What Happens in New York Book Review

What Happens in New York Book Review

Saturday, 25 June 2016

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Nearly a year after finishing my Masters Degree in English Literature I'm finally, FINALLY, getting back into reading. So when Kristina got in touch and asked me to review her new book, What Happens in New York, I was eager to get stuck in.

What Happens in New York is about best friends Hollie and Fayth. Hollie, an aspiring designer, is stuck in a dead end job she hates and Fayth, working behind the bar at her family pub, is struggling to cope with the loss of her mum and sister and her estranged cheating husband. Fed up with their current situations they decide to go to New York for a couple of days. On their first night in New York the girls meet Astin Mack, a former model turned stuntman and Liam York, a floppy-haired movie star. It's your typical, lighthearted, girls go to New York, find love and friendship kinda story, very Sex and the City-esque, but it does touch on more important issues like loss and anxiety. 

The book gets off to a shaky start, I had to read quite a few chapters to get into it, and there are a few technical writing choices that I'm not keen on, I blame my MA! I analyse everything like I'm writing an essay on it, but overall it's easy to read and a nice story. It's a good holiday read, that will make you want to jump on the next plane to New York. If you're a fan of Lindsey Kelk's I Heart series then chances are you'll like What Happens in New York. 

What Happens in New York  is available on Amazon 

Are you gonna read What Happens in New York? Have you already read it? Let me know by commenting below, on twitter, or dropping me an email at lolarocknroses@gmail.com. Also check out my instagram, facebook, bloglovin', snapchat -search lolarocknroses - & pinterest for regular updates.

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*Disclaimer* This is a sponsored post. An ebook version was sent to me for free, to review. This in no way changes my opinion of the product. All thoughts and opinions expressed are entirely my own, 

Paper Towns Book Review

Paper Towns Book Review

Wednesday, 18 February 2015

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At 11 years old Margo Roth Spiegelman and Quentin 'Q' Jacobsen find a dead body in the park by their houses.  Q has loved Margo from afar ever since. 7 years later Margo  appears at Q's window in the middle of the night  and  asks him to come  on an adventure with her. During the night Margo and Q wreck havoc on Margo's enemies and break into Seaworld. The next day Margo goes missing, but not before leaving a series of clues for Q to find her. As Q delves deeper and deeper into Margo's past in search for more clues, the more he realises that he never really knew Margo at all. 

The thing I found most interesting in Paper Towns was Q's perception of Margo. He built her up to be his perfect, dream girl. It's only after he begins to get to know her through the clues she's left behind that he begins to see her as a real person rather than a fantasy. But even Q's idea of her as a real person is wrong.  It's not real, it's not who Margo really is but only what Q thinks she really is.  I think everyone, myself especially, is guilty of moulding a person into something they're not in our heads, falling in love with an idea and then being disappointed after finding out who they really are.  I do this a lot, I build people up to be this amazing person, I even do this with people I know quite well and then I'm so disappointed when they're not who I want them to be.  So this really spoke to me on a more personal level. One of my favourite quotes in the book is towards the end  when Q realises that Margo isn't who he thought she was. 

'I realize that the idea is not only wrong but dangerous. What a treacherous thing it is to believe a person is more than a person.' 

That just speaks volumes to me.

All in all I really enjoyed this book. I found it gripping, laugh out loud funny at times, poignant and sad at others and in a lot of ways not what I was expecting. I also had to stop myself looking up the ending on Wikipedia a number of times. Having said that I had a quick look on goodreads and a lot of people have said that Paper Towns is pretty much exactly the same as John Green's earlier novel Looking for Alaska, which I haven't read (I am planning to read it) so I can't really comment. But I love John Green so I was always gonna enjoy it. I'm a great advocate of reading the book before seeing the film so I strongly recommend giving this a read because it is really good, and the film looks like it's gonna be good too. 

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