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The majority of the story revolved around both women chasing and leaving love letters for one another across time. There were some super cool descriptions of how they stumbled across each others’ letters and I did enjoy the overall concept, as well as the writing style. That said, by the end I was left wanting with a bag full of questions and few answers.
This book was majorly hyped across bookblr, bookstagram, and the blogging nation—and for good reason! The Love Hypothesis delivers a steamy romance with humor and fun takes on well-loved tropes. It induces stomach butterflies and goofy grins and subconscious toe-curling. It’s also the first book in a long time that caused me to stay up past my bedtime on a week night (for a woman who prizes her eight hours of sleep, this is a big deal!).
Tristran’s crossing from Wall to Faerie is reminiscent of Alice crossing into Wonderland, Harry Potter into Diagon Alley, Lucy Pevensie into Narnia. At least, I assume so, having read only one of those three. You get what I mean, though—there’s that magical feeling of crossing a threshold into a new world where anything is possible. And as such, we’re greeted by talking animal guardians and a dangerous forest.
I wish I had a physical copy of this book so I could give it a hug. The Flatshare is so freaking cute. The slow burn romance! The British quaintness! The loyal friendships! The unpacking of emotional trauma and steady healing! Okay, one of these things is not like the other but they’re all in the story and make this such an amazing read.
This book is a physical manifestation of my heart’s song! Ahhh I just love it! Categorizing under faves of 2021, but really I see it is an all-time fave that I plan to return to again and again. I think it’s safe to say Emily Henry is a new favorite author for me.
I wanted to like this book so much! It has all the elements I typically want: enemies to lovers, a secret magical island, a feisty protagonist with a quick wit, even a training montage (albeit a mediocre one). But the way these elements are thrown together feels contrived. The characters’ motivations are largely black and white, especially when it comes to the villains. And many of characters and their actions are used as obvious plot devices. That said, the second half of the novel really picks up and I’m tempted to read the next in the series to see if we venture out of ACOTAR fan-fiction territory and into a story and characters that can stand on their own.
A groomsman and his last-minute guest are about to discover if a fake date can go the distance in a fun and flirty debut novel.
Agreeing to go to a wedding with a guy she gets stuck with in an elevator is something Alexa Monroe wouldn't normally do. But there's something about Drew Nichols that's too hard to resist.
On the eve of his ex's wedding festivities, Drew is minus a plus one. Until a power outage strands him with the perfect candidate for a fake girlfriend...
After Alexa and Drew have more fun than they ever thought possible, Drew has to fly back to Los Angeles and his job as a pediatric surgeon, and Alexa heads home to Berkeley, where she's the mayor's chief of staff. Too bad they can't stop thinking about the other...
They're just two high-powered professionals on a collision course toward the long distance dating disaster of the century--or closing the gap between what they think they need and what they truly want...
When someone asks you to spend your life with him, it shouldn't come as a surprise--or happen in front of 45,000 people. When freelance writer Nikole Paterson goes to a Dodgers game with her actor boyfriend, his man bun, and his bros, the last thing she expects is a scoreboard proposal. Saying no isn't the hard part--they've only been dating for five months, and he can't even spell her name correctly. The hard part is having to face a stadium full of disappointed fans...
At the game with his sister, Carlos Ibarra comes to Nik's rescue and rushes her away from a camera crew. He's even there for her when the video goes viral and Nik's social media blows up--in a bad way. Nik knows that in the wilds of LA, a handsome doctor like Carlos can't be looking for anything serious, so she embarks on an epic rebound with him, filled with food, fun, and fantastic sex. But when their glorified hookups start breaking the rules, one of them has to be smart enough to put on the brakes...
The first three Sweep books bound into one gorgeous edition at a fabulous price! Morgan Rowlands never thought she was anything other than a typical sixteen-year-old girl. But when she meets Cal, a captivatingly handsome coven leader, she makes a discover that turns her whole world upside down: she is a witch, descended from an ancient and powerful line. And so is Cal. Their connection is immediate and unbreakable; Cal teases out Morgan's power, her love, her magick. But Morgan discovers too soon that her powers are strong-- almost too powerful to control. And she begins to suspect that Cal may be keeping secrets from her…secrets that could destroy them both.
All sorcerers are evil. Elisabeth has known that as long as she has known anything. Raised as a foundling in one of Austermeer’s Great Libraries, Elisabeth has grown up among the tools of sorcery—magical grimoires that whisper on shelves and rattle beneath iron chains. If provoked, they transform into grotesque monsters of ink and leather. She hopes to become a warden, charged with protecting the kingdom from their power.
Zafira is the Hunter, disguising herself as a man when she braves the cursed forest of the Arz to feed her people. Nasir is the Prince of Death, assassinating those foolish enough to defy his autocratic father, the king. If Zafira was exposed as a girl, all of her achievements would be rejected; if Nasir displayed his compassion, his father would punish him in the most brutal of ways. Both are legends in the kingdom of Arawiya—but neither wants to be.
