Books I've read this year!

Hello everyone, I know I've been away for a bit, but I am back now for however long I decide to be. I know I haven't talked too much about books lately which is part of the reason for having this blog. Well, I'm going to fix that right now. I'm going to do a recap on some books I've read this year. This post will be about books that I loved and some that just didn't make the mark for me. I'll start off with books from Jennifer L Amrentrout! I discovered this fantastic author this year and she has just really blown me away with her books. I have 11 on my favorites shelf that's just books by her. Thanks to JLA I haven't been in a reading slump and I've been thoroughly enjoying her books. I don't have them all yet, but I'm working on it! She even recently announced the sequel to From Blood and Ash is coming out 09/01/2020 THIS YEAR! It's called A Kingdom of Flesh and Fire and I am so stoked! We'll start with this one since it became my favorite book!
From Blood and Ash by: Jennifer L. Armentrout is about a girl named Poppy who secretly goes out and helps defend her kingdom from invaders. She is expected to be the next ascended maiden, but she discovers more and more that she doesn't want this life. Especially, when she meets Hawke who sees Poppy through the person she tries to be and who she actually wants to be. But there's so much that Poppy doesn't know and that she might not be ready for! 
A trilogy I read by this incredibly talented author was The Dark Elements series and oh my goodness I loved everything about it! Layla is a half Warden and half Demon, but she fights with the Wardens against the Demons because she wants to be thought of as a good being. Layla is pretty much taught to hate her Demon side by the Wardens even Abbot who is like a father to her and her best friend Zayne Abbot's son and her crush. When Layla meets the Demon Prince Roth he makes her question everything. Not only that, but he helps her to love and accept herself. Zayne even realizes he made a mistake and makes his true feelings known to Layla which sets up a love triangle. This trilogy was so good! The world building, the characters, the romance, etc. I highly recommend it if you're into paranormal romance and good love triangles!
Another trilogy by Jennifer L Armentrout that I really liked was the Wicked series. I didn't like it as much as Dark Elements, but it was still a great trilogy. You'll love it if you love kickass heroines like Merida from Brave! And of course if you're a fan of stories with fae like I am. As the series goes on it does get darker so fair warning. 
I've also been reading JLA's romance standalone series. You can honestly read the books in any order and it won't be confusing. I have yet to read the last one, but I'm sure I'll do that in the near future! The books are basically New Adult romances where the couples have certain situations in their past that they need to face and overcome. Some topics may not be for you so another fair warning. My favorites from the series were Wait For You and Stay With Me! Fall With Me and Forever With You were also really good, but not my favorites. Be With Me was okay I really didn't care for it as much as the other books in the series, but regardless I feel that some people really will enjoy it as much as the others. But it does come after Wait For You which a lot of readers including myself said is very hard to top. 
I also read Frigid and Scorched which are part of a romance standalone duology. The character's from these books are featured briefly in the series I just talked about. I didn't care for these books all that much though. I didn't like the love interests for Sydney and Andrea. I felt that these two could've done better in the romance department. But JLA's writing is really good so I did finish the first book, but I stopped reading Scorched after almost 100 pages. But if you are looking for dominant males and hot sex scenes pick these up! 
I also tried JLA's Lux series which I've heard raving reviews about and saw the high ratings on Goodreads. I even tried to the spin off to the series. Unfortunately, I didn't care for either one. I read the first book in the Lux series and read over 100 pages into the second one and then just dropped it. I read 80 pages in the first spinoff book and then dropped that one. Both male leads Dameon and Luc were pretty much the same cocky, arrogant, and just down right rude. I couldn't stand them and even though Katy and Evie seemed like strong girls they still fell for these losers. I expected better for them really. 
I also read a few crazy standalones! Dead List and If There's No Tomorrow! Dead List is a thriller mystery and you will not guess who the murderer is I swear it! If There's No Tomorrow deals with teens drinking and driving and paying for the consequences of their actions. It shows how they all deal with the incident in different ways and it was so emotional and heartbreaking. It really opens up your eyes. I also read Don't Look Back which is another YA thriller about the main character's (Sam) best friend being mysteriously murdered. Sam has a slight case of amnesia and it gives her a chance to kind of start over. I didn't enjoy it as much as the other two books because I didn't feel much of a character connection, but it was still good and the murderer will also surprise you! 
Anyway, I think that's it for what I've read by JLA this year and I'm still not done! I'm going to leave my blog at this. I know it's just books by JLA, but once I got going I couldn't stop. I'll be back with another post most likey next week on more books that I've read this year and give you my honest thoughts and opinions on them! 

New information regarding Bob Morley

New information has come out in regards to the Bob Morley and Arryn Zech story. I feel that it is very important that I speak on this being a victim of domestic abuse myself. The cast and crew are starting to come forward on Instagram saying that it is Arryn herself who actually abused Bob. Eliza Taylor who is the wife of Bob Morley even released her own story on how she and Bob got together. Eliza and Bob started dating one month after he and Zech had separated. Zech made claims that Bob had taken the house they had bought together which is also not true. After Bob and Eliza married after two months into their relationship they bought their own house and farm. Zech had also stated that Bob had discouraged her from making music so she hasn't for quite some time. Bob actually had bought her a humengous keyboard for her birthday while they were together. How is that discouraging her from her music? Zech is still playing the victim on Twitter acting like Bob's fans bullying and or questioning her is completely his fault! How does he have any control whatsoever on what they decide to do with their free time? Every single thing Zech is doing is proving more and more that she is not a victim, she is the abuser. Cast and crew have even stated that she and Eliza were friends. But Zech had tried kissing Eliza and had gotten physical with her and Bob. Everyone is so quick to believe Zech because she's a woman and not only that, but people just want to automatically believe the "victim". Listen closely, men are victims too. Men can get abused as well. If you want any kind of confirmation on this head to Instagram on Eliza Taylor's profile. She has a recent black and white picture where she is wearing sunglasses and she tells the real story as you go through the photos. Also, if you follow her or Bob on Instagram it should show up in your searches. Zech is a lying cunt who just wanted more followers plain and simple.

Update on life and reading goals

Hey everyone, just wanted to give you an update on everything since I haven't been posting too often. I just really haven't had the energy for one thing. I don't want force myself to post if I'm not into it because the posts will not be as good as I want them to be. But I did find something I wanted to talk about right now.
So my reading goal this year was 80 books. I'm already at 65 and I told myself if I ended up with 20 books ahead of schedule then to raise the goal. I have done this and I raised my goal to 105 books! I am very confident that I'll achieve that goal seeing as I'm 10 books ahead of schedule right now. I've been reading a lot of Jennifer L. Armentrout who has become my favorite author this year. 12 of her books such as From Ash and Blood, Dead List, Wait For You, Dark Elements series, etc. have been put on my favorites shelf. So this author has helped immensely with keeping me engaged in reading books. They are just so amazing that I finish them within a day or two depending on how busy I am. A great thing is I still have a ton of her books on my shelves to read and I can't wait for more. I still don't have all of her books, but that will have to wait, kinda unfortunately which leads me to my next topic, my life!
I don't think I've talked about myself too much on here as far as my personal life goes. But I'm married to a wonderful man and have 4 cats. We've been living in an apartment because it fit our budget, but now I'm starting to save up for a house! Hence why I must wait to get the other books by my favorite author. I'm very excited about this because I could potentially be moving back to an area where my bestest friends are! So, I'll be busy in the meantime selling some items off that we won't need to take with us. It'll definitely help get extra money that we can save and of course don't need to worry about lugging so many things with us. So, if I don't blog for awhile I apologize, but between working, family time, getting ready to move, and of course reading and reviewing books I won't have as much time and will likely be pretty tired. Thank you ahead of time for understanding and I will continue to post content when I am able!

My Thoughts on Bob Morley and Arryn Zech Allegations

So, I'm not gonna lie. This blog post is quite hard for me to write. But I feel that I need to since I am a fan of Bob Morley (aka Bellamy Blake from The 100). Recently, Bob's ex-girlfriend Arryn released a post on Twitter, Instagram, and I think Twich. She has basically accused Bob Morley of emotionally and verbally abusing her. Also, Arryn claims that Bob cheated on her with Eliza Taylor six months before their relationship ended which it did on Valentine's Day. That's even worse, but like they say sometimes there's never really a right time for shitty situations to turn up. As a survivor myself of domestic abuse, I feel the need to believe her. But at the same time, I just don't. Some of the things Arryn said haven't added up to me. If she is right, I apologize ahead of time. But also look at the Depp and Heard situation! A lot of people believed Depp and turns out he was the actual victim. Now obviously that's not part of her story. But Arryn said that Eliza and Bob got together six months before she and Bob parted ways. Apparently, she even caught them on a video camera meant to watch her dogs while she was away. Ok, if you knew this was happening and you saw it, why didn't you leave? Arryn confronted them numerous times and had evidence yet she just stayed and put up with it? Not that simple maybe. But also, after Arryn and Bob broke up, Arryn continued to be friends with Eliza and would like/comment on her Instagram photos! If you knew they were cheating behind your back why would you stay friends? This is why this is so hard for me to believe. If Arryn is not telling the truth she is the reason also why victims don't come forward! Some girls out there do lie and play the victim and she may be one of them. I don't know any of these people personally so of course I could be wrong or right. But I feel strongly that I'm not wrong. Bob has mental health issues and people like that usually put themselves down and don't think they're deserving of good outcomes. I know that Bob Morley and Eliza Taylor have not spoken out on this issue yet, but here's the thing. If Bob does speak out and say it's not true, he'll be called a liar. If he does and say it is true and apologizes he'll be called an abuser and face some pretty nasty comments his way! Also, fans of Zech are commenting on Bob and Eliza's pictures saying nasty things like Eliza deserved to lose her baby and such! That is not ok! Whether or not Eliza was involved in this scandal is no reason to say such nasty and cruel comments. Another fact I wanna add to this is that Eliza and Bob have been best friends since they were teenagers. They both have dated other people over the years, but of course finally got together. Arryn says in her statements that Bob claimed to hate Eliza. Um, what? That doesn't make sense to me either! These two have been in so many pictures together hugging, holding hands, etc. I know it could be a face for the camera, but even their own friends said they've been best friends for years. They even have natural on screen chemistry, I highly doubt that these two hated each other. Again, being an abuse survivor myself I don't wanna call her a liar, but this story just doesn't add up right. I hope that I am right and that it is false. But these are my thoughts and currently I'm not posting any episode of the reviews of The 100. Not because of this story, I just haven't felt up to doing it these past few weeks. I will continue to love The 100 because these are fictional worlds and people that I've grown to love. I'll be posting screenshot below so you can see for yourself what I mean and of course you are free to judge for yourself.