The Lockdown Series Tunes

This ‘work from home’ album made by Spotify is really good.

It’ll make you at tune to work while at home.

Check it out on Spotify

The Lockdown Series pt.2

Another Great Book!

So this book is a new release from Rebecca Serle, “In Five Years”.

Blurb:

Where do you see yourself in five years?

When Type-A Manhattan lawyer Dannie Cohan is asked this question at the most important interview of her career, she has a meticulously crafted answer at the ready. Later, after nailing her interview and accepting her boyfriend’s marriage proposal, Dannie goes to sleep knowing she is right on track to achieve her five-year plan.

But when she wakes up, she’s suddenly in a different apartment, with a different ring on her finger, and beside a very different man. The television news is on in the background, and she can just make out the scrolling date. It’s the same night—December 15—but 2025, five years in the future.

After a very intense, shocking hour, Dannie wakes again, at the brink of midnight, back in 2020. She can’t shake what has happened. It certainly felt much more than merely a dream, but she isn’t the kind of person who believes in visions. That nonsense is only charming coming from free-spirited types, like her lifelong best friend, Bella. Determined to ignore the odd experience, she files it away in the back of her mind.

That is, until four-and-a-half years later, when by chance Dannie meets the very same man from her long-ago vision.

Brimming with joy and heartbreak, In Five Years is an unforgettable love story that reminds us of the power of loyalty, friendship, and the unpredictable nature of destiny.

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I can’t help but see myself in Dannie. I have been always the careful one, always thinking that if I do this this will lead to this. Causality has always been my way of living and was also the way I was brought up. It has always been effective, still is. Though it has it’s disadvantages but I’m not gonna talk about that.

The book gravitated on relationships, especially friendship between Dannie and Bella. They have this strong and profound relationship probably because they met when they were little. They have opposite personalities but one compliments the other.

When I started reading I began to predict some disappointments for Dannie but it never came out that way.  I was amazed by their kind of friendship, I wonder if that kind really exists. I thought for a second Dannie might have actual feelings for Bella, as in romantically but there isn’t. Both their relationships with men where to good to be true but their friendship has always been tight. Being together for so long has made it much stronger, being there for each other when life happens when they were young up until becoming adults.

I have many highlights of beautiful and touching lines from the book but this simplest one stuck,

‘Love doesn’t require a future.’

Made me realize of the many cliches about descriptions about love. It is what it is as long as it’s felt — it exists.

I can make a lot of statements about this but I would greatly suggest you read the book. I am getting Serle’s other books soon, I’m kind of loving her writing. I just wish she would give a more elaborate ending for Dannie and Aaron, a second book perhaps? I hope so…

In Five Years : A Novel by Rebecca Serle is out now.

Gave it 4 on Goodreads!

The Lockdown Series

Hey!

It has been declared a community quarantine here in my city. Since WHO declared COVID-19 a pandemic all precautionary measures where being done by the government. I believe their good intentions for the country and as I good citizen, I follow. 😉

I came prepared with the mandatory leave I got from work. I’ve got some good books and some movies and series to binge watch before the quarantine was declared. It’s kind of expected already, once one city declares another one follows. Domino effect.

Okay, I had a few good books all rated 4+ in Goodreads. First up;

The Beautiful by Rene Ahdieh

This book is what it is — as its title says! I love the setting and the characters. I thought I was already over with vampire stories and such, turns out I’m still as hooked as I was. Ok, I confess I still watch Legacies. The setting was in New Orleans which I adore (does Klaus ring a bell?). I want to go there someday and witness the French Quarter and it’s festivities.

Ahdieh’s characters are always the ones with the strong personality. I love how each one is built up in the story,  both for Bastien and Celine. Love their full names by the way.

What I really love about the book is that it has diverse characters, different races and oh! Celine’s mother is Korean right?!( spoilers!) The book did not mention the country where her mom came from but only stated Far East. But from her dream about her mother, she told her to flee in Korean and also told her to do it quickly in Korean. I cannot imagine how she looks like in Ahdie’s mind but from the book’s description she has a good mix of Asian and European roots.

Anyway, I did not expect the plot twist especially towards the ending! It better have a good sequel.

Go check out The Beautiful by Rene Ahdieh, gave it a 5 on Goodreads! 🙂

In 1872, New Orleans is a city ruled by the dead. But to seventeen-year-old Celine Rousseau, New Orleans provides her a refuge after she’s forced to flee her life as a dressmaker in Paris. Taken in by the sisters of the Ursuline convent along with six other girls, Celine quickly becomes enamored with the vibrant city from the music to the food to the soirées and—especially—to the danger. She soon becomes embroiled in the city’s glitzy underworld, known as La Cour des Lions, after catching the eye of the group’s leader, the enigmatic Sébastien Saint Germain. When the body of one of the girls from the convent is found in the lair of La Cour des Lions, Celine battles her attraction to him and suspicions about Sébastien’s guilt along with the shame of her own horrible secret.

When more bodies are discovered, each crime more gruesome than the last, Celine and New Orleans become gripped by the terror of a serial killer on the loose—one Celine is sure has set her in his sights . . . and who may even be the young man who has stolen her heart. As the murders continue to go unsolved, Celine takes matters into her own hands and soon uncovers something even more shocking: an age-old feud from the darkest creatures of the underworld reveals a truth about Celine she always suspected simmered just beneath the surface.

At once a sultry romance and a thrilling murder mystery, master storyteller Renée Ahdieh embarks on her most potent fantasy series yet: The Beautiful.