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Do Your Worst by Rosie Danan
Did not finish book. Stopped at 51%.
Did not finish book. Stopped at 51%.
I'm sorry but this book was SO BORING! these two are just hate lusting after each other and that's it that's the whole book.
Can't Spell Treason Without Tea by Rebecca Thorne
3.5
you can really feel the Legends & Lattes influence and I say that in a good way
Tender Beasts by Liselle Sambury
When the is it supernatural or not plot yields supernatural 😮💨👍
4.0
Apprentice to the Villain by Hannah Nicole Maehrer
2.0
This just DID NOT HIT like the first one did. I loved the first one for its episodic style of storytelling that still had an overarching plot. This one was just an overarching plot and because I was hoping for more of the first style, it just didn’t work for me.
The Pairing by Casey McQuiston
1.0
that one review that wondered if this was ghostwritten? yeah....
so maybe you can blame me. I did not like the premise of this book. a competition between exes (strike one) on who can sleep with more europeans (like 3 strikes in one)? that literally sounds awful! BUT I was less than interested in One Last Stop (5 stars) and I didn't even want to read I Kissed Shara Wheeler because it sounded like Paper Towns which I dnf'd (but again, 5 stars).
CMQ usually writes books with premises that I don't care a lot for, but writes them in a funny and heartfelt way that makes me love them. I got the heartfelt, but where was the funny? it's not even that the jokes don't hit. there just aren't any jokes. I got like 1 joke every 70 pages and I thought this was a romcom!
tl;dr: I can't stop thinking about European STDs
so maybe you can blame me. I did not like the premise of this book. a competition between exes (strike one) on who can sleep with more europeans (like 3 strikes in one)? that literally sounds awful! BUT I was less than interested in One Last Stop (5 stars) and I didn't even want to read I Kissed Shara Wheeler because it sounded like Paper Towns which I dnf'd (but again, 5 stars).
CMQ usually writes books with premises that I don't care a lot for, but writes them in a funny and heartfelt way that makes me love them. I got the heartfelt, but where was the funny? it's not even that the jokes don't hit. there just aren't any jokes. I got like 1 joke every 70 pages and I thought this was a romcom!
tl;dr: I can't stop thinking about European STDs
Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
5.0
Literally everyone to Emma: it’s your trauma
Emma: i’m literally trauma-less
Justin: hey
Emma: actually i can’t bc i’m just so traumaless and carefree
Emma: i’m literally trauma-less
Justin: hey
Emma: actually i can’t bc i’m just so traumaless and carefree
A Love Song for Ricki Wilde by Tia Williams
4.5
Tia Williams is a genius. she's now 2 for 2 on writing books with concepts that couldn't interest me less, yet end up being so well written that I love them.
Five Survive by Holly Jackson
3.5
admittedly I was worried going into this because of how mixed the reviews were, but I actually enjoyed this! I forced myself to read the whole thing in a day because this gave such "this will be bad if you have to return to it" vibes so I'm sure that helped. is this as good as AGGGTM? a laughable question of course not. but I do think it's better than AGGGTM's adaptation so that's my scale.