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Icebreaker by Hannah Grace
4.5
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body shaming, Eating disorder, Emotional abuse, Gaslighting, and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Bullying, Panic attacks/disorders, Sexual content, Abandonment, and Alcohol
Something Wilder by Christina Lauren
3.0
This is my first book by Christina Lauren, I’m hoping this is not like most of their books. Overall it’s fine but something’s could hav been done differently maybe? I really didn’t like the terry storyline and how it wrapped up. It felt out of character for multiple people. I am glad there was not really any third act breakup, that would have really pushed this lower.
The Princess Bride by William Goldman
3.0
I don’t say this lightly: the movie was better.
The heart of the story is there, Buttercup and Westley, Inigo and Fizzik. Yes there is more details and back story and things left out of the movie like Buttercups nightmares and the Zoo of Death but also I don’t think you’ll miss them. What is not in this book is a grandfather reading to his sick grandson, the movie took a smaller part of the book and made it better. The book also has a lot of unnecessary commentary from the author about not really loving his wife anymore or disliking his son because he is fat.
The movie was better and will always stand up on its own.
The heart of the story is there, Buttercup and Westley, Inigo and Fizzik. Yes there is more details and back story and things left out of the movie like Buttercups nightmares and the Zoo of Death but also I don’t think you’ll miss them. What is not in this book is a grandfather reading to his sick grandson, the movie took a smaller part of the book and made it better. The book also has a lot of unnecessary commentary from the author about not really loving his wife anymore or disliking his son because he is fat.
The movie was better and will always stand up on its own.
Witcha Gonna Do? by Avery Flynn
Did not finish book.
Did not finish book.
This is written first person POV. Typically a POV doesn’t put me off be this book literally starts with “ Hi *waves* that’s me.”
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride by Roshani Chokshi
the two young girls mention only eating pure foods and not eating lunch but only snacks like an apple for lunch. They compare bodies in a few scenes.
Azure has a step father who lusts over her more than her mother(his wife) and it is heavily implied that he imagines Azure while having sex with her mother because he can’t have her. There is also a scene where she is drugged, unconscious, naked on their bed and he is touching himself watching her while her friend takes a photo of him. Her mother is jealous of her daughter and leaves her while she is 18 but not yet graduated to be with him so the daughter can’t “tempt” him.
The husband was abused as a child and his brother died but he was told he never had a brother, the mother removed photos and they gaslight him into believing he made up his brother to the point that he thinks he is the only one who remembers him so surly he must be in fairy. He is able to remember what happened to his brother but it is not explored as much as I would have liked, it was very much a side-side plot.
In the end it is revealed that indigo has been azure since graduation, indigo died technically by an accident but she was plotting their suicides for years. Azure then is able to take indigos identity until her husband reveals the truth and stays with her to learn her story. Hence “indigo” being the flower bride until he is able to really learn who azure is.
5.0
This book is not what I was expecting by the pitch I’ve always been told. The marriage is not hinging on stories told by the wife and what he learns from her stories, she doesn’t tell her own story until the last chapter so why use that in marketing?
This book is about female friendship, the indescribable love of childhood friendship and the darker side of knowing someone so truly that you know every way to hurt them the most.
This book is about female friendship, the indescribable love of childhood friendship and the darker side of knowing someone so truly that you know every way to hurt them the most.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Emotional abuse and Toxic friendship
Moderate: Adult/minor relationship, Body shaming, Bullying, Child abuse, Child death, Eating disorder, Pedophilia, Self harm, Suicide, Gaslighting, Dysphoria, and Classism
Enchanted to Meet You by Meg Cabot
3.0
The romance was okay, the plot around saving the town was disappointing. There was a lot of build up and no real action, they wrapped it up in a page or two after building up to this battle?