🌸 Title: Kingdom of Ash🌸Author: Sarah J. Maas🌸Published: October 23rd, 2018🌸Genre: YA, Fantasy, Fiction, Romance🌸Preview: Aelin is locked within a box and must find the courage to stay strong as her friends and allies figure out how to free her.🌸A no major spoilers review. Originally, I was going to write about all of the Throne of Glass books. Realistically, however, it’s been so long since I’ve read them that I cannot give an honest review from the heart—but that’s okay. I have an overall review here based on Kingdom of Ash that should tie up my feelings into a nice bow. Aelin Galathynius gave herself up to Maeve for her…
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The Others – An amazing paranormal series that breaks the norm
🌸 Title: The Others series (Books 1-5)🌸Author: Anne Bishop🌸Published: March 4th, 2014🌸Genre: Adult, Fantasy, Paranormal, Romance, Fiction🌸Preview: A girl cuts herself to see visions and decides to hide with other paranormal creatures so she isn’t bled dry.🌸A no major spoilers review. Book 1 Synopsis: Meg Corbyn is a blood prophet who can see the future when her skin is cut, making it dangerous. She escapes her Controller and finds herself at the Lakeside Courtyard, a business district that the Others, paranormal creatures, reside. Meg decides to hide among them, but is she truly safe? I decided to write an overall review of The Others series—particularly Meg and Simon’s arc. There…
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The Necklace – a predictable yet chilling read
🌸 Title: The Necklace🌸Author: Matt Witten🌸Release Date: September 21st, 2021🌸Genre: Adult, Mystery, Thriller🌸Preview: A woman questions whether or not the man accused of killing her daughter is truly guilty.🌸Note: I received an ARC copy from NetGalley in exchange to review.🌸A no major spoilers review. Susan Lentigo’s a small-town waitress who fought for the man who supposedly killed her daughter has second thoughts about the killer. She’ll go to great lengths to find the true killer—and he might be closer than she thinks. The Necklace devastated me and left me breathless. It tore at my soul. I teared up more than once as we learn about Amy’s death, and even though…
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Harley Merlin – A Harry Potter knockoff that is a big disappointment
🌸 Title: Harley Merlin🌸Author: Bella Forrest🌸Published: August 27th, 2018🌸Genre: YA, Fantasy, Fiction, Mystery, Paranormal🌸Preview: A Harry Potter lookalike with glaringly obvious Harry Potter tropes that don’t work.🌸A no major spoilers review. Harley Merlin can sense people’s emotions and works at a casino in order to make use of these powers. A monster arrives after working at the casino and she meets Wade Crowley, a warlock. Harley decides to involve herself in the world of magic when attempts on her life come to fruition and Wade’s convincing pitches work. Can she find whoever is after her? Harley Merlin and the Secret Coven attempts to market itself as a Harry Potter lookalike,…
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Verity – A romance thriller that will leave you on the edge of your seat
🌸 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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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…
