Every Book I've Read So Far This Year!

These were my least two favorite in the Acatar series, but I loved getting to explore other characters, and I'm so freaking obsessed with the entire Akatar world

And I know some people have read this book and still don't like Nessa by the end, but I really liked her. I feel like it makes it so much more meaningful to love characters even with all their flaws.

And I think this book is so well written, but there were points where it's just so devastatingly sad with no reprieve. Like very few hopeful happy moments.

Workplace romance, grumpy boss, enemies to lovers, slowburn, spicy, like what more do you need?

Darling Venom, such an emotional read. I loved the romance and how this book deals with so many topics like grief, guilt, mental health, addiction, forgiveness, dysfunctional families, and so much more.

I admittedly didn't like the ending of that book, but I really liked her writing style and 90% of the book, so I'm excited to read another book by her.

I love the dynamic between the six different characters. How they all react differently in a life or death situation and trying to unfurl all of their secrets.

My first urban fantasy, and I love that it's fantasy with romance with murder mystery. It's about a world where there are four queens and all four of them are murdered.

I love this is a romance between a journalist and a movie star. The one of them is famous trope is always really fun.

It took me a little bit to bond with the romance, but once I did, I loved it. And I really loved all the elements, the friendships, the heartbreak, and just how perfectly Emily Henry encapsulates that bittersweet feeling of growing up.

I loved the chemistry and banter and how it does a Cinderella retelling, but in a fa world.

It's got a bunch of short stories and a ton of art in it, which is really cool. It was just so fun to read this book. And look at all the pictures.

I really liked this book, but unpopular opinion, I really didn't like the ending. It's sad and it felt really abrupt to me.

This is a Little Mermaid retelling. I love that this book has so many nods to the original Little Mermaid, but also has lots of its own twists.

I know people love this book, but I didn't. I get the hype and the appeal, but it was too slow for me, too slice of life.

I did loathe this book. Not at first sight, but by like the halfway point. If I wasn't reading it for a video, I probably would have DNFed it.

And then The Love Wager I just read. I loved this book so freaking much. I loved it way more than I thought I was going to love it.

But what I really liked about this book is the world. They have all these like stories about the history and it really feels like you're living in this fairy tale world, but like a dark fairy tale world, which was really unique.

I thought the romance was like cute and steamy. Not my favorite romance ever, but I loved how really sex positive the whole book is.

What I love about The Cruel Prince is the romance subplot is enemies to lovers and it is enemies to lovers. Like I feel like some enemies to lovers, they just kind of don't like each other. There's real hatred at the beginning.

The doover is fun. It's a time loop book, so the main character is repeating the same day over and over.

This book is good boy, bad girl, which is so fun and a trope we don't get enough.

I read Things We Never Got Over last year, my first Lucy Score book, and I really liked it.

I love the way Alex would literally burn down the world for Ava, but he isn't my perfect ideal book boyfriend, which is no complaint for the book.

Always love Maratada, but this book had a little bit too much slow plot points in this slowburn romance.

I loved that this was a good blend of genres, romance, murder mystery, and literary fiction, but I did feel like it moved a bit slow at points.