TBR Intervention Challenge (40)

TBR Intervention is a weekly challenge hosted by RefractedLight, Whatever you Can Still Betray, and Books4Juliet

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LAST WEEK'S TBRIC: 

Last week, my TBRIC was a disaster. You know, not totally some kind of AHBL (All Hell Breaking Loose), but you know what I mean. Haha. But anyway, I think I'm catching up little by little. This week has been good since I enjoyed my books BIG time especially FLAT-OUT LOVE by Jessica Park. I absolutely loved it! Thanks to my Starbooks friend Jenny for recommending this book, and to my Starbooks friend and co-host Dani :) for sending me a wonderful gift--this made me picked this book. If you haven't read Flat-Out Love, I highly recommend it. It's sweet, sad, hilarious, and everything you might want in a contemporary read. If I can't convince you enough, then I suggest reading the reviews from Goodreads and see what I'm talking about *smile*.

Summary | Link to Goodreads

Flat-Out Love is a warm and witty novel of family love and dysfunction, deep heartache and raw vulnerability, with a bit of mystery and one whopping, knock-you-to-your-knees romance.

Something is seriously off in the Watkins home. And Julie Seagle, college freshman, small-town Ohio transplant, and the newest resident of this Boston house, is determined to get to the bottom of it.

When Julie's off-campus housing falls through, her mother's old college roommate, Erin Watkins, invites her to move in. The parents, Erin and Roger, are welcoming, but emotionally distant and academically driven to eccentric extremes. The middle child, Matt, is an MIT tech geek with a sweet side ... and the social skills of a spool of USB cable. The youngest, Celeste, is a frighteningly bright but freakishly fastidious 13-year-old who hauls around a life-sized cardboard cutout of her oldest brother almost everywhere she goes.

And there's that oldest brother, Finn: funny, gorgeous, smart, sensitive, almost emotionally available. Geographically? Definitely unavailable. That's because Finn is traveling the world and surfacing only for random Facebook chats, e-mails, and status updates. Before long, through late-night exchanges of disembodied text, he begins to stir something tender and silly and maybe even a little bit sexy in Julie's suddenly lonesome soul.

To Julie, the emotionally scrambled members of the Watkins family add up to something that ... well ... doesn't quite add up. Not until she forces a buried secret to the surface, eliciting a dramatic confrontation that threatens to tear the fragile Watkins family apart, does she get her answer.

Flat-Out Love comes complete with emails, Facebook status updates, and instant messages.

I finally finished Daughter of Smoke and Bone by Laini Taylor. It wasn't as great as I expected but it's good. I'm giving it 3/5 coffee cups. I haven't finish my review, hopefully it will be up next week. I also finished *blush* Fifty Shades Darker by E.L. James. Not usually my type of read, but I enjoyed it. I've read Fifty Shades of Grey months ago, and I thought I wouldn't be able to continue the series. But since reading for me depends on my mood, I actually got the nerve to pick up the book and read it. Fifty Shades of Grey (3/5 coffee cups) was erotic, but Anna and Christian's relationship seemed to grow on me, so I decided to finally continue the series. Fifty Shades Darker is actually better than the first book, I think. Because it focused more on their relationship rather than sex. It's nice how to see Christian changed from being a dominant guy to someone who is actually sweet and romantic and gentle.

Anyway, I don't plan to review Fifty Shades, it was just out of high curiosity why I picked the books. *biting my lip now*. My reviews for Flat-Out Love and Daughter of Smoke and Bone will probably be up next week. I hope you'll come over to take a peek. And probably, I'd be able to finish What Happened to Goodbye by Sarah Dessen and write a review as well. We'll see. We'll see.

P.S. I am enjoying What Happened to Goodbye :) Loving Mclean and Dave. Love Sarah Dessen. 

P.S.S. I think I'm craving for a lot of contemporaries nowadays...Have you heard of Slammed by Colleen Hoover? I've heard it's good. I want to get a copy of that book. Maybe soon. Haha.

THIS WEEK'S TBRIC:

I want to read one or two of these books from my shelf. Maybe you can help me pick again?

I also plan to read Dust by Devon Ashley since I'm part of the  upcoming tour. I hope I'll get a whole lot of fun this week, again. I don't want another fail TBRIC. It's becoming a habit, a not-so-healthy habit, lol.

Summary | Link to Goodreads
4. The number of times my delicate wings have been broken and clamped behind my back.
68. The number inked upon my skin, marking me the sixty-eighth pixie to be stolen.
87. The number of days I’ve been wrongfully imprisoned.
88. The first day the faeries will regret stealing me.

Healthy. Cheery. Vivacious. All traits Rosalie has before becoming enslaved by the faeries to make an endless supply of pixie dust. Now that Rosalie has been traumatized by slave labor, extreme desolate conditions and multiple deaths, this hardened pixie is anything but. When this rebellious teenager attempts an escape, she’s isolated in cramped quarters until she learns her place. Just as she begins to let go of all that hope, she finds an unlikely friend in Jack, the faerie assigned to guard her. Interspecies dating is forbidden in the fae world, so their growing attraction is unacceptable. And even if Jack can find a way to free her, they know the prison is the only place they can truly be together.

I think that's it. Have a lovely and fantabulous (I love this term from Dani's vocabulary, I hope she don't mind if she'll see me using this word from now on *wink*) weekend!
P.S. While I'm doing this post, I don't know why I feel...happy, peaceful. Anyway, I hope you are all feeling good today, wherever you are :)

Time to link up! (What's with my overflowing energy?! Weird, lol.)