MAYBE SOMEDAY BY COLLEEN HOOVER (BOOK REVIEW)

This book is the newest book of Colleen Hoover, released March 18, 2014

POV: Alternating first person perspective by Sydney Blake and Ridge Lawson

SETTING: Sydney's / Ridge apartment

RATING: 5/5 STARS (I want to rate this book 10000000000000000 stars on goodreads, trust me)

SUMMARY: 

At twenty-two years old, aspiring musician Sydney Blake has a great life: She’s in college, working a steady job, in love with her wonderful boyfriend, Hunter, and rooming with her good friend, Tori. But everything changes when she discovers Hunter cheating on her with Tori—and she is left trying to decide what to do next.


Sydney becomes captivated by her mysterious neighbor, Ridge Lawson. She can’t take her eyes off him or stop listening to the daily guitar playing he does out on his balcony. She can feel the harmony and vibrations in his music. And there’s something about Sydney that Ridge can’t ignore, either: He seems to have finally found his muse. When their inevitable encounter happens, they soon find themselves needing each other in more ways than one…

via goodreads

While making this review let me tell you that I'm currently listening to the soundtrack by Griffin Peterson and it is making me nostalgic, Author Colleen Hoover wanted to make it more genuine so she decided to actually put songs in this book, Griffin Peterson wrote the songs, I find it all amazing! 

It brings fresh memories into my mind like the way I read the book.

I finished this book in 2 days because I can't simply put it down. 

Maybe Someday started with a prologue telling what happened to Sydney, that she is standing in the rain after breaking up with her cheating boyfriend, Hunter with her roommate and best friend, Tori that just sucks considering it is her birthday, to makes things worse. 

She gets some help from her neighbor named, Ridge and he let her stay in his apartment... and this is how things started to grow!

this book is filled with Plot twists, I can't even count.. but here's a few:

1. Ridge is DEAF. 

After reading the part where he let Sydney in his apartment he told her that if she is not going to look into him while talking they might as well go back to texting. I started rolling in my seat and raising my brows in confusion, I don't get it. really, it doesn't hit me the tiniest bit. 

I mean, HE IS PLAYING GUITAR IN THE BALCONY and Sydney loves to listen to his songs and one time she even mouthing her very own lyrics to it so he decided, to ask for her number and make her text the lyrics to him. I never see this one coming, I thought this is just the greatest prank of all.

2. Sydney and Ridge both has relationship. He has a Girlfriend named Maggie, which is also DEAF.  

I mean, ever since I read that Sydney has been listening to her neighbor in the balcony while he is playing playing guitar, I know they are my OTP already, so it is a shocked to me when her boyfriend came over and kissed her, then later on Ridge reveals he also have a girlfriend who happens to visit him, every 2 weeks or so or when she is not busy doing the T word (I don't know if i'm allowed to say this but it is THESIS)

3. Ridge is the one who found out that Sydney's bf is cheating on her.

Since, he is always out in his balcony playing guitar and he is the one who witness what is going on. He even thinks that the betrayal happens when Sydney is out or in the sower because he notice they always make it quick. He knew it all along and he doesn't even know how to tell her. 

That maybe explains why Sydney saw him leave the balcony with a unlikely face, because he it. 

Hunter, the boyfriend kissing Sydney yet he is aloof. 

4. Maggie 

After Sydney and Ridge's first kiss, everything is just laid in front of them, every truth, every emotion they hide, feelings they try to control but it all goes to the point that they really develop a strong attachment together, because of music, it paved the way for them to have this sense of connection to each other, it took them a while for the two of them to admit they are both in love because Ridge has Maggie and he can't leave her (and he won't) because he is holding her sickness, that he can't leave her because she is not in good condition, that he is holding for the fact that they been together for years and yet he felt something so strong for someone else, and the moment comes when it is too hard for the two of them to write music together and set aside their feelings for each other, Sydney found Maggie in the bathroom unconscious and that's the time she found out she is sick and the reason he don't wanna leave her. 

Sooner, Maggie found out everything by reading all the messages Ridge and Sydney exchanged. 

From there, It feels like, every turn of the page this book made me cry, like how I cried when I read THE FAULT IN OUR STARS in 2012 or ALLEGIANT last year..  maybe I even shred more tears in this book, than any other books I read because it reminds me of someone I used to love and he is also passionate about music. 

There mere fact, It all started so nice and lovey-dovey I never knew I will be going to this twist and turn ride of emotions one way to the next and there are few moments where in I'm going to squeal because it is so cheesy. sometimes I go "OMG WHAT IS THIS?" 

While reading this book, it is like a roller coaster ride, going up and down and messing up with emotions. 

I cried a lot in this book (I say it like I am so proud, which is, I am) and I love every minute of it, I love how Sydney doesn't change the way he treats Ridge even after she knows he is deaf, I like that a lot! I love how in this book, they never treated the deafness of the characters as a hindrance.  

I really love Colleen Hoover now and for sure, I'm going to read her previous books, because after reading Maybe Someday which I consider a masterpiece, She made me a fan in an instant! 

I WILL RE-READ IT AGAIN AND CRY ALL OVER AGAIN! 

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THE ELITE BY KIERA CASS (BOOK REVIEW)

Second installment in The Selection by Kiera Cass

POV: First person perspective narrated by the main protagonist, America Singer

SETTING: Palace in the Country called Illea

RATING:  4/5 stars

SUMMARY:

Thirty-five girls came to the palace to compete in the Selection. All but six have been sent home. And only one will get to marry Prince Maxon and be crowned princess of Illea.

America still isn't sure where her heart lies. When she’s with Maxon, she’s swept up in their new and breathless romance, and can’t dream of being with anyone else. But whenever she sees Aspen standing guard around the palace, and is overcome with memories of the life they planned to share. With the group narrowed down to the Elite, the other girls are even more determined to win Maxon over—and time is running out for America to decide.


Just when America is sure she’s made her choice, a devastating loss makes her question everything again. And while she’s struggling to imagine her future, the violent rebels that are determined to overthrow the monarchy are growing stronger and their plans could destroy her chance at any kind of happy ending.

via goodreads

First thing's first, I was about to rate this book 2.8 stars or maybe 3 stars because It started really nice and romantic then thee next chapters followed nothing but confusing and misbehaving America but the ending of the book made me changed my mind, see how the ending can really affect my judgement.
I am so happy and giddy while the first book and it turned the other way around for the second book *tsk tsk tsk*

The mere fact that they are only remaining 6 girls left from the Selection, who are now called THE ELITES the competition is really getting tough yet she chose to make a fool of herself by creating a mess out of everything.

I really don't know why she is over thinking her place, every situation and she stresses herself over the things she can't even control.

She is acting all jealous when Maxon is spending time with the other Elites yet she doesn't even making up her mind to choose him. urgh!!!! I'm always irritated when she spends time with Aspen and act at all frustrated when she brought that problem to herself, she is literally sabotaging her own self and screwing things up and thinking things will fall into places?

it came to me, that maybe this book is filled with conflicts to show that having this "fairy tale happily ever after" life doesn't come out easily and smoothly.. you will face a lot of rocky roads that will make you go nuts to make everything worth the fight.

these are the few status I wrote while reading the book:

> for some reason, even though Celeste is not having any interaction with America, i can't push the thought behind my head that she is up to no good. and she shouldn't be telling his Dad about the secret books.. urgh

> for god sake, america make up your mind and choose the Prince.. you know it was him all along, stop thinking about that guy that keeping you and making you hold everything back..

>  let me get this straight, America! Let me strangle you for a minute, i hate it when you get jealous over Krissy when Maxon is showing her affection yet here you are doing business with Aspen while the Prince is gone, can you see im so mad here?! I'm so annoyed..

I'm just grateful that at the end of the book, America somehow made it clear that this time she will fight for Maxon now.. or else I will really pull her hair and strangle her to the ground (*LOL, KIDDING)

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THE SELECTION BY KIERA CASS (BOOK REVIEW)

First novel in The Selection trilogy by Kiera Cass

POV:  First Person Point of View of America Singer, Five (it means she is in the 5th level of the caste or the social status in this book, One being the highest and royalty).

SETTING:   Country of Illea 

RATING: 5/5 Stars

SUMMARY: 

For thirty-five girls, the Selection is the chance of a lifetime. The opportunity to escape the life laid out for them since birth. To be swept up in a world of glittering gowns and priceless jewels. To live in a palace and compete for the heart of gorgeous Prince Maxon.

But for America Singer, being Selected is a nightmare. It means turning her back on her secret love with Aspen, who is a caste below her. Leaving her home to enter a fierce competition for a crown she doesn't want. Living in a palace that is constantly threatened by violent rebel attacks.


Then America meets Prince Maxon. Gradually, she starts to question all the plans she's made for herself--and realizes that the life she's always dreamed of may not compare to a future she never imagined.

via goodreads 

One thing is for sure, while I was reading this book, I'm having this roller coaster of emotions that goes up and down and twist and turn.

 I've been dying to read this book for ages and guess what? it never disappointed me, I think i'm obsessed with yet another series.

This book reminded me how much I love Princess Mia Thermopolis of Genovia from the Princess diaries and how it brought nostalgic memories when i have a thing about being a Princess, meeting my prince and have this happily ever after back when i was little.

there is this question hanging in my head: Why are they keeping their Relationship? it is forbidden for some Five to fall in love with a Six?

And by the end of the Novel, that question is still unanswered.

In the beginning, she have this secret relationship with a boy named Aspen Leger, Six. they seem so in love and happy but it occur to me that they have such forbidden relationship because they are hiding it from everyone, nobody knows in their family, and meeting secretly being to careful not being caught.

And then Fast forward to the First Kiss of America and Prince Maxon after the Capital Report, they were in the balcony in her room, no maids present, just the two of them. They have this tiny bubble of conversation about the what happened to the recent interview and how America reacted when the Prince pressed to make her confessed about their first meeting after she admitted  she is the girl who scolded the Prince and called him shallow. He just came in to lean and kiss and in that second America stepped back, and they felt this little awkwardness between them, like most first kisses went. So, America said they can re-write history and she is flattered when she realized that the Prince wanted her to be his first kiss *SWWWOOONNNN*

Then, there is conflict where Aspen, America's former boyfriend suddenly showed up as a guard in the palace, to be honest, it always removes the light giddy feeling I have, by him being there. I feel like he is the one holding back things why America and Maxon can't have their happily ending yet, but who knows, I mean this is only the first book in the series.

the ending of book one, really satisfied me and it gave some hope that book 2 will be better between all the Characters, I hope I'm right.

Just so you know, I'm head over heels smitten with Prince Maxon, and I just added him in my fictional boyfriends.

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