Introducing Me

Hello, so I have been so inactive on this blog for such a long time and I am very sorry about that, but in that time I have changed my name to my original name so I am no longer going through a pseudonym of Peyton Fox I am using my real name which is Jade O'Brien nothing else about me was a lie I am in my early twenties and I am from London so my name was the only thing I changed about myself and at the end of my posts from now on I will have my name instead of Peyton. 

Why did I use a pseudonym?

To be honest, I started this blog when I was 18 but I wasn't confident in myself and I wanted to hide behind my blog so I used a name that I loved from a old favourite TV show called One Tree Hill and the last name was just one that was quite common.

Why stop using it?

I am now 23 and much more confident in myself and I just didn't want to hide behind Peyton anymore she wasn't really any different from myself but behind her I felt like I could be true to myself without feeling awkward about reviewing books. 

What's going to change? 

Nothing except my name at the bottom of the posts and I am going to make a schedule and I am going to stick to it. I will start uploading again, because I really missed this blog so much and since I started writing this I didn't realise how much.

So Until Next Time 

Happy Reading 

Jade O'Brien

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Love Me Like This - Bella Andre Review

Title - Love Me Like This 
Author - Bella Andre
Series - The Morrison's #3
ISBN - 9781945253393
Genre - Contemporary Romance 
My Copy - Purchased
Format - Kindle
Where You Can Find It - Goodreads - Barnes & Noble - Indigo - Amazon UK - Amazon US - Amazon CA - IBooks

 Eight years have passed since Justin Morrison first laid eyes on Taylor and fell head over heels in love with her, even though he knew she could never be his. He's tried everything he can to get over her--including moving to another country--but she's still the only woman he'll ever want. 

Eight years is a heck of a long time to secretly love someone. Taylor knows all too well how impossible it is to forget a man as sexy, sweet, and brilliant as Justin Morrison. So when he turns up on the doorstep of her Napa Valley bed and breakfast, she can't help but long for the happily-ever-after of her dreams.

As Taylor and Justin spend beautifully romantic mornings together watching the sun rise over the vineyards--and can't help but fall into each other's arms on wickedly sexy nights--it looks like they might finally get their chance at the love they've been waiting for. But will the secret Taylor has been keeping shatter everything in the end?

DISCLAIMER ******* THIS REVIEW MIGHT CONTAIN SPOILERS FOR THE PREVIOUS BOOKS IN THE SERIES.

It  has been a long time since a book from this series was released the previous book was released in 2015 so it took me a few chapters to reacquaint myself with the characters but even when i did it did not matter too much since we don't really see much of the rest of the the Morrison family. 

Remembering the other books you could tell from those that this was going to be one of the books but after i finished reading it i didn't get the same feeling as i normally do reading one of Andre's books, it was still good but it felt different. 

If you have read any of this type of genre before you know how these books go, it is pretty much a given that you will know what normally happens, boy and girl fall in love, then something happens to tear them apart, then at the end of the book they end up together. This book is different from that and i actually really appreciate that, i feel as if every new adult/adult romance book has the same story lay out and it has gotten boring in recent months. The characters are your typical romance characters, but you can overlook it, when the story is a bit different you don't feel as if you have read this book before. 

Taylor and Justin are nice characters and they carry the story and since for most of it, it is just them and some background characters you really do get to know them and get invested in them and if you have read the Sullivan Series from Andre then you will recognise the Napa Valley area from that series, and some of the characters.

Bella Andre is one of my Auto-buy Authors and so even though i didn't enjoy this book as most if her others it doesn't mean it was not worth the read, Andre has such a way with words that it doesn't really matter in any case, and even though i did not particularly enjoy this book i do recommend Andre as an Author and you should check her books out they are rather addictive to read.  

Until Next Time

Happy Reading

Explanation

Hello, i am back once again, but this time i feel as if i owe you all an explanation. So i have let this blog go to the back burner because i have been really busy self-publishing my first book and writing and editing the second, i do not talk about it on this blog because i started this blog in 2013, when i was 18 but i didn't feel comfortable using my real name. So i used a pseudonym, but i have self published my book using my real name even though i am fine with sharing my real name, i do want to keep this blog and my book separate.

But i feel as if i have worked out a system for doing everything, the writing will always come first but i always seem to have at least a week of doing nothing after i finish all i have to do, so i am going to pre write a lot of my posts, and then i will only have a few to do during the month. 

So i will be uploading Monday's, Wednesdays, and Fridays. 

Until Next Time

Happy Reading

Sweet Little Thing - Abbi Glines - Review (SPOILER)

Title - Sweet Little Thing

Series - Sweet #1

Author - Abbi Glines

Genre - New Adult > Romance 

My Copy - Purchased

Format - IBOOK 

Where You Can Find It - Goodreads - Ibooks

The day her mother passed away, Beulah was only given a name. That was it. No other explanation.

Portia Van Allan was not someone Beulah could believe her mother ever knew. Wealthy, self-absorbed and other than the fact Portia was supplying special care for Beulah’s sister, Portia was cruel.

The day Portia’s son returns home for the summer, Beulah discovers that Portia isn’t in charge. This isn’t her home at all. Her late husband left her with nothing. It all belongs to their son who doesn’t seem to like his mother at all.

Jasper Van Allan doesn’t know why his mother has hired a young gorgeous blonde to take care of the house and almost lets her go before he finds out the truth.

Realizing there’s more to Beulah than a stunning face, he keeps finding reasons to be near her all the time. It’s all falling into place, it all begins to make sense . . . until the real lies, the dark secrets, and the skeletons come tumbling out of the Van Allan closet. Twisted truths that will send Beulah running . . . 

So as always i pre ordered this book and i was pretty excited about it, but i ended up dissatisfied. Not because it was a bad book but because i felt it was not dissimilar from the Too Far Series also by Abbi Glines. 

The characters were quite similar and don't get me wrong, i enjoyed this book and i liked the characters but it didn't feel new, it felt like i was reading a book i had already read. 

Beulah was a nice characters POV to read from, she is your typical Glines lead female, sweet, innocent, and falls the one boy she shouldn't have. Jasper on the other hand i feel like we didn't get a lot of him, well not enough for me to have formed either a good or bad opinion of him just yet. 

His mother on the other hand is a raging bitch, throughout the entire book she is the epitome of an evil boss, and a crappy mother, then we find she is even more screwed up and not able to take care of a child because she had special needs and treating her own niece who had just lost her mother like rubbish. The one thing i commend her for is the fact that she tells Beulah and Jasper that they are cousins but she should have been honest from the start.

The other characters were OK, none apart from Beulah's 'sister' made an impression i felt like the book was too short, it felt like a novella rather than a book, the story flowed and it was an enjoyable read and i will be continuing on with this story and hopefully i can distance it from the Too Far Series. 

Until Next Time

Happy Reading

BBC History Weekend Book Haul

Hello, so i went to the BBC History weekend in Winchester on the 7th - 8th October, and it was wonderful, and i obviously brought too many books that my shoulder's were aching for the past few days, so lets get straight onto to Haul, 

Arthur & The Kings of Britain - Miles Russell

The Templar's - Dan Jones

King John - Marc Morris

She Wolves - Helen Castor 

The Private Lives of The Saints - Janina Ramirez 

Henry VI - James Ross 

(Penguin Monarch's Edition) 

House's of Power - Simon Thurley 

Elizabeth's Women - Tracy Borman 

Richard III - Chris Skidmore 

To Catch A King - Charles Spencer

Henry VIII - John Guy 

(Penguin Monarch's Edition) 

(This wasn't a talk i just really want to collect all of this beautiful series.) 

OK so that is all the books i brought and had signed, if you ever get the chance to go to this event i highly recommend it, for it is an experience. 

Until Next Time

Happy Reading

Top 5 Wednesday - Books You've Read Because of Booktube/Blogging/etc. - 27th September 2017

Hello, so it has been a long time since i posted let alone did a T5W, so i thought to get back into blogging and hopefully reading that i will start doing these again and take my blog back to where i first began. So this weeks T5W is all about the books i read because of Booktube/Blogging. I haven't watched booktube or been on any blogs for a while so these books are pretty old but here is my list....

5. Beautiful Disaster - Jamie McGuire 

I kept seeing this book around here and there and decided to read it and i was so happy that i did even though i haven't read it in quite a few years it is still a firm favourite.

4. Obsidian - Jennifer L Armentrout 

Again i haven't read this book in quite some time but i really stuck with me, and now i want to re read it. 

3. The Fault in Our Stars - John Green

This book has so many emotions to it, and i have many fond memories of it as well, at one point on Booktube this book was all anyone could talk about, 

2. We Were Liars - E Lockheart 

I read this book back in 2014 and it still plays with my mind even now, when this book came out and everyone was raving about it, i thought this cant be as good as everyone says it is, but it really messed my mind up.

1. Percy Jackson - Rick Riordan 

The entire Percy Jackson saga is one that i love with all my heart it think it was Katytastic that i first saw them on, but i cant be sure. I first read them in 2013 and i haven't looked back.

So Until Next Time

Happy Reading

The A - Z Bookish Survey

Hello, so this is another tag. Camp Nanowrimo is finished, and i planned to have this post up in July but never finished it, So i was looking around and found this on Spines and Covers and decided to do it as it seemed quite quick to do .... so lets get started ....

AUTHOR YOU’VE READ THE MOST BOOKS FROM:

Abbi Glines

BEST SEQUEL EVER:

Son of Neptune

CURRENTLY READING:

Angry Tide - winston graham

DRINK OF CHOICE WHILE READING:

tea

E-READER OR PHYSICAL BOOK?

Don't have a preference.

FICTIONAL CHARACTER YOU PROBABLY WOULD HAVE ACTUALLY DATED IN HIGH SCHOOL:

Adrian Ivashkov

Glad you gave this book a chance:

Fallen - LAuren kate

Hidden Gem:

The piano man project - Kat french

Important moment in your reading life:

Reading twilight for in 2009

Just finished:

Breathless in love - bella andre

Kind's of books you won't read:

Thriller's

Longest Book you have read:

A Feast for crows - George R R MArtin

Major book hangover because of:

Lady Midnight - Cassandra Clare

Number of Bookcases you own:

3 large cases with 7 shelves each and one small case with 4 shelves.

One book you have read multiple times:

Fallen too far - abbi glines

PREFERRED place to read:

My bed

Quote that inspires you:

life is a book and there are a thousand pages i have not yet read.

READING REGRET:

I didn't read Harry Potter as a child, or before the movies 

SERIES YOU STARTED AND NEED TO FINISH(ALL BOOKS ARE OUT IN SERIES):

Poldark, i started it and then just got sidetracked. i am on book number 7 of 12

THREE OF YOUR ALL-TIME FAVORITE BOOKS:

Vampire Academy, Fallen too Far, and Love Rosie.

UNAPOLOGETIC FANGIRL FOR:

A Song of ice and fire - George RR Martin.

VERY EXCITED FOR THIS RELEASE MORE THAN ALL THE OTHERS:

Chain of Gold - Cassandra Clare

WORST BOOKISH HABIT:

i buy multiplies of the same book because it has a different cover.

X MARKS THE SPOT: START AT THE TOP LEFT OF YOUR SHELF AND PICK THE 27TH BOOK:

The True Queen - Alison Weir

YOUR LATEST BOOK PURCHASE:

A knight of the Seven kingdoms - George rr martin

ZZZ-SNATCHER BOOK (LAST BOOK THAT KEPT YOU UP WAY LATE):

The fill in boyfriend - kasie west

So that is it for now, i hope you enjoyed

Until Next time

Happy Reading