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Everything I Know About Love by Dolly Alderton

I think this book arrived at the right time in my life. Finishing it on the night of my 27th birthday, it felt like having a chat with a best friend. Absolutely marvellous!

**i do not rate memoirs.

Divine Rivals by Rebecca Ross

5.0

Wheeeeere has this book been all my life 😭 it was so so good, so EXACTLY what I love in a book, I didn't want it to finish!

The magical elements, the relationship, the world, everything was so well crafted, that this felt like a fairytale. My favourite definitely has to be the writing style, I've never read anything from Rebecca Ross before, but now I'm definitely a fan ⭐

Final Girls by Riley Sager

2.0

This was a difficult oneeeee
Didn't like Sam and Tina at all, it was almost frustrating at times how Quincy "allowed" all that was happening.

At the same time, it wasn't as thrilling cause even though

Lisa ended up dead at some point, I wasn't even remotely invested in her so I didn't really care who did it 😅

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The ending was also something that I didn't enjoy cause it didn't come off as a plot twist, like I didn't feel anything. I know we had Quincy as an unreliable narrator, but at the same time I found the ending pretty similar to the ending of "The Last time I lied", in the sense that the unassuming guy that was always in plain sight did it. And having read that book first, when we were nearing the end and it was obvious Johannes hadn't done it, it was easy for me to figure out who actually did.

Props to the fact that Sage 's books read amazingly as audiobooks, cause I tried an e-book format as well and couldn't get through it, whereas the audiobook made it so easy to consume!

All Creatures Living Beneath the Sun by C.S. Fritz

2.0

Even though when I started this, I was so invested in the story and loved how creepy it was, I slowly lost interest, as is shown by the fact that it took me more than two months to finish it!

Would read something else from this author tbh, but maybe after a couple of months.

Christmas After All by Cece Louise

2.0

I will be honest, I read this to be able to finish the Gilmore Girls reading challenge 😅

A Touch of Jen by Beth Morgan

4.5

This was a looooovely read! It was creepy and eerie, especially as we were nearing its climax, but what I liked the most was all the underlying messages that would make it a joy to annotate!!

I think one of the biggest things that stayed with me was the fact that somehow, deep down Alicia and Remy did love each other. Even when they were with other people, doing something mundane, they would catch themselves thinking "oh I wonder what the other would have said about this". And they were together even in their obsession over Jen, so stupidly, inexplicably together and I just found that really touching.

The Last Time I Lied by Riley Sager

2.5

Started reading this on holiday and soon switched over to audiobook, which was also the way I managed to finish it.

It was a lovely setting and an intriguing premise and I was waiting to see how the story would finally wrap up, but it was slightly underwhelming and based on circumstance more than actual motive.

I understand that Chet wanted revenge, but how could he know that the girls would give him the perfect opportunity to make them vanish? Unless that was never his intention and all he wanted was to simply make Emma seem guilty for the first vanishing all those years ago

Icebreaker by Hannah Grace

1.0

Unfortunately this one has the cutest cover and this is what lured me in, but other than that I didn't really enjoy it.

I feel my biggest issue with it was the writing. 400+ pages but I could narrow down the significant events to 250+ pages. The dual POV didn't really help cause most of the times we ended up rereading events. Adding to that, we got scenes that were identical with th biggest example being the Christmas holidays, where we got the exact same restaurant/ex scene for both Anastasia and Nate with minimal changes.

There was a big cast of characters that didn't really make sense.

It had an awfully cheesy, perfectly wrapped up ending which was slightly unrealistic and I could see it coming for miles. Because everyone reading this is a multimillionaire that ends up getting married two years out of college, have a baby and live in a beach mansion.

Again, I will return to the writing, cause a lot of scenes read like fanfiction.

Did we have any clue that Aaron was into Anastasia before nationals? No. Did the fact that Anastasia fell into a frozen lake have any impact apart from the fact that it made them say "I love you"? No. Did we ever see two athletes that apparently won a gold medal and a Stanley cup ever actually train? No. Did we ever understand why everyone was so enamored with Anastasia the moment they met her? No.

 
Did it try to tackle a miriad of topics like anxiety, an ED, toxic relationships, hook up culture, etc and somehow kept it surface level? Yes. Did it glorify unprotected sex? Yes.

All in all, I know what this book tried to do, cause I've seen the same scenes in other romance books time and time before. Unfortunately, it wasn't my cup of tea.

Basil and Oregano by Melissa Capriglione

5.0

That was literally the sweetest thing I've read! Representation was spot on, but my absolute favourite thing has to be the art work!!

Spare by Prince Harry

insightful to say the least. whatever your opinion on him is, you have to respect all he went through to protect his family.


**I do not rate memoirs