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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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the sum of all kisses | blogmas day 9

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 9! today i am going to be talking about the sum of all kisses by julia quinn. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i honestly wish this series ended with this book, since this book was just so good and i honestly really liked this one.

trigger warnings- domestic abuse, ableism, child abuse, emotional abuse, sexual content, suicidal thoughts, suicide, body horror, body shaming, confinement, homophobia, misogyny, physical abuse, sexism, toxic relationship, violence, death of a parent.

i honestly really liked reading about hugh and what his difficulties were throughout the book. like, i think it was just so cool to see how he was this mean and kind of gruff of a character and i really liked seeing him figure out his feelings and just what he wants to do. and also just to see hugh deal and come to terms with his injury and to see how this was such a big part of his story. like, i think he was just such a good guy and i really liked seeing him figure out his place and call his dad out on his bull shit.

then for sarah, i also really liked seeing her care for hugh so much and just to see how much she grew to care for him and to see how much she was just written so well, too. like, i feel like she was kind of a hot head, but she wasn’t the biggest hot head in the world. and i just think she was a really good character and i think she was written really full circle because we’ve seen her in the other two books, so it was just kind of cool to see she again, fight her feelings but then fall for the guy she shouldn’t like.

i also really liked to see the talk about physical disability in this book. like, we kind of see hugh in the other books, but nothing that was really that big, but we did always know about how they had plot about him being inquired by daniel. like, i think that having a main character, in an historical romance book no less, i think it was really cool. i mean, i think that a lot of books don’t have to many disabled characters, so i honestly really liked seeing a hero in a historical romance book need to walk with a cane.

and i also liked that the sarah was very excepting about it, and genuinely wanted to know about it and wanted to have open conversations about it. like, it is the bare minimum, but i still think it was just really nice and cool that they both were so open with it all and that they could have conversations about how he can be comfortable and just really like each other. like, i think some of the moments where he was in physical pain and sarah was there to help him and make him the most comfortable that he could have been, with being in these situations.

i also really liked the whole hate to love relationship. like, i wouldn’t call it an enemies to lovers, but i do think it is still a really good read. personally, i think it was just so cool to see how they started off being rivals, with hugh getting her cousin kicked out of england and now their families are enemies. so, i did really like kind of seeing them fight their feelings because of their family issues and i just think it was cool to have this hate to love story between the two of them.

with most quinn books, i really did like to see how big the family aspect of this book was. like, i think it was cool to have the family be such a big part of the book and just to see how they all interacted. i think one of the biggest things that i liked was just seeing hugh and then the smythe-smith books get along, after things happened with the families. and that i think it was also kind of nice to see sarah with her siblings and then roping hugo into it all.

but, one of my favorite moments in this book was honestly when sarah and hugo danced together. like, i think it was just so cute to see how they just went outside, or at least saw each other and decided to dance together, i think it was just so adorable to see them dance together with the cane, and sarah took the time to help him do this and give him this moment that he really wanted since his injury happened.

i also really liked that we got to see the couples from the other books. like, i think it was cool to see how hugo and sarah fell in love when sarah’s cousins got married and kind of be enclosed together in these different houses / estates together, for these weddings. and plus, we never got to see the other weddings in the couples book, so i think it was cool to see the other weddings and how close they actually took place.

but, i feel like the timelines of this book was a mess. like, i think the wedding plot was kind of a mess and i think seeing how marcus and honoria get their wedding and then daniel and anne then right after, and then sarah and hugo’s right at the end. i think it just got to be a mess with all the weddings and i wish that they just gave this book a different plot, instead of all the weddings and then how the weddings are all planned out. like, it was cute to see the other weddings, but the plot just to be a bit much.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly really liked this book and i honestly really loved the plot and romance and just seeing this happen was just so fun. like, i think that all of this was just so sweet and fluffy, and i really liked it.

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people we meet on vacation review | blogmas day 8

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 8! today i am going to be talking about people we meet on vacation by emily henry. i gave this book 4/5 stars. i honestly really liked this book and i think this book was just so cool to see how everything worked and to see all of the vacations.

trigger warnings- sexual content, death of a parent, bullying, grief, alcohol, drug use, death, animal death, cursing, mental illness, infidelity, medical content, injury / injury detail, pregnancy.

this is honestly something i never really talk about in romance books, since i feel like it is something that is a must in a rom com. but, i feel like poppy and alex just had so much chemistry. we all know that the chemistry from the two characters in any sort of relationship was important. but, i feel like in this book, poppy and alex had so much raw chemistry between the two of them as partners and even as friends, which i feel is so far and in between from two characters in a romance book. and i honestly feel like their chemistry was just there so well, which i just think was so amazing and i feel like henry did this so well.

but, i also think that we didn’t see that much of them as friends as i would’ve hoped. like, i think they definitely did have parts were they were friends, since so much of this book revolves around, but i just wish that there was something more. like, i think it would’ve been cool to see a little more of them as friends, to really sell the friends to lovers.

i also wish we got to see more of their lives outside of the vacations. like, i don’t need chapters upon chapters of them outside of the vacation, but just a little something to show that they are still friends and what is actually going on in their lives besides the vacations they take together, since i think that would’ve been really cool. and especially seeing if they have plot with them going to school or like working or their other relationships.

one thing i didn’t really like in this book was that the vacations weren’t in order. like, i feel like that with the vacations happening in whatever order henry choosed was kind of a mess. like, i think cause they weren’t happening in order, the chemistry kind of changed, or at least to a degree. and i think it would have been kind of cool to see the vacations and even to have the whole book take place from when they met, and then to current day, since i think that would have been really cool. but, i mean, the vacations were still so fun and i really loved seeing it happen and reading about all the different places they went to together was just so cool.

as for poppy, i honestly really liked her. like, i feel like she was so relatable with the different things they did, and i feel like she was just such a well rounded character and her plots were just so good. and like i think reading about her was just so raw and all the emotion packed into her, as a character, was just so amazing and i liked seeing her figure out her place and to see her fight her feelings for alex.

then for alex, he is honestly the blueprint for ‘fictional men written by woman.’ like, he was just so sweet to poppy, which is the bare minimum. but, i feel like everything that he did was just so romantic and seeing how far he went for her was just so cool. so, kind of spoiler, when he told poppy that he got a vasectomy for poppy, it was just so cute and i didn’t really expect that he would do this for her, after she had her almost pregnancy on their one trip.

but, i do feel like one of my issues with this book was that they ‘broke up’ which i’m going to use lightly, since they were just friends. but, i feel like they talked about a little bit here and there with them not bring friends anymore. but, i feel like that they just needed to either a. bring it up at the start or b. give the readers a little something about how \ why they broke up. like, i think they tried to make it be some mystery, that didn’t really work for what is happening and what the overall plot of this book. like, i feel like the mystery of them could be taken out and it would still mean the same thing.

we also got this book to only have one pov in this book, which i honestly don’t really care for in a lot of romance books, especially adult romance books. but, i feel like that they needed to have both of the main characters pov, just so we can get the full story of what is happening between the two of them. like, i think it would be cool to see how they got to have two povs to see the double aspects of them and what the others thinks about each other.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly liked this book a lot and i think that could honestly make a really good mini series, with each episode being a different vacation and just to see it all happen, and i honestly really want to read the other books henry publishes in the future.

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all these bodies review | blogmas day 7

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 7! today i am going to be talking about all these bodies by kendare blake. i gave this book 5/5 stars. this book was honestly so amazing and i completely loved this book and these characters, and just to see how everything played out and worked together.

trigger warnings- blood, murder, death, violence, child death, death of a parent, animal death, confinement, gore, sexism, toxic relationship, grief, cannibalism, alcohol, injury \ injury detail, adult \minor relationship, alcoholism, animal cruelty, body horror, bullying, child abuse, domestic abuse, emotional abuse, misogyny, physical abuse, sexual assualt, sexual content, abandonment, sexual harassment.

i think honestly my favorite part of this book was the plot and how the plot played into the characters and their relationships. like, i think it was just so cool and i really loved to see how everything clicked together. and like, with the plot of this book, i really loved to see how this book and just the pace of this book and how not one part of this book didn’t feel important, which i loved so much.

i also loved the writing so much. like, i think the writing of this book was just so beautifully done and i think that it was written so well. like the writing of this book was just so lyrical and so beautiful and i think it was just so well. and i mean, it was just so good with seeing how the well the writing was. and i feel like this book really explained what happened to much and that they never ran away from talking about the harder moments that happened in this book.

then for catherine, i honestly really liked her. at the start, i didn’t really know how to feel about her, like if i should like her or hate her, but as the story went on, the more and more i started to love her as a character and feel what she is going through. and like, she was written so well, with all the mysteries around her and all of the question marks, yet you know things about her and understood her at the same time. which, i just think was done so well.

but, i do think that there was moments in this book where she would bring something up, and then kind of tell michael to forget it and then they would never bring it up again. like, i think that it was something that would be small if they did it once or twice, but when it happened more and more, it got to be annoying. like, i feel that they would bring this up again and again and just talk about something, which was somewhat of a big importance, and then it was never talked about again and just pushed to the side. like, i think they needed to have something more and have things not be such a mystery.

as for michael, he was just so amazing. like, i really liked to see how far he would go for her throughout this series and to see how much he loved her, in such a short amount of time. and just seeing how he became one of her only friends and always went to bat for her, i honestly loved it so much and i loved the way they worked together. and i also really liked that throughout this book you kind of got these moments that it was future michael talking and how in the start of the book, the adult michael kind of introduced everything that was happening.

i also really liked the setting of this book. like, for a lot of books i could give two shits were they take place, but i honestly loved the vibe that this town gave off. like, i really liked to see how this was set in the 1950s middle of know where in the midwest, and i think roughly in the fall. and like, i think also that it was set in a small town added so much to the world and i loved it so much. plus, i think seeing how this town got eaten by the killings was just so cool and to see the town grief over what was happening and the murders. but, also add the layer of if they actually think catherine did this and what their views on her and if they think she did it or not, was just so cool to read about.

one thing i do wish they did, was go into more depth about each of the killings. maybe so every couple of chapters about michael and catherine, and then jump into chapter about the actual killing and how they found the person they were going to kill and their petty crimes. cause, i feel like they talked about it, but at the same time i feel like this book could get really spooky if they went and talked about the killings in depth, especially if they wanted more of a vampire plot in these books, it would have been cool to do that.

kinda like i already said, i do wish this book was a bit spookier. like, this book was more mysterious than it was spooky, and i kind of wish they made it spookier. like i already said, showing the killings would be really cool, just to drive it up, but also just having more plot about the vampires and maybe having some flashbacks, or something that was more then just then catherine telling michael what was happening.

but, one of my favorite parts of this book was the ending. like, the ending of this book was so bittersweet and sad, but i feel like the book kind of sets you up for it well enough, and i think it was just really good. i’m honestly really happy that the romance didn’t go anywhere, since i do feel like it was teased a bit, and i’m happy nothing ever happened. but, with the actual ending of this book was so sad, but i feel like the way the story ended was just so well done and i loved it. like, i feel how they wrapped it up was just so perfect, yet so sad, but it just fit, with what this story did and what the plot of this was.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly really loved this book, and this book honestly makes me want to read blake’s backlisted books, since if they are anything like this, it would be honestly so amazing.

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malibu rising review | blogmas day 6

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 6! today i am going to be talking about malibu rising by taylor jenkins reid. i gave this book 5/5 stars. i honestly loved this book so much and i think that this book was just so amazing.

trigger warnings- alcoholism, death of a parent, abandonment, infidelity, drug use, toxic relationship, alcohol, addiction, grief, death, fire, drug abuse, sexual content, emotional abuse, pregnancy, violence, cursing, child abuse, sexism, suicide, sexual harassment, domestic abuse, mental illness, misogyny, car accident, gaslighting, adult / minor relationship, body shaming, eating disorder, gun violence, gun violence, sexual assault, suicidal thoughts, blood, police brutality, abortion, injury / injury detail, chronic illness, infertility, miscarriage, self harm, vomit, lesbophia.

one of my favorite parts of this book was how the parents story, romance and their general plot and even who they were, you could see, in someway through the kids. i honestly loved that aspect of this book, especially cause we got to see chapters of the parents romance. like, i really loved seeing june in nina, and to see how similar they were and how who they married were so similar. and i just think it was so cool to see them all be connected, in someway.

i also really loved the characters. like, i already said, i feel like so much of these characters were just so well done and i completely loved how each of them were written. for me, i think each of the characters were written so well with their personalities and to see it all happen. i mean, i think, this was just so well done and i completely loved it. like, they were all written so well that i completely loved seeing all of it happen and to see how each of them worked with each other.

another one of the things i completely liked was seeing nina and her love for her siblings. like, i think that it was so cool to see how much she loved her and to see how far she went for all of her siblings, which i think it was just so amazing. like, i think it was just so cool to see how she stood up and fought for all of her siblings and she went to hell and back for all of them. like, i think she was honestly one of the best characters that i’ve read in a while, since i loved seeing all of her motivations and what she did for everyone that she loved.

i also really liked how they never stopped talking about how much of a dick mick was. like, i feel that it was so cool to see how they always gave him what he deserved and that they always talked in away that showed him what he means to them. and i think it was kind of cool to see how each of the siblings reacted to him and all of his bull shit. like, i think it was cool to see how they never made him be the good guy in the end, since if they did that, it would honestly make this book be so terrible.

kind of with the family plot, i really liked seeing each of the siblings interact with each other. like, i feel that they all of them had such a different relationship with each other, and that each of them had their own relationship and i loved seeing them all interact and seeing how they all were so different from each other. like, i think seeing hud and nina and hud and jay and hud and kit interact was just so cool, since they all were so different to each other, seeing that each of their relationships were different. granted, i think they never dropped their personalities, but they still were all different to each other.

now for the characters, nina, who i already talked about, but she was just such a complexed character. like, i feel that she was one of those characters that you could talk about for a long time, yet you could never say enough words that you could say about them. like, i feel that she was such an amazing character and i loved seeing all the different layers she had, with surfing and modeling and her family and the business. like, i also really liked that they talked about how smart and beautiful and rich she is, but she was never just dumbed down to being beautiful and rich, which i really liked. but, i do wish we got to see more of her relationship with brandon, since i feel like it was talked about, but they 100% could have talked about them together more and made him into a bigger villain.

then for hud and jay, i really liked them too. i don’t really have enough to say about the separately, so i’ll just combine the two of them. i honestly really liked the two of them and i really liked to see how they both had so much history together, since they were so close, which i really liked. and i also think that it was so cool to see how they had their issues, like normal brothers do, but they still love each other so much and really still are amazing to each other.

for kit, i honestly really loved her too. like, i really liked that her growth was just so cool, with her finding out about her sexuality and how she figured everything out. and i mean, i really liked that we got to see so much of her growth and to see how much she found herself in a single night. and i mean, i think that she was just so fun with how she was so straight forward and very quick witted, like, i just loved her so much.

then for june, she honestly deserved better. like, i think that seeing her deal with everything that she was growing and that they never shyed away from talking about her life and how she became an alcoholic. granted, she did kind of screw over nina, but i still really liked her and to see what she was doing and how everything all flowed.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly really loved this book and i honestly think this book was just so amazing. like, i really loved to see everything play out and to see how all their relationships go.

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anti tbr book tag | blogmas day 5

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 5! today i am going to be doing the anti tbr book tag. this tag sounds so fun and i honestly can’t wait to get a bit controversial with some of the books i pick for these questions.

A POPULAR BOOK EVERYONE LOVES THAT YOU HAVE NO INTEREST IN READING

carry on by rainbow rowell. i honestly know people love this series so much, but i honestly have zero interest in reading this book series, since they just sound so boring and not that good honestly. and i mean, i know this author is problematic, so this is honestly just pushing me away from reading it more.

A CLASSIC BOOK OR AUTHOR THAT YOU DON’T HAVE ANY INTREST IN READING

animal farm by george orwell. i know this book has kind of mixed opinions, but i honestly don’t want to read this at all. like i already kind of know what it is about, so that is just turning me off from this book more and more and i think that it is not something i would ever willingly read.

AN AUTHOR WHOSE BOOKS YOU HAVE NO INTREST IN READING

sarah j maas. i honestly know people love her so much, but i really have no interest in reading any of her books. like, i do think i tried to read a couple of her books, but then i just stopped after the first couple pages cause i didn’t like them at all. and i mean, there is probably way better smutty books out there then these books.

A PROBLEMATIC AUTHOR WHOSE BOOKS YOU HAVE NO INTREST IN READING

i mean, if they’re problematic, i won’t read their books.

AN AUTHOR YOU HAVE READ A COUPLE OF BOOKS FROM AND HAVE DECIDED THEIR BOOKS ARE NOT FOR YOU

rick riordan. i’ve read multiple of his books / the books that he publishes under his company, and he is honestly someone i have no interest in reading from again and i honestly just don’t like his writing style.

A GENRE YOU HAVE NO INTREST IN OR A GENRE YOU TRIED TO GET INTO BUT COULDN’T

never say never, i guess, but for me i would say manga. i know this is such a popular genre, but i honestly don’t want to read it. like, i’m honestly just not interested in this type of book.

A BOOK YOU HAVE BOUGHT BUT WILL NEVER READ (THIS CAN BE A BOOK YOU HAVE UNHEAULED / RETRUNED TO THE LIBRARY UNREAD)

duke actually. this was honestly a book that i was really excited for, seeing that i got an arc for it and all. but, now i really just don’t want to read this book and not just interested in this book any more, so i deleted it off my kindle app.

A SERIES YOU HAVE NO INTREST IN READING OR A SERIES YOU STARTED AND HAVE DNF’D

crave by tracy wolff. i read the first book, but i feel like this was so bad. like, i honestly didn’t like it and i honestly really hated it, since i feel like they were just so cliche and kind of like a rip off of twilight, which really hated. and i think that this book was just so annoying.

A NEW RELEASE YOU HAVE NO INTREST IN READING

the gentleman’s guide to vice and virtue by mackenzi lee. i’m not sure this book is considered a new release, but it does have newer books coming out. i honestly don’t really care about this book / this series and have no interest in reading this.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly really liked doing this and it was so fun. like, i feel that some of these answers could change, and i don’t really know if i’m going to change what i say.

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the atlas six review | blogmas day 4

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 4! today i am going to be talking about the atlas six by olivie blake. i gave this book 5/5 stars. i honestly loved this book so much, and like the characters were so amazing, even if i didn’t understand half of the parts of the book.

trigger warnings- suicide, sexual content, death, violence, murder, gun violence, emotional abuse, suicidal thoughts, alcohol, blood, suicide attempt, death of a parent, injury / injury detail, infidelity, toxic friendship, child abuse, cursing, mental illness, pedophilia, self harm, toxic relationship, body horror, child / adult relationship, kidnapping.

honestly, with this book, i feel like the plot is such a big thing, but also such a small thing at the same time. like, this is 100% a character driven story and with that, i feel like the plot was kind of all over the place. like, it definitely had a plot, but at the same time i could tell you nothing what happened in here. like, i think the plot of this book was mostly vibes, compared to actual plot cause there was so much going on.

i think one of my favorite characters in this book was libby. like, as much as i love them all, i feel like i could just see myself in her? i don’t really know how to explain it, but i really could see myself in some of her actions and what she said, which might be because she felt the most human and less magical then the rest of them. and she is something that i really liked cause she was that just out of college grad and she thinks she has her life together, but at the same time, she literally doesn’t. and just the way her chapters were written, were so special.

then, for nico, who i also completely adored. i really liked him and libby together, hence why their paragraphs are together. but, he really gave me this mysterious rich boy, but still a really nice guy, so i honestly really liked him and just to see his actions and what he did. like, i feel like he was just a character i really liked and that even if he was an asshole, he still was someone that had so much depth and potential to grow, which i really liked.

then for reina, i really liked her and nico together, too, but more platonic then relationship. and i think that her powers were so cool and i honestly really liked to see how she had depth about her plot and then kind of figure more about her childhood. and like i think she was such a character that would kick ass with libby and nico, and they would honestly kill it.

but, then for parisa, she was honestly so amazing. like, i really liked how she was one of those characters that was so confident, that she kind of came across as arrogant, and like i think she was just so amazing. and i honestly hope that she gets more of a plot in the next books, cause again, i feel like she is a big mystery and i honestly can’t wait to see her layers get unwrapped and to see it happen.

then, for tristan, i really liked him too, but he was probably my second to least favorite. but, he was someone that i hope we get to see more emotionally in the next books, since i feel like a lot of him was very surface level. like as much as i liked him, i still feel like something was missing for him and that he needed to have something more there.

finally, for callum, i honestly didn’t like him. granted, i do feel bad for him and everything he went through, and i also feel like he is such a asshole at the same time. like, i feel that he needed to have something more, since i think a lot of this book just had him be so closed off and just not there emotionally there. and like i feel that he was only there with tristan, but i still wish he had something more, but i still think it worked cause we needed an absolute asshole character.

but, with the writing, i honestly loved it so much. like, i feel that the writing was so magical and kind of lyrical for most of this book. like, i think it was written so incredibly well, and i think the writing was one of the best parts of the book, since i think that this shaped the characters, which i think was also cool because they all had different writing, and that each writing for the different characters just worked. but, there also was these really big words in this book that i had no clue what any of them meant, but it still was really good.

but, at the same time, i feel like as much as the writing was good. i feel like that somethings were different and they explained things a bit more. like, as much as the relationships were built up and kind of expaining the world, but i feel like things were missing. like, i’ll talk about the world and the powers later, but i feel like there was just small things missing. like, how the characters held themselves, about what they look like, what the actual manor looks like, what the library looks like. just small things that i feel needed to have something more there.

like i already said, i feel like there was just something missing with the world and each of the powers. like, i know they are living in the world that we live in, but it’s just more magical, but i just think we need more conversation about how do these characters get these powers, since it was never talked about. and also i have no clue about how anything works with the whole magic system. like, the only one i really understand is reina’s, because she just talks to plants, but i feel like nothing else in this book made sense, regarding the way their magic works. like, it was a very science heavy books, which i don’t already fully understand and there was a lot of physics in this book, which i’m currently taking now, so hopefully when i read this again everything clicks a little more.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly love this book so much and i’m so happy that it is getting the hype it deserves and that tor is publishing the book so it can reach more and more people cause i completely love these sexually fluid homicidal magic nerds.

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