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THE DARK ELEMENTS BY JENNIFER L. ARMENTROUT

30/4/2015

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Dez wasn't just Jasmine's crush. A gargoyle Warden like Jas, he helped her come to terms with her destiny—fending off demons and maintaining the balance between good and evil. He was her everything…right until the moment he disappeared without a trace. It didn't help that Jas's father had just announced that she and Dez would one day be mated. Hard not to take that personally.

And now he's back, three years older, ten times hotter, ready to pick up exactly where they left off. But Jas isn't taking that risk again. Dez has seven days to meet all her conditions and earn back her trust. Seven days filled with terrifying danger and sweet temptation. Seven days to win her heart—or shatter it all over again...

Oh. My. Pukwudgies...

I am already in love with this book series and this is just the introductory. Bitter Sweet love is a unique phenomenal world of gargoyles and demons.

The protagonist Jasmine is torn between following her heart and listening to her mind, when the boy she loves suddenly returns unexpectedly after disappearing after three years without a word. He wants to pick things back up from where they left and claim her as his own, but she’s not exactly ready to fly off and produce little gargoyle offspring’s with him. Jasmine is unsure whether she can trust Dez again after those three years she grieved his disappearance, not knowing whether he was still alive or dead. Why did he leave her that night after her dad gave them his blessing for them to mate? What made him leave so urgently and to only now decided to reappear right back into her life like he never went away? Dez has seven days to prove himself to her and agree to her conditions, even though he already knows she plans on saying no…

I cannot wait to head on into White Hot Kiss after my first glimpses of the new world she has created. The Dark Elements is definitely a new favourite of mine. 

Bitter Sweet Love by Jennifer L. Armentrout
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ELEANOR AND PARK BY RAINBOW ROWELL

15/4/2015

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Two misfits.
One extraordinary love.

Eleanor
... Red hair, wrong clothes. Standing behind him until he turns his head. Lying beside him until he wakes up. Making everyone else seem drabber and flatter and never good enough...Eleanor.

Park... He knows she'll love a song before he plays it for her. He laughs at her jokes before she ever gets to the punch line. There's a place on his chest, just below his throat, that makes her want to keep promises...Park.

Set over the course of one school year, this is the story of two star-crossed sixteen-year-olds—smart enough to know that first love almost never lasts, but brave and desperate enough to try.

This book received so much hype, that I was worried that I wouldn't enjoy it as in the past I would get disappointed when a book didn't meet my high expectations. This time I was prepared to reduce it, and brace myself for the disappointments. I'm glad I did! With my low expectations, I fell in love with Rainbow Rowell's novel immediately! The story line was just adorable, as you got sucked into Eleanor and Park's different lifestyles and personalities. Together they slowly fell in love, listing to the 80's cassettes and reading comics. Eleanor's and Park's love story was slow building as they gradually became acquaintances, and then into something more than just friends.

Eleanor is the chubby new girl at school with her crazy read hair and her patched up crazy clothing. It's like she wants to be noticed, but she couldn't be invisible even if she wanted to. A year later she returns home, to where her mother and abusive stepfather kicked her out. Now she's living back with her siblings in a rather cramped house, where there is almost no privacy. On the  first day of school, Eleanor is forced to sit next to the half Korean kid; Park, on the bus when everyone else pulls out the old "you can't sit here" excuse, though he refuses to make conversation, let alone look at her...

Park is the only Asian kid in the state of Nebraska (besides his younger brother Josh). He's a music junkie who loves alternative music and feels like his life would be easier if he could just learn to drive and get his driver's license.
He's a pro in tae kwondo, which is basically the closet thing that he and his father get along in.

Although I was in  love with the book, I must say that the unresolved ending and lazily written drama disappointed me. I just didn't like the ending without it's explanations as to why Eleanor did what she did at the end of the novel. Leaving unanswered questions in its path.


Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell
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