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togetherasap · 7 months

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the serotonin released after reading any ali hazelwood book is unparalleled

#ali hazelwood #books #the love hypothesis #love on the brain #love theoretically #check and mate #this is specifically for check and mate because i just finished reading this masterpiece but it's applicable to her entire backlist #nolan sawyer #mallory greenleaf #nolan x mallory #otp: flawless a+ 12/10 five star amazon review #bride #not in love

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atendencytotangle · 22 days

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Book Review: To Shape a Dragon's Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose

To Shape a Dragon’s Breath by Moniquill Blackgoose (published in 2023 by Del Rey) is the first book of the Nampeshiweisit. It has been nominated for the Libby Award for Best Fantasy (2023), the Andre Norton Award (2024), the Lodestar Award for Best YA Book (2024), and Moniquill Blackgoose has been nominated for the Astounding Award for Best New Writer (2024). And the hype is real. To Shape a…

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#Book Review #dragons #Fantasy #five stars #Moniquill Blackgoose #reading #Steampunk #To Shape a Dragon&039;s Breath #YA

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andreai04 · 26 days

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I’d learned this much playing chess: The more complicated a person’s strategy seemed, the less likely an opponent was to look for simple answers.

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bookishlyvintage · 4 months

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Vespertine by Margaret Rogerson x

#book review #vespertine #margaret rogerson #sorcery of thorns #fantasy #ya fantasy #nuns #ghosts #adventure #cozy reads #good books #bookblr #booklr #bookstagram #reading #reader #five stars

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nasolireads · 3 months

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First 5 star of the year ⭐️

This book just broke me completely. This story is so heartbreaking. A story about grief and how people deal with it and also about found family and love. Even though Ove irritated me at the beginning, I began to love him little by little as the story went on. The way he talked about his wife and the life they had together I felt very connected to Ove more and more. The way Ove slowly accepted Parvaneh and her silly family and how she helped him live a little longer it was just so beautiful. I loved the way it was written, interchanging from past to present. It seemed repetitive at times but it worked for me. This book had me sobbing from beginning to end. I loved it.

#nasolireads #booklr #five stars #book review #favorite book of the year already lol #a man called ove

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thisdragonhordesbooks · 6 months

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"Fear is not love, but it can appear much the same."

Holly Blake you do not disappoint. I'm always nervous when reading a continuation of a series. It goes one of three ways. It's good, it's bad. It ruins the previous story. You finish the original story and the characters have their happy ending or at least most of them do. The thing I hate most is when an author ruins their previously happy ending. Well fear not this book is an al new adventure in elfhame and our main cast from the original books are still enjoying their happy ending.

Though our two main characters are familiar faces, they now get their own adveture and chance at a happy ending. It ends at a total cliff hanger one so bad it's bring flash backs to the Mark of Athena. So if you can't stand suspense wait till the next book comes out which won't be long now.

This is a five star book for me.

#booklr #book review #ya books #october reads #holly black #cruel prince #the stolen heir #five star

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luminouscrow · 5 months

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I’m Glad My Mom Died by Jennette McCurdy

i have been meaning to read this since it was released last year and am embarrassed to be so late to the party! 😂

jennette mccurdy is one brave woman, and i found her raw words and unapologetic delivery nothing short of inspiring. i listened to this as an audiobook on spotify, and i’m so glad i did because getting to actually hear jennette mccurdy tell her story was even more powerful. this book made me laugh, tear up and boil with anger, and i look forward to what she brings to the writing world next.

started: 14/11/2023

finished: 15/11/2023

rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★

#i’m glad my mom died #jennette mccurdy #bookblr #book blog #five star review #non fiction book #book review #book recommendations #book worm #reader

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nightbloom7reads · 1 year

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Listen.

Honestly. Do. This adaptation is fantastic. The book itself is immaculate (we knew that) and Mathew Baynton just takes it and runs with it to the printing press to perfect results. ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐/5.

#books and reading #book review #booklr #discworld #terry pratchett #yes I know I gave it six stars out of five #go listen to it

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noctem-novelle · 1 year

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Book: Gallant by V. E. Schwab Genre: Young Adult Paranormal Rating: ✩✩✩✩✩

Review below the cut!

This book promises a spooky family legacy, and it DELIVERS. Gallant follows Olivia, a young orphan who has spent her whole life at a dreary school for girls, perpetually othered and picked on for her inability to speak. But Olivia is also keeping a secret: she can see strange spectres. Shadowy, half-formed, and very clearly dead. Her only real companion is her mother's old journal, full of odd drawings and notes that seem to spiral into madness and ending with a warning to Olivia to stay away from something called Gallant. One day, Olivia receives a letter from her uncle and is suddenly shipped off to live with a family she never knew existed at a manor house that bears a familiar name: Gallant. Gallant is The Secret Garden meets Shirley Jackson. That combination of strange, whimsical, and a little disturbing that makes you shiver (and of which V is an absolute master). Imo, it also falls somewhere between YA and middle grade, with serious Addie LaRue and The Near Witch vibes. I absolutely devoured this book and any minute not spent reading felt like a waste.

TW: death, grief and loss, ghosts

IG: @noctem.novelle

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cacodemonmania · 1 year

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Review - The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins

⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5

Big spoilers ahead!

Unlike my Normal People review, which I wrote a few weeks after I'd actually finished reading it, this review is nice and fresh as I finished the book about four minutes ago. I'm choosing to do my review by book, rather than the whole series, for four reasons.

I like doing reviews fresh. It helps to convey the actual thoughts I had when finishing/reading the book. Also, I have a lot to say (whoops!).

Unfortunately, I watched the movies before I read the book(s) and I have a sneaking feeling that I will not like the later books as much.

I have a hard time distinguishing between books in a series after I've read them. All the events kind of blur together. Not super helpful as reviews go.

I'm trying to keep my activity streak going. Consistency is my weakness and I have a tendency to disappear from Tumblr for months at a time. Here's to holding ourselves to stuff! (Hopefully) This is also a good way to force myself to read more.

My first concrete thought is that my heart is breaking at the end scene. The way that Peeta was so oblivious to Katniss playing it up for camera and all. Poor guy had no idea. Also, how can anyone ship Katniss and Gale? I don't mean that in a rude way, it's just kind of baffling after the amount of times Katniss said her feelings for him weren't romantic.

I thought the movies were relatively loyal to the books. Several scenes and plot lines were near exact and that's hard to do! I appreciate it, especially the details (i.e. Katniss holding the red rose as they ride in on the chariots). I do feel like they took a lot of emotion out of it, particularly Katniss. She seems a little lifeless and numb to everything in the movies, which I'd assumed was kind of just her default for going through a traumatic event like that, but after reading the books she is much livelier. Her narration, emotions, and feelings as everything is going on really sold me for how much I enjoyed the book. However, I respect the choices of the people involved in the filmmaking (because they are, in fact, good films) and perhaps that is a stylistic choice.

Katniss' narration, emotions, and reactions were all (for me) spot on. I felt like she was a real person who was aware of herself and developed over the course of the book due to the things that she was going through. Her narration was personal without sounding monologue-y, and I really enjoyed reading it. I always feel the need to acknowledge when the general feel of the writing or narration is well done because that can kill a book and make it unbearable or a chore to read.

I love the characters. They're well thought out, three dimensional, and the way that Katniss views and interacts with them is very realistic. In my mind this particularly applies to the stylist assistants, Haymitch, and Peeta. Katniss tries so hard not to judge the stylists, even though they are the very embodiment of what she dislikes about the games (i.e. their frilliness and comments, especially right after she's won). Because it's not really their fault, and she knows that they're people. She is very humane and empathetic which I think I see in myself. It's nice to see it reflected, especially in a main character. Especially in a main character who is seen as ruthless or lethal or dangerous. Her violence has motivation and she does all of the things, including killings, for real reasons. That's such an important, unique, significant thing about this book for me. Fantasy and dystopia often try to make strong (cough female cough) main characters who are badass and assassins and whatever (which is cool!! I love badass women!! I'm making a different point here), but their motivations are often lacking or cold or vague. They kill a hundred men for revenge over their slain little sister, but there is no connection to their little sister. They don't think about their little sister apart from "REVENGE!". We don't see a bond between them. I don't know, Katniss is just real and how she experiences and feels things is too. Woah! Bit of a detour we took there. Let's get back on track. Haymitch is probably someone who has been discussed a thousand times (pure vibe speculation). It's interesting to see him go from a drunk, no care, jerk to someone Katniss relies on and cares for. (cough three dimensional cough) It's also cool to see Katniss realize that and realize that the reason he's an alcoholic is due to what the Capital has put him through. Peeta. Oh, Peeta. The way Katniss views Peeta is kind of funny. She talks about how hard he is to predict, how mysterious, how strategic, when he's just a teenage boy in love. She's always trying to figure out his secret, ulterior motives and it's just that he likes her.

I have a lot of thoughts but I think many of them are ranging into hard to put into words and mostly just general feelings territory which is never nice to try and explain. Plus, I've talked a lot already. I realize, editing this, that these aren't really "reviews" so much as a dumping of my major thoughts and feelings. Maybe I should rename the series. Thoughts?

I would recommend reading this book! (You probably have already)

See you for Catching Fire :,)

#the hunger games #hunger games #suzanne collins #katniss everdeen #peeta mellark #booklr #book review #I gave this book five stars because I couldn't really think of anything I'd change honestly #Also as I'm tagging this some tags are popping up that are concerning #I realize I should expect that in large fandoms but it still managed to surprise me

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solarisposting · 5 months

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I just read a goodreads book review that made me angrier than any inconsequential thing has made me in a WHILE. I loved the book, and I'm not a good critic of novels (or anything); I'm decent at analysis to be fair, but I like a read or I don't (on a spectrum of course).

But good goddamn, this review reeked with pretension and was written like the most unbearable food or music critic's diatribes. Adult character is lost in life, makes stupid choices out of grief/running away from issues/thinking distance from community will help/doesn't act logically as a character in a horror plot? Childish and not very bright! A large bustling family coming together for a major cultural and spiritual threat and asking the same damn questions over and over again, repeating the same arguments, etc.? Tiresome and muddled! Bro is your family (bio or chosen) totally chill? Have you never at least seen (in media or in others' lives) annoying family members beating dead horses for days on end out of concern and love and lack of knowing how else to help???

Dude I dunno, it just felt like legitimate criticisms one might have if they dislike a book or parts of its structure, but then those criticisms were a molehill buried beneath a mountain of hating some super fuckin' flawed characters making wild and awful choices in a time of grief and isolation. Screaming!!!!

#this was a review about Bad Cree by Jessica Johns which i gave five stars btw #i am unreasonably pissed lmao #it was like...just. gripes for the sake of bitching and being unhappy woth a short read that didn't hit typical horror benchmarks. dumb.#it's about multiple generations of cree women in the same family and naturally had a LOT to do with the cumture #and experiences and practices and just. daily lives of cree women mixed with A Horror Plot #but i was still sooo reminded of the chaos and aggravation and love and power and hurt and again love #of when the women on my mom's side of the family congregate #and the connections and rifts and stories memories legends among us all that get passed around rather than #passed down because it all feels so circular. we all repeat ourselves endlessly lmao #like this made me yearn for my family because i saw and felt them in this cast of characters #i'm not indigenous or canadian but i still saw myself and my family in this book and it was such a unique experience #bc it was so goddamn familiar in the midst of learning about this horror plot and how it mixed with cree culture #im emotional and tired and not explaining myself well. but JESUS i cannot wait for Johns to publish her next work #ann with an ie

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urfriendash · 8 months

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Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid Review

So…this is now one of my favorite books.

This is a story about the Riva family; it alternates between the main characters mother in the past and then to themselves in the present. The novel tells the story of four young adults and their fame, aloung with the party that started the 1983 Malibu fire.

I really like the ‘mini plots’. A few chapters are said from the perspective of a totally random character, and how the party that night also changed them. That night did not just affect the main characters and their friends and family; it affected many people there in unexpected ways. I love that fact; it shows that even people not necessarily related to a situation can still be effected from the situation, whether goodly or badly.

This was paced and written very well. The descriptions are top tier, the vibes immaculate I loved most of the characters; even the ‘bad’ people were very interesting to read about. Every character, even the ‘good’ guys had realistic flaws that added a lot to the story and made them likable. I hate a Mary Sue.

There are chapters written from the perspective of very hated people, and they were very intriguing; seeing another side of the story in a well written way was very satisfying and fun to read, even if it was just fiction. It made me feel something, but I’m not sure how to put it into words.

It’s a 5 star read . I need to read TJR’s other books now… I do have one complaint (spoiler);

Casey. I just didn’t like her character, and found it very unrealistic when the Riva family immediately loved her as if she was their own hours after meeting her.

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andreai04 · 1 year

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“How terrifying, to be truly looked at.”

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bookishlyvintage · 2 months

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Children of Ragnarok, Cinda Williams Chima

☆☆☆☆☆ || full review

#book review #children of ragnarok #cinda williams chima #vikings #runestone saga #viking fantasy #fantasy #ya fantasy #good books #five stars #bookblr #booklr #reading #norse #nordic #book aesthetic #viking aesthetic

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hell-river · 6 months

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Incoherent review of ‘The Power of the Dog’ by Thomas Savage incoming

In short: 5 stars, lost my entire mind about this.

In long:

AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

Seriously though; from a writing perspective? Incredible. So vivid. I don’t know what sagebrush smells like but I sure felt like I did. Maybe my experience on cattle stations and farms added to this, but every inch of this was so alive. From the narrow bedroom George and Phil have always shared, to the dim barn, to the sweeping plains. The heartbreak and dread prowl around you throughout the entire book, and stare out at you between Savage’s beautiful descriptions and character work. It had me hooked from the first vivid line.

It’s definitely a product of its time as far as politics and sensibilities go, and I would not recommend it if you want a book just about Gay Cowboys™️, because it’s not about that. The cowboy is gay yes, but the story is infinitely more complex than that. Otherwise, I have no complaints except that is wish I could have lingered longer.

#my reviews #the power of the dog #bookblr #my reading #western novels #westerns #five star books

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geierca-blog · 7 months

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This month, Lucy Score released the last of her Knockemout series titled “Things We Left Behind.” This book is all about the beef between Lucian “fucking” Rollins and Sloan Walton that has been consistently alluded to throughout the first two novels. With her friends all finding their forever partners, Sloan is left feeling a bit envious with a desire to find someone that she can start her own family with. Lucian, on the other hand, is laser focused on his career while also seeking justice for his friend, Nash, that was previously injured in the last book. If you’re anything like me, you’ve been impatiently waiting to find out what lead to the passionate hatred between these two characters and if there’s any chance of reconciliation. The author does an amazing job of developing that story over the course of 592 pages and I appreciated the balance between the past and the present. I legitimately couldn’t put this book down but I did find myself a tiny bit annoyed by Sloan and Lucian’s back and forth and wanted Lucy Score to just spill the tea already. To be fair, I’ve been reading these books for a minute now and I don’t like being out of the loop so this could totally be a me issue and not a Lucy Score issue. The book came to a wholesome conclusion and I had SEVERAL days of mourning the characters that I now felt like I knew. I’m always a little weary about the quality of a series after enjoying the first book so much, BUT this was absolutely worth my time and I recommend this novel and series to any contemporary romance lover🖤

#book review #lucy score #romance #book lover #reading #five star #bloom books

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