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this is an arc review so tvym for the author. This rating is no offence to the author; but I couldn't finish the book. It started with out a trigger warning! just so you know this handles greaf in a strange way. I hate it. but that's my problem not the authors fault. also this book is for a younger demographic expect some of them might not have handled a hard subject yet.
I don't like how they handled the internet bullying. so that brought down the grade that I promised her. sorry/not sorry.
I wont spoil it for you, but you need to take your time with this book because it will hurt you, and come at you from all sides; are there problems with the FMC? yea obiouslly. Like....well i cant say but like everyone else (on good reads) I hate her guts. But Gimme a book with Jude and the family and Iḿ all for it. (iḿ sick like that)
This is high fantasy. If u like magic mixed with politics this book is for u, but i listened to it the audio readers voice is nice and calming (even in danderious situations which happen often) but Martha wells sence of humor shines again (if your into that) If not, im afraid it might fall on DAFT ears
There are alot of characters to keep track of, which could put some of you off, but it was fun. I need fun
Contains spoilers
PLEASE FOR THE LOVE OF YOUR SANITY READ THE FEN TRIGGER WARNINGS ⚠️ BEGORE YOU GO INTO THIS BOOK
This is my honest review. The characters every. single. One. Is. Toxic!
If u just got out of a toxic relationship with in the pas 5 years, this is your final warning!
With that being said, I think this hockey club ruined me!
AND no the kids in this book aren't robots (it's a metaphor)
If you like beautifully written characters, and want a master class in writing bad guys then this is the book for you
If you are looking for boys who will melt you and crush you into a billion tinny tinny pieces, than here ya go!
Ootherwise, stick with your Binding 13 and leave me to my vapors! Prinston is going to be the death of me!
May contain spoilers
So the reason it was a 3.5 instead of a 4 or a 5 is because it seemed to drag on and quite a bit insta lovie (even for me) I think once u get past all the smut all it seems to be is a public/printed fanfiction
Let me explain myself before you start throwing fruit at me. I loved the story near the end and the hockey game. I half expected an ex to be the third act break up but it was a misunderstanding or a miscommunication trope
Its almost like more than 70% through the book the author just remembered about Hockey Pride Night and as an irl hockey queer girlie it was kind of uncomfortable.
I get that was the point, but I was hoping at somepoint the author would bring up that point and thank the queens she did because i was starting to get a big annoyed.
That being said though; once they mentioned that I was ok with it again. There were things that still gave me the ick, like they mentioned barns and noble and a starbucks more than once. I don't know if the author got permission for that or if it was a editors choice to keep it in, but yeah that gave me the ick
Please read the trigger warnings, no I will not me giving them to you, you have to look it up yourself
May contain spoilers
The only reason I can't give it a 5 stars is because its long, and the games weren't as fantastical as the first one. That being said though, the characters seemed more thought out than the first one and not as rushed....
I can't choose between the twins Rowin or Remi
My favorite brother has to be Sevan(Savin?) Though. He's creepy and childlike at the same time
Oh also you don't need to read the ending chapter, its not relevant to the storyline
Contains spoilers
ok so i was a bit let down with this one, because I did LOVE the Maple Hills books, and i love Grace with a die hard passion and would usually defend her till the cows come home; but what even was that 65% in? LIKE WHAT EVEN?! WHO DOES THAT they had 2 weeks to finish the doll you can´t even wait 2 fen weeks for this hand made doll that people put love and care into? LIKE NO!
but did i like how the characters treated the new comer? yea kinda i guess, did I like the chemestery between them? Meh i guess it felt a bit weird for me like everyone was all up in their busniess and all that but small town vibes I suppose, like people already had names and faces and like i feel like the ¨carrot¨ got lost more than half way through¨ there should have been a ¨bad guy¨ or someone from the top of the food chain checking up on this girl that they just shipped to like some random town to be like ¨hey fix our stuff or else you don´t get the promotion you should have had but we chose your brother instead¨ just like what even? I also asked one of my friends who read this before me, she said she skimmed it and it didn´t get better.
but like The dogs name is Elf! ELF was the only good things about the book!
so I need to make yal understand something. Harry Potter was my first book that got me into reading when I was 11....Back then Audio Books was a stigma and you got made fun of A LOT for it, even more than reading. (At least where I´m from)
I understand the stigma of Harry Potter now; Hogwarts is my home. It will ALWAYS be a place that I go to when I´m down, (which I have been for quite some time, don´t let the book count fool you....) I´m also part of the ¨older generation¨ I grew up on Harry Potter, and let me tell you it´s fine for us to fall back on classics that got us into reading. If it weren´t for Harry, Ron, and Hermione, I doubt I´d have friends of my own. So for that I owe this author my life.
But I will not sit by as a Nonbinary and sit by and watch her freak out on my people like that.
I wasn´t going to say anything, but by not saying something that makes me look like the problem so...also sorry if I´m not allowed to say it i had to let it out.
~~~~read trigger warnings~~~third book in a 4 book series~~~
I loved the first two books because they were so good! But something happened here and it was like whoa! but I liked the found family moments in there. so they stopped me from telling you alot, but it was very clunky. and there was just stuff that was like “wait what happens with this” and just like “why now?” like um k....but I'did like the characters. She was annoying, but he's well him....
I want to say just because I was given a special arc to read on my nook; all opinions are my own!
to the author, thank u for giving me special permission through your book funnel and dealing with me. seriously; it made me feel super special!
to the readers; while this ARC was super over due (and I'm super sorry for that; it won't happen again)
this is the second book of a set...and there for there ARE A BUNCH OF SPOILERS from the first book. so please read the blue cover first before u bash this one for your ignorance...
it's a very sweet and cozy romance between a half fay and her arch rival (rival to lovers; close proximity and ONE ROOM YES QUEEN!)
also check trigger warnings; daddy issues on both sides but handled very well
Ahem that being said I couldn't stop thinking about how adorable the two were....is there more? It reads like a movie in my head
I wanted u to go into it blind but seeing how I was gifted it, I needed to voice my love for this world!
OH MY GOSH! Wow! I mean i think you should read the trigger warnings online before you go into this; but otherwise, you need to have a love for figure skating; and ¨love stories¨ Just WOW! the passion, the twists and turns. ITS THE BEST AUDIO BOOK OF 2025! (this is no joke) Its serious and heart felt but like WOWOWOWO!
That´s all i gotta say about it. just wow! But you do need to listen the audio book to understand the WOWOWO; you can´t simply pick up the book if you see it on the shelf OH NO it won´t do it justice, please read the whole review; usually I spoil the stuffing out of my 5 star reads; but not this one. I´ll let you go into it like I did; blind and hopeful; but a bit with a side eye; like how good can this be?
OHH TRUST ME It will keep you up at night thinking about it! Thinking what could possibly go wrong next?! IS THERE A HAPPY ENDING?! You´ll have to wait and see my friends wait and see thank you for the 27th book finished Layne Fargo. IT WAS A BLAST!
MAKE SURE YOU READ THE TRIGGERS BEFORE YOU GO THROUGH WITH FINISHING THIS BOOK YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
**may contain spoilers**
that being said at first I wasn't sure if I was going to give this a 4.35 or a 5 because of the sheer length to it. it deals with lots of heavy topics so be prepared for that. One of witch is obsession, so if you have a problem with that than this book is not for you
if you don't like “reality” based books ie therapy, first comes love then comes obsession with fake dating/ fake ingagement in the middle of it, and a breakup third act that I could have written better,than this is NOT YOUR BOOK also throw in the miscommunication trope too.
But there is alot of good and heart warming moments that I won't spoil for you, you will just have to buckle up and get ready for the water works. I'd have a box of tissues next to where ever you read, I'm a bit tougher this year on my rating because it IS THE THIRD BOOK but it's so good and I want Many to be next! he deserves his happily ever after!
you two star reviewers can come for me all you want, but this is my own opinion and seeing as this was my 24th book of the season so far, I think I'm a good judge of books, you do you buu
(may contain spoilers; and please read the trigger warnings if you are easily triggered this may not be the book for you....)
that being said; I will say it was going to be a 4 star or a 4.5 star at the most until you find out the twist in the end (you have to hang in there if you want to be rewarded)
if you like yummy baddies ans ghost kitties then this is the book for you, if you don't like girlie girls (girls who wear dresses and so annoying you roll your eyes all the time) but it's worth the wait
this is the middle of the “Lost Bride Trilogy” and dang what a cliff hanger! (that's all your getting from me because no one likes a spoil sport) but wow! Can I get the next one on NG please? I know I'll have some waiting to do (So that's fine) But wowow! I think Clover (the DJ grandma) would play MJ's “Thriller” after that ending....(if ya know, you know) if not, carry on, and read at your own risk, if you do, check the trigger warnings on the website first, but the Audio Book is the way to go WOW!
if you ate sensitive to lice/bugs or covid you have been warned please do not read if you have sensitivities
this book is not for anyone, if you are a romance fan and all you read is Emily Henry please stay in your lane; this is not for your fragile mind
if you need a dark romance then by all means be my guest
I want to first off thank Maren Moore and her publishing staff for giving me the chance to listen to the Audio ARC. The voices! Gods I think it was the best audio book I've ever listened to.
MAY CONTAIN SPOILERS: AND LOOK FOR TRIGGER WARNINGS! (I believe they have it stated in the beginning of the book, but this is more for the author than anyone else; please if you have trigger warnings please state them in the written version as well...
How can I be jealous of a sport that's not even MINE!?
I want this school to be real, I want everything about this book to be real...
I'm completely obsessed, also can I have the next book on ARC please?!
I want to say first, This is a Net Gally grab, and I squealed when I got approved. The biggest author I read approved me (or rather her publisher so Thank you very much! you don't understand how much this means to me; not to nerd out or anything)
(may contain spoilers so if you want to be spoiled please keep going, if not you have been warned...it seems now a days I need to put spoiler tags, also if you are triggered by anything this book might not be for you; YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED!
I want to say I love Tray and the brothers. I even love Cleo who is the best friend anyone could ever have. I mean packing up your life to spend it with your best friend. you've heard of book Boyfriend, try Book Bestie!
The little boy (and here's a spoiler so you're warned) Jack is so cute! He plays with the dog (Yoda) in the book and I'm obsessed with the grandmother who's the Dj of the house! it's very cute!
I think I'll stop gushing now, but know if your a fan of NR then you'll love this trilogy. If this is your first NR book and your not into “scary” then I say start off with something small and work your way to this. I can't remember off the top of my head the other two book series i've read all the way through, but if you look at my goo dreads, it should be on there.
first of all thank you to the publisher for my copy of the audio book on net-gally. It was one of the best Audio books I've listened to thus far. (I've listened to a lot of audio books in the past two years so that's saying something)
I dono what I liked about it, but everything was so wonderful! sorry i'm gushing just like ugh the romance. I think it's ok that I got into it in book 4 because I believe they ARE stand alone books (a book with in a series) this is book 4 I guess. (so my bad) but it didn't hinder my enjoyment of the book.
The art the love the everything oh and did I mention the DRAG QUEENS! OH MY GOSH!
first of all; I would like to thank Net-gally for the free e-book. (that's how I get all my net-gally books) but thank you for the publisher (or whoever hands the ARCS out to trust me with it) It was adorable and I think I'll put a MAY CONTAIN SPOILER TAG HERE: so I don't get in trouble; (this is my 18th book of the season, so I know how to do this)
Let me just say, I didn't expect such a small book to bring all the feels! (It did) and when you read it bring tissues with you! Because there's a part (A couple parts really) in the book that will make you cry, like (spoiler) where she tells her grandfather she's bi...as someone who had a very understanding grandfather coming out to them was the hardest thing for me at that age as well (I didn't do it till I was much older so that's why I got so emotional...) but if you have any soul in you at all you will cry....
Also for the author; sorry it took so long,but I needed a good cry....so thank you for being patient with me!
I can't give a book 1.5 (on here) otherwise I would. (may contain “spoilers?”) just like It was boring. The only two characters that were the best out of them were the Octopus and “Cat” the stray cat Tova takes in. I just need to move ON WITH MY TBR SERIOUSLY!
if you think it gets better between 31% this is your sign to DROP IT NOW! I had 90% left (if that) and I just can't Carmon is a dead beat whom doesn't get better in the end. Yes he finds out in the end (spoiler) the person who he thinks his dad is isn't worth the effort of a review....the only “Magic” in the book is the “voice” the octopus gets. And it's her first book, and just like; they'll give anyone a contract these days if they're “pretty” enough.
I can't get over how bad this book was, and I can't wait to get a free coffee out of it.
Listen, I'm glad people out there like it, so please don't “report me” because of “My point of view” It's my 17th book of 2025 so I kind of have strong opinions, and you have to be good in order for me to even consider you for a 4.5
I only gave it a 2 because it does have an audience, but it's not for me, and if you go into it with the mind set there's “Magic” in this book because of the “magical elements” you should turn back and read Water Moon instead. Because that has weird and wonderful. This one was boring. Maybe the audio book was better, but I just am over the hype.
That's all this book was, was a pretty cover and hype. Sorry/not sorry hashtag 17th book (wan wan)
First of all Thank you Kay Marrie for believing in me and giving me an ARC copy. (please note, even though I was gifted this ARC all opinions are my own)
That being said I think right now, it's a 3.75 (Because good reads doesn't do part stars, and if they do I must be dumb)
Please look up trigger warnings, or to the author please put trigger warnings in the front of the printed book...Lots of death, gory description and just lots of F bombs.... (if you don't know what the F bomb is, ask your parents, or wait till your older to pick up this book)
That being said, this book is NOT FOR kids, or faint of heart.
(before you read on this may contain spoilers; so if you dislike spoilers before the book is printed, please do not read past this point)
Nyx is funny and cute, and hot (hello book boyfriend)
the girl is something to be desired. She keeps calling herself a “huntress” but we only get a few pages...if that...in her small huntress “life”
if you can't “deal” with a “huntress” character having to be rescued EVERY SINGLE TIME she is “In trouble” then this book is not for you, but she does get a bit better (But not by much) it's like she can't remember her training.
That being said though, if you like sassy bad guys, and bad guys who can BRING IT, then this is the book for you. I loved the author's way of writing bad guys.
I also liked her magic system, and the dark woods...How it was “alive” It was funny....
again, thank you for the ARC and good luck on your lunch day!