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Caraval by Stephanie Garber
3.5
didn’t surprise me the way i expected it to. i love julian & scarlett + scarlett & tella’s sisterhood tho <3
ALSO WHY DIDNT HE CALL HER CRIMSON AT THE END. WHY.
ALSO WHY DIDNT HE CALL HER CRIMSON AT THE END. WHY.
I Hope This Doesn’t Find You by Ann Liang
4.5
started this last sunday but i kept telling myself that im in the mood for fantasy lol im so glad i sticked with this bc I LOVED THIS SO MUCH. love me a wonderful & feel-good ya romcom !!! this was such a cutesy & delightful read! sadie’s people pleasing tendencies were so relatable helpfhfgh i feel like i saw bits of my high school self in her. i wanted to hug her so many times bc she’s so young but it’s like she’s carrying the world behind her back. AND JULIUS GONG. he has my heart <3 their chemistry & tension? PERFECTION. i need other authors to take notes from sadiejulius bc this is rivals to lovers done right. the banter, the buildup & the confession are EVERYTHING 😭🤍
ps. my only complaint was that i wanted to see more of them together post-confession ;( miss ann liang i am humbly asking u to pls give us a sequel 🤲
ps. my only complaint was that i wanted to see more of them together post-confession ;( miss ann liang i am humbly asking u to pls give us a sequel 🤲
Ruthless Vows by Rebecca Ross
3.5
as someone who absolutely loved DR & kittwinnow, i feel really disappointed with how this sequel turned out :( i wish i loved it just as much as i love DR but it just really fell flat for me :( i disliked how the focus was shifted from the characters to the war between gods plot (which was v weak imo), and it feels like it has lost all the magic that made me love the first book. i still love the writing; rebecca ross's words will always be dear to me. but i really feel like the enchantment and the connection and the wonder of divine rivals have been taken away from me... i feel absolutely disheartened while writing this review tbh T__T
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas
5.0
"to the people who look at the stars and wish, rhys."
"to the stars who listen — and the dreams that are answered."
let me preface this by saying that i didn't like the first book. BUT ACOMAF. OH MY GOD. I LOVED THIS SO SOOO MUCH. i don’t even know where to start AAAAAAAAAA
i loved it so much to the point that i couldn’t even function like a normal human being while reading it 😭 it’s like i just refuse to go back to my real life & i just want to stay in their world. and when i tell you i couldn’t function, i really couldn’t. i barely touched my thesis for a whole week bc i just wanted to read & while im on my internship i couldn’t focus & i kept hoping that they won’t give us anything to do so i could read secretly ijbol AHDJFJHFGH so i knew i had to finish it fast before it makes even more damage to my life. it’s just that good & all-consuming what the fawk T___T
FEYSAND 😭 their love was so so beautiful that i even want to scream & cry just by thinking abt their story. two broken souls who have suffered so much bc of the cruelty of the world — healing each other & healing together. i have consumed so many pieces of media that involved this story line, but this was one of the few that consumed & devoured me. feyre & rhysand — they were a perfect match. they are the definition of the invisible string theory. the fact that rhys could see feyre in his dreams, and he was the one who sent the image of the night sky that feyre painted in her drawer ?!! it made me want to bawl during the cave scene when feyre told rhys abt her drawer and when rhys realized that she received the image of joy that he sent 🥹 i love how their story progressed so naturally, so beautifully. the events leading to chapters 54-55 were CHEFS KISS. from the throne room, starfall, feysand in the illyrian steppes, one bed trope at the inn, rhysand’s ambush, feyre’s encounter with the suriel... AMAZING. those chapters made me stay up until my eyes were giving up on me & my father saw me still wide awake at 5 freaking am 😭
this story is about love. other than the love portrayed between feysand, i also like how majority of the book focused on feyre’s healing and self-love. it was a delight seeing her learn how to fight for herself, grow bigger than the pain she experienced, and freely make a choice for her self-discovery & growth. i think this played a crucial role in allowing herself to feel that real & genuine love rhysand & the inner circle has for her. i love found family so so much 😭🤍 from feyre feeling hesitant to meet them at the beginning of the book to her sacrificing and protecting them at the end 🥹 i love how she finally found her people. people she’s willing to sacrifice for & protect — people who would do the same thing for her. people who appreciates her love & embraces her for who she is.
this story is for the dreamers, for those who dream of love and light and peace. for those who have been swallowed by the darkness for too long, but still crave & fight for the genuine desires of their hearts. for those who know how hard it is to fight for those dreams, but powers through despite it all. for the people who look at the stars and wish 🤍🌠
i feel like i left my heart in velaris, and there’s this hollow feeling inside my chest that tells me that it’s always going to be there. it’s been days since i finished it but i still think about it all the time. how this book made me feel. and i think it’s going to take a long time before i find another story that would make me feel the same way this book did. if there ever will be, actually. ily feyre & rhysand & the inner circle, u will always have my heart. i hope there will always be stars who will listen to your dreams & answer them. and i hope that there will be stars who will listen & answer to mine as well.
"to the stars who listen — and the dreams that are answered."
let me preface this by saying that i didn't like the first book. BUT ACOMAF. OH MY GOD. I LOVED THIS SO SOOO MUCH. i don’t even know where to start AAAAAAAAAA
i loved it so much to the point that i couldn’t even function like a normal human being while reading it 😭 it’s like i just refuse to go back to my real life & i just want to stay in their world. and when i tell you i couldn’t function, i really couldn’t. i barely touched my thesis for a whole week bc i just wanted to read & while im on my internship i couldn’t focus & i kept hoping that they won’t give us anything to do so i could read secretly ijbol AHDJFJHFGH so i knew i had to finish it fast before it makes even more damage to my life. it’s just that good & all-consuming what the fawk T___T
FEYSAND 😭 their love was so so beautiful that i even want to scream & cry just by thinking abt their story. two broken souls who have suffered so much bc of the cruelty of the world — healing each other & healing together. i have consumed so many pieces of media that involved this story line, but this was one of the few that consumed & devoured me. feyre & rhysand — they were a perfect match. they are the definition of the invisible string theory. the fact that rhys could see feyre in his dreams, and he was the one who sent the image of the night sky that feyre painted in her drawer ?!! it made me want to bawl during the cave scene when feyre told rhys abt her drawer and when rhys realized that she received the image of joy that he sent 🥹 i love how their story progressed so naturally, so beautifully. the events leading to chapters 54-55 were CHEFS KISS. from the throne room, starfall, feysand in the illyrian steppes, one bed trope at the inn, rhysand’s ambush, feyre’s encounter with the suriel... AMAZING. those chapters made me stay up until my eyes were giving up on me & my father saw me still wide awake at 5 freaking am 😭
this story is about love. other than the love portrayed between feysand, i also like how majority of the book focused on feyre’s healing and self-love. it was a delight seeing her learn how to fight for herself, grow bigger than the pain she experienced, and freely make a choice for her self-discovery & growth. i think this played a crucial role in allowing herself to feel that real & genuine love rhysand & the inner circle has for her. i love found family so so much 😭🤍 from feyre feeling hesitant to meet them at the beginning of the book to her sacrificing and protecting them at the end 🥹 i love how she finally found her people. people she’s willing to sacrifice for & protect — people who would do the same thing for her. people who appreciates her love & embraces her for who she is.
this story is for the dreamers, for those who dream of love and light and peace. for those who have been swallowed by the darkness for too long, but still crave & fight for the genuine desires of their hearts. for those who know how hard it is to fight for those dreams, but powers through despite it all. for the people who look at the stars and wish 🤍🌠
i feel like i left my heart in velaris, and there’s this hollow feeling inside my chest that tells me that it’s always going to be there. it’s been days since i finished it but i still think about it all the time. how this book made me feel. and i think it’s going to take a long time before i find another story that would make me feel the same way this book did. if there ever will be, actually. ily feyre & rhysand & the inner circle, u will always have my heart. i hope there will always be stars who will listen to your dreams & answer them. and i hope that there will be stars who will listen & answer to mine as well.
Just for the Summer by Abby Jimenez
4.75
my god... abby jimenez did it again. the way she writes her characters with so much depth & care amazes me. she has a very deep understanding for and connection with her characters that she’s able to make the writing so meaningful & sincere. emma grant has one of the most well-written character development arcs i’ve seen. all her life, she’s been carrying the burden that is her mother, who consciously made the choice to control & pattern her daughter’s life to her own messed up one. this has instilled great fear in emma – the fear to stay, to take root, to love and be loved. it was so heartbreaking to read her story, how deep the trauma has manifested in her life, and how it shattered her when she found out her mother’s lies. emma’s journey to healing was difficult – it entailed filling in cracks made for 29 years, and letting go of the one person who got in the island of her soul other than maddy, the person who made her feel she deserves to be loved and cared for. justin... the man that u are! his love for emma was full and unwavering. it’s the kind that helped emma filled her cracks, and embraced her when she was feeling small.
this world abby jimenez built was so magical and lovely. i loved reading her little Q&As & author’s notes at the end of each book bc it revealed so much context & details that made me love the books even more. i love how each character in this trilogy found themselves experiencing the magic of wakan. in a way, i felt like i was touched by it too.
this world abby jimenez built was so magical and lovely. i loved reading her little Q&As & author’s notes at the end of each book bc it revealed so much context & details that made me love the books even more. i love how each character in this trilogy found themselves experiencing the magic of wakan. in a way, i felt like i was touched by it too.
Yours Truly by Abby Jimenez
emotional
reflective
5.0
this book took my breath away... i totally get it now. i get why so many people are talking abt this book. thinking about briana & jacob’s love makes me want to smile and scream and bawl my heart out. they were so perfect for each other, not in the way that fictional couples usually are, but their love is perfect AND realistic at the same time. realistic to the point that there were times when i wanted to scream into the void bc of the miscommunication trope. which totally makes sense, no matter how much it frustrated me. someone who has anxiety & who basically has overthinking ingrained into his system. someone who got cheated on & developed a trauma bc of how bad her past relationship was. i was frustrated bc of how the trope lasted for almost half of the book, but i never got pissed bc i understood why it happened. i understood the characters. i was able to connect with them on such a deep deep level. god.. people weren’t lying when they said that the anxiety representation in this book was top notch. it really was. i wanted to enter the book and hug and talk to jacob. HE IS ME. and i can only wish to have someone like briana who is easy to be with & would agree to be harmless to me & understand all my quiets. likewise, i can only wish to have someone like jacob whom i can have a quiet gentle life with, who lets me look into his soul, who never fails to show up. because that’s what love does. it shows up. and no matter how broken they both were, they’d never stop showing up for each other. their story touched my heart so much — it reminded me why i love reading, why i love consuming stories that fill the heart. thank you abby jimenez for this heartwarming masterpiece 🫶
Crooked Kingdom by Leigh Bardugo
5.0
"i would come for you. and if i couldn’t walk, i’d crawl to you, and no matter how broken we were, we’d fight our way out together — knives drawn, pistols blazing. because that’s what we do. we never stop fighting."
thought six of crows was amazing, but this one is even more phenomenal. i love every bit of how the story progressed and how fleshed out the characters are. to say that the characters are written well is an understatement. these characters are real. they are alive. 40 or so chapters divided into 6 povs but leigh bardugo managed to put so much depth into these characters and bring them to life. i felt so connected to them that i find it very difficult to let go of the world this duology created. the crows are surely going to stay with me for a long time.
PS. KANEJ I LOVE YOU.
thought six of crows was amazing, but this one is even more phenomenal. i love every bit of how the story progressed and how fleshed out the characters are. to say that the characters are written well is an understatement. these characters are real. they are alive. 40 or so chapters divided into 6 povs but leigh bardugo managed to put so much depth into these characters and bring them to life. i felt so connected to them that i find it very difficult to let go of the world this duology created. the crows are surely going to stay with me for a long time.
PS. KANEJ I LOVE YOU.