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the christmas carol book tag | blogmas day 24

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 24 and merry christmas eve! today i am going to be doing the christmas carol book tag. i honestly am super excited for this tag, since i watched a couple tag youtube videos, so this sounds so cool.

THE GHOST OF CHIRSTMAS PAST- A BOOK THAT WAS A CHILDHOOD FAVORITE.

not really a specific book, but more so the fear street series. like, i think that it was probably my favorite series / book when i was a kid, especially since they were this cool murder mystery thing, and i honestly really loved this one, and honestly still kind of do.

THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS PRESENT- A RECENT BOOK THAT YOU THINK WILL BECOME OF YOUR ALL TIME FAVORITES.

you’ll be the death of me by karen m. mcmanus. i honestly liked mcmanus’ other books, so i honestly think that this book also just sounds so good and i think that it has so much potential. and i honestly can’t wait to read this and i honestly think that this would be so cool.

THE GHOST OF CHRISTMAS YET TO COME- A BOOK COMING OUT NEXT YEAR THAT YOU’RE EXCITED ABOUT.

the atlas paradox by olivie blake. i’m honestly so excited for this book. like i honestly loved the atlas six so much, so getting the second book, i’m just so excited for this and to be back with these characters and this world again, since i just sounds so amazing.

BAH HUMBUG- A BOOK THAT EVERYONE ELSE LOVES THAT YOU CAN’T STAND.

one last stop by casey mcquinston. i didn’t hate this book, but i feel like it was just so messy and i honestly didn’t like this book since i just feel like so much was happening, yet nothing was really important.

BOB CRATCHIT- A OLD DEPENDABLE THAT YOU ALWAYS RECOMMEND.

a good girl’s guide to murder by holly jackson. if you followed me even a for a little while, you know that i literally don’t shut up about this book. so, i’ll always talk about this book and i always recommend this book all the time since it is just so good.

TINY TIM- AN UNDERHYPED BOOK THAT YOU THINK DESERVES MORE LOVE.

if the shoe fits by julie murphy. i honestly think that this book was just so good, and i honestly think that more people need to read this book, since i think so many people would like this book if they actually decided to pick this up. so, i honestly think that this would be the perfect bachelor read.

TODAY? WHY IT’S CHRISTMAS DAY- WHAT’S A BOOK THAT ALWAYS GETS YOU IN THE MOOD FOR CHRISTMAS?

i honestly don’t think i really have one, since i think that i really read whatever i want, when i want, so i don’t really have one honestly.

THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL- YOUR FAVOREITE BOOK TO FILM ADAPTION.

i would either say shadow and bone or bridgerton, even if they both are kind of a mess, and not very good in the grand scheme of things. but, i still had fun watching them.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly really had fun to do this and to talk about these prompts and it was just so fun.

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the gilded wolves review | blogmas day 23

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 23! today i am going to be talking about the gilded wolves by roshani chokshi. i gave this book 3/5 stars. i honestly liked this book, but i think that there was just so much happening that it got to be a little bit confusing after awhile.

trigger warnings- death, violence, child abuse, torture, blood, murder, emotional abuse, racism, ableism, physical abuse, cultural appropriation, injury / injury detail, animal cruelty, bullying, homophobia, panic attacks / disorder, antisemitism, grief, death of a parent, abandonment.

i think my biggest issue with this story was the writing. like, i think there is a fine line between actual good pretty and aesthetic writing, and then writing that is just for the aesthetics. where, i feel like with a story like this, or something like six of crows, that with the story that you are trying to tell, you can’t glamorous this, like you make it sound way to pretty then it actually is with all the things that happen during this book. and i feel like chokshi spent way to much time to get the writing to be so beautiful, that it just took away from the story and took away from the actual heists that they were doing.

another issue i had with this book was how you were just thrown into this book. like, i feel like from page one we were just supposed to expect where the relationships were and how each character interacted with each other person in this group and also just to already know who the characters are and what they do and what their specialty was, it just got to be kind of confusing and i didn’t really like it, since it was just so confusing. and i feel like they didn’t take enough time to fully explain everything.

but, i also think that the world building was really good, which i did really like. like, i feel like they did flesh out the world pretty well with explaining each of their ranks, if they had one, and i think everything was just really fleshed out and kind of explained. especially with the prologue in the start of this book, i feel like that kind of set the stage for this book and to put out what it meant, which i honestly really liked.

kind of with that, i feel like chokshi did have good ideas with how to use this, and how to use the plot and the location to her advantage, but they just weren’t executed well though. like, i feel that they did try to have these different plot points, but they just didn’t do them well and they just weren’t good, in a grand scheme of things. and i feel like some of the plot just didn’t make sense, since they would do something, but the same characters would do something else two pages later, but they were just doing something else and we never got a proper ending to the first thing, and it just got to be to much.

but, i also think that they brought into this plot with to many different things, like things that most people don’t actually understand and just have common knowledge of this all. but, i feel like that so many things got to be so confusing and that with the things not being explained, it just got to be way to confusing when they brought it up, like i think they would keep talking about forging, and i think that they were kind of confusing and i think that they needed to explain it all, since we obviously don’t have it, and i think they just needed to explain it and break it down more, which honestly got to be so confusing after awhile.

personally, i think the world building was just really good, and i honestly know that the world building was decent. but, the magic aspect would just get to be such a mess. like, i think they needed to kind of break it down and talk about what was happening and how this worked and how the different people get different powers. and i mean, i think they needed to break it down, and kind of make it be these plots that just make sense and honestly just kind of figure out all the different things, and i think everything should have been dumbed down a bit.

then for severin, i did like him in the sense that he was so smart and this mastermind, and he was honestly pretty clever. but, besides that, i think that he was honestly just super bland and kind of cold and standoffish. like, i think that he didn’t have any personality and nothing with him you could really connect too. i mean, i think also he was just such an asshole, because the other people in this group would be going through something, like a mental health thing or they’d just be plain struggling and all he would do was turn around and tell them to do something else, instead of actually helping them.

then for enrique, i honestly did like him, and he was probably my favorite character in this book since it was all very flesh outed. like i feel like his growth was just so good, and i honestly really liked seeing how he was someone that kind of went through a lot, and that in the book he was kind of underestimating everything about him. but, then he kind of grew up and kind of got to grew and became this really big historian and i really liked him and he honestly has so much potential in the other books.

for laila, i honestly really liked her and i honestly think she was very interesting. but, i feel like she was only a good character in the chapters with other characters chapters, but i think when it was her own chapters, it didn’t make sense and she was just so confusing. like, i feel that she had so much happening and that she was just so confusing. like, i do think she is a very interesting and complexed character, and i think that her development was also really good and i did like her so much.

finally for zofia, i honestly think that she did have so much growth, and i do think that she had so much potential, but i feel like she was kind of a mess at some parts. like, i think the biggest issue i had with her was that they kind of threw us into her as a character, and i honestly think that it was kind of fun, but she did kind of not be really explained to well. since, i think that they never really broke her down a lot, which got to be kind of confusing.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly did like this book a little bit, but i do think that i probably won’t read the next books in this series, since it was just so confusing and i didn’t really understand this, for a most part.

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seduce me at sunrise review | blogmas day 22

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 22! today i am going to be talking about seduce me at sunrise by lisa kleypas. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i honestly really liked this book, and i feel like it did a good job with giving depth to these characters that we already seen in book 1, and i honestly really loved that part.

trigger warnings- racism, sexual content, toxic relationship, alcoholism, child abuse, death, death of a parent.

i honestly think that a lot of this book that kind of annoyed me was that merripen and win kind of got teased that they were this childhood friends to lovers with all this growing sexual tension and angst, but i feel like it was there, but it also wasn’t there at the same time. since, i feel like a lot of this relationship and this growth in the relationship, or at least for the first start of this book was that merripen would tell or act towards win that he really liked her, but then he would pull away at the last moment and just kind of not give her reasons on why he couldn’t / shouldn’t be with win, which just got to be on my nerves.

another one of my issues with this book was kind of how jumpy the start of this book was. like, i feel like at the start they were all just at the hotel and then suddenly leo and win were leaving and then these weird flashbacks to kev and win’s childhood. like i feel like it just didn’t make sense since so much was happening, and then suddenly they just jumped like three years or something to when leo and win got back. like, they should have had them just have them leave in book one would make sense, but who knows. but then the flashbacks should have been places throughout this book better and i feel like they shouldn’t just have thrown them in for like two chapters at the start.

with that though, i didn’t hate the flashbacks, since i think it was just so fun to see all of the hathaway’s as kids, and just cause we know them as adults / older teenagers, it was kind of cool to see them as kids and for them to just see how they acted with each other from the two different age ranges. and also i think that it was cool to see how they acted from kids to adults. and even just to see kev still really care about win was just so cute and i honestly loved seeing them figure it all out. and even to see the hathaway parents, i think it was just kind of fun to see how much they played into their lives and even just to see their death, full out, i think it was just so cool and i really liked it.

but, with that being said, like i really liked how they kind of played into win coming back home. like, i really liked it and i kind of liked seeing the two of them kind of interacting and having that encounter was just so fun, and i honestly really liked it and liked seeing it. but, i think that even that incident should have pushed that sexual tension and to see the angst from these characters. but, i think that they should have kind of played into that more, but i feel like it was just kind of lacking, in a sense. but, i still think this was a good book none the less.

something that i did like in this book though was the humor and the emotion in this book. like, i honestly liked that they kept up the com in rom com, since i think so many books just don’t do that anymore, even if this book it a bit older. but, i honestly this kleypas did/does such a good job in this series with having the moments that are cute and funny and then having the hard hitting moments, maybe not even between the leads, with the other siblings, that honestly really added so much to this book, which i really liked. and i think that there was just such a good balance with keeping in light and fluffy and also giving it some emotional depth for the characters.

but, i also really liked how they still showed cam and amelia get to see more plot with them and to kind of see how they still had these plot points with this and to have them still have importance, especially since amelia is the head of the head of the family, in away, but also just to see them post their HEA and just to find it all. but, i also liked how we got to see marks and leo, since they are the couple in book 4, so i kind of liked seeing them interact and kind of become these enemies to lovers and to see all of this growth from here to there was kind of fun. so, i honestly liked that we saw more couples than just win and merripan, even if they are the main couple in this book, it was cool to see other people.

for kev as a character, i honestly did like him. like i feel like he did have his issues and there was definitely things i didn’t really like about him, but i still really liked how complexed his was. like, i think that it was kind of fun to see how he acted from cam and leo then to win, i think it was just cool to see how much he cared for win and all of it. i mean, i think see so much of his backstory and just to kind of have him figure out the different aspects of his personality and what he cared for, i honestly really liked him.

then for win, i honestly really liked her. again, i do feel like she was a very complex characters and i did really like seeing her and to kind of figure out what she did. like, i also think that she was just so interesting and i honestly really liked reading about her. and i also really liked seeing how she grown from book one than to book two, i think it was just so cool. and like besides to see her grow mentally, i honestly liked to see her grow stronger physically and emotionally, i honestly liked to see how she functioned and grown, i really liked it.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly really loved this book and this series and i really love this series so much, and i honestly loved to see how this all played out and this series as a whole, it was just so amazing.

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house of hollow review | blogmas day 21

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 21! today i am going to be talking about house of hollow by krystal sutherland. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i honestly really loved this book, and i think that this book was just such a great read.

trigger warnings- body horror, gore, child death, blood, death, suicide, violence, death of a parent, murder, vomit, grief, kidnapping, sexual assault, stalking, injury / injury detail, gun violence, bullying, alcohol, drug use, toxic relationship, child abuse, mental illness, physical abuse, self harm, sexual violence, medical content, suicide attempt, fire / fire injury, addiction, alcoholism, drug abuse, emotional abuse, sexual harassments, animal death, suicidal thoughts.

one of my favorite things of this book was just the vibe from this book. like, i think this book was just so fun, and even in away about how it all happened and worked. like, i think it was just so cool to see this witchy aspect of this book and just to see how they all worked and just to get this very cool atmosphere, which i just think was so cool.

i also think that the dark fairy tale horror thing honestly really worked. like, i feel like when you take up a plot like this, it honestly isn’t the most easy thing to do, and it probably takes a lot of planning and things from this, like any book honestly. but, i think that it was just so cool and with how the two of them interwind together was just so fun and i honestly really loved reading it and seeing how it got scarier and how it all worked and carried out throughout the book.

but, i also think that this book did kind of have this very big folklore vibe in here. like, i really did get this kind of dark fairytale and kind of brothers grimm vibe from this book. since, i think that this book was kind of cool and i think it was done really well and i think that it was very well and that it was just super fun and kind of a dark disney movie aspect, which i honestly really loved and done really well.

another thing i really liked with this book, was how fast paced this book was. like, i think it was just really well done and i honestly think it being fast paced also just worked. but, i also think at some parts of this book it was just way to fast, and i think it was just kind of a mess, since there was one scene in the end of the book, and if you read this book you might know which part i am talking about, that it honestly confused the hell out of me, since it just happened so fast. but, i still feel like it was done really well, even if it did get to be a bit much of this book, even if it was kind of a mess. but, if this book was slower, i think it wouldn’t have worked as well.

another thing i really liked was the female empowerment, if you could call it that. but, i feel like that it was just so cool to see how they had this sexy vibe, like i think they weren’t the most sexual vibe, but also having the ‘if you mess with one of us, you mess with all of us,’ which i think was just really good and i honestly really loved seeing it and reading it. and also the whole jennifer body vibe from this, like i think that was just really fun and i think it was just very well done and i think it was so great.

but, i think that it did have a couple moments that were a bit dragged out, when it really didn’t need to be dragged out. like, i feel that there was just so much happening at so much of this book, but then they would drag things out, especially when they couldn’t find the sister and when they were in the house, which got to be a little bit annoying. and also, i feel like the plot didn’t really move for a while, since they were just trying to find the sister and they weren’t really doing anything and just struggling with doing that. but, i think that as it went on, it did get better and got to be more of the edge of your seat moments.

i also liked the characters though. like, besides their ages, i feel like they were all different, but also the same at the same times. like i think that they had these moments were they felt the same, probably because they were all siblings, and they had the same upbringing and trauma, but i honestly did like it. and i also really liked that each of the characters were kind of unique and different, and honestly had these creepy vibes to them, but in the best way possible. and that they all honestly felt and interacted like siblings, which i honestly really loved and think was done so well.

i also think that this book was just so well written. like, i honestly didn’t really expect this, since in away i think with having so many different moving parts, i thought the writing was going to be kind of rocky. but, i honestly loved it so much and i think it was just very lyrical and i honestly thought that the way everything was described was just so disgustly beautiful. like, i feel that this book dealt with so many hard topics and had so many gross moments, but the writing was just so beautiful and i honestly loved it so much.

but, i guess one thing that i didn’t really like in this book was how the ending or the big twist was. like, i think that the twist of this book was just not that good. personally, i feel like the twist was something that i borderline expected, but i still think that they pulled it off and even still made it interesting, even if you did know what happened, i still liked the girls figuring out what was happening and to figure out what to do after that big reveal.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly really liked this book a lot, and i honestly can’t wait to see what else this author publishes in the future, since i honestly really loved this one.

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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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