brittmariasbooks's reviews
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Wat een prachtig boek over het Nederlandse jeugdzorgstelsel. Ik vloog er door en liet hier een traan, daar een lach. Het boek zit steengoed in elkaar. De personages voelen echt. Je voelt de aandacht en toewijding die Carlie van Tongeren er in heeft gestoken. Echt een aanrader!

Thank you to NetGalley and  Little, Brown Book Group UK | Piatkus for giving me an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

I have loved Emma Lord's books since Tweet Cute came out. So I was super happy that I got approved for the e-ARC for The Break-Up Pact. TBUP is Lord's first adult contemporary romance. Two best friends who haven't talked properly for 10 years are back in town. They both had exceptionally viral break-ups,  so the public is also interested in them. As the title probably gives away, June and Levi start a break-up pact, aka fake dating ❤. Along the way, June tries to keep open Tea Tide, the tea and scone café her late sister started, and Levi tries to finish his sad boy in New York manuscript. This novel has everything from celebrity intrigue, mean exes, grief and life next to the beach. 

I really enjoyed the book although the pacing felt a little slow. I enjoyed seeing June and Levi getting closer again and how deeply rooted their friendship is. 

If you like spicy romance books, this one might not be for you. But it is adorably cute!

I also liked that the misunderstanding happened 10 years ago and this is how they resolved it.

Highly recommend if you want a cute, summery read!

This one was very cute. I really love this series and cannot for the next one to come out :)

This is the Tayvis book if you have ever wanted to read one. The easter eggs are a plenty. And I thought it was really fun. I really enjoyed it and I cannot wait to start the next one! 

I think I have a new favorite smutty author.

What more can you ask for?

Also really good content warnings!

The narrators are also really good!

Thank you Netgalley and Boldwood Books for providing me with an e-ARC of Look What You Made Me Do.

The title and the cover - with an American football player with number 87 - drew my attention because LWYMMD is a song from Taylor Swift and 87 is Travis Kelce's football number. There were some Taylor Swift references and I wonder if the author edited these in since this book originally published in 2013 (Holding Out For A Hero). The easter eggs are fun but less than I thought when I requested the ARC on Netgalley.

LWYMMD is a spicy sports romance with a math teacher turned principal and a retired American football player. In order to keep the school from closing Ella sets up a football team in the hope this will keep her school open. Ella is able to get her old friend/one night stand/retired professional American football player Jake to coach the new team. 

I liked the tension between the two. However, I did not really swoon for Jake unfortunately. I did like Ella and the backstory with her mother and her brother.

Thank you to Netgalley and Andrews McMeel Publishing for providing me with an e-ARC in exchange for an honest review.

Hope It All Works Out! is a collection of short comics surrounding Mouse, Turtle, Bird and Snail who have mostly sarcastic humorous conversations. 

I expected a more wholesome comic than sarcastic. However, I still snickered along. See my favourites below.

My favourites:

This answer on how is it going didn't have to attack so hard 

The art is really cute but I would have liked more of a story element in this picture book.

This book shows that what is happening now in Gaza, and more recently the West Bank, is not happening in a vacuum. When it comes to Palestine the world just looks away and that needs to stop.

Aaah I love these books so much!! Thank you Netgalley and Little, Brown Book Group UK for providing me with the eARC. I adored the book.

Map of Otherlands is the second book where we follow faerie scholar Emily Wilde. Go read the first book if you haven't already!

In the second book we continue the search for Wendell's realm. This brings them to Austria. 

I love Emily and Wendell so much! The new charactes Ariadne and Rose were also great. I like the aunt-niece dynamic between Ariadne and Emily.

I also really enjoyed the mystery surrounding De Grey and the ribbon man.

I love the footnotes. They're just like little presents of world building.

And I just cannot wait for the third and final book!

If you love whimsical books with the Fae, a slow burn romance, and some scholarly words, these books are definitely something you need to pick up!