Showing posts with label fosterkids. Show all posts
Showing posts with label fosterkids. Show all posts

Tuesday, 8 April 2014

Red at Night (Harlequin More Than Words)

18808865Book: Red at Night (Harlequin More Than Words)
Author:
Publication:April 1st 2014
Genre:Young Adult, romance, short story, novella, chick lit, Contemporary romance
SynopsisIn Red at Night, Stella and Jonah are total opposites. She's the girl with purple hair from the wrong part of town. He's a high school senior who hangs with the cool crowd. Until a car accident leaves him haunted by guilt, and Jonah starts spending time at Stella's favorite refuge…the local cemetery.

Stella knows she should keep her distance—after all, she spent her girlhood being bullied by Jonah's friends. Once he's sorted out his tangled emotions, Jonah won't have time for her anymore. Too bad she's already fallen for him.
MY THOUGHTS:

This book was beautiful and I loved every moment of it. Katie McGarry is one of my favorite authors and when I saw what inspired the book I thought that was the sweetest thing ever. Thats why this book deserves a 5 star.
"See how the leaves turn up?" Rick points to the maple near Lydia's grave. "That means a storm's coming - a bad one." "A storm's always coming," I state. "Some don't have rain."
 Jonah and Stella's story put a huge smile to my face. This book was really sweet and it's true to the fact how a lot of fosterkids feel. These two helped each other out and I loved reading this book as much as I loved all of Katie's books. Katie just knows how to write romance books thats sweet and what might happen in real life. 
After our kiss, we watched the sunset in silence. "The sky was red," she whispers. "Yeah." It was possibly the most beautiful sunset I've seen. "That means there shouldn't be a storm." But there's doubt in her voice and somehow I don't feel like she's referring to the weather.

Sunday, 16 March 2014

Leo's Chance (A Sign of Love #2)

Book: Leo's Chance (A Sign of Love #2)
Author: Mia Sheridan
Synopsis: The follow-up to Leo, the USA Today bestselling novel by Mia Sheridan.

Does everyone deserve a second chance? Even someone who lies and deceives to get it?

Do we all have a second chance coming? Even if we play a part in our own destruction?

How hard would you fight to have a second chance at love? A second chance at life? Another chance to tell your own story?

Every love story has two sides. Evie told hers. This time it's Leo's chance








My Thoughts:
This book was real amazing and enticing. This is in Leo/ Jake’s point of view of the first story of this series. I loved books with both the girl and boy’s pov. I like to see what both of them think. This book goes back into the past every once in a while so you must keep updated where you are in the book but I still enjoyed this book. Thats why this book deserves a 6 star rating.
 






“I don't know, I'm kinda busy. I've got a pity party scheduled for eight o'clock followed by wallowing at nine.”
After he got adopted and moved to a new city away from the love of his live Evie. His life got so messed up, his adopted mom used him, broke him. His mom used him for sex and he was not strong enough to stop her. That is the very reason why he never contacted Evie because he broke the promise and he hated himself because of it. His mother kept using him even after he moved out to collage. The his mom told him that his brother died and that is what caused him to have a car crash. His mom was forcing herself on him again and his farther walked in on them and thats when he understood why his son was like that using drugs and partying. A doctor Fox helped Leo undertsnad and to get past everything. With that he got the courage to find his Evie but he lied to her when he saw her again and when she finds out actually who he was he nearly lost her again.
“~ Jake is my lion, and Leo is my boy, I love both, I need both - Just one or the other doesn't add up to the complete person that he's become.~”
The ending was so sweet I loved seeing how he asked her to marry him. He asked her on there roof to marry him and it was just so romantic. Also what he planned to do with that house was just so sweet and caring and I loved that plan so much because the children needs something so special. Foster children needs to know that they are special to and that is exactly what Leo and Evie doing.

“We didn't know how much love and forgiveness and understanding would be required to make it back on the path we were meant to be in, together. But what we did know was that we were here because we had both been willing to fight; to fight for each other, to fight for ourselves, to fight for love. And that means that despite all the pain that we had endured to be where we are, in the end, love won.

Leo (A Sign of Love #1)

Author: Mia Sheridan
Synopsis: Librarian's Note: This is an alternate cover for ASIN B00BT0JB0A

Evie and Leo met in foster care as children and formed a bond of friendship. As they grew, their bond turned to love, and they vowed to make a life together when they turned 18 and were no longer a part of the system.

When Leo unexpectedly gets adopted as a teen and he moves to another city, he promises Evie that he will contact her as soon as he gets there and come back for her in a few short years. She never hears from him again.

Now eight years later, in spite of the odds, Evie has made a life for herself. She has a job. She has friends. She's content. Then a man shows up out of the blue, claiming that her long lost love, Leo, sent him to check up on her. The attraction between them is undeniable. But, should she trust this sexy stranger? Or is he keeping a secret about what his connection to Leo is really all about and why Leo disappeared all those years ago?

New Adult Contemporary Romance: Due to strong language and sexual content, this book is not intended for readers under the age of 18.
My thoughts:
This book was beautiful, exiting and very romantic. Mia Sheridan wrote this book amazingly and I loved every second of it. I didn’t think I will like this book that much but looks like I was really wrong on that part.
“I'm going to kiss you now, Evie, and when I do, it's going to mean that you're mine. I don't care how far away from each other we are. You. Are. Mine. I'll wait for you. And I want you to wait for me. Promise me you won't let anyone else touch you. Promise me you'll save yourself for me.” 
This is a story of love between two foster kids. They both fell in love with each other at a real young age but Leo got adopted and he had to move to a new city. He promised that he will keep in contact with Evie but he broke that promise. That hurt Evie so much but she never really got over him. She could not even think about him without hurting. In a way she kept that promise for him up until a guy named Jake came into her life.
“After a minute, I look up and the boy named Leo is staring at me. I stare back, but he doesn´t look away.
"Why are you looking at me?" I hiss at him, my cheeks turning hot, filled with shame for the exchange he just heard.
He just keeps looking at me for a moment, and then he shrugs. "Because I like your face," he says, but now a corner of his mouth is quirking up in a half smile.” 
Jake told her that he was a friend of Leo’s and that Leo asked him to check up on her. Jake told her Leo was dead and she went that day into her room and cried the very night all night long. The next day he checked up on her and he was real sweet to her, he liked her a lot but he was keeping something very big from her. Every once in a while he reminded her of Leo but she chose to ignore it because it hurt her too much. Jake took her to do things she would never do in her life he kept her life out of her safe world. That scared her but he made her fall in love with him easier.
“He rips his mouth from mine as he growls, "Mine. Only mine. Only. Ever. Mine," still slamming into me, pounding me against the wall.” 
Jake kept a huge secret from Evie and when she found out what that secret was he nearly lost everything, lost her and his only true love. He told her why he lied to her and why he had to break a promise that he never wanted to brake, he was in a bad life after he left to a new city where he hated himself but somehow with Evie’s help he got better out of that self-hatred that he had for himself. It took her a while to get over that he lied to her but she loved him more, and the ending was just so sweet and loving and it had me dream for my very own prince charming.

“I choose you, I choose you, Leo. Always.”