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Long Live Evil by Sarah Rees Brennan

adventurous challenging emotional funny mysterious tense fast-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

5.0

thank you so much to orbit books for allowing me the pleasure of reading the ARC of long live evil! 

where do i even start with this book? two words... wickedly brilliant!

sarah rees brennan writes in such a refreshing and intriguing way & it had me hooked from the moment i started reading. the prose in the beginning of this book is written so chaotically (and i mean that in the best possible way) and brilliantly it really does make you feel as if you have stumbled into a novel as the lead villainess yourself. 

as i delved further into the book i found myself becoming more & more tense at the decisions rae made and often found myself yelling at my kindle -

especially when rae was adamantly denying that anyone around her was real & refused to acknowledge that her actions had very real consequences (we've all been there)

i found myself rooting for all of the villains throughout the book & utterly adored seeing them all come together as vipers.

key is one of my favourite characters to date & i am praying to any sort of god that can hear me (sarah rees brennan i'm looking at you!) that we receive a second book swiftly especially after the ending!! again, more screaming at my kindle was done (and also a lot of giggling and blushing and wishing i was lady rae in that situation) 

i adore this book & every single character in it and i will be reading it again the moment my physical copy arrives! 

thank you sarah for writing a truly fantastic book that i would eagerly live in & allowing me the pleasure of reading it early ♡♡

Fortuna Sworn by K.J. Sutton

adventurous challenging dark emotional mysterious tense fast-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? No

4.0

fortuna is one of the most determined & powerful FMCs i have ever read about, she is magnificent and absolutely relentless and i adore her

absolutely obsessed with laurie & collith too... that tiktok sound "capital B.. BOAF" comes to mind 🤭

itching to find out whether or not oliver is actually real or if he truly is just in her head... also itching to find out what the fuck is going on with damon 

also that ENDING?! miss frosty pants viessa is alive??? and why did she try & kill my bae collith when they were lovers???? i hope to god he's not actually evil or something or i will be devastated

Rule of the Aurora King by Nisha J. Tuli

adventurous challenging dark funny mysterious tense fast-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? No

5.0

love love love LOVEEEE this series so much, cannot wait to read the next two books - i have very very unholy thoughts about nadir 

A Deal with the Elf King by Elise Kova

adventurous emotional tense fast-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? No

5.0

wept like an elf king loving BABY for the last 100ish pages of this, i loved that there was a little bit of mystery alongside the romance 

A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas

adventurous emotional tense fast-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? N/A

5.0

i will quite literally never be the same after finishing this book

rhysand & the night court have my heart entirely

and i hope they rip tamlin, lucien & hybern into shreds

Trial of the Sun Queen by Nisha J. Tuli

adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious tense 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? No

5.0

perfect, beautiful, stunning, 10/10... devoured every single page of this book and cannot wait to start the second book tomorrow

The Girl at the Lion d'Or by Sebastian Faulks

sad tense slow-paced

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

3.5

took me a while to finish this one... very frustrating ending but the imagery was pretty 

 
need to sit and think on it and maybe give it a reread to fully appreciate it

The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

emotional funny lighthearted fast-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? It's complicated

4.5

ADAM !!!! CARLSEN !!!! i am nothing if not a sucker for a tall, brooding, dark haired man

especially one that has a soft spot for one specific person and BOY does he have a soft spot for olive & BOY do i wish it was me :(

overall such a fun book & hit me right in my heart...

especially when tom does what he does to olive and adam finds out ?? the scream i SCRUMPT !!!! i have never wanted a man to be violent as bad as i did reading it and i am so glad he came THROUGH

definitely going to be pining for adam for a while now

Kingdom of the Wicked by Kerri Maniscalco

adventurous dark mysterious medium-paced

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

4.5

i am absolutely in love with wrath... he is perfect & can do no wrong ! i am such a sucker for a witchy book and this particular witchy book is so fantastic i broke my book buying ban to get the sequel (and it was worth it) and the tension... so yummy scrummy it had me near screaming

The Kiss Quotient by Helen Hoang

emotional funny inspiring fast-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? It's complicated

5.0

THIS BOOK HAD ME KICKING MY FEET, GIGGLING & BLUSHING !!!! i cried, i blushed, i felt & related to almost everything both main characters felt/experienced. and the SPICE holy shit !!!! reading a book with an autistic woman written by an autistic woman is so completely fantastic, having a romance written about someone i can relate to in that sense makes me so incredibly happy <3 i want to reread it immediately & over & over again