Agora eu trabalho no turismo, minha paixão desde que eu era adolescente, e voltei para a faculdade, o que não é fácil quando você é uma mãe de 30, quase 40 anos, de 3 adolescentes, que provavelmente estarão na faculdade no mesmo tempoque eu. Mas, estou extremamente feliz e nunca poderia pedir mais. Exceto, talvez, minha própria casa. Isso seria perfeito.



Bem, obrigado a todos por suas mensagens nos tempos sombrios e saiba: "Baby, I´m back"