🌸 Title: Verity🌸Author: Colleen Hoover🌸Published: December 75th, 2018🌸Genre: Adult, Mystery, Contemporary, Fiction, Romance, Thriller🌸Preview: A struggling writer goes to finish a series for someone else but ends up with enough content for her own story.🌸A no major spoilers review. Lowen Ashleigh is a writer struggling to make ends meet when she accepts an amazing job: finish a book series for Verity, the wife of Jeremy Crawford, an extremely successful author. However, as Lowen reads through Verity, she learns shocking facts about the day that Verity’s daughter died. Lowen must decide if she’ll keep this hidden from Jeremy; but as she falls harder and harder for him, she finds herself wanting…
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Why Carter Reed was a trainwreck of a romance mafia book
🌸 Title: Carter Reed🌸Author: Tijan🌸Published: September 28th, 2013🌸Genre: Adult, Fiction, Romance🌸Preview: The lack of chemistry couldn’t save the poor attitude of our heroine.🌸A no major spoilers review. TW: This book contains material about sexual assault. In Carter Reed, our main character, Emma, happens to come home early one day and finds her roommate being raped by her boyfriend. Emma has two options: either call the police and be killed by the mafia or kill him and have a chance to survive; she chooses to risk it all and kills him, setting up the rest of the story. Emma finds herself going to Carter Reed, her childhood friend, who’s at the…
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A Discovery of Witches – Where there are no fights, only…meetings
🌸 Title: A Discovery of Witches🌸Author: Deborah Harkness🌸Published: February 2011🌸Genre: Fantasy, Fiction, Romance, Adult, Paranormal🌸Preview: In a world of vampires, witches, demons, and other creatures of the night, everyone wants a book and has a bunch of meetings over how to get the girl to get said book without a single meaningful fight.🌸A no major spoilers review. A Discovery of Witches introduces young scholar Diana Bishop, who happens to be a witch and refuses to use her powers. Diana happens to call on a book that everyone in the supernatural world has been looking for—but why is she the only one able to summon this book? I had a lot…
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The Darkest Powers series – Had potential to be great, fell short
🌸 Title: The Darkest Powers series🌸Author: Kelley Armstrong🌸Published: Final book published April 6th, 2010🌸Genre: Paranormal, Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance, Fiction🌸Preview: A series with characters that I just didn’t care about with endings that left on major cliffhangers—including the last book.🌸A no major spoilers review. The Darkest Powers series begins with The Summoning. It introduces Chloe Sanders, a girl who was pretty normal until she saw her first ghost at her school. She’s whisked away to a mental home, Lyle House, and they tell her she has Schizophrenia. But what if she can really see ghosts? I vaguely remember reading The Darkest Powers series as a kid. Before I reread it,…
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After is extremely problematic and makes me question the book industry
🌸 Title: After (After Book 1)🌸Author: Anna Todd🌸Published: April 4th, 2019🌸Genre: Romance, New Adult, Contemporary, Fiction🌸Preview: Emotionally abusive relationship is categorized as a bad boy meets good girl/ enemies-to-lovers romance.🌸A no major spoilers review. “I bring out the worst in you and you bring out the best in me.” Anna Todd, After This quote should just explain exactly what I meant in my preview. A relationship should bring out the best in both people in the relationship, not just one. After focuses on Tessa, this extreme “good girl” (even though she seems…pretty normal) and this “bad boy” named Hardin who is, of course, not into the whole dating thing. But all…
