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-Review- It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

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- goodreads - amazon - [... He is. He asked for you. And I know you're with my brother and I'm with child, but can we please just take a moment to silently admire the perfection that is that man?] (Before the review let me tell you a bit about my reading experience as a whole...Also, I kinda was too emotional so there's a bit of cursing *something I rarely do* so beware.) I've read a lot of books in my lifetime. Some were so bad for me I wish I'd had a lighter right there to erase all traces of it from my shelves. Others were so good I constantly struggled with my selfishness to keep the story all to myself and not let anyone read it while at the same time wanting to have tons of people to discuss said good book with. Then came the gems. The epic books. The books that changed something in me every time I turned that last page and sigh a little contented sigh of happiness or sorrow or sadness or any feeling that happened to be evoked by the end...

-review- But I Love Him by Amanda Grace

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-And today will just be another day in a long chain of disappointments...- COVER LOVE!!!-sorry, I had to say it- I finished But I Love Him over the weekend. But my emotions were all over the place that I couldn't write my review until now... I was so excited! And believe me, the book didn't disappoint. First of all Amanda's amazing and completely awesome thinking of reverse chronological writing with little snippets of the present, with this specifically contemporary topic was exactly perfect for the book. I loved her approach on the subject. Love how deep she dug to make us understand, if only a little, about why Ann did what she did, why she kept believing what she believed and why she simply chose what she chose. The book is, simply put, about choices and youth and love. -I have to decide who I love more: me or Connor- Oh, but Clouds! I do have to remark that my weakness was again brought up to me with this book...the cover IS the book people...comple...