My Big eBay Sale (UK only)

I decided to sell some things on eBay.

This would mean more room on my bookcase and a little extra cash now it's closer to Christmas.
Since I did this I thought I'd open it up to all of you.

So here are the links down below. (Yes it is between two accounts. One is mine, the other is my mothers)

Unfortunately this is only for UK residents due to postage pricing.
If you'd like to purchase something and want to make an offer just contact me on the eBay website.

Sookie Stackhouse Novels

The Maze Runner Novels

Ultraviolet by RJ Anderson

Fallen Series

I Am Number Four

Vampire Diaries Series

Creative Writing/ English Literature Texts

Religious Studies Texts

Avon Solutions Cleanser and Pads

Oriental Aloe and Passionflower Body Set

St tropez Body Kit

Delta Rowing Machine

Lipsy, Grecian, Blue Dress

Multi-coloured Heels


xoxo
Rebecca.

Rebecca's evergrowing wishlist

I saw someone do this so I thought why not make one. This way you know what type of things I like to read. And you can make suggestions for future blog posts on them. I'll also get Jordan to do one. 

So here's mine:

https://www.amazon.co.uk/registry/wishlist/2RS42GPCOAJ4S/ref=cm_sw_r_an_wl_o_3ggoub0HH0DBT

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Xoxo
Rebecca.

Book Review: Stay With Me, by J Lynn

So as i'm sat here in my bedroom, watching Scrubs series 1, I thought I'd do a review on, wait for it...

Stay With Me, by J Lynn,

Finally!! I finally read it!!! 

Here's the blurb:
At 21, Calla hasn’t done a lot of things. She’s never been kissed, never seen the ocean, never gone to an amusement park. But growing up, she witnessed some things no child ever should. She still carries the physical and emotional scars of living with a strung-out mother, Mona—secrets she keeps from everyone, including her close circle of college friends.

But the safe cocoon Calla has carefully built is shattered when she discovers her mom has stolen her college money and run up a huge credit card debt in her name. Now, Calla has to go back to the small town she thought she'd left behind and clean up her mom’s mess again. Of course, when she arrives at her mother’s bar, Mona is nowhere to be found. Instead, six feet of hotness named Jackson James is pouring drinks and keeping the place humming.

Sexy and intense, Jax is in Calla’s business from the moment they meet, giving her a job and helping her search for Mona. And the way he looks at her makes it clear he wants to get horizontal . . . and maybe something more. Before Calla can let him get close, though, she’s got to deal with the pain of the past—and some very bad guys out to mess her up if she doesn’t give them her mom.


As I predicted I loved it!
It was the typical plot structure, troubled main character fighting their inner demons to be with their soul mate. Lovely stuff.
What's crazy about this book is that I honestly think it could have been a spin off of the series because I didn't feel like it was the same series as the other books. I guess its because the novel is in the college but back in Calla's (main characters) hometown and that's where she falls in love. He's a bit older and has never been to college so he had different life experiences, therefore it felt like  more mature book compared to the other. That doesn't mean I didn't love it, because I did.

I really want Katie's story. She was so funny. I can't wait to see how Jennifer writes that one.

I don't know how she's going to get a full novel out of Roxy though, it seems like half the novel has already happened and we missed it. I don't know, I'll just have to wait and see.

The best part for me was a surprise guest appearance from another couple... SPOILER ALERT, it's Kyler and Sydney. I was so shocked when they showed up at the bar. Squealing didn't even cut it.

I loved the character of Calla. Out of all the girls throughout the series I think she's my favourite, with Avery being a close second. Although I might change my mind again soon. Calla has had all this terrible stuff happen to her in the past and she outwardly wears the consequences of others' actions. That is such a burden. She can never forget her past because it's always there every time she looks in the mirror. But what I love about her is that she doesn't tell us that she's brave or that she's strong and how proud we should be of her. She's oblivious to it, she doesn't see it in herself but she proves it with her actions throughout. That's what makes her a great character. 

And Jax fits her completely. He accepts her in every way and proves to her with his confidence in his feelings for her that she can be herself and that she doesn't have to hide from everyone. The only time he really annoyed me was the whole Aimee thing because really? It doesn't matter about jealously. If a girl is like that with you, you shut her down if you're sort of with someone else.

Honestly it was a good read. It was just a standard romance novel this time, there was also crime, thriller and higher risks than ever before.

I can't wait for the next one.

I'm giving this:
5 Stars.

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xoxo
Rebecca.

J Lynn's page: Here
Goodreads: Here
Amazon: Here

My Favourite Author- Jennifer L Armentrout/ J Lynn

Hello there everyone, remember me?
Sorry I haven't posted in a while, I've been writing and Jordan has been on interviews and all those lovely things you have to do in the working world. :( sad times.

Anyway, I thought for a quick (or not so quick) little post I'd tell you who my favourite author is. Now I came to this decision because every single book, novel, excerpt I've read of hers has been fan-flipping-tastic!!!!
Be aware there is a lot, A LOT, of love in this post!

Jennifer L Armentrout!!!

It will come to no shock for those of you who have read anything of hers. All her stories are relatable and easy to follow. They aren't clogged down with so much exposition that your eyes glaze over. The plot lines are always interesting the entire way through and every piece of writing is always something I want to read about, it's like she's reading my mind!!

The first ever book I read by her was 'Obsidian'

I stumbled across this on Goodreads a couple of years ago because so many people had this book in their favourites. And there's no doubt that this is now in mine. It's the first book in the 'Lux' series. A series about aliens who live on earth and a girl who finds herself attracted to an alien boy, MAN, an alien man!! At first I thought it was going to be a rip off of Roswell, and I love the 'Roswell' series; books and TV show. So I was extremely surprised when it not only stood on its own but it (dare I say it) surpassed Roswell!! I've gone on to read the entire series and each book is as good as the first. I now have the new books with the sparkly covers. I love them!!

The next series that I love from the young adult side of her work has to be the 'Dark Elements' series.

Bitter Sweet Love is a novella that came out about a month before the first novel. It was a brilliant way to set everything up, and I fell in love with the series straight away. It's all about a world that has guardians who help the world by stopping demons take over (the guardians are gargoyle which I think is amazing because who has ever read a story about gargoyles? If you have tell me!!)

White Hot Kiss was the first novel for the 'Dark Element' series. And I don't know why but every time I say or read the title I'm always reminded of white chocolate at Christmas. Just me?

I didn't know whether I'd like this novel because I loved the main characters in Bitter Sweet Love but I was so wrong. As soon as I read it I had to get the paperback version for the bonus scene. It all revolves around Layla, a crossbreed between gargoyle and demon. Throughout the book she's figuring out who she is in the world as she doesn't fit in, and along the way she's tied between two men; Roth, the demon, and Zayne, the gargoyle. I have to tell you I LOVE ROTH!!!!! Does anyone else love Roth? When the time comes to vote for who she should be with I'm choosing Roth, simply because he liked her for who she was. He didn't make her hide any part of herself, actually he wanted her to embrace it. And he's hot; well he sounds hot. Who doesn't want a sexy bad boy who's sweet, and gooey on the inside. DREAM MAN!!!
I needed the sequel, 'Stone Cold Touch' like yesterday!!!

Not only does she write young adult fantasy fiction but she also writes new adult romances under the name J Lynn. And this may be my favourite side of her.

The 'Gamble Brothers' series was amazing. The three books was about three brothers falling in love.

 The first about Chase Gamble falling in love with his childhood friends at her brother's wedding. I actually read this after the second book. And I love, love, love, love it!

The second was about Chad Gamble, an athlete who needs a fake wife for publicity. I read this first and I loved the character of Bridget. Actually her character was the reason I dyed my hair red. I wanted to try it for years and the confidence she carried in the story made me go for it. P.S I loved my hair red by the way (even though it is now brown).

The third was about Chandler Gamble who falls in love with the woman he's meant to be guarding. I waited longer than a year for this!! I almost went mad. The publishing date was being pushed back again and again but eventually they brought it out and I was super happy!

Frigid was the second book from J Lynn's collection I read and during the time it was a stand alone novel, even though I really wanted a sequel, and now there is one! It's a classic romantic story about a playboy whose in love with his shy best friend, and she's secretly in love with him too.

And lastly, my favourite series out of the bunch would have to be the 'Wait For You' series. It's just an amazing series. Each book has a touch of tragedy that counteract all the gooey romance. And I'm just in love.

The first novel, 'Wait For You' and novella, 'Trust In Me' is about Cam and Avery who meet each other on Avery's first day of college. Just the cookies and turtles and acceptance is awwww. I really want a collection of turtles now and name them all after Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Honestly the song has been stuck in my head since I've read this book. But as they say, a turtle is not just for Christmas :( I bought the first book second hand because I wanted the American covers, and when I opened it up it was signed, BONUS!

The second book is about Cam's sister, Theresa, and his best friend, Jase. Jack completely stole the book for me. Sooo cute!

I now honestly cannot wait for the third book that's out at the end of this month. I've read every sneak peek, entered every giveaway (to no success) I just need it like I need air.

And that's it! Whew that took quite a while, but they are all such amazing book I had to get them in there. If you're looking for something new to read I'd seriously check out this lady's work. 

Now to sit and wait for the next release. Hurry Please!!!!

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xoxo

Rebecca

Jennifer Armentrout's page: here

Her goodreads page:here

Brand New Stay With Me Excerpt!!

I'm very excited to have a nice little sliver of 'Stay With Me' by J Lynn. I need more now please!

Stay With Me Excerpt

xoxo
Rebecca.

The 'Me In 5 Books Challenge" !

Hi everyone!

I wanted to do something that everyone could do and also give you a bit of an idea of who your reading from, talking to and all that lovely stuff. And that's where the challenge came from. So presenting...

The 'Me In 5 Books Challenge" !!!

Here's the Questions you need to answer and after that you can add on however many questions you want, you can even get back to us and ask us the new Q's you have!!

1. Your favourite book/ series?
2. Your desert island book (the book you couldn't live without)
3. The book that made you love literature.
4. The first book you ever read (not education books :D)
5. The Character in a book that is most like you.

Does it all make sense? I hope so but if you have any questions just ask me. I can't wait to hear some of your answers.

Here's my answers:

1. My favourite book series is 'Starcrossed' by Josephine Angelini. I just love it. The best out of the series is a cross between the first 'Starcrossed' and the third 'Goddess'. The series is about a girl who is descended from Greek gods and has the face of Helen of Troy, who falls in love with a boy who she's meant to kill. It's just amazing, especially because Angelini didn't do what have the authors in the world do and ruin the main relationship in the second book by adding a third party or making the reader think that one of the love interests doesn't care anyone. One, it gets annoying and two my fragile heart can't take it!!

2. The book I absolutely couldn't live without would be 'Howl's Moving Castle' by Diane Wynne Jones. Such a sweet book. It's almost written as one of those old fairy tales. You can practically hear the 'once upon a time...' while you read it. But this book is so much more because even though the style of writing is the whole OUAT format really throughout there is a second story that's never actually written but its hinted at and you don't find out until right at the end that it's actually happening, so you have to reread the whole book and that's when it's like BLOODY HELL that's what was actually going on and I didn't even realise. What I mean is the main protagonist is Sophie a girl who is turned into an old woman by an evil witch and she end up living in a moving castle with a vain wizard named Howl. Because we are reading the story through Sophie's opinions we don't see Howl's story  until right at the end. But I swear its there, really. So I get two stories instead of one. Yay!

3. The book that made me love literature would be 'Percy Jackson and the Lightning Thief' by Rick Riordan. Again, it's all about Greek mythology. Honestly if a book has a bit of myth in it then i'm sold. An author would make it pretty hard not for me to fall in love with a Myth Book. This time the story begins with a 12 year old boy who discovers his father is Poseidon, god of the sea and he's sent to Camp Half-blood, a place to keep descendants of the gods safe from monsters. I remember picking up this book from WHSmith and being completely drawn to it. I read the back, saw that it was a children's book about Greek mythology and my mind was blown! I thought if this book is brilliant imagine what else is out there. And that's when my true love of books began, even though I've been reading pretty much my whole life.

4. The first book I ever read (Or the earliest I can remember) would be 'The Twits' by Roald Dahl. A children's book about a horrible married could who play nasty tricks to capture birds and eat them. I have to say Dahl's sense of humour is wicked. Even though it's a children's book I can be seen as dark and twisted. I guess most of his work is. I did love it though, it's like the dark side of children's fiction. The idea of Mr Twits' beard side makes me want to gag to this day. Imagine never washing a really long beard and all the food getting stuck, the smell... Euuggghhhh, NO!! But even though they were horrid people in the end I felt sorry for them. I mean the way they died was terrible. I'm still scared to stand on my head to long. Not that I do that in my spare time. (I lie, I'm actually writing this upside down).

5. A Character from a book that's most like me. If you had asked me this question a year ago i would n;t have been able to give you an answer. I have read Hundreds upon hundreds of books and I have never found one that resembles me a lot. But then I Read 'Fangirl' by Rainbow Rowell and it was like the world clicked into place. The story is based on a socially awkward girl called Cather who uses writing (fanfiction) to be herself. I'm not a fanfiction obsesser like Cather although I do dabble. But the anxiety and socially awkwardness I can completely relate to. It was especially the part in the book where she explains to her roommate why she won't go to the dinner hall (Or whatever they call it) she says that because she didn't go the first day she now can't go because she'll be the new kid who doesn't know what the rules are. She had already built up mental blocks in her head to not go. Until that point I didn't think anyone felt that way about anything expect me. I get that was about a lot of things and to hear from someone that they understand it was brilliant. Cather worked through it and I'm working through mine and I hope it helped and comforted other people as much as it did me.

So those are my answers. Now it's your turn!!

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xoxo
Rebecca

Lost Girl Review

Are you a Sci-fi/ Fantasy fan? Are you are fan of moments of comedic genius? Are you a fan of heart felt emotion? Are you a fan of strong female performances? Are you a fan of mythology? Are you a fan of love triangles? Are you a fan of character driven shows? Are you looking for a new show to binge watch? If you answered yes to any or all of these questions then look no further than the Canadian Fantasy show Lost Girl. And if you’re already a Faenatic we want to know your theories and general thoughts on the show.

Lost Girl was created by Michelle Lovretta (Instant Star, Sorority Wars). It first graced our screens in 2010 and can be found on Showcase in Canada and SYFY in America and the UK. It has won various online polls such as favourite couple and is one of the few shows with a female as its central character.

So what’s it about?

Lost Girl follows the charismatic Bo (Anna Silk- Being Erica, Assassins Tale) who with a touch of the hand can make people do what she wants, like not paying for a bill at a diner. However her skills aren’t all that they’re cracked up to be, as she has a habit of waking up next to dead lovers. (If you know your mythology then you can probably guess what she is.) Together with her wise cracking, trusty sidekick, Kenzi (Ksenia Solo- Life Unexpected, Black Swan), Bo embarks on a journey to figure out how and what she is.

Along this journey Bo meets two parts of a love triangle, a wolf, Dyson (Kris Holden Reid- The Tudors, Underworld Awakening) and a brilliant human Doctor, Lauren (Zoie Palmer- Instant Star, Sex After Kids) who tells her that she is part of a secret biology called the Fae. However the Fae are divided into the Light and the Dark and so Bo must decide what side she wants to choose and even if she wants to be on a side at all.  Will Bo pick a side? Will Bo find out who she is and where she belongs? Will Bo ever pick a lover? Watch and find out.

Why should you watch it?

Basically there really is nothing out there at the moment that it’s similar to although if you’re a fan of Buffy The Vampire Slayer, you should definitely watch it as it is the show that Lost Girl is compared to. 

Lost Girl takes mythology, some well-known and some not so much, but instead of just going here’s a vampire or here’s a wolf, it puts its own unique spin on it e.g. the bad guy in mythology is not necessarily the bad guy in Lost Girl.

It has lots of layers, going from very dramatic to comedic.

It has heart and you are sure to fall in love with the characters.

It has gripping storylines that make you want to carry on watching so it’s perfect for binge watching.

It treats its audience like adults.

The sets and clothes are amazing.

The actors are believable and have incredible range.

So what’s wrong with it?

There are a few continuity errors here and there so you have to be prepared to put up with them. However, in the first season for instance, the original pilot was episode 8 and so, season one was shot out of order, which can explain some of the errors.

It does not have a huge budget so some of the special effects are not the best.

Due to the nature of love triangles, at points you will just want Bo to choose already but that comes with the territory.

But if you are willing to look past these then you are sure to enjoy Lost Girl.

Overall Lost Girl is one of the best Science Fiction/ Fantasy shows on television at the moment, if not the best (this is proclamation of personal taste) and is sure to make you laugh, cry and even cray cray at some points.

Lost Girl has four seasons out to buy and on Netflix so you have plenty of time to catch up before season 5 starts.

What do you think? Share your thoughts with us.

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Jordan