Gina

DNF @ 84%.This......I don't even know how this book has so many positive reviews. If you're the author, please don't read this review because it's not going to be kind and I genuinely don't want to dim your spark, I'm sure you've written wonderful things. But this book......is not one of them. I'm convinced after reading all these glowing reviews that these MUST be bots because if they read the same book I did......I don't know how they're praising it. I rarely can't finish a book. I LIKE shitty books, sometimes that's the draw for me, just a quick shitty romance I can get into and read for a day or two. But this book was cringe from start to finish - or up until I gave up on it, anyways. The dialogue is like something directly out of a Wattpad fanfiction, and not one of the good ones. I tried to make it through this book, I really tried, but I FINALLY had to tap out around 84% of the way through when the MMC showed up drunk at the FMC's uncle's house where she was staying and picked a fight with her gay best friend, who he mistakenly thinks she cheated on him with, and in reference to taking her virginity earlier in the book boasts “she bled on my dick first.” IN FRONT OF HER BEST FRIEND AND HER UNCLE, AND AFTERWARDS WHEN HE WAKES UP FROM HIS DRUNKEN STUPOR SHE'S NOT EVEN MAD ABOUT IT, SHE THINKS IT'S SWEET SHE CAME OUT THERE TO GET HER BACK!!!! I couldn't continue after that line. Saying “she bled on my dick” as a crude reference to taking her virginity is.....so misogynistic and crude and nasty.....I couldn't finish it. Maybe the ending rocks, I'll never know. When I first read the synopsis of this book I thought it sounded terrible, and I gaslit myself with all the glowing reviews into thinking it must actually be good once you start reading. Please don't be fooled like I was. The book sucks real bad.

This graphic novel is a rootin tootin good time but it's definitely intended for a young audience. If you can go into it knowing that you're not the intended demographic, but still keep your mind open to having a good time, you'll get plenty of enjoyment out of this. If you're expecting a mature, thought-provoking comic, you're going to be left disappointed. Gumshoe had a cute, wholesome story with some truly incredible art, and if you're willing to channel your inner tween while you read it, you're gonna have a ball.

This book is one of my all-time favorites, for a lot of reasons. Firstly, the setting of this book is so deeply and beautifully described that it becomes its own living, breathing character along with the rest of the cast. Nature plays such a large part in this story that you can practically feel the island air on your skin as you read. The characters, the Salt family and Rowan, start to feel like genuine friends. The storytelling in this book is so intimate and raw that you feel the emotions along with the characters. You feel like their survival is your survival. And you're caught up in the impossible decisions these people have to make in order to survive as global warming turns this teeming sanctuary into a ticking time bomb. I can't recommend this one enough. Do yourself a favor and read it!

Not quite as good as the first book, but still great! I absolutely fawned over the MMC, and I found their romance adorable. As it often is in these books, the 3rd act conflict felt AWFULLY contrived to me, but the rest of the book was good enough to balance it out. Overall I very much recommend it, but if you're hoping it tops the first book, you'll be sorely disappointed.

Imma be honest: I liked the movie better. SACRILEGE, I know. How often does that happen? But, giving anything away for those who haven't read it, I like a lot of the choices the movie made over what was done in the book. Am I still glad I read this? Yes. Did I enjoy it? Yes. Are there even things I like better about the book? Absolutely. But as a whole, I think the movie has a better story to tell.

Listen, if you're here, you know what these books are about. You've made it through Moon Touched and you want more. You're wondering if it's worth it? It absolutely is. This one takes all the insanity and magic of the first book and cranks it up a notch. More sex, more wolves, more drama. Get into it friends, and tell em your pal Gina sent ya 😉

Listen, let's just get to the facts: this book is werewolf porn. Straight up, there's plenty of wolf sex (well, humans who turn INTO wolves. They don't do it in wolf form), so if that's not your jam, you'd might as well stop reading my review now. For the rest of y'all still here, welcome to the dark side 🖤 I love this book. It's ridiculous. You've gotta suspend your disbelief. But when you do? When you let yourself just enjoy the damn thing without judging yourself for liking it? It's incredible. There is SO MUCH plot here and it is juicyyyy. Right off the bat shit is messy. And once the book starts it just doesn't let up. Get ready for lovable side characters, complicate wolf lore, and a whole lotta fuckin. Enjoy your walk on the wild side folks, and do it in my name 😈

The Cinnamon Bun Bookstore is a definite improvement over the first novel in the series, yet still falls short of its potential in my eyes. I liked the couple in this book miles better than the OG pair. Probably because funny, smitten sailor suits my fancy much better than grumpy farmer. I found the motivations more compelling in this book, and the plot as a whole more believable. Overall the characters were still a bit too cliché, the small-town charm was a tad too poured on, and the dialogue was a hair on the Hallmark side. An improvement over the first book for sure, a nice, shallow read that's good for a slump, but nothing spectacular just yet. Here's hoping Book 3 really wows me!

This book is definitely a passably cute romance read with small-town, autumn flavored vibes if you're looking to scratch that itch. However, it really doesn't offer much more than that. Part of the problem is probably that farmer isn't my type, and neither is big, broody, bearded man, so this book was never gonna dazzle me. I liked Jeanie, the FMC, as a character, I liked the small-town elements like the community and other shop owners, the gossip-fueled book club, the chaotic town hall meeting, etc. I liked the concept of an anxiety-riddled, ex-office-job-having gal trying to pivot her life completely by moving to a small town and taking over her aunt's café. There were definitely nice, cute parts to this. But overall I definitely won't be reading it again, and I probably wouldn't recommend it to a friend. I wasn't a fan of Logan, the MMC, or his backstory. Without any spoilers, I feel like some of the elements driving the conflict in this story are very overblown and dragged out. If you're in a slump and looking to get out of it with something shallow and fall-themed? Give this a whirl. Otherwise you can probably skip it. However, I have already read the second book in this series, and I enjoyed that one much more. So if this one isn't your vibe, just skip the the next one!