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Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky

challenging dark tense slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I decided to read this book because I bought a poster with 100 books to read in your life. This is book twenty-six on the poster. As with most classics, I lost the storyline about halfway through and then struggled with the rest of the book.

This book is based on Rodion Raskolnikov, and he lives in a squalid room in St. Petersburg, he believes he is above society and is obsessed with the idea of breaking the law. He resolved to kill an old pawnbroker for her cash. Although the murder and robbery are bungled, Raskolnikov manages to escape without being seen. And with nothing to prove his guilt and a mendacious confessor in police custody, Raskolnikov seems to have committed the perfect crime. There is just one small problem in his master plan: the feverish delirium of his own conscience.

One of the issues I had with this book is that Rodion’s conscience was so long winded, and I get that was kind of the point, but also, I was losing the plot whether it was his thought or him talking to someone else. I kept getting really confused and having no clue what was going on. With the murder happening quite quickly within the book, I thought this would be more of the legal side and the court room and maybe him in prison, which I would have enjoyed but instead it was a case of the town’s reactions and him thinking he had got away with it and then being ill. This book could have been shortened, if it was 300 pages, I think I wouldn’t have struggled as much, but this book just became a chord to finish. All of the characters seemed two dimension and was only there to move the story along and then the one build character was toxic as hell.

I mean, this book is probably good for psychology students to work with Rodion’s mind, but I was glad as hell to be out of his head when it was over and done with. There is obviously a lot of heavy themes discussed in this book from the murder to mental health to alcoholism and the way that he ends up describing them and how brutal they are sort of show the kind of writer Fyodor is and I can appreciate that.

Overall, this book ended up hurting my head and I couldn’t wait for it to be done and hopefully I will enjoy the next classic book, but I don’t have a lot of faith for it.

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The Inmate by Freida McFadden

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

This is my book club’s choice for November. I had heard of Freida McFadden and have been wanting to read her books for the longest time and I think this is a sign to read more of her work.

This book is based on Brooke Sullivan, and she is the new nurse practitioner at a men’s maximum-security prison and there are three rules she must always follow: 1) Treat all prisoners with respect. 2) Never reveal any personal information 3) Never EVER become too friendly with the inmates. But none of the staff at the prison knows Brooke has already broken the rules. Nobody knows about her intimate connection to Shane Nelson, one of the penitentiary’s most notorious and dangerous inmates. And they certainly don’t know that Shane was Brooke’s high school sweetheart – the star quarterback who is now spending the rest of his life in prison for a series of grisly murders. Or that Brooke’s testimony was what put him there. But Shane knows. And he will never forget.

This was an easy read with the fact that I had a guess on who it was from the beginning, I'm going to put that down to the fact that I've read a lot of thrillers and mystery books from Christ Carter to Alice Feeney, so when I got a feel of the chapters I knew who it was. The only thing that had me shocked from the epilogue from Josh, I was ready to rate this book three stars and then the epilogue happened. I would have loved this book to have multiple POV from Shane, Tim and Josh because they were key characters throughout the book. Once the answers started falling into place, the book moved quite quickly along, and it didn’t take me that long to read.

Brooke was way too trusting, for a small town where everyone knew what happened and she was still getting crap for it, why on earth would you come back and then just let the guys from that night into your house and around your child? Again, she came back from New York, did she not think to ask around about the Nanny to see if she was not a creep? I just had so many questions? Did Shane break the inmate fingers? Who was beating him? Is this how he was being manipulative? Why was Tim worried about the police going down to his basement if he didn’t kill Kelli? We knew it was going to be one of the people from the night in the house, but I would have loved for it to be like someone’s ex-partner or family member or something that would have shocked me.

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My Fault by Mercedes Ron

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dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I wanted to read this book because I had seen the film in the Spanish version and when I figured it was a book and that it had been translated to English, I was instantly wanting to try and read it. Obviously, the book was better as always, but there was a lot of changes, so it was interesting to see.

This book has two points of view. The first is seventeen-year-old Noah Morgan and she loves her quiet, normal life in Toronto. But when her mother returns from a cruise unexpectedly married to a billionaire and announces they are moved to L.A., Noah is suddenly shoved out of her comfort zone and into a glittering world of illegal street races, lavish pool parties and spoiled rich kids. And her new stepbrother Nicholas is the most spoiled of them all. Arrogant, aloof and viciously attractive. Nick is everything she hates, especially when she learns his bad boy persona isn’t just a facade. Noah has her own demons on her tail and doesn’t want Nick’s nose in any of them. The second point of view is twenty-year-old Nicholas Leister, and he is a college student and a typical spoiled rich kid. However, Nick has a secret life, one filled with car racing, street fighting and parties every night. He is a gang leader, that has a different girl every night. That all changes when he realises that Noah isn’t like other girls, they both like getting under each other skin and the more pushing and pulling they do with each other, the more they don’t realise how much the physical attraction between them is growing – enough to turn their world upside down.

This book was soooo messy, but I loved it. It was one of those books being like I shouldn’t love it, but I do, like watching reality TV. It was so messy, and I was hooked from page one. The storyline was jam-packed, and it was an easy read, though it was almost very mysterious, and I was wanting to know who was after Noah. I loved Noah, she was so badass and just didn’t give a shit, when she beat Ronnie in that race and got up in his face, I was rooting for her so much. Nick was so toxic, but I loved him. At first, he was wanting to wind the hell out of Noah just because he wasn’t happy with the fact that more people were in his mansion (boo-hoo, let me get you your mini violin) to then realising she wasn’t going anywhere and was fascinated by her. I loved Nick’s growth and how he realized why Noah was wanting to work and not have a flashy car and wanting to change for her. How many men realise when they’ve lost the person, they love that they need to change and do instead of love bombing and gaslighting the person to get back together. It was so refreshing to see. I loved Maddie, and I wanted to hug her so much for just wanting to have a family and not her mum being AWOL.

I feel like this book was slightly rushed at time. There was so much going on and then when it got to the final dramatic event, it was done within six chapters, I would have liked to see more with what happened to Ronnie after the kidnapping? Did he confess? Did he open his mouth about Nick’s gang? How long does he have to spend in prison? I have more questions than answer. Is Nick going to get Maddie? Did his dad and Noah’s mum approve of this relationship? What happened to Anna? She seemed like a woman who doesn’t back down after being with Nick for years.

I am wondering how this series is going to carry on as this book seems to be tied in a bow and done, but obviously there are two more books, so I'm intrigued with how it’s going to carry on with Nick and Noah.

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A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

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challenging dark emotional sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I decided to read this book because I bought a poster with 100 books to read in your life. This is book twenty-five on the poster. As with most classics, I kind of struggled with this, but I understood the storyline this time.

After eighteen years as a political prisoner in the Bastille, the ageing Doctor Manette is finally released and reunited with his daughter in England. These are the lives of two very different men, Charles Darnay, an exiled French aristocrat, and Sydney Carton, a disreputable but brilliant English lawyer, becomes enmeshed through their love for Lucie Manette. From the tranquil roads of London, they are drawn against their will to the vengeful, bloodstained streets of Paris at the height of the Reign of Terror, and they soon fall under the lethal shadow of La Guillotine.

I enjoyed how this book was split into three stories with one side being in France, one being in England and then book three being where all hell breaks loose. I enjoyed the humour and the side characters within this book. They were all so interesting and managed to keep me hooked. Even though it’s got a lot of dark themes, I was also intrigued into the mystery whether the characters were going to survive. The character development between the main characters was another strong point, I went from questioning if these two were even going to be able to get out of the town and by the end they were so badass. I have read two books from Charles Dickens, he seems to have this way of making a journey from start to finish, there was no questions for me to ask, everything was wrapped up in a bow.

Even though this book was under 300 pages, it felt like it was 900 pages. I am going to assume it’s because of the language and the classic feel to it, but it felt like pulling teeth to get this book finished. Plus, with the obvious political tone and the representation of all female characters being in the kitchen or just staying at home, was driving me nuts but again it was the time when the book was written.

Overall, I was surprised that I enjoyed this as much as I did due to how I do with classics, however I'm not going to have my hopes up because the next one on the list is Crime and Punishment.

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Mr Fixer Upper by Lucy Score, Lucy Score

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emotional hopeful lighthearted medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I wanted to read this book because I have enjoyed Lucy Score’s previously work and I wanted to read more of her work. This book was on Kindle Unlimited, so I took it as a sign to read this book. It was adorable, spicy and an easy read.

This book has two points of view. The first point of view is Paige and she has a goal in mind to direct her own documentary about the double standards and misogyny to women in the film industry with her best friend Becca, but they can’t afford it right now, so right now she is a field producer for a renovation tv show where she is basically running the place without the pay raise. Her biggest problem is Gannon, who is bad-tempered, hates filming the reality side of the renovation show and likes to try and get a raise out of Paige. They are on the road together, working long hours fixing houses and changing lives of the families picked for the show. When the cracks in Paige’s composure and coolness starts to show, sparks fly between Paige and Gannon. The second point of view is Gannon, and he is Sex in a toolbelt, and the highlight of his workday is to get a rise out of Paige and to try and make her snap. Why? Because he is infatuated with her and the cameras are there to capture it. He didn’t want to do the reality show, but him and his sister are doing this to save his family business, he likes to keep his life private, and a reality show is the opposite of this. He has fallen for pretty packages before, and Paige won’t be taken seriously if she’s caught sleeping with the star of the show especially with her future project on the line. However, they both keep going back to each other. Too bad it’s about to fall apart. Paige should have never trusted him and Gannon should have never let her go.

So, this book isn’t classed a workplace romance, but I am saying it’s a workplace romance, just in the reality TV aspect. I loved this storyline and the vulnerability we get between the two main characters especially because it starts with Gannon driving Paige up the wall, so right from page one we see the difference between the personalities and how they are bouncing off each other. I enjoyed the found family aspect with the film crew and how they were rooting for Gannon and Paige and betting on when they were going to get back together. I love Cat, I thought she was hilarious and how she was so badass and also calling out the bullshit to Gannon. The same with Becca, I love that she was like Paige, I get your background and why you don’t want to dive headfirst, but Gannon adores you and built them a coffee table.

I love Paige’s growth, but she was a bit over the top at some points. Especially with it being in reality TV, she flipped out at Gannon instead of letting him explain and then only believed him when he told the whole film crew that he loved her, but she wasn’t interested so he was going to be all over her without harassing her. At the point where she was overreacting, they had been together for a while surely, she could have just spoken to each other instead of kicking off.

Overall, I love Lucy Score and haven’t had many issues with her books, and I just adore her work.

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The Striker by Ana Huang

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challenging emotional medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? It's complicated
Loveable characters? No
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

2.0

I wanted to read this because I love football and the idea that I could finally read a sports romance about a sport where it was called football instead of soccer and had British humour and romance, it was supposed to be my cup of tea. But this is the biggest let down of 2024 for me. I'm not going to lie, this is about to be a rant rather than a formal review because I have a lot to say about this.

This book has two points of view. The first is Asher Donovan, we have met him in the Twisted series and the King of Sin series, and he is a living legend, the star of the Premier League and the greatest football in the world. But his reckless antics and recent team transfer has caused a lot of controversy, and when his feud with his rival-turned-teammate costs them a championship, they’re forced to bond during the off-season cross-training. Surviving the summer shouldn’t be too hard, until Asher meets their new trainer. She is beautiful, talented and no matter how hard he tries, he can’t take his mind off her, but he is his rival’s sister and completely off limits. The second point of view is Scarlett DuBois, and she is a former prima ballerina whose career was cut short after a car accident that left her with chronic pain. She is now a teacher at a prestigious dance academy, but still haunted by the ghosts of her past, the last thing she wants to do is spend the summer cross-training Asher Donovan. She swore she would never date a footballer again, but when her brother leaves town to look after their dad, she finds herself thrown into dangerously proximity with the charming striker. The training, she can deal with. But falling in love is out of the question especially when he’s the only person with the power to break her heart.

I liked the side characters, Carina and Brooklyn saved this book from being the 2nd book I was going to give a 1 star ever. They were the only ones with their heads on straight and the only one who was cutting through all the bullshit that happened in this book. Adil as well was a golden retriever and gave bright moments throughout this book and the fact that he was wanting the team to have some sort of brotherhood outside of the field by trying to arrange a book club was so sweet. Also, Christian Harper didn’t show up to save the day like he has done for the past 7 books.

This book did not need to be 500+ pages, everything happened within the last 100. I wanted it to have plot and to show the season in full and not just the last game of the season last year and the last game of the season this year, which is how it starts and ends. There are a total of 3 matches in 500+ book over the year. This fake team was supposedly the best team in the premier league, do you know how many games they would have played in a year not including international dates such as friendlies and the euros or the world cup? If they were in all competitions and got to the final of every competition, that’s 73 games. We saw 3 and 1 of them was a charity match. We heard about 2 more games and that’s only because Asher was sidelines so it was things like “the team won against Tottenham” even if you are injured, most players go to the games to support their team, the only time players don’t go to away games or home games if it they physically can’t due to injury. I would have been happy reading a 500+ book if it shows more of the games and the brotherhood and the training and the traveling to away games. Even for Scarlett, I have no interest in ballet, but besides her doing the training which was literally “we trained today” or “I had class today” there was no intense ballet sagas. Like with other sports romance (Flawless, The Deal, Icebreaker), you end up wanting to root for the team and then wanting to buy their merch for a fake football team in a fictional book, but I don’t know how they did besides be told that they won.

Scarlett and Asher had no chemistry. We got more chemistry from Vincent and Asher after they punched Scarlett’s ex-boyfriend and sorted out their difference at the hospital. I think I would have actually preferred for this to have been a gay romance, it would have been more interesting that what we got. It was very bland and rushed again it could have been a slow-burn with the tension building if Vincent stayed around but the second he goes, they end up hooking up like five chapters later, and then spend the next thirty having sex and hiding from paparazzi and lying to everyone and then five chapters having the third-act conflict and getting back together. The smut we did get got boring after a while because it was all they were doing, I get the first time they kiss and do all the other stuff they have to go into details usually because we’ve been waiting for it to happen, but this book it happened so quickly that we got a lot of smut with no plot that was skimming it towards the end because I was getting sick of it and it was boring me. As always with Ana’s books, the third act conflict just wasn’t needed, but we knew Asher was going to break his promise and then he wondered why she ended. Like he was so boring and stupid. Scarlett then had a revelation that she was pissed and broke up with Asher for being reckless, but she was doing the same thing and then poof Asher shows up to show that he’s not going to be reckless anymore and happy ever after, and the brother approves. Not that the brother’s approval should stop them.

This book could have been soooooo much more. With Scarlett’s chronic pain and Asher’s trauma from losing his best friend which again gets resolved within the last ten chapters. It felt like Ana had watched one premier league, thought it would be good to write a book about it, listened to English Love Affair and Ghost of You and try to mix Ted Lasso with the Game Plan and it just didn’t work. I’m low key pissed as well because I was rooting for this so much again, should have been my cup of tea – romance books, premier league romance, British humour and none of it was there. I need an author to re-do this concept and for me to not actually hate it because I can’t believe this is the book that we’ve got to represent to EPL and if you think this is going to get girlies to watch the footie like Lauren Asher’s dirty air series did with Formula 1, it isn’t going to happen.

I’m actually half tempted to cancel my pre-order of The Defender, because I don’t know how it could get better or worse than this.

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Spellbound In The Stacks by K. Iwancio

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funny hopeful lighthearted fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I bought one this book during the one of the Stuff Your Kindle Days last year. I loved the witchy vibes of the cover and the blurb and had high hopes for this. I just wanted it to be longer.

This book has two points of view. The first is Faelene Carey and she owns Ink & Parchment, a bookstore in the small New England town of Thistleton. Not only is she a successful businesswoman, but she’s also secretly a witch who can transform into a cat. It's not that she minds it, there’s just one problem. She must find true love before the 13th year after her first transformation or else be cursed to spend the rest of her life as a cat. So now she is subjecting herself to the hell of dating apps and blind dates, Faelene is stuck in a hopeless tailspin toward tongue baths and a diet of mice. The second point of view is Aidan Kennedy, and he is a firefighter in the small town, and he stops by Faelene’s bookstore like clockwork. Faelene’s had a crush on him since the first time he walked through her door. He is polite and gorgeous but incredibly stoic. Try as she might, Faelene can’t seem to break through Aidan’s tough exterior. However, Aidan is holding his own secrets. It isn’t until rescues Faelene in cat form from a tree, that she begins to understand what makes him tick. With the covertly discovered information of Aidan’s mutual crush, she hatches a daring scheme involving both her human and cat forms to get him to open up. With Aidan’s secrets unlocked can Faelene make a move in time to see if he’s her true love? Or will she be doomed to be a cat forever?

I think the storyline was strong and I enjoyed the small-town vibes and witchy, Halloween vibes and that comes from someone who really hates Halloween. I love that this book was about embracing your hobbies and embracing your weirdness and how Aidan went from being this quiet nerd to embracing his nerd. Obviously Faelene is living all our dreams of owning a bookshop in a small town and I love that everyone was low key afraid of her because of this badass attitude she had, and I loved that she was using her magic to embarrass the firefighters that Aidan in front of her and in front of everyone. I love Faelene’s best friends, and I wanted to see more of them throughout the book and I just adore them.

I feel like the love was rushed and very insta-love vibes and I just hate insta-love. I would have loved for a slow-burn, I understand that it was describes that these two had been pining over each other for years, but I would have loved like a flashback to all the recs Faelene gave Aidan and when they first met. I would have loved just a couple of chapters before we got right into it from the slow burn, but it was a case of Faelene’s been on another bad date, next day Aidan walks in, they bump into each other, and they are both just can’t communicate. I didn’t like that the conflict and resolution was all in one long chapter, I would have liked for Aidan to have found out about her being a witch earlier and then freaking out and then both being worried whether she was going to turn into a cat forever. I ended up skimming over the smut because it went from a little bit of smut to being like teenagers who can’t keep their hands of each other so towards the end I was just getting bored of it.

I loved the fall and witchy vibes, and I would have loved more plot and more backstory and maybe less smut in the next book in the series.

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Poster Girl by Veronica Roth

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dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I wanted to read this book because I wanted to read more of authors I enjoyed. I adored the Divergent series so much so that I’ve got the Ferris wheel with Tris and Four climbing it tattooed on my leg, I’ve not really enjoyed her other work, but saw this book was being released and wanted to give her another shot and unfortunately it was missing something.

This book is based on Sonya Kantor, and she knows the slogan what’s right is right, she lived by it for most of her life. For decades, everyone in the Seattle-Portland megalopolis lived under it, as well as constant surveillance in the form of the Insight, an ocular implant that tracked every word and every action, rewarding or punishing by a rigid moral code set forth by the Delegation. Then there was a revolution. The Delegation fell. Its most valuable members were locked in the Aperture, a prison on the outskirts of the city. And everyone else, now free from the Insight’s monitoring, went on with their lives. Sonya was the former poster girl for the Delegation, has been imprisoned for ten years when an old enemy comes to her with a deal: find a missing girl who was stolen from her parents by the old regime, and earn her freedom. The path Sonya takes to find the child with lead her through an unfamiliar, crooked post-Delegation world where she finds herself digging deeper into the past and her family’s dark secrets than she ever wanted to.

I liked the world building and obviously this was released during COVID, and it would have been hard-hitting when we were in the midst of lockdown. I liked Sonya’s character development and how even though she felt guilty for what happened to Grace, she wanted her parents to have the truth. She could have easily covered it up and just said she was taken, and she’s died but she also told her parents that she was the one who reported Grace for being a second child. I liked the mystery aspect of the book and that’s what kept me reading, I wanted to know what happened to Grace and who killed Knox and who was after Sonya. I'm glad that there was little romance throughout the book as well because I feel like sometimes a lot of dystopian books are like the government is tracking them and trying to kill them, but they love each other so the world is good. There was a romantic connection, but it wasn’t the focus point of the book.

I would have loved for this to have a bit more depth and history like a couple of chapters where it was before the revelation, how did it come to this point? Why did Sonya’s dad go bad? Was it for money? Power? Did her mum and sister know? I wanted more to do with the government and her dad. I wanted more history with Sonya and the brothers? Something was missing and I wanted more unlike Divergent, Veronica Roth manages to build the world and the history, and you know everyone and everything before the action happens.

Overall, this book is enjoyable, but it was just missing something, and I was wanting more.

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The Mime Order by Samantha Shannon

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adventurous dark mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

I wanted to carry on with this series because I enjoyed the first book in the series and wanted to see what was going to happen to Paige and the gang after they escape from Oxford. However, this book had a lot of information dumping and I was just getting bored.

This book is based on Paige Mahoney, and she has escaped the brutal prison camp of Sheol I, but her problems have only just begun: many of the survivors are missing and she is now the most wanted person in London. As Scion turns its all-seeing eye on the dreamwalker, the mime-lords and mine-queens of the city’s gangs are invited to a rare meeting of the Unnatural Assembly. Jaxon Hall and his Seven Seals prepare to take centre stage, but there are bitter fault lines running through the clairvoyant community and dark secrets around every corner. Then the Rephaim begin crawling out from the shadows. But where is Warden? Paige must keep moving, from Seven Dials to Grub Street to the secret catacombs of Camden, until the fate of the underworld can be decided.

I felt like this was the first book in the series rather than the second book in the series. We were back at square one, I was very lost and confused for most of the book. I was expecting this to be about Warden and Julian and Paige and the survivors. It was a complete information overload and my head was hurting. I missed The Warden, and it shouldn’t have taken thirteen chapters to see him again. Another issue I have with the book and with Samantha Shannon’s writing is very big reveal or twist is very anti-climactic, I was just waiting for the reaction to be Holy Mother of Mary, and it just didn’t happen, it was just sort of crept in and then we moved on. Plus, I would have loved for this to be dual POV or even multiple POV with Warden and Jaxon having their own chapters, especially towards the start of the rebellion.

Paige saved this book from being 2 stars. Her character development was the only thing that was keeping me sane. I loved that she was like yeah I've changed, I'll play all my cards right but I'm going to save everyone if I can because everyone should be trying to help anyone in need. I’m so glad she won that fight with Jaxon but I'm assuming he isn’t going to leave quietly. The ending got me back into it and wanting to know what the hell was going to happen. I’m assuming the Rag King is Jaxon, that’s my prediction before I carry on with the next book in the series.

Overall, I was disappointed in this book and hoping that it’s the odd one out in the series and I enjoy the other books in the series.

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House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

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adventurous dark emotional mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.0

I wanted to read this book because I enjoyed the Throne of Glass series and ACOTAR and wanted more. The size of this book scared me mainly because it was a new series, and Sarah usually likes you to get settled before throwing at 700-900 pages book like in ACOTAR and Throne of Glass and this was the first book in the series and over 700 pages. However, I thoroughly enjoyed this book.

This book is based on Bryce Quinlan, and she loves her life. Every night is a party, and Bryce is going to savour all the pleasures Lunathion – also known as Crescent City – has to offer. But when a brutal murder shakes the very foundations of the city, Bryce’s world comes crashing down. Two years later, Bryce still haunts the city’s most notorious nightclubs – but seeking only oblivion now. Then the murderer attacks again. And when an infamous Fallen angel, Hunt Athalar, is assigned to watch her every footstep, Bryce knows she can’t forget any longer. As Bryce and Hunt fight to unravel the mystery and their own dark pasts, the threads they tug ripple through the underbelly of the city, across warring continents and down to the deepest levels of Hel, where things that have been sleeping for millennia are beginning to stir.

I love Bryce – she has now joined the group of kick-ass women who could hit me, and I would say thank you. I think she is so amazing and strong, and I just wanted to hug her throughout the whole book. I enjoyed reading the book from multiple POV, I feel like it makes the book so much better. I loved seeing Bryce comes from a broken person who was ready to give up on life to a strong powerful woman who is not afraid to kick ass. My favourite chapter was when Bryce figured out who the murderer was and how to get the answer out of him. The book left you with enough drama that it didn’t feel rushed but also left you wanting you more.

This book seemed to have more adult themes than her previous book and yet some of these people were acting like children – Amelie, I'm looking at you. I hate the fact that they also killed one of the major side chapters like don’t do that, I wanted them to be together. Kill someone who would have a bit of impact but not those characters. I was shook. I also felt like Bryce’s dad got off the hooked way too much. I am hoping that Bryce is going to kick his ass in the next book.

I am wondering what the hell is going to happen now and how the hell she has wrote two more books that are over 700 pages.

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