I read 22 books in March and read my favorite romance book of the year so far 📚☕️📖 [March Wrap Up]

The amount of giddy ness that I felt from that chapter, like I was squealing and I was fully expecting to give this book like four stars or maybe even five stars but I feel like the second half of this book just really frustrated me.

I was so excited for this book because of how much I loved Chlorine by this author.

I loved this. It was just so beautiful. It was so wholesome.

But, for some reason with the way that this book was written, I just never really cared for Hayes as a character. And I think that definitely affected my overall enjoyment of the story because I really liked this female character.

This story does kind of end up being your typical slasher except that I had a few issues with this because not only did I find this book to be so predictable, which sucks, but then also I really didn't like the last plot twist in this book. I just thought it came out of nowhere and it was so ridiculous and I feel like it kind of diminishes the message that I thought that this book was trying to have earlier in the story.

My main critiques for First Time Caller was that the book just felt a little bit too long and that there was a lot of annoying miscommunication between these two in the second half.

But then finally, in the second half of this book, that's where we get some of the like softer moments, like some of the more vulnerable moments from these characters, and I really warmed up to them in the second half. And I actually thought the second half was so good.

And I just don't think the writing in this book was very good because it was like anytime there was a moment of tension in the plot or anything interesting was happening, it just got resolved within like two pages and there was never any like high stakes.

I didn't really like these characters that much, especially this character Sierra. I just really wasn't connecting with her and she was actually kind of driving me nuts.

I just didn't really love the sequel as much as I loved the first book. Like, it just didn't really have that same magic to me that the first book did. And I think I was not nearly as invested in the case that they were working on in the second book compared to the first book.

And this is another book where I got about 100 pages in and I just did not care. Like the writing style in this book just really wasn't working for me.

Oh my god, this was such a fun thriller and the thing that I loved the most about this was that at the start of this book, it really does kind of read like a romance and so I loved that this kind of felt like it had the perfect balance of like romance and thriller because as you're starting to get to know this character, you start getting these flashback chapters of like things that happened to her a long time ago and it's just really like building this mystery and there were so many more layers to the story than I was expecting.

This is a book that I really struggled to rate as well because there were so many things that I loved about this book, but I think the main reason why I couldn't rate it any higher than I did is because I found the main character to be pretty annoying with like how insecure she was about things.

This collection of stories was so creative and so weird and so random and I loved how speculative a lot of these stories got.

But wow, this book was so frustrating to read. Not only because this book had so much insta-love, but also because this guy was kind of an And all of it just felt a little bit far-fetched for me to get behind in the first place.

But this romance book, I got 130 pages in and I was just so bored. I didn't care about the characters and there was so much miscommunication between them. I actually couldn't stand it.

I was so fascinated by the concept in this book and that's what kept me, you know, flipping the pages, but it was just a lot and it kept getting more strange.

And this book was just so interesting. I just love the writing in this book so much. I mean, you know, it's a good sign when I'm like actually going and putting tabs in a library book because there were so many interesting and like thoughtful moments that I wanted to come back to.

I just loved the way that these characters were written. Like I felt so immediately connected to both Josie and Daniel. I just love the way that the romance was written between them because at times it was just so wholesome and like so cute.

This was one of my most anticipated romance books of the year because I really loved the book Ready or Not from this author.

And then I know I briefly touched on this earlier, but I also gave five stars to A Shot in the Dark and this was such an unexpected new favorite of mine.

Oh my god, there were so many moments in this book that had me like crying with laughter and just like squealing over them. Like, the first kiss scene in this book was one of the most wholesome things that I've ever read in my life. I just can't get over how well written this book is and like the chemistry between them was so freaking sweet.

I got about 20% of the way through this one on audio and like once again, it just was boring me. It was not pulling me in. I didn't care about the characters.

But then, these books always fall apart in the second half for me because after you go through the 11 case files, you just get this very long section of this author like putting all the pieces together. And while that does sound interesting in theory, I feel like there's just so much info dumping in like so much exposition in the second half of these books that it really just like loses me and I don't have a lot of interest in that part.

My favorite is Strange Pictures out of the three that I've read.

I was absolutely loving the first half of this book. Like, I was tearing through the pages because I thought it was so interesting. And when we hit part two of the book, I thought it was even more interesting for about like 20 pages.

So, this was an easy five out of five for me, not only because the romance is god tier. Like, literally so god tier, so good. But also because of the nostalgia, it was just everything.

This book, I had to give it four and a half stars because of how much fun I had reading this book and the fact that it was over 400 pages and I devoured it in one afternoon on my Kindle. Like, I could not put this down. It was just so entertaining and I really connected to the writing and the characters.

And that was a book that I gave two stars. Like I really didn't like the sequel to Bunny.

This book was so fascinating for so many reasons. Like, it just had the best setup for me because not only did I love the Pacific Northwest atmosphere and the stormy vibes, but there was also some like really creepy atmosphere with like the woods.