“You must stop being afraid, Nancy. That is the trouble, isn‘t it? You are afraid of leaving me. You are afraid of what will happen if you go back.”
-Minerva

3.5/5 ⭐️ This adventure traveled over land and sea and I enjoyed it all. I even shed some tears here and there.

… and a skull in the corner, like on the other memorials: a reminder that death comes to us all.

4/5⭐️ Finally finding out what the Bright Lands are was absolutely nuts. Wasn‘t expecting all that! I loved the way the book paced itself with clues every which way but still never enough for me to figure out till the big reveal. I think I enjoyed Clark‘s POV best.

His brother‘s message came late.

How I picture Deputy Starsha Clark (Navarro from True Detective season 4)

How I picture Kimbra Lott (Greta Bowie/Keene from IT)

How I pictured Sadie Grace (Kaelen Ohm who plays Mari on From)

4/5⭐️
What an interesting story with wonderfully strange characters! I devoured this one pretty quick (for my personal speed).

“If you keep talking about things that don‘t matter, we‘re going to run out of time to do things that do.”
-Rhett Eaton

“… I‘ve looked at nothing and no one since the first day I laid eyes on ~you~. I stepped into that godforsaken boardroom, and you practically demanded I become obsessed with you.”
-Rhett Eaton

How I pictured Rhett Eaton (a mix of Kevin from 7th Heaven {George Stults} and Cormac from Big Sky {Luke Mitchell})

How I pictured Summer Hamilton (Kayla Wallace as Rebecca from Landman)

How I pictured Kip Hamilton (Colm Feore as Nathan from Landman)

⭐️2.5/5 stars
More spicy than I thought it was going to be and that I needed it to be. I enjoyed the rodeo aspects.

Me with the 16/17 books I managed to read this year! Top favorites were An Echo in the Bone, All the Lost Things, and Iron Flame. Really enjoyed some of these! Not pictured is My Dark Vanessa.

3/5 ⭐️
A fast-paced read with some unhinged characters! This book gave me “Verity” vibes.

3.75/5 ⭐️
Dark and haunting. I feel like Vanessa‘s trauma will stay with me a while.

“…it‘s the truth that has spooked me, the expanse of it, the starkness. It offers nowhere to hide.”

My parents stare straight ahead, their anger and grief palpable enough to taste. I open my mouth to let it all in and swallow it whole, where deep in my belly it turns into blame.

He wants to make sure he‘ll always be there, no matter what. He wants to leave his fingerprints all over me, every piece of muscle and bone.

“People will risk everything for a little bit of something beautiful.”

“… the world is made of endlessly intersecting stories, each one valid and true.”

I know he wasn‘t described like this in the book, but I automatically pictured Asa Jackson as Jeremy Meeks (the inmate turned model)

2.75/5 ⭐️ it was close to three stars, but some of the things that happened kept it from being three. It was pretty fast-paced and had some intense moments I enjoyed reading.

4/5 ⭐️ Enjoyed this freezing adventure in the Arctic Circle. The Tuunbaq parts were my favorite, a great way to take a factual expedition and mix it with a horrendous beast similar to those in Inuit mythology to create a historical fictional horror.

1/5 ⭐️ you can tell it‘s based on Dahmer. All-around strange.

4/5 ⭐️
I enjoyed this sequel much more than the first! It even had me a little teary at one point (chapter 21). I bought the beautiful physical copy with the green pages (I liked the color blue of the first book better). An easy and fast read. This was non-stop fun adventure!

3/5 ⭐️. Some things that made me smile but I‘m a bit older now, so I definitely would have found it funnier back in middle/high school (I read one of them back then.) I will say sometimes Georgia is not a very nice friend lol. My favorite lines were about wet Lindsay.

3/5 ⭐️. A fun and quirky read. The premise I enjoyed: falling into the stories you read and becoming them, but there was a twist near the end I wasn‘t expecting! There were a few serious and sad moments amongst the mostly silly happenings. I thought the comic book part was extra fun!

This is how I pictured Rafi. (Rasha from Degrassi played by actress Dalia Yegavian)

4/5 ⭐️ This was a really fun read-behind the eyes of Rafi, a teenage stalker. It was like a young female version of “You.”

Using my cute lil cereal bowl bookmark for this one! 🥣🥛 what‘s your favorite cereal? Mine is Fruit Loops 😊

3.5/5 ⭐️. I found the stories fascinating but sad and disturbing. Makes me thankful for my childhood.

Gorgeous pages!

Pretty cover

3/5⭐️ the physical copy of the book is beautiful! I didn‘t love it like I thought it would. Still a fun book though and reads fast.

The actual publication of my specific copy pissed me off. Mine is a 2010 Bantam Books Trade Paperback Edition. I hit page 784, went to read the next page and realized I had pages missing. So I thumbed through and found that for the rest of the book, 30 freaking pages worth, was all jumbled and mixed together. I had to keep flipping back and forth. There was some high-tier drama during these pages and it was pretty dampened with this annoyance!

5/5 ⭐️.
I laughed, I bawled, I gasped. My heart would swell then be crushed. This series feels like home to me. The last 200 pages were extra great-full of shocking drama!

4/5 ⭐️. I cried, I squawked, and that ending has me wondering what the heck is going to happen!!!!

My January 2024 reads! Favorite was “All the Lost Things”

2/5⭐️. It was interesting, but I didn‘t like how out of order and all over the place the stories seemed to be.

3.5 ⭐️ a good story! After reading the author‘s note, I learned George Stinney was a real person which makes it sadder. I enjoyed this debut novel!

This book left me crying. It was such a good story and deeper than it came across. It was charming with all the silliness Dolly and her “twin” Clemesta would say and think. 4.5/5⭐️

2.5⭐️ because what did I just read? All I have are questions. Had this been fleshed out, this could have been so freaking good but instead, it was rushed, only creepy in parts and confusing as heck.

House of rain
Starting 1/3/24
Finished on 1/7/24
2.5 ⭐️ slow in parts, a little confusing in others. I liked some of the twist at the end.

This is who I pictured as Xaden, Dain, Lilith, and Professor Kaori. Levi-Attack On Titan, Argiris Karras-Riley/Degrassi, MyAnna Buring-Tissaia/The Witcher, and The Emperor-Mulan