I feel like an accomplice and I kind of love it! Following Lily through her time at the Riovan Wellness Resort was thrilling and chaotic! I was rooting for her the entire time! As we walk in her shoes and examine the toxicity she is around, you really want her to burn the whole thing down, consequences be damned. As I reading, I was uncertain if I'd like the ending, but literally the epilogue made it ALL worth it!! I did also have an issue with the pacing (it was just a bit slower than I expected) and the structure (just because I wanted to know the "plan" from the beginning and then see how this summer was different) but those are really nitpicky things that I didn't diminish the story. I loved this slow burn murder/mystery/romance book. I mean I could see this become a streaming limited series and I WOULD BE JUST AS OBSESSED! I loved it thoroughly! -ps. I read the ending accompanied with the audiobook and OMG CHEF'S KISS!

The drama was ELECTRIC! I was hooked on every word. When a woman goes back to her acting agency after years away, he asks her to be the fake author to a romance book. What could go wrong? As a book lover, I was crying by the end! I mean I loved how awkward, kooky, and genuine this book is! The romance was great and palpable even from the beginning. I really just loved every aspect of the story, incredibly well done!

Cole and Alastor have an ongoing rivalry. They both are are serial killers. Alastor is brutal and messy, Cole is precise and surgical in his precision. Their rivalry has bled over into the art world as well where they vis for supremecy. Mara is an aspiring artist, working three jobs just to make ends meet. One night, after a gallery event, she is kidnapped and her captor slits her wrists and leaves her for dead. Cole stumbles upon her but chooses not to help her. Mara survives only to find herself caught in the cross hairs of two killers. One of the killers becomes obsessed with her but can't decide why and the othe becomes obsessed with making her death permanent. I enjoyed this story and if you are interested in dark romance, this one is worth a read.

Great book. Very well presented.

I really enjoyed this book. The action, the suspense, the intrigue, I enjoyed it all. Treylen is training to be an assassin to the Queen of Iverna. Trelyen and his bond mate and dragon Rime have been training at Coop's Abbey for a long time hoping to be called up to service to the Queen in the countries war against the Jaul Empire. When he finally gets the call, he heads to the Dragon's Hide Inn for some more training before taking up his mission to find a scribe helping the enemy. But once at the Dragon's Hide Inn, it is clear that to complete his mission he still has a lot to learn and more enemies than he can count that want him dead. This is a great start to a fantasy series that I am looking forward to completing.

AAAAAAHHHHHHHHH!!!!!! I am laying in my bed kicking my feet and giggling!! Jackie's voice is so authentic, and she truly breathes life into her characters. You can tell how much love and heart was poured into this book and it is gorgeous. Jamie has her whole life planned out... until her boyfriend derails it all by breaking up with her and is immediately seen with another girl in their class. And then she runs into a new student, Axel, (and runs over his bike) and makes a plan to fake date Axel to get her ex back. What could go wrong? Well... This book is full drama and love and respect it is so amazing! It took me a while to warm up to Jamie but the more that you are with her the more, I loved her. She is so authentic and awkward I couldn't help but relate to her. From anxiety and chronic illness to jealousy and family issues Jamie is such a well-rounded character for this generation. There are also very serious conversations surrounding diversity and culture, familial differences and secrets, as well as responsibility and forgiveness. This book is truly all that it set out to be and more! I left feeling: giddy, warm, loved, seen! I wish I had this book at 16. I really could not say enough praise for this book! Go read it!

OKAY!!! First Julie Soto book and man did it live up to the reputation!! Story wise, I was CAPTIVATED. She really hooks you in with the first chapter and then never really let's up. I never felt like the story dragged or was rushed, and everything was explained clearly so I wasn't too confused as I stopped and started the book at inconvenient times. The characters were compelling, and I thought the tension and brutality were executed very well without being too much or unwarranted. My only gripe was that I wished that Briony was more secure in her abilities and growth, there were times I doubted her or thought "if she's so smart and powerful why is she so inconsistent or ignorant." And I can suspend my disbelief enought to know that in the later books she'll be much more secure in her ability, but it was still a thought I kept coming back to as I read. All in all, the story was very good, and I can't wait to see how the author continues to expand the world, the magic, the characters, and the story in the next book (hopefully I can get an ARC too, but that's just me manifesting) As for the audio, I was so enthralled in the way that Briony was portrayed through voice. She had a very interesting character developed throughout the book since it goes back and forth between her times at school and the present moment. I also want to commend the reader on her differences between the characters just using her voice. I could always tell the difference between the characters without the need to constantly explain to me who was who. The enunciation wasn't the best so the faster that I wanted to listen (I generally listen 1.50-2.00x speed) the less I was able to understand. What a really enjoyable read! It was just what I needed to help pick me out of a reading slump. I can't wait for the next book in the series!

Oh the drama! And the SETTING!!! This book is about Stellar and Lyle "McHuge." Now Stellar has been burned before and prefers her life to be as independent as possible. However, she finds a special connection with the too-nice-for-his-own-good McHuge. They end up back together as they work as co-leaders for an outdoor relationship retreat. At first, (as is obviously seen in my dates read) I was slow getting into this. I think the reason why was a combination of the start of a reading slump and a little too much prose in the first few chapters. Don't get me wrong, once I got used to the writing style I liked it much more but I still felt slowed down by some of the unnecessarily long descriptions. Maggie, though, certainly hooked me though. The setting was beautiful, the drama was juicy and the final chapter was heartwarming!!! I really enjoyed these characters (although some of the descriptions of McHuge were...lets say...unrealistic or maybe heavy handed) I thought the character arcs and their love was great!

WOW! THE DEATHS!!! EPIC! This book was such a good take on the slasher genre! It's a vivid book that made me feel like watching the movie. The characters also felt like they were more developed as people, than just characters to kill (which is an infamous complaint about slasher media.) I found each character really compelling but none more than our protagonist, Hannah. Her growth as a character and her trauma as a survivor was real and cinematic (not gonna lie if this turns into a movie, I want to audition). Oh, and not to mention the setting!! Loved it all around, but I also just love a good slasher piece!

I'm not sure how to feel about this book. A stupid kid decides to go scuba diving, by himself to find his dead father's remains. He gets swallowed by a whale and spends the majority of the book trying to escape said whales body. Many things happen to boy in whales body while simultaneously dealing with childhood trauma around overbearing and abusive father. It was exciting for the parts in the whale but every time you thought he would get out, things got worse instead of better. Not to mention him talking to his dead father in a last ditch attempt to figure out his tumultuous feelings for his father and family in general. If it were made into a movie I would watch it but this was defintely not exactly scientifically accurate but fun to listen to.