Merili

Dnf at 10%. Wow. Review for book club to come. Felt like a cooking show not a dark romantasy

Excellent and engaging story, didn't like the ending.

Dnf 50%. I love Katherine centers books but I just couldn't get through this one. Duncan's behavior was beyond infuriating

i LOVED this book, the female lead was sooo interesting and fun and different. also the plot - horror/thriller vibes, very fun. i didn't really give a single care about the romance but it didn't detract from the plot and exes to reunited lovers is kinda fun

I read this back in high school and thought it was interesting. Mostly I'm a fan of the fmc not ending up with the first guy she likes - love that!!! need 5000% of that in more of the books I read
this time around i started on chapter 20ish since thats when rice shows up. however the descriptions were awkward and i know it's supposed to be spicy but i couldn't take most of the book seriously, too many adverbs. also not a fan of making violent mmcs sexy? when you take a step back and look at the male characters, 0% of them are actually good people? like they're good compared to each other but that's about it?

but i do understand why people like this series. considering reading book #2

Dnf

Dnf at 60%. I was very torn on this because i LOVED the romance set up - that it's friends/almost lovers to enemies to lovers again. Verrrry cool set up. I think I just couldn't get into the story because the dialogue felt a little cringey and the characters felt flat. Maybe i'll try this again in a few months and end up loving it.

This book was really, really good. Main characters were so fun and loveable and tragic. Only had to skip 1 spicy scene haha. Overall loved this

Dnf

I've owned this since a stuff your kindle event but don't know why it took me so long to read it. Very fun and not super predictable

the premise was so intriguing but this book was. so. slow. read through 50% and then skimmed to the end. and it didn't seem to get better

what the heck why did robin still marry Matthew im so MAD

i started this book, then stopped after the first 40 pages because reading about all the terrible husbands she describes made me too mad. then adam read it after i said i couldn't finish (lol) and said it was actually good later on. which was true. some helpful parts later on. of course all this is being read with no context for actually having kids yet but overall a fine read

second time reading, i didn't quite enjoy it as much as the first time bc i realized 80% of the plot is driven by jude and cardan NOT telling each other anything and lying the whole time. but still such a good read lol

Dnf at 25%. Too much metaphorical and literal genitalia

Dnf at 2%. not the story/male lead I was expecting.

Dnf at 30%

dnf at 60%. This is my second attempt at reading this because the premise seems great and it has a high rating. but i just couldn't get through it. nothing is satisfying. it feels like all of hadrian's development and plot growth points are just random deus ex machina situations and he accomplishes little himself. he is a VICTIM of the plot. i found myself not caring what happened next because....anything could happen (and not in a fun, enjoyable way for the reader). He could be betrayed/tricked again. he could randomly find a source of good luck and gain more power. He could be dumped on a random planet again for 10 years. who knows. it was just so unsatisfying, especially after reading Red Rising.
Probably won't try a third time with this series

the first half was sooo witty and funny but the second half felt impossible to follow

I think I was finally ready to read this and it was soooo good, vasya was amazing and the details were so good. Very interested to see how it goes with morozko next book

the first third was boring, the second third was very intriguing, and the ending was depressing

This has quickly become one of my comfort books.

Setting: regency-like era but in a European city (Rhysdon) that doesn't exist in our world.

Quincy - a prickly young lady who runs the nation's most prominent newspaper, "The Q" - finds out she can't keep running it unless she accomplishes a list of things set out by her deceased uncle. Except she doesn't know what the list contains. And she has no patience for fluff of any kind.

Her uncle taked the printing press' handsome young solicitor, James Arch, with monitoring Quincy's progress on the list. Arch is about as happy about this as Quincy is.

I cannot recommend this book enough. A comedy(?) intermixed with deep commentary on human welfare, loss, love, and the costs of opening your heart.

Dnf at 50%.... I did... not like this book. Somehow both extremely flowery and stress-inducing at the same time

The first half was sooooo good, but the ending didn't really deliver on the suspense. Not sure why the mc made the decision he made at the end.

book club read. dnf at 50%. This book was too stressful