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Tools of Engagement by Tessa Bailey

2.5

Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez

1.5

The miscommunication was next level. “Let’s be harmless to each other” and then proceeds to cause each other 300+ pages of agony. Maybe I’m projecting. I was the one in agony. There’s a difference between yearning and pining, and these two are top tier piners with the communication skills of a rock. Actually, that’s offensive to rocks because they’d at least stay in place long enough to hear what the other person had to say.

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

5.0

Twilight by Stephenie Meyer

1.75

The Blonde Identity by Ally Carter

3.0

Sentinel by Jennifer L. Armentrout

4.0

Apollyon by Jennifer L. Armentrout

4.25

Deity by Jennifer L. Armentrout

4.25

Half-Blood by Jennifer L. Armentrout

4.25

Rereading this, I am once again 15 years old having the time of my life. The nostalgia is real, but the story is also holding up. I’ve already queued up the next one.

The Most Wonderful Crime of the Year by Ally Carter

5.0

This is what I want from a who Holiday-Who-Done-It: whimsical enough characters to keep me interested, love interests with enough banter (and tension) to keep me giggling, and blizzard to keep them all in place. 

Carter managed to write tropes like miscommunication,  “I’d take a bullet for you”, and the “We don’t talk about Tucson” without it being cringey, which is a big green flag. 

As a murder mystery, I was thoroughly entertained, but I also read this in a day a never once tried to put the clues together. I was along for the ride and enjoyed every second of it. Had I sat with it for any length of time, or if I was a regular with the genre, maybe it would’ve been obvious, but I don’t care. That’s not what I was looking for. I got my “Oh, damn!” moment during the reveal.