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Only a Monster by Vanessa Len

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Lore

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-     I absolutely fell in love with this story! When I first started it I wasn't so sure how I was feeling about it.  It started off a bit slow and bit too boring.  But then out of nowhere the story picked up the pace.  It had everything that any book lover could possibly want.  You want romance? It’s got it.  You want action and magic?  This book has it.  You want betrayal?  Boy does this book have it.  And the way they treated the villain was also very interesting to me.  We really didn't get to know a lot about him until the very end.  Which is very different for me when it comes to book.  I’m very used to knowing everything about villains.  What they want to achieve, why they are doing it, why they hate the main chapter to much.  But really we only knew what Melora knew about Wrath.  And what she knew was very little.  SO it really cast him in a very ambiguous image that lt the reader really choose how they wanted to see.  It wasn't until the very end did we really get to see how absolutely insane he was.  We got tastes of it throughout the story, but the end is where it all came together. And I really did love the story as a whole.  

- Rating: 4.5/5

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Lore by Alexandra Bracken 

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The Bone Houses

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-     I was hitting a big of a rut right as I was starting to read this book.  life has been a bit crazy, and I needed to get back into my groove.  I mane it did help that this book has some really great vibes.  It was an interesting balance of like heartwarming love and creepy dead people.  I really appreciated the way he author approached grief in this book.  Especially the difference between The way Ryn was dealing with her grief and the way the people in the forest village dealt with theirs.  I think it was really relatable the way that the people in the forest village just could not let go of their loved ones.  No matter how decayed they became living as Bone Houses, they just wouldn’t let them rest.  I also loved that the over all message of the story was that no matter how your loved ones died they would want you to keep living.  Which is really what people should take away from this book.  You can miss the people you have lost all you want, but always remember that they wouldn’t want you to stop your life for them.  If you are dealing with this kind of a feeling, or know someone who is, this book may be a good way to try and relate that grief to something positive.  

- Rating: 4.5/5

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The Bone Houses by Emily Lloyd-Jones 

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Wrath & Mercy

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-     I just have to thank Instagram for showing me this duology.  I really loved reading this book.  The vibe with this one was soooo different than the first one.  Where the first one was more like a classic claustrophobia creepy.  This was was uneasy from the fact that you didn't know who to trust.  Like the god is Valeria’s head made it super hard to determine who was a friend and who wasn't.  And reading her slow decent into craziness was wild to read.  Just really made the story very uneasy and paranoid.  It really made me think something was wrong but I couldn't figure out what.  Really was a great atmosphere for the whole story. And the whole Valeria going crazy was so sublet for the first half that I didn't even see it.  Loved reading this story so much! 

- Rating: 4.5/5

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Wrath & Mercy by Jessica Rubinkowski 

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The Midnight Girls

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-     I felt like this book was just ok.  Nothing about it was standout.  It just felt like a generic story.  I didn't hate, but I didn't love it.  The idea behind the story was cool.  That felt new and fresh to me.  The two servants of big witches like competing against one another was good.  I liked that Zosia has alternate moo yes behind going on the missions for her witch.  Dual POV’s really helped this story.  It would have gotten very boring if I only heard form one of the two main people.  I kind of wish the story was about Jozef and Kajetan.  I think they have a more interesting thing going on than Marynka and Zosia.  I also feel like the old outside of the girls was way more interesting.  Like I want to learn about what happened in their country more than what the witches are doing.  But we got nothing about the two boys.  We learned that they are soulmates and that's it!  That was a serious let down.  I think this book would greatly benefit from having a sequel that has to do with the boys, and not the girls.  

- Rating: 3/5

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The Midnight Girls by Alicia Jasinska 

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King of Battle and Blood

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-     Reading an adult/new adult book after so many YA books was a great choice. Very happy that I made the decision to read this book.  I definitely liked this book a lot.  The tension between Isolde and Adrian was pretty great.  I liked the banter between them.  The inner struggle for Isolde was great because it only lasted to the end of this book.  Like she got over it by the end and decided to be happy with Adrian instead of being asked of it.  That is like the perfect length for a character to have that kind of a struggle.  I can't stand it when those feelings last for books on end.  It just gets boring and repetitive.  I was so happy when we found out that Isolde was the reincarnation of Yesenia.  The fact that she and Adrian loved each other like 200 years ago, and then he got himself turned into a vampire to find her was perfect.  Like his whole mission was to a vengeance her death at the hands of the evil witch, whose name I can't remember.  I also found this book to be less centered around sex then the A Tough of Darkness books. But overall I was very happy with this book, and I wait in anticipation for the next book! 

- Rating: 4/5

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King of Battle and Blood by Scarlett St. Clair

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Court of Dragons

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-     This book made almost cry three times within the first one hundred pages.  I was not prepared for how much the deaths of Wren’s parents, fiancé, and dragon were gonna affect me.  I mean we barely got to know them!  But he way the author wrote the deaths and Wren’s emotions surrounding them were just super moving.  And the rest of the book was pretty good too! I did wish that we got more of the book from Arrick’s POV.  I really wanted to read about how he saw the world and Wren some more.  So far he is exuding the alphahole energy that everyone always talks about.  I have a feeling that this world has something like mates, even if its not exactly that.  Cause he keeps having these like super strong emotions towards Wren.  But he can't pin-point why exactly he’s feeling this way.  I also loved the twist that Arrack turned out to be in the resistance!  Like his plan the whole time was to get Wren out and to the resistance when she was in the castle.  I was kind of mad that he didn't share that with her before she escaped on her own.  I think if he had told her before hand it would have gone a long way in making her trust him more.  But I really want to see how their relationship grows in the next book.  I don't really know how long this series is going to be, but I will totally be picking up the next one! 

- Rating: 4/5

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Court of Dragons by Frost Kay 

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Blessed Monsters

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-     I hated this book.  Just straight up did not like reading it at all.  The only reason this book doesn't have a 1 out of 5 is because of Serefin and Kacper.  They are the only characters that brought me any joy while reading this book.  The back and forth between Nadya and Malachiasz got to be so annoying by the end of this book.  It got so bad that I was hoping one of them would die.  Like Malachiasz should have died at the end.  How could they ever be happy together when they have legit stabbed each other in the back multiple times.  Nadya literally stabbed him! And Malachiasz is straight up crazy.  Has zero remorse for all the lives he's taken.  At least Serefin wanted to be a better person by the end.  He even admitted to Kacper that he wants to be better for him.  The rest of the characters were useless.  They just hung around until it was convenient for them to be able to do something.  Anna also just showed back up for no reason?  Like Kostya died in the last book and he had to be replaced with Anna.  Just so Nadya has someone from her past there.  This series was really not for me.  I just did not connect with the story or the characters is any way.  

- Rating: 2/5

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Blessed Monsters by Emily A. Duncan 

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Ruthless Gods

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-     So this book was equally as annoying as the first.  I really did not enjoy the storyline between Nadya and Malachiasz.  It’s just way too much back and forth between them liking each other and hating each other.  To be honest the only reason I will be reading the last book is find out what happens to Kacper and Serefin.    I love them, and they are what kept me reading this book.  Fully the only reason I didn't just DNF this book.  I’m gonna be so mad if something happens to either of them.  The story as a whole just isn't engaging enough for. It still feels like missing something.  I think what its missing is a solid love arc to support the main story.  The romance between Nadya and Malachiasz is just too fraught with problems.  The author should focus more on Serefin and Kacper in the last book to help support a lack luster main plot.  

- Rating: 3/5

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Ruthless Gods by Emily A. Duncan