A cozy tour of books I read in the rainy month 🌧 whimsy, fantasy & classics

this was really cozy honestly i just really liked it

that was probably my favorite part of this book was just seeing these two boys and their relationship and what they were going through and how they provided and what they provided for each other

giovanni's room by james baldwin which is one of my favorite classics and one of my favorite reads from last year

i thought the depictions of grief and what brie is going through and her trauma and stuff like that coupled with discussions about like the fantasy parts and stuff like that was really well done

this was just honestly fun easy super quick it was what i wanted what i needed at the time

i would highly recommend this book i learned a ton i learned so much and on top of that ijama aloo's writing style is gorgeous clear concise a wonder to read

i gave this three and a half stars i felt like a little bit of it kind of dragged and not a lot i felt like there was a lot of tension at the beginning and then there didn't seem to be that much payoff

i was just so let down the ending was incredibly anti-climactic and it just like i said did not do anything for me

a lot of it like just became a little bit of a conceptual nightmare to me because i really could not picture a lot of what was going on but i did really enjoy the ending of this one

i had previously read one of my favorite young adult books by cj redwine last year which is the blood spell which is a retelling of cinderella

i thought this was really interesting i just i did give it three stars again because it wasn't everything that i wanted it did get quite tedious at times

i thought this was incredible i love how there's so much greek myth inserted in here and the ending of this book really got me

it just felt just felt too staged for me it didn't feel natural didn't feel like it flowed smoothly it just felt very stilted and contrived

this book also had really lovable characters

it is absolutely incredible i cannot recommend this book enough