Recommending Two Books by Kasie West

Hello dear readers,
have you tought that I was not going back? Because I haven't been sure myself, to be perfectly honest. I've been kind of struggling with the idea of leaving this blog for more than a year, but I can't seem to be able to abandon it altogether. So I am just leaving the matter open for now. I certainly have many things to write about, it's just the determination to actually sit down and work on them that I am sometimes lacking. Anyway, I decided to ease my way back to blogging after almost two month break by writing about two books by Kasie West, which I have devoured recently. I actually listened to the audio versions when I was lying sick and too tired to read for myself, but bought physical copies too, because I am undoubtedly going to re-read them soon. After reading four of her books, Kasie West has become one of my all time favourite contemporary authors. Her books are simply amazing, and the best thing is that I can always rely on them when being in a reading slump, for they are absolutely unputdownable...

So the first book I am going to write about is P.S. I Like You. It tells a story about two teenagers who start exchanging conversations on the board of the desk in the Chemistry class. At first, they write about random stuff, but since they are tempted by the anonimity of their notes, they soon start to reveal more and more important things about their lives, which they wouldn't neceserily tell to anybody in the "real" life. But of course that leads to their having started to have feelings for one another. But what would happen had they reveal the real identity of their writing pal...? I completely adored this book. I practicaly read it in one sitting, because the conversations between the main characters were extremely addictive and I just couln't stop. It would be like leaving chocolate after having one bait, simply impossible. Kasie West is a queen of writing the cutest romances in the whole universe. I still can't get over the main characters in this one. They were absolutely adorable...

This second book called By Your Side is about two extremely opposite teenagers that find themselves trapped in a public library for the whole weekend. It's winter, and they are cold and hungry, thus they are forced to join their powers in order to live before they are rescued. In the meantime, they have planty of time to get to know each other better. After all, they might have been completely wrong about themselves... The aspect that I really liked about this book was that it dealt with more serious topics than other works of Kasie West's, but she still managed to make the story funny, cute and also touching. I really felt for the characters in this book and was holding my breath for almost the entire time, as if afraid of disturbing their delicate relationship. Both P.S. I Like You and By Your Side are books with that kind of a hate-to-love story in them, which is something I always enjoy reading about. So if you do too, definitely give both of these books a go. I am sure you'll love them just as much as I do...