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Posted in Family, New Adult, Romance, YA

Wide Awake – Shelly Crane

Posted on by Z. Elizabeth

15810336Synopsis

A girl.
A coma.
A life she can’t remember.

When Emma Walker wakes up in the hospital with no knowledge of how she got there, she learns that she’s been in a coma for six months. Strangers show up and claim to be her parents, but she can’t remember them. She can’t remember anyone. Not her friends, not even her boyfriend. Even though she can’t remember, everyone wants her to just pick up where she left off, but what she learns about the ‘old her’ makes her start to wish she’d never woken up. Her boyfriend breaks up with the new girl he’s dating to be with her, her parents want her to start planning for college, her friends want their leader back, and her physical therapist with the hazel eyes keeps his distance to save his position at the hospital.

Will she ever feel like she recognizes the girl in the mirror?

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My Review

When Emma Walker wakes up in hospital she is more than confused. She has no idea where she is, how she got there but more importantly who the strangers are that are telling her they are her parents. She’s been in a coma for six months and now she can’t remember anyone.

Her parents want her to pick up from where she left off, her boyfriend wants the old her back and her friends want their leader back. But how can she be all this when she doesn’t know who she is?

But then a hazel eyed guy in the name of Mason, her physical therapist seems to be the only person who isn’t pushing her to remember her old life, he treats her with kindness and patience and Emma feels he is the only one who understand her. She begins to develop feelings for him but he needs to stay away to save his job at the hospital and Emma is determined to work her butt off to graduate with her ‘friends’. But what will happen when she leaves hospital and is no longer a patient?

Firstly, I have to say I love books that include coma patients who lose their memory and really are starting over again. I know I sound creepy, but there is something about them I love. Remember Me by Sophie Kinsella is one of my favourite books and Wide Awake reminded me a bit of that, I think that’s why I knew I had to download this book too! Not just because the synopsis drew me in, but because of the journey of beginning again, finding who you truly are.

It was the first book I had read by Shelly Crane and it won’t be the last. I couldn’t stop reading Wide Awake and I did sing along to the song by Katy Perry a fair few times too! I read it on the train to work, thought about it throughout my shift then read it home and well into the night. I loved both Mason and Emma and I just needed to know what was going to happen, if she would remember her old life, about Mason’s life and along the way there were some shockers for me. Especially near the end with the ex-boyfriend. Yeah, I wasn’t expecting that to happen. But really, I whizzed through the books, only putting it down for my shift at work.

I pretty much loved Emma. Although she didn’t have a clue who she was, who her family and friends were or anything to do with her ‘old’ life, not even recognizing herself until she looked in a mirror, and it scared her, she was so determined in her life to graduate, to find herself, now that she didn’t know about herself but also determined to be anyone other than who she used to be once she got a glimpse into her own life back at school where she used to be a spoilt brat who was top of the food chain along with her ‘boyfriend’. It was nice to see that she just didn’t want to be that person anymore and couldn’t believe it was her for so many years.

She grows up a lot in this book, I suppose as you would do if you couldn’t remember anything at all. Although it’s a scary prospect and her friends and family weren’t exactly supportive as they wanted the old her back, she had Mason to lean on when everyone was telling her to try and be the old her, she brushed them aside and focused on herself, on learning to be her true self, not the old her. She definitely grasped at having a second chance at life and put everything in her past – like her friends – in the backburner, knowing that she would never want to be like them and wondering how she ever was. She was such a strong character, I admired that about her.

I adored Mason. My tattooed sweetheart, he was simply amazing, yet also harbouring some secrets away – secrets that tore at his heart and mine, because everything he was doing, it was for his family. You’ll understand when you read it. He’s one of the good guys and I could totally see why Emma fell for him. He was always there for her, helping her through her physiotherapy sessions, so proud of her for pushing through the pain and learning to walk again and the flirty banter between them was brilliant! Everything he and Emma had been through, alone and together, well, it only made them stronger. I loved that Mason told her he would wait for her and that’s exactly what he did. He really was a great guy and he was perfect for Emma, they both were together. It was also great to see a vulnerable side to Mason, a side that he has shielded away for so long, so when Emma came alone, told he she wasn’t leaving, I think it was great to see his reaction, to know that someone was there for him, as he was for them too.

I normally tell you my favourite scene, but I really don’t want to spoil it for you because although it’s a shorter book, there is a lot packed into it that you have to read by yourself without me telling you what is going to happen. But take a chance on this book, it’s awesome.

I definitely recommend it. I’ve already told you I like books like this so of course, I was going to love Wide Awake. It really is a journey, for everyone really, in the book, from Emma, to Mason, to her parents and friends. Everyone goes through something and has their life changed by the accident. It’s beautiful, it’s a breath of fresh air and you all should read it, you will instantly fall in love with Mason and root and be so proud of Emma!!

Posted in Notes

The Book Lovers note.

Posted on by Z. Elizabeth

As you can see I’ve changed around my site. Tried to make it feel more romantic with the Eiffel Tower picture which is meant to represent me – The Book Lovers as Paris the most romantic city in the world. The four people are meant to be The Lovers.

Yeah, I suppose that explanation for the romantic feel kind of sounded better in my head. But anyway, since I’ve changed/moved around/added things to the site, I’ve decided to start posting articles other than book reviews.

But before you say anything, The Book Lovers will not turn into a blog where alongside my reviews I’ll post about my life. Oh no. I’m going to add posts about new books I’ve found and bought. Book recommendations (books I haven’t read/reviewed just yet). I’ll add posts about book boyfriends and book to look out for.

There will be book tours. Hopefully author interviews, possibly character interviews, guest reviewers (That’s you) plus so much more.

The point in which I decided to change up The Book Lovers (For the best) has a few simple reasons:- I want all you lot to feel The Book Lovers is a great site to follow. I want to make a brand for myself. I want to be a place where you can tell your friends about me. But mostly, I want it to be a blog where you all can be involved.

I’m determined to make 2013 a great year for me but also a great year for The Book Lovers.

So, to kick start this change, I am looking for a guest book reviewer. Doesn’t matter if you have your own blog or not, just let me know your blog if you do, and I will post the link along with your review. It can be any book within the YA, NA, Romance or Erotica genre and it must have a HEA. I’m all for the HEA and my heart can’t take it if the characters don’t get together in the end. Other than that, you have full rein on the book.

If you’re interested, you can find my contact information under the ‘Contact’ page.b

So without further a-do, I welcome you to a new The Book Lovers.

Posted in Jade C. Jamison, New Adult

MADversary – Jade C. Jamison

Posted on by Z. Elizabeth

16102476Synopsis

They make sweet music together, but can it last?

Megan Walker doesn’t plan to attend her high school reunion, but her best friend Lisa begs her to come along. Megan doesn’t want to risk running into her old boyfriend Tyler Green, a man who has since become rich and famous as the frontman of a heavy metal band called Madversary. Lisa convinces her that Tyler would never show up for something like a reunion, so Megan gives in, only to regret it. Because when Tyler does show up, the spark reignites, and she doesn’t know that she can bear letting him go again.

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My Review

This is the first book I have read by Jade Jamison and oh wow, I think I will definitely be downloading more books of hers because I could not put this book down. It was my Lazy Sunday book and I enjoyed every page of it.

It’s been ten years since high school ended and ten years since Megan Walker has seen her old high school boyfriend Tyler Green – now famous rockstar and adored by millions of girls and she’d like to say she hasn’t thought about him, but that’s not true as she had kept up with his career, no matter how much it hurts.

When her best friend Lisa begs her to go to their High School reunion, Megan doesn’t want to go in risk of running into the boy who stole her heart for those short months they were together but in the end tells Lisa she’ll go, but if she sees Tyler, its game over, she’s going home. Lisa has convinced her that in no way would Tyler want to come to the reunion.

Problem is, Tyler does turn up and he heads straight for Megan, looking as gorgeous as he was ten years ago, just more muscular and manly. The more alcohol Megan consumes, the more she feels relaxed in her and Tyler’s little bubble in the corner of the room. But it’s a bad thing, because the more they talk, the more all her old feelings are re-servicing and she decides she’s never really gotten over him, no matter how short their relationship was.

As it’s only a weekend thing, Megan can’t help knowing that this is only for a few days and after that Tyler will go back to the rock and roll lifestyle and she will be left heartbroken again. It takes every bit of energy to return the next two days. And even then, Tyler can’t stay away from her.

Megan was a great read. I felt her hesitation about going to the reunion. In my opinion, Tyler was the one who got away and seeing him would bring everything back up. She was really strong to go to the reunion, even though she was pretty much left along for most of it, due to Lisa wandering off, which I actually thought was highly unfair seeing as Lisa was the one who begged Megan to go and didn’t want to go on her own – whereas Megan didn’t even want to go, and she was stranded.

I fell in love with Tyler. He wasn’t your typical rockstar. Yes he’d had his fair share of groupies, but when he was first introduced, he was so happy to see Megan and really wanted to reconnect with her. You could see that he could have only really been there for Megan and it got me thinking about if he had called to see If Megan was going, just so he could go and see her. As many of you know, from reading my other reviews, Tyler has tattoos and piercings, which is a massive thumbs up from me. It was great to see another side to the famous people I read about. Tyler was sweet and considerate, highly good at sex (woah) and of course, still harboured feelings for Megan.

There is a big bust up near the end, concerning a psycho ex who begins to spout lies about Tyler to Megan to keep them from each other, but in the end, love concurs all and I thought the ending was particularly sweet with what Tyler does and how two high school lovers, who just needed time apart to get their lives sorted, came back together after still feeling the same way about each other that they had done ten years ago.

It’s a short read, but one where I couldn’t put it down. I’m going to finish this review with some appropriate songs that played during some of the scenes. I’m not lying when I say they actually came on my IPod during these scenes without my shuffling them to fit the mood.

First one: The first time they have sex – John Mayer – Your Body Is A Wonderland. Tots approps as Megan kept going on about Tyler’s physique and how muscular it now is.

Second: Blue – If You Come Back (Youtube if you don’t know the song). When Megan leaves after having sex the first time and misses the second morning get-together and Tyler asks Lisa if he’s done anything wrong to Megan

And lastly: Robert Miles – Children: The time they have sex in the locker room. This song plus that scene was pretty intense to me.

Listening to music whilst reading this book really did intensify the book and the words I was reading especially when songs that are apt to the scenes come on and make you feel so much more about that scene or character. All in all, I highly recommend this book and I shall definitely be downloading more Jade Jamison books.