🌸 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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Frenzy – A vampire series that left me more confused than intrigued
🌸 Title: Frenzy (Books 1 & 2 but DNF’ed at 30%)🌸Author: Casey L. Bond🌸Published: February 9th, 2016🌸Genre: Paranormal, Horror, Young Adult, Fantasy, Romance🌸Preview: A tiny town doesn’t know everyone else’s business and nothing is ever explained.🌸A no major spoilers review. 🌸Disclaimer: I was given this book for free from a giveaway, so I felt obligated to read it. Frenzy is based on this colony that separates itself from a disease, and the nightwalkers (vampires) protect them. The vampires protect the humans who go hunting for food in exchange for blood. And Porschia, our main character, has to go through the rotation. If I’m being completely honest, Frenzy was just…boring. It…
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Cleaning up my TBR pile Marie Kondo style
Alright. That number is absolutely atrocious. I already know I’m not going to read three-fourths of my TBR list on Goodreads. So I decided to clean up Marie Kondo style—keeping in mind her key phrase: “Discard everything that does not spark joy.” I needed to ask myself if it sparked joy, if I was genuinely excited to read it or if I felt like I had to read it. The answer was, for most of these books, I wasn’t excited. Some of these I had added years ago just because they seemed “interesting,” but we’re in 2021 now, and there are always amazing books being published each year. I made…
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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…
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read One More Step if you want something new
In One More Step, I read A Meet Cute and Other Natural Disasters by Emma Scott and Saint by Colleen Hoover. I tend not to like short stories, so I limited myself to these two and I was not disappointed. Book: One More Step by Colleen Hoover (with twenty-four other authors) My rating: 4 of 5 stars on Goodreads. “ONE MORE STEP would mean certain death” was given to each of the writers to start off their stories. It’s a sentence that forces the authors to add a bit of over-exaggeration to their beginnings, but I think they did well using them. A Meet Cute and Other Natural Disasters shows…
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Looking for Alaska is a childhood treasure
Looking for Alaska is a childhood treasure that all young adults should read on their journey to adulthood. I’ll explain why. Book: Looking for Alaska by John Green My rating: 5 of 5 stars on Goodreads. This is a no spoilers book review and differs slightly from my Goodreads review. I will also be posting a full review with spoilers after I reread Looking for Alaska. How do we ever escape this labyrinth of suffering? Is there any reason for hope in this world? I read Looking for Alaska all the way back in high school, but I’ve never been able to give a real review. I’ve never been able…
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Hidden Deep is a hidden disaster
This book review of Hidden Deep is brutally honest. An interesting world cannot save this books lack of real character development and overused tropes. Book: Hidden Deep by Amy Patrick. This is a no spoilers book review of Hidden Deep and differs slightly from my Goodreads review. The book Hidden Deep was clearly made to cater to the younger part of the YA genre, so I believe they would love it. However, as an adult reading this book, there are multiple glaringly obvious problems with this book, from plot to much-needed editing in some parts. The unforgettable YA book trope… “But I’d never been the girl in the room who…
