THE KISS QUOTIENT – HELEN HOANG

**Spoilers Ahead, Read On With Caution” Helen Hoang is an author I’d never heard of until I read THE HATING GAME, and saw she was a recommended author alongside Sally Thorne. Naturally excited, I decided to give it a go, and push through my reservations with third person based books. And boy am I glad I did! Helen Hoang has a sharpness to her writing, that’s captivating and consuming. From the get-go you’re sucked straight into the books main dilemma, and it’s hurtfully addicting...

I OWE YOU ONE – SOPHIE KINSELLA

**Spoilers Ahead, Read On With Caution** Firstly, thank you to Penguin for sending this proof copy to me so quickly, I’m so happy to have gotten the chance to read it ahead of time! Sophie Kinsella is an author I’ve dabbled with in the past and found some genuine laugh-out-loud gems in. That being said, I haven’t read the shopoholic series, and am not entirely sure if I will, not this year at least! Previous on Because Books we’ve reviewed SURPRISE ME, and now we’re on to Kinsella’s latest, I OWE YOU ONE...

THE HATING GAME – SALLY THORNE

**Spoilers Ahead, Read On With Caution** Reading, like many people, is intrinsically a large part of what makes up who I am. A lot of my personality traits you could say I’ve gathered from fallen bits of characters I’ve dissected over the years, and added to myself. I couldn’t say if this is a normal thing that everyone does, but I do. I read a lot of books that involved fierce red-headed ladies, charging into their lives, and then for weeks I couldn’t stop thinking about being like them; flame hair and all. Characters who...

(UN)LIKE A VIRGIN – LUCY-ANNE HOLMES

**Spoilers Ahead, Read On With Caution** With a title like (UN)LIKE A VIRGIN, how am I not going to pick it up and read it? Um hello have you met me? I read wacky, funny, obviously girly books. These books are my jam, they're just good ol’funny fiction. And who doesn't like a giggly cackle every now and then?

DON’T YOU FORGET ABOUT ME – MHAIRI MCFARLANE

**Spoilers Ahead, Read On With Caution** I come to you, from my spot sat in bed, munching on a penguin bar with headphones in and bobbing along to music, to tell you great news. MHAIRI MCFARLANE IS BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER IN THE ROM-COM WORLD OF BOOKS. I say this as no insult, that I truly hope that none of her books are picked up for TV shows or films, as there’s something so pure...