Midnight Random Thoughts

“I am strong, yes. But being strong doesn’t mean never getting hurt. It means having a high pain tolerance. I’m not dumb enough to amp it up.”      I have a confession to make. I just stupidly realized, after reading this for the second time, that Sailor's parents are Sparrow and Troy from Sparrow of same author. I swear, their names did not ring a bell until after reading this twice. And I'm like the biggest stupid out there because Troy's name was even mentioned in Angry God when Vicious gave his contact details to Vaughn. Haha. To think that I read Sparrow just months ago. How did Sailor and Troy's names didn't sound familiar when I read their names here? Huhuhu. SYNOPSIS Hunter I didn’t mean to star in a sex tape, okay? It was just one of those unexplainable things. Like Stonehenge, Police Academy 2, and morning glory clouds. It just happened. Now my ball-busting father is sentencing me to six months of celibacy, sobriety, and morbid boredom under the roof of B...

“For anybody who thinks love only exists in fairy tales— Love is limitless. Believe.”   This book did not work for me to be honest. It was just so messy. SYNOPSIS Victor Reuben. Most sought out divorce attorney in LA. Nicole Alessi. Soon to be ex-wife of Hollywood's biggest star, Victor’s latest client and his boss's daughter.  In such a high profile divorce, they can't afford any extra drama. Luckily, neither one of them has anything to hide.  Unless you count the mind blowing sex they had…  Once…  Twice…  Three times all those years ago.  As long as they leave the past where it belongs, they’ll be fine. But with her wearing those tight dresses and him giving her those heated glances, keeping their hands to themselves is proving to be more difficult than either one of them realized.  It won't be long before the paparazzi start to smell smoke, and where there's smoke.      I almost DNFed this book to be very honest.  I skipped ...

  “I’ve learned that life isn’t about the end, but about the chapters in between. The filling in that we do to get our stories told and how people react to it is what keeps us going.”   I am pretty sure Jensen's name in the first book was Jenson. Hmm.. SYNOPSIS I lost her. No, I didn't lose her. I threw her away. She was my best friend. I was never supposed to fall in love with her. I was careless. She was heartbroken. I thought I was doing fine. But here she is, years later, forced to work with me, reminding me why I fell in love with her in the first place. And this time I'm going to do everything in my power to never let her go.      Okay first, what the heck?? This book.. I can't tell you how much I cried while reading this. My heart bled for Mia but especially for Jensen. I was bawling half the time I was reading this I don't even understand myself. This is just my opinion but I think Mia was unfair and selfish at some point to Jensen. I have mixed feelings...

“The thing about life is that you never know when it will show you something that touches you so deeply that you can’t help but be grateful for everything . . . even the bad.”      Claire is one of the authors that I discovered last year and I'm so glad and happy that I loved her books from reading them for first time. I'm a sucker for second chances romance so her books are really perfect for me. SYNOPSIS He was my older brother's best friend.  He was never supposed to be mine.  I thought we would get it out of our system and move on.  One of us did.  One of us left.  Now he’s back, looking at me like he wants to devour me. And all those feelings I’d turned into anger are brewing into something else, something that terrifies me.  He broke my heart last time.  This time he'll obliterate it.      To be honest, this book is nowhere near my tbr this year and I was kinda conflicted on what to read next after reading L.J. Shen'...

  “I couldn’t choose one type to represent you. You’re everything at once. Every pretty thing in one breathtaking package.”       This is the very first book that deals with autism that I read and wow. This book is an emotional rollercoaster! I cried several times. SYNOPSIS I’m a freak, a misfit, an odd end. Abandoned and unloved. But my happiness is so close I can taste it. Until he shows up. Gorgeous, expensive, and all man. Sad brown eyes and a brilliant smile. And he wants me to go with him. His intentions are hidden. His motives are unclear. Yet, I leave with him because there’s no happiness here. What he promises feels too good to be true… A castle. A fortune. And horses too. It’s too easy. Nothing in my life has ever been easy. What’s the catch? There’s always a catch.      This was not supposed to be one of my reads this month but this was just a short read so I gave it a go and what a ride! This is the first book by K. Webster so I was gl...

  “You’re my one and only and my everything. I’ve loved you at your best and I’ve loved you at your worst and I’m going to continue to love you through anything and everything.”      First of all, I just wanna say that I read this book blindly without reading anything about its gist so I have no idea what this book is about. I just read a post on one of facebook groups that I joined about this book and she said that this book made her cry and the love story between Piper and Blue is so bizarre and sad. And I'm a sucker for tear-jerking love stories or stories in general so I gave this a shot and I'm just gonna say, this book tore my heart open. SYNOPSIS They say you never forget your first love. Mine was a homeless musician who wandered straight into my soul. He was my first everything. And fourteen years later, I still can't get him out of my head. He broke all my rules. He also broke my heart. I watched him climb to stardom, cheering him on from afar. But I wa...

  “We come into this world alone, and we die alone. If we get sick, we fight it alone. Our parents are not there to go through chemo treatments for us. They’re not the ones losing their hair, puking buckets, or getting their asses kicked at school. If we’re involved in an accident, they’re not the ones losing blood, fighting for their lives on the operating table, losing a limb. “I’m here for you” is the dumbest sentence I’d ever heard anyone say.”  SYNOPSIS Vaughn Spencer.   They call him an angry god.  To me, he is nothing but a heartless prince.  His parents rule this town, its police, every citizen and boutique on Main Street.  All I own is a nice, juicy grudge against him for that time he almost killed me.  Between hooking up with a different girl every weekend, breaking hearts, noses and rules, Vaughn also finds the time to bully little ole’ me.  I fight back, tooth and nail, never expecting him to chase me across the ocean after we graduate...

  “Life is like a book, a long chain of scenes threaded together by circumstances and fate. You never know how thick or thin your book is, so you better make the most out of every scene, enjoy each chapter.”   SYNOPSIS Not all love stories are written the same way. Ours had torn chapters, missing paragraphs, and a bittersweet ending. Luna Rexroth is everyone’s favorite wallflower. Sweet. Caring. Charitable. Quiet. Fake. Underneath the meek, tomboy exterior everyone loves (yet pities) is a girl who knows exactly what, and who, she wants—namely, the boy from the treehouse who taught her how to curse in sign language. Who taught her how to laugh. To live. To love. Knight Cole is everyone’s favorite football hero. Gorgeous. Athletic. Rugged. Popular. Liar. This daredevil hell-raiser could knock you up with his gaze alone, but he only has eyes for the girl across the street: Luna. But Luna is not who she used to be. She doesn’t need his protection anymore. When life throws a curveb...

  “I wish I could rewrite you out of my life  But all your pages are highlighted Dog-eared and thumbed to death I can no longer read you But you are still my favorite poem” SYNOPSIS Penn   They say revenge is a dish best served cold.  I’d had four years to stew on what Daria Followhill did to me, and now my heart was completely iced.  I took her first kiss.  She took the only thing I loved.  I was poor.  She was rich.  The good thing about circumstances? They can change. Fast.  Now, I’m her parents’ latest shiny project.  Her housemate. Her tormentor. The captain of the rival football team she hates so much.  Yeah, baby girl, say it—I’m your foster brother.  There’s a price to pay for ruining the only good thing in my life, and she’s about to shell out some serious tears.  Daria Followhill thinks she is THE queen. I’m about to prove to her that she’s nothing but a spoiled princess.  Daria   Everyone loves a ...

  “Because that was the problem with society. It cared too much about who you fell in love with but never about why. The why matters.”  SYNOPSIS My name is Melody Greene, and I have a confession to make. I slept with my student, a senior in high school. Multiple times. I had multiple orgasms. In multiple positions. I slept with my student and I enjoyed it. I slept with my student and I’d do it all over again if I could turn back time. My name is Melody Greene, and I got kicked out of my position as a teacher and did my walk of shame a la Cersei Lannister from the principal’s office, minutes after said principal threatened to call the cops on me. My name is Melody Greene, and I did something bad because it made me feel good. Here is why it was totally worth it.      Jaime you creepy stalker! 🤣 I never really liked the insta love between him and Ms. Greene. Ugh! I'm really not into student-teacher troupe (especially when the female is the teacher) cause it creeps...

  "Don’t you get it? We’re the outliers. The rejects. We’re free. Free to do whatever the hell we want, because it won’t matter. We’ll never fit in here, so we don’t have to try. We’re liberated from all this bullshit.” He motioned around us with his hand. “They can’t hurt you if you don’t give them permission to. So don’t.”" SYNOPSIS Bane Naked surfer. Habitual pothead. A con, a liar, a thief and a fraud. Last I heard, he was extorting the rich and screwing their wives for a living. Which is why I’m more than a little surprised to find him at my threshold, looking for my friendship, my services, and most puzzling of all—looking humbled. Thing is, I’m on a boycott. Literally—I cut boys from my life. Permanently. Problem is, Bane is not a boy, he is all man, and I’m falling, crashing, drowning in his sweet, perfect lies. Jesse Carter Hot as hell, cold as ice. I wasn’t aware of her existence until a fat, juicy deal landed in my lap. She’s a part of it, a little plaything to kil...

  "She's a maze with no escape. An ethereal, steady pulse. She's there but just barely. I love her so much I sometimes hate her. And it terrifies me, because deep down, I know what she is. An unsolvable puzzle. And I know who I am. The idiot who would try to fix her. At any cost." SYNOPSIS They call him The Mute for a reason. Hard, cold and calculated, he rarely speaks. When he does, it’s with disdain. When he does, his words aren’t meant for me. When he does, my stomach flips and my world tilts on its axis. He is thirty-three. I am eighteen. He’s a single dad and my father’s business partner. I’m just a kid to him and his enemy’s daughter. He’s emotionally unavailable. And I am…feeling. Feeling things I shouldn’t feel for him. Trent Rexroth is going to break my heart. The writing isn’t just on the wall, it’s inked on my soul. And yet, I can’t stay away. A scandal is the last thing my family needs. But a scandal is what we’re going to give them. And oh, what beautiful...

  "What makes you feel alive? Singing like no one’s listening. Dancing like no one’s watching. Eating like calories don’t exist." SYNOPSIS They say that life is a beautiful lie and death a painful truth. They're right. No one has ever made me feel more alive than the guy who serves as a constant reminder that my clock is ticking. He is my forbidden, shiny apple. The striking fallacy to my blunt, raw, truth. He is also my sister's ex-boyfriend. One thing you should know before you judge me; I saw him first. I craved him first. I loved him first. Eleven years later, he waltzes into my life, demanding a second chance. Dean Cole wants to be my bronze horseman. But my clock is ticking. See, I'm not like the rest. I have an illness. Sometimes I conquer it. Sometimes it conquers me. My white knight has finally arrived. Hopefully, he isn't too late.      Dean and Rosie!!! I actually kinda guessed Dean is into Rosie at the later parts of Vicious buutttt.. i never thoug...

"...and that’s when I realized that all this time, all this fucking time I was chasing her, I was actually loving her."      First book of 2021! To be honest, I did not know anything about L.J. Shen until I read her books Sparrow and The Kiss Thief last year and I was not really intrigued with her works because of how dark those two books are. Then I saw a Facebook group chat that talks about her books particularly Vicious so I was really intrigued. And when I checked it on Goodreads, the number of ratings were insane that's why I gave it a shot. And boy oh boy, I think I just found myself falling in a rabbit hole after reading this because I can't stop reading all her books.      Anyway, as I said, this is the 3rd book of L.J. Shen that I've read and.. daammnnnn.. she really does not disappoint. I can only count on my one hand my go-to authors I know that even without reading the gist of the story I know that it'll be really good and L.J. Shen is one of th...

New year, new books, new tbr. 📚 To be honest, I was surprised I read 101 books last year to think that I don't usually read even at least 10 books per year. I just collect everything that I want to read instead of actually reading them. I think I also find the luxury to have time to read because of the pandemic. I originally planned on reading 50 books on my goodreads reading challenge but guess 50 is not enough number for me. I caught up with the books that I got for the last couple of years and finally able to read them. But then after reading them, it's not enough and so many books were being published everyday so I ended up reading them to. This year, I also made a reading for my 2021 Reading Challenge to 50 books but I think time will tell if I can reach this because it's finally review season and god knows when will I have the time to read many books again. But for now, I'll see to it that I make reviews for all the books that I'll read this year even if I g...