Relationship Advice

I actually really like doing these advice columns on my blog. I feel like sometime I like to give people advice and that's just part of my therapeutic nature. Sometimes I need these posts as a documentation of what I've gone through and I know it's not only me and as a sixteen year old aspiring blogger, doing book reviews in my spare time, I though why not make my blog a book/lifestyle documentation. I mean I do take very lovely pictures. In addition, sometimes I also need to take my own advice. This is all from my heart to yours so I hope you appreciate this and I hope this may help you in some way.

My top 7 things to consider and to do: 

1. Give it two days. You will feel much better after two days. I know it feels like your body is going to collapse and your heart will explode in all the wrong ways but all I have to say is, give it two days. You will feel better. 

2. Don't contact them in those two days, or even the days after that unless it's absolutely necessary. That means don't facebook them, stalk them on twitter, watch their snapchat stories, text them, call them (?!!? why you would do this, I have no idea), etc. 

3. If you feel terrible about it, I'm 90% sure they do as well. 

4. Eat whatever you want. But don't not eat, don't stop yourself from eating. It's unhealthy and you don't need that. 

5. Have a hot pack/hot water-bottle wherever you go. Whether that's going to bed, just sitting reading, watching a movie, walking around your house, it will make you feel at ease and its warm and fuzzy.

6. Take care of yourself. You will get over this. I believe in everything happening for a reason. You may not believe in that, but sometimes it's good to look at it in a different perspective. Pamper yourself, you are too good. 

7. "People will always say mean things. When you feel like you can't win, remember they're the losers."

Getting over friendships and break-ups. What is a toxic relationship? How do we define it? 

Every relationship is different. There will be similarities but we cannot generalise those to everyone. There are plenty of blog posts on this topic around the internet so I won't delve into it, just google it. All I have to say is, get a second opinion. If you catch yourself pondering then just let go and leave. It's one of the hardest things in the world but sometimes it's for your own well-being and as always, time heals all wounds. All the love.

Advice for actual relationships including two people whether that be romantically or just platonically but you are both invested to each other. Here are some advice/tips from some of my friends:

Give them your full attention but not too much or too little
Don't forget their birthday
Show interest in the things they like
Don't do long distance if you can help it, only agree if they are worth it
Don't be scared to date your best/good friend, if you're really that close you'll get through the potential breakup

Books...re-read your books. I'm always a fan for going back to books that make you nostalgic when you're in a bad mood. So: Harry Potter is always a 10/10 go to! 

Movies....I'm not sure why but when bad stuff happens to be I always gravitate to movie marathons. Please take time off for yourself no matter what. You need it. So go do it. These are the few movies I watched when I went through a friend break-up and some of these movies make me laugh and some made me cry. They are bitter sweet and I'm sure you will all enjoy them as well. Obviously these are just a few, I can't think of all my favourites but these are just the latter:

500 Days of Summer
Flipped
The Devil Wears Prada
Shrek
Love Actually
Harry Potter
The Help 

Tv Shows to marathon:
Greys Anatomy
Friends
Parks and Recreation
Law and Order SVU
The Mindy Project
Bobs Burgers

Time heals all wounds.

xx
take care!

16 Things I learned In 2015

I'm sixteen.

I turned sixteen this year and I feel as thought this 'life advice' thing I might actually do for the many years to come. It's basically, '16 Life Tips' as I am sixteen and it would only be fitting to have sixteen things to mention for this year. I may do this blog post at the end of each year, just to summarise everything tangible and intangible I've learnt over the year. 

This is for all my friends that may need this as well! I wish everyone a wonderful and hopefully happy 2016.

1. When you have the chance, hold a baby.

2. Go find new music, whether that means attending more music festivals/concerts and make playlists for the different moods you're in or for different occasions. Playlists are just like your photo albums, they hold precious memories. 

3. Get out of all your toxic relationships/friendships, even though it may hurt sometimes it's necessary. I cannot stress this one enough, so I'm making a separate blog post on this one. 

4. Boys can wait. Focus on yourself because you're the sunflower.

5. Tell the people in your life that you're close to that you love them regularly. You never know when they leave. 

6. If you're ever going to get into an argument or in a fight, do it face to face and not on the internet. You'll find you won't say half the things you said to them online when your face to face. 

7. ALWAYS, take your makeup off before you go to bed. AND WASH YOUR FACE AFTERWARDS! Otherwise it will feel like you have a charcoal mask of makeup of your face.

8. If he keeps looking at you....he definitely thinks you're hot so chill out before you make a fool of yourself.

9. Don't always be on your phone taking pictures of moments, rather try and cherish your memories with your family and friends by living in that moment with them and not your phone.

10. Get a polaroid for the banter and a proper camera for the quality banter.

11. You're IB/SAT/GCSE/GPA/any other standardised testing score does not define you and the faster you realise it the better you will do and further you will achieve. If you try your best and put the effort it, I guarantee you will feel good as you will do well. If not, work slowly and understand what you're doing wrong and focus on those things.

12. Respect everyones opinions even though you may disagree with them. (Unless it's a horrible opinion then just get the hell out of there!)

13. Don't go on a no carb no sugar diet.

14. Don't ever not brush your teeth because you're too lazy or hungover.

15. If you want those Adidas Originals, work for it and get those Originals!

16. You is smart. You is kind. You is important.

I'll Give You The Sun | Jandy Nelson

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OKay, lets begin.

When I first got this book, I believe it was on my birthday (I did a birthday post on this blog as well, which I will shamelessly link here). My friend Tess...I feel like I mention Tess is every other blog post but the thing is SHE IS ONE OF MY BEST FRIENDS and we love each other and she reads lots of books, like me probably more than me. We were in a bookstore and I saw this book and it was the hardback version but at a really cheap price for hardbacks where I'm from. Hardbacks are so expensive here but this was so cheap I was actually shocked. It was just this one book. There wasn't a second or third, just this one. I asked Tess whether it was good and she said it was so I just ended up getting it. I was really happy (~imagine me being happy here~). So I got this book on my birthday.

I'll Give You The Sun, is a young adult, standalone, contemporary, coming of age novel by Jandy Nelson. This novel is based with a first person perspective with two pint of views - Jude and Noah- This is the goodreads synopsis: 

Jude and her twin brother, Noah, are incredibly close. At thirteen, isolated Noah draws constantly and is falling in love with the charismatic boy next door, while daredevil Jude cliff-dives and wears red-red lipstick and does the talking for both of them. But three years later, Jude and Noah are barely speaking. Something has happened to wreck the twins in different and dramatic ways . . . until Jude meets a cocky, broken, beautiful boy, as well as someone else—an even more unpredictable new force in her life. The early years are Noah's story to tell. The later years are Jude's. What the twins don't realize is that they each have only half the story, and if they could just find their way back to one another, they’d have a chance to remake their world.

When I first started it, probably a few weeks ago at the end of Octoberish, I hated it. I hated it. I hated it. SO MUCH! It was the writing style I despised. I know this is a recurring theme with a lot of other people who have read the book so it's not just me. HOWEVER, once I started to get like 50+ and 100+ pages into it, I started to work around the writing style and it got better. Not just that, but the actual plot (if you will) also got better and more intriguing. One night, I kid you not, I literally couldn't put the book down. It's kind of a sad book. It laments quite a bit. But it's a really lovely coming to age novel.

Another thing I really liked was probably the only realistic and genuine part of this book were the relationships between characters, romantically and platonically. The relationship with their parents was so interesting to read as well as the relationship with their friends. This is an LGBT+ book as those themes are present in this novel. This is my first LGBT+ book ever... WOW. I know right! What took me so long. I really loved that romance in this. It wasn't cliche or sexualised so much. It was mushy, cute, simple and I adored it. There is also heterosexual relationships, it's not all LGBT+. HOWEVER, I would like to stress that there is homophobic themes discussed in this book, if that triggers any of you, please don't read this. Your mental health and state is better than reading this book. 

Now to talk about everything I disliked.... 

Firstly, I did really like the characters in the book, although I thought they were just crafted too ~indie~ like. I just felt like they were just so.....I don't know....made to be so hipsterish and I really don't know how to explain this. It just felt artificial to me. The characters themselves were iffy. I loved Noah but I just liked Jude. They are twins but totally different people. I really liked some parts of the novel and some parts less. I didn't hate a particular scene or anything but this book was just eh.

In addition, there isn't a legit plot line. It's a contemporary coming to age story, so it's more of just lessons learnt and the growth of these characters. The concept of this book was good, I liked that cause everything really linked and fell together towards the end. Another thing I want to address, is that the POV's are like at different ages of Noah and Jude and I barley remembered how old they were cause it felt like they were doing so much at the age of 15? Which was weird for me. I mentioned before that I hated the writing style, and I feel strongly about that. Jandy Nelson is just not for me. Some people may think it's literary genius or whatever, but I despised it. There were times in the book I got hooked to a certain POV and I loved that but then it would go away and I'd find myself just skim reading. .

That brings me to my next point of issue: I hate skim reading. That's how you know it's bad. My English teacher actually said to our class a few week ago, that she would like to see us reading different genres of books such as: Ishiguro, Hosseini, Murakami, biographies, classics and basically not your typical teenage Y/A genre so that our sense of syntax, diction and overall language could broaden. She also mentioned that we didn't have to finish the book if we found it hard, just to read a few pages because sometimes that is all you need. I hate not finishing a book and just leaving it. Even if I hate it I have to finish it. No idea why I do this, it's just become my thing but I think I will start more of that in 2016. Life it too short to read shitty books.

You have to understand how disappointed I was because I made this up to be such some great panache; when I then got into it and the possibility of it being absolute shit got surreal. Although, I did get really emotionally invested with Noah's POV everything else was a blur (probably due to the fact I skimmed most of the book).  

Would I recommend this...I don't know. I wouldn't take just my review into account. Read others peoples reviews and maybe check the book out yourself if you're a bit off on whether you want to read this or not. I think I may just be the minority with this one.

Sorry for the extremely long sabbatical hiatus. I've been dying doing IB. I know it's been so long! Going through a break-up so that's also very hard to deal with. I'm really devastated that I cannot read lots and review much, but it's only because I don't have time, or I just really get tired/lazy. Hopefully I'll read over the Christmas holidays but then again I will also be revising for an exam in January. Wish me luck and I truly hope I'll get some reviews out for you all! 

p.s

Check out my most popular reviews:
Love and Misadventure by Lang Leav
I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
To All The Boys I Loved Before by Jenny Han
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Alex + Ada by Jonathan Luna and Sarah Vaughn 

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The Summer I Turned Pretty trilogy | Jenny Han

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Hope you're all well! 

This is so belated I'm in tears. These photos are basically my summer. 

I didn't actually have the time to finish all three so I just read two of them. This is a trilogy and I read the first and second books, 'The Summer I Turned Pretty' and 'It's Not Summer Without You'. Both I fairly enjoyed and at times I did cry. I get very emotionally attached. Shocker. I read them over the months of July and possible the beginning of August. 

This review is three months too late, I know and I am very sorry but stuff happens and this blog just went of hold for a long time. I don't know how long I'll be back though because I am not reading that much at the moment. Without further ado, here is 'ma' review.

I thought I should read the books over my summer holidays as they are contemporaries and summer was the best time, as well as the fact these books are set in the summer and they all have the word 'summer' in their titles. However, it's now October and I am a little dodgy on the events that took place in the first and second book of the series cause it's been almost four months since I read them and like I said before, this review is super late and I am sorry but I am also not sorry. I will try my best to remember what I loved and didn't.

Some summers are just destined to be pretty.

When each summer begins, Belly leaves her school life behind and escapes to Cousins Beach, the place she has spent every summer of her life. Not only does the beach house mean home away from home, but her favourite people are there: Susannah, her mother's best friend, and her sons, Conrad and Jeremiah. Belly has been chasing Conrad for as long as she can remember, and more than anything, she hopes this summer will be different. Despite distractions from a new guy named Cam and lingering looks from Conrad's brother, Jeremiah, Belly's heart belongs to Conrad. Will he offer his to her? Will this be the summer that changes everything?

Firstly, I don't like the whole idea of 'turning pretty'. I'm gonna start with that. These books are somewhat childish to me. I don't like 'turning pretty' because then it just becomes this terrible thing with teenage girls where then assume they have to be 'pretty' to gain attention and to be able to be loved, WHICH IS TOTALLY BONKERS! And should never be promoted especially in books. Don't put it into their minds that they have to suddenly change to start to be noticed. Puberty is another thing but to just suddenly 'become pretty' is ridiculous. I understand this probably wasn't Jenny Hans aim and I can see what she means and she probably didn't mean this. I say all this because, the main character - Belly - hangs out with these two brothers her whole life each summer and when she suddenly turns sixteen they start to look at her 'differently'... *rolls eyes to the back of my head*. Yes, it was probably the puberty BUT BELLY HAS ALWAYS BEEN BELLY FROM THE START, she didn't suddenly change as a person. OH MY GOD! Why is it always what the boys want and what the boys notice? There are bigger, better, time-worthy things in life than just impressing guys. 

Did I enjoy the first and second? Yes I did. But I don't like the idea around these books where there is a clear love triangle, maybe even square. This is because the girl in the books will always get tossed around. It's unfair and boring. To be honest, Belly goes through so much emotional trauma I literally cannot believe she is still putting up with this shit. These books, however have a way because Jenny Han is a cinnamon role and I adore her writing, it's very easy to get into but not for everyone.

The thing with love triangles and love squares is that it can be literary genius and amazing and then it can just get predictable, stupid and boring. There is a thin line. It also just gets so frustrating for the reader if it drags on and on, cause then its like "JUST PICK ONE OF THEM OHMYGOD!". There are some books where a love triangle/square is necessary to the plot and what not; then I see it's purpose but for miscellaneous other times it's just there as filler to drag on with ~who will she pick~. Just, unnecessary.

Secondly, the characters are worth it. I think that the characters were written very well especially the main character: Belly. There is a lot of back story with many of these characters as all three books are based from Belly's point of view (first person) and in each book she gets older. So in a sense it is a coming of age trilogy. Belly does really develop from the beginning of the books to the end, even though I haven't read the last book, I'm sure she flourishes in that. The rest of the characters were extremely realistic and also written very well. There are characters like the brothers - Conrad and Jeremiah - that at times I highly dislike and then I like again which is a recurring theme for me. All in all I don't like either brother as her love interest to be honest. They are both pretty bad. I could write and tell you how problematic and dickish they both are but I won't waste your time like that.

Thirdly, I would like to touch on that the writing is really easy to read and flows well. I may have mentioned this at the beginning briefly, but yeah, I have nothing against the writing. The plot is centred around Belly and her Summers as well as her growing older and wiser. I got the trilogy in a box set for such a bargain! I highly recommend if you're interested in the books to start with the first book The Summer I Turned Pretty and work your way down. 

ALSO SIDE NOTE, HAVE U ALL HEARD Hello BY ADELE?!?!?!??!?! When I listened to it, I swear I was crying about a relationship I don't even have. Here's there link if you haven't heard the song. GO DO IT PLEASE.

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16.

I'M SIXTEEN!

Happy Sweet Sixteen to me!

I did a post like this last year when I turned 15. You all seemed to like it so here is me turning 16 today. It's not lots of pictures like last year, because most of the pictures I have include the faces all of my friends and family, which would be kinda weird to post. Although, here is what I could accumulate.

I think this year I will post some music recs/the songs I listened to today.

But firstly, thankyou to my sunflower of friends and family for the presents. Secondly, first thing I did was blast Waterfalls by TLC, last year I blasted Welcome To New York by Taylor Swift (but now looking back I should have blasted Fifteen by T.Swift). Thirdly, I ALSO GOT A FAB CAKE!!!!

I took TONS of polaroids. It's just my thing. I had school today on my b-day and an assessment so that was a lil depressing but it's okay cause of the many FB wishes and my friends were SO SWEET! 

I skyped my friends the few hours before I turned 16 before 12am and it was iconic. Love you guys.

Here are my song recommendations; basically my playlist the whole day I turned 16. There are some oldies in there as well. If you want a link, here is the link of the playlist of Spotify. I bolded my faves.

Waterfalls - TLC
Welcome To New York - Taylor Swift (this isn't on Spotify though)
Something In The Way You Move - Ellie Goulding
On My Mind - Ellie Goulding
Perfect - One Direction
American Money - BORNS
Drug My Heart - BORNS
Kill Em With Kindness - Selena Gomez
Birthday - Selena Gomez
Her (Loving You) - Glades
Metaphysical - Autograf, Janelle Kroll
Safe And Sound - Capital Cities
Love Me Like You - Little Mix
Birthday Cake - Rihanna 
I Try - Macy Grey
New Thang - Redfoo
Hotline Bling - Drake
Tired Of Talking - LÉON
Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
Real Love - Clean Bandit
Come Over - Clean Bandit
Runaway (U & I) - Galantis
King - Years & Years
Do It Again - Pia Mia
Beat of My Drum - Powers
Sorry - Justin Bieber
Best Fake Smile - James Bay
Let The Night Fall - Dragonette
Savages - Marina and the Diamonds 
Primadonna Girl - Marina and the Diamonds 
Happy - Marina and the Diamonds 

I'm so sorry about being awol for like 5483584920 months. Just caught up in school and work regarding IB so hopefully later I'll post some reviews, no promises.

Hope you enjoyed this,  see you all soon! 

p.s

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Alex + Ada #1 | Jonathan Luna and Sarah Vaughn

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I find it so ironic that in my last post I was all 'So, so sorry that I've been gone for ages! Promise to post so much more over my summer holidays.'

and in reality it was *crickets chirping* 

Yes, I am sorry I posted nothing since my last post (more than a month ago) but I just fell flat and was not motivated to read, which results in not posting any reviews for you sunflowers. I am upset that I wanted to read lots over summer and to post lots of reviews for you all but I didn't. But I don't regret not reading over summer either. I've just gone through some bad stuff and I just needed a break from everything, which basically was the whole of my summer. 

Anyways enough of me saying why I haven't posted (like every other time) and lets just get on with this CUTE GRAPHIC NOVEL! 

I FELL IN LOVE WITH THE CONCEPT AND THE ART. 

I'm 15 books behind my reading schedule and I don't think I'll make it to the end of this year with reading all 70 books and on top of that at the end of August I start IB (International Baccalaureate) program. So yeah, I'm fucked. I decided to change my year reading challenge to 50 books like last year, but I'm three books behind that too. I'm trying! I just don't want to have all this stress and then having to read becomes a chore. 

'The last thing in the world Alex wanted was an X5, the latest in realistic androids. But after Ada is dropped into his life, he discovers she is more than just a robot.'

...yeah that's the summary on goodreads....

This may sound very cliche. BUT DON'T SLAM IT DOWN JUST YET! 

I love the plot.

I love the concept.

I love the main characters.

I love the world.

I LOVE THE IDEA! 

To summarise it better, the main - Alex, gets a birthday present sent from his grandmother which is an X5 android and he doesn't want it at all. X5 androids are built to the owners pleasure, they will do whatever the owner whats it to do unless it's something like 'kill someone!' In a sense, they are built with rules/morals. This is a dystopian graphic novel (which is actually quite a lot of them anyways.) 

If you are like me and you don't exactly love reading sci-fi or anything related to AI or just space and technology based books then don't fret! I mean I do like most of those types of books and there are always exceptions but just in general I don't like reading sci-fi. I want to say that this has elements of that so it's not filled to the brim with all that type of jazz; it's a graphic novel, so you're always engaged with the graphics....beautiful graphics. 

The art/graphics in this didn't amaze me like the graphics in the Saga series which I also have a review of here. I'm not sure why every time I read a graphic novel I have to compare it to Saga. It's probably because SAGA WAS AMAZING and everything has to now live up to that. I've actually read lots of graphic novels this year because I thought I wouldn't be able to read lots considering my work load and the amount of stuff that's going to be thrown my way in the next half of this year. 

The plot in this novel is definitely different to the other graphic novels I have read only because the concept is totally different and the fact that this is gonna be a series (I'm sure) and the fist book (this one) does not have any romance in it. Now....when I say that I mean that in this particular instalment there was no romance/sex, sexual references... a little but nothing full on. I am 100% sure that as the series grows and goes on there will be sexy times. 

I truly did enjoy reading this there were parts I did find a little boring but I read this really fast, I think I read it in a day? or maybe two, I don't actually remember. What I do know is that I read this fast. 

I hope you understand that I'm really annoyed and mostly sad (it's like 80% sad, 15% annoyed and 5% glitter) that I can't upload as regularly with the work load I have but I will try when I feel like it and maybe in my free time as well as weekends. I still love you all and I love this blog I've created!

If you did miss me, don't worry because I will have another fab post out in a few days with my summer escapades and the two and a half books I read over that time period. I'm kinda out of my mojo when writing reviews as I've been gone almost two months so feel free to ask me questions on this graphic novel or anything else if you want!

xx 

p.s

Check out my most popular reviews:
Love and Misadventure by Lang Leav
I'll Give You The Sun by Jandy Nelson
Yes Please by Amy Poehler
To All The Boys I Loved Before by Jenny Han
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Alex + Ada by Jonathan Luna and Sarah Vaughn 

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Love and Misadventure | Lang Leav

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'Love is a game of tic-tac-toe,

constantly waiting for the next x or o.'

This is Lang Leav's first book: Love & Misadventure. I read her second book Lullabies before this one and I have a review of that here. I mention in that review that it was my first ever poetry book and that I really enjoyed it. In that review I mention my favourite poems and I also recommend you all some songs that were fitting for the book to listen to while reading or just some additions to your music library, I plan on doing the same fore this review. I will however go more into Lang Leav's writing styles as well as the poems themselves. 

A few of my favourite poems in this are: 

Xs and Os

Art and Books

His Word

A Well-Dressed Man

A Stranger 

Wallflower

Rogue Planets 

A Question 

Lost Things 

Love Lost

Wishful Thinking 

First Love 

He and I

Soul Mates

A Dream

Beautiful

Souls 

If you've read my Lullabies review you could see I had less 'favourite poems' than this review but that's only because this time I remembered to label the pages with some bright pink stickies. For the Lullabies review I just tried to flip through the whole book and tried to find the poems that stuck out to me again and that's partially why I have less favourite poems in that review. I also want to mention that I think I preferred reading Lullabies to Love and Misadventure. 

In this book filled with beautiful poetry there is different lengths of poems. What I mean by different lengths is that some poems Lang Leav has written are super long and some super short, for example the one above (Xs and Os). Lang Leav is also an extremely talented artist who drew/painted the image on the front cover. 

With Lang Leav I always say she has a thing with words and she really does! But sometimes her poems can fall flat but then again some poems may speak to others more than they may speak to me. People love different things. I may personally find that particular poem boring or un-relatable and someone else might have just fallen in love with that and that exact night their are gonna recite it to everyone they know. That's why I don't judge the poems as much as I do novels. Just like when I did my poetry course work for school there were poems that my teacher loved and the rest of us hated and some my friends really liked and I was just like 'Really? No thanks!' 

I've read some nasty reviews for this which really upset me. There are some people who dislike the poetry and then there are people who are bashing Land Leav's talent. I'm not judging the people writing the review because you're allowed to review your experience and I do respect your opinion, however if your opinion dehumanise someones existence then I will kill you. I will admit, like I said above, that some of Lang Leav's poems can fall flat but then again like I also said before, there will be many people who like a certain poem more than me. That is because as the reader you take on these poems as the protagonist and the poems mould into your lifestyle and your relationship. So for example, if there is a poem about long distance relationships and you're not in one then OBVIOUSLY THAT WON'T RELATE TO YOU! But don't go bash the writer! 

If you straight up don't like the writing and the poems, that fine! There is nothing wrong with that. You're allowed to not like this and give it a rating of one star but don't then go ahead and review the book and bash the writer with comments of 'no talent' or that she 'should not have made a career in writing shit' because that's just plain rude! When clearly this book has an average rating of 4.10 stars! So maybe it's just you! I personally didn't love the book either (hence the three star rating) but I will say Lang Leav isn't a terrible poetess. Moreover her other poem book Lullabies won the goodreads choice best poetry last year. Her writing isn't 'artistic genius' or that her words make the world move and everything is so lush. It's not like that. I gave it a 3 star rating because some of the poems were good and the rest of them were iffy, poorly executed and some even badly written. But I am not sitting here telling you not to read it because (1) she is a woman, (2) she has 'no talent', (3) I don't like reading romantic poetry, (4) it's heteronormative, (5) I'm speaking on behalf of the entire world, (6) I'm a poetry enthusiast. 

I want to address the heteronormativeness of this book. Yes, shocker most of the poems are based of heterosexual relationships, I want to put that out there because some people may prefer not to read this which is understandable. However some of the poems are from the POV of a guy or a girl and some of it is abstract. Like I said in my Lullabies review that it's much more memorable to read this over a few days, even weeks or just when you want to read some lovely poetry to brighten your day rather than reading it all in one sitting. 

Just like last time, I will recommend some music that (1) goes with the book and (2) just cute songs that you should all have a listen to! 

Happy - Marina and The Diamonds 

Goddess - Banks 

Someone New - Banks 

Is There Somewhere - HALSEY (PLEASE listen to her whole EP, IT'S AMAZING!) 

You Are In Love - Taylor Swift

I Stand Corrected - Vampire Weekend 

Shine - Years and Years (ALSO THEIR WHOLE NEW ALBUM IS ANGELIC, it's called 'Communion' go check it out! 

Wicked Game - Chirs Isaak 

Past Lives - BØRNS 

Young Blood - Birdy

Jet Pack Blues - Fall Out Boy

Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac

Fireproof - One Direction

Pyramids - Frank Ocean 

Someone New - Hozier 

Is This Love? - James Arthur 

High Hopes - Kodaline 

Be Together - Major Lazer ft. Wild Belle 

Need The Sun To Break - James Bay...and the rest of James Bay's album! 

Trap Queen - Fetty Wap (this is the song I'm currently obsessed with and I guess it's kinda a long shot but I guess you could say it's a love song, it might not be as fitting as the rest of the songs though.

There are some songs on here that I have repeated and are also on my Lullabies review because THEY ARE WONDERFUL! I also tried to put one song for each artist even though I may love many of their songs I didn't want to bombard the list and I didn't want to make this list too generic. I wanted to put some new music out there as well. I didn't want to make the list very obvious songs that would go on here and songs that everyone has heard, so that's why many of my love songs/hopeless romantics aren't on here (if they were I would need to make a whole post for it!). Obviously Sam Smith and Ed Sheeran would be on this list but like I said I didn't want to make this too generic. I've got some oldies in there as well! Hope you enjoyed my recommendations and this review! 

Love u. 

ALSO, Eid Mubarak to everyone celebrating today or tomorrow!!! Sending you all lots of love, wishing you a wonderful day and I HOPE YOUR OUTFITS SPARKLE!    

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