✨three 5⭐️ & 3 DNFs

To the girlies who want some recs:

My latest 5⭐️ reads include...

If He Had Been With Me by Laura Nowlin

✨ a story about the relationship between main characters Autumn and Phineas during their high school years, with lots of backstory from their childhood.

✨such a real experience, showing how people naturally grow apart and find each other again

✨first book to ever make me sob

✨fast paced and hard to put down once you start it

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig

✨Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices... Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?

✨grass isn't always greener coded

✨laughed and cried and finished the book with a feeling of warmth and hope

Things We Never Got Over by Lucy Score

✨Bearded, bad-boy barber Knox prefers to live his life the way he takes his coffee: Alone. Unless you count his basset hound, Waylon. Knox doesn't tolerate drama, even when it comes in the form of a stranded runaway bride. Naomi wasn't just running away from her wedding. She was riding to the rescue of her estranged twin to Knockemout, Virginia, a rough-around-the-edges town where disputes are settled the old-fashioned way...with fists and beer.

✨ 10/10 🌶️

✨grumpy x sunshine

✨ endearing characters

✨ dog is one of the main characters

✨found family that actually will ride or die for each other

DNFs...

A Court Of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas

🫧Feyre Archeron, a 19-year-old huntress, is kidnapped and brought to the faerie lands of Prythian after she kills a faerie wolf. Her kidnapper is Tamlin, a High Fae and one of the seven High Lords of Prythian.

🫧too slow for me

🫧had to think way too hard to understand what's going on

Normal People by Sally Rooney

🫧At school Connell and Marianne pretend not to know each other. He’s popular and well-adjusted, star of the school soccer team while she is lonely, proud, and intensely private. But when Connell comes to pick his mother up from her housekeeping job at Marianne’s house, a strange and indelible connection grows between the two teenagers - one they are determined to conceal.

🫧 the main guy character shrugs his shoulders the whole time saying "idk" to everything.. leading me to have zero connection to him

🫧boring, boring..boring

The Book Of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult

🫧Everything changes in a single moment for Dawn Edelstein.

She's on a plane when the flight attendant makes an announcement: prepare for a crash landing. She braces herself as thoughts flash through her mind. The shocking thing is, the thoughts are not of her husband, but a man she last saw fifteen years ago: Wyatt Armstrong. Dawn, miraculously, survives the crash, but so do all the doubts that have suddenly been raised. She has led a good life.

🫧 too much building

🫧couldn't hold my attention past the 50 page mark

🫧 interesting concept but took too long to get to the good part.

I would LOVE to hear what you guys think of these books. I recommend my 5⭐️'s of course but my DNFs could be the perfect book for you. Give them a try, let me know your thoughts. Happy reading, sending my love to you all.

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