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Synopsis:

Anastasia Allen has worked her entire life for a shot at Team USA. It looks like everything is going according to plan when she gets a full scholarship to the University of California, Maple Hills and lands a place on their competitive figure skating team.

Nothing will stand in her way, not even the captain of the hockey team, Nate Hawkins.

Nate’s focus as team captain is on keeping his team on the ice. Which is tricky when a facilities mishap means they are forced to share a rink with the figure skating team—including Anastasia, who clearly can’t stand him. 

But when Anastasia’s skating partner faces an uncertain future, she may have to look to Nate to take her shot. 
Sparks fly, but Anastasia isn’t worried… because she could never like a hockey player, right?

Genre: Contemporary Sports Romance

Tropes:
  • Hockey Romance 
  • Irritation to Love 
  • Grumpy X Sunshine
  • College Romance 
  • Found Family 
My Thoughts:

After seeing the TikTok hype of this book and the controversy surrounding it, I had to add it to my TBR and my A-Z Reading Challenge to see what all the fuss was about and whether the spicy scenes were all that.
This is my first read by the author Hannah Grace, which is fitting seeing as this was her first book.

Icebreaker follows college skating student Anastasia Allen in her journey of preparing for the ice skating championships alongside her skating partner Aaron. After the ice hockey’s ice rink is vandalised, Anastasia is forced to share a rink with the college hockey team, including their captain Nathan Hawkins, who she despises. 

The two must navigate the sharing of the ice rink as they both prepare for important competitions coming up. After hearing the news of the vandalised hockey rink, Anastasia believes the hockey team to be nothing more than a liability, fearing they could impact upon her time practicing on her ice rink.

When Nathan and Anastasia first meet, Anastasia gives the team a very cold welcome, being furious at the fact that she will have to share her rink. However, as she spends more time with the hockey team, she begins to warm to them. 

After their initial meeting Nathan is keen to put their differences aside, so that they can share the ice in a civil manner, with the hopes of also becoming friends – since his roommate Robbie and her roommate Lola have become involved. Despite Nathan’s ideas, Anastasia is not convinced that Nathan’s team were innocent in their rink being damaged.

The story follows the pair in their journey of developing a friendship, turned relationship whilst sharing the ice, that ultimately forces them together. As Nathan learns more about Anastasia, he begins developing feelings for her – only she’s not the commitment type girl, due to her busy schedule that only allows time for friends with benefits. 
After learning that Anastasia is single and that Ryan is only her friends with benefits, Nathan is determined to break down Anastasia’s cold exterior. 

As the two converse, they see that their hatred is not so far away from lust – leading to the pair to become friends with benefits following a house party that Nathan’s housemates held. When Anastasia and Ryan end their arrangement following Ryan’s new relationship, Nathan and Anastasia embark on one.

Anastasia and her friend Lola share a flat with Anastasia’s skating partner and friend Aaron, who is extremely hostile towards Anastasia and what she chooses to do with her body. This leads Aaron to become extremely sensitive towards Anastasia’s new arrangement with hockey player Nathan, which leads him to bad mouth Anastasia in an attempt to convince her to stop. As Anastasia ignores his comments, Aaron begins to increase his emotional abuse by making comments about her going around the sports team and towards her weight gain.

As Anastasia and Nathan spend more time together following the sharing of the ice rink, they fall into a routine after developing feelings of more than friends. This is quickly halted following an injury Aaron sustains after a rumoured prank by Nathan that leaves him unable to skate. After Nathan is accused of Aaron’s injury, Nate is benched from hockey until Aaron makes a full recovery, only this takes weeks, making Anastasia even more anxious about being ready for their upcoming competition.

After Aaron’s incident, Anastasia decides to distance herself from Nate due to not knowing who to believe – her roommate who she’s known years, or the boy she’s just started seeing. 

Ultimately they can’t stay away from each other for long, resuming their routine. This further makes Aaron hostile towards Anastasia’s choices, where at Nate’s house party, he makes comments about Anastasia, stating that she’s using Nate for his money, nobody loves her and that even her adoptive parents use her to fill their trophy cabinet. This leads to a fight to erupt between Aaron and Nate’s protective roommates. Once learning of what Aaron had said about her, Anastasia decides to move in temporarily with Nate.

With Aaron being unable to skate and Nate being benched, Nate offers to be Aaron’s replacement to help Anastasia continue to practice before their competition. 

The story follows the journey of Anastasia and Nate practicing Anastasia’s routine, whilst slowly their feelings develop further. As the pair spend more time together, Nate realises that Anastasia is severely under nourishing with her meal plan that Aaron created, expressing that she could be injuring herself. After much persuasion, Nate creates a healthier meal plan that will allow her to have nutrition, only she’s developed issues with food following Aaron’s relentless and nit picking comments on her weight, being that she was too heavy for him to carry her.

As Christmas arrives, Anastasia and Nate return home for the break and meet each others parents after becoming boyfriend and girlfriend. When Nate is away buying Anastasia’s present, Anastasia takes to skating on the lake outside Nate’s home – only she falls through the ice after hitting a weak spot, but luckily Nate rushes to save her.
After they return home and after 8 weeks, Aaron is finally able to return to skating just in time for the championship. 

When Aaron and Anastasia begin speaking to one another, Aaron reveals his behaviour was due to his dad having an affair that got a girl their age pregnant. Aaron avoids apologising to Anastasia, but offers to pay for therapy sessions together to help them revive their professional partnership, so they do so. In doing so, their therapist suggests for Anastasia to return back to the flat, which when she does, causes a rift between her and Nate, who is not so trusting of Aaron after what he had previously done.

However, Anastasia gives Aaron the benefit of the doubt because she’s left with no other partner to skate with and not forgiving him would mean she’d have to start over again. After speaking with his roommates, Nate comes around and sees Anastasia’s POV and how she’s only sticking with Aaron for the sake of her career, resulting in them to make up. 

Anastasia and Aaron begin their skating routine and breeze through it, whilst Nate watches in the crowd unbeknownst to Anastasia. When Nate finds his seat, he comes across a friend who reveals that Aaron’s accident was from a football game, not from a prank that Nate was rumoured to have pulled – proving that Aaron was lying and being manipulative all along. When their routine comes to an end, Aaron deliberately forces a kiss to Anastasia despite her pulling away. This causes upset with Anastasia who furiously ends their skating partnership, much to Aaron’s and their coaches pleads not to. After witnessing everything, Nate meets Aaron with a punch, for forcing himself on Anastasia.

When she reveals her plans to end the partnership, Aaron makes comments that she’s overreacting and she’ll never be good enough for the Olympics. 

When Nate’s roommates watch the live events unfold, they make the decision to move Anastasia out of Aaron’s home. After learning the truth about Aaron’s accident, the accusation is removed from Nate’s file.

The story ends two years later, where Nate is playing hockey at the NFL and Anastasia is pregnant with their daughter, following her own Olympian success. 


I’m not sure how I managed to finish this book – it seemed like it was going on forever, but nothing was happening to make the story feel like it was progressing.
I went ahead with reading it because it had gotten so many mixed reviews online and I wanted to see where they were coming from. Some people loved it and others said it was straight up porn for which they didn’t understand the hype for it.

I didn’t hate it, but I wasn’t obsessed and absolutely loving it to understand the hype of it on BookTok. I was honestly underwhelmed by it, maybe that’s because college sports romances just aren’t my thing? 

It was very slow at the start and even around 70% the way in, which made it very hard for me to be motivated to read further. I always say that the beginnings of books need to have something that gets the reader interested to read on – whether it be the plot or the characters personality. I just felt like there was something massively missing from this book for me to enjoy it. I do enjoy a slow burn romance, but this was just dragged out. I feel like slow burn romances need to have the tension and the back and forth between the characters to built up the slow burn. I just felt like Anastasia and Nate lacked tension between them that would ignite the slowburn, there was no fire between their interactions. 

At the start I was confused at who Anastasia was sleeping with because I wasn’t expecting her to be a friends with benefits character. I’m not sure what I was expecting, but when I started reading I initially thought Anastasia and Nate were already together. I’m not sure I liked the whole friends with benefits plot at the start.

I did feel like I was back in my 13 year old bedroom, reading Wattpad on my IPad because at times, it made me cringe at the writing style and description. It read like a 13 year old Wattpad story, which I think is why people are saying it’s spicy. It hardly had a plot, it focused way too much on the spice, but the plots would be revisited as if the author forgot about them. The fact that this was the authors first book makes sense and speaks volumes. 

All the reviews had said it was popular because of the spicy content, but I didn’t find the spice all that spicy. I’ve read spicier things than the contents of this book. I do believe that those who think this book is 5⭐️ and spicy are those who have only recently gotten into reading.

I also didn’t particularly enjoy the spice in this book and I think it’s because of the story plot timeline. It’s set in college, which I’m way past and I’m also older than them, so I don’t find them interesting. Reading about them made me cringe a lot, as their words felt immature – especially at the spicy/dirty talking parts.

Along with the spice content that made me feel icky, I also felt uncomfortable at times with certain conversations. The part in particular was between Anastasia and her college skating coach, who made comments about Anastasia’s sex life and the size of Nate’s genitals, after she’d seen him wearing tight leggings for ice skating which left nothing to the imagination. I was just honestly sat there like wtf?! Even though it’s only fiction, it just felt unprofessional and weird. It wasn’t the only time a college coach had mentioned something inappropriate between a student. 

I think I particularly struggled to immerse into the story because of the college storyline that I’m passed and also because I struggled to connect with Anastasia’s character. Quite frankly, she annoyed me throughout. She didn’t have a back bone towards her roommate and skating partner Aaron. Then despite going to therapy for years, she was unable to see his blatant manipulation and emotional abuse. It just got boring when it was constantly repeated, it felt like she was trying to be a quirky character when actually she was just being irritating for her ignorance. 

It felt like the story just went round in the same circle, rather than progressing.

I’d say the only thing I remotely liked about it was the ice skating aspect, but that was only towards the last 20% of the book – I had no other interest in it during the start. 
I don’t think I’ll be jumping to read the other books of the story – the subsequent storylines were hinted in Icebreaker, but they weren’t intriguing enough for me to put myself through another 400 pages. 

I hate leaving negative reviews because I read for enjoyment, so I want to enjoy every book I read.


My Rating: ⭐️⭐️

Georgia
♥
April 16, 2024 No comments


Synopsis:

Working as a nanny for the world’s grumpiest single dad should have been simple. Except I can’t keep my eyes off him. And he can’t keep his hands off of me.

Cade Eaton is thirteen years older than I am and barely looks my way. Until I get him into the hot tub one night for a game of truth or dare. Then all bets are off—and so are our clothes. 

He’s gruff, a little rough around the edges. But broad-shouldered ranchers with calloused hands and filthy mouths are this city girl’s kryptonite. So who am I to resist?

But it’s in our quiet moments together that he softens. It’s when he takes care of me that I realize his hardened exterior is just a façade. It’s when I watch him go all sweet with his little boy that I really fall for him.
Someone convinced him once that his best wasn’t good enough. But I’ve never felt more cherished than I do in his arms.

My contract may say this arrangement is only for two months.

But my heart says this is forever.

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tropes:
  • Single Dad
  • Small Town 
  • Age Gap
  • Opposites Attract
  • Cowboy X Nanny
  • Slow Burn
  • Unexpected Pregnancy
My Thoughts:

I knew when planning out my A-Z Reading Challenge that The Chestnut Spring series had to be incorporated – in fact, I’m pretty sure I started my choices with the Chestnut Spring series and worked the other letters around them. 

Elsie Silver’s Chestnut Spring series blew up over TikTok towards the end of 2023, but I was faintly familiar with her work beforehand. I read the first book in the series Flawless, back in 2022 as a book club choice. I rated that book 4 ⭐️ and absolutely loved it. I’m not sure why I never got round to reading the rest of the books of the series, but I’m glad I didn’t because now I can join in with the TikTok hype. 

The whole hype on TikTok has got me seriously considering buying the physical versions of the series and cute cowboy/girl decor accessories – but, I’m holding out buying the full physical series until I’ve read it on my kindle. 

Prior to starting my A-Z challenge, I was eager to start with the Chestnut Springs series, but I ultimately decided to go in alphabetical order. So I was super excited to finally get to join the TikTok hype.

Heartless follows single father Cade, in his hunt to find a temporary nanny to look after his five year old son Luke, over the summer while school is on break, which Cade is unable to do as he’s got loads of work cut out for him on his families farm. 

Cade is extremely picky towards picking a nanny for Luke, only wanting the best for his son and also to find someone who won’t pine after him. This leads him and Summer, his sister in law with no options, due to his pickiness. When Cade persistently asks Summer to look after Luke, she declines due to having her own busy schedule – but has the perfect person in mind, who’s similar to herself.

Cade visits his local coffee shop, where he’s entranced with the ginger haired woman in front of him and her loveable laugh. When the woman in front attempts to find her purse, she accidentally drops her underwear on the floor, leading Cade to do the gentleman thing and retrieve them for her – not realising what they are. 

The pair exchange a laugh between what they are, before the lady rushes out the shop leaving her underwear in Cade’s hands.

Summer meets with her friend Willa and desperately persuades her to take the nanny job to help her brother in law Cade. Willa is initially apprehensive knowing that Cade is a grumpy cowboy, but with no plans over the summer due to her brother closing the bar she works at, she decides to give it a go. 

When Summer introduces the friend that she believed would be perfect to look after Luke, Willa and Cade realise they know each other from the coffee shop. This realisation had grumpy Cade refusing to accept Willa’s help, after the underwear incident they exchanged. However, he’s left with no choice when Luke wants to spend time with Summer and Willa.

The story follows the navigation between Cade’s busy working life on the farm and Willa’s nannying for Luke. Despite his initial attraction to Willa, Cade makes a promise to himself not to pursue his son’s nanny, due to the 13 year age gap they share and because of the burns that Luke’s mother Talia left on him. 

Only with the close and forced proximity, Cade and Willa are unable to deny their lustful feelings towards one another – especially with Willa frequently teasing, flirting and sharing of her underwear habits to Cade. Willa slowly breaks through Cade’s grumpy exterior, after he set out determined for Willa to fail. 

The tension between the pair continues to develop, where their feelings are laid on the table after a truth and dare session in Cade’s hot tub. However, Cade painfully sticks to his promise of staying clear of Willa, but in doing so, his rejection pushes Willa away from him.

Following their truth and dare session, Cade pushes Willa towards a fellow cowboy, encouraging her to go out with him, which she follows through on. Only she returns home early after not enjoying their company and only wanting Cade. The two exchange a heated argument that eventually leads to the slow burn exploding and the tension snapping. 

The pair attempt to ignore their feelings with one another, while they step into a familiar routine of Willa teaching Luke new skills, whilst Cade comes home to them after a long day at the ranch. Willa becomes fully immersed in the Eaton family lifestyle, making thoughts of returning to her city lifestyle even harder to think about.

After Luke becomes sick passing his sickness onto Willa, Cade becomes protective and caring for Willa despite his grumpy exterior he’d been putting on. With Willa seeing Cade’s soft side, her feelings are further reinforced; resulting in the pair to finally give into their feelings whilst keeping their new relationship on the down low, due to Cade’s worries she’ll eventually return back to her city life, that will leave him devastated.

With Luke’s birthday approaching, Cade begins preparing for the annual arrival of Luke’s estranged mother Talia. When Talia arrives, she attempts to make her presence known, by having her hands all over Cade, who’s aware it’s for show due to her running out on their family when Luke was two years old. Willa begins to observe Talia’s behaviour and when the two finally converse, snide comments are made by Talia about how she’ll always be the mother of Cade’s child and she’ll always have a hold on him. This anger’s Willa, in which Cade calms her down – reminding Willa that he has no feelings for Talia and that he tolerates her only for his son. 

Not long after Luke’s birthday celebration, Cade is involved in a ranching accident that leaves him with broken fingers, resulting in him to go to hospital. When Cade and Willa arrive at the small town hospital, they are met with Summer’s sister Winter who’s their doctor. It is revealed that Summer and Winter have become estranged due to Winter’s mother, resulting in them to have a strained relationship. Willa attempts to encourage Winter to return Summer’s messages and to mend their relationship, only Winter is apprehensive, believing it’s been left too long. When catching up, Winter reveals her miscarriage, which prompts Willa to realise she late. After undergoing tests, Winter confirms that Willa is pregnant as a result of her sickness that made her pill ineffective. 

On the way home, Cade observes the change in Willa’s behaviour and begins questioning what is wrong. Willa is initially apprehensive about revealing her pregnancy news to Cade, but eventually does. Upon hearing the news, Cade is shocked and presents not the best reaction, which makes Willa believe they need time apart to think about everything, due to her not wanting to make Cade feel trapped like Talia had done. 

Willa returns to the city to think through what she wants and while there, received messages from her friend Summer informing her that Cade is miserable without her. This prompts Willa to return home and for the pair to rejoin together. 

The story comes to an end with Cade, Willa and Luke being a family of three preparing for the arrival of the new baby. Willa and Luke exchange a sweet and endearing conversation where Luke asks if he can also call Willa Mum, like the new baby eventually will, before Willa goes into labour. 

The story ends with Willa and Cade welcoming their baby girl, who they’ve named after Cade’s late mother, Emma, before being joined by Luke, completing their family. 


I read this book in two nights, which probably could’ve been one night if I had’ve started it earlier on the first day. I absolutely devoured this book – I loved it! 
Waiting so long to read it paid off because I throughly enjoyed it – I loved everything about it, it was literally *chefs kiss*. 

It had all the tropes that I absolutely love, so I felt like Elsie Silver well and truly fed me and delivered with this book! It was just what I needed after my slumpy reading habits recently. 

In heartless, I highlighted so much – more than I’ve ever done for any other book. The whole story had me giggling, awh-ing, kicking my legs in excitement and my heartwarming with love for all the loveable characters. Heartless was such a wholesome read and I really enjoyed being able to immerse myself into the cowboy world with characters that I genuinely cared for and loved – where’s my cowboy at? 

I can’t even narrow down my special character mention because every character that was featured had something I loved. 

I absolutely fell in love with little Luke and his sweetness, I just wanted to protect him from the pain his mother’s absence caused. I fell in love with Willa’s love for him and how Cade fell in love with Willa’s love for his son. I do wish we had’ve seen Willa turn into protective mother mode towards Luke’s mother Talia, by causing a scene, but I equally love that Luke and Willa had their special moment with him asking to start calling her Mum too.
I loved seeing Summer and Rhett’s relationship in Flawless and their wittiness. I loved Rhett’s one liners and Summer’s smart comments.

I loved Cade’s father and his innuendos that he purposely made towards blowing the grass. 

The story ended perfectly in my opinion – pregnancy. I love a good pregnancy trope and seeing the characters fulfil life goals. I feared that heartless would end without an engagement or pregnancy, which would be revealed in the following book – sometimes I enjoy this, especially when it’s nice to have mentions in a new book of characters from previous books you loved, but because I loved this book so much, I wanted to know everything in this book. 

I love how Willa had a girl, it was something I was hoping for. I just felt like a girl would feel right because Cade already had a boy, so it needed to be a girl who would have Cade wrapped around her finger. With the mention of Cade’s mother who had died in childbirth, I also felt like Willa and Cade needed to have a girl so that they could name her after Cade’s late mother. 

I loved how Elsie subtly set up the following books of the series, by sprinkling in the other characters and hinting towards what their storylines would be. It had me excited to get to know the other characters of the Chestnut Springs world. 

Devoured, loved and desperately eager to read the following books of the series. Well and truly in my cowboy era. 


My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Georgia 
♥


April 11, 2024 No comments


Synopsis:

Who are you?
What have we done to each other?

These are the questions Nick Dunne finds himself asking on the morning of his fifth wedding anniversary when his wife Amy suddenly disappears. The police suspect Nick. Amy’s friends reveal that she was afraid of him, that she kept secrets from him. He swears it isn’t true. A police examination of his computer shows strange searches. He says they weren’t made by him. And then there are the persistent calls on his mobile phone.

So what did happen to Nick’s beautiful wife?

Genre: Contemporary Mystery-Thriller 

Tropes:
  • Missing Person
  • Infidelity 
  • Secrets 
My Thoughts:

Gone Girl wasn’t my first venture into the work of the author Gillian Flynn. I first became familiar with her writing, when reading Dark Places for my letter D of my A to Z Reading Challenge. 

I knew of Gone Girl through the movie adaptation, which I hadn’t seen fully, but was familiar with the premise of the story through snippets and clips of the movie on TikTok. When the time came to planning my challenge choices, Gone Girl was the first and only option for G that I thought of. The movie premise had interested me, so I knew I had to read the book before I fully watched the film – The whole read the book or watch the film first debate.

Follows Amy and Nick – a married couple on the day of their fifth wedding anniversary. Nick continues with his normal everyday routine of going to work at the bar he owns (bought by Amy) who he shares with his twin sister Margot “Go”. When he starts working a shift at the bar, he’s contacted by his neighbour who is concerned about Amy due to their door being open and their indoor cat being outside. 

Nick returns home to find Amy missing and an alarming scene in his home that suggests an altercation. This prompts him to contact the police for them to come and investigate his missing wife. 

When the police arrive, they begin looking around their home for clues relating to Amy and in doing so, question Nick about Amy’s personality and daily routine habits. This leads Nick to present as being an uncaring husband as he’s unable to provide useful answers to the police. Nick is brought into questioning to help the detectives create an image around Amy, including the taking of his DNA to rule him out within their investigation. Nick later contacts Amy’s parents who are angry that he waited so long to contact them about their daughter. 

The story follows the investigation into Amy’s disappearance with each chapter progressing through the number of days Amy has been missing, whilst alternative to preview diary entries written by Amy prior to her disappearance. During the investigation, Nick and Amy’s parents work with the detectives to provide clues that could solve what happened to her, where they look into her past relationships and how they could link to her disappearance. This leads Amy’s parents to disclose of a relationship she had with a man called Desi in her college years, who Amy attempted to leave him, he threatened his own suicide. During this conversation, Amy’s parents reveal the many incidents Amy has been involved in over the years where friends and partners have hurt her, out of jealousy that her parents are famous authors to the Amazing Amy series. 

During the alternative chapters in Amy’s diary entry’s, Amy details the beginning of her and Nicks relationship and the type they had. During Nick’s chapters, he details how his marriage was starting to fail, which had lead him to develop resentment towards his wife. 

The story reveals how Amy would carry out annual treasure hunts on their wedding anniversary for Nick to complete, that he hated as he would miss the clues that linked to their marriage. After the police find the first clue, Nick is encouraged to complete the treasure hunt as they believe it may help them with Amy’s case. 

Nick begins embarking on the clues, which he seemingly finds easier than normal, which each clue takes him to the roots that are linked to his marriage. 

The detectives reveal to Nick that the house had been staged to appear as an abduction of Amy, as they had found a significant amount of blood that had been poorly attempted to be cleaned and hidden. This leads police to suggest that he could be responsible.

Nick presented as being an uncaring husband who knew nothing about his wife’s health, friends and habits, which leads the police to be suspicious of his concern for his wife’s disappearance.

One of Amy’s neighbourhood friends, Noelle comes forward to the police that she was best friends with Amy – leading Nick to struggle to believe as Noelle had a certain personality that he believed Amy hated. 

The couple had returned to Nicks childhood town to care for his mother who was dying of cancer and to support his sister in the care of his distanced father who had Alzheimers. This was a move that Amy was reluctant to make, but with the two of them unemployed, she had no choice. 

It is revealed that Nick had been having an affair with a student of his called Andie, who was 23 years old, that had been going on for over a year, in which he had lost all feelings towards his wife. Nick’s sister Margot finds out about his affair when he attempts to sneak Andie out of her home. 

As the detectives investigate, they come closer to evidence that suggests that Nick was responsible for his wife’s disappearance. This leads him to seek out the support of a lawyer who is well known for his experience of the same type of case – husband suspected of wife’s murder/disappearance. 

After prompted by Amy’s parents, Nick goes to investigate Desi and other leads that could be responsible for Amy’s disappearance.

During Nick’s press conference, Noelle reveals that Amy was pregnant with their child, despite claims Nick didn’t want children. This leads to the public to believe his was responsible and therefore, hates by the public. 
After meeting with the lawyer, Nick ends his affair with Andie as he’s advised to put of fear it could be revealed to the unsuspecting public. 

Nick goes on a tv station to change the publics perception of him, but Andie reveals their affair before he can – leading him to become even more hated. However, he’s able to turn it around by playing the devastated husband card. 

The story swaps to Amy’s pov at in the present, where it is learned that she’s ran away and staged her abduction/death after learning of Nicks infidelity. 

Amy begins hiding out at a motel, where she chops and dies her hair to shed her former identity of Amy, while using the money she saved up to live on. Whilst at the motel, she uses it as an opportunity to watch the downfall of Nick on tv stations. After being at the motel for a while, she befriends a lady called Greta who quickly turns against her, along with a man who had been working at the motel. Amy becomes suspicious of their motives believing that they suspect she is Amy, so she begins packing up to leave. Only they arrive and steal her money, after discovering how much she had. 

Amy is left with no money and no choice but to call upon the help of Desi – a high school lover who she had made an accusation against. After knowing she’s got no money or options, Desi persuades her to stay with him, where she can lie low until everything blows over. Only Desi uses Amy’s vulnerability to manipulate her into being his hostage, where he traps her in his home without Amy money or access codes to leave. 

As Nick puts together the clues of the treasure hunt, he realises that they are all places that he was having an affair with Andie – leading him to realise that Amy knew and is therefore framing him for her murder as revenge. 
After discovering his affair, Amy began planting incriminating evidence that would frame Nick for her abduction and murder – spending habits that Nick accessed on their card with fingerprints on those items, graphic porn that suggests abuse and the diary entries where Amy had detailed the ‘abuse’ she had suffered which she had fabricated. 

After his discovery, Nick begins to appeal on tv that he is the doting husband who is devastated by his wife’s disappearance and that he is extremely regretful of his affair and how he took Amy for granted. This is set to play Amy at her own game where he can convince her to return home, which as Amy watches, she begins to believe that Nick has changed. Amy realises that it is only a matter of time before Nick is arrested for her murder and faced with the death penalty, so she begins developing a plan on how she can leave Desi. 

Amy decides to appeal to Desi’s infatuation with her and pretends she likes him, in order to trick him into letting his guard down. Amy sleeps with him, but makes her body look like she’s been abused and held hostage by him, after slipping him some sleeping pills. 

To escape and make her story believable, she kills Desi and “escapes” back to Nick who is shocked at her arrival and unconvinced in her story. 

After her return, the detectives question Amy and close up the cause, determining she was abducted by Desi. 
Nick is still left unconvinced and asks for the truth from Amy, who does so only after she’s convinced he’s not wired to trap her. After Amy’s confession, he goes to the detectives who fail to believe his claims. However, he regularly meets with one of the detectives and his sister on how they can get Amy convicted, after neither of them are convinced on her story. 

Amy and Nick continue to manipulate only another by pretending in their relationship. Amy is attempting to win back Nick, whilst Nick is attempting to earn her trust so he can strike. They both end up writing their separate tell all books and when Nick presents Amy with his finished version, which he will use to leave her, she reveals that she’s pregnant – therefore trapping Nick from ever leaving.


I was very apprehensive about reaching this point in my alphabetical challenge. This point of the reading challenge had book options from authors I’d previously read earlier in the challenge and struggled to connect with – Dark Places by Gillian Flynn and By a Thread/Forever Never by Lucy Score. So when I reached Gone Girl, it’s safe to say I was very apprehensive because I struggled to read Dark Places and that didn’t exactly leave me with hope towards reaching another book by the author. 

I struggled to enjoy this book for the exact same reasons as Dark Places – I had no interest until around 60% in where the chapters went from 30 minutes long to around 5 minutes long. They just felt so long and filled with so much unnecessary content that had me bored and literally, falling asleep. Each night I tried to finish this book, I only lasted an hour before I was ready for bed 🥱.

I’m not sure why I didn’t enjoy this book because the storyline/plot is something that is right up my street, but the way it was executed was so boring. I quickly grew to hate the male character Nick, which made it extremely hard and unbearable to continue when the longer chapters were from his perspective. I found him to be such a horrible character that I can’t describe – he was so self absorbed and misogynistic, that I was feeling icky and ew towards his thoughts. He was such a red flag of a man and not in the “oh so attractive, he’s got red flags, but I’ll ignore them” type way, more of the “can I really continue reading about this man’s thoughts” way. I got bored of his constant repeating of how much he hated his wife, so when the affair was revealed, I wasn’t surprised. I also think the casting of him in the film was spot on – or maybe, I didn’t like him because of who he was casted as. 

At the start I really felt for Amy and how her marriage had gone south and she was stuck with an uncaring husband – but I was also bored at her bland diary entries at the start. 

Just like Dark Places, I really struggled with the understanding of the language used – it wasn’t even the language that was used, it was just the sentences that were formed felt more like another language when I read them. I would re read the same page over and over, but still wouldn’t understand what I’d read. Maybe it’s my small pea sized brain, that’s really suited towards easy, mystery and fluffy romance books that affected my understanding. I do think Gillian’s audience is targeted towards older people or people with higher IQ (than me).

Part of me really wanted to enjoy this book because as I’ve mentioned, the plot is right up my street – psychotic/deranged woman/wife who does something very questionable and shocking. Why wouldn’t I love it?! 
I really wanted to like it, especially towards the end, but it just wasn’t shocking – Maybe it was because I sort of knew the premise? 

It was a good plot but I was too bored from the beginning that my motivation was gone by the end – it was simply to have the book sealed off and finished so it could be completed for the letter G. I did seriously consider DNFing this book (when do I ever not say this), I was around 20% in and I was just thinking of how much I had ahead of me. I thought about walking away, marking it as DNFd in my journal BUT then I thought it wouldn’t count towards my challenge or my reading goal AND I wanted to know the ending – which I suppose I could’ve just watched the film (didn’t I say this with Dark Places?)

As with Dark Places, Gone Girl has left me with the same feelings of the author. I don’t think Flynn is an author I would visit again. If I were to be interested in her books, I think I would check there’s an adaptation of her work before committing to the book. I’ve seen Sharp Objects is a film, so that might be on my watch list next.

I’m left feeling meh because her books must be good if 3 of them have been turned into screen adaptations – 
so what is wrong with me that I don’t love them? 


My Rating: ⭐️⭐️

Georgia
♥
April 09, 2024 No comments


Synopsis:

Morgan Grant and her sixteen-year-old daughter, Clara, would like nothing more than to be nothing alike.

Morgan is determined to prevent her daughter from making the same mistakes she did. By getting pregnant and married way too young, Morgan put her own dreams on hold. Clara doesn’t want to follow in her mother’s footsteps. Her predictable mother doesn’t have a spontaneous bone in her body.

With warring personalities and conflicting goals, Morgan and Clara find it increasingly difficult to coexist. The only person who can bring peace to the household is Chris—Morgan’s husband, Clara’s father, and the family anchor. But that peace is shattered when Chris is involved in a tragic and questionable accident. The heartbreaking and long-lasting consequences will reach far beyond just Morgan and Clara.

While struggling to rebuild everything that crashed around them, Morgan finds comfort in the last person she expects to, and Clara turns to the one boy she’s been forbidden to see. With each passing day, new secrets, resentment, and misunderstandings make mother and daughter fall further apart. So far apart, it might be impossible for them to ever fall back together.

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Themes:
  • Friends To Lovers
  • Family Tragedy 
  • Secrets 
  • Infidelity 
My Thoughts:

At the end of March, I was definitely heading towards a book slump. I felt like everything I read during the month was mid at best. I did enjoy The Mindf*ck Series, but still nothing had hit the top spot like books had done in previous months. 

Before the month had even finished, I picked out my first April read from my TBR jar and it revealed to be Regretting You by Colleen Hoover. I always find CoHo to be a great author to read when I’m feeling in a rut about reading. I always find that when I finish a book of hers, I’m pulled out of said rut and excited to pick my next book, by any author. 

So suffice to say, when I saw the title of my tbr jar pick, I was excited for Colleen to work her magic.

Regretting You follows the family life between couple Morgan and Chris and Morgan’s sister Jenny with her partner Jonah, who’s also Chris’ best friend. The story initially introduces us to the four characters in their teenage years, where they spend every waking hour together as a group since graduating high school. 

Through the early chapters, we follow the two couples navigating their early relationships to the adults that they later become. We see in their high school days that Jenny and Chris present as being the fun and wild side of the party, while Jonah and Morgan present as being the quiet and sensible individuals of the party. Making the whole “opposites attract” prominent between the couples. 

Through the early chapters, it is implied that Jonah and Morgan have an unexplored connection which they avoid due to them being in respective relationships with each others sibling/best friend. 

As the chapters progress, the story meets in present day where Chris and Morgan are now married and have a teenage daughter, Clara who is 17, while Jenny and Jonah are parents of a two month old baby boy, who was the result of a one night stand following the death of Jonah’s father, after Jonah had left town after Morgan’s pregnancy announcement 17 years ago. 

The family rejoin in an evening meal, discussing Jenny’s return to work following her maternity leave with her son, in which she works as a nurse at the same hospital as Chris. 

The following day, Morgan is met with a devastating phone call revealing that her husband had been involved in a car accident. When arriving at the hospital, Morgan is frantic to find out information regarding Chris’ condition and when attempting to call her sister, she’s met with voicemails. When Jonah arrives at the hospital, she’s relieved to pass over his son to him, that she’d been caring for prior to the incident, but Jonah arrives equally frantic. The pair converse in a frantic conversation, mistaking each other for being at the hospital for different reasons from why they are. Morgan believing that Jonah is there in support of her husband and his best friend, while Jonah believes Morgan is there for her sister and his fiancé. When the pair finally clear the misunderstanding, they learn that both Jenny and Chris have been in the same accident, which leaves them clawing at answers as to why they both were involved.

They are finally met with answers about Jenny and Chris’ conditions, when a doctor regretfully informs them that they both died from their injuries. 

After their deaths, Jonah and Morgan begin mixed up with different scenarios as to why their partners were with one another when they died, whilst refusing to acknowledge the truth – Chris and Jenny were having an affair. 

The story follows Morgan, Jonah and Clara in their navigation of life after the death of their partners and Clara’s father. In between this, the story glimpses at the beginnings of Clara and Millers relationship – a boy who she’s had a crush on for years and would regularly seek advice from her aunt Jenny. When Clara drives past him on a sweltering hot day, she can’t help but stop and offer him a ride, but in doing so, she becomes an accomplice to the gradual moving of a speed sign to allow Miller to be within the delivering distance of a local pizza shop. This setting in motion the start of their relationship. 

The story follows each individual in their journey of grieve and navigating of learning the truth about Chris and Jenny’s secrets. Jonah and Morgan begin to lean on one another and with the revelation of their partners infidelity, they realise that Jenny and Jonah’s son is actually fathered by Chris. Clara begins to rebel with Miller, which causes a drift between her and her mother Morgan. Morgan further is against her new relationship with Miller, after Chris had forbidden Clara from being involved with him, due to Miller’s father’s history with the law, prior to his death.

Morgan struggles with being a single parent, responsible for parenting Clara who has become increasingly difficult following her father’s death and also due to her having a better relationship with her father than mother. She also struggles with her bond with Clara, who seemed closer to her aunt than her own mother. This further hurts Morgan, as she struggles to understand her feelings towards her husband and sister’s lies and betrayal – the two people she trusted the most.

Morgan and Jonah continue to navigate life after the death of their siblings and spouses, but whilst doing so, become closer with one another after sharing the same pain of being deceived. The sharing of grieve that brings them together, brings up old feelings which the pair ignored during their teenage years, due to their loyalty to their partners. The pair discuss the secrets of Jenny and Chris’ affair and how they will agree to keep it a secret from Clara and Jonah’s son.

After some time, Morgan and Jonah give into their feelings, despite Morgan’s apprehension. Only in doing so, are witnessed by Clara, who assumes they’ve been having an affair – claiming Jenny and Chris to be the victims, all whilst Clara feels responsible for their deaths after she messaged Jenny before the accident. Clara believed she caused Jenny’s accident, after messaging her asking if she’d ever been the other woman, after herself was almost the other woman with Miller and his previous girlfriend. 

Morgan and Clara’s relationship becomes even more strained after she witnesses her mother and Jonah. This leads Clara to seek revenge that she thinks will hurt her mother – loosing her virginity to a boy she doesn’t approve of, unbeknownst to Miller. 

After a drunken night, Clara drunkingly reveals to Morgan her worries that she played a role in her aunts death. The next morning Morgan approaches the subject with a sober Clara, but whilst doing so, accidentally reveals the real reason for Jenny’s death and how she wasn’t responsible – that Jenny and Chris were together during the accident. This leads Clara to question why they were together, when she had previously been told Chris had been picked up by Jenny after having a flat tire. Only Clara realises if that were the case, her father’s car would’ve been returned. This causes Clara to piece together the information before devastatingly realising that it was Jenny and Chris who were having an affair. 
This leaves Clara devastated for both everyone involved, before realising who the father of Jenny’s son really is. 

The family continue to navigate life without Jenny and Chris, whilst choosing to move forward with their lives. After Clara learns the truth about Jenny and Chris’ accident, her relationship with her mother Morgan improves, where Morgan approves of her relationship with Miller after having a change of heart about him, where he apologises for his involvement in Clara’s bad behaviour – whilst Clara approves of Morgan’s relationship with Jonah.

The family then begin to piece back together their lives, whilst adding new pieces.

I enjoyed reading this style of book, even though it had aspects of romance, it focused on other topics such as relationships, grief and death. The variety of Colleen’s writing is what I love most about her books, she doesn’t just write romance so when you read her book, you experience different themes, you otherwise wouldn’t have ventured into.

Even though I enjoyed this book, it’s not my favourite book of Colleen’s that I’ve read , but I can appreciate the storyline. I did find it at times slightly boring to read – for example, Clara’s perspective chapters. I found that when I got to them, I wasn’t interested in reading about what she had experienced and I think that’s to do with her age. She’s younger than me and I feel like I’ve moved past the teenage school romance stage of my life. 

Before going into this book, I knew what the premise of the storyline was (thanks to a TikTok spoiler video), but aside from this, I still wanted to read it because the teaser/spoiler I did see, interested me to read it. 

However, I didn’t realise that this spoiler/teaser was the main plot of the storyline. The spoiler in question was a video I saw which revealed Morgan in her confusion about why her husband and sister were in the same car together and therefore died with one another. 

I think this spoiler took away my full experience of reading this book where I could experience the shock and emotions when certain aspects were revealed. When I eventually got to the part where Jenny and Chris’ affair is revealed, it wasn’t as gut punching because I knew it was coming up, so it wasn’t new information to me, or that it was shocking. As a result of this, I wish I had of experienced this story blindly so that I would’ve been able to experience the emotions that Colleen set for people to experience. I think if I had of read it blindly, it would’ve been another story of Colleen’s that would’ve had me gasping.

I always find side characters to be the most loveable, so it’s only fair I include my special mentions for my favourite characters of this book: 

Lexie at the start with her one liners at the Grant dinner table.

Morgan because I felt for her the entire time I read this book and how she was always putting everyone’s needs in front of her own – she lived her life for others.

Miller and his grandfather – they were adorable together and had me laughing at all their interactions – I hope that his grandfather lives forever and I’m glad his death wasn’t mentioned at the end of the book because in my mind, he’s still alive. 

Along with the things I did enjoy, I have to include things that I didn’t enjoy/what annoyed me. 

The first thing that annoyed me was Clara’s attitude throughout the book and the way she acted towards her mother. I understand she’s a teenage girl going through the emotions and fighting with your mother is a typical teenage thing (can’t relate – me and my mam had a great relationship in my teens), but she just irked me so much with her interactions with her mother. 

I felt like Clara was so hypocritical of her mother, always painting her to be the bad guy. I felt like she had much stronger feelings at the assumption that her mother was having the affair, rather than her father. Then when she learned the truth, I felt like her anger wasn’t on the same level as what she felt for her mother – felt like she had favourites. Although, I think she redeemed herself a little when she found out the truth and her and Morgan had a special moment in the movie theatre. 

The second thing that annoyed me was the love letters that Morgan had found between Jenny and Chris and the built up that came – the anticipation that we would find out what were detailed within the letters; only for them to be torn to shreds and for me to be left hanging. WHY?! I partially think this was done because Colleen didn’t know what to include within them once it came to Morgan’s decision of opening them.

I read a review which mentioned the cover and after reading it, the cover of the book makes so much sense – Miller and Clara had a few interactions that centred around their hated for the colour orange. So of course Colleen used aspects of the story and incorporated it into the cover. The shreds of paper should’ve been my sign to realise I was never going to know what was written in those letters. I thought the plot needed expanding. I needed to understand and know more about Chris and Jenny’s affair. I was left with a lot of questions regarding the affair, which I think the letters would’ve answered.
Morgan throughout the book constantly asked herself why she didn’t see it, which as a reader I would’ve also liked to have understood more about why and when it happened. Those letters would’ve helped with finding those answers and closing the story. I think the mentioning of the letters naturally leaves anyone wanting to read them. 

I’ll always be a Colleen reader – she writes in a way that has me coming back for more. Some of her books are extraordinary and have me reeling in my emotions, whereas others are average – but the average ones will have me coming back for more. I 100% think Regretting You would’ve been a 5⭐️ read that had me bawling my eyes out, if I hadn’t of known what was going to happen.


My Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

Georgia
♥
April 09, 2024 No comments


Synopsis:

You don’t fall for your brother’s high school sweetheart, your boss’s daughter, or your ex-wife’s best friend. Especially when they’re all the same woman.

Under Brick Callan’s mile-wide chest beats a loyal heart with a few cracks in it. He’s the steadfast, overprotective type. Especially when it comes to the one woman he can never have. It’s a long, complicated history punctuated by fights, friendship, family, and an attraction that strains his iron willpower.

When Remi Ford returns to Mackinac Island in the dead of winter with a secret, Brick makes it his mission to find out what put the shadows in those green eyes. Even if it means breaking down the walls he’s built between them. Even if it means falling for the one girl he’ll never get over.

The free-spirited artist just needs to lay low for a few weeks so she can figure a way out of this nightmare. She’s definitely not staying. Not when the man who broke her teenage heart into splinters keeps showing up at her parents’ dinner table. Remi doesn’t need broody, bearded Brick riding to her rescue…again. Not when it will put them both in danger, costing them much more than their hearts.

Genre: Contemporary Romance

Tropes:
  • Slow Burn
  • Frenemies To Lovers
  • Small Town
My Thoughts:

Forever Never was my choice for the letter ‘F’ of my A-Z Reading Challenge and I have to say, I was slightly dreading embarking on this book.

I read By A Thread by Lucy Score at the start of March, my first introduction to the author and it wasn’t a story I enjoyed. I started off enjoying the story until about 70% in and I just felt like the story went down hill and began to drag with unnecessary filler. After reading By a Thread, I was apprehensive about reading other books by Lucy Score, especially since I had Forever Never and Things We Never Got Over on my A-Z Reading Challenge.

When it came to starting Forever Never, I willed myself to read it but it wasn’t without a massive struggle. Initially I thought and hoped that this book would potentially result in being the first book I enjoyed by her, that I had initially been apprehensive of. However, this was not the case…

Forever Never follows Remington Honeysuckle Ford “Remi” in her return to her childhood home of Mackinac Island after living in the city and following her dreams of being an artist.

Remi’s family is shocked at her sudden arrival home, along with a cast on her arm from a suspicious story of an accident she apparently had. 

Upon returning home, she’s met with William “Brick” (nickname given by Remi that stuck because he was like talking to a brick wall) a man from her past, which she had a huge crush on, who eventually broke her heart before she left her hometown. 

The story she presents alongside her broken wrist sparks concern within Brick who begins poking around her city life for answers, where he finds no accident report, like she initially revealed. 

The two embark on a hate to loathe relationship, with Brick being the hero and Remi falling back into her roots of being the clumsy screwup that the small town know her for. 

With the two living in such a small town and Brick’s boss being that of Remi’s mother, the two unintentionally grow closer whilst also navigating their feelings for one another. Brick denies his feelings for Remi with reasons believing that he cannot entertain the idea of them together, due to several reasons – these including: Remi’s history with Brick’s brother when she was a teenager, Bricks previous marriage to Remi’s childhood best friend, the age gap they share and the fact that Remi is Brick’s bosses daughter. 

Despite laying down his rules to Remi, forbidding them from intertwining themselves, the two can’t stay away from one another – leading them to grow closer and closer. 

After returning home, Remi seeks an agreement with Brick that allows her to use his basement as a creative art studio to allow her to return to her painting roots that she neglected following her accident. Brick realises this agreement would be a bad idea for him sticking to his rules, so initially sets out a plan to turn down the agreement – only once meeting with her, he agrees because he can’t say no to her. However, as the pair share Brick’s space, he becomes aware of her and constantly looking out for her safety. 

The two have close run ins where Brick almost gives into temptation and pursue Remi, before quickly remembering his rules. 

After the close run in, anger is sparked in Remi who is done being led on repeatedly by a man who’ll never reciprocate her feelings. The story flashes back to years ago, where it is learned that the pair shared an intense spicy moment together, which resulted in Brick to quickly leave town afterwards, leaving a teenage Remi heartbroken. 

In order to protect herself, Remi begins giving Brick the cold shoulder to prevent herself from being hurt again. Only they can’t stay away from one another in such a small town. 

Brick eventually learns the truth about her return to Mackinac Island, which entails her being involved in a car accident with her friend Camille in the city, after her friend attempts to leave her abusive husband who after finding out, runs them off the road as warning for his wife leaving him. Remi is left to drag Camille out of the car and when help arrives, Camille’s husband claims the role of hero and claims that Remi is drunk which led to their accident. The accident results in Remi to return to her hometown of safety where Brick is, fearing of what Camille’s husband will do to her. 

Following her return home, Remi is desperate to contact Camille but is unable to find answers, until Brick uses his police connections to find out an update on Camille. Later on, Camille releases a statement alluding to Alexandra (Remi’s artist name) having an alcohol problem that ultimately lead to their crash, but did so out of fear of what her husband would do. 

Whilst Brick learns of the truth about Remi’s return, the pair finally give into their feelings and embark on a relationship. 

Remi was forced to stay away from Camille from her husband, as he began sending her harassment notes knowing where she was hiding. 

After finding out the truth, Brick calls upon the help of his estranged father to help keep eyes on Camille and her husband in the city, whilst Brick and Remi’s mother gather evidence for Camille’a husbands political fraud. 

Brick’s father unexpectedly arrives in town with Camille after witnessing her abuse and fearing for her safety. Only as Camille stays with them, they begin expecting her husband’s arrival, so they begin working with the FBI to gather further evidence of her husband’s fraud. The police department are called to a fire at the local church, which turns out to be a distraction from the arrival of Camille’a husband in town. He arrives at where Remi and Camille are staying and shoots the FBI guard and Brick’s father, before abducting Remi and Camille taking them to mainland. 

As the events are unfolding, Remi’s niece Hadley observes the abduction taking place and hears where he takes them, before feeding the information back to Brick. 

When on the boat, Remi instructs Camille to wear a life vest, so that when the time is right, Camille can jump into the water, escaping her husband. After Camille jumps, Remi begins knocking Camille’s husband off balance by rocking the boat, preventing him from shooting. 

Brick and his team arrive to save the day, before putting an end to Camille’s husband by shooting him. 


I think that’s the shortest recap of a book I’ve done and I think going forward, I need to continue to make them shorter instead of recounting the whole book.
This was a short recap because I didn’t fully read the book – I read it, but I feel like I skim read it just to have it completed. I can’t really remember the little details of the book, so I’ve stuck to the main parts.

I really struggled to read this book and I thought I might’ve eventually enjoyed it once I got into it – thought it would’ve been the underdog type of book. It took me two weeks to read this book, it was probably more like 5 days, but the other days were me finding motivation and hyping myself up to read it.

I just found this book and By A Thread so unnecessary long and the plots to be dragged out way more than they needed to be. There were parts in this book that I just thought “what was the point in that”. For example, the side storyline of Remi’s sister, Kimber having marriage trouble – what relevance did that have towards Brick and Remi’s story? None! Only for them to sort through their marriage with sex!

I had a really hard time connecting to the main characters from the very start and it never developed the more I got into the book. I think this has a big role on the time it took me to read the book. I did consider DNFing this book at around 50%, but I was worried that I would miss the point it picked up. I was 40% into the book and I was like “omg I still have 60% left”. The first warning should’ve been when I first started reading it and my kindle said 12 hours until completed – 12 hours!!!!

I felt like once I hit 50ish% I was skim reading it, purely to get to the end and I was skimming past all the detail. I even skim read the spicy chapters, which is so unlike me. I like a slow burn romance, especially when they finally get to the spice, but for this book, I just didn’t care for it, I wasn’t built up with excitement for it.

The age difference had me feeling icky at times. It was mentioned in the end chapters that Brick was lusting after/had feelings for a 16 year old Remi, when he was 24. That aspect also made it hard to get into because their age gap wasn’t explicitly stated until the end, so it sort of felt like a grey area and an in between of “I think this is inappropriate and I can’t enjoy it”.

I was slightly dreading getting to this part of the A to Z Reading Challenge because I just had a feeling I wouldn’t enjoy these books and I would be in a slump.

I was really looking forward to reading the Knockemout series by Lucy Score, which is also my letter T for the challenge, but after the two books of hers I’ve read so far, I have to say I haven’t got high hopes. I’m a bit sad about it because I really wanted to like Lucy’s books and join the TikTok hype. I suppose these two books could just be bad books to start on and the Knockemout series could be something I enjoy more – we will have to see. I think I have to read those since they are her most popular books. 

Overall, March was a very slow and ‘meh’ reading month for me. I felt like none of the books I read this month had wowed me or stood out at me. I read the Mindf*ck series which I enjoyed and rated 5⭐️’s, but even that wasn’t a book that hit like other books have.

Hopefully April will be a better month and I’ll read something soon that will pull me out of this slump. 


My Rating: ⭐️⭐️.5

Georgia 
♥


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