Month: January 2024

Twisted Love by Ana Huang

This month I read Twisted Love by Ana Huang

A twenty-two-year-old college student named Ava Chen is a photographer. Despite her awful past she still sees the good in the world. Alex Volkov is a college student and four years older than Ava also with a rough past. Alex Volkov is a multimillionaire with a genius level IQ and Ava’s brother best friend Josh. Josh Chen graduated college and is going to med school. He asked his best friend Alex Volkov to watch his sister while he was gone. Alex didn’t like the idea but still agreed to look after her. After a couple weeks Alex and Ava soon realize they both have feelings for each other. At first it seems like the best thing in the world but soon later it ruins both of their lives.

I really enjoyed this book because it was a well written romance novel. It had two main characters with different really personalities and it said both of their prospectives. Both Ava and Alex have different personalities, but they have a lot of things in common. They both had very traumatizing childhoods but still find ways to overcome their trauma. The whole book is really good, but my favorite is the middle and the end because there is a really big plot twist that I totally didn’t expect.

My favorite character is Alex Volkov. Alex is always moody and hates everything and everyone so it’s really funny reading about him always complaining. A quote to prove this is on page 16. “Don’t tell me you’re getting sentimental on me. If you brought us friendship bracelets, I’m out.” It’s not the best quote to describe Alex because he has said a lot of worse things but it’s really fun to see him act up and always have an attitude.

My favorite quote from this book is on page 251. “That’s my girl. Hate me. Don’t cry over me. Never cry over me. I’m not worth it.” While a lot of people hated Alex for what he did later on he had a different perspective. He never wanted Ava to cry over him, all he wanted was for her to hate him. That way he wouldn’t be able to mentally hurt her again.

“Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, when one only remembers to turn on the light.” This quote relates to me relate to me in a lot of different ways. Sometimes life is hard but you can always find a way to make it better. Even when you are doing something you enjoy the most it can still be frustrating. You feel like you aren’t doing something right and you end up getting really frustrated but there’s always something or someone who makes it better and fun like it should be. If you don’t like something don’t do it. And if you still have to do because your parents force you or something then find a way to make it fun or someone who makes it fun.

Somebody I really admire is my favorite cousin Jackie. I know it sounds a little weird that I admire my cousin but if you knew her you would totally agree with me. Jackie is now twenty and is in university. One of the reasons I admire her is because she graduated high school with honors and had AP classes. She graduated college and is now in a new school for university. I think it’s cool that she graduated with honors and has already been to college. Not a lot of people decide to go to college after high school so that’s one of the reasons I admire her. The second reason is because she always treats the cousins and their family. Jackie said that my family is her favorite so that’s why she’s my favorite. She always takes me out to have fun since my parents never let me go out with my friends. She makes sure that I have a good childhood by taking me to Irvine spectrum, the block, the movies, the market place, and wherever I want to go. Sadly we can’t go every week because she gets busy studying for test and working on project but it’s still fun since we try going every two weeks. The third reason I admire her is because you can tell her anything and she’s good at solving problems. You can tell her anything and she won’t judge you, she’ll just listen and always try to help out. I can tell her anything and it’s actually really fun because I’ll tell her everything that is happening in school and so does she. It’s fun telling her all the drama and she always finds it entertaining. Also when I tell her that my parents won’t let me hang out with my friends she always finds a solution and takes me somewhere or convinces them to let me go. And that’s why I admire my favorite cousin Jackie.

This year I’m going to focus on the word soccer. I have been doing gymnastics since I was five so I wanna try something new. Everyone in my family plays soccer and I’m the odd one out. They always say I should play soccer and keep up with the family number. My dad, Mom, and brother have all had the number fourteen when they get their jersey number so it would be kinda cool to get the same number like them. My older sister Daisy and my little sister Sophie got different numbers last time they played so maybe in the spring season I will keep the number fourteen going. I think it would be a fun sport to play, and I can make news friends which would be fun. I have never had anything against soccer I just have never thought about playing until now. It’s great conditioning and who knows maybe I’ll end up playing soccer for the rest of my life but I doubt it.

If he had been with me

This month I read If he had been with me by Laura Nowlin

Autumn Davis and Phineas Smith (finny) two high school students who have been best friends since they were born since their moms were best friends. But they started drifting apart in middle school. Their moms have always wanted them to end up together but they both started dating other people in high school. They never spoke during school, and both had different friend groups. Finny was known as the cool and athletic popular kid. And Autumn was known as the weird kid who wore a tiara everything single day. Autumn and her friend group weren’t big fans of Finny’s friend group. They fought over basic things like a lunch table and they kind of hated each other. Even though Finny’s friends didn’t like Autumn Finny still defended her whenever they talked bad about her or tried spreading rumors. Finny’s girlfriend Sylvie was nice to Autumn sometime since Finny convinced her to play nice. After time pasted, they were close to graduating and Autumn’s boyfriend cheated on her with her best friend. Finny felt bad for how Jamie treated her, so he took her out to cheer her up while Sylvie was in Europe. They slowly become close again like when they were kids. Soon later Finny plans to break up with Sylvie and Autumn and him start dating but then things take an unexpected turn.

I liked this book a lot because its two best friends who drift away a slowly find their way back to each other again. It’s a really interesting story and entertaining. The characters are really funny and intriguing. It is really sad at the end, but the beginning of the book is amazing.

My favorite character from the book is Finny. Finny is best character and friend. He always has Autumn’s back and makes sure that she’s never sad and when she is he always has a way to make her laugh. A quote to prove that he really does care about her is when she was going through a rough time after her breakup with Jamie and her friends don’t go to see how she’s doing since they mostly took Jamie’s side, so he takes her out to cheer her up. On page 295 Autumn’s mom says, “Finny is coming over, and he’s coming to see you.” Also, on page 296-277 Autumn says, ” I’m sorry they made you do this” “who?” Finny says. “The Mothers.” He shakes his head. “They didn’t, it was my idea.” That proved that even though they weren’t friends again, yet he still cared about her.

My favorite quote from the book is on page 306 when Finny says “I’m on your side.” I know it’s a basic quote, but it did mean a lot to Autumn because all of her friends said that they weren’t taking sides for Jamie and Sasha did to her, but they basically took Jamie’s side and Autumn felt all alone since her boyfriend and best friend betrayed her.