I’ve gone a little overboard at the library recently – for instance, I currently have 11 items checked out! This is a normal thing, right? My reading schedule sometimes has breaks, plus I’ve been listening to audiobooks instead of the spotify I pay for every month (oops), but my posting schedule does not always have room to squeeze in another review. Here are some mini-reviews of books I’ve read this year.
Breakfast Served Anytime by Sarah Combs: I liked the feeling of this book more than the actual story I think. Needs more Holyfield, less hats.
To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before by Jenny Han: Lara Jean is the dumbest person in the multiverse for putting actual addresses on those letters, give me those cookies, it creeps me out when anyone in high school still says mommy/daddy, Peter is yuck. That’s my official review: Peter is yuck and give me those cookies.
The Fiery Heart by Richelle Mead: I’m officially done with the Bloodlines series. This book was boring and I don’t really like Sydney and the whole thing is just about her secret relationship with Adrian at this point. And Adrian isn’t even worth it anymore (sorry bb, ilu).
Noggin by John Corey Whaley: NOT OPTIONAL. Amazing story, amazing cover. I laughed and cried in equal measure and got so much more than what I expected from a story about a cryogenically frozen head attached to a new cryogenically frozen body.
Jessica Darling’s It List #1 by Megan McCafferty: Not the Jessica Darling I’m used to. Obviously she’s much younger, but I still went in expecting the same kind of humor and embarrassment. I am LOVING seeing how everything came to be in Sloppy Firsts and I look forward to the next installment.
How to Save a Life by Sara Zarr: I listened to this one and I did not like it very much. I didn’t really like either of the characters (though Mandy in her extreme naivete was still preferable to Jill being horrible to everyone all the time) or the story, but the voice actors did a good job.
Pointe by Brandy Colbert: 4.5 stars and NOT OPTIONAL. This book hit me on some personal levels and brought up some things from my past I would rather have stay there. I think it is so important to have Theo out in the world: a black 17 year old ballerina suffering from an eating disorder and the after effects of rape. I only wish so much didn’t have to happen to her in this book, that there were more books to show young black girls that these things are happening to other girls like them – that it’s not just white girls in ballet if they want to dance, that it’s not just white girls starving themselves or making themselves sick if they are suffering, too.
OCD Love Story by Corey Ann Haydu: I really enjoyed OCD Love Story but it was so painfully embarrassing to read.
Just One Night by Gayle Forman: I fall firmly in the “disappointed with Just One Year because COME ON” camp. I won an arc and didn’t realize that it was Just One Day from Willem’s POV. I definitely didn’t realize it was going to end in the same infuriating place. Just One Night is finally the continuation of Allison and Willem’s story, and I could not be happier with it (okay, if it was 200 pages longer I would be happier).
Paperback Heart 