Can't Resist You (Being Yours Book 4) by Dawn Martens

Can't Resist You (Being Yours Book 4) by Dawn Martens

• Formato: eBook Kindle
• Tamanho do arquivo: 1377 KB
• Número de páginas: 171 páginas
• Vendido por: Amazon Servicos de Varejo do Brasil Ltda
• Idioma: Inglês
• ASIN: B07VWLVH7F
• Published: August 14, 2019

ARC received from author for honest review!

My rating: 4 of 5 stars  ⭐⭐⭐⭐ - Liked it!

Blurb:

Temptation lurks around every corner when his best friend’s girl moves in. 
Another roommate is the last thing Drew needs. Especially when that roommate happens to be the one woman he shouldn’t want and can’t have. 
Neither Tara nor Drew can resist each other but are either of them strong enough to do the right thing?

Review in Portuguese and English:

Este livro faz parte da série "Being Yours" e já está no quarto livro.

Eu recomendo a leitura dos livros anteriores, mas este livro pode ser lido sozinho sem problemas. Você não vai perder nada da história, mas vai ficar curioso sobre os personagens dos livros anteriores da autora os quais participam da história e nos deixam com vontade de reler tudo novamente.

A série foi evoluindo bem ao longo das histórias e a escrita da autora nos fisga aos personagens e acontecimentos do universo criado por ela.

Eu fiquei tão envolvida pela leitura que quando eu cheguei ao final da história já era madrugada e nem notei o tempo passar.

Nossos heróis se encontram em um bar e tem uma noite de sexo. Nossa heroína era virgem, mas não resistiu aos encantos do nosso macho alfa. E o sexo foi quente e intenso.

No outro dia descobrem que irão trabalhar juntos e ele será o chefe. Ele não é nada amistoso e tem uma atitude muito hostil. 

Ela começa a namorar o melhor amigo dele, só para irrita-lo. 

Meus amigos, aí é que a história começa a ficar boa.

Um triângulo é formado e dúvidas começam, amizades testadas e limites sendo cruzados. 

Quando além de atração física você começa a gostar da pessoa... o inevitável acontece. 

A autora sabe criar personagens com falhas, mas que nos cativam e nos fazem torcer por eles.

Acompanhe o drama todo com mente aberta e preparado para cenas fortes e também algumas risadas. 

No final eu estava cativada não somente por Tara e Drew, mas também pelo cabeça de vento irresponsável Keller.

Agora espero que a autora escreva a história dele. Eu adoraria ver ele mudando a atitude dele quando ele encontrasse a mulher certa.

Recomendo a leitura! 

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This book is part of the "Being Yours" series and is already in the fourth book.

I recommend reading the previous books, but this book can be read alone without problems. You won't miss anything from the story, but you'll be curious about the characters from the author's previous books who participate in the story and make us want to reread it all over again.

The series has evolved well throughout the stories and the author's writing hooks us to the characters and events of the universe created by her.

I was so wrapped up in reading that by the time I reached the end of the story it was dawn and I didn't even notice the time passing by.

Our heroes meet in a bar and have a night of sex. Our heroine was a virgin, but she could not resist the charms of our alpha male. And the sex was hot and intense.

The other day they find out that they will work together and he will be the boss. He is not friendly at all and has a very hostile attitude.

She starts dating his best friend, just to piss him off.

My friends, this is where the story starts to get good.

A triangle is formed and doubts begin, friendships tested and boundaries crossed.

When besides physical attraction you start to like the person ... the inevitable happens.

The author knows how to create flawed characters that captivate us and make us cheer for them.

Follow the whole drama with an open mind prepared for strong scenes and also some laughs.

In the end I was captivated not only by Tara and Drew, but also by the irresponsible shit head Keller.

Now I hope the author writes his story. I'd love to see him change his attitude when he finds the right woman.

I recommend reading!


Livros anteriores da série/Previous books in the series ==> https://www.goodreads.com/series/173253-being-yours

Review: Goalie

Goalie by M.E. Carter

My rating: 3 of 5 stars

Eu li várias resenhas negativas e então resolvi ler o livro para ver qual era a coisa toda.
A autora escreveu uma história bem realista e que não vai deixar aquela sensação boa ao terminar a leitura, mas faz pensar.
O herói é um atleta profissional que transa com as groupies que cercam os jogadores do time dele. Durante os 10 anos em que foi casado com a heroína e tiveram os 3 filhos deles ele trai a esposa dele inúmeras vezes com mulheres diferentes. O herói deixa o leitor com muito ódio e nojo do comportamento dele.
Ela enfim acorda para a situação e o chuta para fora de casa e pede o divórcio. A heroína é a típica que foi traída e foi a última a ficar sabendo de tudo.
Ele reluta em aceitar a responsabilidade pelo ocorrido e continua cometendo os mesmos erros.
Nossa heroína fica firme nas posição dela e aos poucos vai ficando mais forte e independente apesar de ainda continuar amando o herói.
Eu confesso que se estivesse no lugar dela eu chutaria a bunda dele e não tocaria mais nele nem com a ponta do meu dedo.
Mas ela aos poucos vai perdoando e ele realmente tenta mudar o caráter dele e se tornar uma pessoa melhor.
Eu fiquei esperando ele trair novamente até o final e fiquei com a sensação de que ela vai ter uma vida muito difícil tentando ter paz sabendo que ele não vai estar lá fora transando com outra mulher.
A confiança nunca mais será a mesma e não sei se mesmo um grande amor vai sustentar o casamento deles. Mas ele pareceu estar disposto a mudar e realmente aos poucos foi demonstrando isso.
Gostei da leitura e mais um traidor para minha lista de leitura.
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I read several negative reviews and then I decided to read the book to see what was the whole thing.
The author wrote a story very realistic and it's not going to let that feeling good when you finish reading, but makes you think.
The hero is a professional athlete who has sex with his groupies that surround the players of his team. During the 10 years he was married to heroin and had 3 children he cheated his wife numerous times with different women. The hero leaves the reader with a lot of hate and disgust of his behavior.
She finally wake up to the situation and kick him out of the home and asks for a divorce. The heroine is the typical who was cheated and was the last to know everything.
He is reluctant to accept responsibility for what happened and keep making the same mistakes.
Our heroine is firm in her position and gradually gets stronger and independent despite still loving the hero.
I confess that if I was in her place I'd kick his butt out and wouldn't touch him anymore even with the tip of my finger. But she will slowly forgiving and he really tries to change his character and become a better person.
I was waiting for him to cheat again until the end and I got the feeling that she's going to have a very hard life trying to have peace knowing he won't be out there having sex with another woman. The trust will never be the same and I don't know if even a great love will sustain their marriage. But he seemed willing to change and actually slowly came to demonstrating that.
I like reading and more a cheater to my reading list.

Highlights:

"Admittedly, I haven’t been exactly celibate since Mari left me."

"there has never been a time in our entire relationship when Santos wasn’t cheating on me. Not in college. Not when we first got married. Not when I was pregnant. Not ever."

"How could you do this to me? To us? How could you humiliate me like that in front of everyone we know? Do you know what that’s like?"

"You’re not sorry for doing it; you’re sorry you got caught"

“So it never occurred to you that you kissed these whores on the mouth, probably right after they got done sucking someone else’s dick without a condom, did it?”
“God, Santos. It’s a wonder I don’t have herpes in my mouth, you asshole.”

"How many more pieces of myself can be broken before I disappear forever?"

"Have I really changed my patterns enough for Mari to trust me again? Obviously not since I just got a blow job from some random chick."

==>rolando de rir aqui! LOMAOF!

“You’re saying Santos cheated on me for all those years because he might have a medical condition that exacerbates his stupid superstitions?”
“I call bullshit.”
“Why?”
“Why?” I laugh, humorlessly. “Because we were married for ten years. He could have easily come home and gotten his ‘medical condition,’” I sarcastically use air quotes, “… under control with me. But he didn’t. He chose to go out and bang any groupie who was willing to spread her legs for him. No way. He made a choice. Every time.”

==>the prospects don't look very favorable for the couple

“Mari, the kind of trust I broke doesn’t take weeks or months to rebuild. It takes years. Years. You have every right to doubt me. I can promise all day long, but in the end, the only way to help you feel better is to show you. Never be sorry for looking. Never be sorry for reminding me not to let my guard down. This is how we’re going to rebuild what was broken. Together.”

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Binding Arbitration by Elizabeth Marx

Binding Arbitration by Elizabeth Marx 

ebook, 484 pages

Published June 17th 2012

Blurb:

Through the corridors of the Windy City’s criminal courts, single mother Libby Tucker knows exactly how far she’ll go to save her cancer-stricken son’s life. The undefeated defense attorney is prepared to take her fight all the way to the majors.

Circumstances force Libby to plead her case at the cleats of celebrity baseball player Banford Aidan Palowski, the man who discarded her at their college graduation. Libby has worked her backside bare for everything she’s attained, while Aidan has been indulged since he slid through the birth canal and landed in a pile of Gold Coast money. But helping Libby and living up to his biological duty could jeopardize the only thing the jock worships: his baseball career.

If baseball imitates life, Aidan admits his appears to be silver-plated peanuts, until an unexpected confrontation with the most spectacular prize that’s ever poured from a caramel corn box blindsides him. When he learns about his son’s desperate need, it pricks open the wound he’s carried since he abandoned Libby and the child.

All Libby wants is a little anonymous DNA, but Aidan has a magical umpire in his head who knows Libby’s a fateball right to the heart. When a six-year-old sage and a hippy priestess step onto the field, there’s more to settle between Libby and Aidan than heartache, redemption, and forgiveness.

Review:

This book was on my reading list for a long time and I was always putting off.

I confess that the story of the athlete who leaves his pregnant girlfriend and move on as if nothing had happened already was making me sick.

But I decided to stop avoiding the reading and it took me almost a week to complete.

I really liked heroine and how she managed to raise her son and finish her studies without the help of the hero who asked her to get an abortion when she refused he signed giving up rights as a father.

He proved to be selfish and spoiled just thinking about him and the wonderful future that awaited him. And he had a girlfriend that in the eyes of his family was perfect while involved with our heroine. He reneged on their relationship and seemed ashamed of it.

Over the years our heroine becomes a recognized professional and an exemplary mother, while his career is falling and his new fiancée becomes a nightmare. He is engaged to a rich and spoiled socialite who is a horrible person. I think they both deserve each other.

Our heroine comes into contact with the hero because she needs a bone marrow donor for their son who has cancer.

At first he is furious with her and just think of the impact that the discovery of an illegitimate child would cause in his image. Turns out he has a pristine image and the abandonment of a child would harm his future contracts.

At this point in the reading I was willing to abandon the reading, but I kept going and I was curious about how the author would make us like the hero and how he would make the heroine to forgive him.

The author really knew how to make the reader go discovering new layers of personality of each character that made them more human and likely to be forgiven by the actions of the past.

Adding in the story:

-a sick child, 

-the need of heroine to help others and suffering the consequences for that, 

-a partner in the firm she works for wanting to take advantage of the fact of her being a woman in the workplace, 

-Mommy and Daddy issues, 

-feel inadequate and unworthy of love, afraid to love and to be abandoned again,

-guilt by taking certain decisions that impacted on their future...

Adding to all this still a paranormal dose doing the reader be moved and spend a box of tissues...

At the end of it all it was a good read.

Love, family, forgiveness, hope for a better future and the certainty that we are not in this life by chance. We all have a purpose and need each other to complete our journey.

Goodreads: here

Goalie (Juked #3) by M.E. Carter

Goalie (Juked #3) by M.E. Carter

Kindle Edition, 242 pages

Published February 18th 2017

Review in Portuguese and English.

Blurb:

Goalie 
[goh-lee] 
noun 
a player in the goal whose duty is to prevent the ball from entering or crossing it 

See Santos and Mariana DeGuajarado 

As goalie of the Texas Mutiny, Santos is damn good at protecting that net. But he never bothered to protect his marriage. 

Letting the fame and notoriety go to his head, he lost the things he loved the most… his wife and kids. Now he has one shot to make it right before losing at this relationship game and he’s determined not to miss this time. 

Mariana has been scarred so deeply by Santos’s betrayals, she will carry the wounds forever. After almost ten years of marriage though, she knows him well, and she knows he won’t let go without a fight. Still, she refuses to be a push over. 

Because love is never enough… 

#assholealert #cheaterscumbag #cheater

Review:

Eu li várias resenhas negativas e então resolvi ler o livro para ver qual era a coisa toda.

A autora escreveu uma história bem realista e que não vai deixar aquela sensação boa ao terminar a leitura, mas faz pensar.

O herói é um atleta profissional que transa com as groupies que cercam os jogadores do time dele. Durante os 10 anos em que foi casado com a heroína e tiveram os 3 filhos deles ele trai a esposa dele inúmeras vezes com mulheres diferentes. O herói deixa o leitor com muito ódio e nojo do comportamento dele.

Ela enfim acorda para a situação e o chuta para fora de casa e pede o divórcio. A heroína é a típica que foi traída e foi a última a ficar sabendo de tudo.

Ele reluta em aceitar a responsabilidade pelo ocorrido e continua cometendo os mesmos erros.

Nossa heroína fica firme nas posição dela e aos poucos vai ficando mais forte e independente apesar de ainda continuar amando o herói.

Eu confesso que se estivesse no lugar dela eu chutaria a bunda dele e não tocaria mais nele nem com a ponta do meu dedo. 

Mas ela aos poucos vai perdoando e ele realmente tenta mudar o caráter dele e se tornar uma pessoa melhor.

Eu fiquei esperando ele trair novamente até o final e fiquei com a sensação de que ela vai ter uma vida muito difícil tentando ter paz sabendo que ele não vai estar lá fora transando com outra mulher. 

A confiança nunca mais será a mesma e não sei se mesmo um grande amor vai sustentar o casamento deles. Mas ele pareceu estar disposto a mudar e realmente aos poucos foi demonstrando isso.

Gostei da leitura e mais um traidor para minha lista de leitura.

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I read several negative reviews and then I decided to read the book to see what was the whole thing.

The author wrote a story very realistic and it's not going to let that feeling good when you finish reading, but makes you think.

The hero is a professional athlete who has sex with his groupies that surround the players of his team. During the 10 years he was married to heroin and had 3 children he cheated his wife numerous times with different women. The hero leaves the reader with a lot of hate and disgust of his behavior.

She finally wake up to the situation and kick him out of the home and asks for a divorce. The heroine is the typical who was cheated and was the last to know everything.

He is reluctant to accept responsibility for what happened and keep making the same mistakes.

Our heroine is firm in her position and gradually gets stronger and independent despite still loving the hero.

I confess that if I was in her place I'd kick his butt out and wouldn't touch him anymore even with the tip of my finger. But she will slowly forgiving and he really tries to change his character and become a better person.

I was waiting for him to cheat again until the end and I got the feeling that she's going to have a very hard life trying to have peace knowing he won't be out there having sex with another woman. The trust will never be the same and I don't know if even a great love will sustain their marriage. But he seemed willing to change and actually slowly came to demonstrating that.

I like reading and more a cheater to my reading list.

Highlights:

"Admittedly, I haven’t been exactly celibate since Mari left me."

"there has never been a time in our entire relationship when Santos wasn’t cheating on me. Not in college. Not when we first got married. Not when I was pregnant. Not ever."

"How could you do this to me? To us? How could you humiliate me like that in front of everyone we know? Do you know what that’s like?"

"You’re not sorry for doing it; you’re sorry you got caught"

“So it never occurred to you that you kissed these whores on the mouth, probably right after they got done sucking someone else’s dick without a condom, did it?”

“God, Santos. It’s a wonder I don’t have herpes in my mouth, you asshole.”

"How many more pieces of myself can be broken before I disappear forever?"

"Have I really changed my patterns enough for Mari to trust me again? Obviously not since I just got a blow job from some random chick."

==>rolando de rir aqui! LOMAOF!

“You’re saying Santos cheated on me for all those years because he might have a medical condition that exacerbates his stupid superstitions?”

“I call bullshit.”

“Why?”

“Why?” I laugh, humorlessly. “Because we were married for ten years. He could have easily come home and gotten his ‘medical condition,’” I sarcastically use air quotes, “… under control with me. But he didn’t. He chose to go out and bang any groupie who was willing to spread her legs for him. No way. He made a choice. Every time.”

==>the prospects don't look very favorable for the couple

“Mari, the kind of trust I broke doesn’t take weeks or months to rebuild. It takes years. Years. You have every right to doubt me. I can promise all day long, but in the end, the only way to help you feel better is to show you. Never be sorry for looking. Never be sorry for reminding me not to let my guard down. This is how we’re going to rebuild what was broken. Together.”

Beautiful Misery (Beautiful Series #2) by Chandin Whitten

Beautiful Misery (Beautiful Series #2) by Chandin Whitten

316 pages

Published October 2nd 2013

*Review in Portuguese and English.*

Eu adorei o primeiro livro da série e me apaixonei pelo Gage Tucker.
Estava ansiosa por descobrir mais sobre o personagem e se ele encontraria uma amor verdadeiro.
Confesso que chorei durante mais da metade do livro, sério... fazia tempo que não chorava tanto com uma história.
Nosso herói era apaixonado pela heroína do primeiro livro (Jenna Reylan) e ainda está tentando esquecer este amor. É muito duro para ele presenciar a felicidade dela e a chegada dos filhos dela com outro cara (Larkin).
Gage se entrega às festas, bebidas e muitas mulheres. Assim ele vai levando a vida e tenta superar a perda de Jenna.
Ele tem uma relação de uma noite com Cobie Nayler (irmã do Larkin)e ela acaba grávida. A princípio ele fica meio sem saber o que fazer, afinal de contas ele não está apaixonado pela Cobie e eles pretendiam ter uma noite de sexo apenas.
Ele acaba se apaixonando pela ideia de ser pai e ter alguém para amar. Ele direciona todo amor dele para a criança e resolve dar uma chance para que a relação com Cobie dê certo e eles formem uma família.
Daí acontece uma tragédia. 
Cobie tem câncer e para que a criança nasça ela escolhe não receber tratamento. Nosso herói faz de tudo para que ela tenha um final de vida maravilhoso e acaba gostando muito dela como ser humano e como amiga. Os dois professam amar um ao outro, mas nós sabemos que o amor deles não é aquele amor verdadeiro que um homem sente por uma mulher. O amor deles é baseado na amizade e nos laços que eles criaram em virtude do nascimento da filha deles.
Tem cenas lindas e muito tocantes!
Ele faz de tudo para que Cobie tenha um final de vida feliz e se sinta amada.
Após a morte dela ele se dedica a carreira dele e a criação da filha.
Daí ele encontra uma mulher que realmente o faz voltar a sentir novamente... sentir a vida fluir pelas veias dele e a esperança de felicidade voltar a nascer.
Esta mulher se chama Annie e ela já passou por grandes perdas na vida dela e ela tem medo de se envolver novamente. Ela tem um filho de cinco anos e ele é a razão da vida dela.
Os dois tem muito medo. 
Medo de amar e ser rejeitado. 
Medo de amar e ser abandonado. 
Medo de amar e o amor ser levado pela tragédia. 
São tantos medos que eles acabam em grande conflito.
Mas ambos acabam descobrindo que o amor verdadeiro pode surgir repentinamente e pegar a pessoa desprevenida e que é mágico quando acontece de verdade.
Gostei muito da história e estou ansiosa pela história dos outros personagens.
Eu não conhecia esta autora e acabei adorando o trabalho dela. 
Altamente recomendado!

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I loved the first book in the series and I fell in love with the Gage Tucker.
I was looking forward to finding out more about the character and if he could find a true love.
I confess that I cried for more than half of the book, really ... it's been a while since I cried so much with a story.
Our hero was in love with the heroine of the first book (Jenna Reylan) and is still trying to forget this love. It is very hard for him to witness her happiness and the arrival of her children with another man (Larkin).
Gage surrenders the partying, drinking and women. In this way he's taking life and try to overcome the loss of Jenna.
He has a one-night stand with Cobie Nayler (Larkin's sister) and she ends up pregnant. At first he gets a little not knowing what to do, after all he is not in love with Cobie and they wanted to have a night of sex only.
He ends up falling in love with the idea of being a father and having somebody to love. He directs all his love to the child and decides to take a chance so that the relationship with Cobie works out and they form a family.
There is a tragedy. 
Cobie has cancer and until the child is born she chooses not to receive treatment. Our hero does everything that she has a wonderful end-of-life and end up liking her very much as a human being and as a friend. Both profess to love each other, but we know that their love is not the one true love that a man feels for a woman. Their love is based on friendship and ties that they created because of the birth of their daughter.
Has beautiful and very touching scenes!
He does everything so Cobie has a end of life happy and feel loved.
After her death he is dedicated to his career and the creation of his daughter.
Then he meets a woman that really brings back the feel again ... feel life flowing through his veins and the hope of happiness to happen again.
This woman called Annie and she's been through heavy losses in her life and she's afraid to get involved again. She has a five-year-old son and he is the reason of her life.
Both are too afraid. 
Afraid to love and be rejected. 
Afraid to love and to be abandoned. 
Afraid to love and love to be taken by the tragedy. 
There are so many fears that they end up in great conflict.
But both end up discovering that true love can arise suddenly and get the person off guard and that is magical when it happens for real.
I really liked the story and I'm looking forward to the history of other characters.
I didn't know this author and I ended up loving her work.
Highly recommended!!!

goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/644753371

Beautiful Goodbye (Beautiful Series #1) by Chandin Whitten

Beautiful Goodbye (Beautiful Series #1) by Chandin Whitten

Kindle Edition, 257 pages

Published February 28th 2013

*Review in Portuguese and English.*

Misture um monte de caras bonitos, musculosos, tatuados, mulherengos e todos jogadores que estão na Universidade e se preparando para jogar na NFL... acrescente um bando de garotas loucas para caçá-los, álcool, festas, confusões com mulheres, angústias familiares e você tem uma receita de um livro bem emocionante. 
Eu escolhi o livro aleatoriamente no meu leitor de e-books e fiquei surpresa. Achei muito legal e confesso que fiquei muito indecisa com a escolha da heroína... amei o Gage e amei o Larkin... óh dúvida cruel!
O melhor amigo dela é o Gage. Ele está lá para ela em todas as horas, e olha que ela passou horrores, mas ele sempre a apoiou e mostrou seu amor por ela. Mas ela o vê apenas como o melhor amigo. Em cada gesto dele nós percebemos que ele é profundamente apaixonado por ela e que daria a vida por ela.
Mas aí ela conhece Larkin e se apaixona por ele, apesar dela negar este sentimento o tempo todo, o sentimento está lá e está pronto para sair e mostrar sua face. Larkin também ama Jenna profundamente e muda seu comportamento por ela.
Com muita angústia e certa dose de confusões a história vai progredindo e você pode até não concordar com as decisões que Jenna toma ao longo da história, mas ela tem medo e inseguranças que somente Gage entende. Afinal os dois são amigos desde sempre.
Gostei também dos personagens secundários, cada um tem uma personalidade bem legal e que certamente será explorada nos outros livros da série.
Muitos acharam a história previsível e muito piegas, mas era exatamente o que eu estava precisando ler no momento, portanto recomendo a todos.

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Mix a bunch of cute guys, muscled, tattooed, womanizers and all players who are away at College and getting ready to play in the NFL ... Add a bunch of crazy chicks to hunt them down, alcohol, parties, trouble with women, family troubles and you have a recipe for a pretty exciting book.
I chose the book randomly in my e-book reader and I was surprised. I thought it was very cool and I confess that I was very indecisive with the choice of heroin ... loved both Gage and Larkin ... Oh cruel doubt!
Her best friend is Gage. He's there for her at all hours, and she's been through horrors, but he always supported and showed his love for her. But she sees him just as his best friend. In his every gesture we realized that he is deeply in love with her and that he would give his life for her.
But then she meets Larkin and falls in love with him, despite her denying this feeling all the time, the feeling is there and ready to go out and show his face. Larkin also loves Jenna deeply and change their behavior for her.
With a lot of anguish and certain amount of confusion the story will progress and you might not even agree with the decisions that Jenna takes throughout history, but she has fear and insecurities that Gage only understands. After all the two have been friends forever.
I liked also the secondary characters, each one has a very nice personality and that certainly will be explored in other books of the series.
Many found the story predictable and corny, but it was exactly what I needed to read right now, so I recommend it to everyone.

Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/644751791