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The Box in the Woods by Maureen Johnson

3.25

Each chapter was like 10 pages long and that honestly ruined my day. 

Also the romance is stupid. 

Good plot though 

Once Upon a Broken Heart by Stephanie Garber

3.5

Okay so thoughts. First of all, I really liked the world building, the descriptions of the North and the South. The writing style was easy to read, and made the experience go all the more quicker. The characters were generally entertaining and kept up a good plotline. 

My main issue with this book, however, is the connection and feelings that it brought upon me, namely, nothing. Even if I thought it was good, I didn't feel anything for the characters, for the subtle romance. Also some of those names were weird. Frangelica??? Hated the pet name Jacks had for her too. 

Overall, this book was very average.

The Summer of Lost Letters by Hannah Reynolds

3.25

The beginning was definitely solid, but the middle kinda sucked and felt drawn out, ending's weird and way too bright but I still enjoyed it. The fact that I read when summer's near a end also probably didn't help 


Also ugly cover, what was that

#murderfunding by Gretchen McNeil

2.0

I'm actually kind of shocked about how little I cared about this book. The characters felt flat and the romance was boring and uninteresting. The writing was questionable at best, like seriously who describes a head decapitation like a pez dispenser? This author, apparently. I was actually too weirded out by some of these comparisons, that the death didn't even matter. And our main has some strong plot armor because wtf were those action scenes. She didn't even get injured?? Girl basically is invincible, I would like her to die.

The end was basically that ending where it's like shock shock look at our cool totally original (not) plot twist. 

And actually what was that romance?? I love reading sapphic relationships, yet somehow every single horror/thriller book with a sapphic romance has no development. These characters had two conversations and then declared their love for each other. Like geez, I get that you're in a life threatening situation, but people don't fall like that. They literally said "I love you"... after knowing each other for less than TWO weeks.

I read the first book of this at the start of the year, and I enjoyed that. In this book, we have two POVs from the first book, and then a new one introduced in this book.  SO BORING. I lowkey hate everyone in this book.  And the og trio had no business being here, because they added nothing. They weren't too interesting in the first book and literally held no purpose. 

I also feel like the trauma from killing people snd experiencing deaths wasn't shown much. We get the whole 'omg they just died i wanna throw up and cry' but like ,,, that's it. Dee from the last book did not go through therapy and she has way less trauma than a teenager would after going through that. 

Oh, and the plot holes!!

Like they literally run away from everyone and are illegal or criminals despite the fact that it was aired live??? who cares if it was only aired in russia?? u can literally still get evidence wtf??is the author okay

Well, at least I borrowed this from the library. 

Blood Sugar by Sascha Rothchild

3.75

I loved the way this story was written, and then intricate plot. I never actually felt attached to the characters or any main emotion other than curiousity, but it was certainly good. 

I Hope This Doesn't Find You by Ann Liang

3.75

Cute beginning, but slowly started feeling stereotypical at the end

Champion by Marie Lu

3.75

Good, but not as good. I just didn't connect as much as I did in the second book. That ending though, I don't want to read the next book because it will ruin it so. 

Prodigy by Marie Lu

4.25

I enjoyed this one way more than the first one. I felt way more attached and connected to the characters, hating them

(looking at you, Tess and Thomas)

and loving them too. 

The two main characters are so badass and I love them, they're such a power couple. I love their connection, and their desire, and their hurt. I love how even when they hurt each other, they both feel horrible. They're such good people.

the paper clip ring, and she doesn't know how to express how much she appreciates it, but she wears it all the time and and and.

This book definitely had much more iconic scenes than the last one too.

The scene where she nearly bulls eyes the target after being blindfoldeded so she can prove her identity and she didn't even know where it was???

Many scenes felt realistic and I could picture it in my head clearly. 

Anyways, looking fowards to the next book. I read this series 4 years ago, literally remember nothing, but past me had taste. 

Legend by Marie Lu

3.5

The Girls I've Been by Tess Sharpe

4.25

The Girls I've Been is a book about finding yourself, relying on others, and of course, a con artist in a bank robbery. 

Okay so first thoughts. I loved the relationships in this. Both platonic, romantic and familial. I found it a really interesting experience how the author depicted her and Wes as X's but also really family. 

The romance was also really cute even though it was already established so we didn't get to see too much of it before. Another thing that I really liked was how each of their characters were their own person, their own experience, even if they weren't necessarily central to the story. 

At certain points I did end up feeling a little bored. A little lost. Not really there kind of.  Didn't really ruin the experience but there were still those moments. 

And okay, legit such a good part at the end here. "I would tear apart the world for you." "I'd burn the world for you" and they're best friends and interested in other people romantically and it's so perfect. Literally queer platonic maybe too codependent best friends??? So happy to see it.