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excuse me while i ugly cry review

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about excuse me while i ugly cry by joya goffney. i gave this book 2/5 stars. i honestly wished i liked this book more, but i feel like there was just so much going on in this book and i feel like it was just kind of a mess at certain points, but i do think that it still had some better part at some points.

trigger warning- bullying, racism, racial slurs, dementia, toxic friendship, misogyny, panic attacks / disorder, abandonment, alcohol, chronic illness, hate crime, mental illness.

i think my biggest issue with this book was that quinn was annoying. like i feel like page one we really got to see quinn just bitch about everything under the sun and just complain about everything that happens to her. and that honestly just got on my nerves after awhile. and i feel like everything she did she got to complain about and after awhile, it just kind of annoyed me. and i feel like it shouldn’t have been in here and i just think that she could have been written so much better.

and i also think that carter and quinn were not a good couple. like, they’re whole relationship is built on quinn just accusing carter that he stole her journal and then him saying that he didn’t do it and then just more fighting about that. and that honestly just annoyed me so much. and i think they should have just been handled better. and i feel like quinn was so self centered in this relationship, like she was so into herself and making sure her life is perfect, even though she has no clue what is happening in carter’s life, and that just honestly pissed me off and i think they should have changed that, or at least to a degree. and also, their communication sucked, which i hated.

with that being said, i feel like the plot around the journal just kind of died? like i don’t know if saying it died is the right word, but i feel like they had so much plot about it all and how this journal is so personal to her, but then once she got the journal back, it was just like ‘oh thanks i guess for the journal.’ and that it was like over and done with that plot. and i feel like they needed to expand it a little more and i feel like they needed to maybe have this plot stay a stable, and not have this quick and stupid ending, since so much of the drama of this book was about the damn journal going missing. and so much of this conflict of this book just got brushed over and pushed to the side.

and like the kids in the school and also quinn for that matter, there was so much bad things happening, and they did so many bad things happening to them, and i feel like there was so many rude and mean things, that they talked about a ton, but they never really talked about it. like, there was consequences about how they spread her journal around, but they never really did to much about what quinn did and what she said to people. and i think it was just kind of annoying, and i feel like they needed to change it a bit.

and like, this book is supposed to take place in a school, and which deals with the school plot. like, i feel like it was so crazy, and i mean, i feel like they needed to have some more plot about them at school, seeing that they supposed to take place in a school. like, they needed to have more plot, or at least scenes, were they were actually in school, and i feel like they needed to have that. like, they needed to kind of play it all together, to some degree, and just to have school be this plot in the book.

i personally don’t really mind if books have lists in the books, and have lists be this central plot point of these books. but, i feel like that this book had these plot with them just so boring. like, she kept going on and on about how the plot was kind of weird. like, she made these points that this journal and that this journal was supposed to be so incredibly private, and that nobody should ever see it. yet, she just carries it around at all times, and that she is lazy enough with this journal to have some random person be able to pick it up. which, just kind of annoying and it just got to be to much after awhile.

anyway, that is all for today! this is honestly such a short review, but i don’t really know what more to talk about, since i feel like this book is just kind of boring and i don’t have to many thoughts about it. but, i do think this book could have been better, in the long run.

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one last stop review

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about one last stop by casey mcquiston. i gave this book 2/5 stars. honestly, i really wished i liked this book, but something just didn’t work for me with this book. i don’t really know what it was, but it just felt off. and i honestly really wished i liked this book more than i did, but i guess this just shows that i’m not a fan of time travel books.

trigger warnings- sexual content, homophobia, cursing, hate crime, grief, confinement, racism, death, drug use, alcohol, police brutality, lesbophobia, fire / fire injury, alcoholism, biphobia, panic attacks / disorder, vomit, abandonment, emotional abuse, violence, xenophobia, blood, car accident, murder, addiction, bullying, mental illness, misogyny.

as for characters, i honestly did not like august at all. like, i feel like everything that she did, if it was befriend someone or to help jane get out of the subway, felt like she was only doing it for herself. and like i feel like everything that happened for her was just way to coinvent, with jane being connected to august’s uncle and also how she didn’t work for like a month or some ridiculous amount of time but she still somehow covered rent for the month/months, and that she never got fired from her job, cause at that point she probably should have been. and i mean, i feel like she was just doing everything that she did for herself, which i didn’t like at all.

but, also the romance in this book felt very white saviory to me. like, it was one thing if it had some white savior plot in an older book or that this is an historical romance or something, i think that this book just shouldn’t have had it. like, i think that it was just so crazy that they put it in this book. and it just rubbed me the wrong way that august was this key to get jane to help jane to figure out what happened in our past. and also if they are connected in the way, with jane being connected to august’s past, it just felt weird, especially with them investigating why jane is stuck on the train, even though august didn’t ever want to investigate anything like that ever again.

as for jane as a character, i feel like they honestly didn’t feel right. like, for one, i feel like she was just so one sided. like, not in a good way, i feel like we only got told about her past, which i guess is all we can know about it. but, i feel like they were someone that was all kind off showy. but, i think that they just didn’t vibe at all. and i mean, i think that we knew nothing about her, and i overall feel like that they used jane as one of those characters who are just used as sex or something, so i feel like it was just so weird.

and honestly, i never really connected with these characters. i feel like they were just so one dimensional, and i feel like they were just so stupid and i feel like they had no personalities besides like the stupid little things. like, jane liked punk rock music and than jane moved to new york from the south and that her uncle is dead. and i feel like we didn’t know if they were sarcastic or shy or funny etc. and i feel like they should have had something more.

with that being said, i honestly didn’t like when jane and august fucked on the subway. like, that was so gross and i feel like it was stupid to see them do this in public, and which is more gross that they are doing it on a new york city subway. and i feel like fucking and having my bare butt on the door, it is honestly so gross and i honestly wished they just didn’t have sex when they were stuck on the subway since it was just so gross and who knows what lives in there.

but, i also feel like the pacing of this book was not good. like, i feel like that the chapters were just so so long, that i feel like i would read one chapter of this book and i feel like i’ve read half the book when it’s only been like 2% of this book. and i feel with the chapters being so good, i feel like they honestly just distract you from the story since you are focused on the chapters, instead of being more focused on the story. i honestly wish that they are shorter and than more chapters, i feel like it would work, but i guess that is just my opinion. and like i feel with these chapters being so long, i feel like it just took away from the story since so much would be happening in this same chapter.

and i also feel like there was a very weird pacing issue with this book. like, i feel like there was so much plot about everything and everything took so long with everything in the start of the book, but than i think that as it got closer and closer to the end, i feel like the pacing got messed up again. and i feel like it was just fixed and that they just changed it. but, i do think it was fixed, but than again, i feel like they just didn’t know what to do with the plot so the pacing got all messed up.

but, i also do really like to see the side characters in this book. but, like i think they were just so cool and that they had so much cool things going on in their life and just so fun and cool. i honestly think they were so cool, and i wish we got told more about them and them doing their basic day to day things. but, i feel like we did get to see august talking to them about basic things, which i also didn’t really care for and i thought it was just kind of boring. and just the found family vibes were so cool.

anyway, that is all for today! i really wished i liked this book and i wished i feel like this story just made more sense, and that they would have fixed a couple things. but, i do liked red, white, and royal blue more, and i feel like it was just so cool.

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those who prey review

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about those who prey by Jennifer Moffet. i gave this book 2/5 stars. this book honestly was such a mess, and i really only picked up this book since the cover is pretty and it’s compared to sadie, but i feel like it is nothing like sadie, like at all, which really just annoyed me in the end.

trigger warning- f slur dropped, homophobia, addiction, body shaming, bullying, death, drug abuse, eating disorder, grief, death of a parent.

one of my biggest turn off of this book, was towards the end of the book there was the f slur dropped by one of the characters. like, it really served no purpose of dropping it, and it was so unnecessary for them to say it. and also literally nobody is mentioning it and if they do they just say, well it’s fine cause its historical. and it really just annoyed the hell out of me.

i will say a positive for this book was that it did a very good job with showing how cults target people that quickly. like, i did find it to be really cool and i thought it was interest and better then the project was. but, i also thought it was done good, and it was cool to see how everyone got in over their head with joining this said cult.

but, on a less positive note, i personally think the main character was so stupid. like Emily would go on and on and on about how she wants to make friends, and hell it is even in the description. but, i get that you really want to make friends, but going into this cult, isn’t the right way, mate. but, i feel like she had on these blinders on, and i’m not sure because i was an outsider, but i have zero clue how emily never realized that she was going into a cult.

this book also had so much preaching. like, i’m not that big into religion, since it’s all just preaching, and i can’t stand that. which is the same way i don’t read that much non fiction. but, i feel like whenever they went to this church they would always just preach about your sins, heaven and hell, and even just talking sins. and when they would talk about it, it was really this couple that ‘funded’ this cult just preaching about their sins and how they are all living their life surronding by sins.

and i do wish we got to go a little bit deeper with what was considered a sin in their world. like, i personally just think it is whatever the Catholic Church has, but like on steroids. and they would kind of slut shame Emily cause she had sex with her long time boyfriend, and i kind of wished the stated what was considered a sin and what would make these characters go to hell and everything.

i do feel like the ending of the book was kind of lacking. like the start of the book was just growing out the cult and figuring out how everything was working. but, i do feel like this book had so much build up, and so much build up with different things in the end, and even the fall out of the cult. but, like this book had so much happening, and then the ending kind of fell off a cliff.

and i also think the ending was so bad. cause, threw out this whole book, there was these talks about how Emily got kidnapped or something along the lines of as this cult killed her. so, i was kind of expecting for her to die, which would be kind of cool. but, then the book was like lol she’s not dead, just kinda dumb with what she did when she was back home.

if you are a person that likes a lot of background on your background characters, and even some of the main characters, this book wasn’t for you. like, i personally feel like they would bring all these characters up and how they are in this said cult, but then they barely brought where they came from and their real background. and they would bring up all of these different people that went into this cult, but we didn’t even know something as stupid as their last name. and i really just wish we got more background on all the side characters, and even her friends, i wish we got more talk about their background.

this book also had so many long and very descriptive paragraphs. which, i did enjoy them going into detail about talking about where they were living and even what they were doing in this said household. but, i thought it was cool and i did enjoy that we got to see all of this, but it got to be a bit much. like, after awhile it was just a lot. i really just wish they stuck with the plot, and didn’t go to crazy with details.

i did enjoy the talk about her mother dying. i kind of liked the depth it gave her, and how till this day she was trying to overcome it and just still trying to understand what happened. i personally liked it, i just thought it was it was an interesting to watch her grow, especially when she moved back home, it was just really cool.

a lot of this book is also just to convenient. like, when everything was spiraling and when i kind of expected her to try to escape and maybe gonna be kidnapped, it was like oh yeah she’s fine, she has friends in Europe. and yeah, that’s nice that she has her godmother in Europe, but i just thought it was kind of a mess, and i do just wish that she didn’t have her godmother in Europe, since i think it might be more interesting.

and i think this book took place in about a month, or a very very short period of time. like, it was probably was more than just a month, but i think it was very short, and the timeline just didn’t seem reasonable to me. since, with her meeting her ‘friends’ and then going into this cult and then going to italy and then having that fall out. it just doesn’t seem reasonable for all of it to happen in a month, which it might not be, but i know it was a very short amount of time, and even if it was a two or three months, it still doesn’t seem reasonable.

this book also was pretty much an equivalate to those psa videos that got played in middle school by those cops that come in and talk about don’t do drugs and don’t go into gangs. and those videos in high school about teenage pregnancy, drinking drunk, bullying, or even not eating mcdonalds everyday. like this book was just one big psa.

overall, i do feel like this book is a very predictable book. like, it was very basic and very much read like a debut. but, if you like cult books, you might like this one, but just don’t think this book is all that amazing but, we all have different reading tastes.

anyway, that is all for today! i honestly wished i liked this book a lot more, since it had so much potential, but it just wasn’t that good. and i think between the cover and it being compared to sadie just rose my expectations, but i’m honestly still kind of excited that i did get to read this book.

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fight for her review

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about fight for her by Liz Plum. i gave this book 1/5 stars. thank you so much Wattpad Book and Netgalley for an arc of this book! and happy pub date for this book!

trigger warning- bullying, death, dug abuse, blood, car accident.

overall, this book was terrible. and i mean you could probably tell from the amazing star rating that i hated this book with a passion. like, it was just so cliché, but not in a good way or anything. cause, like some books when you go into it, you know it’s gonna be super cliché, but it is right amount of cliché and it is overall really good and the writing most of the time would help it.

but, in this case it was just bad. like, for one, i think my standards are always way to high for a wattpad book, even though i do feel like, since i do have an arc i’m a little more ‘rough’ with my ratings, but even if i didn’t have an arc i would still have given a bad rating. and like, with the whole being really cliché, it is pretty much everything you would read actually in wattpad when you where younger, assuming you where into that, but like since you’re older, you know that these are shitty books.

from the start of the book, Scarlet, our MC, is supposed to be in this amazing and totally not toxic relationship with, this star football player and all american boy, Jack. who, is a dick. and their relationship was so toxic, and i was reading reviews for this book on Netgalley, Storygraph, and Goodreads, and literally nobody called them toxic??? and in this book, he would police who she was hanging around with, police what she wore, police where she goes, and more. and like, it wasn’t even the cute, ‘oh babe i want you to be safe,’ it’s type of thing that would be brought up in a Netflix documentary with Scarlet was to get murdered. like, that is how bad he was.

and also, their relationship was just lust. like, it literally was just straight up lust from Jack. like, all he did was go on these talks about how much he loves her, and then it would just turn into talking about how he’s only with her cause of the sex and she’s so hot and good in bed. like, i very well could have been reading to far in between the lines, but i still think it is simply just lust.

it also annoyed the actual hell out of me that Jack wouldn’t let Scarlet grieve her brother. her brothers death is a whole other topic, but she would keep saying over and over and over again that she had to keep up an appearance in this school and she couldn’t look upset cause her boyfriend was the head football player that could get away with murder in this school. like, every single netflix high school show, and just in regular life anyway too.

moving on, her brother’s death was a mess. cause, in the prologue we saw it all happen, like how he died and when the police went to her house and everything. but, then it jumped to like when she was a senior, not a freshman anymore. and it didn’t even tell you like “three years after” or anything like that. and i didn’t even know till they were talking about college next year. and it honestly should have just been written better, and actually said that it was.

and i know grieving someone has no clock, but she was straight up acting like the death happened yesterday at some parts and it was kind of annoying. cause i kind of expected something to move on or at least not sobbing each time someone brings up her brother. and like i hate to call her this, but like at some parts she kind of was a baby, cause whenever someone brought up that they had a sibling, she would start balling her eyes out.

and then, like half way threw the book, Scarlet learns Eli had a brother that died, kind of similar to the way her brother died. which, in hind sight it was good, but not when they were both just projecting their trauma onto each other. like, they could have had this moment where they were just growing on their death of their siblings, but instead they just projected it on each other. and it just got to be a lot cause they where just not helping it all grow.

but, their is some cheating in this book. which, i guess isn’t the end of the world was Jack was a piece of shit, but there still is cheating. like, Scarlet was all for the relationship between her and Jack, but then it was like, well i’m gonna make out with Eli whenever i get the chance to. and even if Jack is a complete dick, you still shouldn’t cheat on him.

also about her relationship with Eli, i really feel like they had so much potential to grow and be this amazing couple. but, Plum literally gave them shit development, which honestly really pissed me off so much, cause like i said, they could have grown and be this amazing couple. but, their development was way lacking and just not good. but, what can you expect from a wattpad book.

and in the end if the book Jack got his whole redemption arc which was just so annoying. like they left him in a good place, but instead they were like oh yeah we need to make him look like the good guy. which, was just utter bull shit. and i thought it was just way to far, even for this type of book.

going back to the whole cliché part, this was your good girl/bad boy romance story. which, i’ve enjoyed in the past, but this one was just bad. like really bad. and i mean, Plum could have developed it so much, but instead they really didn’t, which just gave me a headache. and like Eli wasn’t in that bad of a person just misunderstood as some people would call it.

and Scarlet was so one dimensional, which no matter the book, i hate. like, she didn’t stick up for anybody, especially the boy that she was like with on the side. and like she just watched her boyfriend, who she apparently loved, she just watched it happen. and just she was just so weak or just needed to grow a pair.

and she watched Eli get bullied by her friends and her boyfriend, and just stood there. like, and Eli watched it all happened with her right there, but he still got with her. and i don’t understand how someone can watch you be bullied, especially someone that is like supposed to be with you threw thick and thin, not stick up for you. and i literally just hated it.

then, Eli and Scarlet’s relationship, was just so messy. like, they only got together really because of their shared trauma, and it was doing literally nothing for her mental health. and i wish they either had some build up, or something that make their relationship be worth while.

i also feel like this book is way more tell not show. which, to a degree i honestly really expected it to be, since, it’s a wattpad book. but, like i feel like for everything that was happening we where getting told about it, like told about her classes, and not really shown. but, the writing was overall kind of bad, and kind of clunky, and very much skippable.

anyway, that is all for today! i hope you enjoyed this post. and thank you so much netgalley and wattpad books for an arc of this book, and happy pub date. like i said, if i read this book at wattpad’s prime, i probably would have liked it a whole lot more.

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if i disappear review

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about if i disappear by Eliza Jane Brazier. i gave this book 3/5 stars. first off, thank you so much Netgalley and Berkley Publishing Group for an arc of this book! and also happy pub date for this book.

trigger warning- murder, death, kidnapping, alcoholism, dead cats, and dead dogs.

first off, i really liked the whole podcast element. like we got a lot of talk about how this podcast worked, and all of these cases that kind of influenced Sera’s life. but, i mean it got to be kind of boring at certain parts, since it was just so info dumpy and a lot of the cases started to sound the same, which was kind of boring. but, i mean i still really loved the whole podcast element, even if it was kind of hit or miss.

but, i do feel like it was kind of weird about how much of a stalker Sera was. like, i understand that you find these celebrities or internet personalities, you really like them. which, is understandable, but Sera took it to the next level. but, congrats for her helping Rachel and helping her, but damn Sera was so creepy. like she straight up moved into Rachel’s life, got with Rachel’s friend with benefits and like took over Rachel’s life. and like she started living her Rachel’s parents house. i don’t know but that was honestly kind of weird and it just rubbed me the wrong way.

and she honestly made this podcast to be her whole personality. like i know i probably have just picked up some of my book characters traits and some of Alexis Rose’s actions, but Sera took it to the extreme. like she only lived and breathed this podcast. (honestly Sera kind of reminded me of those people that make the office to be their whole personality.) and it was just so weird, and it honestly made me so uncomfortable about how this podcast and Rachel was Sera’s whole personality. and it’s not like i watch Schitt’s Creek or Modern Family 24/7 and i don’t wake up and watch it and watch it all day when i do my simple tasks and in the grocery store and hell even fall asleep to it every day. it was just so freaking weird.

with that being said, i did really liked how this book was told like you are Rachel. so, how all of the writing was like you told me this, you helped me with this, you told me not to walk alone. which, was honestly pretty cool in my mind. it could be a little annoying, and it kind of got on my nerves after awhile, but i still kind of liked it.

but, this book was definitely boring. like at some points it was just Sera going threw all of the day to day motions, but i still really liked it in the end. but, as the story started picking up, i really liked it then. but, the ending was kind of slow, but it was still pretty good.

if you aren’t reading this book carefully though, this will probably be one of the most confusing books in the world. since, they never really said Rachel’s name, since it was like your podcast not Rachel’s podcast, and my daughter not Rachel, and stuff like that. and they literally never said her name and i honestly didn’t know her name till this one character, Jed, said it.

but, there was a couple things that didn’t make sense in the grand scheme of these. like there was this car crash and it happened, but then this was like dropped and didn’t even make sense who hit them and also i think Jed got hurt but then the next day he was like fine. and then Rachel’s podcast is a huge thing right? but the mom kept saying over and over again about how there is no Wi-Fi in this farm. obviously if you are on the internet researching these crimes and even posting the podcast you need the wifi to do everything. which, honestly needed more describing about everything that was happening.

this is honestly just something i want to see more in books, but i really liked how on the top of certain chapters it would say ‘graphic content warning.’ which, is honestly so little, but i honestly really liked how this happened in this book. and like it is such a small thing, but i honestly really liked this whole thing.

and we honestly it was so easy to tell who did it. i mean, the character was so sus throughout the whole story. and when we met this character i was like yep they totally did it. and it wasn’t even that shocking when i got to it and the big reveal happened. i could not care less.

i feel kind of weird for talking about this, since this is such a mini thing in this book. but, i honestly really liked the whole little romance between Jed and Sera. i mean, i honestly really liked how they worked together on the case and then their romance. but, their whole romance was just based on sex, and they pretty much just had sex the whole time. which, honestly was kind of weird but they both are adults so whatever.

but, i found it so weird how the author talked about how they had sex. like normal authors literally just talk about how sexy it is and how hot they are together and kind of basic thing. which is the normal thing to do, but instead Brazier took it upon herself to pretty much say each place Jed and Sera fucked. like the kitchen counter, the couch, the kitchen table, the shower (which was talked about SO much), and his bed. like, i don’t know if she was trying to make us be like “holy shit they had sex in the shower, damn.” like i was like ‘um okay. shower sex, congrats to them i guess.’ and the whole sex scenes were so not hot, but whatever.

now, i pulled two quotes out of this book that i just want to talk about, since they are just so freaking weird.

“damaged people have the best sex”

first off, what the hell is that quote. i mean, we got pages upon pages upon pages about how when Jed and Sera where fucking, it was like oh we are so damaged so we are having this amazing sex. and when i was reading this book i literally had question marks around my head. cause it was just so weird. and like who the hell says that.

this next quote is so weird, and like it is such an weird thing to say so yeah.

“the outline of his limp dick against the crotch of his Levi’s”

this quote was by far one of the weirdest things i’ve read in a hot second. and i know i’m literally giving zero context of what was happening and why Sera said that about Jed. but it was honestly just so uncomfortable and just weird. like who sees someone and looks at his dick and was like ‘wow his dick is limp’ like wtf.

but, i mean i was scrolling threw the authors instagram and apparently she wants to turn this into a tv show. since she is this screenwriter, so she is turning this into this tv show. but whatever good for her i guess. so, if this happens good luck to everyone cause this book if weird as hell.

anyway, that is all for today! i hope you enjoyed this blog post, even though it is kind of a mess. but, thank you so much Netgalley and Berkeley for an arc of this book. and happy late pub date to this book!

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city of the plague god review

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about city of the plague god by Sarwat Chadda. i gave this book 1/5 stars. but, thank you so much Netgalley and Disney publishing for an arc of this book! and also, happy pub date to this book!

trigger warnings- islamophobia, racism, ableist language, grief and loss of family member, death of a brother, motorcycle accident, death of a mom (on page), death from being ran over by a train, blood and gore, plague and pandemic, hospital, illness of parents, war themes, refugee experience, homelessness mentioned, murder, attempted murder, a lot of talk about insects.

first off, i felt like this book literally had zero plot. like, there was things that got brought up, but then they just got dropped, and the same thing kept happening over and over again. this honestly got so annoying. and this might just have been me, but i literally couldn’t figure out all of the different plot points. and it got to be so annoying after awhile.

another thing that i’ve seen some people on goodreads and netgalley talk about is how the author isn’t even Assyrian or Mesopotamian, but he still decided to write about their culture. and i mean, i can see how he has no real part about writing about their culture. and, its not like there isn’t any Assyrians or Mesopotamians are all dead, they are still alive. and anyone that does anything like this pisses me off since they are just making money based on someone else culture.

but, it also felt like every single page there was talks about maggots. and this literally got so annoying, since i literally do not care at all about maggots. since, they are just so gross, and every time they talked about it, it literally had zero point to the novel. and i mean, they are also just so dumb, since they literally are just maggots.

another thing that just annoyed me was that all of these characters were so flat and had zero personality. since, there was so much talk about how Ishtar was just told as being beautiful, that that was literally her only personality point, which i guess is a male writer for you. and then Belet’s only personality is that she has a sword and she has a bunch of cats named after disney cats. and then there was sik, who was as flat as a book. he literally did nothing and was so annoying and pretty much whined the whole goddamn time. and honestly his only personality trait was that he liked to cook. and that was it.

and honestly, the writing was just so bad. i’m not sure if Chadda was just trying to dumb everything down, for middle schoolers, but it literally was so annoying. like, it just got on my nerves so much how when he was writing about Ishtar, even though she was this goodness, her only purpose in her life was to have and adopt kids, and that is it.

another thing that was just weird, but also on brand for books by Rick Riordan, was that Sik and Belet where about 13 years old. which, to teach its own, is honestly pretty cool. but, then again, here they characters acted like they where 30. like, how they thought and acted wasn’t like how your 13 year old thought and acted. and i guess, in the end it really just annoyed me so much.

but, this next point i’m not really sure if this is just because this is a middle grade or something, but it annoyed me so freaking much that whenever they brought up these characters, all whom i believe are all part of ancient Mesopotamian mythology, but Chadda would make up these stupid names for them. and when i say stupid, i mean so stupid. for example, there was Ratty, Frog face, Maggot, and so many more. and these just got to be so annoying, and getting on my nerves.

another thing, was i never really understood the whole Mesopotamian mythology. since, we never really got talked about Greek mythology when we were in middle school and maybe a little bit in high school. but, we pretty much never got talked about Mesopotamian mythology ever. and when i read this book, i feel like Chadda wanted us to go into this book like we actually knew everything about it, which most people didn’t.

the next couple paragraphs are gonna be about Daoud. first thing first, was how Chadda went talking more and more about how this character is always wanted to act, and also how how he isn’t white, and how he always go the role of playing terrorist. (but, the thing you are going to need to know is that he is not Mexican.) and it honestly got so annoying about how he was always trying to get jobs about when he where he was Mexican and/or a drug dealer. which, just pissed me of because this character is definitely not Mexican and also that it is just plan weird and gross.

another thing is more of what this character said was how if you have scars on your face or really anywhere on you, you are ultimately ugly and there is no real argument in Chadda’s mind. which, for obvious reasons this annoyed the actual hell about me. like, that is literally saying that if you have these scars, you are ugly and there is no argument about that.

and i’m not sure if Chadda understands this, but even if your characters are talking, it still is you talking. so, if you say everyone with any scars is ugly, that is quite literally you saying it. and i’ve literally say nobody talking about this, which is just so annoying.

there was also so many opened questions in the end of this book. like, i’m not sure if i just didn’t read it right, but to me, there was so many things that were opened up, but never closed. and this isn’t a series, so i don’t know why he didn’t just close it up. but, i mean, there was about Belet and where she lived and about giving everyone the whole immortal crap.

but, one of my favorite parts about older people writing younger characters and what they think pop culture is. where today, pop culture is pretty much tiktok, super hero’s, Hamilton, friends and the office, so you get the basis. but, Chadda thought the peak of pop culture is flashy cars, the Kardashians, disney world, disney cats, and most likely one direction. so, you get the point, that he had no clue what he was doing, which untimely makes it more funny for me.

anyway, that is all for today! thanks so much netgalley and Disney publishing for an arc of this book! i could probably write so much longer about how much i hated this, but, i’m gonna stop right here, so this isn’t 10 pages long. but, also happy pub date!

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the woman outside my door review

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about the woman outside my door by Rachel Ryan. i gave this book 4/5 stars. first off, happy (late) release date for this book, since it came out yesterday. but, also thank you Netgalley and the publisher for giving me an arc of this book.

trigger warning- cheating, kidnap, lying, drowning, car going into water, mother dying, cancer.

first thing first, i really liked the relationship between Bren and Georgina. i mean, there was so much distrust between the two different characters, and they really didn’t like each other, since Bren did cheat. and in the start Bren thought Georgina was insane, so this added a whole other element of the parents fighting. and i personally really liked how they didn’t get along that well in the start.

i also don’t completely know why Georgina didn’t take the lollipop away from Cody when he said ‘New Granny’ gave it to him. like she was so uneasy about how he got this, and where he got it. but, then she just let him have it and keep eating it. like, if i was a kid and just had this lollipop that my mom did know who gave it to me, she would straight up take it away and not even feel bad that she did it. since it’s like the biggest rule, don’t eat candy from strangers and definitely don’t eat it.

another thing that might just be the arc and how it wasn’t a perfect, but there as a couple different spelling mistakes in this book. but, the biggest one was probably whenever they were trying to say ‘jesus’ they would say ‘jaysis.’ which, i’m not sure if this is just an irish thing. but, i have no clue and i honestly just wanted it to happen since it happened a bit.

there was also so much sex in this book. and one of the many things i found weird was how Georgina was going to her neighbor for sex advice. which, i honestly found to be kind of weird. i mean, why would you go to your neighbor for sex advice. but, that is just me.

and it was also pretty cool about how many things the author put in this book, to show that this isn’t a healthy relationship. i mean, with any situation like this, it can be kind of hard to talk about. since, with everything that is happening today with like grooming and trafficking. but, i still think the author did a decent job on doing this.

but, i feel like since this is harder subject to talk about, with kids possibly being trafficked and being groomed, i’m not really sure why they didn’t go to the cops or something. and especially if you think something bad like that is going to happen.

but, there was also a bit of cheating in this book. nd i honestly do not like cheating at all in books, so having it be a central topic in this book was kind of annoying. i mean, this might just be me, but i literally could not fuck with this at all. and i mean, to me, cheating is cheating and even if it happened off page it was still so annoying.

honestly, this book was so hard to put down, and i honestly loved this. like, this whole book was so easy to keep me wondering what was actually happening. and i mean, this book kept me on the edge of my seat. and this was just so good.

and this author is definitely an author that i would want to watch for them to release other books. since, this honestly sounds so freaking good, and i feel like they would make some more killer family drama and psychological suspense books.

spoiler time-

i honestly found the ending so predicable. like, i feel like the once they start to talk about Anne, it is honestly so easy to tell that she is the one that is kidnapping Cody and is playing New Granny. and i mean, i feel like it is kind of basic, and easy to tell what is going on.

but, i also found it to be kind of weird that after they found Cody the next day Bren and Georgina got like go touchy after they got Cody back. and i feel like it is kind of weird how after they found him, it was just so perfect their life then. and also how they had sex after. i mean, i feel like it was so weird and made me kind of uncomfortable.

anyway, that is all for today! happy release date to this book! thank you so much Netgalley and the publisher for an arc of this book! this was honestly a really good book, and i can’t wait to read other books by this author in the future.

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the roommate review- blogmas day 29

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about the roommate by Rosie Danan. i gave this book 4/5 stars. this book was honestly so cool, and i honestly really loved this book so much, since it was just so cool and fun.

first thing first, i don’t think i’ve ever read a more sex positive book in my life. it was honestly so freaking nice to read a book that was all about sex, but also not just used as the main characters banging every other minute, but more educational. and it was honestly so cool to see that the love interest was a sex worker and he did porn. so, for one that was so cool, but also just seeing how sex work really is and that it isn’t just easy money. and i honestly loved how it was so normalized in here, which we need more of in adult romance.

and i honestly found Clara and Josh’s interactions were so cute. like i don’t think i’ve ever read a book that has roommates but, i really liked how Josh and Clara got to be these roommates, and have the basic roommate interactions, but then when there was the whole business part, and how they aren’t trying to mix business with pleasure. i also thought it was pretty cool about how they were trying to keep their relationship to work and learning about each other in a more personal way.

i did kind of find it a little weird about Josh’s protective side. like it was kind of cute, but also kind of weird. for most of the book, they weren’t even like together, just like work partners that were into each other. so, i did find it kind of odd, but it’s also just a basic romance book thing i guess.

and also Clara and Josh had so much chemistry in this book. like i know i read a ton of romance books, but a lot of them feel a little more force than some other ones that i read. but in here, they had so much chemistry it just made me so happy, since it was so amazing and wasn’t forced. and their banter back and forth made it honestly worthwhile.

and Josh was honestly such an amazing love interest in this book. like he was always so excepting and caring, and honestly was such a sweetheart. and i honestly loved him so much and like everything he stood for. (but does he kind of remind you of Alex Landi from grey’s??)

and i found Clara to be such a sweet character. like she was so innocent, but not like in a bad or annoying way. since, she already knew somethings, but just never really had a positive experience with sex, but she still wanted to try and figure it out and also help other people with learn how to pleasure their partner. which i honestly found to be so cool and amazing.

but, i also feel like in a sense we were supposed to feel bad for everett. cause like his band was going no where, but then he flies out this girl he likes and then he has to go on this mini tour and leave the girl he likes. when, i kind of just found him annoying cause he had terrible communication skills, which just made literally nothing work for me.

i also found the parts where clara was working with her aunt to be kind of boring. like nothing really happened, so if kind of was just super laggy to get threw. and it was also so info dumpy, which is never a good thing. which, just made me honestly skin those parts of the book.

and i honestly went into this book with zero expectations and i have no clue what it was actually about, since i say a pretty cover and decided to read it honestly. so, this was so amazing to read it and actually be good. and it was just so freaking amazing.

anyway, that is it for today! happy blogmas day 29! this honestly was such an amazing book and i loved the characters so freaking much. i cannot wait to the book about naomi to come out next year, especially if we get to see more josh and clara, and maybe their wedding. it would be so amazing.

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the 12 days of christmas book tag- blogmas day 26

hello everyone! happy blogmas day 26! today i am going to be doing the 12 days of christmas book tag. i know i’m kind late, since this was more popular last year, but oh well. and since christmas was yesterday i still wanted to do something festive.

one the first day of christmas, my true love sent to me: a partridge in a pear tree. a partridge stood alone in a pear tree. what is your favorite standalone?

a quiet kind of thunder by Sara Barnard. this is probably not a shock to anyone, but this is probably one of my favorite books of all time. so, of course i had to pick it. 

on the second day of christmas, my true love sent to me: two turtle doves. who is your OTP? 

probably cardan and jude. i know this is kind of basic, but i honestly love these two so much together and they make such a badass couple. 

on the third day of christmas, my true love sent to me: three french hens. what is the best trilogy you’ve read? 

the return series by ridley pearson. this is honestly one of the only trilogies i’ve ever read, so i kinda have to pick it. but, it also probably one of the best ones i’ve read. 

on the fourth day of christmas, my true love sent to me: four calling birds. since series usually have more then four books, what is your favorite series? 

either the kingdom keepers by ridley pearson or a good girls guide to murder by holly jackson. honestly, these two are some of  my favorite series/books of all times. 

on the fifth day of christmas, my true love sent to me: five golden rings. who is your favorite villain/ antagonist? 

 good girl, bad blood by holly jackson spoilers 

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charlie freaking green all the way 

on the sixth day of christmas, my true love sent to me: six geese a laying. what is your favorite world/world building? 

lore by alexandra bracken. this book had such amazing world building and it was just *chef’s kiss* amazing. 

on the seventh day of christmas, my true love sent to me: seven swans a swimming. who is your favorite animal sidekick? 

i have no clue, since i try to avoid characters with animals since they normally die. 

on the eighth day of christmas, my true love sent to me: eight maids a milking. which book or series takes food to a whole new level? 

kingdom of the wicked by kerri manicalco. the food in this book honestly made me so hungry since it was just so good. and i can’t wait for all the food in book 2.

on the ninth day of christmas, my true love sent to me, nine ladies dancing. who is your favorite kickass female lead? 

pip from a good girls guide to murder. i mean, there are some characters that are more badass, but i feel like she’s really bad ass for a contemporary/ thriller/ mystery character. and i honestly love her so much. 

on the tenth day of christmas, my true love sent to me: ten lords a leaping. who is your favorite leading male? 

Yadriel from cemetery boys. he’s honestly such an amazing character and i completely loved him when i was reading that book and everything he did for julian. 

on the eleventh day of christmas, my true love sent to me, eleven pipes a piping. what is your favorite book with a musical influence? 

the happy ever after playlist by abby jimenez. this is literally the only book that i can think about that has music in it, so yeah . 

on the twelfth day of christmas, my true love sent to me, 12 drummers drumming. what is your favorite book of 2020? 

maybe a good girls guide to murder, maybe felix ever after, maybe cinderella is dead. i haven’t quite figured it out, but those are definitely my top three. 

anyway, that is all for today! i hope you liked this post and i hope you had a great christmas if you celebrated it. but, also sorry if there is a lot of typos, i’m writing this on my notes app on my phone during christmas. 

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crazy stupid bromance- blogmas day 21

hello everyone! today i am going to be talking about crazy stupid bromance by Lyssa Kay Adams. i gave this book 2/5 stars. this book was honestly kind of bad, and i was so disappointed, since i kind of liked these other books. but, i will still read the rest of the series, since i’m to invested not to.

i also kind of thought this book writing was overall pretty bad. i feel like a lot of this book had more telling then showing. and this might have just been me, since i’m kind of in a slump when i was reading this book. but, i just found this writing in this book to be bad, worst then the other books in this series.

as a little side note, there is this Karen in this book. and whenever she came in, it was honestly one of the funniest things in the world. since, she was such a complete bitch, and just made everything so much better. and it was even better since her name in the book was Karen, and she was an actual Karen.

but, this book also had so much unneeded family drama. like the whole plot of this book was dealing with family drama. and this was honestly so boring, since none of this dealt with the romance plot line. and it just made me so bored, since this just had so much family drama again and again.

and also since there was so much family drama, it kind of made me a little bit uncomfortable. since, the dad and Alexis’ half sister pretty much just used her for an organ. and they just found her after the dad was dying. and overall, this had potential, but also this could have just been used so much better. especially if Alexis isn’t so much of a pushover.

since this book was part of a series but also since Noah and Alexis were already friends, it was hard to connect to this story and these characters. and since they went into this book with already so many built up feelings, it was so hard to feel anything towards these two. and i mean, we couldn’t even seen anything happening, like them growing in their feelings. but, anyway this book didn’t even focus on the romance, just the unneeded family drama.

but, this book just let me to have some issues with the bromance club. since, in the start of the book Noah was like “i don’t really want to have sex with Alexis yet.” but, the guys honestly just tried to push him to have sex, even though he didn’t really want to have sex with her at this point. and it just made me uncomfortable, since if Noah didn’t want to have sex with Alexis yet, he doesn’t have to have sex and definitely to be looked at as a fool.

there was also this whole part about sexual assault in the book prior to this book with Liv. and one of the victims is our main character, Alexis, in this book. which, i kind of expected to have a lot of parts about her sexual assault and her going to court or something. instead, we got barely anything, only like one little yoga class for survivors. and i just wish we got more about this, since it was a very central topic in book 2.

and i mean i thought it was kind of annoying how they would just jump time periods. it wasn’t like months and months, but maybe a week and/or a couple days. and i feel like it was kind of annoying, since when you were reading it was just so weird since these chucks of times you would never know what is happening.

also, every single thing that happened in this book was dragged out so freaking much. and i mean, i feel like this whole book had issues that could be resolved in a good solid 10 minutes, but instead it took days to get threw, which obviously is annoying.

and there was honestly so many subplots and sub characters in this book. which, just got to be so annoying after a while. like just forgetting the whole family plot, there was so many plots. and i mean, there was just so much crap that was going on. which, was not the right way to go for this author.

another thing, i honestly did not like the whole sex scenes. i mean, i think it was just so gross, and i honestly it wasn’t that good. and some of the scenes weren’t even that good. like, book one definitely had way better sex, and this book had kind of uncomfortable sex scenes.

this is kind of a spoiler, but this was just kind of weird. but there was this quote in the book that was ‘Noah’s penis was known as a “magic wand” and he made Alexis say the “magic word” before having sex, which was “Abracadabra.” look, i read a bit of adult romance, but that honestly made me pretty uncomfortable, since it was just so weird, even if i was supposed to be funny or something.

Alexis- she had so much potential in this book to grow and be a better character. but, she was honestly so bad. like, whenever something bad would happen to her, she just rolled over like the dog, or whatever that quote is. and it honestly was so bad, and really annoyed me.

Noah- i feel like he was a decent character, like he wasn’t the best, but also wasn’t the worst. and i mean, i feel like he could have held his ground so much better then he actually did. and he was kind of a pushover at some different points.

anyway, that is all for today! happy blogmas day 21! i honestly was so disappointed, since a lot of this book has like 4/5 stars ratings, and the average rating for this book is like 4.0, and i honestly hated this, if you couldn’t tell.

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