With Ali 31.5K subscribers · Jan 8, 2021

my most surprising and best reads of 2020

Reviews18

Beach ReadEmily Henry
Loved it

i honestly went into this thinking you know i tend to enjoy most contemporary romance type stories but i wasn't expecting anything like fantastic but i loved this i love the characters

get a life chloe brown was one that i really enjoyed and one that just took the top spot for me was just total five stars i sat down and read it in a whole day because it just like engrossed me so much

this one wasn't my favorite but i do think i was ultimately very surprised at how emotionally connected i ended up being to these characters and how much emotion it ended up evoking from me

Ninth HouseLeigh Bardugo
Mixed

i love that this is a dark academia book but with a much more paranormal aspect... i do agree with some reviews that i think that the wording at times was just over pretentious

The Fire This TimeJesmyn Ward
Loved it

this one was just so good it is a collection of just stories and narrations about being black in today's society and about the erasure of different histories

The Weight of LiesUnknown
Loved it

this was intense in parts that i wasn't expecting and this was just so good it was probably my favorite like mystery thriller of the year

i was surprised by just how much i loved it and connected with it and just thought it was such a great way to talk about virginity and sex at in a high school level... the only disappointment that i really had in this was the ending