Review- The beginning of never by O.E Boroni

Title: The beginning of never

Author: O.E Boroni 

Series/Standalone: #1 in a series 

Source: Author 

Format: E-ARC 

Publication date: 28th April 2015 

Rating: ★★★★

Goodreads summary:

When Lenora Baker and Nathan Roqué run into each other in their boarding school courtyard, they have no idea that they are about to begin a journey that will take them the rest of their lives to recover from. Both scarred from parents who were once in love but ended up destroying each other, they are sworn off the possibility that there can truly exist a love that will never end.

But when with each other they find a passion so strong that it heals as powerfully as it burns, a love that will run out is no longer an option for them. Together, they discover just how far they are willing to go to preserve what they know they will only find once in their lifetime.

                                                    

 Review:

Firstly I want to say thank you to the lovely O.E. Boroni for sending me an E-ARC of this book.

 
I definitely wasn't expecting to like this book as much as I did as I'm not normally the biggest fan of pure YA romance novels, which is what I though it was. 

It turned out to be such an honest story of first love and how it affects you but it also had a back story to it which I love.

 I will say the characters annoyed me at times and I wanted to jump into the book and push them together but again I find I feel that way with a lot of romances. I cannot wait for the sequel to this book because that ending left me wanting more of Lenora and Nathan and most of all to see how things turned out!

I highly recommend you pick this book up when it is released on the 28th of April as it is such a light, easy but still emotional read.

Review- The shock of the fall by Nathan Filer

Title: The shock of the fall

Author: Nathan Filer 

Series/Standalone:  Standalone 
Format: Hardcover

Rating: ★★★★

Goodreads summary:

‘I’ll tell you what happened because it will be a good way to introduce my brother. His name’s Simon. I think you’re going to like him. I really do. But in a couple of pages he’ll be dead. And he was never the same after that.’

Review:

I honestly was not expecting a lot going into this book. I had heard some amazing things but was not sold on the hype. Let me say I am so glad I saw this in the library and decided to pick it up. 

This is the story about a boy who looses his older brother in a tragic accident and never recovers. 

This book deals with mental illness in a very honest and heart breaking way. It shows what it is like to deal with an illness of the mind and the effects it can have on the people you love and more importantly the person it affects . I would like to point out that there is self-harm in this book so if that is a trigger for you I would recommend maybe being cautious whilst reading.

Matthew is an extremely unreliable narrator so at points in the book it can be hard to tell what has actually happened and at what point in time. It does jump from Matthews past to the present and it can be difficult at times to know what is the present. This was the only problem I had with this book and even that was resolved at the end when we got the fully story. If you have been thinking about reading this I would say do it. It  is definitely worth the read!