Book Review: Reliving Fate - Natasha Preston

Title: Reliving Fate
Author: Natasha Preston
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Cover Designer: Sofie Hartley, Hart and Bailey

Release Date: 23rd June

Reliving Fate by #1 New York Times Bestselling Author Natasha Preston is now LIVE!



Murder.

Guilt.

Obsession.

 

When Bella stumbles upon her dead sister’s diary, she sets out on a mission to find her sister’s killer, but it leads her to the wrong side of town.

And right into the path of Rocco, a loner, a bad boy, who is determined to keep her away. After all, you protect your own, and Bella certainly doesn’t belong with the likes of him.

But it’s hard to move on when you’re chained to the past, and Bella is intent on getting justice for her sister…even if it’s at the cost of her own life




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It had been a long time when I last read a book from Natasha Preston. Maybe that was some sort of preparation for her next book.

I don't know how to start describing the story. It was one roller coaster ride. I was laughing at one point then started to feel anxious the next. It was all happy and promising until it wasn't. I haven't felt this strongly about this book for so long that I had a book hangover for days. Natasha ripped my heart off my chest, shredded it into bits and pieces and returned it with big pink bow and the knife still in it. I don't know how to move forward from it. It was full of angst, love and passion. The story was well written that I had forgotten all about the tiny bit of inconsistency at the start of the book. It was as real as it could be. You would want to devour all the details and story it offers.

Aside from having a disregard for her family, I may have liked Bella more than I care to admit. I've been raised to always, always put your family first so it was a cringe worthy moment when Bella doesn't feel that way. But living the way she did, who am I to judge. But I love her passion and dedication with what she thinks is right. It may not have been what was mine, but she pushed until she couldn't push more. Rocco on the other hand is someone to admire. I can't even think of how to put him into words to even give him justice. He was someone real. At least as close to reality as you can get. I loved that he tried even if he didn't want to.

I'd give this a whooping 5 stars. No questions about it. It made me feel do much more. The story made grip my phone so tight I thought it's going to break. I was even scrolling past the acknowledgements hoping there was miraculously a few more pages to mend my broken heart. There weren't.

Book Review: Bad Penny - Staci Hart

Nothing good comes after the third date.

See, date three is the crucial point when things get real, which is exactly why I bounce out the door, twiddling my fingers at whatever poor boy I’ve left behind. Because if I stick around, one of three things will happen: he’ll profess his undying love, he gets weird and stalky, or I’ll go crazy. Like, Sid and Nancy crazy. Like, chase-him-through-the-streets-begging-him-to-love-me crazy.

Seriously, it’s better for everyone this way.

So when I meet Bodie, I figure it’ll be the same as it ever was. It doesn’t matter that he doesn’t put a single string on me. Doesn’t matter that he’s funny and smart and jacked and can play my body like a grand piano. Because even though I’m built for love, love has only carved me up like a Christmas ham.

Resistance is something I can only hang on to for so long, and he has persistence in spades. But my heart isn’t as safe as I want to believe, and neither is his. And the second I ignore my cardinal rule is the second I stand to lose him forever.



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They always say that love is sweeter the second time around. And I think that’s what happened with Staci Hart. My introduction with her
from A Thousand Letters was just an okay one. On hindsight, it is a good thing that I’m not one to turn back after just the first book.
I’m so glad I did, or I may not have read this otherwise.

Although the story was a typical cliché as a whole, at least for me, it was written in a way that it is still interesting and makes you
want to know what happens next. I think Staci Hart really writes with a lot of narration and “self-conversations”. For some reasons, it was
okay for this story. The details were elaborate and I did not see loopholes in it. One downfall that I didn’t like was the bed scenes. The first few scenes were okay, but it became a little draggy for me later on. I just hoped that those parts were not as significant in the plot, because I kind of just skim through them. Having said that, the story was still quite enjoyable. Considering that there were, I think,
three or four scenes that I skipped, I was still able to savor and adore the entirety of the story.

The characters were typical. Not so grand but not subtle as well. I liked that they are closer to reality than fiction. They were honest
and expose truth of their personalities. At least their reactions on what life (or the author for that matter) throws at them were as true
as it can be. Another plus point is that Bodie is a math geek. Who wouldn’t want hot, humorous, Math geek? Definitely not me.

I’d give this a 4.5 stars. I haven’t cried and felt so much pain in a light read for some time now, and Bad Penny definitely did that to me.

Book Review: Notice - K Webster

I didn’t notice her before…but now I do.
The shiny strands of gold in her silky brown hair.
Tiny crinkles between her eyebrows when she frowns.
Her passion for neatness.

Once I focus on her, I can’t take my eyes from my newest obsession. Ever.
I need to know everything about her.
Her past. Her present.
The way she takes her coffee.
Exactly how she smells after a spritz of perfume in the mornings.

She’s perfect in every way and I was blind.
But, God, now do I see.

I notice the organized way she arranges her clothes in her closet.
How she visits the same market each Saturday.
The sounds of her breathing as I lie beneath her bed in silence.

Violet is mine.
She just doesn’t know it yet.


*WARNING*
Notice is a dark and unusual romance. Extreme sexual themes and violence in certain scenes, which could trigger emotional distress, are found in this story. If you are sensitive to dark themes, then this story is not for you. If you aren't into super obsessive stalkers, then this story is not for you.



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This isn’t the first book of K Webster that I read. After Pretty Stolen Dolls I’ve been hooked with K’s writing. And in all honesty, she is slowly crawling into my got o authors. She can make the bad look good and question me with both my sanity and morality.

 

I decided to open this review with my love for K Webster just so you know that this is kind of hard for me to write. When I first read Notice’s blurb, it was so promising. And knowing it was from K makes it all the more exciting. So imagine my disappointment after I read the book. I honestly wanted to write something better than this. I’ve been reading a lot of good things about the book. And I would really like to like the book. A part of me questions if I just missed out the whole point of the story or most of the reviews and feedbacks I read was just from avid Krazies. I’m leaning into the former.

 

The plot was okay and something new. But I was kind of looking for more depth into it. I just can’t seem to understand what exactly happened and why. I was hoping for a more in-depth feels, the way I usually feel with Webster’s writing. I was already halfway thru the book and I’m still feeling nothing. I was hoping for some twist up until I was only one-third off the book. don’t get me wrong. It was exciting and intriguing, but I don’t think this is one of Webster’s greatest works.

 

The characters are just fine. Dark as they can be, just like how Webster mostly write her characters and I’m okay with that. i don’t know if it was because I was from a different country and the explanations are a little subtle that I didn’t quite get how they tick. But despite that, Gray is an A+ stalker, hands down. I would never have the guts to do that, but he did with so much gusto. I don’t know what to feel about Violet though. She is somewhere between likable and someone I’d like to shake for doing what she did.

 

Overall, I’d still give this a 3 star, just because of the little twist at the end. I mean, I didn’t quite expected that. maybe I was just expecting too much from K Webster as I have seemed to love all her works even the Taboo May-December love affair. So it was kind of disappointing for me that I wasn’t able to like something with a plot as promising as that.