July & August Reading Wrap Up in my Reading Journal | reviews & spreads 📚

this final book in the trilogy specifically was my absolute favorite of the whole series I loved it so much I loved the writing I loved the couple

unfortunately the second book was not nearly as good as the first book it was still good but it wasn't great I felt like all of the main characters lost what made them most intriguing and human in the first book

I read the first book in my Romany reading Vlog which I'll link down below for you and really loved it I gave it five stars even though it's ya romantic I just felt like it was a breath of fresh air

bodies to die for was a little bit chaotic and messy for my taste it felt a little too campy and over the top in a cringy way that's the best way I can describe it I just felt it didn't make a lot of sense and I wasn't invested at all in any of these characters welfare

there were some plot holes and some leaps of logic that I struggled with and we had a bit of a cliche cartoonish villain monologue from multiple characters at the end which is never my favorite

the first book is a sapphic pairing and I just loved this book I thought it was so beautiful I was very invested in it Gwen and Beth were each very vibrant endearing characters and I loved watching them slow slowly have the realization that they were attracted to each other and falling in love

participation was okay there were things about it that I liked and things about it that I didn't like I enjoyed how experimental it was but I also found it in some ways to be too focused on being experimental at the expense of the story it was telling three stars

while this was not a perfect book it's not a favorite of all time I thought it was really great it's very strange very up my alley in the experimental Eerie odd fiction realm which yall know I love and it's exploring quite a bit thematically and does it in a very interesting way

I was very confused when this booked started and by the end I was loving it but I was still confused in some ways I wish this book had been split into two because there were two very interesting Concepts happening and they were very distinct

I really struggled to connect to or care about the characters there wasn't much going on plot-wise I didn't feel like the themes were being explored really at all they were just kind of dropped in occasionally or me mentioned here and there but it just felt like there wasn't much going on in these books

I really enjoyed it was a reread but I had forgotten basically everything about it cuz I read it so young the first time and I was really glad to reread it I had a great time I enjoyed it quite a bit and I gave it four stars

while I still enjoyed it a lot it was not quite as fantastic as the first book it's possible that I overhyped myself definitely possible but it didn't hit me quite the same way as the first book

it was okay there were some interesting ideas here and there but it did feel very young and it had a lot of the tropes of ya speculative fiction that get on my nerves and the characters were quite irritating in general I'm not sure I liked any of them

this one started slow for me I wasn't quite sure where we were going and it took me a little bit of time to get invested but by the end I was fully on board and very emotionally invested and very emotional in general

book two and three continued on with the same issues I had in the first book but started adding more and more issues

book one and two were fine book three to me was a let down

the weak spot I absolutely adored it is a very odd little book it is very sparse but it says so much with the few words that it does say I loved it five stars

I was so engaged I was so immersed immediately the characters just took hold of me and wouldn't let go I was emotionally invested essentially immediately and as it continued I just got more and more invested and more and more stressed about where it was going and when it got where it was going it was just as devastating as I'd worried it would be it's a fantastic book I think it was really well written it's very well paced

the second book focuses on a gay couple and I liked this one a lot as well I think what I struggled with was that it was meant to be more of a enemies to lovers Journey instead of a friends to lovers but it felt a little too abrupt for me