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January tbr

hello everyone! happy new year! today i am going to be talking about all the books i plan on reading in January, which my 2021 tbrs are gonna be a little different, just so i can read anything i actually want to read this year. and before we get into this, i’m just gonna talk about what books i want to read each month. but, this will also be put in my 2021 bookish resolution.

  • each month will have my basic tbr, which is the books i get from the library, or things that i just want to read each month.
  • then each month i will have my arcs, which i will have the books that are coming out this month, but also next month so i can get reviews up on their release day.
  • i will also have 3 or 4 books that are older arcs i haven’t read. since, this will literally just be books that i got from the publisher that i never read.
  • the next one is kinda basic, but i want to read 1 owlcrate book per month. since, i have been getting owlcrate for a couple years now, and i’ve never read that many of them.

now, for all the books i want to read.

rent a boyfriend by Gloria Chao. i’ve already started this book, and it is honestly so cute. just like any person, Chloe Wang is scared to introduce her boyfriend to her parents, but especially since she has never met him either. Chloe hired him from Rent for your ‘Rents, which is a company that specializing in fake boyfriends to impress the most traditional Asian parents. then there is Drew Chan, who just wants to do art, but his parents cut him off since they don’t like his career path. hence, why he is a Rent employee. but, Chloe and Drew had a simple plan, impress her parents and say that Drew is worthy of their approval. till, Chloe starts to fall for the real Drew, and not his prefect life, the artist.

the inheritance games by Jennifer Lynn Barnes. Avery Grambs has a plan: to survive high school, win a scholarship, and get out. then everything changes when Tobias Hawthorne dies and leaves Avery everything with a catch. she has no idea who he is and she most move into a secret passage Hawthorne House. but, this house still has Hawthorne grandson’s living there. but, of course the grandsons don’t believe her and thinks she is a con woman. where Jameson, thinks this is some kind of a twisted last hurrah. but, in this twisted world, nobody can be to sure.

the betrothed by Kiera Cass. i know everyone hates this book, but i still want to give it a go. but, King Jameson declares his love for Lady Hollis Brite, and of course she is shocked and thrilled. of course she is, she spent most of her life trying to impress the king and get his attention, and capture his heart is a dream. but, Hollis soon learns that falling in love with a king isn’t the happily ever after she thought it might be. then she meets a commoner, who has the power to see right into her heart. and then finding her future she really really wants, but the one she never even imagined.

those who prey by Jennifer Moffett. college isn’t anything like Emily expected. she thought freshman year would be walking in the icy covered campus with friends and finally feeling like she is fitting in. but, she is walking the campus alone and not having a place to fit in so far from home. but, then the Kingdom finds her. the Kingdom is an exclusive on campus group, and offers everything Emily expected of college: friends, acceptance, a boyfriends, and even a trip to Italy. once they get to Italy, this isn’t the trip they thought it would be, they are stripped of their passports and money, cut off from their family, and how the Kingdom practices become more and more manipulative and dangerous. but, then someone dies.

teen killer club by Lily Sparks. 17 year old Signal Deere has raised an eyebrow for years as an unhappy goth in the trailer park. but, when she is convicted of her best friends, Rose, brutal murder, she is designated as a Class A, someone who is very dangerous and manipulative criminal. but, in order to avoid prison, she is put in a special sleep away camp for kids under 18 and a Class A. and in her bunk, she is with 7 trained assassins. but in this group, Signal doesn’t fit in, she doesn’t like blood and she is kind and empathetic, she is optimistic attitude who is threatening to turn a group of maniacs into a close group of friends. but, Signal isn’t a killer, she was just framed that she killed Signal and only joined this program to escape and track down Rose’s real killer.

something happened to Ali Greenleaf by Hayley Krischer. Ali Greenleaf and Blythe Jensen couldn’t be that more different. Ali is sweet, funny, and a bit naïve. and Blythe is beautiful, terrifying, and the most popular girl in the whole school. but, then Ali puts some moves on Sean Nessel, her longtime crush, but then Sean pushed Ali farther than she wants to go, she resists, and he rapes her. Blythe sees Ali when she runs from the party, and Blythe knows something happened with Sean, but she still befriends Ali. but, they go to Blythe’s circle and all the popular girls share their secrets no way anyone else has ever has.

you should see me in a crown by Leah Johnson. everyone knows what this book is about, so i’m going to do this very quickly. but Liz Lighty has never fit in, and now she wants to leave her small town and got to her Pennington college. but, when the financial aid falls threw, all of her plans fall threw, she learns that the prom king and queen get some money. the only issue is that the new girl Mack, is also running and also Liz’s long time crush.

you have a match by Emma Lord. Abby signs up for a DNA service, she mainly goes to give her friend and secrets love interest, Leo. anyway, she knows who she is already: a photographer, a injury prone tree climber, and best friend to Leo and Connie, even though she has had the big embarrassing incident with Leo. but, she never knew she was a younger sister. since the DNA service shows that she has a secret sister, an instagram stat Savannah Tully, it is hard to believe that they are related. so, they meet up at summer camp, and figure out why Abby’s parents gave up Savvy up for adoption, well there is family drama and the romance with Leo.

the famoux by Kassandra Tate. after the wreckage of an environmental collapse, and now the country of Delicatum came up. and now it’s most important tv show, famoux, which features all these beautiful stars called the fishbowl. now, 16 year old Emilee is obsessed with the Famoux, they provide help for her terrible life at home. but, when she gets the offer to become a member of herself, she takes it. leaving behind everything she is known, and now enters a world of high glamour and high stakes.

city of the Plague God by Sarwat Chadda. 13 year old Sik just wants to have a simple life, go to school and helping at his parents deli at night. but, then Nergal comes looking for Sik, thinking Sik holds the secret to eternal life, but in a turn of events it turns out Sik is immortal but doesn’t know it yet. luckily, Sik isn’t alone, he has Belet, the adopted daughter of Ishtar, the goddness of love and war on his side. to succeed though, they will need to conquer demons, gods, and their own nightmares.

city of villains by Estelle Laure. this is all about Mary Elizabeth Heart, who is a high school senior in the day, but at night she is an intern at the Monarch City police department. so, she watches the detectives fight the crime rate. and the cities wealth neighborhood called Scar, who had a bunch of magic. then the businessmen goes missing, and Mary Elizabeth gets the chance to help when she gets put on the case. but, one missing persons case becomes more and more, and lettings her go into a rabbit hole. that’s when she finds a girl with horns, boyfriends with secrets, and a sea monster in a poison lake. and this book is kind of a different origin story for different disney villains.

throwaway girls by Andrea Contos. with being three months away from high school graduation, Caroline Lawson is so excited to finally escape her prep school and the parents that thought they can convince her to be straight. until graduation, Caroline is keeping her head down even though she is crushed because her girlfriend left for California. then her best friend Madison disappears. what Caroline doesn’t know is what her friend was actually doing behind closed doors and how other girls just go missing and how they aren’t receiving much attention. but, Caroline wants to fix that.

this eternity of masks and shadows by Karsten Knight. the gods walk about us, lurk in shadows, act as mortals, and even some act as celebrities. but, one of them murdered Cairn Delacroix’s mother. and with the help of Nanook, she is trying to figure it all out.

media queen by Michelle Prak. Jordyn Fairweather has worked super hard to get to the top of the magazine world, but now she is in some trouble. the younger media stars are trying to steal her and all the companies are slowly collapsing because of the internet. this follows our main character from when she was a teenager in the 90s to an adult in the 2000s.

under your skin by Rose McClelland. when Kyle’s wife, Hannah, goes missing, the whole town is set out to find her. there is hashtags and campaigns and everything to try and find Hannah, even though one person knows where she is, and is also keeping that a secrets. then there is Julia Matthews, who becomes super friendly with Kyle, and as she gets more and more involved in the case, she finds more and more secrets then she wanted to, and now she is in a web of mysteries she can’t escape.

these violent delights by Chloe Gong. this book takes place in 1926 Shanghai, which leads to a blood feud between the two gangs. then there is Juliette Cai, who is a former flapper and is assuming her role as the heir of the Scarlet Gang. and then there is Roma Montagov, who has the White Flowers, and is also Juliette’s first love and betrayal. then the bodies stack up, and Juliette and Roma need to set their guns and grudges aside and work together, so they can stop the mayhem so there will till be a city to rule.

anyway, that is all for today! happy New Years Day! i hope everyone has an amazing reading year and reads some amazing books, and doesn’t read that many crappy books.

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december wrap up- blogmas day 31

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 31! today i am going to be doing my december wrap up. which is honestly so crazy because this is the last post of 2020, and this year honestly kind of flew by. but, this is also technically the last day of blogmas, even though it really isn’t since i have my tbr and new releases for January.

home before dark by Riley Sager. i gave this book 4/5 stars. this book was honestly so freaking good. like i loved this book so much. this honestly was pretty all over the place, and i really cannot wait to read more by this author. since, hopefully they will all be so spooky and good.

wrapped up in you by Talia Hibbert. i gave this book 3/5 stars. this book was honestly not that good. since, this book was fairly short, this would have 100% worked so much well as a full length novel. but, this was still a decent book, hence the 3 stars.

night owls and summer skies by Rebecca Sulliven. i gave this book 4/5 stars. thank you Netgalley and Wattpad books for this arc! this book definitely deserved a lower rating, but it was still a good read. i really liked the romance, even though it was kind of problematic. but, Vivian’s family definitely was pretty fun, even if they were kind of stupid. i have a whole review for this book, if you want to see why it’s problematic, just scroll down a couple posts.

the roommate by Rosie Danan. i gave this book 4/5 stars. this book was honestly so freaking amazing. i honestly loved this book so much, since it was so cute. and i honestly loved how sex positive this book was, and i honestly hope more books take on being more sex positive.

shine your icy crown by Amanda Loveless. i gave this book 5/5 stars. thank you Netgalley and the publisher for this arc! this honestly was so amazing. it was so amazing and i really liked how feminist this book was, and how many topics this can open up. and i also really loved how there was parts like your sister was talking to you, which was super cool since i don’t have a sister, so it just was so amazing.

now and when by Sara Bennett Wealer. i gave this book 4/5 stars. thank you Netgalley and Delacorte Press for this arc! this book was honestly pretty good, but i didn’t really care for how everyone hated Truman so much, even when he didn’t do anything to have then hate him. but, the romance was pretty good, but i hated the cheating so much. the app was also super cool, and i really like what it added to the series.

the voting booth by Brandy Colbert. i gave this book 4/5 stars. thank you so much Netgalley and Disney books for this arc! this book was honestly such an amazing read. i honestly really like the whole message of this book and how it encourages young adults to vote. and i really like how there wasn’t that much romance, and also the whole cat drama was pretty good.

cemetery boys by Aiden Thomas. i gave this book 4/5 stars. this book was honestly so good. i loved the romance so much, and how the whole ending was honestly so perfect and cute. and i also really liked the whole family in the end of the novel. and also our main characters cousin, she was honestly such a fun character. there was a bit of fat shaming, hence why i knocked down a star.

a vow so bold and deadly by Brigid Kemmerer. i gave this book 3/5 stars. thank you so much Netgalley and Bloomsbury YA for this arc! first off, i only had a chapter sampler, which was like four chapters or something. this book was honestly an okay book. i didn’t really care for the second book in this series. and this book didn’t make any sense to me and it was kind of all over the place.

the cheerleaders by Kara Thomas. i gave this book 2/5 stars. this book took me forever to read. so, i started this November 5th to December 14th, just for context. and this book was kinda of all over the place, and i never really connected with the story, and how all the girls died. and overall this was so messy.

good girl, bad blood by Holly Jackson. i gave this book 5/5 stars. not much can be said about this book, since this is my second read of this book. but, i honestly loved this book so much. and i honestly love the whole plot of this book. the ending also destroyed me again.

lore by Alexandra Bracken. i gave this book 4/5 stars. thank you so much Netgalley and Disney books for and arc! this book was honestly pretty good, but i still was a bit confused when i was reading this book. and for most of this book i was so confused. but, i still really liked the greek gods and everything in here.

more than just a pretty face by Syed M. Masood. i gave this book 2/5 stars. thank you so much netgalley and little, brown books for young readers for this arc! this book was honestly so terrible. i liked what it was trying to do and what it wanted to happen. but, i found Danyal to be so annoying and he was just so cocky.

the woman outside my door by Rachel Ryan. i gave this book 4/5 stars. thank you so much netgalley and Gallery Books for an arc! this book was honestly pretty good. and i really liked the whole relationship between Bren and Georgina. but, the ending was so predicable and i really hated the ending.

super fake love song by David Yoon. i gave this book 2/5 stars. i honestly kind of had really big hopes for this book, since a lot of people really like this book. but, this book just didn’t rub me the right way. since, the male main character just was so annoying and his voice made this book longer then it should have been. and also seeing that this whole romance was built on a lie, it was just so annoying.

they wish they were us by Jessica Goodman. i gave this book 2/5 stars. this book was honestly pretty bad. this whole book was branded as this mystery/ thriller books, that would be perfect for fans of one of us is lying. but, don’t be fooled, since this was a book with so much school drama it gave me a headache. and the whole mystery was barely even there, which was so annoying.

anyway, that is it for today! i honestly had such a great reading year, since i did read 167 books. and this month i definitely read a lot more arcs, which is something i need to doin 2021 and get reviews up on their release day, or the day after if i have multiple books on the same day. but, honestly this year was a pretty great reading year and i can’t wait for 2021 to be just that much better.

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december book haul – blogmas day 30

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 30! today i am going to be talking about all the books that i hauled in december. i honestly probably hauled more physical books this month then other months. but, i still did get some arcs.

these violent delights by Chloe Gong. this book was just sounds so amazing, but i am kind of scared since this is a Romeo and Juliet retelling, so of course we know how this ends. but, this takes place in 1926 Shanghai, which leads to a blood feud between the two gangs. then there is Juliette Cai, who is a former flapper and is assuming her role as the heir of the Scarlet Gang. and then there is Roma Montagov, who has the White Flowers, and is also Juliette’s first love and betrayal. then the bodies stack up, and Juliette and Roma need to set their guns and grudges aside and work together, so they can stop the mayhem so there will till be a city to rule.

a good girls guide to murder by Holly Jackson. this is the American edition, since i already know the British edition by heart. this follows around pip fitz amobi, who is a high school senior. but, for her final project she wants to look at the case of Andie Bell and Sal Singh. since everyone in the town thinks that Sal killed Andie but then went in the woods and killed himself. but, pip isn’t so sure, she thinks that it all might be a lie, so she enlists the help of Ravi Singh, who helps her unravel all facts and fiction, to see if his brother actually killed Andie.

love and olives by Jenna Evans Welch. i’m honestly so excited for this book, since i loved the two other books. but, this follows Liv Varanakis, who doesn’t have many good memories about her father, since he did flee to Greece when she was eight. but, once Liv receives a postcard form her father talking about and explaining that the National Geographic is funding a documentary about his theories on the Atlantis. but, she flies out the Santorini, and there are so many thoughts and feelings that come flying back. once she meets Theo, her father’s charismatic prodigy, who she doesn’t what to see her struggle. then Liv starts to figure out that her father didn’t invite her to Greece for the Atlantis, but for something much more important.

how the king of elfhame learnt to hate stories by Holly Black. this is a novella in the cruel prince series, and this is all about Cardan. and this is all about a young boy who had a wicked tongue. but, way before he was the cruel prince and wicked king, who we all know and love, he was a young faerie child with a cold heart. this book looks into the life of the king of Elfhame, and also the private details in the Cruel Prince and then the adventures after the queen of nothing, but all in Cardan’s POV.

into darkness by Liz Braswell. this book comes out May 4th, 2021. this book is all about Clark who cannot wait to go to camp this year. but, for the first time in his life, he actually has friends to go with. C.L. already is talking about how she will introduce him to the exclusive camp club, who know everything about the world of Monsters and Stuffies. and know he knows how that his grandma created it all, and saved his father from the terrible fate. then Clark gets to camp, and him and his friends discover the things that are off. and what Clark and the friends don’t know, that the Foon is that the monsters have launched a revenge campaign.

the dog share by Fiona Gibson. this book comes out March 4th, 2021. this is all about Suzy Medley, who is having a bad day, but then a shabby terrier who turns up at her door, just like Suzy, Scout has been abandoned. then Suzy takes Scout into her crazy world, that has unexpected changes, since now strangers are more welcoming. then, things get more and more complicated, since Suzy isn’t the only one that needs a friend.

meant to be: if the shoe fits by Julie Murphy. this book comes out August 3rd, 2021. this follows Cindy, who just graduated with a degree in shoe design, but with trying to get her feet on the ground, she is working with her stepmother, who happens to be the executive producer of this famous reality show, Before Midnight. then a spot opens up, and Cindy hopes on the chance to show the world what she is made of. as it turns out, being the only plus sized woman on a dating competition makes a splash, and now she is the new found face of body positivity everywhere.

like other girls by Britta Lundin. this book comes out August 3rd, 2021. this follows around Mara, who is a teenaged lesbian, but when she joins her rural high schools football team, she hopes to get more girls to join. and her biggest goal is to inspire girls around the world to do the same. but, also showing how toxic boy’s club culture really is and sparking up a mini revolution.

honey girl by Morgan Rogers. this book comes out February 23rd, 2021. 28 year old Grace Porter just completed her PhD in astronomy, so of course she does a little girls’ trip to Vegas to celebrate. She’s hard working, straight A student, and work through the summer kind of person. but, she is definitely not the kind of girl who gets drunk and married to a woman she doesn’t even know the name of. this event shows her that she doesn’t have to be the kind of girl that her father wants her to be. then she flees from her hometown, to New York with her wife and ignore all the annoying questions that she has about her future and what she is going to do.

the stories stars tell by C.L. Walters. this book came out October 13th, 2020. Emma Matthews was always has been scared about letting down her parents and never being good enough for them. where Tanner James, wears as identity he created with some of his friends, fixed in their sex life, alcohol and also their bad choices. they both want a new stroy and look for each other to help them write it. but, as Emma and Tanner rewrite their stories, they thought they were writing something new, to discover their painful truths about love and who you are. love can help us lose ourselves and love can break us and also heal us.

the next three books i already had arcs for, but they changed publishers so i got them again.

the famoux by Kassandra Tate. this book comes out January 19th, 2021. after the wreckage of an environmental collapse, and now the country of Delicatum came up. and now it’s most important tv show, famoux, which features all these beautiful stars called the fishbowl. now, 16 year old Emilee is obsessed with the Famoux, they provide help for her terrible life at home. but, when she gets the offer to become a member of herself, she takes it. leaving behind everything she is known, and now enters a world of high glamour and high stakes.

revenge of the sluts by Natalie Walton. this book comes out February 2nd, 2021. as the lead reporter, Eden, has covered her fair share of stories at St. Joseph High School. but, then 7 intimate pictures of the seven different classmates, Eden needs to get to the bottom of it all. as tracking down leads, Eden gets shocked to discover that a lot of people think that the girls ‘brought it on themselves.’ and the administration gets more and more concerned about the schools reputation than all of its students. but, this anonymous sender is sending more emails, Eden gets closer and closer to the seven woman and now they work together to find the perpetrator.

down world by Rebecca Phelps. this book comes out March 30th, 2021. the site of the former military base, there are rumors that East Township High School has been the site of experiment with space and time. for years, students have talked in the hallway and doorways, which has the access to many different timelines and realities. the new kid in town comes to town after her brothers death, Marina O’Connell only wants to leave the past behind. then she meets Brady Picelli, he leads her on this amazing discovery. this down world is real in the past, present, and future. so, now Marina has the chance to discover what actually happened to her brother.

anyway, that is all for today! happy blogmas day 30! honestly i think i hauled so many good books this month, and i’m so excited for all of these books. and i cannot wait to read these books in 2021.

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the roommate review- blogmas day 29

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about the roommate by Rosie Danan. i gave this book 4/5 stars. this book was honestly so cool, and i honestly really loved this book so much, since it was just so cool and fun.

first thing first, i don’t think i’ve ever read a more sex positive book in my life. it was honestly so freaking nice to read a book that was all about sex, but also not just used as the main characters banging every other minute, but more educational. and it was honestly so cool to see that the love interest was a sex worker and he did porn. so, for one that was so cool, but also just seeing how sex work really is and that it isn’t just easy money. and i honestly loved how it was so normalized in here, which we need more of in adult romance.

and i honestly found Clara and Josh’s interactions were so cute. like i don’t think i’ve ever read a book that has roommates but, i really liked how Josh and Clara got to be these roommates, and have the basic roommate interactions, but then when there was the whole business part, and how they aren’t trying to mix business with pleasure. i also thought it was pretty cool about how they were trying to keep their relationship to work and learning about each other in a more personal way.

i did kind of find it a little weird about Josh’s protective side. like it was kind of cute, but also kind of weird. for most of the book, they weren’t even like together, just like work partners that were into each other. so, i did find it kind of odd, but it’s also just a basic romance book thing i guess.

and also Clara and Josh had so much chemistry in this book. like i know i read a ton of romance books, but a lot of them feel a little more force than some other ones that i read. but in here, they had so much chemistry it just made me so happy, since it was so amazing and wasn’t forced. and their banter back and forth made it honestly worthwhile.

and Josh was honestly such an amazing love interest in this book. like he was always so excepting and caring, and honestly was such a sweetheart. and i honestly loved him so much and like everything he stood for. (but does he kind of remind you of Alex Landi from grey’s??)

and i found Clara to be such a sweet character. like she was so innocent, but not like in a bad or annoying way. since, she already knew somethings, but just never really had a positive experience with sex, but she still wanted to try and figure it out and also help other people with learn how to pleasure their partner. which i honestly found to be so cool and amazing.

but, i also feel like in a sense we were supposed to feel bad for everett. cause like his band was going no where, but then he flies out this girl he likes and then he has to go on this mini tour and leave the girl he likes. when, i kind of just found him annoying cause he had terrible communication skills, which just made literally nothing work for me.

i also found the parts where clara was working with her aunt to be kind of boring. like nothing really happened, so if kind of was just super laggy to get threw. and it was also so info dumpy, which is never a good thing. which, just made me honestly skin those parts of the book.

and i honestly went into this book with zero expectations and i have no clue what it was actually about, since i say a pretty cover and decided to read it honestly. so, this was so amazing to read it and actually be good. and it was just so freaking amazing.

anyway, that is it for today! happy blogmas day 29! this honestly was such an amazing book and i loved the characters so freaking much. i cannot wait to the book about naomi to come out next year, especially if we get to see more josh and clara, and maybe their wedding. it would be so amazing.

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night owls and summer skies review – blogmas day 28

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 28! today i am going to be talking about night owls and summer skies by Rebecca Sullivan. i gave this book 4/5 stars. before we get into the actual review, thank you so much Netgalley and Wattpad books for an arc of this book.

first thing first, i found the main characters mom to be such an annoying character. like, i found that she was one of those characters/parents that always want to play the victim card all the time. and also was just to say is that she actually knew all the stuff about how traumatic camp was for Emma, but she still sent her and the mom honestly played the victim, which was so annoying.

i also found the whole book to get on my nerves a lot in the start of the beginning. i feel like it was just so much of drama in the beginning about how she hates her mom but also about how she hated the camp life, it got to get on my nerves after awhile.

i also did find the writing to be kind of bad. like, there was parts of this book, mostly when it was day to day life, it was kind of dry writing. like, i’m just gonna assume that the author wrote this when they were a teenager/ young adult. so, hopefully if she writes more in the future it just is a little bit better.

another thing that kind of pissed me off and also rubbed me the wrong way, was how Emma said something about how she doesn’t like the term ‘lesbian’ and just prefers the term ‘gay.’ and i know that people can like any term that you like, but this just kind of left aa dirty taste in my mouth. since, when you go on instagram or like tiktok, everyone always like shits on lesbians get used as like a fetish and is like a dirty word. so, seeing it in here kind of just made me kind of pissed off.

and also when we were reading this book, there was a lot of talk about how this character, Lauren, who was this bully and predator. and she was just so creepy in this book. and then Lauren is like trying to make up with emma, which just pissed me off. since she was such a bully to emma and basic told all of her shit to the camp and her friends. but, also she like sexually harassed emma and vivian, but then in the end she was like ‘omg i have a fat crush on you, and i’m only mean to you because i have a crush on you :)”. and this was so annoying because emma kind of like dropped her, and it was just made me so pissed off.

and honestly all of these characters need so much therapy. like all of these characters had so many issues, personal or like in their head. they just need to go to group therapy to talk about all of their issues. and if they do, this book would be 100% better.

before we get into the meat of the review, we’re going to be talking about the romance. overall, this was a decent romance. it wasn’t the best, but wasn’t the worst. and it honestly reminded me of those teacher x student wattpad books we read. and it kind of made me uncomfortable since Vivian was like her teacher. and it just kind of pissed me off in the end. and emma got so much special treatment, since she was dating the camps founder daughter.

to me, i feel like emma was kind of annoying. like she honestly she acts like this person who hides behind the shadows and then talk about how she is a social pariah. but then emma was this massive negative about everything, and she honestly reminded me off those kids little kids that would cry when you walked in the bathroom when you where in like elementary/middle school. and also the author was like let’s add a little bit of spice, so she added some depression, anxiety, and you cannot add the whole phobias. since, there is some spice, we bring it up, but we can’t even see it. like they talk about some ‘you need to take your pills’ and also the good old ‘off days.’ but, then that was it. and the phobias only got brought up when it was good to the plot. and then this whole traumatic experience about this camp like went away, since she would like run threw the camp at night, by herself mind you. but, then her girlfriend just like fixes it or something.

now lets move onto the girlfriend, aka vivian. off the bat, she is shown as this mysterious and scary, but don’t be fooled, not like the Cullen’s cause she didn’t that whole like sexy vibe most of them had. and i already kind of talked about how i didn’t really care for the romance, but i feel like it was just creepy from vivian’s pov, more then both of them. and honestly vivian kind of made everything happen, like she kind of came onto emma in a sense. and also how when they were sleeping in this tent with Lauren, vivian was like ‘we should sleep in the same sleeping bag.’ and emma was kind of like ‘um whatever you say,’ which honestly kind of made me think that it was some sort of sexual harassment. then when vivian kissed emma on the cheek, and it kind of made me think about how would it be like if a man was like 19 and the girl was like 17 years old, and he wanted to sleep in the same sleeping bag and kissed her (i talk about all this later in this post.) and then vivian would like go threw emma’s phone and like stuck it down her bra and shit. and when i say she went threw the phone, she went threw the phone. and she was kind of sketchy, and i feel like this just needed to be fixed and i just wished this had better editors or even beta readers. and she also like never helps out with anything, makes fun of all of her campers, and gossips about her campers with the other campers and her family.

so, moving on to the romance and what i think it would be like if it was male x female not female x female. like i feel like just the age gap, since vivian is an adult and emma is like 16-17, aka a minor. and i feel like it could have been handled better. and like if this book was like a male x female, every single people would be up and arms, but in here nobody really batted an eye. and also just some of the actions in this book, like the sleeping bag and the unwanted kissing. and i feel like no matter if this book if a littler release or a bigger book, it needs to be talked about and brought up.

up close, i feel like the dad was a good person. but, not really. like i feel like all he did was just questionable. like for one, he puts his gay child with this clearly homophobic mom and puts her in harms way, with sending her to live with her mother. i hate to break it to you, a good parent doesn’t put their kid with someone that can harm her. and also i don’t understand when emma made this big ass scene when she gets to camp, i don’t really understand why nobody called him, or hell why he never thought it was weird that emma never called or texted him. and i’ve never been to summer camp, and if i have kids i’ll probably never send them to one, i just wish this dad grew a brain throughout this whole story.

and the next thing, is how there was all of this ‘pop culture’ things brought up but everyone was like ????? for everything. like the main thing was vivian’s older brother, walter, just was so in love and obsessed with pokémon. and then all of the other characters were like what the hell is that. and then walter met emma, and she was like omg i love pokémon. and like where were all of these characters when the whole pokémon go crazy a couple years ago. then there was this whole thing of mike wazowski and emma was like so defensive about him. granted, this was probably supposed to be funny, but it was like so dumb and this was just so stupid. and also there was this whole plot about these letters emma sent to lauren or jessie, i don’t really remember which one, and also there was so much talk about how these letters where life changing and they were this conflict, but we have no clue what is actually IN those letters. like i’m just gonna assume that they were about her anxiety, depression, and also the trauma she went threw at camp. but, anyway, why should we care for these letters since we knew nothing about them.

and also there was this whole part about how emma was this bitch to lauren and how she called her things like ‘bitches’ and something along the lines of ‘people think guys are so bad when they shove people in lockers, but girls are much much worse.’ and i was like 1. that is so misogynistic and 2. that is so dumb. and then there was this whole part of the book that gwen was telling her brother and her sister, vivian, how emma’s birthday is coming up. and they are all like ‘what a birthday???????’ and they really acted like the whole idea of a birthday was this insane thing. which resulted in walter to throw a pizza slice across the cafe. because that is what teenagers do.

anyway, that is all for today! i’m not really sure why i did give this book 4/5 stars. and from scrolling on goodreads everyone has the same thoughts of me, which i guess is kind of cool. but, this book is kind of cool since it was a NaNoWriMo book, so that is honestly so cool.

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home before dark review- blogmas day 27

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about home before dark by Riley Sagar. i gave this book 4/5 stars. this book was honestly so freaking good, and this was honestly such a good book, in my mind, to get into the whole horror genre.

one thing that i didn’t really understand was all of the different ages between the characters. since, i’m not really sure how old petra was when she was killed, but then also about dean. and i personally thought he was the same age a maggie, but like i think he said something about how he was a teen at the time petra was. so, overall i was just super confused, but i also could have just heard it all wrong.

but there was also so much like vivid detail and creativity, it honestly just made this series come together so well. like i seriously could picture ever single thing that was happening in this book, and how everything was happening and what the house looked like. i honestly adored this in the writing.

but, the pace of this book was so good. i honestly completely loved how fast everything worked and how everything just went together. and also i found that both POV’s were honestly so amazing, even if i did find maggie’s a bit better at parts. it was still so intense and made everything so well.

i also feel like this book had so many vibes as all the shows we are seeing today in the media about creepy houses. like it was so amazing, and this was just so amazing in my mind, since these walls could talk (modern family joke if anyone watches.) and i honestly it was so cool that there was already this massive fan base about this house, so with trying to figure out the fact from fiction was so cool. since this all was so unraveling and so amusing, but in a good way.

and i feel like if we didn’t get the whole back and forth, it wouldn’t work at all. since, i feel like this whole thing, this whole thing would honestly be kind of bad. since, we can find out what really happened, and then how this is playing to Maggie being there.

then also Maggie wasn’t the best main character in the whole world. but, i do feel like she was kind of dramatic in this book. like she was a decent character in this book at parts, but it also got kind of crappy at some parts. but, i also found her a bit dramatic, since she didn’t really know what was happening and then over acting in the end a little bit.

with that being said, i still can see how this book does have the feel about it being the thriller of 2020. or from that i did see, everyone was talking about how this book was the thriller of the summer. and i mean, it was still so amazing, even if i did have a couple issues in this book.

and i also really like that Sager can really write books that aren’t about cheating or someone’s mom got killed or someone got kidnapped. which, is always so amazing, since it feels like they are all becoming the same over and over. but, i’m definitely going to be reading more of his books in the future.

i do wish we got like passages from the fathers book in here. since, i feel like it would be cool, since we can find whole fact from fiction. and i mean, it would have been so cool and just to read some of this book we got told so much about. and it would just be kind of fun to do that.

now it’s time for a little spoiler-

i personally don’t really understand why the parents where trying to cover up the fact that Maggie, a five year old, would go to jail for murder. but, i googled it, and i found this document that said that it is an excusable homicide since this is different because it is a young child, and so they don’t really understand that. and the author could have easily found this if they really tried.

anyway, that is all for today! happy blogmas day 27! i honestly really liked this book, and i cannot wait to read other books by this author in the future, since this was honestly such an amazing book.

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the 12 days of christmas book tag- blogmas day 26

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 26! today i am going to be doing the 12 days of christmas book tag. i know i’m kind late, since this was more popular last year, but oh well. and since christmas was yesterday i still wanted to do something festive.

one the first day of christmas, my true love sent to me: a partridge in a pear tree. a partridge stood alone in a pear tree. what is your favorite standalone?

a quiet kind of thunder by Sara Barnard. this is probably not a shock to anyone, but this is probably one of my favorite books of all time. so, of course i had to pick it. 

on the second day of christmas, my true love sent to me: two turtle doves. who is your OTP? 

probably cardan and jude. i know this is kind of basic, but i honestly love these two so much together and they make such a badass couple. 

on the third day of christmas, my true love sent to me: three french hens. what is the best trilogy you’ve read? 

the return series by ridley pearson. this is honestly one of the only trilogies i’ve ever read, so i kinda have to pick it. but, it also probably one of the best ones i’ve read. 

on the fourth day of christmas, my true love sent to me: four calling birds. since series usually have more then four books, what is your favorite series? 

either the kingdom keepers by ridley pearson or a good girls guide to murder by holly jackson. honestly, these two are some of  my favorite series/books of all times. 

on the fifth day of christmas, my true love sent to me: five golden rings. who is your favorite villain/ antagonist? 

 good girl, bad blood by holly jackson spoilers 

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charlie freaking green all the way 

on the sixth day of christmas, my true love sent to me: six geese a laying. what is your favorite world/world building? 

lore by alexandra bracken. this book had such amazing world building and it was just *chef’s kiss* amazing. 

on the seventh day of christmas, my true love sent to me: seven swans a swimming. who is your favorite animal sidekick? 

i have no clue, since i try to avoid characters with animals since they normally die. 

on the eighth day of christmas, my true love sent to me: eight maids a milking. which book or series takes food to a whole new level? 

kingdom of the wicked by kerri manicalco. the food in this book honestly made me so hungry since it was just so good. and i can’t wait for all the food in book 2.

on the ninth day of christmas, my true love sent to me, nine ladies dancing. who is your favorite kickass female lead? 

pip from a good girls guide to murder. i mean, there are some characters that are more badass, but i feel like she’s really bad ass for a contemporary/ thriller/ mystery character. and i honestly love her so much. 

on the tenth day of christmas, my true love sent to me: ten lords a leaping. who is your favorite leading male? 

Yadriel from cemetery boys. he’s honestly such an amazing character and i completely loved him when i was reading that book and everything he did for julian. 

on the eleventh day of christmas, my true love sent to me, eleven pipes a piping. what is your favorite book with a musical influence? 

the happy ever after playlist by abby jimenez. this is literally the only book that i can think about that has music in it, so yeah . 

on the twelfth day of christmas, my true love sent to me, 12 drummers drumming. what is your favorite book of 2020? 

maybe a good girls guide to murder, maybe felix ever after, maybe cinderella is dead. i haven’t quite figured it out, but those are definitely my top three. 

anyway, that is all for today! i hope you liked this post and i hope you had a great christmas if you celebrated it. but, also sorry if there is a lot of typos, i’m writing this on my notes app on my phone during christmas. 

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christmas stocking tag- blogmas day 25

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 25 and Merry Christmas if you celebrate! today we are going to be talking about the christmas stocking tag. this is kind of an older tag, but i still want to do this, since it is a lighter post, and not about a horror book or something. and i did modify some questions since some of them were super long, and also some of them talk about things i don’t support and don’t want to talk about on here.

on christmas you wake up Christmas and you stocking is full. when you start to unwrap everything that is in there, the first thing that you see is an orange. so, what is a book that is refreshing and vibrant, both on the inside and out.

cinderella is dead by Kalynn Baryon. this book is honestly such an amazing book. and the cover is so pretty, but the inside is also amazing. and i mean, this book has such an vibrant characters and plot, it honestly is so amazing.

the next thing in the bag is chocolate coins. which book you recently bought that was expensive, but totally worth the high price?

kingdom of the wicked by Kerri Maniscalo. this book when i bought it was like $17. which, isn’t that bad compared to some of the other books that go for on twitter or hell even bookstagram. but, i also don’t buy to many books, but i still really like this book and was so amazing.

you also pull out a bath bomb. tell us about a book that had explosive action scenes.

the insider by Ridley Pearson. this who series honestly has so many amazing action scenes. and i mean, i loved these books so much. this is honestly one of the only action books i like, and can behind and always really like it.

next is a pack of playing cards. which series won you over?

the heartstoppers by Alice Oseman. i honestly really love this whole series and i was so scared to read this book. and i’m not a big graphic novel fan, but this series honestly was so amazing and all the characters made me so happy. and i feel like i was so thrown off, since it is a graphic novel.

you also get a candle. which character is a symbol of hope in there story?

charlie green from good girl, bad blood by Holly Jackson. this can be kind of controversial, but i feel like he’s a symbol of hope for Pip in this book. like, to me, with Pip going to him and how they had their little talk on the porch, it honestly made so much happen.

there are socks inside too. is there a book that you think really encompasses all the distinctive tropes of its genre? 

the roommates by Rosie Danan. i feel like this has all the basic romance tropes and how all the characters are, it’s honestly kind of cliché. but this book is honestly so good, but it does have the whole good girl, but also the ‘bad boy’ type. this book honestly worked so well with the tropes, and wasn’t like one of those books with so many tropes it’s annoying. 

there’s also a notebook. which author’s writing process do you find most interesting/inspiring? 

i honestly have no clue what author to talk about so i’m gonna skip. 

there’s also a small bedside clock. which book took you a long time to pick up but was worth it in the end? 

the black flamingo by Dean Atta. this book honestly took me forever since i’m not a big poetry fan. but, when i got into this, it was honestly such an amazing book. and i honestly cannot recommend this book enough and i really hate that it took me so long, since it was such a great book.

anyway, that is all for today! Merry christmas if you do celebrate! And if you are reading this on christmas, i hope you have a great holiday. Or if you are reading it after the holiday, i hope you had a great time. 

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books i want for christmas – blogmas day 24

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 24! today i am going to be talking about some books i want for christmas/ books i just want to buy soon. but, i’m not trying to brag or anything, and i just wanted to put that out there so i don’t get any meaner comments.

how the king of elfhame learned to hate stories by Holly Black. i’m honestly so excited to read this book, and i honestly love the other books, so i cannot wait to read this one. but, this book talks all about Cardan, but this is all before everything happened in the books we all know. which, this honestly sounds so cool, since we get to see baby Cardan and more about his family.

love and olives by Jenna Evans Welch. this is the third book in this series and i’m so freaking excited for it also. since this takes place in Greece, and of course we can’t travel this year, so this just sounds like the perfect book for right now. and i cannot wait to read everything about the cute romance that is in here.

felix ever after by Kacen Callender. this is another really popular book, and i’ve honestly seen it all over bookstagram. but, i read this book a couple months ago now, and i competely love this story, so i really want to get my own copy.

cinderella is dead by Kalynn Bayron. this is another book that i read and i fell in love with. and i do have an e-arc of this, but i do want a physical copy to show off on my shelf. and two, i really want to support this author.

kill joy by Holly Jackson. this is gonna be a preorder, since it doesn’t come out till February. and it was honestly kind of a pain in the ass to find, since it is only coming out in the UK. and as much as i love this series, i cannot wait to read another book in this series.

a good girls guide to murder by Holly Jackson. with the amount i talk about this book, it would be kinda shocking if i didn’t own this already. but, i have the UK edition, and i only listened to the American edition by audio. and you know, i want to have a shelf full of these books by the time this series is over.

sadie by Courtney Summers. this is another book i really like, but never actually bought my own copy. and honestly i’ve seen this book all over my local bookstores, so it probably wouldn’t be that hard to buy my own copy.

there’s someone inside your house by Stephanie Perkins. i recently reread this book, and i honestly really liked this book. so, i honestly really want to own this book. and also, i don’t own to many thrillers, so i want to have more especially since the cover is cute.

clap when you land by Elizabeth Acevedo. this is another book that i really liked and just want to own. and i do own another one of Acevedo’s novels, so i totally want to own this book, but also the other books that she wrote and i didn’t buy yet.

one of us is lying by Karen M. McManus. i honestly read this book awhile ago, but i never bought. and i so want to reread this book, since i honestly just want to read a ton of YA mystery/thrillers right now. and two, i really like the cover, which is a common theme in this blog post.

red, white, and royal blue by Casey McQuinston. just like the rest of these books, i want to reread this book soon. and i cannot wait for this authors second book, and it honestly sounds so freaking good. and again, the cover is honestly so amazing, and this would probably would look amazing on any shelf.

anyway, that is all for today! happy Christmas Eve if you celebrate this holiday! but, these are honestly the books that are at the top of my bookish wish list, and i honestly want to get these really soon, since they all sound so amazing.

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in a holidaze and wrapped up in you review- blogmas day 23

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about in a holidaze by Christina Lauren and wrapped up in you by Talia Hibbert. so, this is obviously a joint review, since wrapped up in you is pretty short, there isn’t a purpose to have it have its own review.

IN A HOLIDAZE-

so, first of i gave this book 4/5 stars. this book probably could have been less then 4 stars, but i guess its a little to late to change it. but, i feel like this whole book has people that either loves it or hates it, and then there is some like middle ground, which is me.

first thing first, i was so confused about how everyone is connected together. i mean, i feel like when we jumped into this whole story, it was just so confusing, and how all these strangers just somehow all connected. and like half way threw the book we eventually got everything sorted out, but that was like half way threw the book, and just was annoying.

i also was so annoyed about how Mae was getting with Andrew, which was so predictable. and it was kind of annoying because she was like ‘i’ve loved Andrew since i was 13.’ and i mean in the start of the book she kissed Theo, and then she was like omg i love Andrew. and honestly this whole book needed to get rewritten with the plot all figured out.

but, i did find it really funny how they were making all of these OG YA book references. so, they were talking about twilight and edward cullen, which just made me laugh. and then there was a whole thing about hunger games which was so funny and i really liked it.

this book was also a lot more PG-13 then their other books. i mean, there was one sex scene, which is kind of cool if your not a big sex scene person. and most of it was off the pages, and even when they talked about it, it was pretty simple.

but, i did find the whole back and forth between the time change kind of confusing. like, it got very repetitive and it was kind of hard to not compare all of them together and how some of them have the same things happening. and i also expected them more then like 4 of them, which was kind of nice since they all worked in a weird way.

WRAPPED UP IN YOU-

first off, i gave this book 3/5 stars. i honestly liked this book, but it was kind of slow and boring at certain parts. and i mean, i feel like it had its moments and there wasn’t that much of the romance, which was kind of annoying as this went threw.

i did find this book to be pretty confusing since there wasn’t that much talk about how Abbie and Will were together and how they already knew each other. i mean, we knew that he was this famous guy, but that is pretty much it. and like it took awhile to figure out that they grew up together, even though it took awhile to them to actually say that they were childhood friends.

Will was honestly a bit of a dick in the book. i mean, he would just say random crap to Abbie’s grandma and it got to be so annoying. i mean, he would just say garbage and snap at her and was so annoying.

and this book was honestly kind of heavy and there was so much history with the characters. like this book would have worked so much better as a actual novel, not a novella. and i feel like it was so much to get into, and it was so hard since it was so short.

anyway, that is all for today! happy blogmas day 23! i honestly wish i read more christmas books this year, but these two were honestly pretty good. and they definitely the kind of books you would want to read after exam weeks or throughout that week.

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