Ugly Love by Colleen Hoover
Y’all this was wild. It felt like getting wine drunk and watching a lifetime movie and you have to yell at the tv. Was it entertaining? Yes. Was it entertaining to me the way I think the creator intended? Ummm…….. So in Ugly Love we have a story in two parts. The first part follows Tate, a woman who moves in with her pilot brother and gets involved in a sexual relationship with the man next door. The man, Myles, tells her he can’t and […]
Reminders of Him by Colleen Hoover
I don’t know. This book just made me shake my head. The love story is not between the characters of Ledger and Kenna. Instead it’s between Kenna and Scotty. And due to how Hoover allows us to see Kenna and Scotty’s relationship, it felt more real and believable to me than whatever this mess was between Ledger and Kenna. I just didn’t buy it. Also when we are finally told about “that night” I called BS on a few things and it didn’t make […]
Verity by Colleen Hoover
It’s probably unfair to compare Verity (2018) to classics of the gothic such as Rebecca and Jane Eyre, but the parallels are unmistakable. A young woman finds herself enthralled with an older man who harbors a terrible secret concerning his wife. Isolated at his home, the heroine must discover the secret and save him while he, well, broods. Here, the protagonist is Lowen Ashleigh, a novelist who accepts a lucrative offer to complete the last two books of a successful series by Verity Crawford, who has been completely incapacitated […]
You'd Be Mine by Erin Hahn
Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
Get a Life, Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert
Reader, I’ve been reading a bunch of random books, with absolutely no direction in my life. Sitting at home and just trying to get out of my own head by getting into someone else’s. These are three of them. I liked some better than others, but they all had interesting bits. Here they are, in order of least favorite to most beloved. You’d Be Mine was a random Kindle download I picked up when the whole RWA thing blew up, and I had seen Erin […]
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
The Whisper Man by Alex North
Verity by Colleen Hoover
A Cosmology of Monsters by Shaun Hamill
(4 stars) The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher Kingfisher tells us from chapter one that the dog (Bongo, best dog ever) and the narrator (Mouse, also quite enjoyable) will be okay at the end of the book. This is good, because I liked them both very much, and this book was SO CREEPY that I really needed some reassurances by the end. Mouse gets called up by her dying father to help with his dead mother’s estate — specifically, the big old house in the […]
November 9 by Colleen Hoover
Well I got lured into reading this book because I absolutely loved “Verity.” “November 9” was nonsensical though most of the book and when we get to the twist/reveal I was rolling my eyes. I am sorry, no one in the history of the world would be rooting on these two (Fallon and Ben) to get together. Also at times it felt like Hoover was slightly mocking “One Day” which I also didn’t like, but that was still better than two people only communicating/seeing each […]
