📖 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
📖 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
📖 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
📖 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
📖 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
📖 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
📖 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
📖 Genre Romance, Contemporary, Adult 📃 Number of Pages 570 pages 🪴 Average Goodreads Rating 4.27 ⭐ 🌻 My Rating 2 ⭐ I was in a mood for a good, tastefully done age-gap romance Birthday Girl by Penelope Douglas so I was really excited to read this one. Unfortunately, Kulti by Mariana Zapata was a … Read more
📖 Genre Romance, Contemporary, Adult 📃 Number of Pages 333 pages 🪴 Average Goodreads Rating 3.88 ⭐ 🌻 My Rating 2 ⭐ In essence: Bully by Penelope Douglas was a quick, but ultimately unsatisfying read with weak romance and horrible characters (spoilers below). Let me explain. So, the first thing that bugged me was: Why … Read more
📖 Genre Romance, Contemporary, Adult 📃 Number of Pages 345 pages 🪴 Average Goodreads Rating 4.24 ⭐ 🌻 My Rating 2.5⭐ Even though Archer’s Voice came out ages ago, it got popular again via BookTok, so I thought I’d give you my quick thoughts. I expected a lot with a premise like that – because … Read more