brittmariasbooks's reviews
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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!

This book is a generational story but you follow Ailey a lot. As a read, I really grew to care for her specifically. But also her sister Lydia and her mother Belle.

I cried when Lydia passed away.

The writing is beautiful.