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"

Wanting More (Love on Campus #2) by Jessica Ruddick

I can’t stop wanting her…

Bri Welch likes to play it safe. I don’t. She’s wound tight, and I’m all about a good party. But there’s something about her that makes me want to pull those uptight layers away one-by-delicious-one. But the worst thing is she makes me want more…


I love books set in college. And this one was witty, funny and sweet. Joshua like to put up a show about how he doesn´t care but he does care, a lot. He and Bri are awesome together.

Hard Times

For those of you who doesn't know me outside of the virtual world I would like to explain why I have been off for so long. I have been through a lot this year, I´m getting through a financial crisis since last year, I´ve been through some health issues as well. I´ve been assaulted and I was also involved in an accident. As if this wasn´t enough Im´getting through a nasty divorce after 18 years of marriage, and after 2 months apart, The one who must not be named already have another woman. He doesn´t have money to buy food, but he has money to buy gas so he can see her. But, the worst part of all is that My kids are with him. Because I can´t afford to rent a place where we all can live together. I´m living with my mother in a small house, faraway from everything and right in the middle of a terrible neighborhood. So, that´s a little about why I was off since the beginning of the year, but I´m trying to come back little by little. I miss you all.

P.S.: I´m thinking about tatto this phrase in the day I sign the divorce papers

Flawless by Heather Graham

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

Everyone goes to Finnegan's… 

It's a pub in lower Manhattan, run by the Finnegan family for generations and now owned by Kieran and her three brothers. Kieran Finnegan, who still works there whenever she can, has become a criminal psychologist—a fitting reaction, perhaps, to her less-than-lawful past. 

Meanwhile, New York's Diamond District has been hit by a rash of thefts. No one's been killed—until now. FBI agent Craig Frasier is brought in to investigate; he and Kieran meet at a jewelry store in the middle of a heist. She's there to "unsteal" a flawless stone taken by her light-fingered youngest brother as an act of vengeance. He's there to stop the gang. 

But the police and FBI soon discover that there are two gangs of diamond thieves, the original and a copycat group of killers. And the second group seems to think their scheme is as flawless as the stones they steal. 

Thrown together by circumstance, drawn together by attraction, Kieran and Craig both end up working on the case. Unfortunately, there's more and more evidence that, somehow, the pub is involved. Because everyone goes to Finnegan's…

It was such a honor to me to receive this ARC, I love Heather´s books. And it was even better than I expected. I loved how the story developed and the characters were deep. 

I loved the Finnegans, they´re just perfect. I want a family like that.