All That Reading: June 2020

Friday, June 12, 2020

The Hunter (Boston Belles #1) -L.J. Shen

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️. 75 /5

Hunter Fitzpatrick the wild child and heir to Royal Pipelines.

Sailor Brennan, daughter of a reputable businessman unless proven otherwise and Olympic hopeful.

What will happen when both have to live together for 6 months. Will he be Hunter or the Prey?

The Hunter is the first installment of a new series by L.J. Shen. It tells the story of Hunter Fitzpatrick the wild child, the one that seems to only care about party, sex and women. After an unfortunate incident in the form of a sex tape, his family had enough, and gives him an ultimatum be celibate for 6 months and earns his place as a Fitzpatrick heir in comes Sailor Brennan an archer whose dream is to win a gold medal but for that she needs sponsors and to get that she gets the offer of her life babysit Hunter for 6 months.

I have to admit, I was a bit hesitant to start this series but nevertheless I give in and pick it up when I first begun the Hunter I was not very impressed with the story I had trouble warming up to the characters and their actions and it took me time but as I kept reading and as a dive in deeper Into the story I started to like it more and warm up to it. I especially love the introduction to the side characters most especially Cillian (Hunter’s brother) they way L.J. Shen gave us a little tease on what’s to come made me excited to continue the series which I hope does justice to each character and won’t fall on the curse (Unfortunately mine)of how sometimes the sound amazing as side characters but when you read them as leads is a whole different picture of what we imagine. In conclusion while it did took time to warm up to the story I’m happy I continue it, As it got better and enjoy it in the end. To me it was a good start of a new series, new setting and characters. I’m hopeful of what’s to come especially Cillian&Emmabelle (hopefully🤞🏻, please make it happen Mrs. Shen).

Tuesday, June 9, 2020

Hello! (Update)

Hello, lovely people

I wanted to post an update and apologize on why I haven’t been posting since I think last year. The reason is life got in the way and with life issues comes stress therefore my mental health was all over the place still kind of is but I’m fighting through it.

One thing that my stress affected was reading, picking up a book became a chore rather than enjoyment to my mind, I was having difficulty finishing books, loving books. It just wasn’t the same anymore after that I made the decision stop reading for a while but I kind of missed the feeling of getting lost in a books but since my reading mojo was a bit down I became a bit picky on choosing my next read because before my stress kick in i did have trouble finishing books, many of the books I read before either had some kind of pattern or just were the same old same nothing new or exciting. Books that I see today have the same repetitive plots, bully, love triangle or harem or fake something. Not saying their bad at all , some of my favorite books have the same troupes but it was just kind of repetitive for me like when vampires and BDSM became the IT thing to write. But like I say I missed reading a good book at night or those days that a book is all you need. To make short , Nowadays I just pick books that either I know I will enjoy or just want to try out and that is also I thing I’ve been doing with Reviews tours or Blitz tours, I still want to support authors but only if I know I have the time and know that is a book I will be interested In not just for the “free book” . And that has helped me enjoy reading once again, and it boost my mind to feel relax and good. One thing I love about books was that it show me another world, I learned through a characters experience, that I can free me from a bad reality but it has the power to open my eyes to bad realities in life.

Expect some reviews this week and coming moths since some of my favorite authors are having amazing releases. I will try to post reviews on books that I read and are already out, also new and upcoming books. I’m very excited to get back here and share more with you all. I promise I will try to be a bit more constant, maybe share more bad reviews usually here I only share my good reads and post either my DNF or low rating books on my Goodreads but will try to mix it up once in a while.

Thank you,

Itzel 🦋

Wednesday, June 3, 2020

#BLACKLIVESMATTER

Hello, I know it’s been some time since I last updated my blog, I had a some rough times that I will dive into later but if you still here thank you but Today I wanted to share some of my thoughts on what I feel we all need to be aware of , it’s a topic that is widely known but not fully understood. Today I want to share why it matters and why we need a change in the system that keeps segregation in place.

For many 2020 was the year that we all were waiting for , the beginning of a new decade and many milestones that we were hoping for. 2020 was for sure “THE YEAR” It brought us a pandemic that was an eye opening on how fragile our healthcare system was, our society and our governments, but 2020 is not done opening our eyes on another pandemic that is been around us for years , is roaming in our household, our schools, our jobs, our government, the whole world, a disease that each year seems to get stronger, it penetrates our minds and hearts. A silent killer. This pandemic is know a RACISM , DISCRIMINATION and HATE. It has affect it us since forever because it a human creation on what we think is right. I just can’t understand why we still need to be educated on how to treat a human being. On why 400 years have passed and nothing has changed

Racism is not only an America problem, is a world problem it affect us all we need to first understand that in fact is a disease that we as human have the cure but ignore it. We humans have divided the ONLY race the HUMAN RACE into different races by the pigment of our skin, and not only that by our income, our jobs, our education by our Privileged. We sometimes think privilege is a word that defines our wealth but is not. Privilege is a word that defines how we are treated in society according to the profile that is deem perfect by society. A profile that we don’t fit in because we sometimes lack the “right” pigmentation in our skin. We have normalize words that were used to hurt and humiliate people, just because you hear it in a song it doesn’t mean you have to used it or say it. We use stereotypes to define people, when did we become GOD to judge people, to point a finger to take a life. I don’t understand why those who take an oath to protect us are the first to persecute base on a profile of pure stereotypes.

When will it be ENOUGH to stop this disease for us human to understand that we all deserve to be respected to be treated equally just because our skin might be different shade it doesn’t mean we are from another planet that requires for you to treated us differently. We are not born racist be are taught to be racist and to hate what it doesn’t look what you deem perfect. How many more years, How much more violence, how many more deaths will it take for you to open your eyes to see the problem we have. It’s time to burst that bubble and realize that the is a problem and stop ignoring it. If you vote, make sure you are not voting for person just because they bears the tittle of the party you support but on what He/She want for the county. Do they want to make it better or worse, if their values are the same in private as well as public. If you say or think #Alllivesmatter yes it’s true but we are not there yet, we haven’t crossed that phase and we won’t until #BLACKLIVESMATTER, until we stop discriminating people based on their skin color, religion, language or country they are born. Until we stop killing black people based on stereotypes or hatred, All lives won’t matter.