How is my book challenge is going? 📚

 I've decided to read 100 📚 in 2023

To be honest, when I wrote down this New Year's resolution, it seemed too unrealistic since I haven't read any book in 2022.

But my life motto is "never say never"

. I have always been a bookwarm, I've enjoyed reading my entire life. But for the past few years, my studies and stress have both kept me busy from reading. 

I once had a Wattpad phase, I read up to 200 fanfics from 2013 till 2016, esepcially during my directioner era.

Lately, my friend started reading books, and frankly she encouraged me to start reading again. At first I was a bit hesitant but when I started my first book I knew there was no going back.

The first book that got me back into reading was "The Hating Game" by Sally Thorne. It was after I watched the movie adaptation, I was so curious about the book. I heard some mixed reviews online, but I personally loved it!

It was enemies to lovers, who work at a publishing company so it's an office romance, it was the perfect romcom for me.

But then I dicovered "BookTok", which is basically a book lovers community on TikTok. I found my people in there, they recommended to me a lot of books and introduced me to a lot of new tropes.

My friend recommended to me the "Twisted Series" by Ana Huang, she insisted that we buddy read it together and since it was so hyped on TikTok I said why not?

I started with Twsited Love, which was my least favourite and then Twisted Hate which was so damn good I skipped Twisted Games but then I came back and read it, and it was my favorite Rhys is still the best book boyfriend ever and then I finished with Twisted Lies which was not bad tbh.

So today is June 9th 2023, I'm currently reading the "Deception  Trilogy" by Rina Kent and I'm enjoying it so much. It's a Dark /Mafia Romance and I'm hooked, I highly recommend it!
I'm on  my 46th book right now and I'm right on track I'm doing great tbh, I'm back on goodreads btw and everything is going according to my plan.

 I've never felt so statisfied and self-fulfilled in my entire life, it's like I finally found something missing and I'm not ready to let it go...

A book that stayed with me

 So my New Year’s resolution is to read 100 books in 2023. And let me tell you something, I’ve been taking it so seriously ever since!

So I’ve decided to read 10 books a month, and it’s been a hell of a journey. So far I’ve read 7 books, all romance of course, but only one book stayed with me.

It’s The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang. It was highly recommended by the BookTok community, so I decided to read it.

I mean what to say except that it was fairly rated; from the storyline to the characters it’s the perfect romcom if you’re into them like me.

So the book is about a woman “Stella” who hires an escort to teach her all about intimacy if there is another word for it. Stella feels like she’s not good in physical relationships, so she thought that professional help might help her.

So the escort (Micheal) falls for her the moment he sees her, and he finds himself insanely attracted to her brain, so it was more than a physical relationship for him.

What I enjoyed about this book is that Stella, even though she’s autistic doesn’t let it get in her way of true happiness and therefore marriage.

Her first interaction with Micheal felt indeed special for her, she never had this feeling with any other guy before, he was very gentle with her and understood her needs without judging her.

Aside from the story, the book felt so real, and even though we don’t get to see their povs, I wish I did, and the smut was so good. Like I’d give it a solid 4/5 smut rating.

Also, I loved how the writer brought up Vietnamese culture through Micheal’s family, the way they sit and eat at dinner or the way his grandma watches TV, and how Micheal has Martial Arts skills.

 

The fact that Micheal looked like a k-drama actor in my head made me love him even more, and the way he treats Stella helped her get over her sexual problems. 

My opinion at first, I thought he just wanted to do it for the money, I mean that’s his job after all but then he admitted that he fell for her and the way he can’t stop thinking about her made me swoon even more for him.

So let me get back to Stella, one of my favorite female characters that I have read this year, she’s an independent, fierce woman who’s not afraid to express her opinion and loves her job more than anything in the whole world. She never thought in her life that she needed a man to be content because she was so on her own but she just wanted to make her parents happy by meeting a decent guy and marrying him afterwise.

In conclusion, I wish I could read this book again for the first time and get to enjoy that feeling of great enthusiasm and arousal!