@LadyLissa82

@LadyLissa82

Melissa

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Lover of romance, fantasy, and tabby cats, though not necessarily in that order. Here for the snacks and escapism. Defender of the Oxford comma, sleep enthusiast, and staunch liberal.

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Iowa, USA

Melissa's Books by Status

178 Books

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Lost and Found
Holy Monsters
Red, White & Royal Blue
Romancing the Stone
The Jasad Crown
The Night We Met
Christmas in Coconut Creek

Melissa's Reading Goals

Goal

75/125 books
60%

2026 Reading Goal

Read 125 books by . They're 14 books ahead of schedule. 🙌

Melissa's Pinned Prompts

Featured Prompt

443 books

What were your favorite childhood books?

Books read in your formative years can shape the person you become just as much as parents, teachers and friends. What were some of the books that you remember most from your childhood years?

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Hardcover
Team
The Giver
Head Over Heels
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Collected from American Folklore
Wait till Helen comes
Behind the Attic Wall
Logan Likes Mary Anne!

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6,000 books

What are your favorite books of all time?

When you think back on every book you've ever read, what are some of your favorites? These can be from any time of your life – books that resonated with you as a kid, ones that shaped your personal...

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Hardcover
Team
Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone
Midnight Sun
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue
Binding 13
Project Hail Mary
Fourth Wing
Outlander
Two Twisted Crowns
The Love Hypothesis
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy

Melissa's Most Popular Reviews

For a moment in time, this book made me care about golf.

I rest my case.

A really cute, fun read! There are a lot of meta jokes and ironic fourth-wall-nudging jokes, so if that's not for you be warned. I got some real chuckles out of it though and although Juniper made me want to kick him sometimes, I also adored him and all the other characters in this whimsical little world.

I knocked this down a half star because the third-act conflict felt like a complete betrayal of the character. In no universe would the character we got to know through the rest of the book have made those choices.

I'm kind of shocked to find out people didn't like this book - or the FMC in particular! I loved it. The FMC is definitely prickly, snarky, and sarcastic, but it's not just mean for meanness sake and it's only one facet of a full personality. Plus, the MMC loves it, which makes me love it more! And let's not forget she had good reason to feel the way she did.

I'll absolutely read this again. It was funny, the romance moves at a good pace, and the MMC is absolutely adorable.

Contains spoilers

Yeah, unfortunately I enjoyed this about as much as I expected to. In fairness, this is not a favorite trope of mine, so it was always going to be an uphill battle. But I’m a completionist, so here we are.

I come away from this book feeling mostly bummed out. They struggled so hard, and for so long, and then the whole thing wrapped up in five pages. Sabrina’s stubbornness really started to get on my nerves, and Tucker’s business came out of nowhere. I fully expected him to open a peewee hockey rink because he mentioned more than once that there wasn’t one where he grew up. Foreshadowing, right? Nope, he opens a bar. And he only found the place by accident, it wasn’t even a conscious choice. It just felt messy and disconnected, which is not something I usually get from this author.

I liked the characters, and I liked seeing the rest of the guys from the series, but that’s really about it. Disappointing finish.