Okay, so I'm not going to lie to you guys, I didn't have/make time to read a book this week. It just went by too fast and all of a sudden it's Tuesday. I thought about writing a review about a book I've already read, but then I thought that that would be cheating and if I start doing that I might continue to do that and I would never reach my GoodReads Reading Challenge (I'm trying to read 50 books in 2015). So I have decided to write an Author Appreciation post instead. Today I appreciate Christina Lauren.
The Bio from their website:
Yes, there are two of us! Lauren (on the left) and Christina (on the right).
Christina Lauren is the combined pen name of long-time writing partners/besties/soulmates/brain-twins Christina Hobbs and Lauren Billings. The coauthor duo writes both Young Adult and Adult Fiction, and together has produced ten New York Times bestselling novels. Their books have been translated into 28 languages.
So basically these two women met over the internet, wrote a Twilight fanfic-turned-novel together, and now continue to write fantastic novels together. They have two series between all ten adult books; The Beautiful Series and the Wild Seasons. However, in their last novel, Beautiful Secret, the two series crossed courses.
Once you read a few of their novels you do notice a pattern in their writing: Boy and girl meet, boy and girl have sex numerous times, boy and girl finally admit they love each other, boy and girl get into a fight, boy and girl break up, boy and girl make up, boy and girl live happily ever after. However, at the same time each story is very different. I actually love that they are able to take a similar storyline and create multiple different stories. It reminds us that no two people go through the same situation.
I also love that all of the characters are friends. It makes it fun when you're reading a novel about Sara and Max and you wonder what's going on with Will and Hanna since you left off in their novel. And yes, you get a little bit of information from Sara and Max's point of view, but you also know there is stuff they don't know and can't share. It's also interesting because if there is someone single in the novel you wonder when that person is going to get a novel and what that story is going to be.
I shared these books with a friend from school and we would be up texting each other about them really late at night. Talking about our favorite characters, our favorite cute scenes, and our favorite funny scenes. Christina Lauren has a very impressive gift of being able to have these romantic novels that contain a lot of sex, but still has moments where the characters are just normal people, joking around with friends or being supper cute with their partners without having sex (Sometimes that overlaps, though)
They also have a Young Adult novel Sublime that is published and The House which comes out in October. Sublime is unlike any other book I've read. It is a romantic novel, but in a way that it can be for young adults.
Even their website is fun. It contains extra writings and sneak peeks. A bunch of little things to hold you over when you're going through withdrawals and not so patiently waiting for the next book to be published. I do wish there was a "Coming Soon" section, but I'll take what I can get!
And they're on Wattpad! These girls do it all! They have one story on the website and it's not super long, but it is super good.
Christina Lauren is such a talented author (it's confusing because it's two people, but because they have one pen-name it's singular pronouns and stuff) that can make every story make you wish it was your story. I can read a Christina Lauren book in a day, no matter what size. They just captivate me and I have to keep reading. Then, when I finish, I wish I wasn't.
Thank you Christina Lauren and keep doing what you do!
Smile! I'll talk to you soon!xxx
I also love that all of the characters are friends. It makes it fun when you're reading a novel about Sara and Max and you wonder what's going on with Will and Hanna since you left off in their novel. And yes, you get a little bit of information from Sara and Max's point of view, but you also know there is stuff they don't know and can't share. It's also interesting because if there is someone single in the novel you wonder when that person is going to get a novel and what that story is going to be.
I shared these books with a friend from school and we would be up texting each other about them really late at night. Talking about our favorite characters, our favorite cute scenes, and our favorite funny scenes. Christina Lauren has a very impressive gift of being able to have these romantic novels that contain a lot of sex, but still has moments where the characters are just normal people, joking around with friends or being supper cute with their partners without having sex (Sometimes that overlaps, though)
They also have a Young Adult novel Sublime that is published and The House which comes out in October. Sublime is unlike any other book I've read. It is a romantic novel, but in a way that it can be for young adults.
Even their website is fun. It contains extra writings and sneak peeks. A bunch of little things to hold you over when you're going through withdrawals and not so patiently waiting for the next book to be published. I do wish there was a "Coming Soon" section, but I'll take what I can get!
And they're on Wattpad! These girls do it all! They have one story on the website and it's not super long, but it is super good.
Christina Lauren is such a talented author (it's confusing because it's two people, but because they have one pen-name it's singular pronouns and stuff) that can make every story make you wish it was your story. I can read a Christina Lauren book in a day, no matter what size. They just captivate me and I have to keep reading. Then, when I finish, I wish I wasn't.
Thank you Christina Lauren and keep doing what you do!
Smile! I'll talk to you soon!xxx
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