raenoel 's review for:

Trying To Live With The Dead by B.L. Brunnemer
3.0

2 1/2 ⭐️

Is this truly an almost three star book? No.
Did I need to restart this series for the third time? Also, no.
Is my unhealthy obsession with Miles my driving factor each time I restart these? Yes.
Would I sell my soul to be able to rip him from the pages of these books and into my life? Also yes.

For the actual book review, this one is pretty trash lol. This is much like ACOTAR for me in that the books themselves are 2-3 stars, but the series as a whole is 5. I truly wish I could give each book 5 stars from the pure nostalgic joy alone, but the writing in the first two specifically just don’t deserve that. It does make vast improvements, which I need to remind myself of every time Lexie starts to describe every facial expression and outfit of each character in excruciating detail. And I’m talking from undergarments to outer gloves and scarfs level descriptions. No thread will be left unnoticed if Lexie has anything to do with it. I do have to give some grace to the author though. I’m sure editing resources are never easily accessible for the first book in a series, and I do think everyone should give these a chance.

This technically is a RH (aka, my personal dream