Why Did I Read? I really liked Julie’s other contemporary romance Forget Me Not and this dark romance sounding super intriguing. Now — I do feel like I need to address the elephant in the room, the elephant being that a large portion of the book community is trying to boycott Julie and this book. Here are my thoughts regarding that: 1) Sure, this book may have started as a Dramione fanfic but so many books start out as some sort […]
Why Did I Read? This book was originally titled Medievally Blonde, and was marketed as a medieval Legally Blonde retelling. Legally Blonde is an all time favorite movie so I was sold! Due to what I assume are legal reasons, the book has been retitled as The Princess Knight. My Thoughts: Well things got off to a rocky start when I was inundated with a lot of names: of people, countries, entities, regions, all in the first 5-10% of the […]
Why did I read? This YA fantasy touts a magical competition, elemental magic and compares it to Shadow and Bone — of course I was so there. My thoughts: Unfortunately, this one wasn’t quite the winner I wanted it to be. I’m not sure if I disliked this more because I was also reading ANOTHER YA book where there was a competition and two princes and this was the inferior of the two… But there were times I thought I […]
Why Did I Read? It’s Abby Jimenez! Of course I was going to read it! My Thoughts: I think I would describe this book as being pulled into two wonderful people’s lives and then being swept along on their love story. Abby has a way with words and a way of creating characters and situations that are so real. I won’t soon forget Xavier and Samantha and I don’t want to. Samantha and Xavier meet right before Samantha moves across […]
Why Did I Read? I really enjoyed Alwyn Hamilton’s Rebel of the Sands (and never finished the series, I really need to get on that) and when I heard about her latest, I knew I had to read it! Magical trials and family shenanigans – yes, please! My Thoughts: The Notorious Virtues has a fascinating premise. Long ago, the Holtzfall family, with the aid of a magical being in the forest, carved out a safe spot for themselves in the […]