Sela O.

You know? It is

Is your life today what you pictured a year ago?

I am where I said I would be, and I travelled to Seoul and got to experience autumn and a bit of winter as well. Magical was the word for the past few weeks.

So, in that sense, yes I pictured myself here and I am. 🎄🧡

My life in other senses, that is not something I am ready to examine to closely. I rather live in the moment. 🛫

Beautiful Sacrifice: Book Review (The Maddox Brothers #3)

Because if you are binge-reading a book series, you just have to keep going with it when it actually caught your interest.

4 stars that rose from 3

Roller-coaster not Roller-coaster of emotions

Gliding through some parts but actually interested that I didn’t stop reading

Hello, dearies! 🪶

I will go into a very detailed, not spoilers, but a range of emotions about this book and the others in the series. So get ready for it.

Book series: The Maddox Brothers #3

Book Title: Beautiful Sacrifice

Author: Jamie McGuire

Genres: Drama. Romance (or so). New Adult. Secrets.

Year published: 2015

Page count: 284 (felt shorter)

400 pages or so on Paperback.

4⭐

10 Books with Winter in It

Winter is here, but are there books with Winter in them? Here are some… in name, at least.

Hello, dearies! ❄️

As it is December, apparently, don’t know where the rest of the months went. And in most places around the word it is Winter! Then here’s a special reading list that we might enjoy. 🏂

This is not a Christmas-related one, that will come later on, so be on the lookout.

Beautiful Redemption: Book Review (The Maddox Brothers #2)

‘In the second installment of the Maddox Brothers books, experience firsthand the mysterious world of the elusive Thomas Maddox, and how good love can be when you’re not the first, but the last.’

I don’t know.

Don’t ask me what was missing but something was, probably in the last 10% of it. Maybe somewhere in how it ended.

Hello, dearies! 🚨

I finished the second book on The Maddox Brothers book series Beautiful Redemption, which is Thomas Maddox story. And no, that’s not spoilers because it is in the description of the book, unless you don’t all Maddox boys and how their stories would then get ready because everything on this review might be spoiler.

Beautiful Oblivion: Book Review (Finally Read it!)

“I’ve had a lifetime of wrong. You’re the only thing that’s right.”

Oblivion indeed. 😮

Hello, dearies! 📚

OMFJC on a cracker. 🍂

This woman got me, I didn’t see that coming. I had no clue. I still don’t understand what the big secret is about.

Other than the fact that TJ knew that Trenton was in love with Camille his whole life and he still went and asked her out, crappy move there, but I suppose since they were not together it was fair.

But I did not know it was HIM.

Okay, let’s do this review right.

Bull$ts and Bonfires: Book Review

BookTok got me! I couldn’t wait for Bullets and Bonfires to be over—and not because I was hooked, but because I struggled to connect. While the side characters shone, the main duo fell flat for me, with moments that made me cringe or skim. Though there were bits I enjoyed, this read didn’t quite go as I had expected. Lesson learned: not all books with cool videos or photos are a perfect match!

I couldn’t wait for the book to be over. I’m proud because I finished it, but disappointed because I let Booktok trick me into reading it. 🥹

Hello, dearies! 📖

Not all that you read on those descriptions of books on TikTok is accurate, always keep that fresh in your mind as it is true, and it is not the first time that it has happened to me, just that other times I don’t follow through, but this time I really thought: hey, this Bullets and Bonfires might be interesting.

And it was, but not quite what I was expecting of the book.

All of that said, I enjoyed parts and bits of this book, I did not fall for the main characters neither the “hero” nor the “heroine”, there were instances that I cringed, and that has not happened to me in… ever, I think, if it has I blocked it out, some parts I basically skimmed, say a page because I didn’t find it completely relevant or worth it of the story, I know it was, this was when Bree was talking to Teller, and to be honest all the side characters got my attention more than the main two.

Seoul Anime and Stationery Shopping Haul [Autumn 2024]

A new ASMR experience out of this anime shopping haul is available. 🛍️🎧

Hello, dearies! 🛍️

I’m in Seoul for Autumn! And of course, I had to share some of the awesome anime-related goodies that I found, and so I did! ❤️

If you are subscribed to my YouTube channel: EachPage by Sela, then you know already what’s new, if you are not there with me, why not? 🥺

Perhaps you should and we can further connect through the love of books, manga, anime, travelling, it is all there.

Book Challenge: The Timeline Book Quest

“The consequences of our actions are always so complicated, so diverse, that predicting the future is a very difficult business indeed.”

Hello, dearies! 🍁

Here we are with a new challenge, at this point I should make a blog page solely for the book challenges, I have quite a few now. Should I?

Why not? 😆

Anyway, you can check out the new page of the blog with all book challenges listed on here: Book Challenges.

Created and inspired by this post.

Maybe I should I explain what this book challenge is about, I have rambled on enough. The Timeline Book Quest is about the books I have read and their years of publication or rather a list of years and checking if I read a book from that year. Let’s check it out.

Book Challenge: Jumping Genres in 10 Books

Which genre of book is your favourite? For me? It varies.

Hello, dearies! 🍂

Welcome to the blog and another random list of books that I have on my TBR and have not read yet because you know… life.

I have decided to go with Genres as there are various ones that I have picked up or added to my reading list over the years. I am, most of the times, am avid fantasy reader as many of you might know, it is what I live for, it is my favourite, anything can happen there and I also love writing in this genre, but it is not the only one, and of course there are many other types of genres from mystery to romance to plain old fiction that I have read and enjoyed.

So, that is why if I read a description or see a book cover that looks interesting, I added to my endless TBR and here are 10 different types of books that jump genres… mind you, some might have similar genres, but here we go.

Unchained by A Forbidden Love [Eternal Mates #15] Book Review

Unchained by a Forbidden Love had me hooked from the start with its angst and intensity, but repetitive moments and a bit too much inner monologue kept it just shy of a perfect 5. Still, Fuery’s story and that eternal love were worth every page.

If it is not an easy 5, I have to give it 4.

Book: Unchained by a Forbidden Love

Series: Eternal Mates #15

Author: Felicity Heaton

Page count: 290

Genres: Fantasy. Romance. Paranormal. Fae. Shapeshifters. Dark Elves.

I wanted to give this one 5 so badly, and the first 10% to 60% I read non stop, there it was the juicy part and the angst, the falling for the characters.

Hello, dearies! 💜

I started off this one without any greeting but I had to get it out first. Well then… what was missing in Unchained by a Forbidden Love? What made me rethink and not go for the top rating? Probably the repetitive moments or long internal dialogues.

I get it, they were necessary at some points to convey the dilemma of Fuery, not so much with Shaia, she was a bit annoying to be honest.