Ashlynn Calee 84.4K subscribers · Dec 8, 2025

Every Book I've Given 5 Stars (Put These On Your TBR)

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Loved

There's also a subplot of romance in this book, and overall, it is a perfect book to me. and all of the research that Stephen King put in to make this book what it is, I think is the most impressive out of all of it. So, I cannot recommend this enough.

Loved

These two journalists have to fake date for this huge story that they are trying to get insight on. And it is absolutely hilarious seeing their dynamic and then seeing how they of course fall for each other. This book was jam-packed with all the things that I love and look for in a romance.

Liked

I go back and forth on if I think this is still a five star. I think I'd probably lower it a little bit because honestly I rarely think about it. I haven't thought about it in probably a couple of years. But I did really enjoy it when I read it.

Loved

This book broke so many walls for me and barriers. I think once I read this one, I just really did not mind what genre I picked up from here on out. I was pretty much willing to read anything.

Loved

This book made me realize what kind of pros I really look for and love in the romance genre. I feel like everyone has that Emily Henry book that they relate to or that just sticks with them. And this was the one for me, Happy Place, really stood out to me.

Loved

And while I love every single book, my favorite one is Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. I think I'm a little bit of an outlier here, but this is usually the book that frustrates people the most, which I totally understand, but I just really I really loved this book, and some of my favorite characters were on the page the most in this one.

Loved

It is my favorite book of all time. That is Home Seeking by Carissa Chen. I started this book at the beginning of the year in January and it honestly nothing has quite compared to it.

Loved

I do feel like maybe it would be a 4.75 when I kind of think about it a little bit, but overall I did just absolutely love this book. And it's a slowburn romance, which I absolutely love. No, actually, the more I think about it, I think it is a five star.

Loved

So, it was just really insightful reading about different perspectives of people that were in different places during the war and then seeing how their stories just beautifully coincide and then just merge was so even to today I think about this book often. I have gotten many of my friends to read it.

Loved

I have one of my favorite books of all time. And if you have been subscribed to my channel for a while, then you already probably know what I'm going to say, and you're probably very tired of hearing me talk about it all the time, but it is Pet Cemetery by Stephen King. This book is so freaking good.

Loved

Next up, this is one of my favorite books that I have ever picked up in my life. It's Recursion by Blake Crouch. This book I love even more than Dark Matter, which is crazy cuz they're both five stars, but this one's probably a six stars for me.

Liked

And then The Maidens has a lot of Greek tragedy elements in it, which was really fun to read about. This one had me scared pretty much the entire way through the book. I just it had an eeriness to it.

Loved

And while I loved this book, I wouldn't just willy-nilly go recommend it to people because it is such a hard hitter and there's definitely a lot of trigger warnings that go along with this book. It's considered a modern American classic and this is all about a family saga that spans decades.

Mixed

I loved the reveal and same for The Maiden sometimes. Alex Malites, I feel like in The Silent Patient, there was so much that bothered me about the book actually writing and things that were included in the book that I felt like just were not necessary. And so now, as I'm talking about it, I would definitely change my rating because I remember actually being frustrated as the reader.