89 - alice / camp nanowrimo

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this ain't no april fools blog, alright. i sort of really hate the april fools day.

since the last time i updated, i read a couple of more things i thought i'd review for y'all.

i finished reading the cell phone swap and it was so good. so, we start off with keeley going to a fair with her best friend and as she is going to a ride, she realizes she has left her phone behind at the food table. she finds it from under it and it turns out that it isn't her phone and she has swapped phones with a stranger. her and the stranger talk briefly on the phone to see who has whose phone and the boy she swapped phones with is called talon, which isn't the name he usually goes by, which is why we don't really know who he is for a bit of the book. i don't want to spoil it, but you'll probably know already within the blurb and the whole talk with keeley's twin brother zach. overall, i really liked it but i guess what put me off just a tiny bit was that it was so predictable which is very usual with wattpad contemporaries. gave it a solid 4,25, definitely recommend reading if you're into ya contemporary.

the next book i read was alice and it was a michael clifford fan fiction, and it kind of broke my ehart, as per usual with mikey stories. i hate how lonely and sad he's portrayed in most stories and i just wnat to hug him all the time and tell him how much of a gem he is to the world. but, the story, basically.
          we have our main character alice who is raised in a wealthy family but she feels out of place because her mother has the idea of popularity and wealth gone into her head. alice's best friend is ashton, and adding to alice's kind of depression, he moves away far away from her.
          michael is a boy whose parents have passed in the early years of his life and now, at the age of eighteen, lives in a foster home where he feels out of place, as well, because the family he's in basically did it for the same reason as alice's - to keep their name up high on the pedestal.
          alice is forced to go to a party and there, a royal guy asks her to marry him. she says no and decides to run away from her house as she has had enough. michael runs away from his house by the request of his foster sister who gives him a pair of train and airplane tickets to go wherever he wants.
          the two meet at the train station and as they're not in the best places in their lives, they decide to run away together. they fly to canada - where ashton now lives - and on the plane they meet calum and luke, who also live in canada, and here begins their adventure.
          now, as you see i gave a long synopsis of what happens in the first couple of chapters and i really liked this story because it had the amount of love, heartbreak, family and a bit of an unexpectedness to it. i really want to give it a five star rating but it wasn't my favorite story ever. so i'll stick with 4.75.

then i read virgin lips which is an ashton irwin story and i was quite disappointed in it, actually. this is the story about a the beatles' loving girl who has never been kissed, and everyone calls her 'virgin lips' at school. even her name screams 'the beatles', because her name is penny lane bloom. ashton is a popular guy who takes on a bet with his friend calum, who wants to see if ashton can make penny the homecoming queen. things go wrong, and then change to good. it's short and could've definitely used some more plot development but i guess it was okay, though i wasn't too much of a fan of the writing. i'd give it 2.75 or 3 stars.

right now i am reading always which is a harry styles story where he is portrayed as the nerd of his school. then we have joey and she is part of the popular group. she is more of a laid back girl of the group while everyone is picking on harry and pushing him into the lockers, she wants to stand up for him but never actually has. so, when harry and joey are signed up as partners for a biology project, the two become closer than ever, due to joey's everlasting interest in the shy, awkward boy.
          so far, i am loving reading it. i've read one book by this author before (anarchy) so i was pretty sure i'd love this one because i really like megan's writing style. i am kind of really in love with every nerdy character i've read in the past and harry in this absolutely no different.

also! super exciting things!

i'm taking part in this year's first camp nanowrimo which takes place in the whole of april and i'm trying to write two stories at the same time for this. the first one is a sequel for 'before misery' and i'm halfway through with the first chapter i guess and i can't wait to put it out on the internetz. and the second story i'm working on is diet soda society which is all about fitness (kinda also to encourage me to work out more holla) and i'm excited for this as well since i've written a couple of chapters for it so far.

today's song choice is real friends' 'colder quicker' 'cause i became obsessed.

until next time



x o