After You - Jojo Moyes

Ahh...the long awaited sequel to Me before You by Jojo Moyes. I loved Me before You (I wrote a review earlier on this book in case you want to read it) and been waiting for this since the day I found out there was going to be a second book. If you haven't read the first book then you should do that before you continue to read this review. This have some spoilers.

The Blurb:

Lou Clark has lots of questions.

Like how it is she's ended up working in an airport bar, spending every shift watching other people jet off to new places.

Or why the flat she's owned for a year still doesn't feel like home.

Wether her close-knit family can forgive her for what she did eighteen months ago.

And will she ever get over the love of her life.

What Lou does not know for certain is that something has to change.

Then, one night, it does.

But does the stranger on her doorstep hold the answers Lou is searching for - or just more questions?

Close the door and life continues: simple, ordered, safe.

Open it and she risks everything.

But Lou once made a promise to live. And if she's going to keep it, she has to invite them in...

My Thoughts:

I loved it and I want more! I was so happy to read about Lou again after few years. I smiled and laughed and also had tears in my eyes while reading this. (The same happened when I read Me before You.) It's not very often you get to read about what happens with characters after you have finished a book so for me it was nice to read about Lou again and see where she was and what she was doing after the huge loss of a loved one. Did she keep his promise to live her life? Where is she now and what is she doing? This is a few of the questions you get the answers to when reading this book. This is a charming, loving and heart-warming sequel that I'm so going to read again and again. 

The ending was great and I really hope Jojo Moyes is going to write more about Lou's new and better life. 

"Don't think of me too often...

Just live well.

Just live.

Love,

Will" 

5/5

You - Caroline Kepnes

The vampire diaries on twitter talked about this book earlier this year and I wanted to check it out so I bought it this summer. This is the first book in the You series (I think it was going to be a trilogy but not sure). It's also the first book I've read of Caroline Kepnes so i didn't know much about her or her books. I heard this was a book about a stalker and that was it.

The Blurb:
When Guinevere Beck strides into the bookshop where Joe works, he is instantly smitten. And so begins an attraction that quickly spirals into a whirlwind of deadly consequences.

A chilling of unrelenting, terrifying obsession, Caroline Kepnes' You is a thriller more perversely clever and dangerously twisted than any You have ever read.

My Thoughts:
Not sure where to start with this one but one thing for sure: this is a twisted story about a stalker called Joe. And it's so weird reading it because you read it from Joe's perspective and he only talks about her (you do this, I don't like that you do that and so on. That kind of perspective). It's creepy and scary and the worst thing of all is that I kinda sided with Joe sometimes while reading this. I also got a bit annoyed at the girl he was stalking too.. so yeah..weird...but I'm going to continue to read this series because it was something about this book that I just want to keep reading it.



3/5

Fall of Giants - Ken Follett

This is the first book in the The Century trilogy by Ken Follett. This is also the first book I've read by him. This trilogy is set through the early 1900's right before WWI and the second book that I'm currently reading is set to few years after the WWI ended and right before (and during) WWII. (Not sure about the last book yet since I'm not finish with the second one.)


The Blurb:
Five families are brought together through the world-shaking dramas of the First World War, the Russian Revolution and the struggle for votes for women.

It is 1911, and the coronation day of King George V. Thirteen-year-old Billy Williams begins his first day at work in a coal mine.

The Williams family is connected by romance and enmity to the Fitzherberts, aristocratic coal-mine owners. Lady Maud Fitzherbert falls in love with Walter von Ulrich, a spy at the German Embassy in London. Their destiny is entangled with that of Gus Dewar, ambitious young aide to U.S President Woodrow Wilson. Two orphaned Russian brothers soon become involved, but Grigori and Lev Peshkov's plan to emigrate to America falls foul of war, conscription and revolution.

Fall of Giants combines richly developed historical detail with fast-moving action and powerful emotion to deliver this absorbing narrative.

My Thoughts:
For someone who had enough of the whole WWI and WWII history in class I really enjoyed this book! My dad recommended this for me and after I downloaded the preview to my iPad to check it out, I got hooked from the first page. He had already told me a little about this book so I knew there were five different families and they all got connected somehow. I wasn't really sure if I would like this book since it's about the war and it's not something I would have bought right away if it wasn't for him. But here I am..already reading the second book and can barely put it down so yeah..

Anyways, this book is really good and it's an amazing story about five families in different countries who somehow get connected one way or another. I have smiled and also had tears in my eyes few times during this book and am so glad that my dad convinced me to read this. I regret nothing!

5/5

New book!

Got a new book in the mail today! Whoop!

The last book in the The Lunar Chronicles series, Winter by Marissa Meyer.

 I loved the previous books in this series so I'm looking forward to read the last one! Which (unfortunately) might take a while because I'm already reading the second book in the The Century trilogy by Ken Follett that my dad recommended. We'll see if I take a break from Ken Follett after I finish reading the second book or finish the final Century book before I move on to Winter.



Since I'm already here I wanted to talk a little about the one I currently read. I think The Century trilogy is great so far. And that says something, because I feel like I've heard enough of WW1 and WW2 in the History class and don't really want to watch or read about it since I'm not into it so much. I know what happened and all, and that is enough for me...buuut this trilogy i enjoy. I've read the first book, The Fall of Giants and had to read the next one. So now I currently read the second book, Winter of the World, and am still hooked. It's a great story and you get to know five different families in the first bok and then, in this book, you get to read about the story of the children to the ones that was in the first one. That sounded weird in my head but I'm going to write about the first book tomorrow.

I hope I'll see you soon! 

For now: back to reading my book!

Bye x

The Cuckoo's Calling - Robert Galbraith

The Cuckoo's Calling is the debut mystery novel in the Cormoran Strike series that J. K. Rowling have written under the pseudonym Robert Galbraith. The Silkworm and  Career of Evil are the next books in this series. I've read the second book, The Silkworm and going to buy the latest one in this series, Career of Evil, soon.

The Blurb:

When a troubled model falls to her death from a Mayfair balcony, it is assumed that she has committed suicide. However, her brother has his doubts and calls in private detective Cormoran Strike to investigate.

Strike is a war veteran - wounded both physically and psychologically - and his private life is in disarray. The Case gives him a financial lifeline but comes at a personal cost: the more he delves into the young model's world, the darker things become and the closer he gets to terrible danger...

My Thoughts: 

For someone who just started to read mystery/crime books, this was a great read. I enjoyed this book and could barely put it down. All the mystery and drama and trying to figure out what happened to the girl. I tried to find out the killer and still got shocked when Strike reveals who had done it! It's a story that will keep you guessing who the real killer is and all the mystery around this whole investigation.



5/5 

Me Before You - Jojo Moyes

I read this book few years ago, but I love it so much that I wanted to talk about it anyway!

Me Before You was the first book that I read from Jojo Moyes. It's one of my favourite books and I'm going to read it again sometime. There's also a sequel to this book that came out this year called After You. I've already read it and it was great to read about Lou again and to read about her life after the first book and I'm going to write about it soon.

The Blurb:

Lou Clark knows lots of things.

She knows how many footsteps there are between the bus stop and home. She knows she likes working in The Buttered Bun tea shop and she knows she might not love her boyfriend Patrick.

What Lou doesn't know is she's about to lose her job or that knowing what's coming is what keeps her sane.

Will Traynor knows his motorcycle accident took away his desire to live. He knows everything feels very small and rather joyless now, and he knows exactly how he's going to put a stop on that.

What Will doesn't know is that Lou is about to burst into his world in a riot of colour. And neither of them knows they're going to change the other for all time.

My Thoughts:

I just love this book. Got no words to describe it. Even though it's been few years since i read it, the story is still stuck in my head. If there's a book I'm going to read again then it will be this one. The story is so good that you will most likely have tears in your eyes more than one time during the book. And you will also remember it for a really long time.

5/5

Dream a Little Dream - Giovanna Fletcher

This is my first review and I'm gonna start it with this lovely book by Giovanna Fletcher! I'm bad at writing reviews (actually, writing at all) so this is me telling about this book so here we go!

From the author of Billy and Me and You're the One that I Want, Giovanna Fletcher have released a new book called Dream a Little Dream. If you haven't read any of her books, i suggest that you should! I got all her books (apart from the sequel of Dream a Little Dream) and I really enjoy reading them. She got two christmas special sequels called Christmas with Billy and Me and Dream a Little Christmas Dream.

The Blurb:

Sarah is doing just fine...

Sure, she's been single for the last two years, and has to spend an uncomfortable amount of time around her ex-boyfriend, his perfect new girlfriend and all their mutual friends. And yes, her job as a PA to one of the most disgusting men in London is mind-numbingly tedious and her career is a constant disappointment to her mother. But it's really okay. She's happy(ish).

So it's not surprising that when Sarah starts dreaming about a handsome stranger, she begins to look forward to falling asleep every night. Reality isn't nearly as exciting. That is until her dream-stranger makes an unexpected real-life appearance, leaving Sarah questioning everything she thought she wanted.

Because no one ever really finds the person of their dreams... do they?

My Thoughts:

I enjoyed reading this book. It's a little bit different from her previous books, but not much. It's about Sarah's nightly dreams and her day to day life at her job and in private. It's charming and sweet and lovely (i could go on and on) to read and I smiled almost through the whole book. I also had tears in my eyes a few times. That's how good it was!

Unfortunately, it took me some time to finish this book, because of traveling and tired evenings. But if it wasn't for me being tired in the evenings and the traveling, then I would had finished it in 1-2 days. Luckily I got right back in it and continue reading without problem.

All in all, great book and I can't wait to read the christmas special of this one!

4/5