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moonlil-y · 5 months

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JO MOONLESS BOMB-REVIEWING

There’s a soon to be author, Jo Moonless, who is bomb-reviewing indie/debut authors for no valuable reasons.

She has supposedly read 12 books in a row by indie/debut authors whom she gave one star rating each on Goodreads (one has evolved into a 2 star recently but started with one star).

Her reasons for giving one star to each of these books ? Let’s get into it.

Reviewed on 08.12.2023 :

• Fear the Flames, by Olivia Rose Darling (debut author)

→ DNF at chapter 3

→ “not in the mood to hate read” (ah yes because that’s the book’s problem and not yours…)

→ doesn’t like a character’s name, says it’s too much of a fuck boy name to be respected (???)

→ the writing

Reviewed on 09.12.2023 :

• Heavenly Bodies, by Imani Erriu (debut author)

→ DNF at chapter 2

→ “I can already tell this is gonna be full of tropes and clichés” (but hasn’t read more than 2 chapters so how would she know)

→ “I am reading for quality, for more than just a good story” (…)

→ the writing

• The Curse of Ophelia, by Nicole Platania (indie author)

→ DNF

→ “smells like something I have read before” (???)

• Heir of Fates, by Rowan Redfield (indie author)

→ DNF at chapter 1

→ nothing she disliked but nothing that hooked her (so she gave one star and dnf at chapter 1… what?)

• The Goddess and the Hawk, by Chiara Gala (debut author)

→ DNF at chapter 1

→ great energy but the book needs heavy editing

→ smut

→ too much telling (backstories… in chapter one? Seems normal to me… how is it too much if she only read chapter one???)

• The King’s Weapon, by Neena Laskowski (indie author)

→ DNF at chapter 1

→ “feels like a story I have read before”

→ not interesting enough to hook me (maybe read more than chapter one…)

→ the writing

• Daughter of Darkness : Wielder of Shadows, by Allie Cole (debut author)

→ DNF after a few paragraphs

→ “the writing? Like something I wrote before I ever started taking writing seriously” (for someone who isn’t even an author yet… pretentious much?)

→ wasn’t hooked (but again, she read a few paragraphs only so… is she even trying?)

• How Does It Feel? By Jeneane O’Riley (indie author)

→ DNF at chapter 2

→ the MC is beautiful and the villains not good enough (buuuuut she only read a few chapters)

→ the writing and needs editing

• Dream by the Shadows, by Logan Karlie (debut author)

→ DNF

→ “too vague and too generic” (okay that’s a fair reason I guess)

→ “the story might not be something I have read before, but the writing itself feels like it” (nevermind)

→ the writing was something she read before (I mean, there isn’t millions of ways to write a book Jo!)

Reviewed on 14.12.2023 :

• Powerless, by Lauren Roberts (debut author)

→ “immediate no” (so I’m guessing she opened it and straight up closed it?)

→ “the prose was not posing” (does that even mean something?)

• The Stars are Dying, by Chloe C. Peñarando (indie author)

→ DNF at the prologue (the prologue??!!)

→ “the prologue is to die for (not in a good way)”

→ the writing

• The Silver Birds, by Apolline Lucy (use to have 1 star, now has 2) (debut author)

→ DNF after chapter 1 (maybe she hates reading?)

→ “the writing was okay but not enough to charm me”

→ “I missed the details that could really immerse me into the story and make me feel” (TRY READING MORE THAN ONE CHAPTER MAYBE JO?!)

→ stopped reading because of the writing even though the story was up her alley (I have read this book, the writing is exquisite by the way)

First you’ll notice how she DNF all the books (most of them at chapter one) but still has a lot to say about them.

Then, the dates these books were reviewed on : if not the same day, close. Not a proof because obviously she could have read them at any time, but still weird.

Third, most of these authors are debut authors, who are trying their best at writing. Maybe encouraging them instead of bringing them down would be a better thing to do? Or strategy, considering she’s about to put a book out herself soon…

She even posted online (Instagram) about how proud she was to be hated by indie authors :

Finally, I wonder if she even bought the books… just to DNF all of them at the beginning? As a soon to be debut indie author herself, she better…

When her book comes out, I’ll read it, but the writing better be like something I’ve never read before. And if I didn’t get into the story straight up at chapter one, I guess I’ll DNF and rate it one star. Just like she did.

I encourage you to seek these books and read them to make your own opinion. I’m sure some of them are good and will be to your liking. If you do like them, give them a rating on Goodreads and boost some confidence into these authors.

#bomb reviews #bomb reviewing #indie author #debut author #the silver birds #the stars are dying #powerless #dream by the shadows #how does it feel #daughter of darkness #the king's weapon #the goddess and the hawk #heir of fates the curse of ophelia #heavenly bodies #fear the flames #cait corrain

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artists-ally · 3 months

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2024 Book List!

Not that anyone will care about this but I wanted to do it and have fun!! Here is a list of the books I have read so far this year and some of my thoughts!

1. Catching Fire by Suzanne Collins

This was my favorite book of the Hunger Games trilogy. I haven’t read A Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes but I do have it. I started the Hunger Games to cope with the fact that I didn’t have the next book for Throne of Glass, but I still loved it I cant wait to watch the movies!!

2. Mockingjay by Suzanne Collins

I still to this day have no idea what this ending was and I didn’t like the book enough to try and figure it out. It was alright, didn’t love the ending, and Katiness honestly pissed me off.

3. Heartless by Elsie Silver

Oh my GOD I LOVE THIS BOOK. This is the second book in the Chestnut Springs Series (Flawless, Heartless, Powerless, Reckless, Hopeless) Cade is the standard I have for men now. He is him. I want a grumpy, mid thirties, cowboy to tell me everything’s gonna be okay. Cade and Willa are my lord and saviors.

4. Powerless by Elsie Silver

This is the third book in the Chestnut Springs Series (Flawless, Heartless, Powerless, Reckless, Hopeless) and it was some of the best character development I’ve ever read about. It was fanfuckingtastic. So good, so we’ll thought out and so god damn smutty. Jasper is so 🤭🤭🤭 with his 6’4 tattooed ass.

5. Reckless by Elsie Silver

Theo. Silva. Is. Him. Bullriders are hot. Convince me otherwise. You cannot. Again, some amazing fucking character development form the FMC (Winter Hamilton). I love love love this book. My heart was so happy in the end.

6. Credence by Penelope Douglas

What the actual fuck did I just read. So…. She goes to love with her dads step brother and his two sons in the remote mountains of Colorado. And they get snowed in for the winter. And she’s the only women around. For five months. I’m gonna let y’all figure out the rest. But it has good moments? I think? It was so weird and I’m mad at myself for thinking some of it was hot. It’s fiction, it’s not real. (I’m delusional).

7. Where Broken Wings Fly by J. Rose

This book was outstanding. Fantastic character development and a really good portrayal of PTSD. It’s about a mom and her daughter who escape an arrange, abusive marriage and flee from Mexico to a remote mountain Villingen in England. The cliffhanger at the end made me want to absolutely tear down my house brick for brick to find the answers but I supposed buying the second book will do. It was so good, super smutty, absolutely beautiful.

8. How Does It Feel? By Jeneane O’Riley

What. The. Fuck. WHAT THE FUCKING FUCK. I AM SO NOT OKAY????? Those last two chapters had some Fourth Wing level plot twists that I had no hope of predicting. I am in shambles rn. Absolutely distressed over this fucking god damn mother fucking book. It’s about a biologist who falls through a faerie portal, onto the crowded prince. They think she’s an assassin sent to kill him, and he puts her through a lot of torture to prove her innocence. NOTHING. AND. I. MEAN. NOTHING. will prepare you for this ending.

9. Hopeless by Elsie Silver

AMAZING. 11/10 Elsie silver kills it ever time. This story is about Beau and Bailey. Arranged fake marriage, enemies to friends to lovers. He’s a medically retired special ops military guy and she’s got the worst last name in town. So cute. So sweet. So spicy. Beau Eaton is the standard I have for men now. He’s everything I need. Love love LOVE

10). One Dark Window by Rachel Ginning

My favorite book of the year. Hands down. I cannot stress how much I LOVED. THIS. FUCKING. BOOK. The main character Elspyth has been infected as a child and now harbors raw, unfiltered magic. It is a crime to use magic without the use of the Providence Cards. There are twelve Cards and they all give you separate abilities (strength, speed, beauty, to control others minds, influence emotions and so on). She had the ability to absorb the magic from these cards and now has one of them living inside her head. She teams up with a band of rebels to reunite the Cards in the deck to lift a deadly mist from their town. It’s insanity. It’s so crazy good idk how NO ONE HAS SAID ANYTHING I HAVE NEVER ONCE SEEN THIS BOOK ON BOOKTOK OR IG AND ITS CONCERNING. easily the best world building I’ve ever read. I finished the book last night and the second one will be here today 😭😭

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