June Book Wrap Up

Let's give a warm welcome to July. Been looking forward to this month for a while, since soon my summer vacation will start :) I work until July 20 and then I'll have 5 long weeks of a summer break.

Now, let's talk about books and I would love to share what I have been reading through the last month, so this is my June book wrap up.

Everland by Wendy Spinale (4 stars of 5)

Need To Know by Karen Cleveland (4 stars of 5)

An Ember In The Ashes by Sabaa Tahir (3 stars of 5)

Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen (5 stars of 5)

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff (5 stars of 5)

Beartown by Fredrik Backman (3 stars of 5)

Listen To Your Heart by Kasie West (3 stars of 5)

To Kill A Kingdom by Alexandra Christo (2 stars of 5)

So, this is my collection of 8 books that I read in June.

How many books did you read in the month of June? :)

The Sunday Post

Happy Sunday readers, hope your week has been great. My week as pretty chill as I was at home 2 days from work as my little girl wasn't feeling well, so mostly I just enjoyed the great summer weather we've been having :) 

But this weekend has been my work weekend (I work every other weekend beside from a few days a week), so the weekend has been busier for me. 

Time to do a nice wrap up for week 26 ♥

A Book I've Finished

Everland by Wendy Spinale I listen to on audiobook and I'm glad I started this nice trilogy that is a Peter Pan retelling. Really enjoyed it.


Book I'm Currently Reading

I'm reading right now Saint Anything by Sarah Dessen and I've read 298 pages of 417, so I think I will finish it pretty soon cause it's a book that I've been able to read fast.

The Audiobook I'm Currently Listening To

I started this week the audiobook The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert. I've had my eye on this book for a while and it's been on my Goodreads tbr list, so a couple of days ago I just decided it is time to check it out :)

Bookstagram Account I Like

@kimmersbook is a pretty new account for me as I discovered him a few days ago. But I like what he is doing as he features other bookstagrammers pictures on his account and link to them. So that's nice and it's a good way for his followers to find new great accounts.

He also does a lot of Insta stories live and have a podcast :)

Book Review

This week book review I published is for the book Need To Know by Karen Cleveland and you can find the review here.

Favorite Booktube Video

Bookables is a Youtube channel by Heather and I've followed her since last year and always enjoy watching her stuff :) Booktube is my favorite kind of videos.
One of the videos she posted this week is about her giving some summer read recommendations and you can watch the video here.

New Book I Got This Week

A book that I got in the mail this week that I bought with several other books this month is The Hating Game by Sally Thorne. Wanted to read it since I first heard of it and it's a great book to read now in the summer (that's what I've heard :)), so I just had to order it and I'm saving it cause I want to read it when my summer vacation starts from week 30.

Let's Chat

Now I'm curious to hear what book you finished this week and what your current read are? 

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Book Blogger Hop

Book Blogger Hop is a weekly meme hosted by Ramblings of a Coffee Addicted Writer, where you answer a question and join a "hop". The purpose is to help bloggers discover and get to know one another.

This week's question is from Elizabeth @ Silver's Reviews:

Do you have an Instagram account? If so, do you only follow book folks?

I do have a personal account where I post more family life and lifestyle. But I also have a Bookstagram account where I only share my obsession about books and I only follow other bookish people on that account. My Bookstagram account is @latteandabook.

Need To Know - Karen Cleveland

It's Wednesday and I have a new book review to share with you today, a book that I flew through.

Need To Know by Karen Cleveland

My Thoughts

This is the first CIA and spy kind of thriller I've read and when I read saw reviews about it and the synopsis caught me, I just felt that I need to read this one. I requested a review copy of this book translated into Swedish that recently was released and I'm so happy I got it :)

Even if the subject and story are not like what I'm used to reading about, I was pretty sure that I would enjoy this book. I knew it from the first chapter. 

I really felt bad for the character Vivian...I mean, to realize that your relationship is a big lie and with many secrets. We follow Vivian when she has to struggle hard with figuring out her life and what is right and wrong. 

The book comes with several exciting moments that made me just want to keep reading, it was difficult to put it down sometimes :)

My rate is 4 of 5

5 Book series I plan not to finish

This week topic for Top Ten Tuesday which ThatArtsyReaderGirl.com is the founder of is 10 series or trilogies I don't plan to finish. But I actually don't have that many series that I don't plan to finish, so for this week, I had to narrow it down to 5 :)

Hush Hush by Becca Fitzpatrick

I started to listen to this series on audiobook and I liked the first one and gave it a 4 star rate, so I continued with the second book. The second book called Crescendo turned out to be more of a 3 star book for me and after that, I wasn't that much into this series. I have no plans to listen to the third book in the near future :)

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

This one I also listen to on audiobook and I had high hopes for it, but I ended up rating it 3 star and it wasn't a book for me. So, I'm pretty sure I will stop with this first book.

The Iron Fey by Julie Kagawa

Last year I bought the whole series of 4 books and I ended up reading only the first one. The rest is standing on my shelf and keep staring at me and I have no idea when or if I will ever pick them up and finish the The Iron Fey series :) The first was ok, but it's like I don't feel drawn to continue the series, so I'm pretty sure I won't finish it.

  

The Mortal Instruments by Cassandra Clare

It's not that I don't like The Mortal Instruments and I'm still curious about other books by Cassandra Clare, but I don't think I will finish this series honestly. I own the first book and I've listened to 1 or 2 other books in this series on audiobook, but further, than that, I haven't come.

There will always be other book series that appeals to me more, so I don't think I will be able to finish The Mortal Instruments.

Fifty Shades of Grey by E L James

Sorry, but I can't take these books anymore. They are so tiring and I was sick of it after the half of the first book. I own 2 of 3 and I know for sure I won't read any more of these :)  I'm not fond of the movies either, but I did give them a chance. 

One part of me can somehow understand why people like them, but my other part can't :)

Here you have it, these 5 book series is probably the one I won't finish or have plans for it in the near future.

Have you completed any of these series and what are your thoughts? 

Beach Reads

Top Ten Tuesday is a recurring list of book lovers/book blogger and thanks to Jana from ThatArtsyReadersGirl.com, I got the chance to find several new bloggers who love books as you get a chance to link your post on her blog when you attend Top Ten Tuesday. So I'll try to attend as often as I can because it would be great to get in touch with more book bloggers :)

The week's topic is "Beach Reads" and for summer and many have begun or are going to go on holiday soon and for me who read a lot, I feel like reading some beautiful summer books that will take place in the summer and easy-going books that are cute, romantic and feelgood.
I would, therefore, like to suggest 10 books that I think are suitable beach reads that I have either read already and can recommend or books that I know are appropriate and that I know I will read.

Alex, Approximately / Me Before You / Listen To Your Heart / The Hating Game / I See London, I See France

The Kiss Quotient / Along For The Ride / Save The Date / All Your Perfects / Simon vs. The Homo Sapiens Agenda

Do you have any favorite books that are a great choice during summertime?

The Way I Used to Be - Amber Smith

Happy Monday readers, a new week ahead and hope your weekend was awesome. Today I have a review based on a audiobook I listen to at the beginning of May.

Synopsis

In the tradition of Speak, this extraordinary debut novel shares the unforgettable story of a young woman as she struggles to find strength in the aftermath of an assault.

Eden was always good at being good. Starting high school didn’t change who she was. But the night her brother’s best friend rapes her, Eden’s world capsizes.

What was once simple, is now complex. What Eden once loved—who she once loved—she now hates. What she thought she knew to be true, is now lies. Nothing makes sense anymore, and she knows she’s supposed to tell someone what happened but she can’t. So she buries it instead. And she buries the way she used to be.

Told in four parts—freshman, sophomore, junior, and senior year—this provocative debut reveals the deep cuts of trauma. But it also demonstrates one young woman’s strength as she navigates the disappointment and unbearable pains of adolescence, of first love and first heartbreak, of friendships broken and rebuilt, and while learning to embrace a power of survival she never knew she had hidden within her heart.'

My Thoughts

It started very good and sad for that matters and in the beginning, it felt like a book that I will enjoy listen to. Sadly, after a while I really didn't enjoy it at all cause over and over I had to remind myself that the main character is only a teenager. I started to feel very sad for Eden and as a mother to a 15-year-old son, it was difficult as a mother and I felt very sad for her.

As the book and story went ahead it was like everything went downhill, I was missing something. I mean, where were her parents in all this. It was only about her, her brother, her friends, that boy who raped her. As long as I was listening to the book, the parents weren't included at all. 

I got the feeling and how she acted, it was like Eden was older so that's why I forgot all the time that she is that young :) 

It has great reviews on Goodreads and I can see why younger people like it, it's a YA book and it has a deep topic which I know many can relate to, unfortunately. I couldn't listen to the whole book but the most part and as I can't relate to the character it wasn't a book that stuck with me. 

I give The Way I Used to Be 2 stars of 5.

April Book Haul

Happy Saturday, hope your weekend has been good this far. I'm working this weekend but hope to get some reading done as well.

In April I got some great book packages from different publishers and I'm so thankful for all of them and I'm planning to read them all soon, cause I'm too curious of course :)

Here are the books that I've got, but honestly I did get a couple more but they are only in Swedish now as they are from Swedish authors, so I thought I could skip those in this post as I want to stick to share books that I know most people who read my blog can get access to :) 

The Last Mrs. Parrish - Liv Constantine

The Silent Corner - Dean Koontz

Every Last Lie - Mary Kubica

The Thing About Love - Julie James

We Were On A Break - Lindsey Kelk

This is the list of my April haul with 5 books I've got recently and can't wait to read them. I will make sure not to wait too long with any of them :) As you can see that all of them are Swedish copies and even if I don't mind reading in English, I've been preferring to read in my native language lately cause than I can read a little faster. 

Have you got any good books lately?