Harisa

This was Sooo cute. Very well done

I actually thought this as so cute! If you like “Love is Blind” you should like this haha!

I really enjoyed this. A really interesting story relating a haunting to DV. I thought this was really unique and a good read. I liked the mother/daughter dynamic exploration as well.

Started out very very strong then their relationship got a bit weird for me. I found it hard to root for them. Very interesting plot and setting though.

Basically a repeat of the Bunny Tales. I wish we got more information on motherhood etc. That was upsetting.

Probably a 3.5. A lot of “not like the other girls” in the way she talks about the other girls, which was hard to read about. Her revelation about her experience with Hef was really interesting though and I think she worded that really really well.

I also thought it was sad and interesting that she never called the relationship with Hef abusive. It definitely was a textbook abusive relationship.

I'm trying to catch up on reviews because I really want to review everything this year even if its a sentence.

This was not a horror novel and I had a hard time getting into this book.

Unfortunately, I agree with the other reviews here in that something about this failed to connect. I read this way after COVID lockdowns but still HATED this hero. I know that teen novels are all about growth but NO ONE was as hard on him as they should've been in my opinion. I also thought there was a lot of built up between the mother-daughter relationship and just not enough was resolved. This book just tackled a lot of issues that it didn't work through well enough for me to rate this well.

This book was a strong okay. It was interesting learning a bit more about Lutheran theology but I thought the author's examples and some of his tangents were a bit narrow minded for me. I think he was reaching in a lot of these examples used to try to explain the 12 icons and it made a bit of it difficult to read.

Happy to have a positive story on motherhood in this collection.

I cried in a target listening to this book. Beautiful writing and beautiful story.

3.5, one of the better ones I read from this series.

I actually thought this was a pretty solid, but also basic, commercial thriller.

On Amazon Prime available.

This was very similar to “Evil Eye.” From interviews with the author, I understand this is a very personal novella for her but as someone who read “Evil Eye” and watched interviews, I felt like this was just a prologue or repeat of the book.

I thought this was just okay, but it was interesting and engaging. It got a little frustrating how much could've been explained because people were keeping secrets (even though that was also explained) and the pacing was a little slow at parts. Overall interesting though and way better than Addie LaRue (the writing style very much reminded me of it).

Unhinged in the best way. Loved this despite a bit of lagging.

2.5 stars rounded up because I finished in one day. This was rough and very similar to every other book with these tropes. Doesn't help that I just read “she started it” this year which worked better for me so I couldn't help but compare. Is there some rule that every character has to be unlikable in these types of books?

Again this is the type of historical romance I really like!! I'm not really looking forward to the third book because the last brother is meh to me but I AM looking forward to the spin off.

As far as this book, I didn't like it as much as the first. I actually think the pacing of it worked for me– but Oswald was just mehh.

Like the first book, this was very much a page-turner. Had a lot of the same themes as the first one as well. I found the main character frustrating at times but understand that its part of her personality due to her background. I think the end was consolidated and just wrapped up way too quickly. The therapy sessions at the end made a lot of progress VERY quickly which was weird considering how slow paced the first 2/3 of the book was and I wish we would've gotten more detail on her character growth. Overall though this is an author I will automatically read.

I really wanted to like this book and was excited about it but I thought it was just way too wide-sweeping and too surface level. He tried to go into deeper topics/mention issues that have been going on for a long time (this isn't a new phenomenon) but he just...didn't do a great job. I also didn't know much about him and found him to be a bit vague about his personal upbringing as well.

I found it hard to not compare this to books like “Jesus and John Wayne” and “The making of Biblical Womanhood” which I feel covered their topics MUCH more thoroughly and completely.

Unfortunately this one was just boring. Not enough happened and this girl did NOT explore enough for her time in a France!

I'm not going to rate this but I definitely just read it for nostalgia. I also bought some books in the series for my son to eventually read with me :) Hoping he likes creepy things!

Maybe this is my gateway to becoming a fantasy girlie?? Loved the creepy vibes here and the writing was amazing.

Go into this book looking for a revenge story instead of a mystery/thriller and I think you'll really like it just like I did.

4.5 stars rounded up! Really interested and I'm very invested in the series.

I have a hard time with these super short novellas from Amazon. I went on a bit of a binge and am going to take a step back/break. This was certainly atmospheric but honestly kind of strange and too short for what it took on.