hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about love and other disasters by anita kelly. i gave this book 3/5 stars. first off, happy pub date to this book and thank you so much for an arc of this book! but, with this review, it is going to be honest and not changed by the author/ publisher and all the thoughts in here are my own.
i think my biggest issue with this book was the romance and the chemistry between london and dahlia. like, i feel like so much of the start of the book was just them, mainly london, thinking about dahlia and this cycle of both of them thinking about each other. and i feel like in my romance books, i just need to be communication and just to have them know things and learn more about the other person in the relationship. like, for one, by the time they wanted to / did jump into bed together, they couldn’t tell each other what their middle names were or their childhood pet, which i realized is something i need if it isn’t some quick hookup.
but, i also think that the romance just didn’t feel right? like, i think it might have been because they were competing against each other, so they kind of have that going on or that they both want the same prize in the end. and i think part of the issues was that they both could go home at any time and anything could happen. but, i just feel like it just didn’t work. like i think the things that are super important in a relationship were just suddenly missing and it didn’t make for a good book, since london and dahlia just didn’t work.
with the romance, i feel like that there was so much emotional things happening in this book. like, i think that both london and dahlia both have so much emotional trauma, with london coming out and then dahlia leaving everything she had and going on this show after her divorce, that i feel like that emotionally, that they both weren’t in the relationship 100%. like, they both had so much going on in their personal life, that i feel like the relationship just struggled to stay afloat and that they both fully couldn’t commit to the other person, which was just so shitty.
but, with all the emotions, i feel like it really took the shine away from london and dahlia. like, i’m all for emotional parts in romance books, but i think that there is a fine line between emotions we need and want, and then emotions that take away from the plot of the book / the romance, where i feel like this book was the second one. like i already said, they put so much emotional depth in this book, but than when the romance started to get a bigger role, the emotional parts slowly started to take over the book and the main plot.
kind of with that, i did like reading about the different issues that london and dahlia went through in this book. like, i did like reading it, but i think that it should have been toned down a little bit, just since at points, it should have just been a romance. but, i also think they would bring so many things up, like issues and emotional parts that they went through. like, i feel like that for the most part, it never even really got resolved, it was just here for the drama. like, i feel like they should have had so much more growth and to show their growth, but instead they just did this drama sake and to push the romance aside for drama plot points.
but, i feel like also that in the start of the book they tried to do this hate to love and forced proximity plot / trope for this book. which, in the long run, i wouldn’t hate seeing the hate to love, since i think that would be so cool to see play out on a show where they were competing and maybe they would even partner them up together for a couple challenges or something. but, the hate to love was literally like five pages, and dahlia was just being a bitch to them about not wanting to talk about her peeing her pants in like 5th grade.
another thing i didn’t really like was the all the sexual comments london made towards dahlia, in their mind. like, i think that there is a fine line between finding someone attractive and thinking about them, or being way to sexual. like, i think london was to sexual towards her, like i feel that they would bring everything up that she would do, and make it to be this sexual act. like she could be walking and it would be sexual or like cooking and somehow they would get to thinking about bending her over the counter top, etc. and like i’m fine with sexual thoughts, but i think that at this point, dahlia wasn’t even showing the same feelings for them, so it just got to be kind of icky.
kinda going back to the emotion parts, but i feel like that the emotions in this book were out of wack. like, i they really went from 0 to 100 in a matter of minutes, like they were never a little sad, it was like full bodied sobbing. like, it just got to be a lot with how it all happened, and that i think that they really need to cool down with these emotions, since it did get to be a lot after a while. and i feel like it also made a sex scenes not good, since they were like super super horny, so they never had any of those sweet and intimate moments, since they were so horny.
but, with the sex scenes, i did like it to a degree. like i did like that were written in a way that it wasn’t toxic or rude to london and them being non-binary, and i think that it was honestly done quite well with that regard. but, i feel like that the emotions get away from anything happened, and that i do wish they had those cute little intimate moments that are in other books just not be pure sex drive. but, they did talk so much during the sex scenes, which got on my nerves after awhile cause like i don’t care if you talk, but it got to be a bit much after awhile.
anyway, that is all for today! thank you so much to the publisher, author, and netgalley for an arc of this book and also happy book birthday. and like i already said, this was an honest review, and wasn’t changed by the publisher/author.
hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about loveless by alice oseman. i gave this book 3/5 stars. to be honest, i did like this book, but i feel like i was just expecting something else from what this book actually was. but, i think that it did have good moments, and as being asexual, i did really like seeing a character with my same sexuality on page, was just so cool.
i honestly think the biggest set back for me was the acephobia / arophobia in this book. like this book is super hyped, and i feel like so many people love this book so much and talk about it, but i’ve never really remember seeing the acephobia / arophobia about this book. like, i get it, but i mean it is such a big and important part of the story, since it could be super triggering. and i mean, i probably could have looked up the trigger warnings for this book, but with so many people raving about it, plus like none of the goodreads reviews really mention it. it was just so shocking and kind of uncomfortable for someone that is asexual.
then for georgia as a character, i did like her. like, i did feel for her and i did care about her journey throughout this book and to see what was happening to them. but, i think that she was just so annoying. like half of this book was just her whining about her friends from high school not wanting to be attached to her hip now that they are in college. and like as an asexual, i’m sex positive, and i know other asexual people that are sex positive. but, i feel like in here, when it came to sex, and not even about her having / wanting sex, she was so mean? like all she did was kind of look down about them and think that they’re doing the wrong thing and sex shaming them, which got to be so annoying and honestly took down my enjoyment from this book, since she just didn’t need to be a bitch about other people having sex.
but, i also feel like the whole sex thing was just so toxic. like, she was toxic about sex and then just mentally toxic to herself also. like, she would go on page and page rants about how she didn’t like herself and being very self loathing, since that wasn’t a good thing. like, she was toxic about everything in her life. but, in the process, i feel like she would just be toxic to everyone, and have no regard to anyone else in her life and just messing them up.
one thing that i did really like was the friend groups. like, i think with the one from high school, that it was really cool to see how that when your in high school, you have these friends and make these friendships, and then when you grow up, they aren’t always the same and you will grow in these relationships. and i think that it was kind of cool to see how they still grew and that they kind of grew apart, but still understood that they were these good friends and that they are still important in their life, and they might come and go, but they are still important.
then, for her college friends. i honestly kind of preferred them, since i feel like they weren’t as whiny as the other ones. but, i still honestly think the growth and development from their relationship and from where they started to where they ended, it was just so cool. but, i honestly think that it was just cool to see their growth and to have georgie figure out her sexuality, but then also to find her place in the world but also find her place in the group, it was just so cool and i really liked seeing it. plus, i feel like everyone in the friend group was so different, that it was really cool and i liked the development.
with that, i honestly didn’t really like the characters for the most part they were bland and had way to much emotion in some of these parts. and i think that so much of this story was heavy on them, like the side characters and her friends, where i wished that they kind of took a step back from all the side characters and gave georgie more of a part and more of a voice outside of her friends. but, i also think that with these characters, oseman tried to pack so much trauma and drama and sexualities in these characters, that it got to be kind of annoying cause they never went into backstories or anything else about these characters.
but, i did like the talks and the discussions about the different types of love in the world. like, i like that they did go into these discussions about how people can love someone in an actual romantic way, but also have this book heavy with building up the friendship love and the platonic love. which, is something that i did really like. especially since they never devalued platonic love, and they still said it was just as important the romantic love.
kind of going back to the whole sexuality topic, and instead of giving these different things different paragraphs, i’m just gonna do it all in here. but, one thing that i didn’t really like was how there as this pansexual character, who did have a big amount of time, but instead of being positive about this sexuality and to have some sort of learning moment. the whole thing about them being pansexual was that they’re only pan cause they need the sex in their life ‘to fill this void.’ another thing was that there was a non-binary character in this book, who again had a lot of page time, and if i remember correctly, they did make a couple comments in the start about using they/them pronouns, but nobody ever addressed them by they/them?? like i could be remembering wrong, but i just don’t think they ever did that.
anyway, that is all for today! like i said, i did wish i liked this book more, since i feel like it could have been so good, plus i really like the heartstoppers series as well, but i feel like this was just not the rep we needed in ace books since it was toxic.
hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about the YA books that are coming out this year i’m excited for. but, in this list, it is going to be mainly YA, but i am going to include two regular adult books in here as well, since i don’t know where to talk about them about, and it’s stupid to do a post for two books.
the atlas paradox by olivie blake. this book is going to come out late 2022.
so, we don’t actually know what this book is about, but it’s the second book in the atlas six series.
book of night by holly black. this is coming out on may 3rd.
in charlie hall’s world, shadows can be altered, for entertainment and cosmetic preferences, but also to increase power and influence. you can alter someone’s feelings and memories, but manipulating shadows has a cost, with the potential to take hours or days from your life. your shadow holds all the parts of you that you want to keep hidden, a second self, standing just to your left, walking behind you into lit rooms and sometimes, has a life of its own. charlie is a low level con artist, working as a bartender while trying to distance herself from the powerful and dangerous underground world of shadow trading. she gets by doing odd jobs for her patrons and the naive new money in her town at the edge of berkshire. but when a terrible figure from her past returns, charlie’s present life is thrown into chaos, and her future seems at best, unclear, and at worst, non existent. determined to survive, charlie throws herself into a maelstrom of secrets and murder, setting her against a cast of doppelgangers, mercurial billionaires, shadow thieves, and her own sister, all desperate to control the magic of the shadows.
belladonna by adalyn grace. this book comes out august 23rd, 2022.
orphaned as a baby, nineteen year old signa has been raised by a string of guardians, each more interested in her wealth than her well being, and each has met an untimely end. her remaining relatives are the elusive hawthrones, an eccentric family living in thorn grove, an estate both glittering and gloomy. its patriarch mourns his late wife through wild parties, while his son grapples for control of the family’s waning reputation and his daughter suffers from a mysterious illness. but when their mother’s restless spirit appears claiming she was poisoned, signa realizes that the family she depends on could be in grave danger. sigina’s best chance of uncovering the murderer is an alliance with death himself, a fascinating, dangerous shadow who has never been far from her side. through she’s made her life a living hell, death shows signa that their growing connection may be more powerful, and more irresistible, than she ever dared imagine.
ophelia after all by racquel marie. this book comes out february 8th, 2022.
ophelia rojas knows what she likes: her best friends, cuban food, rose gardening, and boys- way to many boys. her friends and parents make fun of her endless stream of crushes, but ophelia is a romantic at heart. she couldn’t change, even if she wants to. so when she finds herself thinking more about cute, quiet talia sanchez than the loss of a perfect prom with her ex boyfriend, seeds of doubt take root in ophelia’s firm image of herself. add to that, the impending ends of high school and the fracturing of her once solid friend group, and things are spiraling a little out of control. but the course of love, and sexuality, never did run smooth. as her secrets begins to unravel, ophelia must make a choice between clinging to the fantasy version of herself she’s always imagined or upending everyone’s expectations to rediscover who she really is, after all.
a forgery of roses by jessica s. olson. this book comes out march 1st, 2022.
she’s an artist whose portraits alter people’s real life bodies, a talent she must hide from those who would kidnap, blackmail, and worse in order to control it. guarding that secret is the only way to keep her younger sister safe now that their parents are gone. but one frigid night, the governor’s wife discover the truth and threatens to expose myra is she does not complete a special portrait that would resurrect the governor’s dead son. desperate, myra ventures to his legendary stone mansion. once she arrives, however, it becomes clear the boy’s death was no accident. someone dangerous lurks within these glittering halls. someone harboring a disturbing obsession with portrait magic.
league of liars by astrid scholte. this book comes out february 22nd, 2022.
ever since his mother was killed, seventeen year old cayder broduck has had one goal: to see illegal users of magic brought to justice. people who carelessly use extradimensional magic for their own self interest, without a care to the damage it does to society or those around them, deserve to be punished as far as cayder is concerned because magic always has a price. so when cayder lands a once in a lifetime opportunity to apprentice under a premier public defender, he takes it. if he can learn all the tricks of public defense, the better he’ll be able to dismantle defense arguments when he’s a prosecutor. then he’ll finally be able to make sure justice is served. but when he meets the three criminals he’s supposed to defend, it no longer seems so black and white. they’re teenagers, like him, and their stories are complicated, like his.
the ones we burn by rebecca mix. this book comes out november 1st, 2022.
a young blood witch’s mission to assassinate her betrothed, a gentle humble prince, gets complicated when they uncover a witch killing plague, and in their race to stop it, she falls for the prince’s sister.
bad things happen here by rebecca barrow. this book comes out june 8th, 2022.
luca laine thomas lives on a cursed island. to the outside world, parris is an exclusive, idyllic escape accessible only to the one percent. there’s nothing idyllic about its history, though, scattered with the unsolved deaths of young women, deaths parris society happily ignores to maintain its polished veneer. but luca can’t ignore them. not when the curse that took them killed her best friend, polly, three years ago. not when she feels the curse lingering nearby, ready to take her next. when luca comes home to police cars outside her house, she knows the curse has visited once again. except this time, it came for whitney, her sister. luca decides to take the investigation of whitney’s death into her own hands.
i kissed shara wheeler by casey mcquiston. this book comes out may 3rd, 2022.
chloe green is so close to winning. after her moms moved her from socal to alabama for high school, she’s spent the past four years dodging gossipy classmates and a puritanical administration at willowgrove christian academy. the thing that’s kept her going: winning valedictorian. her only rival: prom queen shara wheeler, the principal’s perfect progeny. but a month before graduation, shara kisses chloe and vanishes. on a furious hunt for answers, chloe discovers she’s not the only one shara kissed. there’s also smith, shara’s longtime quarterback sweetheart, and rory, shara’s bad boy neighbor with a crush. the three have nothing in common except shara and the annoyingly cryptic notes she left behind, but together they must untangle shara’s trail of clues and find her. it’ll be worth it, if chloe can drag shara back before graduation to beat her fair and square. thrown into an unlikely alliance, chasing a ghost through parties, break ins, puzzles, and secret revealed on monogrammed stationery, chloe starts to suspect there might be more to this small town than she thought. and maybe, probably not, but maybe, more to shara too.
anyway, that is all today. there probably is so many more books in that i can include, but i just don’t want this list to be so long, since it would just get boring after awhile.
hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about the romance books i’m excited for that are coming out in 2022. honestly, there is so many good book coming out in 2022 that i’m excited for, so i’m going to break these down in a couple different posts by genre, so it’s easier to tell which genre each book is.
reputation by lex croucher. this book comes out april 5th, 2022.
abandoned by her parents, middle class georgiana ellers has moved to a new town to live with her dreary aunt and uncle. at a particularly dull party, she meets the enigmatic frances campbell, a wealthy member of the in crown who lives a life georgiana couldn’t have imagined in her wildest dreams. lonely and vulnerable, georgiana falls in with frances and her unfathomably rich, deeply improper friends. georgiana is introduced to a new world: drunken debauchery, mysterious young men with strangely arresting hands, and the upper echelons of regency society.
book lovers by emily henry. this book comes out may 3rd, 2022.
nora stephens’ life is books, she’s read them all, and she is not that type of heroine. not the plucky one, not the laidback dream girl, and especially not that sweetheart. in fact, the only people nora is a heroine for are her clients, for whom she lands enormous deals as a cutthroat literary agent, and her beloved little sister libby. which is why she agrees to go to sunshine falls, north carolina for the month of august when libby begs for a sisters’ trip away, with visions of a small town transformation for nora, who she’s convinced needs to become the heroine in her own story. but instead of picnics in he meadows, or run ins with a handsome country doctor or bulging forearmed bartender, nora keeps bumping into charlie lastra, a bookish brooding editor from back i the city. it would be a meet cute if not for the back that they’ve met many times and it’s never been cute.
hook, line, and sinker by tessa bailey. this book comes out march 1st, 2022.
king crab fisherman, fox thornton, has a reputation as a sexy carefree flirt. everyone knows he’s a guaranteed good time, in bed and out, and that’s exactly how he prefers it. until he meets hannah bellinger. she’s immune to his charm and looks, but she seems to enjoy his personality and wants to be friends. but, he likes her too much to risk a fling, so platonic it goes. now, hannah is in town for work, crashing in fox’s spare bedroom, she knows he’s a notorious ladies’ man, but they’re definitely just friends. in fact, she’s nursing a hopeless crush on a colleague and fox is just the person to help with her lackluster love life. armed with a few tips from westport’s resident casanova, hannah sets out to catch her coworker’s eye, yet the more time she spends with fox, the more she wants him instead. as the line between friendship and flirting begin to blur, hannah can’t deny she loves everything about fox, but she refuses to be another notch in his bedpost.
part of your world by abby jimenez. this book comes out april 19th, 2022.
after a wild bet, gourmet gilled cheese sandwich, and cuddle with a baby goat, alexis montgomery has had her world turned upside down. the cause: daniel grant, a ridiculously hoy carpenter who’s ten years younger than her and as casual as they come, the complete opposite of sophisticated city girl alexis. and yet their chemistry is undeniable. while her ultra wealthy parents want her to carry on the family legacy of world- renowned surgeons, alexis doesn’t need glory or fame. she’s fine with being a ‘mere’ ER doctor and every minute she spends with daniel and the tight knit town where she lives, she’s discovering just what’s really important. yet letting their relationship become anything more than a short term fling would mean turning her back on her family and giving up the opportunity to help thousands of people.
the roughest draft by emily wibberley and austin segemund-broka. this book comes out january 25th, 2022.
three years ag, katrina freeling and nathan van huysen were the brightest literary stars on the horizon, their cowritten books topping bestseller lists. but, on the heels of their greatest success, they ended their partnership on bad terms, for reasons neither would divulge to the public. they haven’t spoken since, and never planned to, except they have one final book due on contract. facing crossroads in their personal and professional lives, they’re forced to reunite. the last thing they were wrote their previous book, trying to finish a new manuscript quickly and painlessly. working through the reason they’ve hated each other for the past three years isn’t easy, especially not while writing a romantic novel.
set on you by amy lea. this book comes out may 10th, 2022.
curvy fitness influencer, crystal chen, built her career shattering gym stereotypes and mostly ignoring the trolls. after her recent breakup, she has little stamina left for men, instead finding solace in the gym, her place of power and positivity. enter firefighter, scott ritchie, the smug new gym patron who routinely steals her favorite squat rack. sparks fly as they ultra competitive foes battle for gym domination. but, after a series of escalating jabs, the last thing they expect is to run into each other at their grandparent’s engagement party. in the lead up to their grandparent’s wedding, crystal discovers there’s a soft heart under scott’s muscled exterior. bonding over family, fitness, and cheesy pick up lines, she just might have found her solemate. but when a photo of them goes viral, savage internet trolls put their budding relationship to the ultimate test of strength.
up to no good by rosie danan. this comes out october 4th, 2022.
best friends and B&B owners have the opportunity to claim a surprise inheritance, but only if they can avoid arousing the suspicion of the handsome, brooding P.I. sniffing around the secret in their backyard.
how to love your neighbor by sophie sullivan. this book comes out january 18th, 2022.
grace travis has it all figured out. in between finishing school and working a million odd jobs, she’ll get her degree and her dream job. most importantly, she’ll have a place to belong, something her harsh mother could never make. when a opportunity too fix up, and live in, a little house on the beach comes along, grace is all in. until her biggest roadblock moves in next door. noah jansen knows how to make a deal. as a real estate developer, he knows when he’s found something special. something he could even call home. provided he can expand by taking over the house next door, the house with the combative and beautiful woman living in it.
the wedding crasher by mia sosa. this book comes out april 5th, 2022.
just weeks away from ditching DC for greener pastures, solange pereira is roped into helping her wedding planner cousin on a random couple’s big day. it’s an easy gig, until she stumbles upon a situation that convinces her the pair isn’t meant to be. what’s a true blue romantic to do? crash the wedding and ensure the unsuspecting groom doesn’t make the biggest mistake of his life. dean chapman had his future all mapped out. he was about to check off ‘start a family’ and on to ‘make partner’ when his modern fay marriage of convenience went up in smoke. then, he learns he might not land an assignment that could be his ticket to a promotion unless he has a significant other and in a moment of panic, dean claims to be in love with the woman who crashed the wedding. now, dean has a whole new item on his to do list: beg solange to be his pretend girlfriend. solange feels a tiny bit bad about ruining dean’s wedding, so she agrees to play along. yet as they fake date their way around town, what started as a performance for dean’s colleagues turn into a connection that neither her nor solange can deny.
under one roof by ali hazelwood. this book comes out may 3rd, 2022.
as an environmental engineer, mara knows all about the delicate nature of ecosystems. they require balance, leaving the thermostat alone, not stealing someone else’s food, and the other rules her big old lawyer of a roommate, liam, knows nothing about. liam was already entrenched in his aunt’s house like some glowering grumpy giant when mara moved in, with his big muscles and kissable mouth just sitting there on the couch tempting respectable scientists to the dark side, but helena was her mentor and mara’s not about to move out and give up her inheritance without a fight. the problem is, living with someone means getting to know them and the more mara fins out about liam, the harder it is to loathe him and the easier it is to love him.
stuck with you by ali hazelwood. this book comes out june 7th, 2022.
logically, sadie knows that civil engineers are supposed to build bridges. however, as a woman of stem she also understands the variables can change, and when you are stuck for hours in a tiny new york elevator with the man who broke your heart, you earn the right to burn that brawny, blond bridge to the ground. erik can apologize all he wants. not even the most sophisticated of sadie’s superstitious rituals could have predicted such a disastrous reunion. but while she refuses to acknowledge the siren call of erik’s steely forearms or the way his voice softens when he offers her his sweater, sadie can’t help but wonder if there might be more layers to her coldhearted nemesis than meet the eye. maybe, possibly, even burned bridges can still be crossed.
below zero by ali hazelwood. this book comes out july 5th, 2022.
hannah’s got a bad feeling about this. not only has the NASA aerospace engineer found herself injured and stranded at a remote arctic research station, but the one person willing to undertake the hazardous rescue mission is her longtime rival. ian has been many things to hannah: the villain who tried to veto her expedition and ruin her career, the man who stars in her most deliciously lurid dreams, but he’s never played the hero. so, why is he risking everything to be here? and why does his presence seem just as dangerous to her heart as the coming snowstorm?
something wilder by christina lauren. this book comes out may 17th, 2022.
growing up the daughter of notorious treasure hunter and absentee father, duke wilder left lily without much patience for the profession or much money in the bank. but lily is nothing if not resourceful, and now uses duke’s coveted hand drawn maps to guide tourists on fake treasure hunts through the red rock canyons of utah. it pays the bills but doesn’t leave enough to fulfill her dreams of buying back the beloved ranch her father sold years ago, and definitely not enough to deal with the sight of the man she once loved walking back into her life with a motley crew of friends ready to hit the trails. frankly, lily would like to take him out into the wilderness and leave him there. leo grady knew mirages were a thing in the desert, but they’d barely left civilization when the silhouette of his greatest regret comes into focus in the flickering light of the campfire. ready to leave the past behind him, leo wants nothing more than to reconnect with his first and only love unfortunately, lily wilder is all business, drawing a clear line in the sand: it’s never going to happen. but when the trip goes horribly and hilariously wrong, the group wonders if maybe the legend of the hidden treasure wasn’t a gimmick after all. there’s a chance to right the wrongs, of duke’s past and their own, but only if leo and lily can confront their history and work together.
delilah green doesn’t care by ashley herring blake. this book comes out february 22nd, 2022.
delilah green swore she would never go back to bright falls, nothing is there for her but memories of a lonely childhood where she was little more than a burden to her cold and distant stepfamily. her life in new york, with her photography career finally gaining steam and her bed never empty. sure, it’s a different woman every night, but that’s just fine with her. when delilah’s estranged stepsister, astrid, pressures her into photographing her wedding with a guilt trip and a five figure check, delilah finds herself back in the godforsaken town that she used to call home. she plans to breeze in and out, but then she sees claire sutherland, one of astrid’s stuck up besties, and decides that maybe there’s some fun, and a little retribution, to be had in bright falls. having raised her eleven year old daughter mostly on her own while dealing with her unreliable ex and running a bookstore, claire sutherland depends upon a life without surprises and delilah green is unwelcome surprise at first. though they’ve known each other for years, they don’t really know each other, so claire is unsettled when delilah figures out exactly what buttons to push, when they’re forced together during a gauntlet of wedding preparations, including a plot to save astrid from her horrible fiancé, claire isn’t sure she has the strength to resist delilah’s charms.
by the book by jasmine guillory. this book comes out may 3rd, 2022.
isabelle is completely lost. when she first began her career in publishing right out of college, she did not expect to be twenty five, living alone, still an editorial assistant, and the only Black employee at her publishing house. overworked and underpaid, constantly torn between speaking up or stifling herself, izzy thinks there must be more to this publishing life. so when she overhears her boss complaining about a beastly high profile author who has failed to deliver his long awaited manuscript, isabelle sees an opportunity to finally get the promotion she deserves. all she has to do is go to the author’s santa barbara mansion and give him a quick pep talk or three, which can’t be that hard. but, izzy quickly finds out she is in over her head. beau towers is not some celebrity lightweight writing a tell all memoir. he is jaded and withdrawn and it turns out, just as lost as izzy. but despite his standoffishness, izzy needs beau to deliver, and with her encouragement, his story begins to spill onto the page. they soon discover they have more in common than either of them expected, and as their deadline nears, izzy and beau being to realize there may be something there that wasn’t there before.
anyway, that is all for today! i honestly can’t wait for these books to come out and they all sound so good, plus there is some other books that i didn’t include on this so it wasn’t longer than it already was. but, i honestly really can’t wait for these.
hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about the january new releases that i’m excited for. honestly, there is quite a few, and i think that all these books sound so good. and hopefully i can read these soon, but we all know that it is going to be months before i even think about it.
the girl who knew to much by tiffany brooks. this book came out january 4th.
high school senior riley ozment is desperate to change her reality after making a fool of herself on social media. she needs to do something drastic to repair her social standing, like trying out for a survivor style reality tv show. suddenly, riley’s dropped onto a deserted tropical island with nineteen other teens competing for a million dollars and a rumored treasure lost on the island. but that treasure has a historuy: a local curse says that seven people need to die before the treasure can be found. and six hunters have already died.
the ivory key by akshaya raman. this book came out january 4th.
vira is desperate to get out of her mother’s shadow and establish her legacy as a revered queen of ashoka. but with the country’s only quarry running out of magic, a precious resource that has kept ashoka safe from conflict, she can barely protect her citizens from the looming threat of war. and if her enemies discover this, they’ll stop at nothing to seize the last of the magic. vira’s only hope is to find a mysterious object to legend: the ivory key, rumored to unlock a new source of magic. but in order to infiltrate enemy territory and retrieve it, she must reunite with her siblings, torn apart by the different paths their lives have taken. each of them has something to gain from finding the ivory key- and even more to lose if they do fail. ronak plans to sell it to the highest bidder in exchange for escape from his impending political marriage. kaleb, falsely accused of assassinating the former maharani needs it to clear his name. and riya, a runaway who cite all family ties, wants the key to prove her loyalty to the rebels who want to strip the nobility of its power.
echoes and empires by morgan rhodes. this book came out january 4th.
josslyn drake knows only three things about magic: it’s rare, illegal, and always deadly. so when she’s caught up in a robbery gone wrong at the queen’s gala and infected by dangerous piece of magic, one that allows her to step into the memories of an evil warlock, she finds herself living her worst nightmare. joss needs the magic removed before it corrupts her soul and kills her. but in ironport, the cost of doing magic is death, and seeking help might mean scheduling her own execution. there’s nobody she can rust. nobody, expect wanted criminal, jericho nox, who offers her a deal: his help extracting the magic in exchange for the magic itself. and though she’s not thrilled to be working with a thief, especially one as infuriating and handsome thief as jericho, joss is desperate enough to accept.
it will end like this by krya leigh. this book comes out january 4th.
charlotte lost her mother six months ago, and still no one will tell her exactly what happened the day she mysteriously died. they say her heart stopped, but charlotte knows deep down that there’s more to the story. the only person who gets it is charlotte’s sister, maddi. maddi agrees, people’s hearts don’t just stop. there are too many questions left unanswered for the girls to move on. but their father is moving on. with their mother’s personal assistant and both girls are sure that she’s determined to take everything that’s theirs away for herself.
my fine fellow by jennieke cohen. this book comes out on january 11th.
it’s 1830 england, and culinarians, people who consult with society’s elite to create gorgeous food and confections, are the thing in high society. helena higgins, top of her class at the royal academy, has a sharp demeanor and an even sharper palate, and knows stardom awaits her is she can produce greatness in her final year. penelope pickerings in going to prove the value of non european cuisine to all of england. her contemporaries may scorn her filipina heritage and her dishes, but with her flawless social graces and culinary talents, penelope is set to prove them wrong. elijah little has nothing to his name but a truly excellent instinct for flavors. london merchants won’t allow a jewish boy to won a shop, so he hawks his pasties for a shilling a piece to passbyers, but he knows with training he can break into the highest part of society. and when the girls meet elijah, a golden opportunity arise: to pull off a project never seen before, and turn elijah from a street vendor to a gentleman chef.
the bone spindle by leslie vedder. this book comes out on january 11th.
fi is a bookish treasure hunter with a knack for ruins and riddles, and definitely doesn’t believe in true love. shane is a tough as dirt girl warrior from the north who likes cracking skulls, pretty girls, and doing thigs her own way. briar rose is a prince under a sleeping curse, who’s been waiting a hundred years for the kiss that will wake him. cursed princes are nothing but ancient history to fi, until she pricks her fingers on a bon spindle while exploring a long lost ruin. now she’s stuck with the spirit of briar rose until she and shane can break the century old curse on his kingdom. dark magic, witch hunters, and bad exes all stand in her way, not to mention a mysterious witch who might wind up stealing shane’s heart, along with whatever else she’s afer. but nothing scares fi more than the possibility of falling in love with briar rose.
anyway, that is all for today! i’m honestly so excited for these book and i can’t want to read them, hopefully soon, since they all sound so good and really interesting.
hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about my worst books of 2021. for this post, these were just books i didn’t like, but i am going to make another post in a few days where i talk about the most disappointing books. and the books in this list are honestly not going to be in any order, since it would be kind of hard.
7. love is a revolution by renee watson
when nala robertson reluctantly agrees to attend an open mic night fir her cousin\sister\friend imani’s birthday, she finds herself falling in instant love with tye brown. he’s perfect, expect that tye is an activist and is spending the summer putting on events for the community when nala would rather watch movies and try out the new seasonal flavors at the local creamery. in order to impress tye, nala tells a few tiny lies to have enough in common with him. as they spend more time together, sharing more of themselves, some of those lies get harder to keep up. as nala falls deeper into keeping up her lies, and into love, she’ll learn all the ways love is hard, and how self love is revolutionary.
6. 14 ways to die by vincent ralph.
ten years ago, jess’ mother was murdered by the magpie man. she was the first of his victims, but not the last. now jess is the star of a youtube reality series and she’s using it to catch the killer once and for all. the whole world is watching her every move, and so is the killer.
5. some laneys die by brooke skipstone.
laney’s world collapsed when she caught her dad cheating, he begged her not to tell, but she did. her family fell apart and regret consumes her, especially when she learns every decision she makes spawns a new universe for the opposite choice. if only she could skip sideways to the laney who didn’t tell. but her only escape is through her imagination, until a news story blurs the lines between worlds. two girls were murdered at the same time and same place as her father’s adulterous act. strange events lead laney to believe their bones are connected to her and the sister she always wanted.
4. city of the plague god by sarwat chadda
thirteen year old sik wants a simple life; going to school and then helping at his parents deli in the evening. but all that is blown to smithereens when nergal comes looking for him, thinking that silk holds the secret to eternal life. turns out sik is immortal but doesn’t know it, and that’s about to get him and the entire city into deep trouble. sik is not in this alone. he’s got belet, the adopted daughter of ishtar, the goddess of love and war, on his side and a former hero named gilgamesh, who has taken up gardening in central park. now all they have to do is retrieve the flower of immortality to save manhatan from being wiped out by disease.
3. being amani by annabelle steele
it’s been over a year since that night and amani hopes that starting all over again will help her move on from the past. so, when she moves to a new city, amani wants to focus on her new life, her best friend and the boy she’s been crushing on but everything is falling apart and amani finds herself looking for happiness in all the wrong places.
2. the famoux by kassandra tate
out of the wreckage of environmental collapse, the country of delicatum emerged. it’s most popular celebrities are the famoux, uniquely beautiful stars of a reality tv show called the fishbowl. in a world still recovering from catastrophe, they provide a 24/7 distraction. and sixteen year old emilee laurence is obsessed with the famoux, they provide a refuge from her troubled home life and the bullies at school. when she receives an unimaginable offer to become a member herself, she tales it. leaving behind everything she’s ever known, emilee enters a world of high glamour and even higher stakes.
kissing the coronavirus by mj edwards.
this isn’t so much of one book though, since all these books just get worse and worse as they go on. and these books are like less than 30 pages. so, yeah this whole series sucked.
anyway, that is all for today! i mean, i feel like a lot of these books have something to offer, at least the first three. but, i mean, i think overall i had a good reading year, so of course i was gonna get a couple bad ones here and there.
hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about my best books of 2021. this list was honestly was easier to create than i thought it was, where for the worst books, i had no clue what to put where. but, for most of this list, the order doesn’t really matter, and i keep changing which way i want to put it, but the top five are the ones that are definite.
10. survive the night by riley sager.
charlie jordan is being driven across the country by a serial killers. maybe. behind the wheel is josh baxter, a stranger charlie met by the college ride share board, who also has a good reason for leaving university in the middle of term. on the road they share their stories, carefully avoiding the subject dominating the news, the campus killer, who tied up and stabbed three students in the span of a year, has just struck again. travelling the lengthy journey between university and their final destination, charlie begins to notice the discrepancies in josh’s story. as she begins to plan her escape from the man she is becoming certain is the killer, she starts to suspect that josh knows exactly what she’s thinking.
9. all these bodies by kendare blake
summer 1958- a string of murders plagues the midwest. the victims are found in their cars and in their homes- even in their beds- their bodies drained, but with no blood anywhere. september 19- the carlson family is slaughtered in their minnesota farmhouse, and the case gets its first lead: 15 year old marie catherine hale is found at the scene. she is covered in blood from head to toe, and at first she’s mistaken for a survivor, but not a drop of blood is hers. michael jensen, son of the local sheriff, yearns to become a journalist and escape his small town. he never imagined that the biggest story in the country would fall into his lap, or that he would be pulled into the investigation, when marie decides that he is the only one she will confess to.
8. people we meet on vacation by emily henry
poppy and alex have nothing in common, she is a wild child; he wears khakis, she has insatiable wanderlust; he prefers to stay home with a book. and somehow, even since a fateful car share home from college many years ago, they are the very best of friends. for most of the year they live apart, she’s in new york and he’s in their small hometown, but every summer, for a decade, they have taken on glorious week of vacation together. until two years ago, when they ruined everything, and they haven’t spoken since. poppy has everything she should want, but she’s stuck in a rut. when someone asks when she last truly happy, she knows, without a doubt, it was on that ill fated, final trip with alex. and so, she decides to convince her best friend to take one more vacation together, lay everything on the table, make it all right, and he agrees.
7. our violent ends by chloe gong
i’m not going to give an description of what this book is about, since i don’t want to spoil anyone if they haven’t read this book yet. but, this in the second book in the these violent delights series.
6. it happened one summer by tessa bailey
piper bellinger is fashionable, influential, and her reputation as a wild child means the paparazzi are constantly on her heels. when too much champagne and an out of control rooftop party lands piper in the slammer, her step father decides enough is enough. so, he cuts her off, and sends piper and her sister to learn some responsibility running their late father’s dive bar in washington. piper hasn’t even been in westport for five minutes when she meets big, bearded sea captain, brendan, who thinks she won’t last a week outside beverly hills. so what if piper can’t do math, and the idea of sleeping in a shabby apartment with bunk beds gives her hives. it can’t be bad, and she’s determined to show her stepfather, and the hot, grumpy local, that she is more than jus a pretty face. except it’s a small town and everywhere she turns, she bumps into brendan. the fun loving socialite and the gruff fisherman are polar opposites, but there’s an undeniable attraction simmering between them. piper doesn’t want any distractions, especially feelings for a man who sails off into the sunsets for weeks at a time. yet as she reconnects with her past and begins to feel at home in westport, piper starts to wonder if the cold, glamorous life she knew is what she truly wants.
5. married by morning by lisa kleypas
for two years, catherine marks has been a paid companion to the hathaway sisters, a pleasant position, with one caveat. her charges’ older brother, leo hathaway, is thoroughly exasperating. marks can hardly believe that their constant arguing could mask a mutual attraction, but when one quarrel ends in a sudden kiss, marks is shocked at her powerful response, and even more so when leo proposes a dangerous liaison. but, leo must marry and produce a heir within a year to save his family. marks respectable demeanor hides a secret that would utterly destroy her, but to leo, marks is intriguing and infernally tempting, even to outrun is about to separate them forever; unless two wary lovers can find a way to banish the shadows and give into their desires.
4. the shadow between us by tricia levenseller
alessandra is tired of being overlooked, but she has a plan to gain power: woo the shadow king, marry him, and then kill him and take his kingdom for herself. no one knows the extent of the freshly crowned shadow king’s power, some say he can command the shadow that swirl around him to do his bidding. others say they speak to him, whispering the thoughts of his enemies. regardless, alessandra knows what she deserves, and she’s going to do everything within her power to get it. but alessandra’s not the only one trying to kill the king and as attempts on his life are made, she finds herself trying to keep him alive long enough for him to make her his queen, all while struggling not to lose her heart.
3. malibu rising by taylor jenkins reid
malibu: august 1983. it’s the day of nina riva’ annual end of summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. everyone wants to be around the famous riva’s: nina, a surfer and supermodel; jay and hud one a championship surfer and the other a talented photographer, and their adored baby sister, kit. together the siblings are a source of fascination in malibu and the world, especially as the offspring’s of the legendary singer, mick riva. the only person not looking forward to the party of the year is nina herself, who never wants to be the center of attention and who just got publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. and then hud, who is long past time to confess something to his brother. but jay, is counting the minutes until nightfall, when the girl he can’t stop thinking about promised she’ll be there and kit who has a couple secrets of her own, and a guest who she invited without telling anyone else. and by midnight, the party will be completely out of control and by morning, the riva mansion will have gone up in flames. but before the first spark in the early hours before dawn, the alcohol will flow, the music will play, and the loves and secrets that shape this family’s generations will all come to the surface.
2. the atlas six by olivie blake
the alexandrian society, caretakers of lost knowledge from the greatest civilizations of antiquity, are the foremost secret society of magical academicians in the world. those who earn a place among the alexandrians will secure a life of wealth, power, and prestige beyond their wildest dreams, and each decade, only the six most uniquely talented magicians are selected to be considered for initiation. now, libby rhodes and nico de varona, unwilling halves of an unfathomable whole, who exert uncanny control over every element of physicality. reina mori, a naturalist, who can intuit the language of life itself. parisa kamali, a telepath who can traverse the depth of the subconscious, seeing the worlds inside the human mind. callum nova, an empath easily mistaken for a manipulative illusionist, who can influence the intimate workings of a person’s inner self. and tristian caine, who can see through the illusions to a new structure of reality, an ability so rare that neither he nor his peers can full grasp its implication.
as good as dead by holly jackson
pip is about to head to college, but she is still haunted by the way her last investigation ended. she’s used to online death threats in the wake of her viral true crime podcast, but she can’t help noticing an anonymous person who keeps asking her: who will look for you when you’re the one who disappears? soon the threat escalates and pip realizes that someone is following her in real life. when she starts to find connections between her stalker and a local serial killer caught six years ago, she wonders if maybe the wrong man is behind bars. police refuse to act, so pip has only one choice: find the suspect herself, or be the next victim. as the deadly game plays out, pip discovers that everything in her small town is coming full circle, and if she doesn’t find the answers, this time she will be the one who disappears.
anyway, that is all for today! i honestly had a pretty great reading year, and i mean i did read a ton of really good books. so, i mean making this list was kind of hard, but at the same time i know which books i did really like.
hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about all the books i want to read in january. honestly, i think this month i’m going to try to read whatever i want, and not really feel obligated to read what is on my tbr, just so i don’t get into a reading slump this early into the year.
punk 57 by penelope douglas. i can’t help but smile at the words in her letter, she misses me. in fifth grade, my teacher set us up with pen pals from a different school, thinking i was a girl, with a name like misha, the other teacher paired me up with her student, ryen. my teacher, believing ryen was a boy, agreed. it didn’t take long for us to figure out the mistake, and in no time at all, we started arguing about everything. and that was the start, for the next seven years, it was us. her letters are always on black paper with silver writing. sometimes there’s one a week or three in a day, but i need them. she’s the only one who keeps me on track, talks to me down, and accepts everything i am. we only had three rules, no social media, no phone numbers, no pictures, we had a good thing going, until i find a photo of a girl online, with the same names, loves gallo’s pizza, and worships her iphone.
the deal by elle kennedy. hannah wells has finally found someone who turns her on. but while she might be confident in every other area of her life, she’s carting around a full set of baggage when it comes to sex and seduction. if she wants to get her crush’s attention, she’ll have to step out of her comfort zone and make him take notice, even if it means tutoring the annoying, childish, cocky captain of the hockey team in exchange for a pretend date. all garrett graham has ever wanted is to play professional hockey after graduation, but his plummeting GPA is threatening everything he’s worked so hard for. if helping a sarcastic brunette make another guy jealous will help hum secure his position on the team, he’s all for it. but when one unexpected kiss leads to the wildest sex of both their lives, it doesn’t take long for garrett to realize that pretend isn’t going to cut it. now he just has to convince hannah that the man she wants looks a lot like him.
ugly love by colleen hoover. when tate collins meets pilot miles archer, she knows it isn’t love at first sight. they wouldn’t even go as far as to consider themselves friends. the only thing tate and miles have in common is an undeniable mutual attraction. once their desires are out in the open, they realize they have the perfect set up. he doesn’t want love, she doesn’t have the time for love, so that just leaves sex. their arrangement could be surprisingly seamless, as long as tate can stick to the only two rules miles has for her: never ask about the past and don’t expect a future. they think they can handle it, but realize almost immediately they can’t handle it at all.
the love hypothesis by ali hazelwood. as a third year phd candidate, olive smith doesn’t believe in lasting romantic relationships, but her best friend does, and that’s what got her into this situation. convincing anh that olive is dating and well on her way to a happily ever afer was always going to take more than hand wavy jedi mind tricks. so, like and self respecting biologist, olive panics and kisses the first man she sees. that man is none other than adam carlsen, a young hotshot professor, and well know ass. which is why olive is positively floored when stanford’s reigning lab tyrant agrees to keep her charade a secret and be her fake boyfriend. but when a big science conference goes haywire, putting olive’s career on the bunsen burner, adam surprises her again with his unyielding support.
the risk by st abby. lana didn’t expect him, she didn’t want to fall in love, but she can’t let go of him. logan bennett makes the world a safer place, he’s brilliant, a hero, he locks away the sick and depraved. but, while he’s saving lives, lana is taking them, they left her for dead, they should have made sure they stayed dead. but, now she’s taking from them, one at a time. she’s trained to long, she’s been patient, and she can’t stop now. they never see her coming, until she paints their walls red. logan doesn’t know that they hurt her, he doesn’t know the screams they ignored, he doesn’t know how twisted that town really is. he just knows people are dying, he doesn’t know that he’s in love with their killer. no one suspects a dead girl and logan doesn’t suspect the girl in his bed.
the diviners by libba bray. evie o’neil has been exiled from her boring hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of new york city, and she is ecstatic. it’s 1926, and new york is filled with speakeasies, ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. the only catch is that she has to live with her uncle will and his unhealthy obsession with the occult. evie worries her uncle will discovers her darkest secret: a supernatural power that has only brought her trouble so far. but when the police find a murdered girl branded with a cryptic symbol and will is called to the scene, evie realizes her gift could help catch a serial killer. as evie jumps headlong into a dance with a murderer, other stories unfold in the city that never sleeps.
ice planet barbarians by ruby dixon. you’d think being abducted by aliens would be the worst thing that could have happened. but that’s wrong because now, the aliens are having ship trouble, and they’ve left their cargo of the human woman on an ice planet. but, the only native inhabitant that i’ve met, he’s big, horned, blue and really has a thing for me.
love and other disasters by anita kelly. recently divorced and on the verge of bankruptcy, dahlia woodson is ready to reinvent herself on the popular reality competition show, chef’s special. too bad the first memorable move she makes is falling flat on her face, sending fish tacos flying, not quite the fresh start she was hoping for. still, she’s focusing on winning, until she meets someone she might want a future with more than she needs the prize money. after announcing their pronouns on national television, london parker has enough on their minds without worrying about the klutzy competitor stationed in front of them. they’re there to prove the trolls, including a fellow contestant and their dad, wrong and falling in love was never part of the plan. as london and dahlia get closer, reality starts to fall away. goodbye, guilt about divorce, anxiety about uncertain futures, and stress from transphobia.
a touch of darkness by scarlett st. clair. persephone is the goddness of spring by the title only. the truth is, since she was a little girl, flowers have shriveled at her touch. after moving in new athens, she hopes to lead an unassuming life disguised as a mortal journalist. after a chance encounter with hades, persephone finds herself in a contract with the god of the dead and the term are impossible: persephone must create life in the underworld or lose her freedom forever.
the hating game by sally thorne. lucy hutton has always been certain that the nice girl can get the corner office. she’s charming and accommodating and prides herself on being loved by everyone at bexley & gamin. everyone excepts for coldly efficient, impeccably attired, physically intimidating joshua templeman and the feeling is mutual. trapped in a shared office together, 50 or 60 hours a week, they’ve become entrenched in an addictive, ridiculous never ending game of one upmanship. there’s the staring game, the mirror game, the HR game and lucy can’t let joshua beat her at anything, especially when a huge new promotion goes up for the taking. if lucy wins this game, she’ll be joshua’s boss. if she loses, she’ll resign. so why is she suddenly having steamy dreams about joshua, and dressing for work like she’s on a date. after a perfectly innocent elevator ride end with an earth shattering kiss, lucy starts to wonder whether she’s got joshua templeman all wrong.
the sweetest oblivion by danielle lori. nicknamed sweet abelli for her docile nature, elena smiles on cue and has a charming response for everything. she’s the favored daughter, the perfect mafia principessa. now all she can see in the mirror’s reflection is blood staining her hands like crimson paint. they say first impressions are everything, in the murky waters of new york’s underworld, elena’s sister is arranged to marry nicolas russo. a made man, a boss, a cheat, even measured against mafia standards. his reputation stretches far and wide and is darker than his black suits and ties. after his and elena’s first encounter ends with an accidental glare on her part, she’s realized he’s just as rude as he is handsome. she doesn’t like the man or anything he stands for, though that doesn’t stop her heart from pattering like rain against glass when he’s near, nor the shivers that ghosts down her spine at the sound of his voice. and he’s always near, telling her what to do, making her feel hotter than any future brother in law should. elena may be the sweet abelli on the outside, but she’s beginning to learn she has a taste for the darkness, for rough hands, cigarettes, and whiskey colored eyes. having already escaped one scandal, however, she can hardly afford to be swept in another.
anyway, that is all for today! i honestly can’t wait for this month and hopefully this is a good month and i read a lot of books that i like, since that would be really good and honestly a great kick off for the year.
hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about all the books i’ve read today. i had a decent reading month, but i only reread a lot of books, which is okay but i do wish i read more new books. but, i do think it was still a decent book.
when we were infinite by kelly loy gilbert. i gave this book 3/5 stars. i honestly really liked this book. like, i think that this was a good book but i feel like everyone was just kind of toxic to each other at the same time. but, i also think that they all need therapy, which also might go into the fact that they were toxic and why they all were going through so much. and i do think that the romance was unnecessary, but it still was a decent book and did have a good message.
our violent ends by chloe gong. i gave this book 5/5 stars. i honestly love this book so much and i think that this book was just so good. like, i think that the whole plot and story was just so great and i really loved it. and i mean, this was such a great book and i liked this book so much. but, i do think that the ending of this book was way to quick.
kissing the coronavirus by MJ edwards. i gave this book 1/5 stars. honestly, i think that this book was honestly a hot mess at it’s finest. but, i feel like that this book was kind of a nightmare, but honestly very entertaining at the same time.
kissing the coronavirus: the second wave by MJ edwards. i gave this book 1/5 stars. honestly, this book was a mess, but it was still very entertaining though. like, it was honestly very unbelievable, but it was still a really fun book, even if it was a shit show.
kissing the coronavirus: the mutant strain by MJ edwards. i gave this book 1/5 stars. the only good part of this book was the queer rep, and now that they made covid now a girl, was kind of entertaining and just really odd at the same time. but, i mean, it was still a really stupid book, but in the best way possible.
married by morning by lisa kleypas. i gave this book 5/5 stars. this is honestly by far my favorite book in this series, since it was just so good and cute. and i honestly loved their relationship and how it all happened and how everything went down, was just so cute and i really liked seeing leo not fight his feelings for marks anymore.
disney after dark by ridley pearson. i gave this book 5/5 stars. i believe this is my fourth reread of this book. but, i honestly really loved this book again. like, i feel like this is such a comfort book and i loved seeing all of the keepers come together and become friends and solve the mystery.
you’ve reached sam by dustin thao. i gave this book 4/5 stars. this book was so good and i completely understand why people love this book so mcuh, since it was so heartbreaking, but i loved it so much at the same time. and like i think it was just such a great read and it was such a good book that explored grief and really showed julie’s emotions, which i really liked.
capturing the devil by kerri maniscalo. i gave this book 5/5 stars. i really liked this book, but i feel like it was so obvious? like i didn’t remember a lot of this book from my last reread, just the weddings, isaac, and then the incident, but i think the killer was so obvious. but, i also think that as much as i love cressworth, the romance got to be a bit much after awhile cause the case kind of went on the back burner.
disney at dawn by ridley pearson. i gave this book 5/5 stars. this is another reread, but i honestly thought i remembered more of this book than i actually did, to be honest. like, i remembered something completely different from what happened in this book to what actually happened, which i didn’t really expect. but, it was still a good book, and a really fun and quick read nonetheless.
the girls are never gone by sarah glenn marsh. i gave this book 3/5 stars. honestly, this book was a shit show, and not in a good way. like, i feel like so much of this book just doesn’t make sense and that i know your supposed to suspend what could really happen in real life for a ghost book, but this just took it to far, and i even believe in ghosts. but, i feel like the only way that this could seem real or something is you were high or drunk.
the mistletoe motive by chloe liese. i gave this book 3/5 stars. this was a cute book, but they just were so stupid and naive. like, i don’t know how they didn’t put together the online texting thing or like so many small things that they were just so stupid with. but, i mean, it was short and quick, so you can’t really complain.
anyway, that is all for today! i honestly had a decent month, even if there is a lot of rereads on this list, but i still think it was a good month nonetheless.
hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about all the books i got in december. there honestly isn’t to many, but i’m still so excited that i got these, especially one of the books i got for christmas, since i’ve already read it an love it so much.
practical demonology by clare rees. this book comes out march 29th. there have always been castles in the valley, and the people have always been under threat. they’ve always needed those thick walls, the protection of that enclosing stone. non feel like she needs it more than most, because her mother was infected by the demons that live in the woods. as the doctor’s daughter, non had planned a career in medicine, partly to please her father, but also because it would keep her inside the protective walls of the citadel. when plague strikes the citadel, all the teenagers are evacuated to the ruined cirtop castle. while there, she’s given the opportunity of a lifetime: the chance to study the demons that she’s always feared. but will she be brave enough to take it?
confession of an alleged good girl by joya goffney. this book comes out may 3rd. monique is a preacher’s daughter who detests the impossible rules of her religion. everyone expects her to wait until marriage, so she has no one to turn to when she discovers that she physically can’t have sex. after two years of trying and failing, her boyfriend breaks up with her. to win him back, monique teams up with straight-laced, church girl sasha, who is surprisingly knowledgeable about monique’s condition. as well as reggie, the misunderstood bad boy who always makes a ruckus at church, and together they embark upon a top secret search for the cure. while on their quest, monique discovers the value of a true friend and the wonders of a love that accepts her to who she is. despite everyone’s opinions about her virtue, she learns to live for herself, inspiring us all to reclaim our bodies and unapologetically love ourselves.
our violent ends by chloe gong. the year is 1927, and shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution. after sacrificing her relationship with roma to protect him from the blood feud, juliette has been a girl on the warpath, one wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the scarlet gang’s heir. the only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the scarlets is to have him want her dead for murdering his best friend in cold blood. if juliette were actually guilty of the crime roma believes she committed, his rejection might sting less. roma is still reeling from marshall’s death, and his cousin benedikt will barely speak to him. roma knows it’s his fault for letting the ruthless juliette back into his life, and he’s determined to set things right, even if that means killing the girl he hates and loves with equal measure. then a new monstrous danger emerges in the city, and though secrets keep them apart, juliette must secure roma’s cooperation if they are to end this threat once and for all. shanghai is already at boiling point: the nationalists are marching in, whispers of civil war brew louder every day, and gangster rule faces complete annihilation. roma and juliette must put aside their differences to combat monsters and politics, but they aren’t prepared for the biggest threat of all: protecting their hearts from each other.
chosen ones by veronica roth. a decade ago near chicago, five teenagers defeated the otherworldly enemy known as the dark one, whose reign of terror brought widespread destruction and death. the seemingly un-extraordinary teens- sloane, matt, ines, albie, and esther, had been brought together by a clandestine government agency because one of them was fated to be the ‘chosen one’ prophesizes to save the world. with the goal achieved, humankind celebrate the victors and began to mourn their lost loved one. ten years later, though the champions remain celebrities, the world has moved forward and a whole, younger generation doesn’t seem to recall the days of endless fear. but sloane remembers, it’s impossible for her to forget when the paparazzi haunts her every step just as the dark one hasn’t moved one: she’s adrift, no direction, no goals, no purpose. on the eve of the ten year celebration of peace, a new trauma hits the chosen: the death of one of their own. and when they gather for the funeral at the enshrined site of their triumph, they discover to their horror that the dark one’s reign never really ended.
you’ll be the death of me by karen m. mcmanus. type a ivy lost a student council election to the class clown, and now she has to face the school, humiliated. heartthrob mateo is burned out, he’s been working two jobs since his family’s business failed. and outsider cal just got stood up, again.so when cal pulls into campus late for class and runs into ivy and mateo, it seems like the perfect opportunity to turn a bad day around. they’ll ditch and go into the city, just the three of them, like old times. except they’ve barely left the parking lot before they run out of things to say. until they spot another carlton high student skipping school, and follow him to the scene of his own murder. in one chance move, their day turns from dull to deadly, and it’s about to get worse. it turns out ivy, mateo, and cal still have some things in common, they all have a connection to the dead, and they’re all hiding something.
blade of secrets by tricia levenseller. eighteen year old ziva prefers metal to people. she spends her days tucked away in her forge, safe from society and the anxiety it causes her, using her magical gift to craft unique weapons imbued with power. then ziva receives a commission from a powerful warlord, and the result is a sword capable of stealing its victims’ secrets. a sword that can cut far deeper than the length of its blade. a sword with the strength to topple kingdoms. when ziva learns of the warlord’s intentions to use the weapon to enslave all the world under her rule, she takes her sister and flees. joined by a distractingly handsome mercenary and a young scholar with extensive knowledge of the world’s known magics, ziva and her sister set out on a quest to keep the sword safe until they can find a worthy wielder or a way to destroy it entirely.
anyway, that is all for today! i honestly can’t wait to read these books, since they just sound so good and i honestly really think these books sound so good. and hopefully i’ll get to read these soon.
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