Punk 57 is the story of Misha and Ryen who had been pen pals for years. Every thing was perfect. They were friends, they told each otRating : 3 stars
Punk 57 is the story of Misha and Ryen who had been pen pals for years. Every thing was perfect. They were friends, they told each other everything. Until three month ago, when Misha stopped writing.
I want to say I loved it, because I did. But I hated it. I want to say I loved Misha and Ryen, because I did. But I hated them.
Misha was a douchebag. A broken douchebag who thought hurting the girl he loved was exciting. Ryen was a bitch, a bully. She was mean to everyone, superficial and fake. Misha was angry at Ryen for lying to him, and Ryen was angry for lying to herself.
These two characters were my biggest issue about the book, but also the main strenght. I felt so many things for them ; love, hate, disdain, frustration, pity. I hated them so much for the choices they could make, but I also wanted so much to see them happy and growing up. They were sad, pitiful teens, but they deserved to be happy as much as everyone else. I wanted to punch them. I wanted to slap Ryen for not standing for the unpopular kids even if she wanted to. I wanted to slap Misha for being such an asshole and lying to Ryen. I felt so many things. I was so angry at them. I wanted to help them to make things right. But they had to do that by themselves, because some things cannot be teached.
Punk 57made me cry. Punk 57made me smile. Punk 57made me feel. Punk 57drove me mad.
Merged review:
Rating : 3 stars
Punk 57 is the story of Misha and Ryen who had been pen pals for years. Every thing was perfect. They were friends, they told each other everything. Until three month ago, when Misha stopped writing.
I want to say I loved it, because I did. But I hated it. I want to say I loved Misha and Ryen, because I did. But I hated them.
Misha was a douchebag. A broken douchebag who thought hurting the girl he loved was exciting. Ryen was a bitch, a bully. She was mean to everyone, superficial and fake. Misha was angry at Ryen for lying to him, and Ryen was angry for lying to herself.
These two characters were my biggest issue about the book, but also the main strenght. I felt so many things for them ; love, hate, disdain, frustration, pity. I hated them so much for the choices they could make, but I also wanted so much to see them happy and growing up. They were sad, pitiful teens, but they deserved to be happy as much as everyone else. I wanted to punch them. I wanted to slap Ryen for not standing for the unpopular kids even if she wanted to. I wanted to slap Misha for being such an asshole and lying to Ryen. I felt so many things. I was so angry at them. I wanted to help them to make things right. But they had to do that by themselves, because some things cannot be teached.
Punk 57made me cry. Punk 57made me smile. Punk 57made me feel. Punk 57drove me mad....more
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sapphic prince charming romance. super going-through-my-huge-pile-of-books-despite-being-mostly-ya-so-i-can-buy-morebook eleven (I forgot to add ten!)
sapphic prince charming romance. super cute characters but not fleshed enough. big smile adorable story. more middle grade than ya. had trouble with the writing and the pacing.
now that I have a reading journal, I don't need to use Goodreads to keep track of my reading but here is it...
this book was kinda cool, okay?
imagine anow that I have a reading journal, I don't need to use Goodreads to keep track of my reading but here is it...
this book was kinda cool, okay?
imagine a regency RH with jane austen's feels all over. it's not perfect, there's a lot of anachronistic language here and there and it's clearly not believable... but damn if it doesn't feel good.
rosalie was a refreshing character. she's a bit too modern, 100% a feminist of her era, but a lovely person to follow. you can't help to root for her, for her to get the freedom she craves, see her love blossom and change the people around her before she goes tackling society itself.
+ third person, multiple povs + jealousy + 100% ow drama cause you know, marriage of convenience and stuff + kinda fast burn, kinda slow burn
and then there's the fact that the author obviously loves jane austen and did not want to deviate too much from a beloved story; it's rh, it was written in 2022 but nothing happens. and that's just how it should be. but it also really tackles how ladies were conditioned to have no thoughts whatsoever and only wish for the best marriage they could. hey, regency books are awesome and all-time guilty pleasures of everybody but it's definitely not pro women's rights...
anyhoo. the romance is good. it's dramatic, it's sweet, and it's totally forbidden. rosalie is even less of a prospective bride than our dear lizzie bennet as she is a penniless orphan and not a virgin! good thing she does not want to get married. why would she tie herself to a husband when she finally has no men to make decisions for her?
the book ended rather dramatically and it will be up to rosalie to pick up the pieces, and hopefully her third gentleman. I cannot wait to get my hands on the second part of this duology; I both wished this story would end at the last chapter and would last so much longer......more
pretty good despite a low-key dumb and uninteresting MC. but i'm already excited to read Nyx's story.pretty good despite a low-key dumb and uninteresting MC. but i'm already excited to read Nyx's story....more
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slightly rushed. so-so romance. good ending.
the book was good butgoing-through-my-huge-pile-of-books-despite-being-mostly-ya-so-i-can-buy-morebook nine
slightly rushed. so-so romance. good ending.
the book was good but the pace was wrong: the first part of the story took about 80%... ... yet a shit ton of stuff happened in the second part. the book easily deserved a couple more hundred pages and more development in general.
but also pirates.
ps: i have not read daughter of the pirate king (yet). the book is either in a box or resting in a messy pile of books.
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this magnificent cover. this great story. these great chgoing-through-my-huge-pile-of-books-despite-being-mostly-ya-so-i-can-buy-morebook six (i think)
this magnificent cover. this great story. these great characters. loved it so much. biggest disappointment was thinking book two was already out.
ps: please turn into a poly love triangle, please turn into a poly love triangle....more
[image] Disclaimer: There might be a few spoilers in this review.
This book was low-key exhausting but I guess I'm feeling generous. It felt like readin[image] Disclaimer: There might be a few spoilers in this review.
This book was low-key exhausting but I guess I'm feeling generous. It felt like reading the first novel of Seraphine Thomas all over again; every new chapter, I was wondering why I was still there.
+ The book is 300 pages long but feels like a thousand. So many things happen in those pages, yet it feels like the story never advances. There is a stalker, there are kidnappings, there is a missing mentor, Lexi's husband is deployed, there might be a serial killer, there is ESP stuff, and she's even flipping a house and cleaning up a hoarder's. + The whole character of Lexi is too much. She isn't annoying or obnoxious but she is too perfect. The girl is twenty, an orphan, attending online college classes, newly-wed, still a virgin, a cook, a singer, a spy, and a bit of a PI. She's buying a house, she knows Reiki, she's a bit of a psychic, and she's the victim of a stalker. She also can fight, she can hack, she can shoot, she has a plethora of different skills because she was unschooled and learned from multiple mentors everything she could. And of course, she's beautiful.
From the all-over-the-place plot and the over-buffed heroine, there is obviously way too much going on. It starts pretty basically -despite the feeling I missed a whole book or introduction- with the heroine having a poet-loving stalker but splits into hundreds of directions. Soon, we learn that Lexi is a psychic and "know stuff", but it never seems to be helpful until the 80% hit mark. But Lexi is also overly trained and kind of a genius in about everything, yet she's a victim at least two-thirds of the book; of a stalker, of an attack, but also of being alone and not making the smartest decisions. She gets the "heebie-jeebies" but never acts on it or tries to protect herself more than with an alarm system, and I personally think that Lexi could have been the perfect horror-movie heroine.
I wanted to like this series. There are a few books out and the side characters are pretty cool and get their own stories later. But I'm afraid the dementor-like next installment will suck even more life out of me.
> 20 years old heroine > First person POV > romance > Multiple installments + series of standalone about the other characters
Trigger warning: Stalker, bloody attack, kidnapping, PTSD, and stuff. No cheating despite what people might think! ...more
[image] Courting Darkness is enjoyable. It's entertaining, fun to read, with jealous and possessive boys and an adorable heroine who can somewhat stand[image] Courting Darkness is enjoyable. It's entertaining, fun to read, with jealous and possessive boys and an adorable heroine who can somewhat stand her ground. But it also has less plot development than a Ghost bird book.
cue sigh
This is yet another case when a story suffers from the blurb. I am not very familiar with Quinn Arthurs, but when I go into a Katie May book, I pretty much know what to expect: a charming heroine, growly and protective men, and some kind of story. Which is fine with me. Sometimes, you just want those big teddy bears in leather jackets that have about zero personality apart from protecting the heroine.
But here's the thing. While this time some of the guys do stand out, the book seriously lacks in world-building and plot. Lexie Serafina, our main character, just go to school, go to her classes, bond with her new friends and sometimes get seizures. The serial killer gets a mention and a half, Sera knows zero things about the supernatural world by the end of the first book, and being turned around in the weird school is barely an issue. Nothing happens. Then why are you lying to me?
Hey, I might have dropped both but I love The Ghost Bird and I love The Veil Diaries. I enjoy those stories that are all about relationships and the slow-ish burn. But if I wanted no development at all, I would have stuck to those. The blurb told me to expect some mystery, some action, some bodies to make disappear, and definitely a serial killer on the loose. Instead, I got zero sexual tension, a game of Clue, and a predator of a teacher. Thank god for the two overprotective brothers and the alpha-male who stands outside her window or this book would have gone from entertaining to a complete waste of time. Hopefully, with the huge-ass cliffhanger, the next installment will actually give me the plot it deserves.
> No MM > No FF > Cliffhanger, not one but two big ones because why the hell not. > Multiple POVs > Characters in high school and a few years older > 6 guys, I think. > Who falls first? (view spoiler)[it's insta-attraction/love on the boys' side. All of them. Which I'm totally into. (hide spoiler)]
Trigger warning: No real one but the heroine is sick and has seizures that are described as "fits" which sounds kind of weird....more
Warning: some spoiler and slightly ranting review below. I enjoyed the book but it also made me want to shoot myself in the
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Warning: some spoiler and slightly ranting review below. I enjoyed the book but it also made me want to shoot myself in the head. But before you dive into it, if you liked Seraph Black and The Cardinal Bird you should definitely love this book.
Find me is the first installment in Shiloh's story and was such an incredible idea. Unfortunately, it had to suffer from a handful of cliches, riding the broken-heroine-needs-testosterone-to-survive trope a little too tightly.
Why?
+ Shiloh went through a horrific tragedy that I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy. Her parents and twin sisters were murdered in front of her by her delusional stalker a year ago, yet today she is able to walk, talk, eat, and build herself back together. Shiloh is obviously very strong.
But Shiloh might be an incredible survivor, she is also the heroine of a reverse harem romance and had to be turned into a blushing klutz.
+ Shiloh has scars she wants to hide; the scars remind her of the night she lost everything and make people ask too many questions. She says over and over again she wants to hide them from the world, which is very understandable.
But Shiloh only wears no-show socks and very warm hoodies in the Arizona weather so her love interest can pity her. I guess Target doesn't sell long sleeves there.
+ Shiloh is in the Witness Protection program. She has lived one year with her serious, protective, overly-trained US Marshall uncle and knows very well that she cannot talk about her life before for her safety and the ones around her.
But not only Shiloh is 18 she is also the heroine of a reverse harem romance. She needs to give hints and clues to her love interests so they can go all protective mode and start investing in bubble wrap. Her men know that as soon as they ditch the notion of personal space, Shiloh will spill all of her secrets.
cue sighing
I would be lying if I hadn't expected the book to use many general and slightly lame plot devices. The story needed to go forward and the advantage of the reverse harem genre is that it does not need to take itself too seriously. The fact that Shiloh has nightmares every night and talks in her sleep was awfully convenient and it gave everyone excuses to talk about something they should never have talked about. I am no expert in the WITSEC program but I'm pretty sure blurting you're part of it is a big no-no in the handbook.
Find me is highly entertaining if you're looking for a darker version of The Ghost Bird but majorly disappointing if you actually want to deal in witness protection and a murderous stalker on the loose. The guys are both cuddly and assholes, Shiloh loves to cook, they even play in the pool. And obviously, all the supporting girls in this story are huge bitches bordering on sociopathic.
And it doesn't help that the story does not end on a cliffhanger but mid-fall. In a middle of a scene, a slightly unnecessary one that just piles more trauma on Shiloh's plate. This ending was very frustrating, and not in a good way.
But I am invested in the story. I want to see more of Creed who was by far the best guy, I want myself an Uncle Logan and I want to see what will happen to Shiloh. I felt bad for the girl, not just because of her awful trauma but because she was destined to become a romance heroine. She went through so much and she needs all the love, but she also deserves so much more than to be just that.
> 18 years old heroine > Cliffhanger > No MM > No FF > Three guys > Single POV > Who falls first? (view spoiler)[the guys (hide spoiler)]
Trigger warning: Stalker, murder, grief, mention of substance abuse and attempted assault, smoking, emotional and physical bullying....more
I still don't know whether I liked the story or not. I don't think I did. It's dark, it's hot, it's full of angst and drama, and a lot of love-h[image]
I still don't know whether I liked the story or not. I don't think I did. It's dark, it's hot, it's full of angst and drama, and a lot of love-hate feelings. But I'm also one of those readers who slightly forgot about Clay and Liv and fell in love with Macon.
So heck yes for Macon. Yes for the romance. Meh for the angst and Clay's character.
Trigger warning: Bullying, mentions of suicide, assault, and grief. Slight OW/OM drama....more
Any kind of review would give spoilers as everything would be more about feelings than actual facts. I am not one for secrecy and misunderstand[image]
Any kind of review would give spoilers as everything would be more about feelings than actual facts. I am not one for secrecy and misunderstandings but the authors did a great job at not giving us any kind of answer while letting us see glimpses of the whole picture.
+ I've seen this end coming. It was pretty obvious from the very beginning because it actually made sense. No, I will not be grateful for the cliffhanger because they make me want to shoot myself in the head. But no, I am not particularly worried about it. + I love the guys. All of them. They all had a little personality twist on the basic RH stereotype alpha-holes we come across; the flirty guy was the biggest psycho, the tall and silent closeted teddy bear was a sexy piece of ass, and the grumpy leader was a ball of nerves heading straight to Ulcer Town. + And Rae. Raegan was an actual sexy badass, not all talk but no bark, made from the same mold as Hades from Hades and Lips from Hannaford Prep. Her thinking vagina was in the backseat and her hormones weren't guiding the story and leading her along.
The first book was 300+ pages and while it was the perfect length, I cannot help but crave for more. Rae's universe is full of betrayal, secrets, and violence and the biggest of them all is her role in all of that. I will not be starting a support group for the people who want to throw her parents off a balcony.
> Characters in their twenties > Cliffhanger > No MM > No FF > Three guys > Multiple POV > Who falls first? (view spoiler)[The guys? It feels like it. (hide spoiler)]
Trigger warning: It's not as dark as it could be because the romance isn't dark. It's not sunshine and rainbows but they all somewhat respect each other, as much as enemy gangs can. Violence, torture, gang war, prostitution....more
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