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NOTHING LIKE THE MOVIES BY LYNN PAINTER // spoiler-free book review: finally reviewing one of my fave 2024 reads & taking a nap on the highway because,,, wesliz!!!
I need someone to whack me over the head this point. I’ve run out of excuses for myself and I’m tired of it. Cross all of your fingers and toes I can start reviewing books closer to when I read them,,, ICYMI this *author interview* – click to read Anyways, many tears in this one, let’s get into this godforsaken book! Title: Nothing Like The MoviesSeries: Better Than The Movies book #2Author: Lynn PainterPage count: 442Date published: 1 October 2024Genre: Young adult contemporary romance 🍿 Synopsis: For a few beautiful months, Wes had his dream girl: the strong-willed girl next door Liz. But right as the two were about to set off for college to start their freshman year together, tragedy struck. Wes was left dealing with the fallout, which ultimately meant losing Liz in the process. Flash forward months later, and Wes and Liz find themselves in college, together. In a healthier place now, Wes knows he broke Liz’s heart when he ended things, but he is determined to make her fall back in love with him. Wes knows Liz better than anyone, and he has a foolproof plan to win her back with rom-com-worthy grand gestures she loves.…
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OUR INFINITE FATES BY LAURA STEVEN // spoiler-free book review: ya romantasy or reincarnating soulmates with complex discussions on gender & love?
This review was written like 7 months ago, but the awful person I am is only posting it now. I apologise to the publishing gods on the daily frfr Anywho,,, let’s get into! Title: Our Infinite FatesAuthor: Laura StevenPage count: 352Date published: 27 February 2025Genre: Young Adult Fantasy Romance 💫 Synopsis: They’ve loved each other in a thousand lifetimes. They’ve killed each other in every one. Evelyn remembers all her past lives. She also remembers that in every single one, she’s been murdered before her eighteenth birthday by Arden, a supernatural being whose soul―and survival―is tethered to hers. The problem is that she’s quite fond of the life she’s in now, and her little sister needs her for bone marrow transplants in order to stay alive. If Evelyn wants to save her sister, she’ll have to: 1. Find the centuries-old devil who hunts her through each life―before they find her first.2. Figure out why she’s being hunted and finally break their curse.3. Try not to fall in love. 💫 💫 Big thanks to Penguin Random House SA for the eARC via Netgalley & physical review copy! All thoughts and opinions are my own. 💫 STAR RATING: (4 out of 5…
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LOVE AT FIRST FLIGHT BY JO WATSON // spoiler-free book review: the fake dating rom-com that will literally fly you away!
Took me only like 3 months to get this post up but I simply cannot be gatekeeping this book for any longer? IM IN LOVE!!!! Let’s fly right in! No I will not stop using this word, Pippa needs to give me another synonym *hides* Title: Love at First FlightAuthor: Jo WatsonPage count: 368Date published: 18 January 2024Genre: Adult contemporary romance ✈️ Synopsis: Things Pippa her job, airplanes, synonyms and tropical fish. Things Pippa does not enjoy: repeating patterns, tight clothes, people asking why she’s single and school reunions. After four months of only speaking over intercom, when air-traffic controller Pippa Edwards finally meets pilot Andrew Boyce-Jones face-to-face, they discover they’ve got much more in common than simply working at the same airport. In fact . . . they both need a date. Tired of every relationship ending before it’s even begun, Pippa wants to evade the inevitable questions at her dreaded ten-year school reunion in Cape Town. And Andrew needs to get his well-meaning family off his back about settling down. The solution seems simple. A pact – a fake dating pact – for as long as it’s mutually beneficial. It’s perfect. Or at least it would be if…
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YOU BELONG HERE BY SARA PHOEBE MILLER & MORGAN BEEM // blog tour book feature: a gorgeous ya graphic novel that’ll punch you in the gut!
I’m on fire just a little bit and I kinda like it? Anyways, very excitied for my stop and the final stop of the tour celebrating You Belong Here! Let’s get into it 🙂 Title: You Belong HereAuthor: Sara Phoebe MillerIllustrator: Morgan BeemPage count: 256Date published: 4 March 2025Genre: Young Adult contemporary 💜 Synopsis: A young adult graphic novel following Essie through heartbreak, star-crossed romance, teen drama, and the question on every high-school senior’s lips: where do I belong? It’s the first day of senior year and seventeen-year-old Essie Rosen is already over it. Her best friend went off to college and barely responds to her texts, her brother’s on the other side of the country in rehab, every conversation with her mom becomes a fight, and her long-term boyfriend, Bruno, feels weirdly distant. Essie’s counting down the days until she can escape her Long Island hometown and join her bff at NYU, where she’s SURE she’ll get into the acting program she’s dreamed about for years. But when Essie gets dumped AND botches her college audition, her entire trajectory changes. Instead of doing community theater, she ends up slumming it in the school play, where she’s cast opposite the…
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RUTHLESS VOWS BY REBECCA ROSS // spoiler-free book review: this sequel took me out and i am still in recovery,,,
Not really ready to the write this review but I can’t keep avoiding it so here we go. Wish me luck. Imma need it,,, You can check my review of the first book if you’re feeling curious 👀 Title: Ruthless VowsSeries: Letters of Enchantment book #2Author: Rebecca RossPage count: 419Date published: 26 December 2023Genre: Young Adult fantasy 🗞️ Synopsis: Torn apart by war. Reunited by love? Two weeks have passed since Iris returned home bruised and heartbroken from the front, but the war is far from over. Roman is missing, lost behind enemy lines, with no memory of his past, or Iris. Hoping his memories return, he begins to write again – but this time for the enemy. When a strange letter arrives through his wardrobe door, he strikes up a correspondence with a penpal who seems at once mysterious… and strangely familiar. As their connection deepens, the two of them will risk their very hearts and futures to change the tides of the war. 🗞️ 🗞️ STAR RATING: (5 out of 5 stars) You know that meme from Family Guy where the dude goes “time to get some sleep,” rolls over and just cries? If you looked for my…
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DIVINE RIVALS BY REBECCA ROSS // spoiler-free book review: was the internet right or did this book give me anxiety? click to find out!
Wow I know. Couldn’t have been more clickbait if I tried. But thought I’d try a game of trickery on you, just for funsies. I really don’t have to tell you much about this post seeing as you’ve most likely read the book already. Or were hiding under your rock like mwah. You’re valid babes, I promise. Without further ado, into the review we go! Title: Divine RivalsSeries: Letters of Enchantment book #1Author: Rebecca RossPage count: 368Date published: 13 April 2023Genre: Young Adult Fantasy 🖋️ Synopsis: When two young rival journalists find love through a magical connection, they must face the depths of hell, in a war among gods, to seal their fate forever. After centuries of sleep, the gods are warring again. But eighteen-year-old Iris Winnow just wants to hold her family together. Her mother is suffering from addiction and her brother is missing from the front lines. Her best bet is to win the columnist promotion at the Oath Gazette. To combat her worries, Iris writes letters to her brother and slips them beneath her wardrobe door, where they vanish—into the hands of Roman Kitt, her cold and handsome rival at the paper. When he anonymously writes Iris…
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SEVEN PERCENT OF RO DEVEREUX BY ELLEN O’CLOVER // spoiler-free book review: finally reviewing one of my fave books of 2023 & forever screaming over this author
It’s been a long time coming but. It’s you and me. That’s my whole world. Miss Ro Devereux isn’t a… bad bad girl? Okay fun over, that was bad. But I hope I expressed my excitement ovet this book in some small way? If you’ve been here a while, you may have noticed and I’ve read and adored both of these author’s books. I just haven’t sat down to yell about them in their own post. Well except for this fun thing I did… Yeah go read that, we had a lot of fun. Anyways, enough babbling because I NEED TO GUSH SO STINKING BAD!!!! Title: Seven Percent of Ro DevereuxAuthor: Ellen O’CloverPage count: 320Date published: 17 January 2023Genre: Young Adult contemporary romance 🎧 Synopsis: Ro Devereux can predict your future. Or at least, the app she’s created can. Inspired by the iconic kids’ game, MASH calculates details about your life with 93% accuracy, like where you’ll live and what your career will be. It can even match you with your soulmate. When MASH goes viral, swanky Silicon Valley app developer XLR8 swoops in to partner with Ro. She’s thrilled until she’s betrayed by her own algorithm and matched with…
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THE WISTERIA SOCIETY OF LADY SCOUNDRELS BY INDIA HOLTON // spoiler-free book review: the most delightful historical fantasy romance genre-bending chaos book you need in your life right this second <3<3
Look at me staying semi-up-to-date with reviews AND reading books from my physical TBR. I’m a changed woman? Yeah no, that’s wishful thinking but I am proud of myself just a smidge. Enough chit-chat, into the review we go my fine friends!!! Title: The Wisteria Society of Lady ScoundrelsSeries: Dangerous Damsels book #1Author: India HoltonPage count: 324Date published: 15 June 2021Genre: Adult historical fantasy romance 🪻 Synopsis: A prim and proper lady thief must save her aunt from a crazed pirate and his dangerously charming henchman in this fantastical historical romance. Cecilia Bassingwaite is the ideal Victorian lady. She’s also a thief. Like the other members of the Wisteria Society crime sorority, she flies around England drinking tea, blackmailing friends, and acquiring treasure by interesting means. Sure, she has a dark and traumatic past and an overbearing aunt, but all things considered, it’s a pleasant existence. Until the men show up. Ned Lightbourne is a sometimes assassin who is smitten with Cecilia from the moment they meet. Unfortunately, that happens to be while he’s under direct orders to kill her. His employer, Captain Morvath, who possesses a gothic abbey bristling with cannons and an unbridled hate for the world,…
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SEE YOU YESTERDAY BY RACHEL LYNN SOLOMON // spoiler-free book review: finally reviewing this genius new adult time-loop romance book that you needed in your life yesterday,,,
Not me having a weird time thingy right now and yes I am very proud of the above pun lmao. Whilst it may look like I’m a million years late to this book, your assumption would be EH wrong. I actually read this book a while ago and only JUST found a physical copy. Pretend to hear my evil laughter in the background!!!! Lol I’m crazy actually, fully aware of that. Before we jump it, you can check out my review of TODAY TONIGHT TOMORROW from this author by clicking on the image below because I love that book also and you need to get off your butts to read if you haven’t already,,, Title: See You YesterdayAuthor: Rachel Lynn SolomonPage count: 419Date published: 17 May 2022Genre: New adult contemporary sci-fi 🕐 Synopsis: Barrett Bloom is hoping college will be a fresh start after a messy high school experience. But when school begins on September 21st, everything goes wrong. She’s humiliated by the know-it-all in her physics class, she botches her interview for the college paper, and at a party that night, she accidentally sets a frat on fire. She panics and flees, and when she realizes her roommate locked…
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THANK YOU FOR LISTENING BY JULIA WHELAN // spoiler-free book review: took me long enough but i adored this book about audiobook narrators falling in love from the queen herself!
Look at me posting semi-regularly? I so appreciate all of your undying and heartfelt faith in my posting capabilities,,, C’mon folks, you know the drill. It’s sarcasm for everyone in Ruby’s house. I’ll stop talking and jump right in! Title: Thank You For ListeningAuthor: Julia WhelanPage count: 432Date published: 2 August 2022Genre: Adult contemporary fiction 🎧 Synopsis: For Sewanee Chester, being an audiobook narrator is a long way from her old dreams, but the days of being a star on film sets are long behind her. She’s found success and satisfaction from the inside of a sound booth and it allows her to care for her beloved, ailing grandmother. When she arrives in Las Vegas last-minute for a book convention, Sewanee unexpectedly spends a whirlwind night with a charming stranger. On her return home, Sewanee discovers one of the world’s most beloved romance novelists wanted her to perform her last book–with Brock McNight, the industry’s hottest, most secretive voice. Sewanee doesn’t buy what romance novels are selling–not after her own dreams were tragically cut short–and she stopped narrating them years ago. But her admiration of the late author, and the opportunity to get her grandmother more help, makes her decision…
