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All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover ~ Review & Quote-tastic (@colleenhoover, @SimonSchusterAU)

What an amazing read All Your Perfects was! It's a book that touches your soul and has you seeing your own life a little differently. I loved watching Quinn and Graham fall for one another in the past, and I shed a tear as they struggled in the present! 
All Your Perfects
Title: All Your Perfects
Author: Colleen Hoover
Genre: Contemporary Romance
Published: July 17th 2018

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Colleen Hoover delivers a tour de force novel about a troubled marriage and the one old forgotten promise that might be able to save it.

Quinn and Graham’s perfect love is threatened by their imperfect marriage. The memories, mistakes, and secrets that they have built up over the years are now tearing them apart. The one thing that could save them might also be the very thing that pushes their marriage beyond the point of repair.

All Your Perfects is a profound novel about a damaged couple whose potential future hinges on promises made in the past. This is a heartbreaking page-turner that asks: Can a resounding love with a perfect beginning survive a lifetime between two imperfect people?

Colleen Hoover has touched my heart with this incredible read! As a woman, a wife and a mother myself, I was pulled into this world and I connected to the characters as they fell for one another in the past, and struggled with their decisions in the present. It truly was an epic read that has imprinted on my soul!

Quinn and Graham didn't meet in the best circumstances, but they made a connection regardless. Neither of them knew what to do next, but they tried to console one another on that fateful night. Over time they crossed paths again and I could see that these two had a deep bond that any couple dreams of having.

In the present, I actually thought Quinn was depressed. She struggled with what she couldn't have, and seemed to push Graham away. I could feel the turmoil that she was experiencing and the struggles that Graham had trying to bring his Quinn back to him. There weren't many happy moments in the present, but they both had determination, trying to get what they wanted. One thing that didn't waver was the love they had for one another, and they would sacrifice that if only the other person would be happy once again.

I've said it before, but Colleen Hoover is AMAZING! Her writing grips your soul and drags you in as you experience the hard times, and the sweet times the characters go through. This couple really had a tough time and I honestly thought that they wouldn't make it. I shed a few tears while reading this one, because their struggles were devastating, and they made life altering mistakes that would shatter any human, but I also had hope that they would find that deep love again, that only soul mates have. This will definitely be a book I will reread over and over again! 

When I read this moment I knew I had to share it! The banter was amusing, but it really was a sweet moment.

“Well, if we re still talking when Halloween rolls around, we can wear matching slutty costumes.”
Still talking? Quinn, Halloween is over two months away. We’ll practically be living together by then.”
I roll my eyes. “You’re way too confident.”
“You could call it that.”
“Most men push for sex right away. But you turn me down one night and show up six months later just to turn me down again and force me into conversation. I can’t tell if I should be worried.”
Graham raises an eyebrow. “Don’t mistake me for something I’m not. I’m normally all for the sex up front, but you and I have an eternity to get to it.”
I can tell he’s kidding by the straight face he tries to keep. I lift up on my pillow and raise my brow. “Sex I’m okay with. Eternal commitment is pushing it.”
Graham slides an arm beneath me and pulls me against him so that my head is now resting on his chest. “Whatever you say, Quinn. If you want us to pretend for a few more months that we aren’t soul mates, that’s fine with me. I’m a great actor.”

Paperback Page 97

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Colleen HooverColleen Hoover is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of fourteen novels and five novellas. Hoover’s novels fall into the New Adult and Young Adult contemporary romance categories. 

Hoover published her first novel, Slammed, in January 2012. It debuted at #5 on the New York Times. Since then, all her eligible works have become New York Times best sellers.

Colleen Hoover is published by Atria Books, a division of Simon & Schuster. Colleen also has several self-published titles.

In 2013, Colleen’s third novel, Hopeless, was the first self-published novel to reach #1 on The New York Times, where it remained for several weeks. Hopeless went on to become one of the top 20 bestselling ebooks of 2013.

In 2015, Colleen’s novel CONFESS won the Goodreads Choice Award for Best Romance. That was followed up in 2016 with her latest title, It Ends With Us, also winning the Choice Award for Best Romance. In 2017, her title WITHOUT MERIT won best romance.

Her novel CONFESS has been filmed as a series by Awestruck and is available on Go90.com. Katie Leclerc and Ryan Cooper star in the series.

Colleen founded The Bookworm Box, a charity subscription service and bookstore, with her family in 2015. The Bookworm Box is a subscription service that provides readers with an exciting opportunity to receive signed novels in the mail each month from authors all over the world. All profits from the subscription service are donated to various charities each month. To date, The Bookworm Box has donated over $1,000,000 to help those in need.




Other reviews featuring Colleen Hoover
Hopeless series
Losing Hope #2 
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The Right Girl by Ellie O'Neill ~ Review & Quote-tastic (@ellieoneill, @SimonSchusterAU)

I hadn't read Ellie O'Neill before, and the cover of this one jumped out at me! The story-line was different from what I expected, but it was still a good read.
The Right Girl
Title: The Right Girl
Author: Ellie O'Neill
Genre: Contemporary
Published: February 1st 2018

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What do you do when your perfect life . . . isn’t?

Freya has the best life – she’s officially in love and her floristry business, Blooming Brilliant, is going from strength to strength.

Two years ago, it was a different story. She was barely employed as the worst waitress in the world, with no hope of a boyfriend, and no bank balance. But then she got BBest, a lifestyle app that knows you better than you know yourself. It changed everything. It streamlined her life, taking her likes and dislikes and skills and foibles, and gave her the best options so she doesn’t make mistakes anymore. Freya has never looked back – and neither has anyone else. Everyone loves BBest, it’s a game changer.

But if she’s so in love, why doesn’t it feel exactly right? And who is that mysterious man in her beloved grandfather’s bookshop with soulful eyes that leave her unstitched? All of a sudden Freya has so many questions – and no one seems to be able to answer them. She begins to wonder what she really agreed to when she let BBest into her life. Then her grandfather is arrested, and Freya is thrust into a world she could never have imagined in her shiny, successful existence.

When you have the perfect life, should you listen to your head or your heart?

I was wondering the shops the other day, and the cover to The Right Girl popped out at me. I picked it up and read the back and thought it sounded pretty interesting so I grabbed it! It turned out to be a good read, but it wasn't what I expected it to be at all.

The Right Girl was set five years into the future, in a world where we rely on our mobile phones a little too much. The BBest app was created so you can ask it simple everyday questions that you would usually decide for yourself. As the story unfolds, we become aware of how deep this app goes, controlling your life and who is really behind it all.

I enjoyed meeting Freya, she was close to her mother and brother, and also had a great relationship with her Grandfather. She was engaged to a guy that was a great match for her, but she could feel that something was missing. She had some good room mates, who had her back when she needed them. However, after spending time in her grandfather's shop, and meeting a guy that made her heart race, she began to question a lot of things in her life.

It was good to see the change in Freya as she realised the control the BBest app had over peoples lives. She met some people that opened her eyes further, and at times I was on edge as she used her job to get information.

This was the first time I've read Ellie O'Neill, and it was quite a pleasant read. I did hope for a little more romance though, as Freya turned her life around. Although it didn't blow me away, I will definitely try her again in the future. 
Here's a snippet to show you the kind of fun writing that was entwined throughout this story. I enjoyed this flirty banter!

‘Whoa,’ he cried as though he was taming a horse.
I turned around, recognising his voice and embarrassed by the vigour and power of my dig.
‘It's my workout for the day,’ I apologised.
‘It looks amazing. Well done,’ he said with enthusiasm.
I shook my head modestly. He handed me a bottle of water and a chocolate bar, which I ripped open and started to eat. I didn't even stop to read the wrapper. I mumbled with my mouth full, ‘Thanks, this is hungry work.’
‘Sorry, I didn't catch that, what with all the chocolate . . .’ He blew air into his cheeks, mocking me.
I swallowed. ‘You're not funny. This is hungry work.’
‘Good thing I've got more chocolate then.’
‘Well, don't be giving it away to everyone, they've done nothing all morning.’ I waved at my teammates, who were hunched over their shovels and forks, working away. ‘Bone lazy.’
His eyes smiled back at me mischievously. ‘Good thing I've appointed you chief chocolate officer then, you can organise who gets what.’
‘I'll have to sample the produce.’
We were flirting, and I was loving it. I was also loving the dimple on his cheek that seemed to appear and disappear, and how his flat cap had fallen slightly off his head and was now sitting at an angle, and how, even though I was five foot nine, I nearly had a pain in my neck from looking up at him, And unless I was crazy, which I could be, I felt like he was really looking at me, the whole me, and he liked me. But then again, I was probably crazy.

Paperback Pages 224-225

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Ellie O'NeillEllie O’Neill is the best selling author of Reluctantly Charmed. Her second novel The Enchanted Island was released in Australia and New Zealand late last year and is doing very well, thank you. Her third novel, words she never thought she'd write, The Right Girl, will be released by the lovely people of Simon and Schuster in February 1st '18.

Writing wasn't Ellie's first career, she sold spider catchers in Sydney, flipped burgers in Dublin and worked in advertising in Dublin, London and Melbourne. All the while, she had that niggling feeling, that she had stories to tell. So, at thirty-something, she made the brave leap and moved back in with her parents to get the job done. Swopping the dizzy disco lights of London for their suburban Dublin house, she scribbled away hoping and praying that there was an ending to the story that had been hatching in her head for a number of years. Her first novel Reluctantly Charmed was born.

Then most unexpectedly Ellie fell madly in love. The only catch, he lived in Australia. True to form she couldn’t ignore the magic and followed her heart to Oz for what was supposed to be a long holiday. It turned into a six year hiatus during which time Ellie published two books with Simon and Schuster and had two Australian baby boys with Joe. All projects were labors of love, frustrated tears, sleepless nights and chocolate. As if there wasn’t enough going on, Ellie and Joe decided to move their little family across the world back to Ireland to cash in on free babysitters. A few months ago they settled in a very pretty rural retreat in the south east of Ireland and are delighted to spend time again with family and friends and a little bit surprised at how their three year old can curse perfectly in an Irish accent.


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FEBRUARY WRAP-UP

 
Well February was busy! We moved into our temporary house and have settled pretty well. Most of the unpacking is done and it feels like our own home! The kids have moved onto new buses and are enjoying the start of the school year. 

At the moment, we still don't have internet on... We've had a little trouble, but somehow we are surviving!

I haven't had a chance to read a lot this month, but I'm sure I will make up for it soon!

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Next Year in HavanaMan Card (Man Hands, #2)The Selection (The Selection, #1)
Book of the month...
Roomies
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180 SecondsTight
These are the books I've picked up over the past month!
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Just a little something I splurged out on!! 😜😜
A little surprise from Hachette Aus! 

Naomi’s Weekly Wrap Up is a combined meme with the Sunday Post hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Book ReviewerBought, Borrowed and Bagged hosted by Braine @ Talk Supe and Stacking The Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews.
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MAY WRAP-UP

What a busy month May was! I celebrated my birthday and Mother's Day. Netball was busy, and after 7 games we are undefeated!
We spent some time with family, relaxing and fishing.
The kids are busy with school, and hubs and I are still working hard. 
I am still trying to blog when I can, but this month I ran out of internet and hope to catch up next week! 😎 

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Bad Neighbor (Bad Boy Romance, #1)Under the Lights (The Field Party, #2)The Playboy Bachelor (The Bachelors of Arizona)Confessions of a Former Puck Bunny
Live Out LoudMister Moneybags
Book of the Month
Spectacle (Menagerie, #2)
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These are the books I've picked up over the past month!
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Every time I went shopping with my hubby around my birthday or Mother's Day, I'd pick up a couple of books... And when I got home I wasn't able to find them... because he would hide them and gift them to me, because I am so hard to buy for!! 
Dawn Study by Maria V. Snyder
The Flame Never Dies by Rachel Vincent
Legion by Julie Kagawa
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas
Lord of Shadows by Cassandra Clare
Big thank you to Hachette Aus and Simon & Schuster Aus!
The Forever House by Veronica Henry
The Do-Gooder by Jessie L. Star
Buns by Alice Clayton
The Understatement of the Year (The Ivy Years, #3)The Boy Next Door (Off-Limits Romance, #2)
My Best Friend's Ex

Love Sprung From Hate (Dark Romeo, #1)Love in Transit
Assassin's Fate (The Fitz and the Fool, #3)Blade Bound (Chicagoland Vampires, #13)
Country Kisses (3:AM Kisses, #8)Love in Rewind

Naomi’s Weekly Wrap Up is a combined meme with the Sunday Post hosted by Kimberly @ Caffeinated Book ReviewerBought, Borrowed and Bagged hosted by Braine @ Talk Supe and Stacking The Shelves hosted by Tynga’s Reviews.
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