I read 29 books in April and found a few new favorites 💖✨ [April Wrap Up]

It was just so thoughtful and so beautiful and I really enjoyed my time reading this one.

And every time that I started this book, I couldn't get past like 40 pages in because I just thought it was really boring.

But then, oh my god, the plot twist at the end of this book was ridiculous. I was like, are you kidding me? Like, is that supposed to be surprising?

This book was insanely boring because we're just following this very unlikable character in her day-to-day life and she's actually really obsessed with this other guy. And then we get like a million flashbacks of like her childhood when she was like an to everyone.

Then this book got so fun and so twisty in the second half and there were so many moments that really shocked me that I wasn't expecting.

Like that's my number one favorite book that I've read this year.

The audiobook is just so cool because it has a lot of sound effects. There's a lot of like announcer sound effects and I do think the audiobook is great to listen to because there are so many moments where I was genuinely laughing out loud for like minutes, which honestly rarely ever happens to me.

This is a book that I was highly anticipating because of how much I loved Earthlings by this author.

I just absolutely love the way that this book was written. I absolutely loved this character so much. Like I connected with her a lot, and I just loved how like sarcastic and also kind of weird she was.

I think not only is the romance in this book just so bland and forgettable and like they don't really have that great of chemistry, but then also so much of this story is just bogged down by these flashbacks and like this woman's story who like I don't care about her rich family. It was just not that great.

And this was so creepy and eerie and weird. The audiobook was so cool. They had like sound effects.

This book was just so messy and crazy and bonkers and I loved every minute of it. This is definitely one of those thrillers for me where like I could not put this book down.

This one's a thriller that I probably got like 30 to 40 pages into and I just wasn't really feeling it.

But for the most part, I really did like this one. And I really connected with these characters a lot, especially the character Ted.

But this story is just really beautiful because I love the way that it was written because we get tons of like flashback scenes to see like how these characters have like met each other in every single timeline.

I think our main protagonist in this book, Lenny, like I just found her to be so annoying. I'm sorry, but she was just very obnoxious and very immature.

And there were definitely some parts of this that I thought were a little bit cheesy or like a little bit cringy, but for the most part, I was really entertained by this one.

Earlier this year I read the book Ready or Not from this author and I loved it so much. Like five stars. One of my favorite romances.

I liked both of these characters, even though I do think that their romance did feel a little bit insta lovey to me, or at least I thought it was slightly unrealistic how quickly they went from like just getting to know each other to being in that phase where they were ready to change everything about their life for this person, you know? I also think this book just felt way too freaking sad.

I think there were some aspects of the book that I found very interesting and I was really invested in, but then some aspects of the book I just didn't really care for.

And like oh my god this character Linda was just so entertaining. Like I loved this so much. And the ending of this book actually gave me like chills.

But then oh my god, the ending of this was so disappointing. It was like the plot twist was so insanely obvious to me.

This volume in particular was so much fun. I really loved a lot of the moments between Twilight and Yor. I thought that they were so cute.

And it's really cool because it's almost like each one of the chapters reads like it's its own short story, but then all of the chapters end up connecting in a way that I thought was really cool. And this was just such a fun and engaging read.

I thought the setup of this was so fun and it was so engaging and this book was definitely a quick read, but I just think the ending was a little bit unsatisfying because the twist in this book was super obvious to me.

And I also just really connected with these characters and it was written in a way that was so emotionally moving. Like by the ending of this book, I was like, "Oh my god."

He's kind of like bullying him as they're hooking up, and the lines of consent were like a little bit blurry for me at times in a way that just made me really uncomfortable. So sadly, I gave this one only two stars.

I was curious about this one because I saw that it got compared to The Invisible Life of Addy Laroo, which is like one of my favorite books of all time.

And this is from the same author as The Measure, which ended up being in my top 10 favorite books of last year.

Overall, I loved this one so much. I loved the way that this book wrote about sibling dynamics and I think the way that this book wrote about grief was just so beautiful and it was so stunning.

I just thought this one was so boring. And the fact that there were literally no chapter breaks throughout this entire book just made the reading experience feel so much longer.

I think some of the horror aspects in this book could have been stronger, but it was still a good read and I'm glad that I read it and it was three stars.

Not only because the book is just so poorly written in my opinion, but then also because the characters Edward and Bella, like they just have no chemistry. It's very insta love and there is just nothing really enjoyable about this book to be honest.

And I was really excited to check this out because I really did like Valin's last thriller, The Unraveling.

But unfortunately, I feel like this book had so much potential, but like my god, it was so repetitive. It was like the same conversations over and over and over again.

This is one that I got about like 20 to 30 pages into before I DNFed. I just wasn't vibing with it.