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I read alot of books....now I'll talk about them i guess......💙💜

[kawaiixkuma]

Time to talk about my favorite NA book of the year: Mermaid in Manhattan (im biased my favorite books have pink haired mermaids)

I adored this book. I had just finished a series that was really intense and needed something lighter to read right after, and i think i found a gem. I was sick, emotional, and this book made me so happy. Its such a bubbly book, all i can do was smile. I will not include many spoilers as it just came out on July 7th, but i will give you these little morsels. I enjoyed the main characters alot and their relationship, trying to navigate their differences and understand each other. I enjoyed the amount of spice, since it is a big part of the plot but it didnt feel messy. I enjoyed the FMC, and the MMC singularly and their own personal growth. The audiobook was a fun listen, i tandem read as per us. And ultimately what sold me on this was not just them. The secondary and minor characters have such....personality, and it nice to enjoy their lives too. I feel sometimes the secondary and minor characters, are forgotten a bit so its nice even when they arent on the page, to get thought about st least. They are so cute, and i love their banter, as well as the main characters. I heard there was going to be a second book and im excited if there is, but i love how this currently can be read as a stand alone and im satisfied with that🩷💙💜 so we'll give it a 8/10💜

I guess I'll be adding MY BIG FAT VAMPIRE WEDDING to my tbr.

[kawaiixkuma]

I was feeling sick

Now I feel great, but you know what means.....I trekked through books I felt like my name was Kathryn Janeway. So now lets talk about about them. This was not the first book I started with but, it just came out so here we are. The Exquisite Torment of Loving Your Enemy IS the most hilarious book ive read all year. If you thought the banter in the first book was good, well strap in because i was laughing more than I was crying, and I cried exactly 3 times. The way they mesh and dont at the same time will always have me astounded, but the way they were in here..... yep astounded. This is just my opinion, but all duologies need to be wrapped up this nicely. The pacing was great, the story wrapped up so well, i was so satisfied with the ending, i even smoked a cigarette. That hasnt happened for a hot minute. I wont put too many spoilers as it just came out, but truthfully id pick this up if i were you. Brigitte Knightley, well done because ive never cried over a cricket before, 6/10.

[acourtdelaluna]

Gwyn Berdara, from day one, was a heroine. Even on the most horrific day of her life, when fear and trauma could have consumed her completely, she still chose to save those children.

That’s who Gwyn is at her core, compassionate, brave, selfless. Not because it was easy, not because she was unafraid, but because even in unimaginable pain, her instinct was still to protect those children first.

Some people survive darkness. Gwyn walked through it and still carried light for someone else.

[kawaiixkuma]

Songbird of the sorrows *spoilers ahead*

So idky people hated this book, but i found it because I was scrolling and saw someone say the book was terrible. I disagree. Its more of a complex read with alot of strings. I throughly enjoyed sailing through the vast world Brandi Otto has weaved for us. There was ample amount of twist, that I kept asking.....how is this about to end? And when if did, I deff didnt expect it. Its a duology, so I expected the cliffhanger, and all the people who were supposed to make me feel icky(like everyone) did. It was slower in some parts but I really took those parts in and glad I did, because they came back at me in the end and my flabbers were 100% gasted. The trials were honestly just enough and I was glad we didn't linger longer than necessary. I love Aella, I love a princess tale.....but I love a not princess tale better. Being a spy, and an exiled princess gave her more depth than I thought it would and I was completly sat for it. The spicy scenes are also extremely well written, even if I dont personally feel like they fit. Speaking of, that was my biggest complaint. I felt they either could have been left out or just placed differently and it would have been better but over all: plot 5/10, spice 4/10. October honestly cant get here fast enough.

[kawaiixkuma]

I got weekend book mail.....Education in Malice.

Are you into sapphic vampire dark academia inspred by Sheridan Le Fanu's Carmilla? Well look no further. This book had me in a chokehold when I first listened to it. S.T. Gibson's has a way for gripping me till the very end and leaving me wanting more everytime. The poetic way S.T. writes will always body slam me into the next dimension, and this one was just as deliciously satisfying as A Dowry of Blood. Overall, a 7/10 and im so excited for my next few days off to tandem read this baby

[kawaiixkuma]

The Irrestible Urge to Fall for you enemy *with some spoilers*

Sooooooo why was this the funniest book ive read in a hot minute? It was hilarious. As a long term fanfic reader, this was obvi on my radar. I had heard it was a slow burn romance based on a draco/hermione fanfic.....and it was VERY British and hard to get through. The girl who told me that lied about 1 of those things. It was NOT a hard read....it was VERY British(for you americans), and it was an intensely slow burn romance, which both of those things im here for. It truly is an enemies to lovers, seeing as its only 21 chapters, and the first realization of love happens somewhere around chapter 17. There is subtle hints about it earlier on but it is solidified in 17-20, and majority of that time we are enemies, which i again, im here for.......now onto the world: I throughly enjoyed the world around us and the side characters. If you thought our main characters were funny, the side chacters are even funnier. I was laughing hysterically at the side banter and the descriptions of certain characters, that part was a 10/10.......my biggest eh: it ended super abruptly just as we were putting 2 and 2 together, we are kind feeling each other, and we really arent healed(just slowed down the sickness in Osric) so over all there wasnt a wrap up of any kind, which im generally used to getting at least 1 or 2 things being wrapped up at least, but thats ok. Brigitte is very obviously different and we love her for that. Overall, the book was has very good characters, was very funny, and very british....and i give it a 5/10......

Let's see what this sequel has in store for us on July 7.

[kawaiixkuma]

Arcana academy

Ive always adored Elise Kova. Her writing styles have been some of my favorite......but this one *chefs kiss* The MC was so hard and soft at the same time and its delicious. I loved how i hated him for so long.....and now.....ughhhhhh, i need more of him. The romance is necessary and not too much. The scenes are explicit but so satisfying and I enjoy a real enemies to lovers and I was definitely satsfied. Its the perfect amount of sauce on this spaghetti 🍝 like pasta is one of my favorite foods, and this book felt like pasta. I, as always, tandem read this one and the VAs voice.....ugh, is so soft yet authoritive at parts, she really did it for me....im just saying. And dont even get me started on Clara. She has been one of my fav FMCs. The descriptions of her are so beautiful. Her outfits are amazingly described and thats not something I talk about often because I dont think its done to this extent often. The way her character development, so similar to the romance grows like a flower, soft and steady paced. I love the magic system, not gonna lie, it makes me think of anime or magic the gathering and as a nerd I dig it. The twists....ugh I was got more than once. Now im just sitting waiting for the sequel: prince of swords. I hope i can snag a pretty copy. 1/10 for making me wait.....6/10 overall

[kawaiixkuma]

The wicked sea*first*

I cant say enough about this book. Like I was in the market for something...differnt(not fae, or dragons) and this popped up on my radar and honestly so grateful. Its characters are so witty that its was listening to 2 friends and saying kiss already so much and when it happens its actually satisfying. Its like watching this guy and saying bro why are you like this.....and when he finally gets it your like...fucking finally. The world and the lore shes built is also so fascinating, I enjoy the different types of merpeople, and different type of lineages people are from, so I do hope we get into that in the next book. Its like.....all the good things of a pallette cleanser book I needed. Ive read it 2x now, so I feel like I have the authority fo say its a solid 6/10(literally because its a duology and is messy brcause its the first in a series). Jordan stephanie gray has become one of my favorite authors(bitten was also stellar). *Im gonna start posting these so I dont have to keep repeating things to my friends, if you guys also enjoy reading them.....feel free to do so.*