Carla ✨

the slowest of slow burns but gosh do i love it when it feels like how it's supposed to be

i'll definitely be reading book 2, i need to know stuff, so many things were left out there with no explanation on sight, so now i am intrigued 👀

check out trigger warnings for the book tho if you plan on reading it🙏🏼

i loved it, it would have been 5 stars if the plot twists didn't appear out of thin air

i like to trace plot twists out in a book, specially if i didn't see them coming but with these ones? i saw them coming and at the same time, nothing in the book was validating my suspicions so when they came to be i was like, are you for real? we had 3+ povs and nowhere NOWHERE were any hints that any of this would be happening, I don't like this, it makes me mad

and i am petty, because i like to play detective, and i hate when i can't in a book that i should be able to, so thats where the half star went

other than that, i loved it I LOVED IT, couldn't have asked for a better book to pick up distopy again, really recommend you pick it up if you haven't thought of it yet

gosh, do i love a good villain love story

it did take me an awfully long time to read but time is something i don't have easy access to🫠

i also don't know who i like more right now, kaz or arabella😂

i need the next one ASAP

3.5⭐

okay, where should i start? i feel like this theme of books where a writer searches for inspiration in another person of a similar background, job wise, is never quite done to my expectations

i have to say the start of the book is equal parts funny and confusing. too many pov's in our fmc's inner monologues and (possibly) the fact that my kindle decided to hell with the format, which i just 🫠 (wouldn't know how else to express the feeling😂)

aside from that the first time our mc's meet is so funny and so delightful that i was IN, i just wanted to keep reading

i would like to say the "romance" at times felt rushed? a bit insta-lovey? i guess that's what happens when two hot people with a libido to envy get together 😂 also, spicy scenes were hawt, but along the book they kind of died down? as in they got less and less detailed and cut short? lee, i know you can give us the spice, don't be shy about it next time 👀

i really did like how we got insight into the mmc's thoughts and troubles, it was an unexpected yet interesting turn of events, but i wasn't really a fan of the shared pov (at least not with the formatting i got🫠)

after those pov's though, i felt like the fmc's pov's were a bit shallow which kind of reinforced by the end with how things ended? it kind of still felt like their love story was just a transaction which i wasn't expecting🫠

either way i had fun and i enjoyed the book, would 100% read something from the author again, it can only get better from here!

thanks to periwink press and netgalley for the arc and as always my reviews are my own regardless of where the book comes from 🙂‍↕️

This, was SO GOOD.

How could I describe it? Bridgerton meets Ghost Whisperer plus we get to meet Death? YES, A MILLION TIMES YES. GIVE IT TO ME.

I'm so glad I decided to pick up this book. I got in only because of the Death premise but let me tell you, I thoroughly enjoyed the mystery, the crime solving, EVERYTHING.

Also, perfectly themed to be read in October, which made it 10x times better.

The writing? On point. Quote after, quote. I have a million tabs on this book that range from the love heart warming scenes to the best wake up moments.

Plus, for a YA book? IT WASN'T FADE TO BLACK. It was obviously done with the utmost care, and as if it was seen from the perspective of a woman in that timeframe. And it was beautiful, let me tell you.

I don't know what else you want me to say for you to consider picking up the book. Just do it, you won't regret it.