Emergency Contact by Mary H. K. Choi: Book Review

📖 Genre Romance, New Adult, Contemporary 📃 Number of Pages 394 pages 🪴 Average Goodreads Rating 3.64 ⭐ 🌻 My Rating 4.5 ⭐ What’s Emergency Contact About?  Emergency Contact by Mary H. K. Choi is a contemporary novel about Penny and Sam as they become unlikely friends through a series of text messages. They meet … Read more

Penance by Eliza Clark: Book Review

📖 Genre Lit Fic, Mystery, Contemporary 📃 Number of Pages 336 pages 🪴 Average Goodreads Rating 4.01 ⭐ 🌻 My Rating 3.75 ⭐ What’s Penance About? Penance by Eliza Clark is a fictional true crime story told through the unreliable perspective of a disgraced journalist, Alec Carelli. Within Penance, you read the novel he wrote … Read more

Writers and Lovers Review: Lit Fic Gone Wrong

writers and lovers review

📖 Genre Lit Fic, Romance, Contemporary 📃 Number of Pages 320 pages 🪴 Average Goodreads Rating 4.02 ⭐ 🌻 My Rating 2 ⭐ What is Writers and Lovers About? Writers and Lovers by Lily King is a contemporary romance novel about Casey, a young writer who feels unmoored in her life. Her mother died recently, … Read more

If We Were Villains Review: A Decent Dark Academia Read

reading recaps: if we were villains

📖 Genre Fiction, Thriller, Mystery, Contemporary, Dark Academia 📃 Number of Pages 354 pages 🪴 Average Goodreads Rating 4.18 ⭐ 🌻 My Rating 4.5 ⭐ What is If We Were Villains About? If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio is a dark academia novel in which Oliver Marks, recently released from prison, tells a … Read more

A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood: Book Review

📖 Genre Classic, Fiction, Literary Fiction 📃 Number of Pages 186 pages 🪴 Average Goodreads Rating 4.07 ⭐ 🌻 My Rating 5 ⭐ What is A Single Man About? A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood is a short novel showing a day in the life of George, a gay university professor whose partner has recently … Read more

Divine Rivals Review: Boring and Disappointing

📖 Genre Fantasy, Romance, Young Adult 📃 Number of Pages 357 pages 🪴 Average Goodreads Rating 4.26 ⭐ 🌻 My Rating 2 ⭐ What is Divine Rivals About? Divine Rivals follows Iris, a young woman whose brother went off to war (between gods), and whose mother turned to drinking. To get money, she leaves school … Read more

You Again Review: Reylo Fanfic Done Well (ish)

you again review

📖 Genre Romance, Contemporary, Adult 📃 Number of Pages 448 pages 🪴 Average Goodreads Rating 3.67 ⭐ 🌻 My Rating 3.50 ⭐ I’m back at it again with more fanfics turned published novels. Can you sense a pattern here? To be completely honest though, I didn’t know this was fanfic. I went into it because … Read more

Review of One for My Enemy by Olivie Blake

review of one for my enemy

📖 Genre Fantasy, Romance, Retelling 📃 Number of Pages 427 pages 🪴 Average Goodreads Rating 3.82 ⭐ 🌻 My Rating 2.5 ⭐ I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again: I really, truly wanted to love One for My Enemy. I ordered the prettiest edition on Waterstones as soon as it came out (it’s … Read more

Review of People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

review of people we meet on vacation

📖 Genre Romance, Contemporary, Adult 📃 Number of Pages 364 pages 🪴 Average Goodreads Rating 3.89 ⭐ 🌻 My Rating 2.5 ⭐ This book was fun and I read it within a day, mostly because I lack boundaries when it comes to reading but also because I wanted to know how it all happens. But … Read more

Review of Love and Other Words: Suspend Your Disbelief

review of love and other words

📖 Genre Romance, Contemporary, Adult 📃 Number of Pages 432 pages 🪴 Average Goodreads Rating 4.28 ⭐ 🌻 My Rating 3 ⭐ Love and Other Words by Christina Lauren was a very sweet story. I laughed, I cried, it was fun. But even so, I noticed several things that just weren’t that great (spoilers galore). … Read more