so-soOkay-good is the best I can say here. 🤷 I liked some parts...the sobering reminder of the early days of COVID was well done, and there's the mother of all plot twists that happens at 59%. But the rest of the book is just blah to me. And I didn't like the main character at all, so that didn't help!
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😂😂 The banter in this book is quirky and fun!
We're a third through the year already, so here are my top 5 of 2022 so far. (And 3 from the ACOTAR series made it!! Lol 😂)
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(Book 10 of 2022)
Intensity x1,000
? You REALLY want to believe she's being set up but MAN does she look crazy!! ? This was a wild ride of guessing. I did eventually guess part of the ending but the author threw in an explanation for it that I was NOT expecting, because I've never seen it done in a thriller. It works though and gives you something to chew on afterwards like "hm, what if??"
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Rarely EVER do I find that a romance book looks interesting. Rarely EVER do I first hear about a book, read the summary, investigate if my library has it, AND place a hold for it all in the space of five minutes. But I just did all that for this one!! It sounds so cute, and I also like the multi-culture aspect...and it just seems like it will hit all the right vibes for me. I hope I'm right!!!
Me, trying to decide if she's stark raving mad or being brilliantly set up!! 😂😂
bailedFirst, let me say that I LOVED the movie (which is why that's the picture! 😍) However...the book. 🙄 I bailed at 25%. It's just...BORING. OMG. I think if it had stayed on the characters I knew from the movie (which of course it wouldn't, I know that, the book being the correct version! I'm just saying!), it would have been fine, but of the 25%, half of that was of characters I couldn't place and those were the parts that were dragging SO MUCH. 😴
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I really liked this one! I wanted to devour it in one sitting. ...The ending reveals felt a little all over the place at first, but it's all explained before the last page, and makes sense when you see the whole picture. And I liked how everything is not "okay" yet for the main character in the end. Healing is a process.
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🤮 Just a bit TMI. I could have done without that visual! 😂😂
Diving back in!! I did NOT want to put this down last weekend!! 😶 I'm REALLY liking it so far!
So my library got this ebook in TODAY...and for some reason no one else snatched it up, so I am all about it and on it! 😁😁😁 This looks so intense!!!!
pickAn interesting read. Not nearly as creepy as I thought it would be until the ending chapters. But still a good story. True crime mixed with ghosts is how I would describe this, since both types of mysteries are going on. And that very last chapter....😱... possibly my favorite part of the whole book.
📷: IG @heidireadsthrillers
There I was, scrolling Insta, and I come across... A pic with my current read and my next read both in it! 😆 THAT has never happened! Too awesome not to share!
Do you ever want to love a book just based on the cover? That's me with this one. 😍 And my hold from the library just came in so it's next on my list! 😁
Apparently this is what I would have looked like in the regency era. 🤣🤣🤣 Thanks, Snapchat!
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Book 7 of 2022
My 29th Dean Koontz novel
So. Weird. ...It starts off really great, super creepy. Then about 2/3 in, I didn't really like the direction it was taking. Then it didn't take that direction at all and somehow that was even weirder. 🤷
Yay! Library app just got this in. 6 week hold! 😁
Pardon me while I try to wash my brain out. ACOTAR book 5 (the 37% of it that I made it through anyway) did a number on me. 😂😂🤷
@rachelsbrittain #weekendreads
📚 Phantoms by Dean Koontz. I'm only 3 chapters in but it's looking SO promising!!!
📚 A Court Of Wings And Ruin by Sarah J Maas 💔♥️
📚 The House Across The Lake by Riley Sager (6/21/22) 👏👏👏
bailed37% .... I know!! Why?! 😭😭😭 But I just CANNOT with the graphic sex. I mean, the previous books were steamy but this feels like WAY worse. My brain literally feels filthy. I am so upset about it because I was loving this series so much!! (I'm leaving you guys with some awesome fanart one last time. Let me go cry now.)
His newest book, coming out in July! 😍 (I don't see it listed yet in the titles, so I had to put it under unknown.)
pick⭐⭐⭐⭐ ...I'm considering this one the "Christmas episode". It's winter time, there's celebrating and gift giving, not much is actually happening in the main story but all the friends are there so it still works. ?
The fanart for this series is out of this world gorgeous. Here is one depicting the difference in Feyre from A Court Of Thorns And Roses to A Court Of Mist And Fury. 😍
Back to my books... because real life sucks. 🤷
(Another non bookish post, but...life. And this is so good I had to share.)
The first lady of the Ukraine is now my hero.
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I am sickened and heartbroken by what is happening in Ukraine. 💔🇺🇦💙💛 ...But this gave some comic relief that I greatly needed. 😂
pick⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ This is my favorite of the series so far. There's so much HEART in this one, so many intriguing things going on with ALL of the characters. And the ending is spectacular...if the series ended here (not saying I want it to!) I'd be content. Also...less streamy-ness than book 2. 😏
Well I haven't read the book, but I did just watch the movie...which was excellent and should be a must see. #blackhistorymonth
pick⭐⭐⭐⭐ (I knocked one star off for *cough cough* excessive steaminess.) Otherwise, what a FANTASTIC second book!!! 😍😍 ALL THE FEELS. I am thoroughly obsessed with this series.
Found some gorgeous fanart on Insta. 😍
