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Devil's Night Series by Penelope Douglas (Reviews)

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* I couldn't get my hands on "Conclave" for free, and since it's not a key book in the series, I decided not to buy it. There is no review for this book.  Corrupt Hideaway Honestly, I wish I had more to say, but this was a bit of a let down compared to Corrupt in my opinion. Looking back, it focused more on Damon than the protagonists and honestly, I wanted to feel more connected to the characters. Kai, even from his perspective, seems closed off, and I was hoping that by the end I'd feel like I knew him, but no such look. Kai   was meh and for me and so was banks. She was driven and ambitious, but Rika was taunting, pure fire and gave as good as she got. Whereas I felt like, we never got to see banks bad-side, which is a shame because I know she has one. In all fairness to Penelope, I really did enjoy seeing how Banks tried to navigate her old life from her knew one. And her love for Damon v.s Kai. I think she'll develop more of a tongue later on in the book...

Corruption by Penelope Douglas (review)

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Wow. Okay wow. First of all this is the hundredth book I have read 🥳🥳🥳🥳🥳. I've been meaning to read this for months, and Penelope rarely disappoints. Welp, this did more than not disappoint IT WAS AMAZING.  The spoiler-free version is that the plot was incredible, the writing and smut was fucking amazing, I'm in love with the main character an d not only did Pen elope show off a sexy kick ass gay character in the perfect way but in a fucked up round-about way, I found it to be quite the feminist read.  Now lets get to business 😎. First up, the goddamn story line Most romance books I read are only okay at the storyline. What I mean by this, is that, outside of the romance, there is nothing. Like, the actual trope will be good, and you feel like you know the characters, but romance is the only aspect to the book. This on the other hand 🤯. It was like a horror, mystery and romance all wrapped up into one whilst including, I hate every girl but you and bad boy trope....

Breathless by Jennifer Niven (review)

This was apart of my tbr authors list  so I was like, "Imma do a review" 'cause why not. So first of, Jennifer Niven is the author of "All the Bright Places" which has been made into a netflix movie and that was how I discovered her and her books. To be honest, I really do a pprop riate "All the Bright Places" 'cause it got me through some dark times when I was just struggling and it made me feel like I wasn't alone but I do have to say that "Holding up the universe" is probably her best book and because of that it became fairly obvious that she was a GOOD author. Like most people who have one big hit... let's just say it's for a reason... BUT Jennifer did not disappoint. I wanted to read more, and then she did disappoint... 😮‍💨. So basically this girl who's name I don't remember, lets just call her Jenny, goes to an island after her mother and farther get divorced. She's leaving her best friends behind, her dad ...

Heart Bones by Colleen Hoover (review)

My first thought, Sarah is doing wonders for my ED. If you've read it and can remember her you'd know that I'm being sarcastic. THANKFULLY, that stopped pretty quick and I didn't have to endure a book about dieting. Other than that, the plot; ⭐⭐⭐. It was just pretty unbelievable that  Beyah never again mentioned her mother, that her dad just bought her a plane ticket in the middle of the night, that his new wife and step-daughter are perfectly happy to have her, that he was never notified by the police, that no one talked about how she destroyed that camera, that she'd never shared any secrets until this one guy came into the picture, that she miraculously decided to go to law school and waited FOUR goddamn years for this one boy. Actually never mind ⭐⭐. Everything else, 4-5 stars. I liked the main characters but I mean, it really did just paint rich people as people with no personality or life experience whatsoever however the moral 🙏.  The overall summar...

The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer (review)

*TW - stalking, sexual assault, emotional manipulation and other questionable behavior... The Twilight Saga by Stephenie Meyer BTW, more in-depth reviews of the individual books are coming (when I can be arsed to re-read them) I feel like everyone has seen a twilight review and we all know that it's misogynistic but I'm just going to point out the most creepy stalkery bits that people don't focus on. 1.  In breaking dawn p1 Bella has sex with Edward and gets extremely bruised but is like "no it's fine!" Then when she gets pregnant even though she could die, she's like i'm keeping the baby. Not exactly the best thing to influence women and their sex lives. 2.  In the 3rd book, Jacob basically says to Bella that if she doesn't kiss him he'll kill himself? He also forces Bella to kiss him before that in another book. 3.  The way that Bella is constantly doubting herself and thinking she's not good enough for Edward. A living corpse. Who loves...

All Eyes on Us by Kit Frick (review)

  Trigger warning *conversion therapy* Summary The story focuses on two main female characters. They both have the same boyfriend except one of them is lesbian and the other one actually likes him. The dick's name is Carta and he's like a classic psychopath; rich, football star, incredibly kind to everyone. Just screams a nut job. Anyways, the two girls end up being stalked by a private number and at first it may seem like this private number is out to get Rosalie and Amanda, but fuck no! They be out to get Carta. A couple messages, threats and injuries later, the two girls come face to face with who they think private is. Turns out, it's not Ben and David, it's mother fucking... Review OMG! OMG! OMG! 🚨 🚨 🚨 Spoiler alert 🚨 🚨 🚨 ... IT'S CARTA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I'm so excited! Do you know how difficult it has become for books to shock me?????????? Usually I'm like, yh ik that's the killer. BUT DAMN. I was not expecting that. Okay...

Love, Lucas by Chantele Sedgwick (review)

  *suicidal thoughts/ attempts trigger warnings* Summary Basically, Oakley lost her brother due to cancer and doesn't know how to cope. She's meant to be going of to college but she doesn't care about that anymore. Whilst her brother was alive she spent every second with him, as in, not at school, and now he's gone, she just wants to rest. One day her mum and dad start arguing so her mum decides to move "temporarily" to her aunts house. Guess what, she doesn't leave. Her mum and father get divorced, blah, blah, blah. Oakley meets a guy blah, blah blah. She learns to surf although the author never clarifies whether it's a suicide attempt blah, blah, blah. Her brother leaves her a note book blah, blah, blah. SURPRISE! They all live happily ever after 🥳🥳🥳 blah, blah, blah Review Characters: ⭐⭐⭐ The author could have done the "I'm so sad my brother just died of cancer but I moved and never thought about him again. I'm so happy now" tro...

Good Girls Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson (review)

TRIGGER WARNING - so, in this book there is mention of sexual assault. From memory it's never described in any way it's just something that Pip finds out about another character's past (cant remember who) but it ends up being quite essential in the story and it continues into book 2. I haven't read book 3 so I don't know if it's mentioned again. EDIT. *TW  - suicide, drug abuse, kidnapping, rape, and mentioned briefly self-harm.  Lesser trigger warnings  include mentioned disordered eating, p sychological abuse, murder and underage drinking. I have listened to the entire book before but that was a while ago so I decided to re-read it and then read the sequel... yh no. Lets start with what I liked because it's shorter and better for formatting: 1.  SOME  of the characters (aka everyone minus  PIP ) were in-depth and it was fun to get to know their evil secrets  💀 2. You really do not expect the ending or who the killer is (IT'S HER SISTER GUYS! We...