Pages of Bookish Love is a new feature that Alexa and I (Ashley) are doing on our blogs. We each recommend one book to the other and then review the book on each other’s blog. For instance, Alexa recommended I read an indie book, as you can see my review is posted on her blog. In turn, I recommended she read Die for Me for Zombie Craze 2012, which she will review on my blog. Basically we are exchanging pages of bookish love. We both hope you love this new monthly feature!

Callum & Harper
by Fisher Amelie
Published: 12/24/2011

From Goodreads:

Life sucks for orphans Callum Tate and Harper Bailey.

Kicked out of their foster homes because they suffer the ‘eighteen disease’ with nothing but a hundred dollar check from the government and a pat on the back, they’re forced to rely on a system that failed them miserably.

So they sit. They sit inside Social Services, waiting for their social workers to call their names and offer them the miracle they know will never come but they sit anyway because they have nowhere else to go, no other options on their very literal and figurative empty plates.

But as they sit, they notice the other. Although captivated, they each come to the conclusion that life is complicated enough without throwing in a boiling tension that can’t ever be acted upon because they’re both too busy thinking about where their next meal will come from but when their names are called and both are placed on a year long waiting list for permanent housing, suddenly relying on each other seems like a very viable plan B.

And, oh, how lovely Plan B’s can be.

Well, except for the psycho from Harper’s past that haunts her and, oh, yeah, there’s the little issue that neither of them knows they’re in love with the other.

Needless to say, Callum & Harper’s life just got a bit more complicated.

“One day, you and I are gonna’ wake up and be alright. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but one day. One day. I promise you.” – Callum Tate

I thought:

Oh my gosh… Okay. Okay…. I know!

Callum and Harper is told in alternating POVs of *gasp* Callum and Harper! And from the VERY very beginning, I was IN LOVE with BOTH of these characters! I’m not kidding, I think I *goofy smiled* through this entire book!

Callum and Harper are both orphans… *tears* and just after Harper’s 18th birthday her foster family tells her that it’s time to hit the road, since they’ll no longer be receiving monthly checks for housing her. I KNOW! Isn’t that horrible? But that’s how she meets Callum, in the lobby of Social Services, as he is in a similar situation and that’s where this story begins!

The way Harper needs Callum, and the way Callum NEEDS her to need him is so sweet… I felt my heart break a little with EACH PAGE. But, in that “Oh my GOD, I’m dying because this is so sweet…” way.

And before you go thinking these kids are just pathetic, homeless beggars… PLEASE. You will be routing for Callum & Harper from the VERY first PAGE. You KNOW they are going to make it. Through every single heartache, disappointment, and horrific thing that happens to them- THEY have each other. Fisher Amelie MAKES you believe in them, they WILL make it, and not because it’s fiction… because they HAVE TO.

“Commit to knowing me in two weeks, Harper. Don’t make me beg.”

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“One day, you and I are gonna’ wake up and be alright. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but one day. One day. I promise you.”

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“It’s funny how this total stranger could relate to me better than anyone else I’d ever met. It was as if I’d known her my entire life.”

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Callum and Harper dance around each other nearly the entire book, and I wouldn’t have had it any other way… I just can’t express how much I LOVED this book, these characters and this story. Sweet beyond compare, Callum & Harper will steal your heart… and you won’t get it back.

I laughed… I cried… I gave Callum and Harper it’s own theme song. Um… What? I can’t be the only one to do this?!

Buy Callum & Harper on Amazon!

If you have somehow been living under a rock and missed Zombie Craze 2012 I suggest you get your butt in gear and head on over to Ashley’s blog to check out all the great brain eating stories she covered!

Blogger Pages to Love is a newish feature here at Pages of Forbidden Love!
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Today I am honored to have Sharmin from A Battalion of Words here!

 
About Me:

My name is Sharmin. I’m currently a college freshman and simply put, I love to read. I live in NYC. I was born in Bangladesh and I speak Bengali fluently but I’m more comfortable with English. I love my culture and I definitely think it’s a big part of me. I am also Muslim and that’s something that’s also a big part of who I am. I respect my religion and understand enough about it to realize it’s not what the media has been portraying it to be for the past couple of years. But above all, I’m just a normal teenage girl who likes to spend more time in bed curling up with a good book when she isn’t cramming for exams and racing to finish her chemistry homework than anything else. I love being in the company of good friends and family who I can relate my passion for reading with. I’m not very good at describing myself but I guess, for now, these are the things that are most important for me to tell you about me.

Blog Description:

My blog is still relatively new and I’m still learning to balance my school work with being a blogger. It’s been hard but I’m trying to post often. But I would like the main focus of my blog to be about book reviews. I don’t post reviews all that frequently because A. I’m simply not as fast a reader as a lot of the other great book bloggers out there! And B. I would rather have 1 thorough book review than 2 or 3 short and sweet ones. I like details in book reviews and try to discuss as many important elements of the book as I can. All of my reviews are based on my opinions alone and as you know opinions are objective. So, I would love to know why you hated a certain book I may have loved or vice versa.

Blogger Pages to Love is a newish feature here at Pages of Forbidden Love!
Basically the point is to highlight new and old bloggers that you should all check out!
(If you would like to be featured please send me an email at apk1princess(at)live(dot)com)

Today I am honored to have Nick here from Nick’s Book Blog!

I just recently starting following her blog within the last month and I love reading her reviews. She always seems to be reviewing the books I have not yet read or bought so her reviews really help me when I am thinking about buying a certain book. Plus she is really amazing and great to chat with.

These types of descriptions have to be the hardest of all!

Well, I’m Nick! My real name is actually Shanika, but everyone just calls me Nick (for some incomprehensible reason).

I live in this tiny little island called Mauritius. Most people don’t know where that is because it doesn’t feature on many maps! We’re actually found in the Indian Ocean right next to Madagascar. (Google it! ) We may be a little isolated from the rest of the world, but don’t worry, we’ve got internet and phone connection!

I’ve always loved reading ever since I could read the alphabets. My parents say that I used to be a very strange kid. Whenever they took me to the toy store, I would never ask for anything (unlike my younger sister), but if they took me to a book store I was the happiest kid ever.

Nothing has changed since then! If ever you want to cheer me up, just take me shopping for books !

Apart from reading, I also love to listen to music when I have nothing to do. My favorite bands or musicians or singers include Third Eye Blind, Bruce Springsteen, Three Days Grace, The Eagles, Jimi Hendrix and Collective Soul.

I also enjoy everything to do with Chemistry. (Does that make me sound nerdy ? )

When I’m not reading or studying, you can find me watching all favorite TV shows. Currently, I’m addicted to The Big Bang Theory (Love geeky Sheldon!), The Lying Game (So much drama …), Pretty Little Liars (Still more drama and secrets) and Bones(Love solving cases along with Brennan and Booth).

That’s me, in a few words I guess!

I started Nick’s Book Blog (probably the most unoriginal blog name you’ll ever come across) in late November 2011. I had just finished with my A-Level exams and I needed to do something until I started college in Aug 2012. While on Goodreads, I came across a book blog and then I realized that there were so many interesting book blogs out there. Finally, I decided that I wanted one too and that blogging would be the best way to spend my long holidays!

On my blog, I usually review YA books (all genres included), but I’m slowly starting to review adult books as well. I love blogging about the books I read and letting others know about my thoughts. Discussing books has to be my favorite part about blogging!

Thanks to my blog, I also got to meet some really awesome fellow bloggers whose opinions I really respect. (*Waves at Alexa, Nea , and Danny)

Before I came across YA books, I used to read a lot of crime fiction and thriller books. Tess Gerritsen and Stephen King are two of my favorite authors.

Later, I became engrossed in YA books. I’m not going to lie the Twilight series is what first introduced me to YA. The first book I truly fell in love with has to be The Vampire Academy by Richelle Mead. I read the entire series in 3 days and I loved it.

Then I came across Divergent by Veronica Roth and fell in love once again. Divergent was the book that first introduced me to dystopian books. Recently, I read The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins and was amazed by the world she had created. I also read YA contemporary books, Anna And The French Kiss, Sara Dessen books and Elizabeth Scott books being my favorite reads.

Oh and I loved Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte too!

You can find me on GFC, my facebook page ,twitter and my goodreads.

Thanks so much , Alexa for having me on your blog!

Blogger Pages to Love is a newish feature here at Pages of Forbidden Love!
Basically the point is to highlight new and old bloggers that you should all check out!
(If you would like to be featured please send me an email at apk1princess(at)live(dot)com)

Today I am honored to have Bec here from Vicariously!

I just discovered her blog recently and I can’t wait to chat with her more and join in on a weekend feature that she does with a blogger friend of hers. 

About Me: I’m a twenty-two year old musician who blogs about books in her spare time, which these days is all the time. Hopefully that will change in a bit because I would like to get my career off the ground, but not too much because I love Vicariously! very much and could not stand to part with it. If you’re curious as to my music, I’m a singer/songwriter of the Joss Stone/Adele variety.

I hail from the south where they think burning Harry Potter books is great fun and I find it quite appalling. I’ve always been a bit of a follower, but one who marches at her own speed and to the beat of her own drummer. I’ve always had an intense need to be someone special and different. I want people to know my name. However I would like this to be through my more altruistic and kooky antics as opposed to my many-err accidents, yeah we’ll call them that.

I’m highly opinionated and uptight, but you won’t see that side because I like for people to think I’m easygoing. God forbid that something I’m involved in planning goes wrong. I will take the reins and dictatorship that bitch in four point five seconds.

I’m not making myself sound very appealing, but the thing is that I’m honest. I’m not going to tell you that I’m anything that I’m not. I am who I am and I have absolutely no apologies foor it. If you had my life, if you’d been what I’ve been through, and been subject to my usual idiocy? You’d learn to like yourself too.

My Blog

I am a book blogger who reviews every. damn. thing. she. reads. I want people to know what’s out there. I feel like too many people forget that there are a lot of books out there that have been out for awhile, but haven’t been given their just due. So many great new books come out that these jewels get lost in the shuffle. So I want to give everything possible it’s props. People work outrageously hard on their books and they deserve exposure whether it be good or bad.

I really just hope to open some minds with my blog. I get political sometimes. I have a feature on religion coming to my blog, but I like to show all viewpoints. I like to get on tough subjects. I don’t just do the paranormal, dystopian, and romance of it all. I’ll be the first one to read a book about a tough subject such as suicide and mental illness etc. I want people to know what’s out there.

Also being a musician I participate in a segment called Tune In Tuesday where I feature songs and artists that need some attention. It might be a familiar song covered by an unfamiliar artist. You really never know what I’m going to come out with on this. I’m kind of all over the place.

My Roots (and no I don’t mean the hair I need to dye): I started *book* blogging in December 2011. The first book I reviewed on my official blog was Chime by Frannie Billingsey. I’ve been reviewing books on goodreads since about 2010. And I’ve had an online journal since I was seventeen. I won’t link you to that though. If you want to find me though just find a way to tell me and I’ll link you to my livejournal. But I don’t really think that’s necessary.

I blog because I want to be heard. I’ve never been the girl whose voice gets lost in the crowd, but I’m certainly not about to shout my opinions at the top of my lungs for no reason. I have been known to haunt the local book store and give people suggestions on what they should read. I kept thinking, well if I do this maybe I should try doing it on the internet. I didn’t get the idea for a book blog until my friend Suz pushed me into it. That, they say, is history. I did and do have a separate music blog that I’m still working on getting off the ground, but that is neither here nor there. It’s only got a couple of reviews up and I’m still working on the layout.

I had to be the most nervous new blogger. I never thought I’d find anyone who’d want to read anything that I wrote about books. I was pleasantly surprised.

My Stomping Grounds or, rather, My Comfort Zone: My favorite book of all time is Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine. Fairy tale, myth, legend, and historical retellings are my favorite genres. My favorite fairy tale is Beauty and the Beast or Cinderella, my favorite myth is the tale of Persephone, my favorite legend is Robin Hood, and my favorite historical characters are Anne Boleyn and Elizabeth Bathory. Anything to do with any of that I’m totally there. I pretty much read everything I can get my hands on. The only thing that shakes me up is a dystopian reality. I have an extremely overactive imagination and I can completely see our world becoming the next Panem (The Hunger Games).

Catching Me On the Fly: Subscribe to my blog, use GFC, follow me on twitter @VicariouslyBec, but mostly just comment. Any and every comment is responded to and answered. I’ve made two of the greatest friends from my comments. I e-mail them both quite often.

I bid you good day and good night blog world. Hopefully you’re not already asleep

Today I am beyond excited to have Miss Vain here from Miss Vain’s Paranormal Fantasy. She just started her blog in the past 2ish months but I was instantly taken with her blog. Plus I love chatting with her and she is great at motivating me to get around to reading all of those unread adult urban fantasy and romance books on my shelf!

Welcome to my magical paranormal fantasy world! I’m 31 years old am I’m a lover of all things paranormal. Please feel free to follow me and I’ll follow you as well. A girl can never have too many friends to chat books with. I read too much, talk books too much, and quite often I forget that these people that drive me crazy, and the men that overload my daydreams are FICTIONAL!!! If you share that same problem, then I have a feeling we’ll get along swell!

Also, please friend me MISS VAIN is on Goodreads where I feed my paranormal book obsession daily! Or follow me on twitter @SooooVain

Blogger Pages to Love is a new feature here at Pages of Forbidden Love!
Basically the point is to highlight new and old bloggers that you should all check out!
(If you would like to be featured please send me an email at apk1princess(at)live(dot)com)

Today I am very happy to have Paige from Comfort Books here to talk about her blog.

About Me:
Well what can I say about me? I’m a 15 year old sophmore at Salem High. All of my qualities will help you realize that I am a complete nerd! I wear glasses. I’ve loved to read since i was about 4 possibly 3. I love to write, I even started my own book last summer and I’m developing my writing skills by taking a few creative writing classes oh and fiction writing =) Also I love what I’m doing now, which is blogging! Lastly i’m a huge tv nerd! I like so many tv shows and soon I hope to own a lot of seasons on DVD to go along with my huge book collection.

My Blog Backround/What my blog is about: Well I started my blog back in August. I originally started at WordPress thinking that it’d be all about the book that I was writing. But then I came accross my first book blog. I can’t remember which one it was but it must of sparked something because I decided to start one of my own. I wanted to keep WordPress for my story blog as well so for awhile I maintained two blogs. One here on Blogger and one on WordPress. I gave up on WordPress awhile back so now i’m sticking with Blogger. On my blog I of course review books! mostly YA though because that’s mostly what I read. Some day I hope that my blog will be as big and as awesome as the big bloggers out there!

The Genres I Read: Well ever since I started reading i’ve always liked a bunch of different genres. It started with MG Science Fiction. That was basically my whole world in 4th grade. But unfortunately I can barley remember a thing that I read. I started reading the Twilight series in 7th grade and after I finished that series I was totally hooked on YA, which is my whole life now =) On a side note I like to read True Crime and Horror and sometimes mystery!
Where can you find me? That’s easy! I’m everywhere haha not literarly but i’m on a bunch of sites online! Including Blogger (Follow through GFC or Email) Twitter Facebook and lastly Goodreads