Didn’t like the persistent cursing and crude language, so didn’t pick it up. Lauren then told me actually what happened in it and I’m not really interested in reading about someone dating someone, then being caught having sex with their partners dad and then THAT turning into a relationship, bit too much for me

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

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adventurous challenging dark emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

This book was so much better than ACOTAR and I’m so glad, this is what ACOTAR had the potential of being.

I loved this book, everything just seemed to flow so much better. There was lots of action, tension and of course romance (Illyrians have impressive wingspans apparently 👀).

I loved Rhys and Feyre’s relationship. It built really nicely and they are such an adorable couple, I love their banter. In ACOTAR I thought Feyre and Tamlin’s relationship happened very fast, there wasn’t much conversation between them or time spent together before they were apparently in love!

I also got to meet Cassian, Azriel, Mor and Amren for the first time and I love them all to pieces. They’re the perfect wee family. It was nice to finally read about relationships actually forming and character development, which I think ACOTAR was lacking.

Btw Nesta is better than Elain 🤫

I thought though Lucien and Elain being mates was a bit cliche 😬 Cassian and Nesta are 🔥 but Lucien and Elain just seem a bit bland to me 😬

The ending of this book was insane, it was so, so good and my heart was breaking. I’m so excited to read the next book, that was such a cliffhanger! Wow it was so good 😂 but again Sarah stuck so much into such a short space and I think the ending could have been really dragged out, like what happened in ACOTAR. I think that’s my only disappointment from this book.

In conclusion, Tampon’s a prick, Feyre is goals, Feyre and Rhys are the dream couple, I love the Night Court, and Nesta and Cassian are 🔥

The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton

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mysterious slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This is a tricky one to review.

This book took me a while to read, there were many times when I was ready to put it down for good, but wanting to find out what happened kept me reading.

Although the ending was great and saved the book for me, the rest of the book just tired me. It was interesting and the plot idea is excellent, but it seemed very long winded.

There are so many characters that I was constantly confused about who was who. There were Aiden’s hosts and then the other main characters who were vital for the plot, and then more characters who were outside of the plot who needed to bring some normalcy to the book, it was difficult to keep hold of who was who.

Although the plot idea was clever and it was executed well with the amount of intricacy there is, I think it could be have been better. There were many times when I was having to go back because things weren’t matching up, or things were being referenced that shouldn’t have happened yet, for example Aiden knew his name for a while but he suddenly made a big thing out of finding out his name. It just got very confusing and what really would have helped is a list at the back of the bottom with times of events and character days, not the invitations at the front of the book which didn’t help at all.

The writing and plot idea were great and kept me reading, but overall the book was very long winded, confusing and things, like times, didn’t match up throughout the book. Although the ending is nice, there are still unanswered questions.

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

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adventurous challenging dark emotional slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? It's complicated
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

This book was such a let down for me and I really had to push myself through it. Nothing really happened in the first 300 pages and I didn’t even know if there was a plot, which is so disappointing because all the action happened at the end of the book and I loved it.

It’s purely getting 3 stars because the end saved it.

A lot of people have said though that the first book isn’t great but the rest of the series is amazing, so I’m looking forward to reading the next book to see what happens. It’s ended too perfectly though that I don’t see what could actually happen in the next books...but maybe that’s the point!

The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society by Annie Barrows, Mary Ann Shaffer

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adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful informative inspiring lighthearted reflective sad slow-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Plot
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

5.0

“what we call cheek and Americans call can-do spirit”

I wanted to read this book after watching the movie, so snatched this book up when I saw it in a charity shop!

I almost stopped reading when I figured out, after 20 pages, that this book was completely written in just letters (minus one entry near the end - I won’t say what it is to save from spoilers). I didn’t know how I felt about reading this format and thought it would lead, quite frankly, to a crap narrative.

But I’m glad I read on.

This is a really lovely, heartwarming, short read. Yes, at times it was very emotional reading about the things these characters endured during Guernsey’s Occupation in WWII, but this story was actually really funny (in an old-fashioned comedy way) and lighthearted!

I really loved reading all the history (although I don’t know how accurate this is so don’t quote me on anything) and found myself continuing to read to find out more about Guernsey’s Occupation.

Even though I was reading this because I loved the movie so much, there were some big differences between the two. To be honest, it was quite hard in some parts of this book to realise that the story was the same. I loved the movie so much and wanted this to replicate it, but this book is completely different.

The movie, in my opinion, was very focused on the romance element. This book was not and, to be honest, I didn’t expect the relationship to happen (I won’t spoil it for you!). The romance happened right at the end and was rushed into a few pages, it felt like it was just chucked in at the end. I would have actually rather the romance didn’t happen and I got an epilogue about Kit!

I’m giving this book 5 stars because it has left me feeling absolutely lovely and this will definitely be a re-read at some point. I wasn’t that fond of the letter format at the beginning, but got used to it and it wasn’t hard to follow and understand what was happening.

Forgetting about the letter format and the rushed romance, I loved this book and story. It is absolutely beautiful and I want to read more!

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