keeperofthetrees's Reviews (158)

funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes

now this is what i said when i needed dumb romance. a little bit insta lovish perhaps but nevertheless i had fun reading it. also, i need me ryan in my life bc damn.
funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes


minimum 200 pages too long đŸ˜© tbf i had my eye on the second book in the series more from the beginning but i didnt want to start in middle so i reas this one and it was okay? like i said already too long, too clichĂ© and cringe at times, but i did have some fun reading it too thus the rating :"D hopefully second book will be better like i heard
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achingly and heartbreakingly beautiful.



"In Vietnamese, the word for missing someone and remembering them is the same: nhớ. Sometimes, when you ask me over the phone, Con nhĂł mę khĂŽng? I flinch, thinking you meant, Do you remember me?
I miss you more than I remember you."
dark emotional inspiring reflective sad
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

ne mogu izbrojati na prste koliko puta sam plakala čitajući ovu knjigu. prelepo napisano u svakom smislu i pogledu. mislim da od sada neće proći dan a da ja ne pomislim o ovoj knjizi. popela mi se u top 5 favourites sigurno.




"Ranije su ljudi tvrdili da Uve uvek posmatra ĆŸivot kao crno-beo, a ona je donela boje. Sve boje u njegovom ĆŸivotu."
emotional funny inspiring reflective sad slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes

two flawed characters finding a way to work around each other, even with their differences.

i sobbed my way through this book. especially the last 60 pages or so. it was so much more raw and painful than i remember book lovers being, and i have to say i enjoyed every minute of reading it. it could have also been an accumulation of stressful exam period and my mental state not being the best right now, but truly i needed a good cry like this (even if it meant going to uni the next morning with puffy eyes and a headache).

i picked it up at 9pm yesterday and i finished it this morning at 4am. i really mean it when i say i didn't let this book down from my hands.


"In books, I’d always felt like the Happily Ever After appeared as a new beginning, but for me, it didn’t feel like that. My Happily Ever After was a strand of strung-together happy-for-nows, extending back not just to a year ago, but to thirty years before. Mine had already begun, and so this day was neither an ending nor a beginning.
It was just another good day. A perfect day. A happy-for-now, so vast and deep that I knew—or rather believed—I didn’t have to worry about tomorrow."


"When I watch you sleep," he said shakily,  "I feel overwhelmed that you exist."
funny lighthearted medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

light, witty and romantic. jamie and bea we were cute :") i found it a little bit dry at some points and the "issue" at the end was resolved a little bit too quickly with how it started imo but other than that it was an enjoyable read
adventurous emotional hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

i wish for this book to be injected in my veins. from the writing to the plot and how it all came together in the end. just gorgeously done. i didn't expect it to have such lovely romances (yes, plural, there were more than 1 and they were all so beautiful). 

just.
i loved it. 

it may not be everyone's cup of tea from some of other reviews ive seen. it can be slow in plot sometimes (for me the first 70 pages are always the worst) but i honestly enjoyed every second of reading it. especially the last 150-ish pages, the plot picked up so much and it got so interesting.

and i even teared up at the end even though it was a happy one :").

if it was possible i would give it 10 stars.

 wholeheartedly recommended this one for a read.
emotional inspiring sad
emotional funny lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

i truly loved it. a LOT given the fact it's currently 3am and i just finished it. i needed something light-hearted to read after my last book and i choose well. it was so heartwarming but also heartbreaking in some parts but it all just fit so well. and i didn't expect it to be so funny and yet i found myself laughing and giggling a lot while reading it. 
i loved the relationship betweem nora and libby too so so much. not many people talk about how one of thr siblings taking on the "parent" role can truly reflect on the being siblings part of the relationship and i think this book did so well with that. 
love how it took a different turn, and it wasn't a small town romance but two city loving people just finding it there. 
also...nora is my absolute favourite. she is so witty and sarcastic and funny and lovely and i found so much of myself in her. 
and maybe falling in love part was too fast paced, but with these two? who denied themselves so much of what they wanted, so similiar they just fit into each other so well? i didn't mind it at all, and matter of fact, it felt right. i knew it was true love the moment she compared him to feeling like her favourite book. truly such a lovely book for book lovers about book lovers :"))

“For anyone who wants it all,” she begins, “may you find something that is more than enough.”
She wonders whether what comes next could ever live up to the expectations.
She doesn’t know. You never can.
She turns the page anyway."