Lydia

If you can suspend a bit of disbelief, this book is amazing.

YOU HAVE GOT TO BE FUCKING KIDDING ME.
What a waste of time, jfc. I'm actually angry about this “twist”. I have loved every single other book by Kubica, but this one infuriated me. Don't even bother picking it up unless you want to completely waste your time.

Is Mary Kubica my new favorite author? Possibly. This book had me on the edge of my seat the whole time and I didn't see those twists coming at all. READ IT.

I can't really describe why I loved this book so much, but I could NOT PUT IT DOWN.

I couldn't make myself finish. I hated every second of this.

did not finish

After LOVING What Lies in The Woods, I wanted to check out the rest of Kate's books. Unfortunately, this one was just not it. I loved the LGBT aspect, but otherwise it felt like someone trying really hard to make a book horror, but not sticking the landing. I lost interest mid-way through, but finished out of obligaton.

All the tropes in one book, and so very predictable. I liked the ending so I upped it a star, but in general I didn't enjoy this book.

This book had so many twists, some were really obvious and some were not at all. For that reason alone I loved it.

This was definitely very over the top, but it was so much fun to read! I sped through it and loved every minute.

This was almost a 5 star, but a few things about it held me back (primarily with one of the characters). This book hits the ground running and does NOT STOP. If you want a great paced thriller, this is it.

3.5
I feel like Simone St. James might be a one-trick pony. I loved the broken girls, but this felt like déjà vu.

2.5
I wanted to love this, but there were too many red herrings that didn't actually fool you, and unimportant tangents. By the end of the book I was just tired.

I hated this book so much. It literally put me in a reading slump, it's that bad.

VERY rarely does a thriller book actually get me with the twist, but this one sure as hell did. I couldn't put this book down.

4.5, and only because I very rarely give 5s to anything anywhere. The atmosphere in this book is perfection and I enjoyed the dynamics throughout.

There is a twist that is somewhat predictable, but I actually didn't see it coming. Maybe I'm just off my game, but whatever the case I really, really enjoyed it. It's not as fucked up as my normal thrillers, but it is still heart pounding enough to keep me thinking about it constantly. We ended February on a good note.

I really couldn't get into this, even though it was short

Doggo just wanted to curl up at home.

I almost didn't finish because there were some MAJOR eating disorder triggers, but I'm glad that I pushed through because it was well worth the uncomfortable moments. (I skipped through the eating disorder bits for my own mental health.)

This book has so many twists and turns that I genuinely did not see coming. I don't know if I was just off my game because of the triggers, if I was in a weird funk, or if she is genuinely that good of a writer.

This book was very predictable, as in I had figured out almost every twist by chapter 10, but it was still a really fun read. There was one part that I did not see coming** This book is really about the journey, not about the destination, so I would still recommend reading it






***Floyd actually killed Noelle in the end and then killed himself. That was unexpected.

This was a short, fun, thrilling read that I ate up in less than 48 hours

3.5ish

Final thoughts: This book is a fucking ride. It's pretty graphic, not something I'm usually into, but it really made me connect with the characters. If you can power through the graphicness then it's a really good read. It's not your typical romance in the slightest, it's definitely more of a thriller. I really, really enjoyed it because it kept me on the edge of my seat. I completely understand if it's not for everybody, but I definitely enjoyed it.
Some of the writing is eh, and like I said it's pretty graphic. But I enjoyed it.

I think that the audiobook is part of why I liked it so much. The narrator for asa was just a despicable sounding human being. God, I wanted to choke that bastard.


Spoilers:
All of that being said, there were several things that really pissed me off about this book. Of course, some of the content is going to piss you off, if it doesn't then you are not a normal human being, but that's not what bothered me. What did bother me was the weird structure at the end. There was no need to label the first epilogue as an epilogue, I could have just been more chapters in the book proper. That was a very strange choice.

Another very strange choice was naming the child Dalton? Like why the fuck would you choose to do that? Makes absolutely no sense unless Colleen forgot that she already used the name? They should have named the kid Drew, that would have made so much sense and been a nice payoff.

Speaking of her brothers, what the fuck happened to Stephen? It's like Colleen just used her for the plot twist and then left him hanging. We didn't get any sort of satisfying wrap up at all, and it's weird that Asa didn't try to use him against Sloan during the final showdown. I was really hoping maybe Stephen would connect really closely with their baby and it'd be some sort of amazing breakthrough since he doesn't connect with many people at all, but nope! No mention of Stephen whatsoever

I'm struggling between reading this a two or a three star. It wasn't a bad book, and I like the forbidden romance that it had going on, but I just am not a fan of sex scenes in my books unless they are progressing the plot. Otherwise I just find them a bit of a waste of time and a little boring. There aren't a ton in Birthday Girl, but enough that I was skipping segments. I really am just not a romance girl, I've said it a million times and I'll say it again

I was watching a youtube video about the history of Groundhog Day and this autoplayed after and it was too cute to turn off :3

Didn't finish