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hello everyone! happy blogmas day 22! today i am going to be talking about historically inaccurate by Shay Bravo. i gave this book 1/5 stars. this book was pretty terrible, like i feel like there was just a ton of drama in this book. but, thank you so much Netgalley for this book.

one thing that kind of confused me a little bit, was how it just jumped straight up to the plot. like it literally was straight to the plot, which got to be kind of annoying since i had no clue what was happening. and because when everything started we just know Sol is stealing a spoon, but we eventually got more, but it was still kind of a mess.

i also don’t really know how Sol just knew the whole floor plan of the house she was breaking into. i mean, i feel like it could be like someone else the club knew it, but it still kind of confused me. and like they never really said anything about it, just that she was going into here.

but, also Bravo described every single thing that was happening in this book. like every single little thing was described in so much detail, and it just got to be kind of annoying. like, there was so much talk about what her bike was, her bedspread, her cat, and hell even her computer breaking was in so much detail it got to be annoying.

with that being said, we got so much detail about the non important things, but then something like her mom being deported, which was talked about a ton, it was like three sentences. which, is so annoying, since it is a central plot thing, not just something stupid like her laptop.

and she also had so many thoughts. like so freaking many, and it got to be annoying after awhile. and of course, she never had anything good to say, only the boring and stupid crap. (i.e. all the talk about her laptop and how she wants to eat a muffin.)

one thing that rubbed me the wrong way, and got to be so gross the first time this happened. which, was our love interest kept dead-naming and misgendering. and, there of course can be two sides of this argument, one that the author did it or two that it was the characters. which, i’ve seen both of them. and i personally think it is so annoying that people are like brushing this off since the characters did this, not actually the author, even though the author wrote it. this also happened more then once, like 7 times, and it was so gross.

look, i like a good book with some lgbtqia+ characters and also a diverse cast of characters, but in here they are so flat and just annoying. and like most of the non white characters in books they grow and just talk about how they aren’t white and how they are comfortable. which, we didn’t get or anything close to it. and the same thing with our transgender character, it was just misgendering over and over and over again, which doesn’t sit right with me honestly.

but the pace was also crap. like we got pages and pages of the smallest details, which honestly just let me skim pages and pages and pages of this book, since this book was honestly so boring. and there also was so much that got repeated over and over and over again, which was just so annoying, since we got this the first time, we don’t need it 50 times.

the whole plot of these books were all about this history club. like you’d expect a history club to talk about history, it was just the character doing stupid crap that was just so boring. and like all they did was jump of buildings and stealing spoons. and then the Black love interest, Ethan, who is talking about not wanting to do anything risky, since he is Black and he doesn’t want the police to find out since he doesn’t want to be killed. but, then all of the characters were like oh well we don’t care.

but, then in the end of the novel the club gets reported to the school board and/or the police. and all of the characters were like straight up crying cause they were SO surprised. like, you are doing illegal crap, so of course the police are gonna talk this seriously. and look into you and going to take down your ‘club.’ and this honestly cannot be that much of a surprise to anyone.

i also didn’t really care for the romance. it honestly kind of annoying, since it had nothing to do with the plot. and i mean, this book was about finding yourself and the stupid club, do the romance did nothing for me, and should have just been cut out.

anyway, that’s all for today! happy blogmas day 22! thank you so much netgalley for this arc, even if i didn’t really like it. and of course, all my opinion are my own.

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about she’s with me and stay with me by Jessica Cunsolo. this books were honestly kind of a mess, hence why i’m just going to do one post about them, instead of two different ones, and also a lot of my thoughts are the same for both of them.

SHE’S WITH ME-

off the bat, i gave this book 2/5 stars. i never really planned to read this book, but i got an arc for the other book, and it just let me to read this because it is a series. but, this book wasn’t the worst book, but also not the best book in the world.

first thing first, Amelia Collins was one of the most annoying characters in the world. one of the things that just annoyed me so much was how she was acting like she is special because she is ‘directionally challenged.’ this honestly annoyed me so much, and it was just so annoying since not knowing directions in a new school is so normal, but she was acting like she was so special. and also she couldn’t read a school map, which was making her so close to cry it got to be annoying.

like most typical wattpad books, i found this book to be written by a third grader that got told swear words way to young. it honestly was kind of annoying, since this was so bad and it literally had nothing going for it. and i mean, i feel like if this had better writing, this book could have been so freaking good, but it just wasn’t. and this whole book just scared wattpad in 20 different languages.

this is honestly such a side note though, but whenever they would talk about Aiden and his friends, they would always capitalize ‘The Boys’ and it got to be kind of annoying. and i don’t even know why they always did this, but who knows.

but, the mom always told Amelia that she couldn’t have friends, since she has some other issue. but, honestly is the mom didn’t let Amelia have friends, she would stick out like a sore thumb. but, of course she gets friends cause she just wants to piss off her mom.

then her mom would make all these talks about how the mom wants to protect Amelia at all times. but, then the mom goes off and is never home and is traveling the world, since she is a flight attendant. and i get that you want to protect your daughter, but if your half way across the world, you cannot really protect her that much.

but, i also got super annoyed by how Amelia was having a breakdown about how she got her period. like it was so annoying, and i think it was so annoying since getting your period is as normal as breathing for girls. but, i guess when you want to impress a boy you of course get embarrassed by everything.

i also found it so annoying how Amelia was getting so judgmental about were Aiden lived. like he was looking over two kids, and had to go to school and work, so he’s not going to live in a mansion. and it just pissed me off when she was being a bitch about it.

STAY WITH ME-

first thing first, i gave this book 1/5 stars. thank you so much netgalley for this arc! i honestly hated this book so much, and it just got worse and worse then i possibly thought it could get.

but, this book had so much telling, not showing. which, got so annoying after a long time. and i honestly just found that to be so annoying. and this never got better for the whole book, which was kind of surprising since the other book didn’t have this same issue.

if you’re looking for a sweet romance, this isn’t the book for it. like there was some romance, but this wasn’t it. and it got to be kind of annoying, since there was romance but not enough. it was like a kiss here and there, but nothing more than that. but, it got to be kind of annoying, since we never got anything more.

i also did not like the whole ‘woman is all of our property and we can just claim her.’ and this got to be super annoying, since when this happened it just got so freaking annoying. and it’s like 2020, it shouldn’t be happening, since women can do whatever the hell they want to do.

there was also so much family drama it got to be so annoying. it honestly got to be so annoying. since ever single chapter there was more and more and more family drama. like we straight up didn’t need to read all of this family drama, and it got to be so annoying after awhile. and i mean it just got to be a bit much after awhile.

anyway, that is all for today! happy blogmas day 20! i hope you enjoyed this post, even though these books were honestly kind of terrible, and i couldn’t get into most of these books.

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 18! today i am going to talk about kingdom of the wicked by Kerri Maniscalo. i gave this book 5/5 stars. and this book was honestly so good, which i was kind of surprised about, since i never really liked straight fantasy books, but this was a nice surprise.

one thing i didn’t really understand why she was crushing on the priest. which, i guess is kind of normal, when your like 12. but, in here she is like 17 or 18. and Emilia was so into this guy, and i was just kind of grossed out. but, i did think Vittoria was kind of funny how she mad fun of her though.

this is just kind of weird, but i thought the background music in the kingdom of the wicked audiobook were so odd. i mean, it was just so creepy, and when it started playing, i pretty much always jumped, since it was just so creepy and it would come out of nowhere.

but, i thought this was so cute to see how Wrath loved all the desserts. and i honestly really liked how all of Maniscalo’s love interests liked desserts, and i thought it was just so cute. and it was honestly so cute how this big scary guy liked them.

i also really liked how the there was a restaurant in here, and how this let all of the family members work together. and i mean, this was just so cool that there was this common interest. and i mean, i think this was kind of cool, and i do wish we got more parts of this book set at the restaurant, since it was so cool.

i don’t know if you guys had this type of phase, but i really got into the wattpad days, just like everyone else. and i never quite got over the whole seven deadly sins books that i read. and i honestly thought it was so cool to read about them. but, i honestly feel like The Prince of Hell is a bit different then the other deadly sins, but it was still cool that they are shown. and then their secrets were just so cool and added so much to the book.

and this is probably because Kerri has a sister, at least one. so i think that Maniscalo played her strengths really well with showing how Emilia would do anything to save her sister. and how Emilia raised hell, and i thought it was so amazing to read this, since you know that she is the same way, and would do anything in the world for her sister. (i mean hopefully, but how she posts about her, she probably does, lol.)

i also really like how Mansicalo plays her strengths correctly. and i think that this made the book so much better, since she knows what she is doing completely. and the fantasy was kind of new, but the historical fiction really worked for her, and it made this book so much better.

i’m not a big person that liked cliffhangers. like, i’ve never really read that many books that have a massive cliffhanger, since romance never have them in the end of the book. but in here, there was a massive cliffhanger, and that was so cool. but, i never really seen that whole thing coming, and i’m so excited to read the sequel.

with that being said, i think that this book was so cool that there was so many witchy vibes. like, this book is honestly the perfect Halloween read, since it dealt with witches and also the whole magical mystery. and i thought this was so freaking cool.

i am also such a major enemies to lover romance and also a slowburn romance too. and this book had so much chemistry, which is another thing Maniscalo does really well. and also the whole banner between the two, which was so amazing.

i do feel like this book was hotter then the other books she wrote. like, i feel like we got those kind of scenes in Capturing the devil, but in here it was like an actual scene and it was just so amazing. and i just really liked it, and i hope book two has it more.

since this book is a lot more personal to Maniscalo than Stalking Jack the Ripper, since this is loosely based off her grandparents. and i found that to add so much more to the story. i mean, we got so much history packed into this book. and i honestly loved this so much, and this book just felt to much more personal, and you can tell when you read it, or even just when they were cooking, or walking the streets, that this book was kind of like a love letter to her grandparents.

anyway, that it all for today! happy blogmas day 18! this book was honestly so good, and i cannot wait for Kingdom of the Cursed, since this book just so amazing, and this honestly was just so great and i cannot wait to see were this story goes.

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about the black flamingo by Dean Atta. i gave this book 4/5 stars. this was honestly a really great book, but there was some issue that i had with. i just didn’t really like how there was jumping back and forth, but this book was honestly really good.

with that being said, from everything that i’ve been told about this book is that Michael was a kid in the start of the book. like it was kind of cool, but it was also kind of boring, since it was the same things over and over again. but, it was also kind of cool that we got to see how his childhood shaped him.

and this way, we got to see a lot more of him and watch him grow to be an adult. which, i honestly thought was so cool. and i mean, this was just so amazing to watch him grow to be this amazing person. and i mean this was just so cool to read all of this.

but, i really liked how this was told in verse. i mean, it made it really interesting, and it was honestly a really quick read because of that. and honestly this made the story so much better. and i honestly believe that if this was in paragraphs, this would have not worked as well.

i thought i’d just put this out there, but if your an audiobook person, i highly suggest reading physically. i mean, it is just so much better this way. i’ve seen a lot of people say reading it physically is just better, and i agree even though i never listened to it. and i feel like it would be more powerful by reading it.

and i thought it was so cool to see that the author packed so much into this book. and there was honestly so much emotion, and strength within the book. and i feel like this is pretty normal for a book like this to have so much emotion, but this one honestly had so much more emotion, which was honestly so amazing.

as a side note, there was drawings in this book. which is something i really liked, and i thought it was so cool to read this book with the drawings. and they fit the story so well, but i completely loved this.

this might just be me, but i’ve read a couple of books that have LGBTQIA elements in them, but this book was honestly so different, but a lot better. and this one might just stick out to me, since it is more of a coming of age story and it isn’t that much of a romance novel.

and this is the only book i think i’ve ever read with Drag as a central topic. like i really liked the how it was talked about. and also how they talked about how Michael built this whole family out of his Drag community.

but, with every good book, there has to be an issue. and for me it was a line that said “Rowan looks like Ed Sheeran if Ed Sheeran was handsome.” for obvious reasons that honestly just rubbed me the wrong way. and honestly they could have reworded it completely different, or just pick an handsome person, if that is what the author was trying to get at.

i also feel like this book is such a stable read for teenagers today. between this book and Felix ever after, they are such a good book. and i hope that more schools pick this book up to make it required reading.

anyway, that is all for today! happy blogmas day 17! but, i honestly really liked this book, which i was kind of surprised about to say the least. needless to say, i’m really excited to read more books this author publishes in the future.

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 14! today i am going to be talking about burn our bodies down by Rory Power. i gave this book 3/5 stars. i honestly had so much hope for this book, but i feel like it was so messy, it just made everything be kind of bad.

i don’t know about you, but i thought that this book was going to be a mystery/thriller novel with a female x female relationship. but, Margot was lgbtqia, but i feel like the person that was supposed to be our love interest is the kind of girl that will kiss and be together with another girl, but in the end she would end up outing the girl she was with and then being a bully, like in those high school movies.

with that being said, i’m not quite sure if i just expected to much, or i was just reaching, or hell i could have read it wrong. but, i was still kind of disappointed when there wasn’t a big relationship, more of just a friendship between the two girls. but, i could have also just listened to the book wrong, which made me not really put that they were like an exclusive couple.

i also felt like Margot’s whole not good relationship with the mom was honestly kind of like pushed down your throat. since, there was so much talk about how those two do not get along, but they would never be like ‘here’s the real reason those two don’t get along.’ they just kept saying, yeah they aren’t friends, which got to be quite annoying after a while.

as a whole, this book did not make any bit of sense, i’ll go into a spolier review down a below in a little bit. but, for the most part, it was just a hot mess, and it honestly made me so confused when i was reading it. but, i also still enjoyed this a little bit.

i also feel like this story was quite draggy in some places. i personally hate slow stories, i mean most people do, but this one was pretty different. and it was so draggy, it resulted in me just loosing interest, so then i was like mindless listening, so i would have no clue what was happening.

and honestly, it might also just because of the writing. the writing wasn’t perfect by any means, which led this to be pretty annoying. like, there would just be times were they would spend so much time talking about what she is feeling and if she is sad or happy, but she was mostly angry. and then they would go on these long talks about how things look like, and how everything liked in her mothers old room, which got to be annoying.

also the big part of the plot took awhile to get to. like, i feel like it was at 60% ish we got the meat, and when things really took off and took a turn for the better, and just for it to get interesting. and also, i felt like it would have been better if we got more insight on each of the characters, not just Margot, and knew more of the history in the families.

honestly, the families were so messy as a whole. i mean, it was just a mess to figure out how everything went together in the grand scheme of things. and it got to be kind of annoying since i feel like some of the stories change like 20 times. and since there was so much personal beef, it just got hard to keep up with every single thing that was going on.

but, if you want a very twisty book, and that is YA horror, i feel like you have the right book. since, this is all over the place, and also makes your mind go in 20 different directions, it honestly makes everything work out for you. i mean, days after i finished this book i was still trying to figure out everything that was happening.

SPOILERS-

i don’t really understand the whole the grandma has two copies of herself, and how then Margot’s mom has a copy of herself, with is Margot. i mean, i know there is someway to do it. but, in here it just sounded like they just woke up one day pregnant, and they didn’t even inject themselves with the bone marrow. and it honestly just needed better explanation.

with that being said, i wish i knew more about how many kids and such there actually were. i mean, from what we were told, i would think it would be like 50+ at this point. but, it just confused me with how there was like 20 of Margot in the backyard.

i also don’t fully understand how Tessa got roped into this whole mess. like, if it was just Margot’s families weird thing, i have no clue how she got roped into all of it. and like i was super sad to see that Tessa died, and that her whole family was dead.

anyway, that is all for today! happy blogmas day 14! i honestly enjoyed this book, even if it was kind of a mess at parts, i still feel it was worth the read if you are into the whole family stories. i think it would honestly be the book for you.

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 13! today i am going to be doing the festive christmas book tag. but, i’m so excited to do this, since i believe i’ve already done this. but, i’m honestly really excited to do this again, and hopefully my answers will be different.

THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST- IS THERE A BOOK OR SERIES YOU LIKE TO REVISIT EACH YEAR AT CHRISTMAS TIME?

yes and also no. there isn’t really a specific book, but i really like to read my favorite books. so, this way, i can read good books, or even make me happy. and that way i can stay happy and not hate all the books.

CHRISTMAS TREE- NAME A SERIES THAT REACHES NEW HEIGHTS WITH EVERY ENTRY.

the cruel prince by Holly Black. i mean, this book has so many books. and since there is the whole new book, so i guess it is getting something new. and i honestly really love it, so hopefully it keeps getting better and better.

FRIENDS AND FAMILY- NAME A BOOK WITH FANTASTIC CHARACTERS.

i love the characters in the kingdom keepers so much. and these cast of characters are honestly so amazing, and i really like them so much.

DECORATIONS- NAME A BOOK WITH A GORGEOUS COVER YOU WOULD PROUDLY DISPLAY ON YOUR SHELVES.

i would honestly kill for the Barnes and Noble editions of the cruel prince. they are honestly so cute, and i love them so much i would kill for these

CHRISTMAS CARDS- NAME A BOOK THAT CARRIES A GREAT MESSAGE.

Felix after ever by Kacen Callendar. i honestly loved this book so much, and i really liked the whole figure out yourself. and i honestly want more people to read this.

ICE AND SNOW- NAME A BOOK THAT YOU WERE HOPING TO LOVE BUT WHICH ULTIMATELY LEFT YOU FEELING COLD.

wrapping up in you by Talia Hibbert. i honestly was kind of disappointed in this, since i really liked her other books, but this just fell a little short for me.

CHRISTMAS LUNCH- A BOOK THAT WAS SO BIG AND INTIMIDATING, BUT OH SO WORTH IT IN THE END. 

Home before dark by Riley Sager. This book was honestly so good, and it was big and it was honestly not a book that i was super comfortable with, since it was horror. But, i still really loved this book, and it was just so cool. 

MINCE PIES- NAME A BOOK YOU FOUND SWEET AND SATISFYING. 

Heartstoppers by Alice Osemen. I honestly really liked this book and it was just such a sweet story and it just made me so happy. Since, it was so satisfying reading this cute romance and that they are just me so happy in the end. 

PRESENTS- WHATS A BOOK YOU WISH YOU COULD GIVE EVERYONE TO READ? 

 a good girls guide to murder by Holly Jackson. Everyone and their mother probably knows that i love this book, but i still would want a lot of people to read this. Since then i can talk with everyone about this book and how much i love it. 

SPREADING THE FESTIVE CHEER- TAG SOME FRIENDS TO HELP SPREAD THE FESTIVE BOOKISH LOVE. 

I’m gonna everyone who is reading this or if you want to do this. 

anyway, that is all for today. this was honestly such a fun post, and i really liked talking about some of these books. but, i’ll see you guys tomorrow for blogmas day 14.