Summer Reads! : Stand alones

If you couldn't tell from my 25 facts about me, I love books - a lot, and I thought 'hey, why not spread my book joy and love to you readers of my blog'. 

so here are some stand alone books I recommend that you check out this summer! - spoiler free. 

landline is a novel by Rainbow Rowell that I read last summer whilst on a week holiday with my mum, and I loved it! I have read all of her published books and I am in love with her characters and style of writing.

This happens to be my favourite book that she has published, because the characters are so relatable despite the fact that they are almost 30 years older than me - I always feel like i'm mentally older.My favourite character is the protagonists husband, he is so sweet and I find myself seeing flashes of myself inside of him - just the way he interacts socially and other aspects that if you read you will notice. 

We Were Liars is a book written by the author e. lockhart, and was an extremely popular read around this time last year. I missed the hype and read it in August rather than June, and I loved it! This is a book that you have to go into not knowing anything, which is what myself and many of my friends did when reading this.
Also give this book a chance, the writing style is unique and at first confusing due to the metaphors that you will come to appreciate as you read on....and that's all I am going to say about this novel. 

These two books are by the author Holly Bourne - one of my favourite if not my favourite contemporary authors, who writes books that I find so entertaining and relatable!

Her books are set in London for instance, making it instantly relatable, and her characters are my age. I love the story lines in both of these books and how unique they both are. 

The titles may give the impression of a typical novel on love for example - shown in the title 'soulmates', but it is very beautifully twisted versions of what we usually expect from these novels. 

I read 'The manifesto on how to be interesting' In under 5 hours sometime during the night when I should have been sleeping. Its a book you cannot put down. 

Soulmates was perfect, loved it, prepare yourself though for what will happen....

Eleanor and Park is a novel by Rainbow Rowell - who I mentioned above, who is one of my favourite contemporary authors. Her books have made me cry, every single one of them. I won't spoil this too much but I hear that this is a majority of peoples favourite book out of her published ones so I think that if you are a fan of contemporary novels that are well written and aren't typical, her books are highly recommended.

This is one of my favourite novels ever - currently on loan to my friend who loves it, by one of my favourite authors - John Corey Whaley. 

This novel is not sad at all, despite what is said on the first page, it is purely humour through out. 

This novel made me laugh alot cry a lot and made the people around me want a part of this action too, so this was a birthday present to most of my family members. 

READ IT, you wont regret it. 

This is one of my favourite novels currently, as I recently read it and loved every word. I recommend this to people obsessed with Greek mythology or those that don't know that much about it, because whoever you are, you will love this - unless you are a homophobe then your loss. I was told about this book by my friend Gee - hey Gee!, who has really good taste in novels so I listened to his opinion and read it.

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There are so many Novels out there that i love, but these are a small portion of my favourite's that I think will make your summer action packed - not literally, but it will feel that way!

I will be making a Summer reads series blog post recommending book series's that I think are awesome so watch out for that post, and I hope you enjoyed this one.

Yours Faithfully

~ She Who Writes

(Disclaimer: All images were found on google! not mine)