BooksandLala 163K subscribers · Dec 15, 2025

Reading Goodreads Choice Award Nominees 🏆 in Every Category

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AmityNathan Harris
Loved it

I finished Amity. I thought this was fantastic and with it I read a library book and earned another card... It had so much heaviness, but it was filled with so much hope.

And then An Egyptian Cannot Speak English because that's one of those books that doesn't establish who is speaking at the beginning of each chapter and the audiobook has different narrators, so you won't get confused at all if that's something that happens to you in a physical book.

So, I don't have anything bad to say about the book. It's just that the plot itself and the writing just wasn't all that engaging to me. I wasn't like, "Ooh, can't wait to find out what happens."

Oh my gosh, Curse Daughters was so juicy and toxic and I find that I don't always love different generations and different timelines, but I was just itching to get back to each one after I finished the chapter and it kept me so engaged.

Raising HareChloe Dalton
Not a fan

I feel like I'd probably give it a two because it's not a memoir... There was probably one paragraph about her actual learning outside of like just learning about the hares and teaching us about the hares.

I'm sure The Amity Curse is good, and I kind of want to pick this because it's in the fantasy realm... But it started out so boring and info-dumpy, and the kind of info-dump where we have a character who's explaining how the entire world and society and family and lineage of these sea witches works to a character who should maybe already know these things.

this was a three-star. I don't want to call this boring because there were three perspectives, things were always happening, and we were finding things out, but I feel as though a lot of things were very predictable.

The CorrespondentVirginia Evans
Loved it

I think it's a good recommendation to have in my back pocket. I think it would have a pretty wide appeal. I feel like it's a 3.75 for me, but I might just round it up to a four.

The EverlastingAlix E. Harrow
Loved it

I'm happy to have loved an Alex E. Harrow novel, full-length novel, and I will continue to pick up more from her... The best thing about this book was how self-aware and intentional it feels.

it was beautifully written. There's some beautiful illustrations... It was just it was a little simple for me. I don't know what I'm rating this. I feel like maybe a three, I guess.

This is not a five-star romance, but I want anyone who wants to get in tune with what I'm looking for in a romance to read this... This is a 4.25. It was It was very good for me.

I have finished Vera Wong book number two... it felt a little too expected in the way that I would not continue in the series at this point, but I would still give this I guess slightly less than the first book. So, if I gave the first one a four, 4.25, this is like a 3.75 to a four. Still had a great time, love the warm environment.

WhalefallDaniel Kraus
Loved it

for production like sound effects, I would say Whale Fall and The River Has Roots because they have little other elements that come into it.