August Wrap Up | 2021

This is always five stars. It's chunky and a lot goes on in here and I just really dig it.

But I did love the characterization of like our main character and like the dynamics with her family and just how they twisted that story into something that was not just like a mean girl plot because one of the things I don't like about Cinderella retellings is that it's just like bullying plot lines, which is makes sense for the story, but I just don't like that to read that. So this was done well in that way.

Still not quite as much going on as volume one and you focus much more on our main character story, which is still good, but I really like when we have kind of like a little bit of everything going on because like I mentioned there's so much political machination stuff happening. So, 4.75 almost a five star for me.

And then volume three on first read was again five stars. We pull in much more of what's going on in the world again, and then we just are getting much more backstory about our main character and like her ancestors and all this stuff. So, really dig that.

It just felt like there was a lot of things that weren't wrapped up completely and I found myself just kind of not caring. I give this a 2.75. It's not a bad book.

I almost feel like this book needed to be longer because there was a lot of stuff kind of thrown in at the end, which made sense for the story, but felt very rushed and very incomplete and just like a lot of like and stuff and I would have liked that to have been more fleshed out. But I still really liked it. I gave it four out of five stars and I might actually now go back and read the second book in this companion series, The Bride Test, and I don't know if she's doing any more of these, but I do really like these.

The two books that I've read in this series so far have a nice mix of like this contemporary like rom-com kind of feel with autistic main characters, which again you don't see very often. And then the sex scenes are like fairly spicy.

But this book, while I still loved it, was probably my least favorite of the series thus far, mostly because I feel like I need more time to kind of digest everything. There was much more expansive lore and things that I found really confusing and then my review a lot of people said the same thing.