❝ I have to confess that I think I’m obsessed with this. With you. With us. ❞
⤷ everything has changed by taylor swift ft. ed sheeran all I know si4.5 ⭐
❝ I have to confess that I think I’m obsessed with this. With you. With us. ❞
⤷ everything has changed by taylor swift ft. ed sheeran all I know since yesterday, is everything has changed <3
I have to confess that I think I’m obsessed with this book. With Nick. with emilienick. Will I be attacked by crazy fangirls if I admit that I liked this better than bttm?? It was truly a perfect read.
❝ We're all good. We're all bad. The hero in our own story. The villain in someone else's. ❞
The one time I bought a book without reading it firs2.75 ⭐
❝ We're all good. We're all bad. The hero in our own story. The villain in someone else's. ❞
The one time I bought a book without reading it first. *loud tsk-ing*
This was not a bad book by any means; Mrs. White is a very talented author. But the plot was very sparse and slow-paced. Aside from mini villain pov, there wasn't even really a plot for the main characters until the climax. It's mainly a romance. Which would have been fine, since I adore character-driven stories, if the romance hadn't been blander than unsalted mashed potatoes and if the main character wasn't the most infuriating character since Alina Starkov.
Let me introduce Margot De Wilde's character to you. Margot is almost eighteen, but she has the mind of an extremely intelligent elderly gentleman. She sees the world as an equation to be solved. She's so dang smart that she literally thinks and prays in numbers. She works as a codebreaker in a secretive Room 40 with a bunch of ✨men✨, creatures likeminded to her just not as smart, obviously. Margot eats lunch alone, because everyone expects her to eat with the fellow young woman who work as secretaries, but she despises them because they're all brainless gossips with only room in their head for fluff and fashion and she's the first female to ever exist who every had any common sense.
Then Drake Elton comes along. Drake is very hot, and he asks very good questions, and he can't resist any challenge. He immediately is smitten with the very quick-witted and sarcastic and hilarious Margot De Wilde. Everything she does becomes even more annoying from his pov because he is obsessed with her and thinks she's ✨really great✨.
As you might have guessed, after lots of flirtation and Margot being too good for Drake, they fall in love.
Now people, I really wanted to like Margot. She had her moments, such as this one:
"wait just a blighted moment. Do you mean to tell me-" "Shut up, Camden. My feeble feminine intelligence requires a bit of quiet for such tasks."
But overall, she made me want to punch her in her super-smart face. Which made her romance, while still cute, overall very meh for me, and I thought Drake deserved a lot better than he was getting with her.
I expected a bit more from Roseanna, especially after just previously reading The Reluctant Duchess (which was beautiful and gripping), but the next book in the series (about different characters thank goodness) looks good so I'll probably still pick that one up.
❝ I love to watch you and try to imagine the thoughts pouring through your mind... I picture them like a whirlwind, each thought a bejeweled raindrop. Beautiful storms of brilliance. ❞
happy reading my loves <33 remember to stay safe and drink enough water!! ...more
eadlyn sounds like the name of a beetle. try to name one actual personality trait of the love interest. haha, you can'teadlyn sounds like the name of a beetle. try to name one actual personality trait of the love interest. haha, you can't...more
❝ you should be wary of setting rules with me. you know I live to break them. ❞
ಇ ~ I can see you by taylor swift then we kiss, and you know I won’t e❝ you should be wary of setting rules with me. you know I live to break them. ❞
ಇ ~ I can see you by taylor swift then we kiss, and you know I won’t ever tell
I’m humbled. I thought I would have the same meh feeling about this as I did the author’s other books, and bought it solely for the cover. but boy, was I wrong. this was just about the cutest thing ever.
the reason that axie’s other books were a miss for me was because of the writing style, and unfortunately, that’s usually not something that varies from book to book; an author’s writing is what can make them well-loved or well-hated, because it has a distinct impression or voice. From my previous experiences with axie’s writing, I knew it to be cheesy and a bit stilted, and frankly incapable of writing chemistry or angst. imagine my surprise when the writing style in this book was not only fun, easy-to-read, and flowed remarkably well, but had a sizzling romance (not in regards to spice, obviously, as it’s YA, but in that the chemistry was immaculate).
sori and nathaniel are both, well, extremely hot characters and their moments actually had me silently squealing and cackling. I say this a lot, because I’m a hopeless romantic and almost anything remotely related to romance will make me pass out, but seriously; it was too good! I felt like I was watching a k-drama. the pool scene?? unwell. I loved how nathaniel didn’t force himself onto sori but waited patiently for her and respected her boundaries. They were such simps for each other and I was eating it up.
I also loved the kpop-based plot. The xoxo band members are all cute (youngmin & hyemi spinoff when??) and it was refreshing to have a protagonist who knew what she was doing and how to handle herself while being scrutinized by the media. speaking of awkward and oblivious characters… what do you know, I liked jenny a lot more when she wasn’t suffering from main character syndrome. She was actually really cute. The platonic & familial relationships in this book warmed my heart– sori had such cute relationships with jenny, hyemi, and her mom. we stan!!
–bottom line: this book really is just as cute as its cover <3
❝ I would walk the same path every lifetime, if I knew that at the end of it, you were waiting for me. ❞
ಇ ~ this book was cheesy, but not really the good kind.
I enjoyed it moderately, but the romance was quite lacking, and I honestly liked the side coupಇ ~ this book was cheesy, but not really the good kind.
I enjoyed it moderately, but the romance was quite lacking, and I honestly liked the side couple much more than the main couple. I just could not get into the writing style and was cringing every five seconds. it was quick, though, and pretty fun at parts if you can get past the stilted narrative. all the delulu girlies out there who fantasize about meeting their celebrity crushes and having a whirlwind romance... this one's for you. hopefully you'll enjoy it more than I did!
p.s. taking off half another half of a star because the ending made me cringe so hard I was transported into another dimension inside my head where this book does not exist <3...more
this book was a bit predictable, but it was also cute and fluffy and light and helped me get back on track with my reading challenge so there’s 3.5 ⭐️
this book was a bit predictable, but it was also cute and fluffy and light and helped me get back on track with my reading challenge so there’s absolutely nothing wrong with it in my eyes ...more
❝ when it comes to the things one loves most, it is always better to be trapped together than safe and apart. ❞
❀ ~ long live by taylor swift I ha3.20 ☆
❝ when it comes to the things one loves most, it is always better to be trapped together than safe and apart. ❞
❀ ~ long live by taylor swift I had the time of my life fighting dragons with you
this book was such a cute fantasy romcom! it wasn’t as similar to the tiktok series as I was expecting but I did get the little references and I love how she expanded upon her idea with the tiktoks to make a full-blown book.
₊˚❀.ೃ character breakdown ࿔*:･
~ evangelina sage: she was adorable! her personality went quite a bit overboard at times and I kind of wanted to put duct tape on her mouth at some of the stuff she said... the secondhand embarrassment was real. but I did love her and all her quirks for the most part! she reminded me a lot of evangeline from ouabh. even the names are extremely similar ...more
˚₊‧༉❀ ❝ Here comes the rain, and I'm crying again, caught up in the downpour of me loving you. ❞ ❀༉‧₊˚
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ alexa, play golden hour by jvke ♡ s4.5 ⭐️
˚₊‧༉❀ ❝ Here comes the rain, and I'm crying again, caught up in the downpour of me loving you. ❞ ❀༉‧₊˚
ˏˋ°•*⁀➷ alexa, play golden hour by jvke ♡ she's got glitter for skin, my radiant beam in the night
౨ ♣️ ৎ marissa meyer slays literally every genre, from fantasy to sci-fi to dystopian to now, the cutest contemporary romance duology ever. this was one of my most highly anticipated releases of 2024, and it did not disappoint!
౨ ♣️ ৎ there is a very small number of ya romance from the boy's perspective, but it worked super well for this one. Jude was a wonderfully dorky protagonist, a junior in high school with a penchant for star wars, marvel, star trek, lord of the rings, dungeons and dragons, and so on- and also with a massive crush on the most popular girl in his grade. he's extremely oblivious that the beautiful, talented girl he calls his best friend could be anything other than a friend, but he was such a simp for her when he realized his feelings that it was so worth it.
౨ ♣️ ৎ the romance was so sweet and cute. best friends-to-lovers always has this innocent, adorable quality that I love. marissa meyer writes romances devoid of lust and too much angst and no, I repeat no, third act breakup! ari was an amazing character and I would have loved her perspective, but it might have robbed the book of the slowburn because she was definitely in love with jude from the first page.
౨ ♣️ ৎ one of my favorite things about this book was how it completely rejected the usual tropes; the you belong with me complex, where the girl the guy is pining after is actually a rude snob. this girl was super sweet and kind and even a little dorky, she just simply wasn't right for him. it was really refreshing to read about!
౨ ♣️ ৎ the one complaint I have though, was while the sibling relationships were adorable, marissa meyer committed a grave literary crime in that area. listen, sibling do not call each other 'sis' or 'bro.' no siblings actually do that (edit: my apologies, most siblings don't do that). please stop having characters do it ...more
adorable! This was honestly way cuter than I expected. I flew right through it and it was just the fluffy read I needed <3
Though, I did think the3.5⭐️
adorable! This was honestly way cuter than I expected. I flew right through it and it was just the fluffy read I needed <3
Though, I did think the ending/big reveal was kind of anticlimactic... like, really? That's it? I've noticed this pattern in Kasie West books a lot, but I always expect her to wrap up every mini plot thread and bring back in seemingly crucial things mentioned a few times, but she never does. That's just me, though, I guess ...more
❝ I would always rather be happy than dignified. ❞
The Lady Janies are back and better than ever in this ghost-filled, slightly wonk retelling of Jane ❝ I would always rather be happy than dignified. ❞
The Lady Janies are back and better than ever in this ghost-filled, slightly wonk retelling of Jane Eyre. Having only recently read the original novel for the first time, the details were still fresh in my brain, which made the way the Lady Janies twisted the story and details all the more hilarious. I will say this, though; if you're a stickler for the classic and are already wary of this comedic interpretation of the story, I say skip it. The Lady Janies don't have much in the way of respect for the original novel, it seems, but they are also quite self-aware. As soon as you open the book, the dedication states: "And for England (again). We're really sorry for what we're about to do to your literature."
So while this will never be or be as good as Jane Eyre, it's not trying to be. It's trying to be funny, witty, and refreshing; and it succeeds spectacularly on all of those fronts. While I think I still loved this book's predecessor, My Lady Jane, a bit more than this sequel, I still had an amazing time with this one. My Plain Jane follows two (or three, depending on how you define main character) protagonists in this laugh-out-loud murder mystery. Jane Eyre, a plain orphan with the slightly peculiar ability to see and converse with ghosts, Charlotte Brontë, a fellow plain teenage girl with tortoiseshell spectacles and a desire to be a great author, and Alexander Blackwood, a licensed (as licensed as a non-licensed person can be) ghost catcher who is out to avenge his father's murder.
"You may think you know the story," the Lady Janies claim in the prologue. And you might actually know the story, but this one is completely different and almost as good. Overall I had a ton of fun with this, and I highly recommend it!
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