MOST SURPRISING BOOKS OF THE YEAR (good and bad)

you don't know it is a beauty and the beast retelling but with a really sassy formidable main character who you just can't help but root for and love it was non-stop the pacing was great it was such a good time surprisingly emotional

i didn't love the second one as much but i'm still so excited for the third one

all the light we cannot see is a book that i thought was phenomenal so many things about this book the way it's written the way the author is able to make the characters feel so real they're incredibly well realized i thought was amazing

the third one packed some emotional punches i really liked what the character what the author did with the characters and with the villain

i didn't love the main character i liked one of the side characters a lot but we don't see them as much and i found that there would be instances of a lot of violence while also having a somewhat juvenile tone at times and the dialogue was really young

the book i really enjoyed it was a competition story which normally i don't really think i'm gonna love competition stories that much

it wasn't poorly written and it is incredibly well fleshed out and the premise is really cool i just didn't love the execution

i didn't like the book i didn't really like it at all i liked the beginning and i liked the premise which is if superheroes were bad it kind of just felt like if a michael bay movie was a book

the way that i read it was incredibly powerful very moving and very sad because the parallels of what's happening in this magical place with what's happening in real life are just heartbreaking and i was so impressed by it

i was so floored by this book because it's so incredibly unique it's such a mashup of so many different fantasy genres

second book definitely has some more mature themes especially around motherhood i thought the author did a great job of showing how self-sacrificing the main character in the second book is i loved it

i really did not like the conclusion to this trilogy just found there were so many things presented that the author did so well had me so hyped by the end of the second book had me hyped throughout the third book and the last chunk of the third book it kind of felt like all these things that we'd presented were like hey just kidding and then it was over

i dnf'd under heaven i did not like the writing style at all it was incredibly description heavy but i could get past that if i really like the main characters or i really like the plot

it was so cute the romance in the book is cute the characters i really liked all the characters it was a really easy read it moved really quick there was never a slow moment