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YOU’LL BE THE DEATH OF ME BY KAREN M. MCMANUS // blog tour book review: I devoured this YA mystery ft. fun premise and loveable characters
Hi hello lovely friends! And welcome to my (one day late IM SO SORRY) You’ll Be The Death of Me tour stop which I’m just so so so excited to be part of. This year has been crazy lately but this book was exactly what I needed and I devoured it. Big thanks to The Write Reads for having me on this tour, I’m so happy to be here! Title: You’ll Be The Death of MeAuthor: Karen M. McManusPage count: 326Date published: 2 December 2021Genre: Young Adult mystery thriller ♢ Synopsis: From the author of One of Us Is Lying comes a brand new addictive thriller. Ivy, Mateo and Cal used to be close – best friends back in middle school. Now all they have in common is a bad day. So for old time’s sake they skip school together – one last time. But when the trio spot Brian ‘Boney’ Mahoney ditching class too, they follow him – right into a murder scene. They all have a connection to the victim. And they’re ALL hiding something. When their day of freedom turns deadly, it’s only a matter of time before the truth comes out . . . It’s Ferris Bueller’s Day Off with…
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OUR VIOLENT ENDS BY CHLOE GONG // book talk: this book broke me a thousand times over and slowly put me back together rip me
The day is here and you are not ready. Go grab your tissues BECAUSE I SOBBED MY EYES OUT SO HARD ITS NOT EVEN FUNNY. Will I be sharing those pictures? Keep reading and we’ll see. If you are new to this blog, then you wouldn’t know that *clears throat* I cannot stop raving about my favourite book of 2020 aka These Violent Delights by my idol Chloe Gong. Who is a literary genius and I want to be her. Nobody is doing it like her honestly!!! In case you missed them, I’ve interviewed her and I have a review of book one up <3<3<3 Click the images Title: Our Violent EndsSeries: These Violent Delights book #2Author: Chloe GongPage count: 400Date published: 16 November 2021Genre: Young Adult historical urban fantasy 🥀🔪 Synopsis: The year is 1927, and Shanghai teeters on the edge of revolution. After sacrificing her relationship with Roma to protect him from the blood feud, Juliette has been a girl on the warpath. One wrong move, and her cousin will step in to usurp her place as the Scarlet Gang’s heir. The only way to save the boy she loves from the wrath of the Scarlets is to…
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ACT YOUR AGE, EVE BROWN BY TALIA HIBBERT // spoiler-free book review: this book has banter, smiles and swoons for days!!
Hi hello friends! It’s official, I’m a psychic. I predicted that this would my favourite book of the series and it is. Please, boost my ego in the comments *wink wink* I know, I’m terrible. Feel free to roast me actually. I’ll stop talking and get on with this review because this book was SO WONDERFUL! Title: Act Your Age, Eve BrownSeries: The Brown Sisters book #3Author: Talia HibbertPage count: 400Date published: 3 March 2021Genre: Adult contemporary romance ♪ Synopsis: Eve Brown is a certified hot mess. No matter how hard she strives to do right, her life always goes horribly wrong—so she’s given up trying. But when her personal brand of chaos ruins a wedding, her parents draw the line. It’s time for Eve to grow up and prove herself—even though she’s not entirely sure how… Jacob Wayne is always in control. The uptight B&B owner expects nothing less than perfection from his employees, so when a purple-haired tornado of a woman applies for his open chef position, he tells her the brutal truth: not a chance in hell. Then she hits him with her car—supposedly by accident. Now his arm is broken, his B&B is understaffed, and the dangerously…
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SEVEN DAYS IN JUNE BY TIA WILLIAMS // spoiler-free book review: a spectacular second-chance romance & writer-life
Hi hello wonderful friends! I hope you’re all doing fine and dandy. Before we get into this post, I just have to apologise for leaving all of your recent comments unanswered. I’ve seen them all come in but I just haven’t gotten around to replying to any of them for literally the last like 6 posts,,, WILL CHANGE THAT ASAP. Anyways, today I’m here to shove this fantastic book in your faces that is truly as good as everyone’s been saying, so let’s get into it! Title: Seven Days in JuneAuthor: Tia WilliamsPage count: 328Date published: 1 June 2021Genre: Adult contemporary romance ✎ Synopsis: Seven days to fall in love, fifteen years to forget, and seven days to get it all back again… Eva Mercy is a single mother and bestselling erotica writer who is feeling pressed from all sides. Shane Hall is a reclusive, enigmatic, award-winning novelist, who, to everyone’s surprise, shows up unexpectedly in New York. When Shane and Eva meet at a literary event, sparks fly, raising not only their buried traumas, but also the eyebrows of the Black literati. What no one knows is that fifteen years earlier, teenage Eva and Shane spent one crazy,…
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A GOOD GIRL’S GUIDE TO MURDER BY HOLLY JACKSON // spoiler-free book review: multi-media madness aka the most twisty YA mystery thriller
Hi hello friends, solved any mysteries lately? Oops I kind of did and now I’ve become incredibly arrogant. Accidents happen. Anyways, happy realease day to As Good As Dead, the third and final instalment in the A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder series. Thought it’d be fun to post this review as book three is out today so there you go. I finally got around to this absolute whirlwind and it was just as fantastic as everyone said. Let’s get into the review! Title: A Good Girl’s Guide to MurderSeries: A Good Girl’s Guide to Murder book #1Author: Holly JacksonPage count: 433Date published: 2 May 2019Genre: Young Adult mystery thriller 📌 Synopsis: The case is closed. Five years ago, schoolgirl Andie Bell was murdered by Sal Singh. The police know he did it. Everyone in town knows he did it. But having grown up in the same small town that was consumed by the murder, Pippa Fitz-Amobi isn’t so sure. When she chooses the case as the topic for her final year project, she starts to uncover secrets that someone in town desperately wants to stay hidden. And if the real killer is still out there, how far will…
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YOU DESERVE EACH OTHER BY SARAH HOGLE // (mostly) spoiler-free book review: the perfect laugh out loud adult rom-com ft. second chance enemies to lovers gloriousness
Hello and welcome my beautiful friends, how are we on this fine day? Apologies for this belated review, life has been crazy and I haven’t had the time to put it together. But I FINALLY read this book and it was just as brilliant as everyone said it would be and !!!! Let’s just get into this review because I need to gush! Title: You Deserve Each OtherAuthor: Sarah HoglePage count: 368Date published: 7 April 2020Genre: Adult romance contemporary 💍 Synopsis: When your nemesis also happens to be your fiancé, happily ever after becomes a lot more complicated in this wickedly funny, lovers-to-enemies-to-lovers romantic comedy debut. Naomi Westfield has the perfect fiancé: Nicholas Rose holds doors open for her, remembers her restaurant orders, and comes from the kind of upstanding society family any bride would love to be a part of. They never fight. They’re preparing for their lavish wedding that’s three months away. And she is miserably and utterly sick of him. Naomi wants out, but there’s a catch: whoever ends the engagement will have to foot the nonrefundable wedding bill. When Naomi discovers that Nicholas, too, has been feigning contentment, the two of them go head-to-head in…
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YOU AND ME ON VACATION BY EMILY HENRY // blog tour book review: friends to lovers beauty ft. snarky banter and yearning for a literal decade
Looking for the perfect beach read? Well do I have the book for you ; ) See what I did there? Ha, I know, I’m hilarious. Anyways, hello there my wonderful friends and welcome to my stop on the You and Me On Vacation blog tour! To my US friends, you may know this one as People We Meet On Vacation but tbh, I prefer the UK title. Anyways, I’m so so excited to be on this tour. I got to take part in the Beach Read blog tour last year, which if you didn’t know, was one of my top 5 fave reads of 2021. Let me stop rambling and let’s get into it! Big thanks to Viking Books UK for having me on the blog tour! Title: You & Me On VacationAuthor: Emily HenryPage count: 368Date published: 22 July 2021Genre: Adult contemporary romance ☀ Synopsis: TWO FRIENDSTEN SUMMER TRIPSTHEIR LAST CHANCE TO FALL IN LOVE 12 SUMMERS AGO: Poppy and Alex meet. They hate each other, and are pretty confident they’ll never speak again. 11 SUMMERS AGO: They’re forced to share a ride home from college and by the end of it a friendship is formed. And a pact:…
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EMERGENCY CONTACT BY MARY H.K. CHOI // spoiler-free book review: this book is brilliant & everybody who hates it is wrong, I don’t make the rules!!
Hello, look at me actually writing a review for a YA BOOK?!?! And a contemporary at that. Woweee has it been a while. But this book is excellent and I adored it and am going to throw it at you all for the rest of eternity. And yes, you did read correctly. If you hated this book, then your opinion is wrong. I don’t make the rules. Let’s get into the review! Title: Emergency ContactAuthor: Mary H.K. ChoiPage count: 394Date published: 24 March 2018Genre: New adult coming-of-age contemporary romance ⌨ Synopsis: For Penny Lee high school was a total nonevent. Her friends were okay, her grades were fine, and while she somehow managed to land a boyfriend, he doesn’t actually know anything about her. When Penny heads to college in Austin, Texas, to learn how to become a writer, it’s seventy-nine miles and a zillion light years away from everything she can’t wait to leave behind. Sam’s stuck. Literally, figuratively, emotionally, financially. He works at a café and sleeps there too, on a mattress on the floor of an empty storage room upstairs. He knows that this is the god-awful chapter of his life that will serve as inspiration for when…
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KATE IN WAITING BY BECKY ALBERTALLI // blog tour book review: theatre kids ft. wonderful writing & lovable relationships
Hello, there lovely friends! And welcome to my Kate in Waiting tour stop which I’m just SO excited to be part of. My schedule has been crazy lately but I took this delight to the beach with me and simply devoured the whole thing. Big thanks to The Write Reads for inviting me onto this tour, I’m so honoured! Title: Kate In Waiting Author: Becky Albertalli Page count: 400 Date published: 20 April 2021 Genre: Young Adult contemporary romance ✮ Synopsis: [PRINCIPAL CAST LIST] Kate Garfield Anderson Walker Best friends, and contrary to popular belief, not co-dependent. Examples: Carpooling to and from theatre rehearsals? Environmentally sound and efficient. Consulting each other on every single life decision? Basic good judgment. Pining for the same guys from afar? Shared crushes are more fun anyway. But when Kate and Andy’s latest long-distance crush shows up at their school, everything goes off-script. Enter Stage Left: Matt Olsson He is talented and sweet, and Kate likes him. She really likes him. The only problem? So does Anderson. Turns out, communal crushes aren’t so fun when real feelings are involved. This one might even bring the curtains down on Kate and Anderson’s friendship… ✮ ADD TO GOODREADS ✮ Big thanks to…
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FROM LUKOV WITH LOVE BY MARIANA ZAPATA // book talk: somebody needs to cure my obsession ft. figure skating & enemies-to-lovers gloriousness
I know I joke about it frequently but this time I’m being very serious as I ACTUALLY DO NEED HELP! I need to be stopped. When I say that I have been rereading this book over and over since I finished, I do not exaggerate. Some would call it unhealthy, I call it being obsessed and needing ~serotonin~ in my life. Mariana Zapata is just a godsend and I LITERALLY ADORE HER SO MUCH. Now let’s dive into my sanity breakdown. Title: From Lukov with Love Series: [unofficial] Santos Sisters #2 Author: Mariana Zapata Page count: 542 Date published: 1 February 2018 Genre: Adult contemporary romance ❄ Synopsis: If someone were to ask Jasmine Santos to describe the last few years of her life with a single word, it would definitely be a four-letter one. After seventeen years—and countless broken bones and broken promises—she knows her window to compete in figure skating is coming to a close. But when the offer of a lifetime comes in from an arrogant idiot she’s spent the last decade dreaming about pushing in the way of a moving bus, Jasmine might have to reconsider everything. Including Ivan Lukov. ❄ ADD TO GOODREADS ❄ STAR…
