Freya Valerio 51.6K subscribers · May 8, 2026

The 10 books I read in April (finally reading intimidating books!)

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It was honestly a fascinating read and I really liked the character of Cleopatra and I feel like she had this like brutal streak to her, but she was also like she was a mom and she cared about her family and everything like that. There were parts of this book that I absolutely loved that I was eating up and there were other parts that felt a little bit slow.

Liked

Adrienne Young's writing as a whole, as well, very easy to read, very immersive, as I said, and addictive. One of those books where you can sit down and read like 20% super quickly.

Liked

So for the fact that there were two tropes that I usually avoid in my romance books, and for me to still rate it a 4.25, that's a really good sign. It just didn't give me five-star feels.

Liked

I actually really liked it though. Such a short book I really felt the connection between these two characters and I thought the actual kind of issues between them, the kind of main the main action of the story, everything like that was actually pretty good.