Purely for the subject matter on libraries, this book gets a five star.
I want to give it 17 stars for the amount of times I laughed and all the bird facts I learned.
I love the queer rep, I love the grief we experience through the main character, it was therapeutic in a way.
This book is heavy on character development but has enough timely conflict and development that the plot is also enough to keep me on my toes. I have zero negative to say about this book.
Everything about this book is a work of art and I need it on my shelf ASAP..
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This is one of those books that sticks with you while youāre reading it and the second you put it down you struggle to not think about it.
I usually canāt get through books that are over 300 pages on an ereader, but this one was written so well that it was enjoyable and it felt like every chapter was necessary and intentional.
This is the ultimate survival romance and I was looking for a book that was like this for a while so itās nice to have been able to read a book that does it this well.
The spicy scenes in this book are so so good and they are frequent but then you also have genuine tension and life-threatening things happening and it is actually quite scary and so the thriller aspect is done really well so is the survival aspect.
I need it to buy this book because of how cool the cover looks with the forestry on it.
This book will stay with me for a while as being a survival romance book done really really well that kept me captivated the entire time and every time that I thought things were going to get slightly too slow or a little bit boring, something wild ended up happening.
There are a few scenes in this book that are genuinely a bit scary that had me really worried for the characters.
And thereās also a satisfying conclusion to this book. It was just executed so well, and this was such an enjoyable read.
this is a thriller mystery, true crime book written in the format that is new to me, and it was incredibly accessible, which made this a very enjoyable read
the formatting: -the author is basically talking to the reader and showing them emails and an article and back-and-forth conversations and then reiterating a story, but itās done in such a profoundly well job and executed so well that it made sense and it felt like the story had to be told in this way -there are many graphics of houses and images of houses drawings whatever you want to call them and none of them impede or minimize accessibility to the text at all, which is impressive -I think because the change in formatting was so minimal, even though it was addressed change in the way, the story was told to some extent it made it both engaging and easy to follow
I have a lot of thoughts so I will start with my pre-read thoughts I had this book recommended to me at least three times (and Iām unfortunately someone that judges Books by covers at times and Iāll admit the cover caused me to not give this book a chance for a very long time) I genuinely thought this book was going to be written and formatted in a very eerie Jeff Vandemeer type of way, and I had a feeling that was going to heat it, and so I was immediately relieved when this book was almost the opposite
My during read thoughts: -I really liked having the photos of the houses within the book -Many times when stories are being told they arenāt formatted well for an E reader, and the images no longer become accessible, so to have this be an accessible book with huge for me -I was immediately intrigued and at 20% and I knew I had to finish this one, many of my soft DNF with my mysteries and thrillers really happen in the first three chapters in this book just kept me going -this book got weirder and weirder and weirder, and the plot thickened and characters became more intertwined and it just got really fascinating and I thought I would hate having so many characters involved because my experience with other books that are murder mysteries with a lot of characters I tend to get confused however it didnāt seem like as a reader you needed to fundamentally remember the names in the characters as they werenāt really given much to them beyond their places in this mystery solving case -I loved how this book made me think about architecture and people building things and I love that it got me into reading more true crime and watching true crime because I had this impression that true crime was lot of making entertainment and fun of very sensitive topics and that does not seem to be the case at all -Obviously, some true crime entertainment sources are not gonna be great, but for the majority of what Iāve been seeing on Hulu and the library and Netflix, a lot of true crime material that is entertainment tries to help these victims, and by nature of telling a sincere story it becomes really good to watch. The true crime lovers understand.
My after reading thoughts: -I was weirdly disappointed by the ending of this book at 80% in after the big reveal was given?
I felt it was a bit anti-climatic because I was meant to keep up with all of these different characters within a chapter, and I felt like I had been given the information as to what happened in the book was over -this is why Iām keeping my rating at four stars instead of five because I feel like this book even though itās as short as it is and itās told really well I feel like the ending couldāve been explained a little bit better and told in a way that was slightly more accessible because it was just confusing and the only portion of the book that was genuinely hard to follow beyond the main who dunit reveals -The irony of this book is that it does seem to be inspired by true events, if not something that actually happened, and it seems like a lot of crimes that take place have really weird origin stories behind them
This book is probably one that will stick with me just because if itās uniqueness and I would definitely recommend it to people who want a good mystery or thriller and are OK with some gore, but please be aware that there are some pretty hefty topics in this one like child abuse for example. This is not a happy mood reading book. This is definitely a spooky scary book so know that going into it but Iām hoping based on the genre youāll be aware of that..
This book was strange and all of the best ways that it has me hooked on books again and I think it pulled me out of a reading slump that I did not know that was in that was caused by stress and exhaustion
I love this authorās writing style and Iām grateful that there is a translator that did such a wonderful job so this is definitely a book I would recommend and if I saw on the Bookstore, I would buy it just to have on my bookshelf because itās got such a weird cover and I know itās ironic because I didnāt pick up the book due to the cover looking weird but now I wanna buy it because the cover is so unique
This is one of those books that opens my mind a little bit and alters my brain chemistry because it makes me more open to different formatting in books
Wow, itās super important for the actual content to be accessible if itās on an E reader Iām going to go in with a more open minded about different types of books moving forward so brain chemistry altered. Thank you.
Iām using voice memo to write this review out so if something looks weird, please know that it was probably technology auto correcting and not me
My experience with historical fiction and historical romance prior to this read was quite limited, so I went into this book with weird hopes and completely blind. I actually had a negative bias towards it to some extent. This is the book that altered my brain chemistry.
Update: this book quite literally started a new love for the genre for me, but I hadnāt realized how many other historical fiction books Iād already read that I have absolutely adored and loved (I realize that my prior statement was saying that I did not have a lot of experience with the genre and I realized thatās not completely accurate ) so this was a book that really helped me become a more full rounded reader with an understanding of the historical fiction genre as a whole and historical fiction versus mythology and folklore, etc. etc.
(I can usually tell on the first five pages of a book if I’m gonna love it or not and by around 20% and I’m either hate reading or completely swept away and that’s for most of my DNF occur . By 15% and I had: -subscribed to this imprint’s newsletter -stalked their net galley page and website to see how many books I could possibly get from the imprint that are on Kindle Limited -immediately downloaded like 5 new series -I have become obssessed with imprint because they an anti-AI policy in each of their books.)
I genuinely thought that the romcom genre was “dead” to some extent because when I went to look up romcoms, I couldn’t find anything šŖ¦and this book I laughed at least 20 times during, so this is fundamentally changed my idea of what a rom com “is” and how to categorize it and whatnot.
I am now a historical fiction romance addict, and I will need to start a collection. This is altered my brain chemistry.
I know that I’ve read other good historical fiction and good historical fiction romance books in the past, but this is one of those books that has really stuck with me.
The tropes in this book are the real deal: āØEnemies to lovers āØFemale rage and rebellion āØSteamy āØLegacy āØSecrets āØTrauma
The reason I am focusing this review so much on my prior experience is because I think a lot of other people avoid the genre potentially for the same reasons (I know I can’t be the only one that is in this mentality so I’m hoping that other people will be convinced to give this genre try) But I also am really heavily trying to avoid giving spoilers away while also trying to share why I love this book so much.
It is really difficult to say anything about this book without spoiling it because there’s so much happens and because the events compound on top of each other.
Just know that it’s an amazing pirate book and it is told from dual POV and there’s comedy and adventure and action and sadness and humor all wrapped into this art piece.
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Continued review with spoilers
In this book, we have Samantha, a pirate with red hair who works for a shipping company under her uncle (that that’s really just a front for being pirates).
Because pirates are people that steal things the government doesn’t love that and we have a lieutenant that sees Samantha’s ship while sheās sailing one day and asks them for an inspection (like a customs inspection just like a regular inspection), but Samantha doesn’t want to do an inspection and she’s a little hotheaded because she’s young and she’s got this thirst for battle and she has this anger within her in this spite. she decides that she doesn’t want to comply with the law and she goes and attacks his ship so much so that they end up winning the battle – however, there is a trickle down effect because you can’t just go after the government and expect them to not come back in full force. The thing is tge lieutenant and Samantha have the hots for each other.
The lieutenant comes back in full force, and the next pirate he finds is ordered for the noose, which makes Samantha feel really guilty because she didn’t mean to escalate the fight between the government and Pirates (like she didn’t think about that ripple effect and now she’s realizing that maybe she should’ve just complied and let an inspection occur but what’s in the past is in the past and she can’t really do anything about that now).
The issue is that her uncle who owns the ship and hired her is not super happy with the fact that she didn’t comply with the inspection and that now he has to deal with even tighter regulations on his front, and so he grounds her, just like a child and she ends up painting a tornado in the garden because she’s pissed.
Here’s the issue – we have an actual villain pirate that’s mean and angry and he’s doing bad things like really bad things for sport.
Because Samantha was wearing a mask to hide her identity when she took over the lieutenant ship and denied customs and pissed her uncle off when she takes off her mask, Everyone knows that she is Samantha who is associated with her uncle (however with a pirate mask on she’s a pirate with red hair.) The lieutenants only aware of her and only knows her with this mask identity as a pirate. He is not aware that Henry’s daughter is Samantha. Because Henry does own a legitimate business and it happens to be a front, there are social gatherings that Henry needs to upkeep and go and attend to keep his image and Samantha is expected to attend to these balls too because if they aren’t socially putting themselves out there Samantha’s never gonna find a husband and that’s so important. Samantha doesn’t like any of the men and she just kinda wants to be at sea. Which is why she’s so pissed that her uncle told her that she can’t command a ship right now because she is too antsy and wants to fight really bad so she just paints tornadoes and doesn’t feel very good and she decides after talking to Lieutenant (because he came over to uncle Henry’s house), they neighbors by the way, yeah. They all run in the same social circle.
Let me explain
So literally, Samantha is the niece of Henry. He owns the shipping container business, but he’s actually a pirate so it’s a front. To society he is a successful business owner with a large fleet. In public, he is known as a rich man who owns the shipping container business shipping business so of course he knows this lieutenant and of course I live in the same neighborhood because it’s a wealthy area so it makes sense in this world for them to be neighbors they even attend the same social events so it’s happenstance that he comes to uncle Henry. Unfortunately, at the event, he was also kind of trying to do something to uncle Henry, but he ran into Samantha and this is the first time that he’s realizing that there might be a connection, but he completely doubt himself and they like see each other for the first time at this point, so they kind of have an understanding of who they are and They avoid each other heavily they don’t like each other other
Lieutenants kind of at a loss and is wondering what to do because for just ruthlessly killing people for sport and so Henry’s like if you need my flea and that would help like I’m down to help you and so yeah because Lieutenant just doesn’t really have his stuff his ducks in line he doesn’t have the budget. He knows that Henry has bigger resources than he does so he goes to Henry for help and Henry is like yeah we could help you.
Samantha is obviously aware of everything because she was wearing the mask but lieutenant Thompson does not know that Samantha is the pirate that overtook his ship last week and it caused this whole ripple effect of him hanging someone and then everything just like going to hell in a handbasket.
So Samantha is just huffing puffing not having a good time. She’s up in her room because she’s grounded. She’s said hi to Thompson and like doesn’t really wanna talk to him. She wants to paint her tornado in the garden OK so anyways she’s relaxing in her bed and then she’s like you know what I don’t wanna be here so she Climbs out the window and hops like down the tree because she has good balance and she starts to walk around the garden, and then someone knocks her out and kidnaps her. We find out that this is thorn who has kidnapped her and is basically trying to get something from her.
So she literally gets kidnapped is in this cell and then all of a sudden she hears the ship coming and she’s like oh no they’re gonna die because first of all I’m stuck in like this really scary pirates cell and like there’s no way like the ship that’s coming just gonna die so she’s like crying because her entire body is vibrating from these cannons. She’s like I don’t feel like this is a good time for me.
It turns out that it was Lieutenants ship that they were sinking and he’s totally fine so they just like plop them in the same cell together, which is super steamy because they actually like like each other. Basically it gets real steamy because they like don’t want to like each other but they have to work together and they’re just like undeniably very attracted to each other so oops and (also he already took her V card so like might as well right OK ) and he really want someone who loves to see and like most women just don’t and so they’re literally a match made in heaven, but because she’s a pirate and he’s basically a cop they’re literally enemies to lovers like that that’s not gonna work.
And this is also around the time when Griff, which is the original captain of the ship that Samantha like runs, but Samantha is like earning her rank. She’s getting old enough to like Captain ship herself without Henry there and so Griff is like her Bestie, but Griff also supposed to be a babysitter to some time because he’s supposed to watch things and make sure she doesn’t like dying and stuff so he comes to rescue whoever because of course he does he just like always has this like six sense of like what’s going on and he just looks like Griff will be there and like you just always know that it’s gonna be OK cause Griff exist and he’s gonna be fine. He just knows what’s happening.
Griff goes and rescues Samantha and Samantha doesn’t have her mask on obviously but this meeting of Griff calling Samantha Captain makes Lieutenant Thompson realize oh my God I literally took the virginity of the pirate who sunk my ship last week and it happens to be the daughter of the shipping container CEO like absolutely not his head is spinning. He’s having a moment he’s not doing well and he’s having this moment. Griff is like we’re leaving his ass behind because we don’t have enough space and timeframe and also like he attacked us he’s a cop we’re not taking him and Samantha, but he’s hot and he’s kind of on our side. We should try to take him and he’s innocent and like we’re not taking him.
So she has to listen to Griff and they don’t take Lieutenant Thompson. She’s like super convinced that captain Thorne has definitely killed Thompson. He was just like no way that he’s been allowed to survive.
Samantha goes back to save him.
So anyways, Thompson walked back up in the seller and Samantha is like OK so we’re just gonna like go and go back to the spot and Griff’s like I saved your ass. We’re not gonna go back for Lieutenant Thompson because he think shit remember that like we’re not doing that he’s a cop and Samantha’s like again we’re gonna go back and it’s not just for him. I’m like 100% sure .
The reason that there’s all this drama is because there’s a half of a map that people want for a treasuee but you can’t find the treasure without the other half so one of them used to get the map and they all both hate each other and the thing is she’s pretty sure her parents literally died by the hands of this crazy captain trying to get this treasure. she’s like I need to get this treasure and Griff is like we’re not doing that that’s stupid. I just rescued you and she’s like we’re getting the mapā¦.
She’s fully convinced that her sexy man is going to be dead and she’s like I don’t know but we’re gonna try to do this and I’m not giving up. I’m not taking the safe route like we could literally have our shift just like sunk on the way back there like I’m taking risks and I’m tired of being told what to do so grip is like fine like you’re an idiot but whatever I love you we’re gonna do this. I’m on your side
Thatās about 60% into the book and includes as few spoilers as possible. Obsessed!
-Female rage -Unreliable narrators -Plot twists I didn’t see coming -A beautiful garden that definitely has nothing suspicious going on -Many creative ways to kill your husband -Laughs, tears, and some heart wrenching scenes that pull you in
Freida your fingers make gold god damn it
Freida I am obsessed with your books I am an addict thank you
Also the fact that she utilizes both content/trigger warnings, sensitivity readers, on top of the standard beta readers editors etc shows she gets it and wants to take care of her readers
I am also a fan of Melanie Martinezā¤ļøā¤ļø
Thank you meme queen for another amazing thriller.
You made me sweat and stay up late for this one Freida. You likely won’t see this but if you do please keep writing becasue you make me giggle and you write such wondeeful thrillers and I am a PICKY reader
Freida fans, enjoy this giant chocolate cake and get fed
After reading If We Were a Movie and being completely blown away by that book, I needed to read this story this second it became available and so once my library had it, I snatched that up.
The hook is absolutely amazing and I accidentally read this book faster than I meant to if youāre trying to save her this one and get it to last a month. Good luck to you. Itās too good.
What I really enjoyed about this book was seeing the male main character be bisexual instead of the female
This is not something I typically see in romance books, and this was really cool representation to be able to experience
I loved the fact that this book is so fresh with the workplace environment details weāve got literally an artificial intelligence company, and there are two brothers working together, and thereās some internal conflict there as far as family and business and mixing those together and the ethics of artificial intelligence because the brothers company is an AI company.
This book starts out in a literal sex event of sorts and I could not stop giggling because it was unexpected and hilarious
I love workplace romances, and this one hit the spot really well and I really think about it covered really relevant topics in a really profound way that not only made an impact, but made me feel validated and also weirdly comforted. There is so much conversation around artificial intelligence and to see these directly mentioned in a romance book and handled the way it was something I donāt see often because itās such a new thing (yet everyone knows about it).
From the interesting workplace dynamics to the characters that come to life on the page to the giggles youāll experience and the good spice š„µš¶ļøš¶ļøš¶ļøthis book contains if youāre looking for a good romance book, I heavily recommend picking this one up.
I could probably talk about this book for a solid hour if given the chance because itās really hard to find good romance books and I genuinely feel like I spent 20 minutes daily trying to find a good one in this fed my soul so well when I say Iām picky about romances, I am picky and this one was so good. It was like literally eating candy.
Thank you for this treat Libby and Zakiya N. Jamal and I am so excited to see what books come from this wonderful and talented author next.
I want to leave an Amazon review so bad but for some reason, Libby is not recognizing that I totally read this book and itās not connected to Amazon. Amazon: Please let me leave book reviews my goodness.
This book was packed with way more humor than I expected because the cover makes it seem like itās going to be a bit more serious and potentially bold and witty, but I did not expect the humor to be so clever and fresh.
I also did not expect to be pulled in by the suspense immediately – between the author making fun of these characters and the actual events that go on – this book is incredibly entertaining, but also makes you nervous for the characters because there is an actual conflict going on that makes their lives at risk. The conflict is definitely serious enough to keep attention.
This book just does not stop and does not give you a break and thereās enough characters involved to where thereās always something happening but you donāt have to be so caught up in the characters to know whatās happening, but itās also easy to keep up with them if that makes any amount of sense? Usually, I struggle because I find that the author does not balance giving the characters enough time for the story and I end up getting really confused as to who is talking when and why and who is doing what and I had no issues with this book despite there being multiple POVās and I think thatās so well executed. Itās a skill thatās really hard to do and so the fact that the author pulled this off is incredibly impressive.
I also need this book on my shelf immediately because thereās a couple of quotes in here that I needed to highlight like 50 different times. Itās very clear that this author spent time, poured their heart and soul into this book, and I immediately wanted to read more of this authorās work – and this might be their debut, which is even more impressive.
I am extremely picky with thrillers and horror and spooky books in general and this one was phenomenal and I would heavily recommend recommended to anyone whoās looking for a good thriller.
Again, love this one, you do not want to miss this one. Also itās red so I need it for my color-coded shelves now.
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Are you a fan of retellings? Do you like Frankenstein? Do you enjoy sci fi or fantasy books? Do you like books with really cool covers? If you answered yes to any of the questions you need to get this book ASAP!
I love Frankenstein so my standards were a bit impossibly high for this book and I was also in a reading slump and this book pulled me out of a slump.
I had chills. I giggled. I rooted for the protagonistās rights and wrongs. I loved every page of this story.
This book would be so cool as a limited edition copy too ugh.
OK, this book is the perfect amount of adorable and quirky and funny and silly and it just does not take itself too seriously and I think the cover does a really really good job at showing what the book is actually about too.
Like this author is genuinely very funny. I was in stitches this entire time and I felt comforted and it was just like a warm cozy book so I really enjoyed this book very much so.
I saw another reviewer saying this is like a perfect Saturday fun just quick read that itās just like a cute fun thing to read and I feel like thatās such a spot on description. This is such a great like Saturday by the pool, Reed, I would give this book to a friend too.
I think this is just a great general audience read to be honest like Iām struggling to think of who wouldnāt enjoy this because itās just just a funny general cozy fantasy book with some humor in it.
The main character does get kidnapped lol and there is world building, and humor, and nothing is to be taken too seriously but I really love the banter and I was laughing out loud multiple times through throughout this book.
There was also a few moments where I was feeling for the character too and being sad with her, which I feel like is impressive for a book thatās supposed to be like cozy and cute to be able to pull some emotion out of me like that is quite nifty and skilled. Donāt get me wrong. I didnāt wanna be ripped in half by this book, but it was the perfect amount of emotion to draw me in just a little bit more.
I will recommend this one to everyone looking for a cute little workplace/kidnapping book lol. Anyone wanting a cute cozy fantasy read will love this one.
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This is an interconnected standalone fantasy series with a lot of romance and coziness infused. Itās absolutely cozy. However, the first book will always have my heart. I was a little bit disappointed with this second one.
I, personally, when, I see there is a second book in a series, I usually get very excited because my hope and assumption is that it will be either a continuation or more in depth storyline of the first book I read in the series so I was really hoping for Aiden and Sephiraās relationship to continue to take a front seat and for Sparky to continue to take a front seat because I bonded with those characters so much in this world There was all of one paragraph dedicated to them, which was simply recapping what happened in the last book, so this book is very much not about Sparky. Itās a completely different book. It just happened to take place in the same world. Please know that going into this or else youāre likely going to be very disappointed because I was sad.
I donāt want this to affect my review because I feel like itās not completely fair for my expectations impact the book because the quality of the book itself is decent. I gave it a four stars for the following reasons: -Friends to lovers romance done well -the tension banter and dialogue was lovely -the writing style and execution was really lovely -I was really excited to dip into the baby dragon world again and I did get that
What prevented a 5 star rating: -I was so sad to not be able to dig more into Sparky and Sophia and Aiden and their world because I felt like the last book ended and a happy note but there was so much more to the story and I had fallen in love with this family and I didnāt care all too much for her employee sheās sweet, but itās not something that I wondered more as a reader about whether or not the character had stuff going on she was not developed enough for me to be more interested and want to learn more about the character in the first book and so when the second book came along, I was hoping that it would be the same characters being at the front so thatās what was the most disappointing -I definitely related to Lavina, which I believe is the main characterās name her and Theo have a little bit of a miscommunication tension, and I found the main character to be both relatable and funny -there were at least three chapters that just went into incredible death on the family events because the main character lives with her family so they were just eating meals together and while this will appeal to a wide audience, this is what I actively avoid in books. I want a fantasy I want fun baby dragons if I want something where Iām reading about a family eating I will likely pick up a very different book. I had to skip past some pages because it just went on and on with her family and I know this is a weird me personal thing, but I was slightly annoyed that it was so drilled in because I did not care about the employee in the first place let alone her family matters that is not something that I was interested in.
Iām struggling to rate this lower than five stars because the book does have a good structure of rising action, falling action and good character development and good world building and all of the things that I look for when Iām trying to give an honest review, but this is a very personal critique of what my expectations were for the book so Iām taking one star off just because I was so sad because and in the past I have taken a star off when I donāt like the ending of a book so I think this is fair but yeah, Iām a little bummed. I still really enjoyed this book and I am curious to see what the next one is but Iām hoping itās not just gonna be about Genevieve.
I really liked the cover of this book and I am so honored that I got approved for an arc because I love the first book so much. Thank you so much for the opportunity to share honest feedback voluntarily.
I tend to refer to over the top thriller page turners as popcorn thrillers – this is not what I would refer to as a popcorn thriller. This is a thriller that is dark will potentially rip you in half and will make you have to finish it immediately.
I really love the writing style of this book so I need to read more from this author, and this book was dark enough that it was healing. It covers a really dark concept and I totally cried, and the atmosphere is also written so elegantly and so well.
Iām kind of at a loss for words with how well this book was executed and how artfully it was done because I feel like itās hard to find thrillers that rip you in half in this way. While it does cover some very dark topics such as stillborn children and loss of a partner and burial of both daughter/baby/infant and mother, which is very dark, itās not treated as a light topic.
My entire body was covered in chills while reading this book. To me, thatās a sign of a really excellent dark novel.
Itās really hard to get me to have full body chills from a thriller let alone a horror or anything so I am thoroughly impressed with this one.
There were also a few scenes that were confusing and over the top ever so slightly so it kept me engaged and it allowed the narrative and the novel self to not be exaggerated. I definitely felt like this novel was handled really well as far as dialogue goes because dialogue tends to be what will make a novel over the top.
The character development was also impressive, and the pacing was done really well.
Overall, Iām just really impressed with this read and Iām excited and grateful that I was able to find this book.
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I donāt even know where to start with this book because it was such an unhinged āWTF I just readā type of book but it was also a love letter to romance readers and an adventure. Basically an absolute treat.
This book is chaos. I loved it immensely. The talking fish, the ABBA references, I almost spat my coffee out.
The only reason Iām not giving it 5 stars is because I got lost once or twice between the book and what was happening and I think it created confusion that was not intended.
If you want a fun silly read, this book is amazing.
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You have enemies to lovers in a key cutest way possible that just uses nostalgia in the best way possible.
While it does deal with a heavy topic of parent death, which is a very heavy trigger for many readers, I think itās handled in such a great way that itās more of a healing book about recovering from that versus what that grief looks like and the tension between the two main characters overpower that and so it allows you to kind of heal with the book and I really appreciated that about this one.
The banter and the dialogue had me in complete stitches. These characters are so well developed, and I loved every page of this book. It was such a magical read.
The covers also just so adorable. I am the sucker for colorful covers, but especially when thereās pink and thereās flowers I get really excited so Iām really happy that the cover met expectations.
Thank you so much for this ARC! This was such a treat. I appreciate the opportunity to leave honest feedback voluntarily.
This book was the perfect amount of nonsense chaos and murder all packed into one silly Christmas book
This was exactly what I wanted it to be and because of that, this is an excellent read Iād give it a solid five stars. This is not a life-changing read by any means but I didnāt want it to be. I needed something that was just simple and fun and then had good vibes and that was spooky and hilarious and this hit the spot.
All of these family members are absolutely insane in someway, shape or form and some of them are literally just horrible people so this was quite entertaining to read.
I love that there was character development, even though there were so many different characters, and it didnāt matter too much about the development of them because the actual murder mystery was more of the front plot as well as the main characters, but I still was angry at some of the other characters and I feel like the author did a really good job at developing them with limited page real estate to work with.
Ironically, I actually think this would be a really great Christmas gift or just a gift in general to a friend who has a good sense of humor.
This was hilarious and the best of ways and it was absolutely chaotic, and I loved it
Thank you for this ARC! I appreciate the opportunity to leave honest feedback voluntarily.
