Review: I've Got Your Number - Sophie Kinsella

★★★★★

For this book’s review I’m using a different method since I couldn’t help myself to wrote what a though from the begging! 

Of course, what can one expect from the author of Confessions of a Shopaholic, Sophie Kinsella???

Since I’m doing this I have to tell you there’s going to be SPOILERS along the entire review, so stop HERE if you haven’t read the book (I guarantee it’s a book that worth read it first!)

So, here it goes:

(20%)

So far, I can only give this book 5 big and shining stars!!!! And I’ve only read like 20% of it!

Yeah, I know it sounds crazy but I’ve been laughing out loud since I begun with it - Poppy (the main female character) is simply hilarious!!!!

Plus, the British-darkish-kinda-humor is amazing - Poppy’s point of view, her relation with her friends, with her fiancé and even with Sam is straigh-forward and just plain funny, I can’t wait to finish it.

So far, she took someone else’s phone from a bin, sang “Single Ladies” adaptation to a Japanese she’d never seen in her life, pretended burning her hand to avoid her in-laws, read messages not address to her but to Sam... I can imaging what’s gonna happen next! hahahha

(40%)

Ok, so Poppy has gone completely crazy!!!!!

There’s already so many wrong things about sharing a phone, let alone an email account (an a corporate email account, let me say!).

How can she goes around replying Sam’s emails as if she was him - not only addressing business situations but also personal ones (his father!!!!! c’mon!!!)

At this points she should go and check her own life: his fiancé is a asshole, her in-laws are judgmental trash, her friends are not really her friends (specially that Annalise who clearly whats to bang Magnus!), her wedding planner sucks - See? So many things to repair in her life to go messing with Sam’s.

And I want to make an special mention to Magnus, the fiancé. A total fake this guy! Flirting with Poppy’s friends is not cool man! Stop Annalise’s hand when she gets handsy. In my opinion, he also could pay more attention to her fiancée - treat her better, do not disappear over the phone every time things get complicated with his parents or something important (as your wedding rehearsal) is happening!

Another important topic is Lucinda finding the ring in her purse!!! How did that happen?? Isn’t suppose to be isn the safe of the hotel? How does she got it? Something weird is going on with this Lucinda - she’s to bitchy to be cool with the weeding or with Poppy.

(60%)

I really loved Sam and Poppy’s twisted relationship (or whatever that can be called) - They’re so different that simply fits. He’s quite, sharp and curt. She’s over the top, extremely polite (even kind of naïve) and kind. But somehow they make sense.

Their exchange on the train proves my point and also the fact that Sam’s kinda treats Poppy differently than the rest of the world, but still is quite honest with her - and he’s right, she definitely doesn’t want to be hate so she tries just a little bit hard with everyone, leaving people to step on top of her.

I’m hanging on the pages to find out about the mystery Scottie - who’s been framing Sir Nicholas and to see Willow’s reaction to see Sam and Poppy together. Why does Sam want to date someone like Willow? She’s really annoying.

(80%)

Ok, I have to say this! I KNEW IT! Magnus is really really and asshole and on top of that a lying cheating s&%t!

Although there were some red flags from the begging with this relationship: the really early engagement (after 1 month dating!!!!!!), his lack of interest in anything related to the wedding and his self-center attitude. Plus, Poppy’s incapability to speak openly with him (communication is the main basis of every relationship)

And if you can have an special moment in the forest with another man (even if it’s as platonic as a hug), you should rethink your steps - probably you’re not as in love as you though you were and you can reconsider the wedding thing.

(100%)

At the end, I have to say that this is by far the best book I’ve read in the couple of month I’ve out - quite hilarious, it got me laughing most of the time and hanging into the story to really know what happened next.

The final text between Poppy and Sam, just before the wedding, almost broke my heart and when he writes to the entire church I got so happy I almost cry.

But the best part is that they weren’t fooling themselves - They knew the couldn’t be in love only because they share a couple of messages and some adventures - so they just started dating to see if their feelings could evolved into something more!

Overall, I LOVED this book!

Please, tell me what you think about it in the comments bellow.

Hope you enjoy my review and see you between the pages ;)

Trish ❥

What's coming!!!!!!

WELCOME BACK TO ME!!!!!!

I know I've been MIA for quiet a lot of time, so so sorryyyyyyy... But just let me tell you that this thing called Motherhood is tough stuff!!!!!

When they say you can't actually breath, they really mean it! And don't get me wrong, is really as rewarding as every mother in the world profess, but not less tiring.

And is specially tough to a committed reader like me because let's face it, how can you actually get peace and quite reading time with a crying baby!

Well, I'm glad to inform you than in the three months since my baby was born I've read a lot of books, which translate to a lot of book reviews to share with you guys and gals!!

So, a little overview of what's coming:

• Jennifer Probst kept me up every night while I was nursing my baby with her series - First the Marriage to a Billionaire Series and then Searching For Series! Interconnected, this 2 series provide us eight great books to spend our reading time! And I'm looking forward to read Izzy's story, Searching for Mine!!!
• Then there's Kate Meader's series Hot in Chicago!!!! Once I started it I couldn't put it down!!! Sexy firefighters mix with politics and lots of humming scenes!
• And, of course, I cannot let my beloved Lauren Layne behind! Both Blurred Lines and the first book of the Oxford Series, Irresistibly Yours, passed across my hands during this down time.
• Also, Emma Chase's The Legal Briefs Series is part of my read list - I have a lot to say about this two books and I'm excited to get Appealed, the third book if this serie in January 2016!
• Finally, I've a couple of other reviews of some amazing books such as I've Got Your Number by Sophie Kinsella, White Collared Series by Shelly Bell and Maybe Series by Colleen Hoover 

Anyway, I better get started with my work!

Hope you enjoy what's next and as always, see you between the pages!

Trish ❥

Review: Frisk Me (New York's Finest #1) by Lauren Layne

(★★★★★ - 5/5 stars)

Official Moretti, yummi! 

There’s no other way to start this review than this one - even if the description of the book it has anything to do with the front image of the book, Luca Moretti is every girl’s hot (and wet) dream! Dark hair, blue eyes, strong body and a hero - what else can we ask???

Sorry if my initial outburst is kind of a spoiler, since I’m letting you know things you can only figure out if you read the book, but it was inevitable! In the constant comparison to Clark Kent only adds to my attraction to this character <3

But in the serious side, this is a pretty good book for a romance! Lauren Layne always does it for me thou - ever since her Redemption Series and Stilleto Series, I was looking forward to read Frisk Me, the first book of the New York’s Finest Series. And it didn’t disappoint me.

Long story short, the struggle of a NYPD cop that got caught into a social media fame based on rescue a little girl from drowning on the East River and the ambition of a journalist with high expectations on her shoulders to make the mayor break in her career at the Big City. Their path collide when she scoop the story of certain cop who’s becoming a celebrity around the media, while this cop is desperately trying to keep his secrets at secret.

That’s how Luca Moretti and Ava Sims get in each other’s lives - well at list the second time around...

Here’s where I start to spill my guts about this book, so if you haven’t read it, STOP right here - there might be some SPOILER in the next lines.

Maybe is the stereotype around it, but just to think of man like Luc in uniform it does strange things to me! hahahaha... But also, the fact that he’s such a good guy makes it even better. He’s committed to his job, to the point where he blames himself for make things right - even when the outcome is definitely not his fault.  This is surely the kind of guy that, if you find, you marry right away, no questions asked. 

And beside the incident with his partner and Shayna (the little girl who died the same day), his a values guy, with a big family that supports him and takes care of him - that makes him a very driven and confident man.

In the opposite side, we have Ava Sims - a reporter who has struggled her own life to achieve some dreams, even if the dreams are not hers. She wants to prove to her family (a very shitty one, if I must say) that she can have everything they want for themselves, but couldn’t get at their time. With nightmare family, we still can see that she’s a girl with her own personality that is a little confused by stereotypes in the media of this days - you have to be beautiful, stylish, confident and ALWAYS put together in order to nailed a job a anchor. And she’s trying her best to achieve this, even if all she wants to do is sit around in yoga pants, a T-shirt and her beloved flip-flops.

Moretti and Sims get to know each other three years before the East River video, when Luc gave Ava’s van a ticket for parking in a restricted area - the sparks flying since the beginning, even if they are arguing about the ticket - and when they see each other again, the sparks return in full force, putting them in a complicated position since their now kind of like enemies. But as events go by, they start to blurred the lines between their careers and their actual selves:

“I think the woman behind the reporter is pulled to me. Just like the man behind the cop is drawn to you.”

Chapter 16

Is safe to say that the constant hot-cold routing around the main characters got us attached to know how and when they’re gonna to connect - the level of attraction mixed with their constant fights really built the anticipations over the outcome of their relationship.

At the end, two loners end up falling for each other and realizing that nobody is perfect - not even Superman and Lois Lane (hahahaha). Everyone makes mistake and can be forgiven. And even what you thought you want your entire life and change in a blink of an eye.

So bravo Lauren Layne - with this one you had my entire five amazing stars!!!! Looking forward to the next book of this series Steal Me, Anthony Moretti’s turn to find love - the second book of New York’s Finest is going to be published on November 24th, 2015...

So I hope you had enjoy my post! 

Feel free to comment anything that cross your mind and as always...

...See you between the pages!

Trish ❥