Soul Taken by Patricia Briggs
Well. I have been reading about Mercy Thompson for a really long time. The series has its highs and its lows. It felt like the last few books were really in the lows. I couldn’t even take comfort in the Alpha & Omega books anymore because it just felt we were reading the same plot repeatedly. But this one finally allows Mercy and Adam to just be. To just be happy. To just be in love. To just be a team. To just have the […]
The Third Wife by Lisa Jewell
Will forever be baffled how this book was depicted as a thriller and suspense novel. There is an underlying mystery about Adrian Wolfe’s third wife, Maya. But it’s beyond boring when all is revealed. And I swear the way the book just glosses over kind of the awful things his 5 children acted was so bizarre to me. I just kind of shook my head and wondered what story was Jewell trying to tell? Was it a story cautioning men out there looking to always […]
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
Trigger warning: Sexual assault Wow. I really enjoyed this. The book took a lot of twists and turns and I love how Kang turned it into three separate parts. There were so many terrible characters in this one (Yeong-hye’s husband, her brother in law) that you felt for Yeong-hye and what causes her to turn vegan. I will say that this book maybe would have worked better as a short story. The last third of the book just drags IMHO. I think part 1 was […]
Just Like Magic by Sarah Hogle
Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. So. This was pretty awful. I think at one point I was going to DNF it, but decided to struggle through. I really hate DNFing ARCs I receive unless they really do break my brain a lot. And this one danced on that line throughout. I think there were zero redeeming characters in this (including Hall). I thought this would be a nice romantic comedy and it was […]
Before I Do by Sophie Cousens
Please note that I received this book via NetGalley. This did not affect my rating or review. So funny enough I could have used this for a Cannonball 14 bingo because of the constant discussion of stars, who knew. But seriously though. This is the third book by Cousens I have read and they just keep getting better. Potential romance readers may be worried about the plot of this one and if this will work for them, but I promise you it will. It was […]
The Night Masquerade (Binti #3) by Nnedi Okorafor
This was a great ending to the series. I honestly took a while to get back to it because I wanted to take my time. Okorafor does a great job of ending the series in a satisfying way. I will echo what some other readers said though which is that it felt like the story had several endings. I think it may have been better if it had ended differently too. Just because I think it would have made it a more “real” ending in […]
