Ceci Creates: June 2019

Yoooooo. So imma backkkkkk

I thought I would ease back into blogging with these two book reviews. Enjoy!!

Wooing Cadie McCaffrey

After four years with her boyfriend, Cadie McCaffrey is thinking of ending things. Convinced Will doesn't love her in the "forever" way she loves him, Cadie believes it's time for her to let him go before life passes her by. When a misunderstanding leads to a mistake, leaving her hurt, disappointed, and full of regret, she finally sends him packing.

But for Will, the end of their relationship is only the beginning of his quest to figure out how to be the man Cadie wanted him to be. With the dubious guidance of his former pro-athlete work friends and tactics drawn from Cadie's favorite romantic comedies, Will attempts to win her back. It's a foolproof plan. What could possibly go wrong?

Bethany Turner is back with more of the heart and humor readers love. Anyone who enjoys a good romance or binges romantic comedies on Netflix will devour this delightful story

I really enjoyed the feel of this book. It felt as if I was reading a rom-com. As an avid romance lover, I really like rom-coms, and so the way this book was written made me feel as if I were reading one. I also love the camaraderie that all the characters seem to have with each other. Even though the plot revolves around the relationship between Will and Cadie, I loved seeing the way other characters interacted. Also, the fact that Cadie works at a place about sports and yet knows absolutely nothing about sports is amazing xD

Um so, I loved Will. He was great. I really liked his scenes and just his whole essence was amazing. I um *coughs* really think he deserved better but more on that later. I really enjoy those male characters who are funny but yet masculine? But yep, an amazing male character.

Can we just take a moment to appreciate how Will's friends help him? Because that was amazing. They kept me laughing and were honestly one of the only reasons why I didn't just chuck this book across a room.

So with that ^^ last line, ya know that there were some things that I really did not like about this book. Really, there is just one, but it's a major one: I did not like Cadie. I'm sorry, but the more I read, the more I started to dislike her. The way that she put all the blame on Will really upset me. I don't know, maybe it was because I loved Will so much that I really disliked her. She was one of those characters that you just wanted to reach into the book and give a real good shaking to. She was very self-righteous and maybe she did have a good reason for reacting as she did, but it made her (at least to me) really unlikeable.

One other little thing that kinda threw me off was the jumping between the 1st person and 3rd person perspective. And the then jumping back into the past. It was just a little jarring sometimes.

*hem* Now this is where we get to actually the main problem (besides Cadie) why I really did not like this book as I would have. The whole premise was centered around the fact that Cadie and Will.......yeahhhhhhh........Had I known about this, I would not have requested it and I was really shocked to find this in CF. It was handled very well, but it just made me really uncomfortable the whole time. I would not have read this if I had known what basically the plot centered around.

I really wanted to like this more, but just the fact that Cadie was so unlikeable for me and the whole premise is why I'm giving this

3 stars

I received a free copy of this book from Revell Reads in exchange for my honest opinion.

The Number of Love

Three years into the Great War, England’s greatest asset is their intelligence network—field agents risking their lives to gather information, and codebreakers able to crack every German telegram. Margot De Wilde thrives in the environment of the secretive Room 40, where she spends her days deciphering intercepted messages. But when her world is turned upside down by an unexpected loss, for the first time in her life numbers aren’t enough.

Drake Elton returns wounded from the field, followed by an enemy that just won’t give up. He’s smitten quickly by the too-intelligent Margot, but how to convince a girl who lives entirely in her mind that sometimes life’s answers lie in the heart?

Amidst biological warfare, encrypted letters, and a German spy who wants to destroy not just them, but others they love, Margot and Drake will have to work together to save them all from the very secrets that brought them together.

This cast of characters was on pointtttt. I really liked them all. I feel like if I had read the other series before reading this I would have liked the side characters even more. But even so, I really enjoyed reading about these people! (I couldn't put it down, I think I read it in two? days) They all felt very realistic to me, and their reactions seemed like what people would actually be like.\

I have an especial liking for books that are set during World War I. Especially when those books are about spies. (thinking about Far Side of the Sea also, great book). This whole spy, secrecy, and coding essence that you find in these books are really great, All of the books that I have read set during this period have been really good. You can really tell that White did her research. As a person whose ancestors have come from Spain, I really liked that Drake and Dot had Spanish heritage. And also liked the Catholic part, even though it took me a while to figure that out (I don't know if the author is Catholic, but my guess is not because of how little she really talked about their religion even though she says that the characters are Catholic indirectly. My guess is that she doesn't know THAT much about the Catholic faith if she isn't Catholic - and this is just a guess, I COULD BE WRONG - but as a Catholic, I really appreciate that she didn't talk too much about it if she wasn't sure. It is really frustrating when authors write about the Catholic faith without being Catholic or even taking the time to really check their facts and so write nonsense and make all the Catholic readers throw books across the room. Save books, don't write too much about the Catholic faith in fiction if you don't know what you're talking about.)

Ahhhhhh. My favorite partttttt. The romanceeeee. Something I really loved (no pun intended lol) about this romance is the fact that it was built up after a while. Sure, Drake instantly liked Margot but it wasn't let's-get-married at first sight as you sometimes find in books. Peoples do not marry after knowing each other for 5 days m'kay?

I really like it when books are witty (Again, thinking Far Side of the Sea) and the wit in this book was greatttttt. It really gives the book a nice touch. And the way that Margot deals with Phillip had me rolling and I can't wait for his book.

The only thing that bothered me was Margot -- but just a bit. Her attitude towards the other females (kinda looking down on them if they wanted to get married and stuff) and towards Drake (my boi) really made me want to smack her. But luckily she turned around before I really did not like her. Just wish that I didn't dislike as much for the first half-ish.