Publisher: Atria Books

Review: Burying Water – K.A. Tucker

Review: Burying Water – K.A. Tucker

Burying Water is filled with angst, with no memory of who she is, Alex ends up living next door to a guy she feels very connected to but she has no idea why. My Burying Water review: Burying water is well written, and because it’s in dual points of views, the readers actually know much more about Alex than she knows herself. Also, it’s written in present tense, so the story really unfolds at the same time the reader is reading it. Jesse is doing his best to keep her distance from her, but he also wants to make sure she’s getting better, and he really wants to be there if and when she recovers her memory. The sense of […]

Posted 6 November, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 20 Comments
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Review: Ugly Love – Colleen Hoover

Review: Ugly Love – Colleen Hoover

Ugly Love is so full of feels! There is love, hope, devastation, loss, hopelessness, distraction… You name it – I felt it! My Ugly Love review: It has taken me several weeks to finally review Ugly Love. That is because even now, I feel like crying when I think about this heart-wrenching story! I cried the biggest ugly tears I have ever cried while reading a book. The story is so well done, especially because it is written in dual points of views, both from Tate’s and Miles’ point of view. However, the chapters written in Miles point of view are a lot shorter, and I didn’t get to know him any better than Tate did. And I thought the […]

Posted 17 October, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 16 Comments
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Review: In Her Wake – K.A. Tucker

Review: In Her Wake – K.A. Tucker

In Her Wake is an emotional rollercoaster like only Tucker can write them! Meeting Cole before Ten Tiny Breaths was truly amazing, I loved seeing exactly how the accident happened, and how consumed with guilt and sorrow he was during several years. My In Her Wake review: The fact that Cole was the only one who survived the accident apart from Kacey really hit home on a whole other level when seeing the story unfold from his point of view. Of course, because this novella is kind of like a companion to Ten Tiny Breaths, there are some spoilers from that in this review. The writing is haunting, and extremely well done. In first person present tense, it’s as if […]

Posted 19 September, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 15 Comments
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Review: All Fall Down – Jennifer Weiner

Review: All Fall Down – Jennifer Weiner

*I received a free ARC of All Fall Down from Atria Books via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* All Fall Down is a different contemporary novel that deals with prescription drugs addiction, and the very hard truth of how easy it might be to get a hold of those drugs. My All Fall Down review: Allison slowly slides into her addiction without truly noticing at first, and All Fall Down follows her journey until there is nothing left for her family to do but to try to get her to go to rehab. On the outside, Allison is successful, a loving mom, a blogger who earns more money than her husband, and she takes care of her daughter […]

Posted 20 August, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 15 Comments
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#COYER Review: Maybe Someday – Colleen Hoover

#COYER Review: Maybe Someday – Colleen Hoover

*I received a free ARC of Maybe Someday from Atria Books via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* Maybe Someday is a beautifully written contemporary New Adult romance, and, as usual the prose and the music are big parts of the story. Sydney thinks she knows all about heartache when she finds herself outside in the rain, on her birthday, after confronting her best friend and her boyfriend about their sneaking around behind her back. I truly loved how Sydney dealt with her back-stabbing friends before she packed her bags and left. Luckily for her, Ridge from across the courtyard has one of his roommates bring her up to his apartment and lets her stay until she gets her […]

Posted 16 March, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 26 Comments
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Review: Collide (Collide #1) – Gail McHugh

Review: Collide (Collide #1) – Gail McHugh

*I received a free ARC of Collide from Atria Books via Edelweiss in exchange of an honest review* Collide is a tense NA romance filled with angst and drama, while most of the tropes for the genre are present, it worked out well for this story as I still want to know more about most of the characters. Emily has been through a hard patch, losing her mom to cancer, the one person she could count on to help her and take care of her was Dillon, her boyfriend from New York. Soon after her mother’s death, Emily moves to New York from Colorado to be closer to Dillon. However, instead of moving in with him, she moves in with […]

Posted 10 March, 2014 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 16 Comments
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Review: Four Seconds to Lose (Ten Tiny Breaths #3) – K.A. Tucker

Review: Four Seconds to Lose (Ten Tiny Breaths #3) – K.A. Tucker

Four Seconds to Lose is just as emotional as Ten Tiny Breaths and One Tiny Lie! I already loved Cain, but getting to know him better was a true pleasure. I have to admit that Charlie is a really great character as well, she’s the perfect mix of innocent and saucy, and it was great to see how she could unbalance Cain with just a wink. There is a very dark undertone to Four Seconds to Lose, but that is to be expected in this series, right? Nothing is ever easy for the main characters, nor for their friends. There are several sightings of characters you have met before if you are familiar with this series, Storm, Dan, Ginger, China… […]

Posted 14 November, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 9 Comments
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Review: Finding Cinderella (Hopeless #2.5) – Colleen Hoover

Review: Finding Cinderella (Hopeless #2.5) – Colleen Hoover

Finding Cinderella is a novella in the Hopeless series, and as usual, I just love Ms. Hoover’s writing! Daniel is shown in a very different light in Finding Cinderella, he is much more than the best friend with the big mouth and the stupid nick-names here. It was also very nice to get to know Six better. And I really enjoyed seeing this more fragile side to her, since the little we see of her in Hopeless doesn’t really help the readers understand her very well. As usual, the writing is just beautiful, and I thought it was all going to be taking me to a wonderfully happy place, until *BAM* something is revealed that just might change everything. And […]

Posted 13 November, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 12 Comments
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Review: Losing Hope (Hopeless #2) – Colleen Hoover

Review: Losing Hope (Hopeless #2) – Colleen Hoover

*I received a free ARC of Losing Hope from Atria Books via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* Holder has been losing hope ever since that fatal day when he watched his little neighbor walk towards a car and leave with a stranger. After a news cast dubbed him ‘the boy who lost Hope’ his family stopped watching the news all together. Colleen Hoover has another masterpiece with Losing Hope. All the while showing the readers Holder’s inner thoughts and sharing some of the same moments that we know from Hopeless, there are things happening both before and after the narrative of Hopeless, and there are things Holder did that Sky never knew about, so there was a lot […]

Posted 30 June, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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Review: One Tiny Lie (Ten Tiny Breaths #2) – K. A. Tucker

Review: One Tiny Lie (Ten Tiny Breaths #2) – K. A. Tucker

*I received a free ARC of One Tiny Lie from Atria Books via Netgalley in exchange of an honest review* One Tiny Lie starts with Kayce and Oliva sitting on the deck, discussing mundane things, until Kaye asks Olivia if she’d be willing to talk to Dr. Stayner on the phone. Kayce is telling Olivia how worried she is about her – and Olivia can’t understand why anyone at all would be worried about her! She’s a straight A student, never drinks, doesn’t swear, stays clear of boys and helps little children. Her dream ever since she was nine years old is to go to Princeton, get into pre-med and become a pediatric oncologist. There is nothing at all wrong […]

Posted 27 June, 2013 by Linda @ (un)Conventional Bookworms in Reviews / 0 Comments
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