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Funny Story by Emily Henry
emotional
lighthearted
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? No
- Loveable characters? No
- Diverse cast of characters? No
3.25
I want to start by saying. I’m a sucker for romance…but I’m also really picky. I’ve pretty much read all of Emily Henry’s books and even tho I enjoy them, not many of them *stay* with me. Happy Place and Book Lovers were probably my favorites (both 4stars).
When I tell you I was sooo hopeful for this to be the Emily Henry book that got me (although, I have been got by her but in a YA/Magical realism book which I will have to make a post about…). The description sounded funny and I was really intrigued. I know I try to do spoiler free reviews but I feel like I might have to switch that up.
The book started off great. I listened to it on audio as I cleaned my house and chuckled a good amount buttt that quickly changed to just being kinda flat of a story. Daphne is fine and I can relate to a lot of her struggles but I feel like Emily Henry tried to fit so much into the story, between Daphne’s self love journey, friendship journey, her daddy issues and mommy issues that I thought they were gonna addressed and a new love. I was expecting a romance not a finding oneself journey. Which I’m not mad about it but it threw me off when all of a sudden they are in love and what not. Like what. We’ve been in friendship land and daddy issue world and y’all have barely had ✨moments✨ but now I’m supposed to believe y’all are in love?? After you both got betrayed by your long term partners??? Just like that?
I think this is where my personal problem lies. I need proper development, which is exactly why I’ll always pick a tv series over a movie. Now I’m learning that’s the case for books cause man you could not make me believe for a second that these two are genuinly in love. I feel like they definitely love and care for each other as friends butttt….I feel that between their parent issues and being left by their partners (and being the only ppl that truly gonna get what the other is going thru) they are only together cause they trauma bonded and 2 years down the line they’ll be over. I think it’s even more frustrating cause after all this growth she’s literally repeating the same cycle. She made one new friend and then immediately took on Miles whole life….
I honestly think it would’ve been a 4-5 star if Miles (who is boring tbh, like not terrible guy and did charm me at times but….boring and also us learning about his issues at the very end??? Come on.) hadn’t been in the book I would’ve have cared. In fact I would preferred it to be a journey of self love story and even focused more on her friendship with Ashley (who I loved btw and she nailed it when she went off on her being a WE girl).
Okay im done. The actual funny story is how a book I love will get a sentence to a paragraph review but when im not a fan of something I go OFFFFF lmao.
Crown of Midnight by Sarah J. Maas
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
5.0
Bride by Ali Hazelwood
adventurous
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
mysterious
fast-paced
4.5
I loved this book! It really took me back to my middle school vampire/werewolf obsession although let’s be real, I’m 30 and the obsession is clearly still there.
I loved the story, it was a very easy read and I loved how fast paced it was! It was exactly what I needed at the moment and actually didn’t see the plot twist coming at all! I found myself loving Misery (and honestly I just love that name) so much and loving all the characters (that are meant to be loved). Based on reviews I was expecting this to be extra smutty butttt it wasn’t and Ali has wayyy more smutt in her other books, imo. IApparently this is supposed to be a series which I’m very excited about as the world is interesting and I want to know more lol I’m not sure how I feel about vampires not being immortal but whatever.
I think it wasn’t a five star cause Lowe wasn’t doing it for me. Not in a bad way, like he’s a fine guy but again…didn’t do much for me! I’m excited to read more!!!
Darling Rose Gold by Stephanie Wrobel
mysterious
tense
fast-paced
3.0
Honestly I feel a little let down. The book started off strong. I was getting the heebie jeebies trying to figure out who was in the wrong and so on. I loved that they were both crazy in their own way but I just felt like halfway through the book it just hit a wall and nothing happened. Then before I knew it there were two chapters left, the big thing has happened and even tho I'm like "oh damn!" I would've been like "OHHHH DAAYUMMMM" if it hadn't been so rushed and we had gotten more of Rose Gold's thinking and planning. Lowkey kinda wish it had just been Rose Gold's POV and maybe some occasional chapters from her moms POV.
Just For the Summer by Abby Jimenez
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
sad
medium-paced
5.0
Throne of Glass by Sarah J. Maas
adventurous
dark
inspiring
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
4.0
Everyone said it was gonna drag and to hang in there cause it’s an awesome series…I’m deeply confused cause I very much enjoyed this book!!! I think it helps that I’m fully aware that it’s 8 books series and completed so maybe it helped me approach it differently?? I like the world building, I like the main characters attitude, the romance storyline is quite there yet but I seeing the pieces come together and I’m loving it.
I have soo many questions!! SO MANY!! And now I gotta wait 20 weeks for the rest of the books to be available on Libby since I didn’t think I was gonna like it this much. 😭😭