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head over heels review – blogmas day 12

hello everyone! today i’m gonna be talking about head over heels by Hannah Orenstein. i gave this book 3/5 stars. i honestly didn’t really care for this book, since it was all over the place. and overall, not that good, which got to be kind of sucky, since it had so much potential.

trigger warning- abuse and sexual assault

one thing that kind of annoyed me, was i found this book to be one massive circle. like Avery and Ryan got to be close, and then they would just be like oops we can’t be together, take a break for a couple days, and then start the cycle over again. and honestly, it got to be a bit annoying, since it happened so much, and it would always end the same way.

but, i feel like this book was just one massive pity party. i mean, i feel like it was so much pity about how she moved to California, got with the wrong crowd, hurt her leg, couldn’t go to the Olympics, got with some loser boyfriend, broke up with the said boyfriend, and then had to move back home with her parents. like at the start i felt bad for her, but then it got annoying, since it was brought up so much it just got on my nerves.

on another note, i really liked the dynamic between Ryan, Avery, and Hallie. i mean, i really like how they all worked together and they all had the same goal in their mind, about getting to the Olympics. and i honestly really like that Ryan and Avery were so supportive about it, and they always just pushed Hallie to do better and better.

i also really liked the whole talk about the sexual assault in the gymnastic world and how thing aren’t as perfect as they look to be. and i mean, i really liked how it was talked about and how it was this massive thing and how many people dealt with it in different ways. but, i do wish it was talked about more, and not just when it was convent to the story and the plot of everything.

another thing is i wished we got told more about Jasmine. since, we did get told a decent amount about her, but like it was only “oh she and Avery were best friends growing up” and “now she’s with some loser husband that’s abusive.” which, i feel bad about, but like we knew nothing about her, so it was hard to actually feel bad that she hates her husband and that she has such a terrible life.

i also feel like there wasn’t that much growth in this book. like, yeah i feel like Avery got to be a little more independent by the end of the book. but, i also feel like she was a lot of the same that she was from the start of the book. which, honestly got to be a bit annoying, since this was kind of boring and got bland after awhile.

but, i also feel like everything kind of happened to easy. like with her boyfriend breaking up with her and so she meets Ryan, moving back right when the job opens up, and so much more. it honestly kind of reminded me of a Hallmark movie, but that could just be me since i’ve been watching so much of it with my parents. and since everything clicked so quick, and there was never any doubt.

i also feel like there wasn’t that many sex scenes or anything like that. i could just be remembering this book wrong, but i only remember one sex scene, and that was honestly kind of weird by its self since they were like in the open gym at work. but, that was honestly the only one, which was honestly kind of a surprise. and it wasn’t even that good.

and i also feel like the author had so much that she wanted to do in this book. between the sexual assault, Jasmine issues, the romance, training and also the Olympics, it just didn’t work out that well. like, it had so much potential, but i feel like to much was packed into this small book, and you can definitely tell. and when it came to the romance, it was lacking so much, since they were trying to accomplish so much.

but, i also feel like this book told, instead of showed. like they just laid everything out, and never really showed you anything. and since this does deal with sports as a main topic, i kind of expected more showing then telling, but it was the complete opposite.

and also none of the characters had a personality. like i feel like all the characters were completely the same from each other. and it got to be a bit annoying, since everyone was an exact copy of each other. this is probably because this was only about sports, but still.

Avery- she was honestly kind of a basic romance love interest in my mind. like, she wasn’t like that different then some of them, but she has like a job that’s not like coffee shop owner, flower shop owner, or something like that.

Ryan- overall, he annoyed the hell out of me. when Avery was telling him not to do something, since working somewhere else isn’t going to be a good fit, since his boss is abusive, and after Avery tells him 100 times, he still looks at the job and almost takes it. i don’t know about you, but if i ever have a partner and they are telling me not to get a job somewhere cause they have history with the boss, i’d 100 percent not take that job. and i wouldn’t even think about it.

anyway, that is all for today! happy blogmas day 12! this book was honestly kind of bad, and i’m not sure if i just expected more, or if it was just the terrible development, but it was still bad.

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there’s someone inside your house review- blogmas day 11

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about there’s someone inside your house by Stephanie Perkins. i gave this book 4/5 stars. this book is a reread, but i still really liked it, even though a lot of people don’t really care for this book.

trigger warning- gore and death, also a lot of talk about really bad hazing.

if you’re looking for a cheesy high school slasher book, this is your book. this is pretty much one of those slasher films in book forms. with the romance, the description, and all the death scenes about where they show everything that happened with the killer.

but, this book was also super fast pace, which was honestly really nice. i feel like everything moved so fast, which is something i really loved. and i mean, it was so cool and it never was like really boring, like some of the YA mystery/thriller books.

one of the things i did find super weird though, was how once Ollie and Makani got like together, how they would just like make out in the school. which, to teach its own, i guess it is kind of basic in the whole teenage books and the teenage corny movies. but, i did think that it was kind of distasteful that Ollie and Makani were like making out in the middle of a school prayer. like some of their school mates died and they just kiss out of the prayer.

i also really liked how we got the killers motives in the end of the book. since, i feel like in a lot of murder mysteries i read that are adult, it’s like ‘oh yeah so and so is the murderer.’ where in here we got why that person was the killer, why they chose each person, and much more. which, i honestly taught was really cool in my mind.

but, spoiler time. i thought it was kind of stupid that there was this group of teenagers, like 5-8 of them, and most of them being these football players, or at least i think they played sports. and none of them could catch David. like there is how many of you, and none of you guys can like tackle him or something.

one thing i thought was pretty funny was when one person was getting stabbed, there was this other character who was running around in the house and even outside, naked. which, honestly made this serious scene way more funny then it should have been.

i cannot speak on the rep, but i think it was super cool to see a biracial character being the lead of the story. since she was African American and also a Native Hawaiian teenager, it was just really cool to see this. but, i do feel like everything was researched and it wasn’t like half asses like some other books.

i also feel like this story was more positive about sex then some books are. i mean, i feel like some of the books that deal with sex are so negative, but in here most of the characters were really positive about everyone having sex. which is something i always enjoy in books.

one thing that i didn’t care for was all the talk about Makani’s dark past. like it was yeah kind of bad, but all that she did wasn’t even that bad in my mind, if i’m remembering it correctly. (i think she only cut of some girls hair after she got hazed, so it’s not like she killed anyone, which i thought by the way they were talking about it.) and there was so much drama for literally no reason. like, it wasn’t even that bad and with all the built up, i expected it so be so shitty, when it really wasn’t that terrible.

i know i’m kind of all over the place. but, i really thought it was kind of cool that the killer was revealed like half way through the novel. i mean, i personally never really read anything like that before, so seeing this was honestly pretty cool. and i mean, the whole plot of everyone finding out and then they go on this killing spree was cool.

Makani- she was honestly a fair main character. there was nothing to special or boring about her, but she was still a decent character. and i can personally can see how everything was compared to Hawaii and how they really shaped her personality and who she really was.

Ollie- i feel like we don’t see that much about him, but i overall really liked his character and everything that happened to him. but, i also feel like we didn’t got told that much about him. we only got the basic information, just that he worked at a grocery store and that his parents are dead and he lives with his brother.

anyway, that is it for today! i hope you enjoyed this post, since i did really enjoy this book. and i know this was kind of all over all place. but, i’ll see you guys tomorrow for blogmas day 12.

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my issues with the after series – blogmas day 10

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 10! this is going to be a heavier blog post, since i’m going to be talking about why the after series is problematic and shouldn’t be praised. i actually have another blog post like this for blogmas, but also other ones planned.

one of my biggest issues in this whole series is when Todd wrote this whole fanfic series, Harry Styles was a minor. if you don’t know, this series is all about sex and being a bad boy with this massive sex drive. and when this series was originally written, it was when he was 16-17 years old. when in America, where the author lives, he’d still be considered a minor.

and literally nobody understands the real issue, that you cannot legally have sex in the United States till your 18+. so, if you’re getting were i’m going, she’s writing this whole series about sex with this teenager as the main plot. which is honestly so gross. i mean, i don’t know about you, that honestly makes me so uncomfortable, since a grown ass adult is writing this series fetishizing a teenager.

another thing in this series that just pissed me off, and also that is really problematic, is all the rape scenes that come upon in this book. there could really be so many different moments where they grow upon Tessa and Hardin’s mom being raped. but, i got the whole part of the rape scenes that it was the girls fault that she got raped and it was no way the actual rapists fault.

another thing that honestly pissed me off was how Tessa would go on and on and on about how Hardin would never ever hurt her. which for one if you have to tell people that he would never hurt you physically, you know that he’s not a good guy. but, after she went on covering his ass, he would go do something along the lines of mentally abuse her.

which, i hate to break it to you, but if someone is mentally abusive. it still is abuse, just not physical. like there would be pages and pages and pages, of him yelling at her and making her feel so small. and i hate to be the bearer of bad news, but a good guy doesn’t abuse people, especially his girlfriend.

i guess my biggest issue with the rape and the abuse was that it just gets brushed off in this book, and that it all gets spun to hit tessa in the face again and again, when she did nothing wrong and it was all Hardin. and also that there was so much victim blaming, it just got to be so annoying, since it’s not Tessa’s fault she got raped, it’s not Hardin’s mom’s fault she got raped, it’s not Tessa’s fault that she got mentally abused by Hardin again and again.

and their whole relationship is based of lies and just is so toxic, but people are so quick to defend this book about how toxic it is. i personally don’t understand how someone can just see and read this book and then think that this story isn’t toxic at all. i mean, the main plot of the book is Hardin taking her v card, and just using her for money and making her think that he loves her. which is just him lying to her all the time, and not ever being a stand up man.

no surprise when i say this, there are some unhealthy stereotypes in this book. the biggest ones were that all boys that wear black, have tattoos, and smirks instead of smiling, so of course he’s not a good person, and he will never ever be a good guy.

there also is the whole cheating part. i literally hate cheating in books with a passion, and this really happened with Tessa cheating with Noah. like cheating is such a shitty thing to happen to people in real life, so i honestly hated that there was cheating in this book, and that it was almost glorified.

and i guess all of this can go back to the fact that kids are reading this book cause they see it on wattpad, even if that is cool right now. but, needless to say there are younger people reading this book, and they see hoe Hardin acts and they think they want this type of relationship, since this whole book just glorifies these types of relationships.

anyway, that is all for today! this was honestly kind of a hot mess, but i feel like it needs to be said, since this shouldn’t be praised. and that this book is just so toxic. but, i’ll see you guys for tomorrow for the next blogmas post.

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christmas song book tag – blogmas day 9

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 9! today i am going to be doing the christmas song book tag. i’m gonna try and talk about only books that i read this year, which is honestly a lot, but who knows.

ALL I WANT FOR CHRISTMAS IS YOU- FAVORITE BOOKISH COUPLE

Wrath and Emilia from Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalo. i honestly really liked this book so much, and the romance was honestly so intoxicating. and they were honestly just so cute today, even though he’s like a devil.

I’LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS- A BOOK WHERE A CHARACTER IS AWAY FROM HOME.

in a holidaze by Christina Lauren. i’m not sure if i’d really say that this is completely away from home, since it’s like her second house. but, they still went on an airplane, so i’m gonna qualify it anyway.

HAVE YOURSELF A MERRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS- NAME YOUR FAVORITE LITTLE BOOK (CHILDREN’S BOOK, SHORT STORY, OR NOVELLA.)

haunted mansion by Sina Grace. i honestly really liked this book so much. i mean, it was just such a cute book about this fictional history about this ride. but, i still honestly loved this book so much.

SANTA CLAUSE IS COMING TO TOWN- WHAT BOOK(S) DO YOU HOPE SANTA BRINGS YOU THIS YEAR?

i actually have a whole blog post about this book, but i really want how the king of Elfhame learnt to hate stories by Holly Black. i am honestly so excited for this book, and i cannot wait to hopefully get it. but i know it is really small, but hopefully it still is really good.

RUDOLPH THE RED NOSE REINDEER- WHICH BOOK TURNED YOUR NOSE RED?

i never cry while reading, so i’m going to skip this.

THE MOST WONDERFUL TIME OF THE YEAR- YOUR FAVORITE BOOK/ KIND OF BOOK TO READ DURING THE HOLIDAYS

a good girls guide to murder by Holly Jackson. around the holiday’s i really like to read books that are some of my favorites. and seeing that this one of my favorite books of the year, i’m just gonna include it now.

WE THREE KINGS- YOUR FAVORITE TRILOGY

the cruel prince by Holly Black. this is honestly again not a surprise to anyone. but, this is like one of the only trilogies i’ve read in awhile and actually liked all of the books. and one of the few trilogies i’ve actually read.

LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW, LET IT SNOW- A CHARACTER YOU WOULD LOVE TO BE SNOWED IN WITH

ravi from good girl, bad blood by Holly Jackson. he is honestly such a sweet character in this book and honestly he just seems like the kind of character you can talk with for a long time, which is something that sounds so amazing honestly.

LAST CHRISTMAS- A BOOK THAT SERIOUSLY LET YOU DOWN

bring me back by BA Paris. i love the other book by this author, but this book was honestly so bad. i was honestly just so pissed off well i was reading this book. so, this let me down so much.

WHITE CHRISTMAS- AN UPCOMING RELEASE YOU’RE DREAMING ABOUT.

these violent delights by Chloe Gong. i’m honestly so excited to read this book. i mean, everyone and their mother is talking about it, so i cannot wait to read this.

anyway, that is all for today! i hope you enjoy this blog post even though it was all over the place and it is kind of short though. but, happy day 9 of blogmas and i’ll see you tomorrow.

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punching the air review – blogmas day 8

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 8! today i am going to talk about punching the air by Ibi Zoboi. i gave this book 3/5 stars. i honestly didn’t really like this book, which is terrible since everyone pretty much loves this book, and i didn’t really care for it.

trigger warning– wrongful conviction and imprisonment, racism, abuse, violence

when i say this, i don’t want to come off a bitch or anything. but, i personally fell asleep when i was reading this. i personally not the biggest fan of free verse style and since the author kept repeating the same info over and over again. but, i think that’s me more then the author.

and i’ve read free style before, and personally i love Elizabeth Acevedo’s books so much. but, i feel with everything that she writes has so much meaning to her, when i don’t doubt this is the same for this author about this book. but, i feel like the way that Acevedo talks about her things just impacts me more.

but, i also feel like this book was all over the place. i mean, when something would happen that was good, in the next couple pages it would be changed to something else. and overall it got to be kind of annoying since this happened over and over again.

on a more positive note, i really liked Amal’s character and how they talked about all of his interest. and i really liked all the talk about how he was a poet and how one of his favorite things to do is art and to draw. and i personally really like the whole poetry that he would write, and the poems that he wrote i almost wish the whole book was like that.

i also found the pacing to be a bit slow. i mean, i feel like it had these moments that it was quick, then it was just so freaking slow. and i mean i think that it might just be because of the whole free verse, but i remember Pride to be a little slow too.

and i wish that there was more build up to Amal getting put in jail and what actually happened. since, i feel like in this book they would say things that he got landed in jail but he didn’t do anything. and i’m one of those readers that need everything to be spelt out for me, and in here we didn’t get it till more then half way threw the book, so i was just so confused.

take this with a grain of salt, but i found Amal to always have this pity party. and like always wanted to get pity from her family, his lawyer, his counselor, his friends, the other inmates, and like any other person he came in contact with. and then he would so stupid things, and then say that he knows the right from the wrong but 15/10 he would do the wrign and choosing wrong after wrong.

with that being said, i still think a lot of people should read this book and that this is worth your kind. even if i couldn’t really get into it that good. i honestly just wanted this book to be more powerful and not a massive loop. and it is important, but it doesn’t have the writing style that punched me in the gut.

anyway, that is it for today! i honestly didn’t really like this book, which i hate since everyone loved this book. but, happy blogmas day 8 and i’ll hopefully see you tomorrow.

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books to get someone- blogmas day 7

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 7! today i am going to be talking about you can get for people, or even you can get for yourself. i tried to pick books that are a bit older, and nothing that a lot of people might have or read.

love and gelato by Jenna Evans Welch. this book is honestly so freaking cute and i love it so much. there is a good chance that people might have already own this, but the third book just came out, so you can always get that one. but, this follows around 17 year old Lina, whose mother recently died, so she has to move all the way to Italy to live with her father. and, once she gets there, she meets her neighbor, who she falls for.

legendborn by Tracy Deonn. this book is honestly sounds like more of modern day spin of City of Bones by Cassie Claire, so if they like that, i highly suggest this. but, honestly this book sounds like the perfect YA contemporary fantasy, with a lot of Southern Black Girl Magic, and i cannot wait to read this.

felix ever after by Kacen Callendar. i feel like everyone has been talking about this book recently, and i honestly can see why, since it is just so good. this book does have some strong triggers, the main ones being transphobia, being outed, and cyber bullying. but, i still think this book would be so great for younger teenagers to read, but also everyone.

cinderella is dead by Kalynn Bayron. this honestly is such a great book for dinsey fans. i mean, this book seriously deals with the world of cinderella, but in 200 years. and it honestly is super cool to read about that and just more of this world, which we didn’t know to much about in the movies. especially if you want a more feminists and lgbtq version of this story.

eliza and her monsters by Francesca Zappia. this book would honestly be so perfect for any of you family members that’s big into writing, and especially comics and drawing. this also deals with talks about anxiety, so keep that in mind. but, this is seriously such a cute romance novel, but also with some more serious topics talked about.

a quiet kind of thunder by Sara Barnard. this is honestly one of my favorite books, so i had to recommended this book. but, this book does deal with mutism and also a deaf main character. but, this seriously is such a cute love story with also some harder topics woven into it.

to all the boys i’ve loved before by Jenny Han. there is a good chance that the person that you are buying for already owns the original editions of this book. but, they are slowly coming out with the movie tie in edition, which if you friends or family member likes the movies, it would probably be a big hit to get them this.

kingdom of the wicked by Kerri Maniscalo. i might be a little biased, but i completely loved this book as someone who never really reads that much fantasy. but, this would be the perfect book for someone that is into light fantasy and romance, but has already read the cruel prince dozens of times and everyone around them is tired of them talking about that book.

home before dark by Riley Sager. this is probably going to be the mystery/thriller book of the summer of 2020 written all over it. but, this would be perfect for any mystery/thriller or even horror novel or movie fans. this has literally no romance in it, so if they don’t like that, i highly suggest this book.

burn our bodies down by Rory Powers. i personally had some mixed feelings about this book, but overall it was decent. this is another book that does have its own set of triggers, but it also deals with an lgbtqia main character, which i really liked, well also keeping that spooky element going.

a good girls guide to murder by Holly Jackson. everyone probably knows that i love this series so much, it probably gets annoying when i talk about it. but, this is another YA mystery/thriller and it talks about so many hard topics that might be sensitive for some readers. but, i still highly recommend it .

heartstoppers by Alice Oseman. this is actually a series, with i think 3 graphic novels currently out, and it is literally probably the cutest book on this list. i was honestly so scared to read this, but you will not be disappointed when you buy this so someone, since it’s just so freaking cute. and everyone needs a cute lgbtqia love story of two boys that don’t die.

the falling in love montage by Ciara Smyth. this wasn’t my personal cup of tea, but it still was pretty decent. i highly suggest this for anyone that likes rom coms, since the main topic of this book is about why rom coms don’t have more lgbtqia characters.

anyway, that is all for today! i could honestly probably go on and on about more books i liked and you can get people. but, i’m just going to stop myself before it gets out of hand. anyway happy blogmas day 7, and hopefully i’ll see you tomorrow.

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bookish things to get people- blogmas day 6

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 6! today i am going to be talking about things you can get people that aren’t books, but are still bookish. i personally know my family will only buy so many books, and then they want other ideas. so, if you want something bookish, here you go. and this blog post is no way sponsored by any of these companies, i’m just doing it because i love their product.

STICKERS-

one of m favorite companies is Pipsticks. i’ve gotten a couple of these from Owlcrate boxes, and i honestly love them. i mean, they are so tiny and cute, so i highly recommend these. and this company has more then just stickers, also tape and pens i believe. but, i do think this is a subscription, which is always so amazing.

i’ve never personally bought anything from this company, but this one is so cute is Sophie Elaina. and i honestly love all of their designs. and i honestly love the cardan and jude sticker, and you can get that design in posters, t shirts, hoodies, journals and more. and as for more of a christmas design, i personally love the bookish Christmas tree one, and this one can also be in hoodies and t shirts and journals.

the next shop I’m going to talk about is Catarina book designs. there is honestly so many cute stickers, especially the animal bookish ones. it’s honestly so hard to pick my favorite ones. but, i really like the penguin reading and the otter reads. and of course these come in multiple different things.

now the final company i’m gonna talk about is FandomShirtsPH. this company has so many cute designs, especially if you are in one of the bigger fandoms, like Grishaverse and Percy Jackson and Shatter me. there is also bookish quotes, classic book, and even somethings about mental health.

CANDLES-

this is probably one of my favorite companies that i’ve got something from Novelly yours. i honestly love these so much and i’ve gotten so many of these in owlcrate boxes. and these honestly smell so amazing, and i cannot wait to get more.

the next one is wick and fable. i’ve personally never got anything from these, but i know so many people rave about these candles on instagram and youtube. and from what i heard, they smell so amazing and i really want one.

BOOK MARKS-

now this is for all my schitt’s creek  fans, and here’s some of the cutest ones i’ve found these. they are honestly so adorable, and i completely love them so much. and these would honestly be the best gift for someone that loves that show.

the next one is this cat bookmark. it is honestly so cute and would honestly work for any type of animal or especially cat lovers. and anyway everyone can use a cat bookmark in their life.

JOURNALS-

with the new year approaching closely, a lot of people are going to be needing new journals to plan their reading out, so this plant and book journal. this one is honestly so cute, and i really love this one. but, it is an hardcover, so i’m not sure if someone will like it.

the next one is a journal cover of YA fantasy books. this is especially good for anyone who loves YA books, but also fantasy books is what they read and talk about. this is honestly so cute, and i love that it is all of the ‘classic’ YA books.

OTHER THNGS-

now i’m just going to be doing a list of other things you can get a book nerd, that might not be completely about books, but it works.

  • fluffy socks
  • blankets
  • mugs
  • hot chocolate/ tea/ coffee
  • little sticky notes
  • pens/ highlighters
  • bookish ordment
  • gift cards to Barnes and Noble, Indigo, or any indie bookstore
  • phone cases

anyway, that it all for today! i honestly really liked this post, especially a little gift guide can be so helpful during the holiday’s. but, i hope you enjoyed and i’ll see you tomorrow for day 7.

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after ever happy review – blogmas day 5

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about after ever happy by Anna Todd. i gave this book 1/5 stars. and that is not even that shocking that i hated this book, but i still want to talk about this book since i did suffer and read this.

first thing first, what kind of English is after ever happy? like i kind of get the whole happily ever after vibe, but the title doesn’t make even make sense. like they should have did like happy ever after to make sense and be actual English. another thing that i don’t understand was why this book had a 4.08 rating on goodreads? like its so bad and toxic.

i also found this book to have so many spelling mistakes and grammar errors. which got to be super annoying after a while. to some degree, i somewhat understand why it had all of this, since it is a wattpad book. but, seeing that it was published and is going to get a movie, it is so annoying.

also, this book is so freaking dramatic. like every minor inconvenience, Hardin will start yelling, and Tessa would start crying. and this just got to be so much after a while. but, seeing this way the series was all going, i’m not like super surprised again with everything that was happening. in all seriousness, you could look at Hardin the wrong way and he’d start yelling and Tessa would start balling her eyes out.

still talking about that, i don’t really understand why Hardin was so pissed off about Vance. like i understand that he’s your secrets dad, but Vance is still sitting down and explaining everything. it’s not like Vance like said that and then ran the other direction. but, i still thought it was just weird that Hardin got to freaking pissed. i also thought it was funny how Vance kept saying period over and over again.

one thing that just make me pissed, was how Hardin would just like walk up to Tessa and he’d just like grab her boobs. like, to some degree like they’re together, so it’s better then it being a stranger, but it was still really weird. overall, it made me kind of uncomfortable, since this just got old and it was so unneeded.

just like before, something else that pissed me off was how there was this want a be sex scene, but Tessa was like “no lets not have sex” but what does Hardin do, fingers her anyway. and this honestly made me more uncomfortable then the boob grabbing scene, since this was rape.

another thing that got kind of stupid, was how they would just jump into the future, and it wouldn’t make sense since they wouldn’t even like say “5 years” or “in a dream” it just like jumped. and none of this had any real part of this, since it had zero things for the plot.

but, i honestly thought it was annoying that tessa kept trying to reform Hardin and to make him into some amazing guy. like, this happened for each book, but then this just came back and bit her in the ass. and this just got so old, since this was happening 24/7 and nothing happened.

with that being said, it got to be annoying that Hardin would use and be such a dick to Tessa, but then he’d go back to their apartment or Karen’s house and then it literally just made everything worse and worse. and it’s not like he says “i’m sorry” but instead he just acts like nothing actually happened.

the whole plot point about Tessa’s dad dying was also so unneeded. like it went for chapters and chapters and chapters, but then it would just end in screaming matches. and i also could not get into the whole plot about Tessa going to her moms house, since that was just argument over and over again. since the mom was just like such a pain, it literally gave me a headache.

then the whole part about Hardin saying to Tessa “lets have kids and get married,” after they get into some big argument, just was so toxic. like in ever single book he was like “no kids, no marriage” but in here it was like whenever there was a fight he would talk about kids and getting married.

Hardin- i found him to be so manipulative. which, again was so normal at this point in this series. but, i mean i think that this character had so much hope, but then he just weren’t a good guy. and like i said that he can never be reformed.

Tessa- she was honestly one of the most annoying characters, since that there was so much drama around her. and i mean that she was such a baby. but, i do feel bad about her that she couldn’t have kids naturally, and she had to go through IVF and doctors.

anyway, that’s all for today! i honestly really hated this book, which is no surprise. and there was honestly so many issues with this book and it honestly makes me so pissed that there’s a lot of people that hype up this book all the time, when it is so toxic.

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don’t stay up late and one evil summer review – blogmas day 4

hello everyone! today i am going to be doing a double review about don’t stay up late and one evil summer by RL Stine. these books were honestly kind of bad, hence why i just wanted to combine them into one blog post.

DON’T STAY UP LATE-

so first off, i gave this book 4/5 stars. i didn’t really hate this book, but i do really like that much since i had a bunch of little issues with this book. and some of them are just a little petty. but, i’ll explain some of my issues.

one of my things was that Stein literally had no clue how to write a teenager for the life of him. i personally found this to be very like stereotypical for all the teenagers in this book. and i mean, it’s not the end of the world, but i just found this to be super annoying.

another thing that made me kind of pissed, was how Stein went on and on to talk about how much our main character was a twisted psycho. like the first line had something along the lines about how much of a twisted psycho she was. and there never was any reason why she was such a twisted psycho, they just kept saying it over and over.

i also found that the whole baby demon crap was so obvious. i mean, i could totally tell that Harry was 100% the demon. with that being said, i still don’t kind of understand how the demon could be in one place, yet Harry was in the closet. and if this was just written better, this had so much more potential to be scary.

on another hand, i feel like this book was quite clunky and very empty. with all that being said, if i have read this book before. but, if i read this book when i a lot younger. this book would have been super easy to read, since this book just was so good when your a kid with dyslexia, like i was.

i don’t know about you, but i’ve always been taught in school that you shouldn’t used the same verb more then once in a paragraph. but, i feel like in this book it always was like “i went, he goes, i ran, i said, he said, i asked, he asked.” and for obvious reasons it got to be so annoying, and just got super annoying.

ONE EVIL SUMMER

i gave this book 2/5 stars. i honestly hated this book so much. but, i feel like this book could have been so much more better, but this one was not it in the end of it all.

this book was honestly such a stereotypical book. i mean, for me i feel like this book had the whole “oh she has mental illness so she’s not stable” crap that’s in a lot of older books. well also doing the whole crap about how all babysitters are always liars and don’t know how to do anything right.

there was also this whole weird plot about how her cat died, shocker. and it went on and on and on how this cat got killed, and that how the cat is always right and if he doesn’t like someone, that person is a bad person. and i really like animals, but in this book it even got to be a bit much, since there was so much talk about them.

i also think the whole basic revenge plot got a little bit stupid after awhile. like it was honestly so basic and the most cliché thing in the world. and it honestly wanted me to bang my head into my phone.

anyway, that is it for this blog post. this was honestly all over the place, since i didn’t have that many big thoughts on this book. but, hopefully i’ll see you guys all tomorrow for day 5.

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end of the year book tag – blogmas day 3

hello everyone! and also happy blogmas day 3! today i am going to be doing the end of the year book tag. i know i’m kind of late for this, but better late then never i guess.

ARE THERE ANY BOOKS YOU STARTED THIS YEAR THAT YOU NEED TO FINISH?

the cheerleaders by Kara Thomas. i honestly want to finish this one so bad, but i’ve just been putting it off for awhile now. like, it’s a decent book, but i’ve just been trying to read to many other things. but, hopefully i will finish this before the end of the year.

DO YOU HAVE AN AUTUMNAL BOOK TO TRANSITION INOT THE END OF THE YEAR?

i’m posting this book really late, so i’ve pretty much read all my autumnal reading, but as for more winter books, i always to try to read my favorites. so, i want to read stalking jack the ripper by Kerri Maniscalo soon. since, it is one of my all time favorite books, so i just want to read it soon.

IS THERE A NEW RELEASE YOU’RE STILL WAITING FOR?

super fake love song by David Yoon. i’ve never read the first book by this author. but, this book just sounds like such a cute YA rom com book, which is something i need right now. but, from what i can tell that this is a book about a mistaken identity that makes a string of fake events that need to have real life.

these violent delights by Chloe Gong. this book honestly sounds so freaking good. i mean it is a Romeo and Juliet retelling that takes place in Shanghai and in the 1926. and this is getting talked about so much on twitter i am honestly so excited to read this book.

WHAT ARE THREE BOOKS YOU WANT TO READ BEFORE THE END OF THE YEAR?

cemetery boys by Aiden Thomas. i honestly have started the book before, but then i stopped because of my hold went up. so, i just want to finally start the audiobook this time. and i mean so many people have wanted to read this book, so i cannot wait to read this.

Dash and Lily’s book of dares by Rachel Cohn. i’m pretty confident that i already started this book, but dnfed this years ago. but, i really want to start this book again since the new tv show has just came out. but, i’m honestly pretty excited to read this.

they wish they were us by Jessica Goodman. i honestly have no clue what this book is about but i know there is going to be a movie or something being casted, and that Halsey is going to be in this. and i honestly wanted to read this book before stuff about that start to comes out.

IS THERE A BOOK YOU THINK COULD STILL SHOCK YOU AND BECOME YOUR FAVORITE BOOK OF THE YEAR?

cemetery boys by Aiden Thomas. i know i’ve already talked about this book, but i honestly think that i can read this book and fall in love with it. and i mean i feel like it just sounds so good, and that this would just be so cute but also so creepy

HAVE YOU ALREADY STARTED MAKING READING PLANS FOR 2021?

i have no reading plans whatsoever for 2021. i mean i know that i want to read more then 100 books, but other then that i have no clue about anything yet.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly really liked this, even though this was pretty short. but, that’s all for today and i’ll hopefully see you guys tomorrow again for the next post.

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