This week’s reading tips is a book that I urge you to read: the breathtakingly amazing If I Was Your Girl by Meredith Russo. This book is such an important, eye-opener that it should be among required reading in school. But it’s also an amazing, powerful, heart-wrenching and beautiful story that deserves to be read on its own merits. This is a story that will stay with me forever. ​I loved this book to pieces and I recommend it with all my heart!

I was on vacation last week and read a lot of books then. Amongst others, Life and Death by Stephenie Meyers.
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I bought this book at the airport and read it during the flight. A very fast read! This book is a ten years anniversary edition of Twilight where Bella and Edward are replaced by Beau and Edyth instead.

I’m really not sure what I think about the book to be honest. I liked the idea of a gender swap and a retake of the story, but reading it, it felt a little bit... boring. Like re-reading Twilight without that much difference. I didn’t feel that the gender swap added anything really new to the story. I can’t help thinking that it would have been so much more interesting and refreshing if it had been turned into a LGBT story instead, like between Beau and Edward, or between Bella and Edyth. What I really loved about the book was the foreword and afterword, you could really feel how much fun Stephenie had when writing it!

Find out more about the book and the author here: Stephenie Meyer

The reading tips of the week this Friday is Of Fire and Stars by Audrey Coulthurst. It's such a cute YA fantasy with a girl-girl love story - a princess falling in love with her fiance’s sister.