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the obsession review | blogmas day 19

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 19! today i am going to be talking about the obsession by jesse Q. sutanto. i gave this book 3/5 stars. i honestly feel like this book was just mediocre, like i didn’t hate it, but i also didn’t love it, and i just feel like it was kind of middle of the road, plot wise.

trigger warnings- stalking, domestic abuse, drug use, murder, death, drug abuse, emotional abuse, physical abuse, blood, child abuse, toxic relationship, violence, injury / injury detail, addiction, animal death, mental illness, misogyny, suicidal thoughts, suicide, grief, suicide attempt.

honestly, from the description, i think that this sounds like a decent book with a decent plot, and that it sounds like it works. and like how the blackmail and stalking, sounds pretty easy and it makes sense. but, i feel like nothing else doesn’t make sense. like, for one, i feel like the stalking also doesn’t work, since i have no clue how none of the neighbors every found out what happened, and in the end, it just doesn’t make sense.

but, another thing that doesn’t make sense is the ending. like, so much of this book happened so quick and i feel like this whole book, we really got to see the growth of the characters and got to see how the relationship and blackmail worked, which was cool. but, i also think that the ending of this book, as it did kind of fit with the theme of the book, didn’t work. like, the ending of this book was a ‘blink and you’ll miss it’ ending, which i can appreciate, but in this book, it just didn’t make sense. and like i think they could have always done an epilogue that was like a couple day/weeks/months later, and have deliah and logan’s story finally close up.

but, i feel like where the first part was good and exciting and were i honestly really liked it. i feel like the second part of the book was lacking. like, i think the biggest part of the book for me, was that it didn’t really have that shock value like the first part had, which i think was really disappointing, since i think that they could have done it really well, but instead they just didn’t do it.

for logan as a character, i honestly really liked him. like, i think the author wrote him in a really good way, were you can see and understand how he was unstable and manic, i think it was done really well and i honestly really liked it. and i honestly think it was just kind of cool to see him from the start of the book to the ending of the book, were we are starting to know more about him as a character and know what we know, and just really cool to see that progression.

one thing that i did really like was how they kind of played with the ‘nice guy’ trope, if you could even call it a trope. like, i feel like in mystery / thriller books, they always have the same type of person that is the person that committed the crime and that they always had the same type of killer / stalker / bad guy, so i honestly really liked they had this all american boy and made it be kind of cool to have that. plus, i think that so many of men like logan out there, that are not good guys even if they look like it, so i honestly liked that they kind of had this part of it.

but, for delilah, i honestly also liked her, but a little less than i liked logan. like, with her, i feel like there were so many layers to her as a character, which i honestly really liked, and i liked seeing it all kind of unfold and see how the different things impacted her life. and also i think that overall, she was just a very interesting character. but, i think the one thing i didn’t really like about her though, was that after she killed her step dad, she was kind of played off as the victim. like, i get that he abused her and her mom, but i feel like they shouldn’t have had her play the victim so hard.

but, i did really like that this book both did have two different unlikeable characters. like, i think that there is a lot of books only have one big unlikeable character, so i honestly really liked that we got two villains. and i think it was just kind of cool to see this and just to see the two different villains, and i think it was just really fun. and i mean, i think having two unlikeable character were just so cool, cause even if we didn’t know they were villains at the time, i still think it was fun.

like, i even think it was just kind of cool to see how they had these two unlikeable characters, and like i think it was kind of cool to see how they cheer for each other. like, i think it was kind of interesting to see how you know what is happening, but at the same time you don’t know who to root for and who is the good or the bad guy. and like, i feel like it was just fun to be able to able to not know what is wrong and if you should root for deliah or for logan and i think that it was honestly just kind of cool, in a really weird way.

with that though, i honestly feel like that was a very quick and easy read. like, i think that it was a quick read and they didn’t talk about to much stuff that wasn’t important to the story, which i honestly really liked. but, at the same time, i feel like there was just little things throughout this story that were missing, which annoyed the hell out of me. but, i think that it was still easy since you’re not focusing to much on the times that don’t matter to much, more so just the story.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly liked this story a lot, and i feel like it was a decent one. but, i feel like that it was kind of a mess at certain points, which got on my nerves after awhile. but, i mean, it was quick and easy, so you can’t complain that much.

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evermore book tag | blogmas day 18

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 18! today i am going to be doing the evermore book tag. which, i’m so excited to do because i honestly love this album so much. so, what could honestly be better than taylor swift and books.

WILLOW- A BOOK WITH A CHARACTER YOU CAN’T HELP BUT FALL IN LOVE WITH.

it happened one summer by tessa bailey. i honestly have a love hate relationship with tessa bailey books, but i honestly completely adored this book so much. like, i just feel that the romance was just done so well, and that it was just so sexy but sweet at the same time.

CHAMPAGNE PROBLEMS- A BOOK WITH A BROKEN RELATIONSHIP.

you deserve each other by sarah hogle. i honestly not sure if this could be considered a broken relationship, but i feel like it hits it close enough. i honestly not the biggest fan of this book, but i still think that it was a decent book, and i can understand the hype around it.

GOLD RUSH- A BOOK YOU LOVE WITH ALL YOUR HEART.

a good girls guide to murder by holly jackson. i honestly talk about this book all the time, and if you followed and read a lot of a lot of my posts, you know that i never shut up about these books. so, i honestly think that this book fits very well with it.

TIS THE DAMN SEASON- A BOOK IN WHICH THE CHARACTER RECONNECTS WITH THEIR FAMILY / HOMETOWN.

the dead and the dark by courtney gould. i’m not sure if this book fits this prompt completely, but i do think that one of logan’s fathers is from the town they return too. but, either way i do think that some people did connect with their families, so either way, it kind of works.

TOLERATE IT- A BOOK WITH A SUFFERING RELATIONSHIP.

malibu rising by taylor jenkins reid. i honestly think that there is really two different suffering relationships in this book. since, we did get to see mick and june’s relationship and to see them have this suffering relationship and then to see brandon and nina have this relationship that was very similar relationship to them. and i just liked to see them and kind of get to see how its like.

NO BODY, NO CRIME- A BOOK ABOUT MURDER

all these bodies by kendare blake. i honestly loved this book so much, and it was just so great and honestly a really good way to talk about murder and kind of do it in this new and exciting way to kind of talk about murder and in this kind of cool way. and i honestly really liked it and it was just a very special read.

HAPPINESS- A BOOK THAT IS AN OLD FAVORITE, BUT YOU JUST CAN’T RELATE TO ANYMORE

how she died, how i lived by mary crockett. i honestly think i can’t relate to this book anymore cause it’s been so long since i read this book, and i don’t really remember to much of the plot of this book. but, i think it would be kind of interesting to read this book again and see if i still like it.

DOROTHEA- A BOOK FEATURING AN OLD (OR STRONG) FRIENDSHIP

we were liars by e lockhart. i honestly really liked this book, and i honestly really loved the strong friendship between these characters. and like, i honestly think these relationships were just so well done and i honestly think that it was one of the best parts of the book.

CONEY ISLAND- A BOOK THAT MADE YOU CRY / COMPLETELY DESTROYED YOU.

as good as dead by holly jackson. i’m honestly not a big book crier, like this is the only book that i’ve ever sobbed while i was reading. like, to the end of this book, i honestly was full bodied sobbing through this, since the ending was just so sad, and it was just so depressing.

IVY- A BOOK THAT WAS AN UNEXPECTED FAVORITE.

the atlas six by olivie blake. i honestly am not big into fantasy / sci fi books. like i honestly didn’t expect to love it and with all of the plot and i just didn’t expect to love it as much as i did. and like i don’t really understand physics at all, which i probably shouldn’t admit when i have an exam in a couple days, but i still really loved it.

COWBOY LIKE ME- A BOOK ABOUT THIEVES AND CRIMINALS.

six of crows by leigh bardugo. honestly, this is the only book that i can think of for this book, and i honestly think that it words so well and i honestly really loved it. and i honestly fits this prompt 100%, since it does have both of them.

LONG STORY SHORT- A BOOK THAT MADE UP YOUR CHILDHOOD.

literally any fear street book. like, i honestly loved these books so much and i honestly really loved these books so much. like, i honestly can’t pick one since i read all of these books so much and loved them.

MARJORIE-A BOOK WITH A MOVING MESSAGE.

all this time by mikki daughtry and rachael lippincott. this is one of the first books i read this year, and i completely loved this book. but, i feel like this has such a powerful message with grief and loosing your girlfriend and getting over it all.

CLOSURE- A SERIES IN WHICH YOU NEED THE NEXT BOOK.

i really don’t know an answer to this since i feel like i’m not reading to many series right now that aren’t already finished.

EVERMORE- THE PERFECT CONCLUSION TO AN EXTREMELY LONG, BUT WORTH IT, SERIES.

again, i feel like i don’t read to many series, but i do, it’s like three books.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly had such a fun time doing this time, and i honestly really want to listen to the album again after this tag.

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the lucky list review | blogmas day 17

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 17! today i am going to be talking about the lucky list by rachael lippincott. i have this book 3/5 stars. i honestly liked this story, but i feel like there was just so much happening in this book, and then even nothing happened at the same time.

trigger warnings- grief, death of a parent, cancer, death, chronic illness, terminal illness, medical content, homophobia.

with grief being the biggest theme and element of the book, i honestly didn’t know what to expect going into this. but, i feel like the grief part of this book was handled really well by the author of this book. like, i feel like they talked about it all in a very honest and down to earth way, and i think that it just felt real and what a normal teenager would feel like if they went through something like this, which i did really liked. even though at some parts, i do think it could have been handled better and the dad honestly needed to put her in therapy or something.

with that though, i do feel like they kind of make this book seem to be happier and more of a cute and fluffy gay love story, instead they did focus on this grief a lot. which, i understand what emily is going through and how this can’t be easy for her or anyone involved, but i feel like there was some parts of this book it didn’t just fit with what was happening and the vibe of the story. like, i think that there was just so many moments were they could have improved it and not have it be this central plot point, mainly in the cute and fluffy moments.

but, i do feel like the relationship between emily and blake didn’t have to much depth. like, i think a lot of this romance between the girls was one of them just kinda trauma dumping on the other one, which i didn’t really like. and i think that so much of this book was just them forcing themselves into this relationship when emily could barely help herself, so having a girlfriend probably isn’t the smartest way to go, especially when you’re like 17 years old and have no clue what you’re doing.

also, with the whole treasure hunting plan, i feel like they would bring up these different things that would somehow lead to her mom or something related to her mom, but then they would just drop it. like, i feel that they kept taking about the french poem / tattoo / book, but then soon after, they just never talked about it again. the same thing goes with a couple other things in this book, they would bring up these semi important things, then they would just move onto the next story / plot and then completely forget about the other thing they just did / said.

but, i also think that some of this book was just so dramatized. like, i don’t even know how to explain it, without spoiling to much. but, i feel like there was just so many moments of this book that they could have just done one thing, that was the set and easy path for them to do, but then they would just not do it???? like they would make their lives and everyone around them to be 10 times harder, which just got to be on my nerves after awhile.

one thing that i really liked that the parents were just supportive of this relationship, and even the girls in general. like, i know it is the bare minimum, but i feel like so many books, especially queer books, the parents are either never involved or they are not supportive at all, which i guess is just a common theme in YA books in general. so, i honestly really liked to see the parents being involved in the girl’s life and just to see them actually be there for the girls, even if they did have some background time.

but, on the flip side, one thing i didn’t really like was how emily’s best friend treated her throughout the book. like, i feel that there was just not a lot of communication between the two of them, since the friend was this sleep away camp counselor thing, and emily was obviously still in the town. which, i feel like the best friend just pushed emily, but in the wrong way, like she would tell emily to go do this, when she just spent the whole summer not wanting that anymore and trying to grow up more. and i just think that the friend just put emily in this box, and never let her grow after emily’s boyfriend dumped her.

though, i did really like the relationships of each character with emily. like i liked seeing the rockiness of emily and her friend and them trying to grow up a bit. and then just seeing emily and her dad trying to figure things out what to do after their mom/wife died. and then seeing emily interact with her friends family and just seeing them all kind of have this whole second family vibes, which i honestly really liked seeing. but, i really liked seeing these and i really liked kind of seeing all the different relationships and to see it all happen.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly liked this book, and i honestly think that this was just a cute little queer romance, which i also liked. but, i do think that some of this book could have been improved, but i think that it was still a decent book.

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the friends book tag | blogmas day 16

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 16! today i am going to be doing the friends book tag. i’m honestly so excited to do this tag, since i honestly love the show so much, even though i just started watching it over the summer. so this honestly just sounds like such a fun tag to do.

MONICA- A BOOK BASED ON GAMES OR COMPETITION.

if the shoe fits by julie murphy. this book was honestly such a fun book and i completely loved the way this story worked. and getting a cinderella inspired bachelor with a plus sized main character, is honestly everything that i could ever ask for, since this was just such a fun book.

RACHEL- A BOOK YOU READ FOR THE HYPE.

the gilded wolves by roshani chokshi. granted, i did already own a copy of this book, but seeing so many people on twitter and instagram hype this book up recently, it honestly made me want to read this book so much more, which is why i did pick it up. and if it wasn’t being hyped up so much, i probably wouldn’t have read it for a while.

ROSS- A SCIENCE FICTION BOOK.

the atlas six by olivie blake. this is probably the only true scifi book i’ve read in a while. so this was honestly just fitting to chose for this prompt. and i honestly adore this book so much, even if it was kind of a mind fuck at certain points of the story.

CHANDLER- A BOOK THAT MADE YOU LAUGH OUT LOUD.

honestly any book in the hathaway series by lisa kleypas. i honestly think these books are just so funny and i honestly love them so much. like, they are the prefect amount of serious and dramatic moments and then moments that are really funny, especially between the family, cause they honestly bring the humor.

JOEY- A SCARY BOOK YOU’D KEEP IN THE FREEZER.

as good as dead by holly jackson. i don’t get scared to easy when it comes to books or movies, but there was just something about this book that scared the actual shit out of me and made me be so paranoid after i read this book for the first time. since, this all felt so real and raw, that i honestly really loved it.

PHOEBE- A BOOK WITH A SPIRITUAL OR SUPERNATUAL THEME.

the dead and the dark by courtney gould. i honestly didn’t know what to expect going into this book, but i honestly loved the whole supernatural vibe that this book gave off, with how everything was progressing and to see how the ghosts and spirits or whatever you would want to call it impacted this town / the two main families in this book.

JANICE- A BOOK WITH AN OH MY GOD TWIST.

the forest of stolen girls by june hur. honestly, most of this book is a blur, but one of the only things i remember from this book was the ending and how twisty this book was, which i think in the best way possible, was just so amazing and this book was honestly so great.

EMILY- A BRITISH CLASSIC.

i don’t read classics or any book that i think would be considered a classic, so i’m just going to skip it.

GUNTHER- A BOOK NOBODY SEEMS TO TALK ABOUT.

the mary shelley club by goldy moldavsky. honestly, this book was just so great and i honestly really loved the way this story flowed the mystery and all the different things they pulled. and i honestly this book would be so amazing for people that like those old classic slasher films, they would love this, so i honestly think more people need to pick it up.

CAROL AND SUSAN- AN LBGTQIA+ BOOK OR AUTHOR.

cinderella is dead by kalynn baryon. i honestly love this book so much, like i love the story and the whole way that they made cinderella retelling with a queer characters at the center of this, which i think was just so cool and i honestly loved reading about that, since i feel like there isn’t to many queer disney retellings out there, or at least main stream ones.

EDDIE- A BOOK OR CHARACTER WITH INTENSE/ STALKER VIBES.

ryle from it ends with us by colleen hoover. honestly, this is kind of a given, but he is probably one of the most intense characters that i’ve read in a while, and that isn’t like edward cullen. but, i honestly think ryle is a character that is better written and all of that.

MIKE- A SLOW BURN BOOK OR A ROMANCE NOVEL.

beach read by emily henry. this is kind of both, since this is definitely a romance book, and i think it is kind of a slow burn, so this is kind of the best of both worlds. and this is honestly a very good book, but i do think that her second adult romance is better than this one.

RICHARD- A BOOK THAT LEFT YOU FEELINGS ACCOMPLOSHED OR BETTER EDUCATED.

these violent delights by chloe gong. i read this book for the first time earlier this year / late last year, and i honestly didn’t really like it that much. so, with this book, i was honestly so happy when i finished it, rather quickly, and honestly that i did really like it and really loved this series as a whole.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly really liked doing this book tag and i loved to see these books and characters kind of go together and just to see how this all worked. and this was honestly just so fun.

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taste test: bridgerton second ending | blogmas day 15

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 15! today i am going to be doing another taste test, but this time i am going to be talking about the second endings, since i don’t think i’ve ever talked about them, like i definitely talked about the first couple of them, but some of the other ones i’ve never talked about, so this will be a good way to talk about them all together cause they are all so short.

THE DUKE AND I- 3/5 stars

i honestly didn’t hate this book, but i also didn’t love this book. like, i feel that a lot of this book just felt off from the regular duke and i book. but, i guess it was kind of cute that we get this story like 20 years later, or some long ass time and to see them still in love, and i guess even have another kid again. which, i don’t really believe that it is safe for 40 year old daphne to have another kid in the regency era, but who the hell knows.

THE VISCOUNT WHO LOVED ME- 4/5 stars.

i kind of go back and forth with the rating of this book, mainly the regular book for this book. but, i honestly think that this book was just cute, but still kind of random. like, i feel like this book was just kind of odd, since it just felt off place. like, this worked, but at the same time, it didn’t really work at the same time. like, so much was happening, but at the same time, i do think it was cute to see kate and anthony and the rest of the bridgerton’s and in-laws to play pall mall again.

AN OFFER FROM A GENTLEMAN- 4/5 stars.

honestly, i liked this book, but i think that they should have had this book be more then sophie and benedict, then about posy. like, i do think that they should have gave posy her own book, and maybe get her into the smythe-smith series some how, since the bridgerton’s and the smythe-smith’s are friends. but, i wish we got to see more of benedict and sophie, just being a couple and doing something domestic or something about them, not posy.

ROMANCING MISTER BRIDGERTON- 2/5 stars.

kind of falling into the ben and sophie trap hole, i just feel like this was unneeded. like, most of this book already happens in to sir phillip with love, and i think this book could have completely been cut out, since this is our second time reading this plot, even if we got some more boning in here. but, i do feel like hyacinth was the only saving grace in this book, since she really brought the comedy for the characters and the whole plot of it all.

TO SIR PHILLIP, WITH LOVE- 2/5 stars.

this is pretty much AOFAG take too, like completely. i honestly didn’t really care about seeing amanda to fall in love and get the guy, where i feel like they could have given her own big book, instead of this rushed version. and i honestly just wanted to see eloise and phillip being a cute married couple, and maybe even boning in the greenhouse, or something more then their kid’s love story, who the last time we saw her, she was eight.

WHEN HE WAS WICKED- 5/5 stars.

honestly, this was probably my favorite second epilogue, which isn’t saying to much honestly, but i still completely loved this book. i honestly really loved seeing frannie and michael struggle with having kids and when they eventually having kids, it was just so sweet and pure, which i honestly really loved. like, i do think that frannie was just such an amazing character, so i honestly really loved seeing her become a mom, even though i think she got pregnant at aubrey hall, which probably gave anthony a heart attack and he probably bleached the house / bedroom.

IT’S IN HIS KISS- 3/5 stars.

again, this book had so much potential to be such a cute story between hyacinth and gareth and just to have some good fluff, but instead we went back into that whole family jewel nonsense, which just didn’t make sense. like, i feel that this whole epilogue could be boiled down to, if their daughter just gave them the jewels right when she found them, this whole book would never have happened. and also, i think it is so unbelievable that hyacinth searched this house millions and millions of times, like before they even had their daughter, yet they never found the jewels in the room / bathroom, so that all just kind of pissed me off.

ON THE WAY TO THE WEDDING- 3/5 STARS.

as much as i like greg and lucy, and this book honestly sucked, to some regard. like, i think that so much of this series is focused on romance and happiness, this book just felt off and wasn’t what you needed for the true conclusion to the bridgerton series. like, seeing that they almost kill off lucy in this book once she has their last kids, i just feel like that is the worst way to end this, when they could have had the family together and happy.

VIOLET IN BLOOM- 3/5 stars.

as much as i liked this story, and they didn’t kill of violet in the last couple pages of this novella, i really wish it was a full length novel. like, they always talk about how much of an impact violet and edmund had on each of their kids separate romance, i just think it would have been cool to see them have their own book, even if it does end tragically. and i do feel like so much of their romance was rushed the hell out in the book, and they honestly needed to slow the hell down with a couple parts of this book, just so we can see their whole relationship.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly really love this series so much, and i’m honestly so sad to say that i finished it, since i feel like i spent so much of this year reading and reviewing these books, but i honestly still really love these books / this series.

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the secrets of sir richard kenworthy review | blogmas day 14

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 14! today i am going to be talking about the secrets of sir richard kenworthy by julia quinn. i gave this book 1/5 stars. i honestly wish i liked this book, even a little bit cause i honestly love the smythe smith and the bridgerton books so much, and hating this one kind of sucked.

trigger warnings- sexual content, toxic relationship, pregnancy, gaslighting.

honestly, i think one of my biggest issues with this book is that there was so much abuse between richard and iris. like, they never straight up slapped each other or anything like that. but, they were always saying that they grabbed each other harder or they grabbed someone else and they cried out in pain or something like that. like, i’m not going to condoned abuse or anything, but like if it happened once, i could kind of get over it, but this happened multiple times per chapter, which just got to be a lot after awhile.

like, another thing that i really didn’t like was the hero, richard. i honestly hated him so much, like, i never really read a hero in a historical romance that i honestly hated so much. like, i feel that all of his actions were just so stupid and everything he did was just so bad and terrible and i really hated everything that he did. and like, he was such an asshole and he completely lived up to his richard name, throughout so much of the book.

personally, i don’t really care about what the main woman looks like in a romance books, and like i feel like i read a lot of books were the heroine was this plain jane character, like i even think that they described kate from the viscount who loved me that way. but, it really annoyed the hell out of me that they said again and again that richard only picked iris because she was plain and that she looked desperate to get married, hence why he picked her. and it really just annoyed the hell out of me that they added this in and even more that he said this to her a couple times when they were fighting.

and i also found the whole motive why she was overlooked by men to be so stupid? like the whole reason nobody wanted to court her because she was pale, and like they went over her being pale over and over and over again, like they could be talking about what they were eating for dinner, and then they would somehow work into that conversation about iris being pale, which was just so annoying. and like after a while, it’s just like, i get it, she’s pale.

and also that so much of this book was built up with him manipulating her and that he went into this whole relationship / courtship just so that he can help his sister, and like how he went upon the courtship was just so gross and i really hated that all so incredibly much. and also how he gaslit her throughout the relationship, which i feel like never really was apologized for, among the other things in this book, to be honest. and like when they made up at the end of the book, richard never went to her and said that he was sorry for treating her this way and doing this to her, which just sucked so much and they honestly need to change it.

and like i also feel like they would go time and time again about how richard would say he felt ‘guilty’ for what he did to iris, and how he did fuck her over, and a guarantee that she could find a better man because she does have some sort of status and all of her cousins have married people of higher titles, and surely they could open up some doors for her. anyway, i do feel like he would go on these rants, or inter thoughts, about how he felt bad that he did this to her, but then in the next couples pages, he would do something else that made her pissed and kind of fucked with her mind. like, i think it was just so shitty that he would feel these guilts, but then just do it again anyway.

kind of playing on the whole guilt thing, it also annoyed me with how richard treated her again and again. like, there was consent there, for the most part, so that was honestly a good thing, but again, the bare minimum. but, i feel like there was times that she would be like, no i don’t really want to do anything like that, but then he would kind of push her to do it anyway, really just trying to get her ‘pregnant’, which i think was so stupid. like, i do think that there was some consentful moments, but i also think that there was a ton of them were i didn’t really like it.

but, i do think that everyone in this book was just so horny. like, i do feel like it was just so annoying, since they would go to fighting and richard being an asshole and then they would just jump into bed together, which got on my nerves after awhile. since, i feel like they could practically kill each other, and then they would just be like, oh let’s fuck and they do, and it got to be so annoying.

another thing i really hated was how his sisters acted throughout in this book. like, i feel that so much of these plots in this book were just so much hell they gave to iris, like she married your brother, granted it wasn’t by her choice, but it still was so annoying. like, they would be eating dinner together and then they one of the sisters would just say something rude to iris, when she honestly didn’t deserve it. like, i feel like so much of this book was just everyone being rude to iris, when she honestly didn’t deserve it, or at least for the most part.

anyway, that is all for today! but, i honestly wish i liked this book, since i feel like there was just a couple moments which i did like this book, but i also feel like there wasn’t enough good moments for me to honestly like this book, and not write a whole review on why i hate this book so much.

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my favorite covers of 2021 | blogmas day 13

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 13! today i am going to be talking about my top 10 books covers of 2021, or my favorite covers from this year. like, i feel that so many great covers came out this year and i really loved so many covers. and these books aren’t going to be in any order, since it would be kind of hard to rank them in actual order.

  1. malibu rising by taylor jenkins reid.

malibu: august, 1983. it’s the day of nina riva’s annual end of the summer party, and anticipation is at a fever pitch. everyone wants to be around the famous riva’s: nina, the talented surfer and supermodel, brothers jay and hud, one a championship surfer and the other one a renowned photographer, and their little sister, kit. together, the siblings are source of the fascination in malibu and the world over, especially as the offspring of the legendary singer, mick riva. the only person not looking forward to the party is nina, who never wants to be the center of attention, and who has just been publicly abandoned by her pro tennis player husband. and hud, because it is long past time to confess something to the brother who has been inseparable with since birth. but jay, who is counting the minutes until nightfall when the girl who he can’t stop thinking about will be there. and then kit, with a few secrets of her own and a surprise guest. but, by midnight, the party will be out of control, but by morning the riva mansion will be up in flames.

2. yolk by mary h.k. choi.

jayne baek is barely getting by. she shuffles through fashion school, saddled with a deadbeat boyfriend, clout-chasing friends, and a wretched eating disorder that she’s not fully ready to confront. but, that’s new york city, right? at least she isn’t in texas anymore, and is finally living in a city that feels right for her. on the other hand, her sister june is dazzlingly rich with a high flying finance job and a massive apartment. unlike jayne, june has never struggled a day in her life, until she’s diagnosed with uterine cancer.

3. ace of spades by faridah abike iyimide.

welcome to niveus private academy, where money paves the hallways, and the students are never less than perfect. until now, because anonymous texter, aces, is brining two students’ dark secrets to light. talented musician devon buries himself in rehearsals, but he can’t escape the spotlight when his private photos go public. head girl, chiamaka, isn’t afraid to get what she wants, but soon everyone will know the price she has paid for power.

4. white smoke by tiffany d. jackson.

marigold is running from ghosts. the phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her newly blended family from their small california beach town to the embattled midwestern city of cedarville might be the fresh start she needs. her mom has accepted a new job with the sterling foundation that comes with a free house, one that mari now has to share with her bratty ten year old stepsister, piper. the renovated picture perfect home on maple street, sitting between dilapidated houses, surrounded by wary neighbors has its secrets. that’s only half of the problem: household items vanish, doors open on their own, lights turn off, shadows walk past rooms, voices can be heard in the walls, and there’s a foul smell seeping through the vents only mari seems to notice. worse, piper keep talking about a friend who wants mari gone.

5. firekeeper’s daughter by angeline boulley.

as a biracial unenrolled tribal member and the product of a scandal, eighteen year old daunis fontaine has never quite fit in, both in her hometown and on the nearby ojibwe reservation. daunis dreams of studying medicine, but when her family is stuck by tragedy, she puts her future on hold to care for her fragile mother. the only bright spot is meeting jamie, the charming new recruit on her brother levi’s hockey team. yet, even as daunis falls for jamie, certain details don’t add up and she senses the dashing hockey star is hiding something. everything comes to light when daunis witnesses a shocking murder, thrusting her into the heart of a criminal investigation. reluctantly, daunis agrees to go undercover, but secretly pursues her own investigation, tracking down the criminals with her knowledge of chemistry and traditional medicine. but, the deceptions and deaths keep piling up and soon the threat strikes toon close to home.

6. the ones we’re meant to find by joan he.

cee has been trapped on an abandoned island for three years without any recollection on how she arrived, or memories from her life prior. all she knows is that somewhere out there, beyond the horizon, she has a sister named kay, and it’s up to cee to cross the ocean and find her. in a world apart, 16 year old stem prodigy, kasey mizuhara lives in a eco city built for people who protected the planet, and now needed protecting from it. with natural disasters on the rise due to climate change, eco cities provide clean air, water, and shelter. their residents, in exchange, must spend at least a third of heir times in stasis pods, conducting business virtually whenever possible to reduce their environmental footprint. while kasey, an introvert and loner, doesn’t mind the lifestyle, her sister celia hated it. popular and loveable, celica much preferred the outside world. but, no one could have predicted that celica would take a boat out to see, never to return.

7. amelia unabridged by ashley schumacher.

eighteen year old, amelia griffin, is obsessed with the famous orman chronicles, written by the young and reclusive prodigy, NE Endsley. they’re the books that brought her and her best friend, jenna, together after amelia’s father left and her family imploded. so, when amelia and jenna get an opportunity of attend a book festival with endsley in attendance, amelia is ecstatic. it’s the perfect way to start off their last summer before college. in a heartbeat, everything goes horribly wrong. when jenna gets a chance to meet the author and amelia doesn’t, the two have a blowout fight like they’ve never experienced. and before amelia has a chance to mend things, jenna is killed in a freak car accident. grief stricken, and without her best friend to guide her, amelia questions everything she had planned for the future.

8. the lost apothecary by sarah penner.

a female apothecary secretly dispenses poisons to liberate women from the men who have wronged them, setting three lives across centuries on a dangerous collision course. rule 1. the poison must never be used to harm another woman, rule 2. the manes of the murderer and her victim must be recorded in the apothecary’s register. and on one cold february evening in 1791, at the back of a dark london alley in a hidden apothecary shop, nella awaits her newest customer. once a respected healer, nella now uses her knowledge for a darker purpose, selling a new disguised poisons to desperate women who would kill to be free of the men in their lives. but when her new patron turns out to be a precocious 12 year old name eliza fanning, an unexpected friendship sets in motion a string of events that jeopardize nella’s world and threatens to expose the many woman whose names ae written in her register. and in present day london, aspiring historian caroline parcewell spends her tenth wedding anniversary alone, reeling from the discovery of her husband’s infidelity. when she finds the old apothecary vial near the river thames, she can’t resist investigating, only to realize she’s found a link to the unsolved “apothecary murders’ that haunted london for over two centuries ago.

9. house of hollow by krystal sutherland.

seventeen year old, iris hollow, has always been strange. something happened to her and her two older sisters when they were children, something they can’t remember but that left each of them with an identical half moon scar at the base of their throats. iris has spent most of her teenage years trying to avoid the weirdness that sticks to her like tar. but when her elder sister, grey, goes missing under suspicious circumstances, iris learns just how weird her life can get: horned men start shadowing her, a corpse falls out of her sister’s ceiling, and ugly, impossible memories start to twist their way to the forefront of her mind. as iris retraces grey’s last known footsteps and follows the increasingly bizarre trail of breadcrumbs she left behind, it becomes apparent that the only way to save her sister is to decipher the mystery of what happened to them as children.

10. kingdom of the cursed by kerri maniscalo.

i’m not going to explain what this book is about cause i don’t want to spoil anyone. but, this is the second book in the kingdom of the wicked.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly think that these covers are just so pretty, and i honestly think that so many other pretty books that i really like them so much.

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the ivies review | blogmas day 12

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 12! today i am going to be talking about the ivies by alexa donne. i gave this book 3/5 stars. i honestly wish i liked this book more, since i feel like this book was just kind of a mess and i think that a lot of the plot was just such a mess.

trigger warnings- death, murder, bullying, grief, toxic friendship, emotional abuse, violence, adult / minor relationship, infidelity, misogyny, racism, toxic friendship, body shaming, cursing, gun violence, gaslighting, pedophilia, alcohol, drug use.

honestly, i think my biggest issue with this book was that it just felt cheap. like, i feel that most of this book has been done before, and the tropes that were stitched into this were done 100 times before, and will be done again, but nothing in this book felt like it was better than the others and just original, even if it’s been done before. and that a lot of this book was just over the top and just the tricks were so stupid, and not really thought threw.

i also feel like the ‘ending,’ which really isn’t an ending since it happened at like 50% mark. like, again, i feel like the who done it was so obvious and that it wasn’t original and that it was the common tropes that you see in every other mystery plot. like, the reveal wasn’t even executed all that well, so it wasn’t even like that was done to well either. like, i think it could have been so cool, if done properly. and anyway, i feel like they kind of tell you who did it, if you read in between the lines, since it was right there.

and i feel like a lot of this book was just so rushed and that everything was wrapped up correctly. like, they told us the who did it, but they never really explained why they did this and what their motivation for the crimes were, which i just found to be so annoying, cause it would be so easy just to make something up and put some motive behind the actions. and anyway, in a crime novel like this, it would be the bare minimum to be like, they killed her cause of this, which they didn’t do.

but, i did kind of like the college admissions plot, like, i think it was really cool, but at the same time it just felt like it was to the extreme. like, i think that it was interesting to read that these students were applying to colleges and trying to get into these ivy league schools. but, at the same time i think, would you really murder over college, just because you didn’t get early decision, like you can apply normally and even transfer if you really want too. like, it just felt a little bit silly to me.

i also hated the ivies in this book. like, they did some stuff that is like some sort of crimes, or at least morally wrong, and all they got was a ‘don’t do this again,’ or that’s at least how i remember it. like, i don’t think that they should have these long ass jail sentences or anything, but just something just to tell them that what they didn’t isn’t right, and get some sort of punishment for what the did, throughout this book.

but, with this group of five girls, i feel like they only talked about three of the girls. like, they had all the talking parts and the parts were they had actual plot and had personalities and such, but the other two were like glorified background characters, which was just so stupid, since they’re part of this story and this group, you should just give them something that is worthwhile.

with the characters, i also feel like not to many people developed and grew as characters. like, i do feel like the other two girls, the ones that had like 3 lines, they grew and they had some development, but still not that much. but, then for avery and olivia, they never really changed. like, avery was still the rich, white, mean girl that she was in the start of the book, which annoyed the hell out of me. and olivia still had this victim complex and started this story as the ‘poor girl from the wrong side of the tracks’ that wants to live this glamorous and expensive life that everyone else, and especially the rest of the ivies, live. and like, by the end she was the same person and didn’t ever realize that maybe she shouldn’t live this cause she already saw the consequences, aka her best friend died.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly wish i liked this book more than i did, but i still think it was a decent read regardless. but, i’m still kind of interested in donne’s other works, since they sound kind of interesting.

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bridgerton 5-8: taste test | blogmas day 11

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 11! today i am going to be doing the second part of the bridgerton taste test. so, for this post, i’m going to be talking about books 5-8. and then for each of these books, i’m going to break it up like i did the other books, just so it’s all consistent.

TO SIR PHILLIP WITH LOVE– i gave this book 4/5 stars.

trigger warnings– suicide, child abuse, suicide attempt, mental illness, sexual content, death, death of a parent, physical abuse, grief, emotional abuse.

plot- i honestly liked the plot, like i do think it was a very cool set up with how they were writing letters back and forth and then eloise finally came to met him at his house. like, i think the whole letter premise and then even when they were living under the same roof, i think it was just cool to see how they were in this forced proximity and to see them kind of playing house.

romance- like i said, i honestly really liked it. like, i really liked that eloise was kind of this person that broke phillip out of his shell after his wife died. like, i think it was just so cool to watch them already have these feelings for each other, just by the way they were talking in the letters, and then when they met, i feel like it was just so pure and i really liked it. and i mean, i think the way this moved and just seeing them fall for each other, it was just so adorable.

characters– for, phillip, i really liked him. i think he was just so pure and i loved that he had this actual job, and i feel like it was just so cool to see how much he loved his job and to see how everything happened. and i really liked to see how he acted with his kids, like it was just so cool to see how he acted with them, even if they weren’t biological father\child, i still just liked to see how he acted with them.

then for eloise, i really loved seeing her have her own book. like, i think seeing how she acted with the kids, and just having her almost parent them throughout the book, i just think it was so cool to see how everything played out. and i also really liked seeing how she acted with the siblings, like it was just so cool to see how they talked and fought, which just felt like real siblings would bicker in real life.

writing- i feel like the writing was really beautiful, like, i think it was just written so well with seeing how all of this played out and how the plot slowly moved forward. and just to see how they wrote about the characters relationship and to see how phillip parented the kids, i really liked it and i thought it was just so amazing and i think it was just written so well and well done.

netflix show- honestly if this happens, i honestly want them to make sure eloise doesn’t come across as the villain. i mean, i think that they could easily make her be the villain with getting with the person that just lost his wife. but, i honestly want them to give us more dad! phillip, since that would just be so cute and to build up how much of a dad he was for the kids. and just to give them more moments of the two of them that is just domestic fluff.

WHEN HE WAS WICKED – i gave this book 5/5 stars.

trigger warnings– sexual content, death, miscarriage, infernality, grief, blood, pregnancy.

plot– i really liked the plot of this book. like, i think it was just super cool to have the book kind of start off really depressing, and then just get happier and happier as it goes on. like, i think it was just cool to kind of get thrown into this world and these relationships and just to see everything kind of play out. especially since i feel like the bridgerton’s weren’t the biggest plot of this book, but they still were there for a lot of it.

romance– i honestly loved the romance so much. like, i think that it was just so cool to see how this all played out, especially with micheal having a crush on frannie for way longer than she ever thought about him. and i just think it was just so cool to see how they slowly got to be more and more in love and comfortable with each other. so, i think that the romance was just so well done and just so amazing.

characters- for michael, i honestly loved him. like, he was just such a pure guy and i did really love him so much. like, i do think he was just such a sweet guy and i loved to see how he really went on frannie’s pace, which is again, the bare minimum. granted, i do think they should have not made him to go india, which is something i hope they take out of the show, or just make them indian.

then for frannie, i honestly really liked her. i think it was just so cool to see how much her mom has impacted her life, but not in the stereotypical way her mom has impacted her. and i do feel like she is one of the most realistic bridgerton lady, since she did go through so much in all of this book and i think how everything tied together, was just really well.

writing- i honestly really liked the way this book was written. like, this book does deal with a lot of heavier topics, and they were still all really dealt with right and they talked about the issues and didn’t push it to the side. which, i think that it was still written so well and i honestly loved seeing how they talked about it all. and i also think that at the same time, they still were super light and just still written really well.

netflix show- like i already said, i do think they need to cut out the whole india scene, if they don’t want michael and john indian. but, other than that, i really want to see the steam and they have the same sex scene that was in this book, since it would just be so good to see on screen. but, other than that, i hope they keep the miscarriage since i think it would be a very good message and something you don’t really see to much in historical romances.

IT’S IN HIS KISS– i gave this 4/5 stars.

trigger warnings– sexual content, emotional abuse, child abuse, infidelity, misogyny, sexism, death of a parent, toxic relationship, child death, grief.

plot- i honestly really liked the plot of this book. like, i feel like it was just kind of a weird, since it was nothing like the other books, in a good way though. but, i honestly feel like the plot of this book did kind of take a while to get going, but once it started, i feel like it was just really good and honestly super fun.

romance- i honestly really liked the romance in this book. granted, i feel like the romance in this book was kind of rocky, since i feel like it just was zero romance and then after awhile they just started getting close and in love in a matter of minutes. but, i think once it started, this was just really cute and i really loved seeing all of this played out. and i think the whole mystery was just so cool, and i think it was just a really decent book.

characters- for gareth, i honestly really liked it. like, i think he was just a really cool character and that he was just really cute, with how he interacted with hyacinth and lady danbury, with trying to figure out what to do with the whole mystery. like, i think that he was just a really great character, but no way the best character i’ve ever read, since i feel like he was kind of stand offish at some times.

then for hyacinth, i really liked her. like, i think that she was just so head strong and i really liked seeing her interact with gareth and to see how everything happened. and i mean, i feel like she was just so sarcastic, which i honestly really loved and she kind of gave me the kate vibe through some of this book. and i also really liked seeing her interact with gregory, since i feel like they were the closest in age, so it was kind of cool to see them have the relationship that ben and anthony have.

writing- i honestly really liked it. like, i think the writing was just so well done and i think the way everything moved and how the different plots moved, it was just so amazing. i feel like the whole mystery \ action aspect was kind of cool and i think seeing it all happen was just kind of cool and i liked to see how everything worked.

netflix show– i honestly don’t really have to many complains for what i do \ don’t want, since i feel like this book was pretty good. like, i think that the whole finding the jewels was just so fun and a good change of pace compared to the other books. but, i do hope they start to have hyacinth and lady danbury have their relationship start earlier.

ON THE WAY TO THE WEDDING– i gave this book 4/5 stars.

trigger warnings- sexual content, emotional abuse, blood, confinement, infidelity, miscarriage, misogyny, violence, medical content, kidnapping, medical trauma.

plot- again, i feel like this book was kind of a mess. granted, i do feel like it was really cool and i think that it was cool to see how everything happened and to see how everything happened. but, i do feel like everything was kind of a mess at some parts, but then again, i do feel like that a couple of the parts were kind of mess.

romance– personally, i really liked this romance and the romance with the characters, but i feel like they were still really good. like, i do feel like there was just some parts about how hermione and greg kind of had this little romance. and in away, i think it kind of annoyed me that greg wanted hermione and then lucy, which i feel like got to be a mess after awhile.

character- for gregory, i liked him, and i liked his chaotic nature, since i feel like he was kind of mess, but so lovable at the same time, which i still really liked. but, i didn’t really like the whole hermione x greg thing, since i feel like it was kind of mess. but, then again, i feel like he was just a really nice guy.

then for lucy, she honestly deserved better then greg, at the start of the book. and i honestly wish we got to see more of her, since looking back, she is just kind of a blur, which honestly kind of sucks. but, i do think that she was just really nice character, and that she was just so understanding through so much of this book.

writing- i honestly liked this wedding. again, i feel like this book was just kind of mess at some parts, but he was just still super nice and easy to read. and i feel like so much of this book was just so all over the place, but even in the good way, since it was just so fun.

netflix show– i honestly really hope they keep the chaotic nature of this book, since it was just so fun and honestly something i really liked. i mean, i think this book was just so fun and i think it would make such a good plot and characters. and i think that the wedding plot was just so fun and i think was just something i really liked.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly really love this series, even if i’m kind of sad that this series is over. but, it did help me know what i do or don’t like in a historical romance books.

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bookish christmas tag | blogmas day 10

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 10! today i am going to be doing the bookish christmas tag. i’m honestly so excited to do this tag and just talk about the different books, since tags are always so fun to do.

FATHER CHRISTMAS: NAME A BOOK YOU RECEIVED AS A CHILD THAT YOU TREASURE TO THIS DAY.

broken hearts by rl stine. this is honestly one of the books that really got me into reading. granted, the book that i currently own isn’t the book i read when i was younger. but, this book still is really close to my heart.

THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PAST: IS THEIR A BOOK OR SERIES YOU LIKE TO REVIST EACH YEAR AT CHRISTMAS TIME?

i don’t really have a set book or series that i like to read, but i always liked to read my favorite books or even read books that are really light, so like adult romance books. but, this year i’ll probably just read whatever i want, cause i got so many books i want to read the christmas.

CHRISTMAS TREE: NAME A SERIES THAT REACHES NEW HEIGHT WIH EVERY ENTRY.

granted, this series is techinally over, but i honestly think a good girl’s guide to murder really fits this prompt. since, i feel like with every book that came out in this series it just got better and better and that i think it was just such a good series with how everything worked out and also the mystery just got to be better and better.

FRIENDS AND FAMILY: NAME A BOOK WITH A GORGEOUS COVER YOU WOULD PROUDLY DISPLAY ON YOUR SHELVES.

pride and premeditation by tirzah price. this cover is honestly so pretty and i honestly really liked this cover, and it is always a good thing cause the plot also sounds really fun and cool. and something that i would honestly really like, if i ever decide to read this book.

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

felix ever after by kacen callender. i’m not sure if this is the best possible book for this prompt, but this still was a really good book with a message. and i mean, i love this book so much and i feel like this honestly really fits.

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

the gilded wolves by roshani chokshi. i honestly didn’t hate this book, but i feel like there was just so much hype around this series \ book \ characters, so i honestly just really expected to love this book and that i think it would be so cool. but, it honestly just let me down.

CHRISTMAS LUNCH: NAME A BOOK THAT WAS BIG AND INTIMIDATING BUT WAS SO WORTH IT IN THE END.

the bridgerton books by julia quinn. i honestly was so scared to read these books since i didn’t ever read an historical romance before, so this book just scared me and cause i didn’t know what to expect, with the world and the characters, before i went into the series.

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

the hathaway series by lisa kleypas. granted, i haven’t finished this series yet, but with the books that i have read, i honestly really loved the books and the way that this book ended was just so cute. i also completely loved to see how each of the couples did make a bit of an appearance in the other books, which i think was just so cool.

PRESENTS: WHAT BOOK DO YOU WISH YOU COULD GIVE EVERYONE TO READ?

loveless by alice oseman. granted, i did love this book, but i think that it would be such an impactful book for people to read, since it does talk a lot about asexuality and aromatic, which i think is so important to talk about and to see this book played out.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly had so much fun doing this post and to talk about these different books and kind of make it a little christmas-y.

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