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I'm a big fan of Stephanie Perkins. Her books make me giggle with happiness and squeal with adorableness starting from Anna and the French Kiss, Lola and the Boy Next Door, to Isla and the Happily Ever After. It makes me feel that teenage romance and makes me believe that forever exist. #MayForever

This book is ain't your average teen romance novel. It has the spark between two people, a slow and rich relationship build, great side characters, hilarious dialogue and writing. Anna is an every-girl with a heart for cinema and a lack of knowledge in French. She's funny and feisty, obsessed with cleanliness, she's a fantastic protagonist. Étienne is constantly at the center of the story. He's charming, everyone loves him, short, sexy, and wit. This book is a mixture of the romantic comedy and the romantic drama between two meant-for-each-other characters.

I am fascinated with Lola, she's eccentric and outrageous especially when it comes to fashion, a one of a kind indeed. However, I can't really relate and connect with her. I also adored Cricket, he's shy, smart, sincere, and he respects Lola in a real way. The two are completely different yet they make a lovely couple. This book is colorful and quirky that makes the reader's imagination  go wild.

After I finished Lola, I was too excited to read Isla that I ordered a copy from Book Depository right away because it was not yet available here in the Philippines. Among the three, this is my favorite. This is because I can simply relate with Isla, I know most of us girls can relate to her as well. Isla is a wonderfully complex character, she's shy, smart, deep, insecure, and passionate about love. With Josh, he's a rebel but passionate about art and love. On another note, I also love how people with disabilities like Kurt was acknowledged. This book is charming and sweet yet full of emotions that will surely catch the reader's heart.

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These are the kinds of books that I will read over and over again, it's light but with bits of drama. I love that Stephanie Perkins has written about three different kinds of love story, each with their unique high and lows. And I completely adore how she connected each of the characters in every book. It's uniquely awesome!

College Girl by Sheila Grace

I was intrigued with this book that’s why I downloaded it. I was thinking maybe it’s a bit Ezra-Aria kinda story, but it after reading the second chapter I've concluded that it’s a twilight-ish and fifty shade-ish kind of story.

This book has sex written all over it, yes, a lot of sex scenes in almost every chapter. You’ll have a roller coaster ride while reading it. Why? Cos the 2 characters are confused of what they want and their indecision to be together or not. But I love the POV’s of the character in each chapter, it gave me a chance to look into both Alex and Ryan’s perspective and feelings. The ending kept me hanging though,maybe there will be a part 2 of this book? Overall, this book is okay and I would rate it 2.5 over 5.

FIfty Shades Trilogy by EL James

Who doesn't know about this trilogy, right? It’s kind of a hype now and girls go cray about the upcoming movie of these books. So I decided to join the bandwagon. I have soft copy of these books, and I bought it at Fullybooked online months ago but I just read it over the vacation. At first I’m not really interested with this, I just bought it out of curiosity cos people said on facebook that it’s really good. Maybe that’s why it took me long to finally decide to read it. Idk.

When i’m about to read it, I was disappointed cos my cousin said this trilogy is a sex book. And I agree with her, it’s mainly a porn book. I even decided to sell it, but no one was interested in facebook. But at the long run, I quite liked the story. Except for the sex scenes which I mostly skip reading, some of the sex scenes were more disgusting than tantalizing. Anyway, what I like about these books is how the author was playing with words. It enhanced my vocabulary, I even wrote down all the peculiar words with its corresponding meaning. 

Even though the book is purely a rip-off of Twilight the thing that makes it edgier than the said book is its more realistic/dreamy way of presentation. But it’s still too-good-to-be-true, you don’t get to score a guy who’s hot and rich plus who’ll be head over heels with you, those guys are extinct! Believe me, I love the story except for the inner goddess of Ana, Christian being a sadist, and the playroom! But I love how the characters grow as a person and as a couple. How Christian is bossy and the way he cares for Ana, how he’s good looking yet a philanthropist, and how he’s crazy about Ana and giving her the world. Who wouldn’t want that? It makes you long for your own Christian Grey. I would rate it 4 over 5.

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer Smith

I was intrigued with this book because of its cover, it’s quite catchy.This was my companion when I traveled to Ilocos. Yes, I bring a book every time I travel. The title is loooooooong really, and in my opinion it does not have that much significance or even related to the story. 

This book is the typical, girl-meets-boy love story. It’s cute, sweet, and fluffy kind of story. It was sweet with a touch of bitter reality and a happy ending.  It’s also the story of family, hurt, disappointment and above all second chances. Imagine how much could happen in four minutes? That’s great. That’s a great starting point. Falling in love at an airport, trading life stories, attending a wedding, crashing a funeral, the intensity of love in only 24 hours… Although I was a little disappointed that the romance wasn’t featured as much as I’d been led to believe, I still enjoyed this book. It makes you wonder if you’ll have a chance of meeting someone at the airport that you’ll immediately connect with. I rated this book 4 over 5.

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I love everything about Halloween! From scary costumes to treats, creepy decorations, ghost stories, horror movies, chilly air and the list goes on. For someone who’s not born in a country where majority of the people celebrate Halloween, I crave for that kind of experience and adventure. I’m just right here, drowning in the greatness of halloween imagination I can think of. Yeah, that sucks.

Anyway, like I said I always seek for a halloween adventure, like in the movies! Where my friends/cousins and I go trick or treating then we’re trapped in a house of a witch and the mission is to escape from it or something like that. I want that kind of adventure but of course I want to stay alive in the end. Hahaha IKR? I’m weird.

And of course Halloween feels wouldn’t be complete without reading a book! So here are my choice books to get into the Halloween feels, and i’m sure you’ll love it all. Books that are not tooooo scary and heavy to read. Seriously, you must give it a try! :)

A mysterious island. An abandoned orphanage. A strange collection of very curious photographs.

It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. As Jacob explores its abandoned bedrooms and hallways, it becomes clear that the children were more than just peculiar. They may have been dangerous. They may have been quarantined on a deserted island for good reason. And somehow—impossible though it seems—they may still be alive.

Charlotte Usher feels practically invisible at school, and then one day she really is invisible. Even worse: she’s dead. And all because she choked on a gummy bear. But being dead doesn’t stop Charlotte from wanting to be popular; it just makes her more creative about achieving her goal. 

If you thought high school was a matter of life or death, wait till you see just how true that is. In this satirical, yet heartfelt novel, Hurley explores the invisibility we all feel at some times and the lengths we’ll go to be seen. 

Laurel chooses Kurt Cobain because her sister, May, loved him. And he died young, just like May. Soon, Laurel has a notebook full of letters to the dead—to people like Janis Joplin, Heath Ledger, Amelia Earhart, and Amy Winehouse—though she never gives a single one of them to her teacher. She writes about starting high school, navigating the choppy waters of new friendships, learning to live with her splintering family, falling in love for the first time, and, most important, trying to grieve for May. But how do you mourn for someone you haven’t forgiven?

It’s not until Laurel has written the truth about what happened to herself that she can finally accept what happened to May. And only when Laurel has begun to see her sister as the person she was—lovely and amazing and deeply flawed—can she truly start to discover her own path.

people. And they won’t leave her alone until she helps them resolve their unfinished business with the living. But Jesse, the hot ghost haunting her bedroom, doesn’t seem to need her help. Which is a relief, because Suze has just moved to sunny California and plans to start fresh, with trips to the mall instead of the cemetery, and surfing instead of spectral visitations.

But the very first day at her new school, Suze realizes it’s not that easy. There’s a ghost with revenge on her mind … and Suze happens to be in the way.