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The Lost Girls by Sonia Hartl
4.0
The Lost Girls is a vampire revenge story that includes a small sprinkling of romance. This story follows Holly, Rose and Ida who were all turned into vampires by who they thought was their true love at the time, Elton. All were wooed, turned into vampires and subsequently dumped by Elton to figure out the life of immortality on their own. It follows the three girls as they plot to kill Elton and their journey to doing so.
I actually really enjoyed this story, I was afraid going into this that it would be hard to read and a bit juvenile but it definitely wasn’t that. When we first met Rose and Ida I found Ida to be rude, arrogant and annoyingly sarcastic but she definitely grew on me.
Then we met Stacey, wow did she really play on the vampire stereotype in movies and books to get through her miserable existence following holly around everywhere. Imagine having to go everywhere your maker went? I’d just ask them to end me instead of having to go through that the rest of my life. Nah uh no thank you.
Parker was adorable. I did not expect what happened in the end with her already making her heirloom. What a badass moment that was when holly killed Elton. Ooo he deserved it too.
I did feel bad for Frankie and do kind of wish in the end they let him join them so he could ditch Gwen (fucking hell what a bitch she was, if I came across her in an alley I’d regret my choices immediately) but I’m glad he was able to cut ties with Elton too. Which I guess wasn’t too difficult seeing as he was dead.
The only criticism is the way Holly would constantly go on about the fact she was a vampire and the phrase ‘I’m dead’ ‘we are dead’. I know. I read the blurb where it mentioned you were a vampire so I was already very clear and the constant reiteration just felt like Edward in Midnight Sun and his favourite line he repeated throughout the book. But other than that I did really enjoy the book.
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I actually really enjoyed this story, I was afraid going into this that it would be hard to read and a bit juvenile but it definitely wasn’t that. When we first met Rose and Ida I found Ida to be rude, arrogant and annoyingly sarcastic but she definitely grew on me.
Then we met Stacey, wow did she really play on the vampire stereotype in movies and books to get through her miserable existence following holly around everywhere. Imagine having to go everywhere your maker went? I’d just ask them to end me instead of having to go through that the rest of my life. Nah uh no thank you.
Parker was adorable. I did not expect what happened in the end with her already making her heirloom. What a badass moment that was when holly killed Elton. Ooo he deserved it too.
I did feel bad for Frankie and do kind of wish in the end they let him join them so he could ditch Gwen (fucking hell what a bitch she was, if I came across her in an alley I’d regret my choices immediately) but I’m glad he was able to cut ties with Elton too. Which I guess wasn’t too difficult seeing as he was dead.
The only criticism is the way Holly would constantly go on about the fact she was a vampire and the phrase ‘I’m dead’ ‘we are dead’. I know. I read the blurb where it mentioned you were a vampire so I was already very clear and the constant reiteration just felt like Edward in Midnight Sun and his favourite line he repeated throughout the book. But other than that I did really enjoy the book.
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The Chocolate Box - a Hercule Poirot Short Story by Agatha Christie
3.0
[Review 10 of 2022]
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Once again I listened to an audiobook for the Poirot series; I love a short story because they are something that I can listen to on the way to university or during work that won’t take up too much time.
The only thing is they normally don’t pack a punch for me; this one was a good story with good characters. The Eason who narrated this got on my nerves but other than that it was okay. Not really a lot to say about this one
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Once again I listened to an audiobook for the Poirot series; I love a short story because they are something that I can listen to on the way to university or during work that won’t take up too much time.
The only thing is they normally don’t pack a punch for me; this one was a good story with good characters. The Eason who narrated this got on my nerves but other than that it was okay. Not really a lot to say about this one
Seven Years by Peter Robinson
4.0
[Review 13 of 2022]
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Another great read of the year. This is about a man who finds a book in a secondhand bookshop that contains a threatening note to a Miss Scott. This is his journey of finding it Miss Scott, with a few twists and turns the way.
Another great read where the plot was written so well that it didn’t seem to bother me of a few issues with the main character. The story was introduced well with little to no essential being missed out even though it was quite a short audiobook I didn’t feel the book was lacking anything.
I kind of saw the ending coming just because I have read so many crime books this ending was a bit predictable. However, I still really enjoyed it
There were a few comments that the main character made that got on my nerves a bit but that it just a personal thing that someone else may not have noticed.
Again overall it was a really good book
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Another great read of the year. This is about a man who finds a book in a secondhand bookshop that contains a threatening note to a Miss Scott. This is his journey of finding it Miss Scott, with a few twists and turns the way.
Another great read where the plot was written so well that it didn’t seem to bother me of a few issues with the main character. The story was introduced well with little to no essential being missed out even though it was quite a short audiobook I didn’t feel the book was lacking anything.
I kind of saw the ending coming just because I have read so many crime books this ending was a bit predictable. However, I still really enjoyed it
There were a few comments that the main character made that got on my nerves a bit but that it just a personal thing that someone else may not have noticed.
Again overall it was a really good book
The Roommate by Rosie Danan
4.0
[Review 16 of 2022]
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I loved this book so much I loved the relationship between the two characters with the development of their relationship.
The introduction of the two characters with the detail that was considered into their back stories was so good and well written
The whole book was well written to be honest but the only thing that brought it down was the constant reference to the family name by the main character. It was cute to begin with but eventually just got so annoying and predictable
Other than that it was a great book
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I loved this book so much I loved the relationship between the two characters with the development of their relationship.
The introduction of the two characters with the detail that was considered into their back stories was so good and well written
The whole book was well written to be honest but the only thing that brought it down was the constant reference to the family name by the main character. It was cute to begin with but eventually just got so annoying and predictable
Other than that it was a great book