Hosted by Caffeinated Reviewer

• Top Ten Tuesday - Auto-Buy Authors
• Can't Wait Wednesday - Hearts, Heroes & Heath Hall, Love Her or Lose Her

 

• From Lukov With Love by Mariana Zapata (★★.5 / I didn't find this as enjoyable as I hoped for which is sad because I really loved Kulti and The Wall of Winnipeg and Me.)
• The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas (★★ / As I said in my Goodreads mini review, for a thriller mystery, this wasn't as thrilling as it should have been.)

 

• Spotify - I love music. And I have this bad habit of changing playlists again and again. I have multiple playlists and they are really specific for every mood. Like I have a playlist for when driving at night, a morning one, a playlist for when I'm about to sleep, a playlist that's only for acoustic covers, etc. LOL. I'm a chaotic mess when it comes to this stuff.
• School - School starts next month and I've been busy trying to queue my posts here specifically my Top Ten Tuesdays and Can't Wait Wednesdays. I'm gonna be so busy again and this was one of the reasons why I stopped blogging before. Heck, it even stopped me from enjoying books too because I was too focused and busy that at the end of the day, I just wanna sleep. Reading a book hardly an option.
• Sleeping - Lately I've been feeling confused with my emotions. One moment I'm happy, the next I feel so sad that at one point this week I started crying for no reason. I've resulted to sleeping a lot too that's why I was quite unproductive aside from how the book I mentioned about was taking it forever for me. But I'm feeling alright now. I'm getting through by listening to soft music and detaching myself from some negativity in my life. 

At sixteen, Hannah Moore knows exactly who she is—a swimmer who will earn a scholarship to college. Totally worth all the hard work, even if her aching shoulders don’t agree. So when a guy dressed as Hollywood’s latest action hero, Heath Hall, crashes her swim meet, she isn’t amused. Instead, she’s determined to make sure he doesn’t bother her again. Only she’s not sure exactly who he is.

The swim meet isn’t the first event the imposter has interrupted, but a little digging turns up a surprising number of people who could be Heath Hall, including Hannah’s ex-boyfriend and her best friend’s crush. She soon finds herself getting caught up in the mysterious world of the fake Heath Hall.

As Hannah gets closer to uncovering the masked boy’s identity she also discovers some uncomfortable truths about herself—like she might resent the long shadow her late brother has cast over her family, that she isn’t as happy as she pretends to be with her life choices… and that she is falling for the last guy she ever thought she would like.

Rosie and Dominic Vega are the perfect couple: high school sweethearts, best friends, madly in love. Well, they used to be anyway. Now Rosie’s lucky to get a caveman grunt from the ex-soldier every time she walks in the door. Dom is faithful and a great provider, but the man she fell in love with ten years ago is nowhere to be found. When her girlfriends encourage Rosie to demand more out of life and pursue her dream of opening a restaurant, she decides to demand more out of love, too. Three words: marriage boot camp.

Never in a million years did Rosie believe her stoic, too-manly-to-emote husband would actually agree to relationship rehab with a weed-smoking hippy. Dom talking about feelings? Sitting on pillows? Communing with nature? Learning love languages? Nope. But to her surprise, he’s all in, and it forces her to admit her own role in their cracked foundation. As they complete one ridiculous—yet surprisingly helpful—assignment after another, their remodeled relationship gets stronger than ever. Except just as they’re getting back on track, Rosie discovers Dom has a secret... and it could demolish everything.

• Book Review - Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston 
• Book Review - The Prenup by Lauren Layne
• Top Ten Tuesday - Character Freebie (The Artists)

  

• Red, White & Royal Blue by Casey McQuiston (★★★★★ / I really enjoyed this one.. except for the political theme of it because I don't really enjoy politics. I explained this further in my review.)
• The Prenup by Lauren Layne (★★★ / Not quite happy with this one.)
• Just Love by Prescott Lane (★★ / The story didn't live up to its pretty cover. I'm about to write my review for this.)

  

  

• The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman
• Crashing the A-List by  Summer Heacock
• The Storm Crow by Kalyn Josephson

 

• Sketching - I haven't been sketching lately so I decided to do some mouth and eye studies for a warm-up since classes are about to start next month too. Here's a little sample I did and this was what inspire me for my Top Ten Tuesday Character Freebie topic. And the one on the right is just a little something-something because I found this pretty witch pic on Pinterest (I wanna link it but I couldn't open Pinterest at the moment) so I used it as a reference. I just changed her hat though.
• Homescapes - I don't really play games on my phone these days because they take up a lot of space. The only apps I allow to take up that much space are Photos, Spotify and Kindle (and some other e-readers like Bluefire and Kobo). That's the holy trinity of apps on my phone. But this game??? I'M HOOKED. I love decorating the house and gardens and collecting stars. This is also the reason why I haven't been reading lately because I'm so busy with this game.
• Social Media Series - I don't know if there's any Filipino reading this blog post but there's this social media series going on around Twitter starring a famous on-and-off-screen couple and their fans cast them as main characters for their stories. The stories are basically just screenshots of Twitter tweets, Instagram posts, Messenger chats, and iMessages. It's such a creative way of writing and telling a story, and I swear a lot of us are hooked (even the actress herself who is the main female character in their stories read it and was amused). I'm one of them. Like I love the format and the way how the story was conveyed through screenshots of the characters' social media conversations and interactions. It's just really creative, I don't know if I can stop complimenting it. People are really talented and have a gifted way of telling a story through their writing. Linking it here to show to those of you who aren't familiar of it.

My name is Charlotte Spencer and, ten years ago, I married my brother's best friend. I haven't seen him since.

Charlotte Spencer grew up on the blue-blooded Upper East Side of Manhattan but she never wanted the sit-still-look-pretty future her parents dictated for her. Enter Colin Walsh, her brother's quiet, brooding, man-bun-sporting best friend, and with him a chance to escape.

He's far from Charlotte's dream guy as but they need each other for one thing: marriage. One courthouse wedding later, Charlotte's inheritance is hers to start a business in San Francisco and Irish-born Colin has a Green Card.

Ten years later, Colin drops a bombshell: the terms of their prenup state that before either can file for divorce, they have to live under the same roof for three months.

Suddenly this match made in practicality is about to take on whole new meaning...