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hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about all the books i’ve read in march. honestly, this was such a good reading month and i found three new favorite books this month, so i’m honestly so excited to talk about them. and three of them you will probably see in my favorite books of the year. and one i’ve been screaming about on twitter, which is bookish_r. and a lot of the earlier books of this list are mid reading slump, so bare with me.

unbirthday by Liz Braswell. i gave this book 1/5 stars. thank you so much netgalley and disney books for an arc. but, this book wasn’t for me. i’m not the biggest Alice in wonderland fan and i’ve never read the original book and the disney movies, but i still expected them to explain the world more. but, then it was just this shit show of a world and so many things happening that just didn’t work to well.

a whole new world by Liz Braswell. i gave this book 3/5 stars. here’s the thing, i’ve read this book before and i’m a big Aladdin fan, especially the live action. but, this book was honestly kind of decent, like it wasn’t bad, but wasn’t good. like i feel like most of this book was just a mess at some points, and kind of messed somethings up with some of the romance. but, i mean it was still decent, if i didn’t love it.

a Cuban girl’s guide to tea and tomorrow by Laura Taylor Namey. i gave this book 2/5 stars. i’m gonna be completely honest, i have no clue with what happened in this book. but, this book was so bad and just cringey to me. like i feel like so much was happening and this whole book our MC just complained about everything what was happening because she hated her life. but, i do feel like the talk about depression and grief was so well done, hence the two stars.

the shadow between us by Tricia Levenseller. i gave this book 5/5 stars. this is one of the books that you will probably see again in the future. but, i honestly loved this book so fucking much, with the romance and the whole fantasy element. and also i loved that it was so sex positive and the female friendships really made this book. which, is something i really loved and i loved this book so much. so, moral of the story, go read this.

down world by Rebecca Phelps. i gave this book 4/5 stars. thank you so much netgalley and wattpad books for the arc of this book. overall, i found this book to ben pretty good and to honestly to be kind of interesting not gonna lie. and yeah it had some issues, but it worked out in the end, in my mind. and the many different universes were honestly pretty good and very interesting to read about. and i also really liked the talk about family.

the duke and i by Julia Quinn. i gave this book 4/5 stars. honestly, i didn’t know what to expect with this book since i know they took some creative liberties with the TV show, but i was honestly surprised about how similar Daphne and Simon’s romance was to the tv show and the book. but, i will say, i did enjoy seeing the rape scene being in here, since i feel like men being raped, especially by their partner, is never really in the media, so that was kind of cool.

the duke and i: ending 2 by Julia Quinn. i gave this book 3/5 stars. honestly, this was a cute book, and i enjoyed seeing Daphne and Simon after they had all their kids and what they were doing now. but, i mean it was short, hence why i felt like i couldn’t give it more then 3 stars. this book isn’t the best book i’ve ever read, and by far not the first, but it was still a cute and short read to say the least.

stalking jack the ripper by Kerri Maniscalo. i gave this book 5/5 stars. honestly, i believe that this is my third reread, so i won’t talk for to long about it. but, i honestly forgot about how much i love audrey rose and thomas and their romance. and i’m honestly surprised about how much of this book i’ve forgotten since the last time i read it, so that was really cool to see everything again.

she’s too pretty to burn by Wendy Heard. i gave this book 5/5 stars. thank you so much netgalley and the publisher for an arc! but, this book completely blew me away since it was just so good. i completely loved the characters and the romance. and also how good and how well the romance was written, like a real teenage relationship, which was just so good and cool. and i highly recommend this book, since it was so dark, yet so freaking good.

saints and misfits by SK Ali. i gave this book 2/5 stars. thank you so much netgalley and the publisher for an arc! this is a weird book for me to talk about, since i feel like it was a very hard hitting book, which i didn’t really expect. but, i do wish that we got a more emotion from our MC, cause i feel like she was really closed off, which kind of got on my nerves. and since she went threw some hard times in this book, i kind of just expected more emotions.

the viscount who loves me by Julia Quinn. i gave this book 4/5 stars. this book was honestly so cute, and i really loved it and how all the romance went about. but, i personally really liked it, but i feel like them getting together with the romance was kind of similar to Daphne and Simon, since it was because of a scandal. but i really liked them once they finally got together and they were super cute and shit. and i really cannot wait to watch this once it comes out.

the viscount who loves me: ending 2 by Julia Quinn. i gave this book 4/5 stars. honestly, this book was lowkey very cute and very fun to read about and to read about the characters and when they got to be married and with their kids and all. and overall i just found this to be super cute and enjoyable.

an offer from a gentleman by Julia Quinn. i gave this book 5/5 stars. i honestly loved this book so so much. i completely feel in love with Benedict and his love story with Sophie, since it was so fucking amazing and like so so beautiful. like, they way their interacted with each other and how they got together with everything was just so amazing. and i feel in love with this story and i lowkey want to reread this book soon since i love it so much.

an offer from a gentleman ending 2 by Julia Quinn. i gave this book 3/5 stars. honestly, this was cute and all, but i wish it was more about Benedict and Sophie and not that much about Posy and her getting married and shit. but, i do think it was kinda cute about how protective Benedict was over Posy at one part.

the ex talk by Rachel Lynn Soloman. i gave this book 3/5 stars. overall, this was a cute book and i liked the romance. but, i wish we got to see them date more and like be a couple. i also really liked that the female lead was older then the male, since i feel like we never really see that in romance books. i also really liked the podcast element.

happily ever after by Elisa Bryant. i gave this book 3/5 stars. overall, this was a decent book and it had a lot of potential. but, they talked about harry potter so much it got to be annoying, especially since this came out after all her transphobia went out. i just wish they cut that out in the final version. also i hated the gay best friend annoyed the hell out of me.

the hand on the wall by Maureen Johnson. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i honestly really liked this book, but i kind of wish i read this via e book and not e book. but, it was still pretty good and i still really liked it and it’s pace, since it was all in like one week, but mostly one weekend. and i actually didn’t hate the romance in this book, i was more hoping they got together which was shocking.

her royal highness by Rachel Hawkins. i gave this book 3/5 stars. this was honestly a decent book, but i feel like there was really nothing happening in some of this book. like, this book was roughly 300 pages, and i almost just expected more stuff to happen in this book. cause, i only really remember a couple things happening in here which just got to be annoying.

shadow and bone by Leigh Bardugo. i gave this book 3/5 stars. honestly, i’m not a fantasy fan by any means, so take what i say with a grain of salt. but, i feel like a lot of this book was just so confusing and would probably work better in tv format then book, so i’m excited for that. and like i’ll probably still read the rest of the series cause why not.

take a hint, Dani Brown by Talia Hibbert. i gave this book 4/5 stars. this was such a sweet and cute book, but i feel like it took me forever to read this book and to actually finish this. but, it was a super cute book and i really liked Dani and Zaf’s relationship and how they turned faking dating to friends to lovers. over all, they were just super cute and i loved them together honestly.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly had a pretty good reading month, since i got to read a lot of book, and i liked most of them, so that is always fun. plus, i found some new favorites, which i honestly really love, so overall, it was a decent book, and i can’t wait to talk about them in the next couple months.

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about all the books i’ve hauled this month. it definitely isn’t the biggest haul i’ve done and april and may will probably be a bit bigger since april 30th is my birthday, so yeah. but, i did get some arcs, which i’m so excited to talk about.

the gilded ones by Namina Forna. as the blood ceremony draws closer, sixteen year old Deka lives in fear and anticipation about what color her blood will run. everyday, she prays for red blood, but instead it runs gold, the color of impurity, and she knows that she will face consequences worse then death. but, she has a chance, stay in the village and submit her fate, or leave and fight in the emperor army, with girls just like her.

sweet and bitter magic by Adrienne Tooley. Tamsin is the most powerful witch of her generation, but after she commits the worst magical sin, she is exiled by the Coven and cannot love and the only way to get the feelings back, but just for a little bit, she needs to steal the love from others. then there is Wren, who is made of magic, but cannot use it herself, and she needs to go to the Coven to train as soon as she discovers the abilities, but she can’t, since she is the only caretaker of her father. but, when a magical plague comes threw the queendom, her father falls a victim. in order to save him, Wren creates a bargain, if Tamsin will help catch the dark witch who created the plague, then Wren will give her the love for her father.

the dead and the dark by Courtney Gould. this book comes out August 3rd. teenagers are disappearing, some are turning dead, the weather isn’t normal, and all of the fingers are turning towards the tv’s popular ghost hunters that are now returning to this town. Logan Ortiz- Woodley, has never been to Snakebite, Oregon, before but as soon as she arrives with her father, she starts to get the feeling that there are so many more secrets buried here then they thought. then, there is Ashely Barton’s, whose boyfriend was the first one to go missing, and she’s always felt his presence. since the Ortiz-Woodley come back to town, the only person Ashley trust is Logan, so they team up to figure out who or what is haunting Snakebite. as their investigate revels the truths of the town, their families, and themselves, the danger intensifies, and they realize their growing feelings for each other is the light in the darkness.

never kiss your roommate by Philline Harms. this book comes out June 1st. at Seven Hills, the most exclusive boarding school where the best and brightest roam the hallowed halls. but, you need to watch your back cause the lurking anonymous Chitter Chatter is the watcher, who can’t wait to reveal the latest hookups, hot lists, and secrets from the campus. but, their new obsession, is the straight off the train, but not straight, is the insta love Evelyn and Seth.

malice by Heather Walter. this book comes out April 13th. there was a wicked fairy who cursed a line of princess to die. a curse that would only be broken by the true love’s kiss. but, nobody in Briar really cares about what happens to the princess, not the way their care about their jewels and parties and charm granting elixirs. then there is Princess Aurora, who is the last heir to the Briar’s throne. but, with less then a year to the curse will kill her, any future with Aurora is disintegrating, and that she cannot kiss another prince. ( i completely fucked this up, so just google it cause it will make more sense.)

a chorus rises by Bethany C Morrow. this book comes out June 1st. as a teen influencer Naema Bradshaw has it all, she’s famous, privileged, has good hair, and also is an Eloko, which is a person who’s gifted with a song that woos anyone who can hear it. everyone loves her, until she cast as the terrible person who exposed Tavia’s secret siren power. as she is being dragged in the media, nobody understands her side of the story, not her friends, or boyfriend, and not even her Eloko community. but, she knows the truth, and she needs to build herself up. then a flourishing segment of Naema’s online supporters start targeting other Black girls, Naema needs to discover the true purpose of her magical voice.

the ones we’re meant to find by Joan He. this book comes out May 4th. Cee woke up on an abandoned island three years ago, with no idea how she got there, and now she only has an old house, and old android, and a single memory: she has a sister, and she needs to find her. STEM prodigy Kasey wants to leave from the science and home she once trusted. the eco city is meant to be a sanctuary for those committed to planetary protection, but it is filled with people who are willing to do anything for refuge and lie. so, she needs to decide of she is ready to use science to help humanity, even if it failed the people who mattered most.

the throwback list by Lily Anderson. this book comes out October 5th. Jo Freeman has it all together, a cool job in the bay area, connections at the best fitness studios, and a down payment on her dream condo, and she is almost there to achieving all of her goals, but most importantly, she is far far away from her sleepy beach town that she grew up in. but, she is fired so she has to move back home with her parents and sister. Autumn Kelly was an actress. now, she teaches drama at Sandy Point High, she may have kissed her movie star dreams goodbye, but teaching gives her life a new meaning. then there is Bianca Boria who really needs a vacation. the former prom queen and valedictorian of Sandy Point High has always been an over-achiever. but, her grandmother moves back in with her and her husband, her life takes a stricter schedule then ever has. but, then Jo finds an old bucket list in her childhood bedroom, it sets the three woman on a path to bring them closer and closer together.

i am Margaret Moore by Hannah Capin. this book comes out October 12th. each summer, girls of Deck Five comes back to Marshall Naval School. each summer, Margaret, Rose, Flor, and Nisreen comes back to place they are girls, safe way from the world, and a sister bound by something more than blood. but, this summer everything changed, girls are missing and a boy is dead and it’s all because of Margaret Moore, the boy says. it’s because of what happened in the storm. as Margaret’s friends vanish one by one, swallowed up into the lies she has told about what happened between her and a boy with the whole world at his feet.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly hauled so many cool books this month and i honestly can’t wait to read these books in the next couple months. but, i know some of these books the description was kinda bad, since i feel like the goodreads descriptions were kind of a mess for some of them, so yeah.

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about down world by Rebecca Phelps. i gave this book 4/5 stars. first off, thank you so much netgalley and wattpad books for an arc of this book! and happy almost pub date, it’s march 30th, if you care. and also this of course, is an honest review, and all the opinion are mine.

trigger warning- bullying, child death, death.

personally, i think if you really like back to the future, or even like those movies a little bit, this book would probably be for you. honestly, its a little different since they obviously go back to the past and see the parents, or hell even go to the future and see their future kids, and this is a parallel universe, so its a little different. but, i feel like if you like that, you might like this, to a degree.

one thing that was kind of annoying was how they described everything. like, literally everything, they would go into all this descriptions about everything that was around them and also how things looked. i will give them a plus, but i really liked that we got to see our main characters emotions and what they were actually feeling with everything that was happening.

but, this book also read like a debut. which, is something that i honestly really expected, since at this point, i always do. so, i feel like with this being a debut, and this is most likely Phelps’ first real time writing, so i can’t really hold that against them. but, if it got a bit more editing, it might have been helped, but it could honestly get over it and also just expected.

personally, i really liked the characters. i feel like they were all so different, and have so many different plots and even emotions, which is something i liked. and i honestly really liked to see how they all worked together and how they all had different feeling about the doors and how everything really worked, they all thought different things and had different reactions which i really liked. and overall, i thought it was cool to see that, and honestly i didn’t really expect it.

but, i did find the doors to be kind of confusing. like, they would talk about them, but they never really deeply explained it that well. which, got to be kind of annoying if i’m being honest. like, yeah they would say, here’s the three doors, yesterday, today, and tomorrow. which, yeah i get that, but i wish they kind of explained it more and went more in depth about it. and i don’t know, i kind of expected something more.

and i also feel like there was somethings that were not explained well enough. like, they told about this other door, but they just didn’t explain it well. like, i feel like it was just confusing cause they would kind of bring this other door up, but never really explain how it was created, or at least from what i remember, which could be wrong.

i honestly found that all the different people got to be kind of confusing. like, they would bring up these adults, who went to this school when they were teenagers, which was fine. but, then they would like fight with these teenagers and they are like 50??? like your 50, get over yourself and tell the teenagers what you know. like, it got to be kind of annoying.

but, i do feel like these characters were written like teenagers. like, i feel throughout this book they were written like you would write a teenager. and overall, their mindset and motives were very much something a teenager would think and how they would react. so, that was really cool and i overall really liked it so much. and that was probably got to be one of the best parts. even if they are a bit unlikeable, which i would just push threw.

and i honestly kind of liked Marina. like, at parts she was a bit annoying, which was honestly fine and i got over it. since, i feel like she went threw so much with her brother dying and how she had to get over that. and i feel like she was such an honest character, which was so cool. and that she just said it how it is.

but, i might consider this to be low horror. like, i feel like there are parts that are a bit spooky and kinda weird, but it might be a cross between sci fi and horror, like, if they meet and collided into one book. with that being said, it really isn’t that scary, more just odd and kind of paranormal.

with all this being said, i do feel like there was parts of this book that went into the relationships, romantically and just friendship, way more then it probably should have. i personally feel like they went into these relationships and the crushes, when they probably could have not happened, or at least go into so much detail and focus on the doors.

anyway, that is all for today! this is honestly a shorter post, cause i feel like i don’t have enough feelings for this book, and i just don’t want to say the same things again and again. but, still thank you so much Netgalley and Wattpad books for an arc of this book. and happy almost pub date!

hello everyone! today i am going to talk about she’s too pretty to burn by Wendy Heard. i gave this book 5/5 stars. personally, i loved this book so freaking much, and i lowkey want to buy my own copy of this book. but, thank you so much Henry Holt and Co. and Netgalley for an arc of this book! this is also gonna be an honest review, and isn’t gonna be changed cause i got an arc. and also, happy almost publication date, this book drops March 30th.

trigger warning- animal death, death, kidnapping, child death, panic attacks, violence, addiction, emotional abuse, toxic relationship, blood, car accident, murder, fire, (almost) sexual assault.

first off, this book was so fucking amazing. i honestly went into this book thinking i was going to actually hate it, but instead this literally blew me out of the water. like, i’ve never really seen Dorian Grey, so i was kind of scared since it is a retelling, just queer. and also the last couple retellings that i read, i really didn’t like. so, i was honestly so happy when i loved this book.

also, this book isn’t for the faint of heart. like, before i went into it, i really didn’t think it would be to bad, but god it will be a very triggering book to some people. i mean, this whole book is surrounded with death, animals and people, especially kids. and i just want to say this, since it is on the edge of your seat thriller, but super triggering. (side note, i always really like when people say what animal dies in a review that i read, but, in here it is just a chicken and pig. and they are also off page death too, so we don’t see them being murdered.)

honestly, the last 50 pages of this book i’m literally still screaming from. like, it was just so fucking good and it had so much stuff happening and it was just so fucking interesting and like edge of your seat what the actual fuck. like, i don’t know about you, but do you ever like read a book, and for the last little bit of this book, you are literally just sitting there with your mouth open wide and catching flies. like, that is literally how i was sitting for the end of this book. and i’m not even being dramatic when i say that, cause i finished this at like 1 am watching chicago pd on USA, and i was like what the actual fuck.

but, i also feel like this book definitely did deal with some harder subjects, like death, and also Mick and her mom drama. like, i feel like it was done so fucking amazing and i really honest and they didn’t make it have an happy ending for a YA book. like, i feel like it was super cool and i really like that we could see why Mick was so bad, and why everything was kind of a mess, and how they both feel.

with that being said, i also really liked Veronica and her mom’s relationship. like, it was so cool to see a positive mother x daughter relationship and also a negative mother x daughter relationship. like, i think it was so cool how supportive Veronica’s mom was about everything, and she really just want was best for her and her friends/girlfriend. and it was honestly so cool to read a book with such an open mind and sex positive mom, but of course she has her boundaries with different things being talked about and what is happening in her house. and also i really liked that she was kind of mad when her daughter did something stupid, which i really liked. since i feel like a lot of YA, especially queer books, that the parents are piece of shit, so this i really liked.

but, i did have a love hate relationship for a lot of this book. like, i think they did good and they had cute moments, but at some parts they also were like super toxic, which was not the best thing in the world. but, i do feel like this relationship was very realistic. like, i feel like a lot of YA romance books are like super positive and they meet and they are like in love and so perfect, so i really liked that we could get to see this kind of messy romance, that wasn’t the most positive thing but also not the most toxic thing in the world. and i honestly feel like we need to have more real relationships in YA books.

i also feel like we had a couple unreliable main characters / narrators, which i’ve never really read that much in the past. so, i feel like this book was honestly so cool to read about it and to read with a couple of these characters not being the best people in the world and also not to be the poster child for YA thrillers. and also it was just so cool and i really loved it so much.

personally, i really liked that we got to see some of the darker sides of each characters mind. like, we got to see Mick and how she loves swimming, but also how her personal life is kind of a mess. and then with Nico and how he was this artist, but he did some very questionable things. finally, with Veronica, who is a photograph but also does some random things, without going into spoilers, so i honestly really liked that and to see the darker side, but also the cute romance and their interests.

there is also so many twists in this book that it was just so fucking cool. like i loved to see how these things just changed and how everything was just changing in a moments notice and how most of this book, was just different twists and turns and how different things were playing out in so many different versions. and like it honestly kind of made the end of this book to be what the fuck again. so, i honestly loved it so much.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly could probably talk for so much longer on this book, but i don’t want to keep word vomiting on this post right now, so i’m gonna end it here. but, thank you so much netgalley and the publisher for an arc, cause i love it so much and i can’t wait to read more by this author.

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about the Black kids by Christina Hammonds Reed. i gave this book 2/5 stars. honestly, this book was just not what i expected it to be, so it kind of messed with my enjoyment of this book, and also with the reading slump, it didn’t do me any favors.

trigger warning- racism, racial slurs, police brutality, hate crime, suicide, grief, addiction, bully, death, drug use, gun violence, child abuse, death of a loved one.

the biggest issue with me, was how this book had so much petty high school drama. like, i feel like most of this book just dealt with the stupid high school drama that literally was just so stupid, like most of this book just dealt with how someone was getting with someone or how someone was cheating on their partner with someone else and it got to be so annoying.

i also found that our MC never really had any emotions. like, this might just be me, but i feel like she saw everything happening, but she never really felt anything besides thinking that her sister is an idiot. and that was really it. and she would talk about what was happening around her, but then never really went into detail about how she was feeling, since she was more concerned about petty high school drama.

like, i also feel like she didn’t really have a personality, which just got to be annoying. like, i could not tell you what she liked to do in her free time, since she would just talk about her friends or hell even about her family drama and how much she wants to have more friends then the few she has.

but, i do feel her not having a personality and being very two dimensional as a character is important and was on purpose. since, we can now see in this book that these characters have so many different flaws, and see how she thinks of different things, even if we didn’t get to see her personality or how she felt.

and i also found that they would bring some things up, but then like drop them. i feel like the biggest thing was that she would talk about a couple times about how she was a cheerleader, and then they like never brought it up again. which, was kind of annoying cause i think that was how she got most of her friends, which i expected to see more, or at least a little talk about practice or something.

but, if you want to read a book about the Rodney King riots, this book probably won’t be for you. since, this book doesn’t really follow that, it is mostly, like i said, petty high school drama. and if you do some research, you can probably find some books about the Rodney King riots, but i just want to make sure you know what you are getting yourself into cause this just wasn’t what i actually expected.

i also feel like Reed took way to much time to create these characters and these backstories for these characters, then actually telling the story. like, she could have completely spent way more time on building up the actual history and talking about what was happening and even what is going to happen. like, this book takes place in America, and we all know how shitty the American high school educations forgets big events like this. so, i wish they did go into more talk about that.

on a positive note, i did really like Lucia, Lana, Harrison, and LaShawn, and even his friends. i feel like they really added something with the story, since they were so easy to like, which most people in this book weren’t likeable at all. and i feel like these characters really made these characters grow and helped Ashley to be the better version of herself.

i also feel like the writing was kind of choppy. like, this might have just been me, but i feel like it was jumping around a lot, which got to be a bit annoying after a while. like, i feel like we were jumping around between a bunch of different plots and different events happening. like, between the whole lot of happening, and the writing wasn’t just that good for it.

with there being so many plots and subplots, so many things were unanswered. which, would be fine if it was a series, but it’s a single book. so, i feel like they should talk more about it and wrap up those ties in a neat and good way, which they didn’t do, obviously. and the whole cheating subplot was never brought up in the end, which sucked cause i was kind of invested into it so yeah.

i personally feel like the talk about race was super powerful. i’m not gonna say to much about it, since i feel like there is own voices reviewers who could probably say more, so i would check them out. but, still think it was super powerful.

i also feel like they could have, and probably should have, done multiple POVs for this book. i’m not the biggest multiple POV fans, but i feel like this book honestly needed it. like, i think LaShawn was honestly such a powerful character and he had so many different thoughts about the important things in this book, he probably should have gotten at least a couple chapters about him and to see his POV.

this book is also a YA book, which you could probably guess, since they are in high school. and this book is an historical fiction, which is a whole other topic for another day, since it does take place in 1992. and this book had so so so many pop culture references, which if i’m gonna be completely honest, most of these references did go over my head. so, i just wish they didn’t use as many, but also you know, use the really popular ones that people YA is geared towards can understand.

but, i do feel like a book with so much race, sexuality, family, family issues, prejudice and so much more, is so important, and even if this book isn’t for me, i still think this book is a must for people to read. and yeah this book might be a little hard to get into, but it is still think it needs to be read and especially talked about more.

anyway, that is all for today! i hope you enjoyed this post though. personally, i’m not sure if this book was actually that bad, or if my reading slump just honestly made it be a bad book, since i wasn’t enjoying anything what i was reading. but, i’m still kind of happy i read it.

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about wilder girls by Rory Power. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i honestly really liked this book, and it was super cool and kind of weird, but in a really good way. which, i honestly really liked in the end of it.

trigger warning- pandemic, body horror, death, gore, blood, suicide, violence, medical content, confinement, child death, medical trauma, animal death, self harm, death of a parent, vomit, murder, grief, chronic illness, terminal illness, suicide attempt, forced institutionalization, torture, eating disorder, gun violence.

overall, this book was kind of confusing. like, it was confusing as all hell for a good chuck of this book, but then again it was kind of cool even though i was so confused for a lot of this book. i mean, i kind of understood some parts of these books were kind of easy to understand, but then other parts where just a mess. and i mean, i feel like some books are better if you don’t understand with what is happening, so it was honestly pretty enjoyable.

but, this book is pretty much all about this pandemic. the pandemic of this book isn’t that much like what we are going threw, but it is very much the worst of them all. and i really just wanted to put it out there, since i know this book can be kind of triggering to some people because of what we lived threw and still are living threw.

and i feel like most horror books, like i don’t know about you, but a lot of the main stream horror books are written by men, with male characters as the main character, or even that it is a man writing a woman, and they are very straight. which, i really liked that this book was so feminist, and it was a very feminist horror story, or even if you would call it feminist, cause it might just be a a sci fi mystery, but still.

i also really liked that these characters had emotions. like, a lot of horror books it was very much like their whole goal was just to stay alive and figure out who did it and so they don’t get killed. where, in here the characters have real relationships and their passionate and even very independent. and i really liked that, and i thought it was so cool.

this book also has a very open ending. which, i don’t read to many books with the very opening endings. so, i really liked that we kind of got to figure out what we think happens and i honestly really liked that. cause i honestly feel like that it really worked with kind of you figuring out if you think someone is gonna die or they are gonna make it out alive.

i also kind of wished we got told more about this school. like, that was probably one of my issues, is that we never got to see why these girls went to these school. like most of the reasons they have this go away school in books deals with boarding school or like they are troubled or like a genius. so, i kind of wished that we got to see more of these moments.

i also really liked that we could see all of these different characters. like, i feel like most of the main characters got to see more of these different views and how they all are so different. like, how they all have different issues with the outbreak and i thought they were honestly kind of cool.

this book is also kind of slow paced. like, with the whole book kind of growing things, and i mean Power really laid everything out, with the whole way everything was happening. which, to a degree i kind of liked, cause we did get to see them do basic survival things, and even some other things that just set the scene. which, was cool, but i wished their was more in the start of the book and more horror.

but, the disease is the main part of this book with the whole pandemic in this said book. like, i don’t know if they said this, or that if i just forget it, but i wished we got told how it really started. i honestly really wanted to know where did it come from, and then how and why each person had these different reactions. and even why and how each animal got it, and how they even got sick, which i think it was interesting.

i’ve heard rumors about this book getting a sequel sometime soon. which is honestly so cool and i really wish that we got to see more of these answers come out, and maybe even that we will get to see more of these questions answered in the end of this book.

the imagery was honestly so freaking amazing. like, i could completely see all of these scenes happening and what each character looks like. which, i honestly really liked so much. and i believe this book is a debut, which was honestly so amazing. like, with all of the characters and the development and how each and every scene in this book i could see happening and i could kind of watch it happened as i listened to this book.

anyway, that i all for today! i honestly really liked this book, which was kind of surprising cause i didn’t like Power’s other book. but, i really liked this and i’m honestly really excited to see what this author comes out with next, which i think is coming the summer of this year.