I loved this historical fiction standalone about World War II. I rated this one a 4.5/5 stars. Ruby, Charlotte, and Thomas all have a hard journey and take us through their three stories. Because Ruby was American it gave a slightly different spin from the comps similar to this novel. Here’s my thoughts live whileContinue reading “Review #281”
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Review #280
I rated this a 3.7/5 stars. This standalone book of the month selection was a suspenseful mystery with family drama, sabotage, lies, secrets, & unravelings. There were many points of view and the writing felt a bit dry overall. Here’s my thoughts while reading. The prologue shows that Amaya is a neurotic woman who possiblyContinue reading “Review #280”
Review #279
I gave this enemies to lovers romantasy a 4.1/5 stars. I loved Nikolai’s scenes & the world building was done pretty well. Keera’s gradual character growth was done expertly and I appreciate the reality of it. But I won’t be reading the rest of the series later when they come out because of the slowContinue reading “Review #279”
Review #278
I gave this ‘book of the month’ club a 3.0/5 stars. It’s hard to classify the genre: dark literary is what I would’ve done on my own but the blurb says gothic fantasy. Yes there were paranormal things in the plot but I’ve never read a book like this so it’s hard to classify. AContinue reading “Review #278”
Review #277
DNF. I stopped at page 65 y’all. I didn’t really want to stop because I have the whole trilogy ready from the library but it got really boring after the first 2 chapters. I don’t really care about a sorority type group of gossip and drama. I bet if I was more patient the bookContinue reading “Review #277”
Top 10 Retellings
Looking back at this list I’m quite surprised about the top 2 because Sleeping Beauty is one of my lease favorite fairytales. And to top it off, Beauty and the Beast is one of my favorites but the 2 least favorite are based on B&B. I don’t know how it all flip flopped. Maybe myContinue reading “Top 10 Retellings”
Review #276
Above the Sea earned a 4.2.5 stars for this YA fairytale retelling, clean HEA romance. The plot is very fast paced and I don’t feel as if there’s time to settle in a scene or into the characters. Their dialogue is saying exactly what they think instead of making me work and read in betweenContinue reading “Review #276”
Review #275
Master of Salt & Bones is a dark/modern gothic contemporary standalone romance. I gave this a generous 4.0/5 stars. Sometimes it felt more like a psychological thriller/almost erotica. At times I couldn’t determine what was real and what was a hallucination which felt part of the point. I thought Isa had a boring personality andContinue reading “Review #275”
July Top Ten
I read 14ish books in July, kind of lost track this month since a few were DNF. Here’s my top ten list. I had heavy fantasy this month to prep for my next writing projects, so there’s not much variety of genre this time around. For individual reviews of each of these and 270 othersContinue reading “July Top Ten”
Review #274
I did not finish Kiersten White’s novel. I made it to page 50 but not much had happened and there was too much head hopping. I bet once the “instigating event” takes place the ball will start rolling but it was only setting up the stage for the story instead of actually being the story.Continue reading “Review #274”
Cassie Swindon 