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  • Book Review – Finding Audrey by Sophia Kinsella

    Ahhh young love. Nothing cures the deepening hole of depression like knowing that someone’s got a crush on you. Synopsis (from Goodreads.com) – An anxiety disorder disrupts fourteen-year-old Audrey’s daily life. She has been making slow but steady progress with Dr. Sarah, but when Audrey meets Linus, her brother’s gaming teammate, she is energized. She connects…

  • Book Review – It Ends With Us by Colleen Hoover

    Just keep swimming. Synopsis (from Goodreads.com) – Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town in Maine where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business. So when she feels…

  • Book Reviews – A Court of All the Feels

    Yes! I have illustriously finished reading both A Court of Thorns and Roses and A Court of Mist and Fury and all I can gather are A Court of All the Feels. Ratings: ACOTAR – 5/5 ACOMAF – 1000000/5 I just spent seven hours on my couch reading and finishing ACOMAF last night. Seriously, is there…

  • Book Review – November 9 by Colleen Hoover

    If we’re going to kiss, it has to be book-worthy. Ok, so maybe I was a little bit hasty to write about my first impressions on romance novels before reading this book. Rating: 4.5/5 Plot Summary – Fallon and Ben meet each other on the anniversary of an accident leaving Fallon scarred on the left side…

  • Bearllionaire and My Thoughts on Romance Novels

    There was a period in my life when I wanted to be a publishing editor. It was in college and I was testing out the different ways that I can somehow be a part of the publishing world. I took an internship at a huge publishing house in their Romance/SciFi imprint. I’m not quite sure…

  • Book Review – Six of Crows by Leigh Bardugo

    A gambler, a convict, a wayward son, a lost Grisha, a Suli girl who had become a killer, a boy from the Barrel who had become something worse. I have so many feelings about this book that I can’t even. Rating – 5/5 (NO DOUBTS ABOUT IT) Plot Summary – If you took The Breakfast…

  • Book Review – Modern Lovers by Emma Straub

    Timing was everything—that was more and more obvious the older you got, when you finally understood that the universe wasn’t held together in any way that made sense. There was no order, there was no plan. It was all about what you’d had for breakfast, and what kind of mood you were in when you…

  • Book Review – The Unexpected Everything by Morgan Matson

    “The idea that you could rethink the thing you’d always thought you wanted and change your plan – it was almost a revolutionary concept. That you could choose what would make you happy, not successful.” Rating: 4/5 I was heading off to Florida in a few days time, so I wanted to  pick up a…

  • Book Review – The Grisha Trilogy by Leigh Bardugo

    Ratings: Shadow and Bone: 4/5 Siege and Storm: 3/5 Ruin and Rising: 3/5 (although, I would argue this was a 2/5) Look, I’m not going to hate. I’m not going to hate because the Grisha fandom is very strong and I’m worried that a mob of fans will come to my house with pitchforks. They’d…