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I love to read and would love to be able to talk about the books I read with a lovely community. I read almost anything and really struggle to talk about the books I love the most for some reason.

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They Both Die At the End by Adam Silver

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This book has such an intriguing concept but, in my opinion, falls totally flat in execution. I feel like its important to note that I am a BOOK CRIER. I cried at almost every book I’ve read this year. I cry at commercials where like grandpas learn English to talk to their new grandkids or any lesbians get married or literally anything with a dog. I am SO EASILY manipulated into crying. I did not cry at this book where our two main characters DIE. […]

Too Close to Home

Too Bright To Hear Too Loud To See by Juliann Garey

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I always struggle with even rating books that are made more for being sad and discussing something difficult. Since I view reading as a form of entertainment its hard to rate pain as a kind of enjoyment. Juliann Garey takes us into the life and mind of Greyson Todd, a Hollywood studio exec with a wife and daughter whose life seems perfect except for the fact that Greyson has Bipolar 1 disorder. I went into this book completely blind, not knowing what it was about […]

Who is in charge of picking books that become movies?

The Knife Of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

The Ask and the Answer by Patrick Ness

Monsters of Men by Patrick Ness

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Seriously, who is in charge? I could say from a mile away this series would NOT make a good movie. But it did make a really good book series. I found myself emotionally involved and invested in the first book and in love with the second. The third was a bit of a let down personally but the conclusion and characters were still strong. Quick plot summary: Todd is a boy aging into manhood on a planet with a lack of women. The men of […]

Ten Thousand Escapes

The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

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I am going to start this review by thanking John Green for giving me a quote I can use to describe my feelings for this book: “I fell in love like you fall asleep: slowly then all at once.” I haven’t even read that book but it’s a pretty good quote and fits here so well. If I was more critical or reviewed and rated based on quality over the feelings that a book makes me feel I might lower this rating. It is far […]

Embers Burn Out

An Ember in the Ashes by Sabaa Tahir

A Torch Against the Night by Sabaa Tahir

A Reaper at the Gates by Sabaa Tahir

A Sky Beyond the Storm by Sabaa Tahir

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This book series had so much potential. The Ember quartet is a fairly typical YA fantasy at its core. Interesting world building and a focus on a few ‘chosen’ characters that have to save that world with a touch of romance and a huge splattering of violence. The book series started out a little slow to me in the first one but by half way through I was invested. By the second book I was in love! And by the third book I was…bored. The […]

What a fall from greatness…

Redemptor by Jordan Ifueko

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My disappointment in this sequel is palpable. The first book Raybearer (which I reviewed on my goodreads here if you are interested!)  was an absolutely wonderful, bright, and fun ride of a novel so imagine how absolutely disappointing it was to see its sequel seemingly fail to grasp what made the first one great. In this sequel, we follow Tarasai as she navigates her new position in the empire with new challenges and a totally new cast of characters. The plot is not uninteresting but […]



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