disappointments & surprises | 11 books I read in June

i'd already read a song for the wild belt and that was like my five out of five star

this was interesting in the first half i liked the story overall the first half i felt was better it kind of went off the rails in the end and there end up being like a ton of multiverse things brought in but because it's a novella not enough time to really be fleshing that stuff out

this is a very easy to understand book that goes over like the basis of attachment really good for like general population introduction to attachment theory and like attachment within relationships i give this three stars it's not particularly like mind-blowingly well written or anything but it's a nice primer for attachment stuff

this had so much potential and i find that holly black's books have so much potential but then don't execute as well as i would like them to so like the world in theory is cool not enough was explored there

it's kind of hard to be like i need this information i need to go and like look it up and then come back

i love this world there was an expansion of the world i really enjoy these characters with their established characters that we've known for a while the plot clips along could some stuff be fleshed out a little bit sure but do i care no

i loved this because it was this like sci-fi fantasy crossover and how things are interpreted discussing magic and like what is magic versus science and everything there's also some really good explorations of like depression and things

what i liked about this is this felt like a smaller part of a bigger story like this is definitely a novel that i would read i was definitely interested in some of the that was going on but it felt like it was a chunk of a larger thing

one of the best intermediate kind of books that i've read on witchy stuff and i gave this one 5 out of 5 stars loved it

this was not giving as much as i wanted it to it was not as atmospheric as i had hoped a lot of the dark academia stuff as far as like the schooling part of it and like the learning stuff is so glossed over the magic is like not explained at all

what this does for the metaplot i really enjoy because a lot of like just magical relationship not even like just romantic but like just the way that all these characters are like interacting and things like a lot of things sort of leap forward in this one so i really like this one

i ended up really loving this story i love these mythological retellings that center women that don't tend to have as much agency and stories that give us more of a backstory on these women and just have you fall in love with these characters and that's exactly what happened here