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I cannot even begin to explain HOW MUCH I LOVED THIS BOOK. This book made me feel so many things, but the most important thing is that Happy Place felt like coming home. Such a sweet and heartwarming feeling. I loved every part of it, it made me so emotional and I just - wow!!!! I don't even know what to say about this other than the fact that it's incredible and I will keep it close to my heart.
History, huh?
WHY did it take me so long to finally read this book.. I have no idea. But apparently this is my 500th read book (at least here on Goodreads) and I feel like it's a perfect one for that milestone.
I loved it. I loved it from the first page, when I did not even know what to expect. I heard the book was good, but I was so surprised to see HOW GOOD IT IS. The characters are just loveable. You can't help falling in love with them while reading this book, they're so amazing and each is special in their own way.
My favorite character is definitely Alex. He is so funny and I loved reading about him and his thoughts, his fears and his dreams. Of course I love Henry just as much, but there's a part of me that just likes Alex a LITTLE bit more.
But THEM? ALEX AND HENRY together? That's just perfect. What an amazing couple, I loved following their story, watching them go from “enemies” to “lovers”. Their story is so beautiful, it made me cry so much, it made me laugh and it made me want to throw the book across the room and then it made me just want to hug these characters.
Love love love the book!!
This book was very painful to read - I had to take my time with it and process everything that was happening. It's a story that follows a little boy that grows up in a very, very abusive household, with a tyrannical step father and a mother that is afraid of leaving with her kids, so they all suffer for years and years. We watch this little boy grow up and become stronger, fall in love and find his passion, all while struggling at home, being beaten and verbally abused. I liked the book, it was very eye-opening and heartbreaking, but I know that there are so many people out there who are going through what this family was going.
OK, WHERE DO I EVEN BEGIN? If I could give this book 1000 stars, I would give it. It deserves all the stars in the world. What a beautiful, amazing debut for Ali Hazelwood. She is going to be a great author, I'm sure of that. I mean, she already is. And I've made it my personal mission to make everyone read this book, because it's so good. I can't stop thinking about it. I finished it last night at 1 AM and I went to sleep thinking about it and I woke up thinking about it. That's when I know it's an amazing book.
If you're a fan of the fake dating trope, you're going to fall in love with this book. I'm not a huge fan, but this book made me love it. The dynamic between the characters is pure perfection, the friendships and the relationships are so good. The main character, Olive, is such an amazing and strong woman, she overcomes so many of her fears throughout the book and I found her to be very inspiring and a very good motivation. As a woman in STEM myself, I felt for her in so many ways. And oh, don't get me started on Adam Carlsen. The broody, mysterious professor who makes his students cry, who is such an intriguing figure... and who happens to become Olive's fake-boyfriend. I love him so much, I CAN'T EXPLAIN. His character spoke to my heart, the tenderness underneath that tough facade was something that managed to melt my heart.
Olive and Adam are made for each other and I was so happy to see their fake relationship become a friendship and then evolve into something beautiful.
Also, this book is going to break your heart, I WARNED YOU! It's going to break it into a million pieces and then put it back together in such a beautiful way, you'll forget you had it broken in the first place.
What more can I say? If I haven't already convinced you to read this book, JUST...WHY? You have to give it a chance, it's A-MA-ZING!
The Spanish Love Deception wasn't my favorite book, I found it a little bit too overhyped and I didn't understand why everyone loved it so much. But I decided to give The American Roommate Experiment a chance and I absolutely loved it, I devoured this book, I couldn't put it down. I fell in love with Lucas and Rosie and their fun relationship that went from friends to lovers.
I just can't. I have no idea where to start with this book, it was so good and heartbreaking and it left me with such a strange feeling. I laughed, I cried and I wanted to throw it against a wall. It is so hard to talk about it right now and to have some order in my thoughts, because they are all over the place. I finished the book last night and I didn't want to write the review right away, I said that it would be better if I waited until morning. Well, morning's here and I still have no idea what to say, because there are TOO MANY things to say.
Well, let's start with the spoiler-free review. Let me tell you: if you liked the first 2 books in the series, you are going to LOVE this one. I think it's my favourite so far, because it was so good and it made me feel so many things. Obviously, I have already fallen in love with Thomas Cresswell and he's such an amazing character. However, this book made me fall in love with him even more. He's so precious and amazing, he would do anything for Audrey Rose and his love for her has no end.
In this book, we see how their “relationship” takes some weird turns, how they encounter some problems and if their love for each other is strong enough to survive the horrible things that happen on the RMS Etruria.
Now, let's talk about the fun part: SPOILERS AHEAD.
Mephistopheles. That's all I have to say. I hated this character SO MUCH, because he made me kind of fall in love with him. Yes, that's weird, but I did NOT want to love him. I wanted to hate him because he created problems between Audrey Rose and Thomas. He made Audrey Rose break Cresswell's heart and mine too, because when Thomas realised that Audrey Rose may have feelings for Mephistopheles, I could feel his sadness. I was so sad, even now it makes me cry just thinking about those chapters. Poor, dear Thomas.
I was really mad at Audrey Rose for doing that to Thomas, but somehow I understood her. Mephistopheles is such an interesting, magical character that you cannot help yourself and want to see more of him. That's what happened to Audrey Rose, she got stuck in his web of lies and manipulation. However, he was not THAT BAD in the end. But I still hated him for coming between my 2 favourite characters and making Audrey Rose question her feelings for Thomas.
It was so obvious that the two of them are made for each other, I had high hopes that Audrey Rose was going to realise that and give up on her almost-feelings for Mephistopheles.
I loved what she did in the ending and how she saved Cresswell's life, as well as her realization that her feeling for Thomas could not be made less powerful. And even if she had some feelings for Mephistopheles, they were not enough and he was not the right man for her.
This book was brilliant. I can feel my heart breaking whenever I'm thinking about it and that's a sign that this book definitely deserves 5 stars.
As a person who lives in Romania, this book spoke to my heart. And especially the fact that my all time favourite book is “Dracula” by Bram Stoker. So, I assure you that the myth of Dracula is something very dear and important to me.
A small thing that bothered me in this book was the fact that the characters traveled from Bran Castle, where the Academy is located, to the village Brasov by foot. And they did is so fast, which is impossible because between Bran Castle and Brasov in reality there are 30 kilometers. So it's kind of impossible to go from one place to the other in just 10 minutes, but I ignored this small thing, because otherwise the story couldn't have developed in the way it did.
Unlike the first book, this one surprised me. I was shocked when I found out who the killer was. I was NOT expecting it. That's what makes this book even better than the first one, which I enjoyed a lot.
The story follows Thomas and Audrey Rose in their journey to a forensic medicine academy in Romania. There, they discover a series of murders and they do their best to find out who the killer is.
I fell in love with Audrey Rose's character again and again. She is one of my favourite female characters because she doesn't let the fact that she's a woman living in a man's world drag her down. She is strong and she knows what she wants. She follows her dream, she is a very intelligent woman and she has the best partner she could wish for: Thomas Cresswell.
These two characters have become some of my all time favourites, even if I haven't finished the series yet. Their chemistry is incredible, the way the are made for each other makes me want to cry, because their friendship is so beautiful and it will hopefully turn in to something even more beautiful.
*Re-read: 5 stars
First read: 4 stars
I LOVE Thomas and Audrey Rose. I finally got to meet these two amazing characters and I am so glad I chose to read this book.
In 1880's London, Audrey Rose is a seventeen year old girl who isn't interested in the newest gossip, the latest trends in fashion or finding the perfect man for marriage. She is interested in science and she loves working on corpses and finding their true story. She meets Thomas Cresswell while she works for her uncle and they become something close to friends, if we look past their never ending teasing of each other. Thomas is a very intelligent boy, but Audrey Rose is as good as him. They play mind games together, trying to find the killer that terrorizes the town.
Audrey Rose is such an inspiring and great character. She doesn't care what other people think of her, because in those times it was very unusual and often considered “indecent” for a woman to be interested by science. But she does not care. And she follows her dream, becoming the savior of the city, alongside Thomas Cresswell, because together they solve de mystery of the awful murders that are taking place in their town.
I liked how the book was written, even if at some point it got really annoying for me because I figured out who the killer was and I wanted to slap both Audrey and Thomas realizing it earlier. The ending got me hooked and I can't wait to dive into the next book in the series!
This book was... I have no words. It was sad, heartbreaking, painful, brutal, but beautiful nonetheless. It broke my heart, it made me cry so much and it also made me laugh. It's written in such a beautiful way that will make you feel like you're part of the story. I am so glad I decided to pick it up thanks to a bookstagram friend of mine, I will never forget the beauty of this story.
“I remember you.”
The sentence that broke my heart, that made me fall in love with this book and made me realize that Addie LaRue is going to be a huge part of my life, because this book made it to my top favourite books. Like, my all time favourite books.
I just can't even describe what I'm feeling right now. I just put the book down and managed to stop crying. V.E. Schwab is incredible and she broke my heart with this book. She broke it, she pieced it back together only to break it again. And again. And again.
It took me so long to finally read this book, but I guess now was the right time for me to do it. I mean, I wouldn't have been prepared for the force of this book now matter when I read it, what can I say.
This book is a story about loss and love, about heartbreak and survival, about a girl who just wanted to be free, but found herself making a deal with the devil and being forgotten by everyone. Everyone but him.
I literally don't know what to say about this book because there are SO MANY things that I could say, but I can't even begin to write them. I just want to tell you that if you haven't read it, you really need to do it right now. LIKE RIGHT NOW . It will change your life, it will make you wonder what took you so long to pick it up, it will hit you like a storm. But it will also make you cry happy tears, make you laugh and smile, make you feel full of happiness and contempt. It's just... WOW.
And now, let me tell you my favourite quotes from the book:
What is a person, if not the marks they leave behind?But if you only walk in other people's steps, you cannot make your own way. You cannot leave a mark.
