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bloomsbookshelf's Reviews (62)
adventurous
dark
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
N/A
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
Very cute book that kept me engaged and entertained the whole way through. I struggled a little with the last few chapters as it started to drag a little bit for me. But all in all it was a really good book with great characters and it made me laugh out loud a lot
Content Warnings
Minor: Death, Infidelity
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
adventurous
challenging
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
First time reading anything by Stephen King! I’ve heard that some of his works can be very dark, so I thought I’d just dip my toe into his work by starting off with Finn (as it’s short and from the reviews, not too gory).
I actually quite liked Finn, I thought that it was well written (obviously) and it really got you engaged into the story straight away by describing all of the MC’s horrible past experiences.
There was a scene where ⚠️ minor spoiler ⚠️ the MC got waterboarded and I genuinely had to gasp a little to get air into my lungs as it was described so well.
The ending had me emotionally invested too, which I would say is pretty hard to do for such a short book!
All in all quite liked it! Only gave it 3 stars as there’s not too much to the story and it wasn’t the most memorable read, while still good to dip my toe into Kings works and see if I like them 😅
I actually quite liked Finn, I thought that it was well written (obviously) and it really got you engaged into the story straight away by describing all of the MC’s horrible past experiences.
There was a scene where ⚠️ minor spoiler ⚠️ the MC got waterboarded and I genuinely had to gasp a little to get air into my lungs as it was described so well.
The ending had me emotionally invested too, which I would say is pretty hard to do for such a short book!
All in all quite liked it! Only gave it 3 stars as there’s not too much to the story and it wasn’t the most memorable read, while still good to dip my toe into Kings works and see if I like them 😅
Content Warnings
Graphic: Torture, Kidnapping
adventurous
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
lighthearted
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
4.5 Stars! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨
When I picked up this book I was ready for disappointment, with it being SO hyped up and all. And often with books like that, you just know that they’ll never live up to the hype everyone’s given it. But The Love Hypothesis was honestly one of the best books I’ve read this year! It was engaging, it was written beautifully, it was so so witty and funny, and it also just had me HOOKED. Like I could not put this book down and I was down right ANNOYED that I had to go to work (because it interfered with me finishing it earlier 😂).
I loved the characters, the relationships didn’t feel forced, and I genuinely was super surprised at how EVERYTHING was tied up by the end of the book. Often when I’m finishing up a book, I’m always left wondering, “what significance did that sentence, or object, or scene have?” But not with this book, it tied everything together and added a pretty bow on top.
I loved how self aware it was, and the funny little reference to Star Wars had me laughing out loud where Holden was doing the Imperial March Theme, and the abundance of knowledge about science and women in STEM (even though I’m a high school drop out that knows next to nothing, I found it all super engaging).
All in all I am IN LOVE with this book, and can’t wait to read more of Ali’s works!!
When I picked up this book I was ready for disappointment, with it being SO hyped up and all. And often with books like that, you just know that they’ll never live up to the hype everyone’s given it. But The Love Hypothesis was honestly one of the best books I’ve read this year! It was engaging, it was written beautifully, it was so so witty and funny, and it also just had me HOOKED. Like I could not put this book down and I was down right ANNOYED that I had to go to work (because it interfered with me finishing it earlier 😂).
I loved the characters, the relationships didn’t feel forced, and I genuinely was super surprised at how EVERYTHING was tied up by the end of the book. Often when I’m finishing up a book, I’m always left wondering, “what significance did that sentence, or object, or scene have?” But not with this book, it tied everything together and added a pretty bow on top.
I loved how self aware it was, and the funny little reference to Star Wars had me laughing out loud where Holden was doing the Imperial March Theme, and the abundance of knowledge about science and women in STEM (even though I’m a high school drop out that knows next to nothing, I found it all super engaging).
All in all I am IN LOVE with this book, and can’t wait to read more of Ali’s works!!
Content Warnings
Moderate: Sexual harassment
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
N/A
Flaws of characters a main focus:
N/A
⚠️ SPOILERS ⚠️
Listen, don’t judge me… the cover got me excited and the fact there is 7-8 books in this series… 😂
I really thought it would be a fun, trashy, smutty book series for me to cross off a bunch of books on my Goodreads reading goal for 2022.
But I just can not continue this series…
There was no flow to the story, it was super choppy, in the first 50 pages I think 70 different things happened and I was on a roller coaster ride of emotions that I just couldn’t get off of. Kinda like watching a car crash and burn and then a random dude comes to pee on it to help but just, you know, makes it an even worse scene to try and tear your eyes away from.
The 2 vampire guys who came to save the MC were weird and had noooo personality. The MC wanting to sleep with them instantly just gave me the ick. The scenes were so choppy I had to go back and read again because I just genuinely didn’t understand what was happening.
Then the thing about them turning into a cat and a troll?
Then she died but didn’t die in the first 5 chapters?
And the parents thing was just weird and so left field.
Plus the “villain” was not established as a villain, he was just killed off?
Also, the smut wasn’t good. Like, at all… I genuinely just blanked out the whole time whenever they were having sex. It was weird? Where was the tension? Where was the emotion or connection?
I dunno, it was a 200 page book that was trying to do SOOOOOOO much, it just ended up being super confusing…
If anyone likes this book I’m sorry I’m trashing on it, but I just genuinely was laughing from confusion the whole time 🥲😭😂🥴
Listen, don’t judge me… the cover got me excited and the fact there is 7-8 books in this series… 😂
I really thought it would be a fun, trashy, smutty book series for me to cross off a bunch of books on my Goodreads reading goal for 2022.
But I just can not continue this series…
There was no flow to the story, it was super choppy, in the first 50 pages I think 70 different things happened and I was on a roller coaster ride of emotions that I just couldn’t get off of. Kinda like watching a car crash and burn and then a random dude comes to pee on it to help but just, you know, makes it an even worse scene to try and tear your eyes away from.
The 2 vampire guys who came to save the MC were weird and had noooo personality. The MC wanting to sleep with them instantly just gave me the ick. The scenes were so choppy I had to go back and read again because I just genuinely didn’t understand what was happening.
Then the thing about them turning into a cat and a troll?
Then she died but didn’t die in the first 5 chapters?
And the parents thing was just weird and so left field.
Plus the “villain” was not established as a villain, he was just killed off?
Also, the smut wasn’t good. Like, at all… I genuinely just blanked out the whole time whenever they were having sex. It was weird? Where was the tension? Where was the emotion or connection?
I dunno, it was a 200 page book that was trying to do SOOOOOOO much, it just ended up being super confusing…
If anyone likes this book I’m sorry I’m trashing on it, but I just genuinely was laughing from confusion the whole time 🥲😭😂🥴
adventurous
challenging
emotional
hopeful
reflective
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
This whole review is a ⚠️ SPOILER ⚠️ just FYI xx
This took me OVER A YEAR to finish 😂
But here’s my year long review of ACOSF.
Now firstly I want to say that I had to switch from actually reading the physical book to an Audiobook to finish it, so take from that what you will.
When I started the series and ACOSF, I absolutely HATING Nesta. I thought she was a brat and entitled and I hated pretty much everything about her. If she’s died I wouldn’t of cried or been upset at all. And I couldn’t wrap my mind around how Cassian liked her at all because she was horrific, and he was, and still is, one of my favourite characters.
And everyone was telling me, “oh but she gets better, you’ll understand if you just keep pushing through because she has trauma”………
It literally made me want to scream in peoples faces when they told me that... Because if a person has trauma, it doesn’t give them the right to be an asshole to people, and especially your loved ones who are trying to help you and have all gone through the same or different types of trauma. Now that’s not to say I’m comparing traumas ect. I just think everyone should have comparison to everyone and Nesta never seemed too in the other books which irked me to no end, (I still stand by this btw).
BUT IN SAYING ALL OF THAT.
I now understand and feel for Nesta a little bit more and I do relate to her in a lot of ways now that I’m finished the book. And I’m glad I gave her a chance.
A lot of the things she did still annoyed me. But I find that I relate to her and actually started to feel bad for her. But then she’d go and do some dumb ass shit and I’d be back to screaming at my book saying, “WHY CANT YOU JUST BE A NICE PERSON?!”
But Nesta herself was saying things like that. Telling herself how shitty she was being and being mad at herself for doing or saying those things. Which I genuinely really appreciated.
Now more onto the book itself. (I’ll do dot points because there’s just too many thoughts).
- Nesta’s character development was awesome. Still a ways to go, but getting there
- Elain standing up for herself was the highlight of the book for me (“you only think about what my trauma did to YOU” you go girlfriend! Tell Nesta off)
- Cassian is awesome. I love him. He’s so funny 😂 And Az is still my favourite
- Gwyn and Emerie are *chefs kiss* perfect
- Feyre and Rhys should of been in the book more
- Everyone said that now hate Rhys, but I disagree…Rhy was always wary of Nesta and vis versa, of course his not gonna be warm to Nesta? But also in saying that there was a lot of times Rhys was nice in this book that people seem to just overlook…
- Nesta having friends is awesome and made me happy for her
- The storyline in general was SOOOOOO SLOW. I didn’t care about what was happening in all honesty.
And yeah. That’s all my thoughts. If not most of them 😂
This took me OVER A YEAR to finish 😂
But here’s my year long review of ACOSF.
Now firstly I want to say that I had to switch from actually reading the physical book to an Audiobook to finish it, so take from that what you will.
When I started the series and ACOSF, I absolutely HATING Nesta. I thought she was a brat and entitled and I hated pretty much everything about her. If she’s died I wouldn’t of cried or been upset at all. And I couldn’t wrap my mind around how Cassian liked her at all because she was horrific, and he was, and still is, one of my favourite characters.
And everyone was telling me, “oh but she gets better, you’ll understand if you just keep pushing through because she has trauma”………
It literally made me want to scream in peoples faces when they told me that... Because if a person has trauma, it doesn’t give them the right to be an asshole to people, and especially your loved ones who are trying to help you and have all gone through the same or different types of trauma. Now that’s not to say I’m comparing traumas ect. I just think everyone should have comparison to everyone and Nesta never seemed too in the other books which irked me to no end, (I still stand by this btw).
BUT IN SAYING ALL OF THAT.
I now understand and feel for Nesta a little bit more and I do relate to her in a lot of ways now that I’m finished the book. And I’m glad I gave her a chance.
A lot of the things she did still annoyed me. But I find that I relate to her and actually started to feel bad for her. But then she’d go and do some dumb ass shit and I’d be back to screaming at my book saying, “WHY CANT YOU JUST BE A NICE PERSON?!”
But Nesta herself was saying things like that. Telling herself how shitty she was being and being mad at herself for doing or saying those things. Which I genuinely really appreciated.
Now more onto the book itself. (I’ll do dot points because there’s just too many thoughts).
- Nesta’s character development was awesome. Still a ways to go, but getting there
- Elain standing up for herself was the highlight of the book for me (“you only think about what my trauma did to YOU” you go girlfriend! Tell Nesta off)
- Cassian is awesome. I love him. He’s so funny 😂 And Az is still my favourite
- Gwyn and Emerie are *chefs kiss* perfect
- Feyre and Rhys should of been in the book more
- Everyone said that now hate Rhys, but I disagree…Rhy was always wary of Nesta and vis versa, of course his not gonna be warm to Nesta? But also in saying that there was a lot of times Rhys was nice in this book that people seem to just overlook…
- Nesta having friends is awesome and made me happy for her
- The storyline in general was SOOOOOO SLOW. I didn’t care about what was happening in all honesty.
And yeah. That’s all my thoughts. If not most of them 😂
Content Warnings
Moderate: Domestic abuse, Physical abuse, Rape, Sexual assault, Sexual harassment