I read 25 books in December and read a few ARCs and lots of nonfiction 🎄🤍☃️🦌❄️ [December Wrap Up]

But like honestly, this one was pretty forgettable because it was so short. It was only 50 pages and I never got that invested in their relationship.

I also just ended up loving both of their characters so much. And I love the way that the romance was written between them. Like the chemistry was just so cute.

It had really great commentary, really great characters, and I loved the writing in this so much. Like, this definitely scratched my itch where I was really wanting a thriller that was just really fun and engaging and like hard to put down.

I was kind of nervous to read this one because I wasn't the biggest fan of Bride. I mean, I gave it like a three out of five. I thought it was fine.

if you know one of my favorite books of this entire year was Crash Test by Amy James.

I think the concept for this book is really fascinating. I just think this was a little bit like heavy and not exactly what I was in the mood for

I really loved the first half of this kind of talking about like why we as readers pick up books to begin with, and it was actually like a really beautiful reminder for like why we love reading in the first place. But then I really feel like the second half of this book kind of went off the rails and it felt more like the author was trying to like push you to read certain classic books that they deem as like the best literature.

I just really love her commentary, but I also love her humor. like she is freaking hilarious and there were so many moments that would just make me laugh out loud.

I don't think I emotionally connected with this as much as I was hoping to. Like it only ended up being a three and a half for me.

But I don't know, there was something about this that really just didn't work for me and I thought it was so boring and I was like why are there so many scenes about this parrot? It was just so random.

The reason why I gave this one four stars though instead of five stars is because I did see the big twist coming or like the main twist in the book. I was like, "Okay, that was kind of obvious to me." And I personally thought it was like a little bit weak of a twist.

This book is just so unhinged and ridiculous in the best way. And I just love it.

I was a pretty big fan of Lights Out. It was definitely like a guilty pleasure of mine.

It was so much fun. It was so entertaining and it was actually very light-hearted all things considered. I loved the chemistry between Callahan and Izzy and I just thought that they were so cute.

But I actually really liked the way that this book was written. I thought it was so entertaining. She's just so good at writing good banter between characters.

I think the short story that's called Moan was probably my favorite in this entire collection because that one was so trippy and so weird.

I've really been enjoying this manga series a lot because this is kind of like a young adult romance manga series that's following these two young girls. One of them is hard of hearing, and it's just so sweet and so wholesome. I actually enjoyed volume three though more than volume four because I think I gave volume three four stars

then volume four I gave around like three stars cuz there were some scenes in this one that I just didn't really care that much about. It felt like it was more about like their school choir than it was about like their friendship and like their romance.

I loved the romance in this book was so wholesome and it was so sweet. And then also like the ending of this book just absolutely like stepped on me, broke my heart, made me cry. It made me so emotional.

I just wish I cared more about the romance in this book and this also could be because I'm not the biggest fan of second chance romances so maybe that's why it didn't really work for me but I do want to read more from this author because I really did like the writing in general.

So that was really fun, but I also think the mystery ended up being pretty disappointing for me in the end. And there was nothing about this book that really wowed me.

And so reading this book immediately after finishing the show was just like a warm hug and it was so nice to hear more about like her childhood and her story and like Lauren Graham has such a fascinating life story and like her childhood was so unique and so interesting and I just love her like quirky humor.

But I just left this book feeling very underwhelmed and kind of like confused on how I was supposed to feel. I don't think that the cool magical element in this book was used to its full potential.

Unfortunately, this book just felt a little bit like repetitive to me and I just really didn't care about the characters even though the premise for this one sounds like it could be my dream book.

I was really loving and shipping the romance so hard between like 100 pages to like 200 pages into it. But then the third act of this book just really fell apart for me again and I really didn't care for like the final third of this book.

But she's so like honest and so vulnerable and like so real. And I also think Kelly Bishop just has such a fascinating life story.

But I also loved the discussion about writing in this book. It honestly like really inspired me to like want to get back into writing like myself, which is like the best feeling.

I got 161 pages into this before I decided to DNF. I just don't think that this is like the thriller for me.

that was my number three favorite book of the year.

And I loved this so much. And I think if you're a big fan of the Scream franchise, I think this book is so entertaining and so interesting because this book talks a lot about like how the Scream movies came to be and like all of the effort that went into getting these movies made and all of the decisions that were happening like behind the scenes.