reviewing the 31 books I've read this summer 📚☕️📖 [July and August Wrap Up]

It's a really short one, so it doesn't take too long to read, but this one ended up being such a gorgeous story. And I really loved the way that the different color saturation almost like represented the mental health of the main characters throughout the book.

The story is kind of written in this very like fever dream kind of writing style that just didn't really work for me.

I just absolutely loved the writing in this. And I loved Selena's character.

Jessica Null is the author of Bright Young Women, which is like one of the most gorgeous, beautiful thrillers that I've ever read in my life. And like that one is very like thoughtprovoking and moving

The storytelling in this was definitely very unique and I think the concept in this book was really cool. However, I do think this book was just a little bit too long.

But overall, this one ended up still just being fine for me. I couldn't give it anything more than three stars, even though the ending is really good.

It was the way that the man was written in this book, he was like immediately kind of like giving me the ick. And once I started to get a grasp on like what the story was actually about, I was like, "Yeah, I don't know if I care about this."

But I actually ended up really liking this a lot. I don't know. I thought it was so cute.

This was so entertaining and I feel like this also had a lot of commentary on so many different things. This book even had a little bit of a plot twist that I did not see coming that I was so shocked by. Chuck Tingle just really outdid himself with this book and I loved it so much.

I just don't think that the writing is very good, but I am really drawn into the synopsis and like the story and I think the concept is there.

This collection was actually so surprising because it included all kinds of different horror. Like we had a lot of stories that were like historical horror and then we had some that were more like present day.

I also loved that both Greta and Valdin were queer characters and kind of like reading about their experiences in the dating world was really entertaining. There was just something like so humorous about the writing style in this that really worked for me.

So, like the audio book was really cool, but the story itself really just did not pull me in at all.

And this conclusion was absolutely beautiful. I actually did end up reading this volume right before the movie came out, Heartstoppper Forever, and I thought the movie was really good. I thought the final volume was really good.

These two characters are so messy and so unlikable in so many ways, but there was something about the chemistry between them. Like, I just really couldn't look away.

And I feel like this book was just failing at all of it because it couldn't focus on one thing. But then also like the writing in this book did get a little bit confusing because this book would go back and forth between timelines like mid chapter

Something that I loved about this book was like how meta and like how self-aware this book was, especially when talking about like the thriller genre versus the romance genre. I also did really like Roxy as a protagonist and I loved the development of the romance in this book.

But this is another one that I got about a 100 pages into and they just didn't have any chemistry. I just really couldn't get invested in the romance.

The first half of this was so good and so interesting, but then the second half of this is where it started to lose me a little bit, and I just wanted so much more from this.

This one was also such a bummer because the premise and like the synopsis of this book was everything, but like I could not stand the main character. I hated the way that this book was written.

The first books were called Savor It and then we also have Left of Forever. And both of those were five stars for me. Like, I absolutely loved them.

I mean, the horror in this book was written pretty well, but like the plot was just so uninteresting in this. And then like the chemistry between the women, I just wanted to feel more.

And honestly like towards the end of the book as we were getting to like the later times like 2015 and then 2020, it just really lost all of that magical nostalgia that the beginning of this book had for me and all of the political commentary in this book from like 2015 onward. Even though I definitely agreed with everything that it was saying and everything that it was being critical of, it just felt a little bit too heavy-handed.

But the reason why I still ended up giving this one three stars is because of Silas as a character. Like I just really enjoyed his character and I really liked the way the romance between them was written.

But I also feel like this book suffered from having like way too many characters. The pacing was all over the place and I just didn't find the ending to be that satisfying.

And so I think because of that tone shift, the second half just really wasn't what I was expecting it to be. And I also think the pacing slowed down so bad in the second half.

There was like a really beautiful sister story happening in this that really worked for me, and I love the fact that she was a writer. And then also, this book was genuinely hilarious.

The first books were called Savor It and then we also have Left of Forever. And both of those were five stars for me. Like, I absolutely loved them.

The fact that I found a slasher that I would probably like reread this book in the future. Like that is crazy to me cuz I don't usually get invested in slashers like this. So this one was such a fun time.

Oh my god, this book just had the best creepy spooky atmosphere. Like, I loved it.

Like I genuinely think these two and then Staripped by Cat Sebastian. Like they are locked in. Like I would be surprised if I read anything else this year that's going to top how I feel about these three books.

And the writing in this book is absolutely gorgeous. Like some of the most gorgeous, beautiful pros that I've ever read in my life.

I have a lot of mixed feelings about this book because while I did enjoy the romance that was happening between Alex and Nate, like I really enjoyed it. Like they were so cute. I just don't know how I feel about this little girl

But it all just felt a little bit too heavy and bleak and depressing for me personally. Like this is just not the tone that I wanted from this book because I swear once you reach like the halfway point almost all the way through the end, it is just non-stop depressing.

This one is actually a classic book that I've been interested in reading for a long time because I was a really big fan of The Haunting of Hill House, which is by the same author.

Plot in this book was so addicting. And it was part of the reason why I enjoyed this book so much because I could never guess where the story was going. But then I feel like what really dragged this book down for me is that the quality of the writing in my opinion, it just wasn't very good.

I did love the general vibes of this book. Like the creepy kind of like island setting was really fun. And the way that they were filming this movie I thought was really interesting, but my god, the writing in this book got so repetitive

I loved how this friendship was starting to develop between this girl and this little boy named Earl and the way they like slowly built trust with each other. It was just really beautifully written.

And this book was absolutely stunning and it made me ball my eyes out. I can include the vlog down below where I read this book because I actually like burst into ugly sobbing tears at the end of this book.

I understand the love for this book, but I also think it wasn't really for me.

Something that nobody told me when I started this book is that this one is technically it's actually a sequel to Wonderland, which is one of my least favorite Jennifer Hillier books. Like that's one of her only books that I rated really low.