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🙏🏼

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

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

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 🙂‍↕️

3.75⭐

(if you see me mark this as finished in 2026, no you didn't)

i don't think meghan's christmas books are hitting the same for me as her regular ones, and it makes me sad 🫠

i had a great time reading it, no doubt, but at the same time as a deeply introverted person, i cringed and hated every thing that happened to them 😭 i couldn't help but think if i was them i'd want the earth to swallow me whole, WHOLE 😂

anyway, if i had to describe this book in a sentence it would be, as we say in spanish, dios los cria y ellos se juntan, cause they couldn't be any better for each other 😂

i know we are going back to kringle next christmas and i am excited to know who will be the next victim 👀

oof, okay miss evie, i guess i asked for capricious gods and i got them hahaha

once again, fbaa flashbacks reading this one, but can we talk about how many twists the story took? i have to say i loved the sabine and basten having power dynamic problems, it was bound to happen, did i like how it was resolved? not that much, although it does feel like that's what people do when trying to salvage a relationship 😂

i was hoping woudix's character would've had a bit more romantic protagonism? i know this is no why choose (throne scene notwithstanding) but damn him, he was smooth, i wanted him to meddle a little bit more while he could😂

i do think sometimes there were holes in the plot, specially at the end, i feel like the gods did evolve to being a bit more cruel but these are oh so powerful beings and at the end they were like oh well, we'll be back, they didn't offer much resistance, but that's personal preference o guess 🤷🏼‍♀️

overall this was one hell of a ride, so thank you so much to evie and her team for sending me the arc to read it early 💞

it was quick, it was cute and it was spicy, hell yeah

not much else to say, I can't wait to pick up the main book and honestly now im curious about miles' story as well 👀

3.75 ⭐️

i kind of wished this had been a full length novel instead of a novella (? i felt like the ending was sort of a "omg i was not supposed to write this many words, let me just add the epilogue and call it a day" wish we had more hospital drama, a little bit more of yearning and a little bit more of the early stages when they first met

but overall it was cute and luke will live rent free in my mind for the forseeable future as lego boy 🫶🏻

i don't think i am made for teenage drama anymore, at least not when it's on paper 🫠

i started the audiobook because lola tung was narrating it, and she has such a stunning voice 🥺

maybe someday i'll listen to the rest of the books so i can also enjoy the boys narrating their characters 🫶🏻

here's me, again, reading a cozy book, what happened to me??

anyways, i really enjoyed this one, it had plot, it had action, it had angst and pinning, it had everything! albeit it was in the amounts you would expect from a cozy novel, but still

i also would have liked a bit more context into how stella rune came to be, more on nia's mother's diaries, that would have made me get into the story soo much more, like, can we get a book about the sword and luna? gosh i'd live for it

and oh boi, you can also catch me thinking about lochlan and nia and about what will happen to ivy and beck, and thane 👀

so Lexi, pretty please with a cherry on top, i need at least one more book so i can know what life has in store for them 🥺

3.75⭐ i have to say i enjoyed reading this book, but writing this three weeks later, the only thing i recall is hoping to get even more in depth i what troubles milo and his family.

i also think i did myself a disservice by reading a book that might be considered cozy when i am one for the drama and the angst, and although technically we got a bit of it, it was not nearly enough for me personally

i went in blind when i picked up the book, it was my first hannah novel, and i didn't know what to expect, but hey the cover was giving fall vibes and that's what i was after 🤷🏼‍♀️

if i cry with the acknowledgements you can bet your ass it was a good book

i don't know what else to say, if you give me a book that portrays the exact feeling of falling in love and what is like to give grieving a break, you got me

5⭐️

i've eaten this book up, and gosh, i even cried and i never cry

i love these two so much 🥺 the change and growth they both had throughout the book? and it being thanks to each other? 😭

also, bert f*cking up what could have been a real hawt scene? i will take that grudge with me to my grave 😤

i can't cope, 5 stars 😭 gtg i still have some happy tears to spill in me about these two ❤️‍🩹

thank you so much lila for the arc 🥺🙏🏼 and i know it goes without saying but my opinions are my own and you REALLY need to read this book if cowboy romance is your obsession (as is mine) 🦬

i always feel like books have place in our own timeline, and i couldn't ask for a better time for this one to chose me

i don't have any negative things to say about this book, it was exactly what i needed, lush forests, earthy magic and the yearning from our tortured fmc

i needed something like this, just like i've been needing nature in my life recently

and let me tell you, i don't think i could have started september in a better way than by choosing this book

much love to rachel and how she writes about magic and nature, it's always a comfort when you need that whimsical peaceful setting 🥺💖

I don't know if this is a 4 or a 3.75 🤷🏼‍♀️

i started this a while ago, i barely remember anything from that first 60%

but i am still salty about kamran

i dont like it when they change the love interest and make them the pity party villain

will i keep reading? who knows for now i am just happy i got to finish this

4.25 ⭐️

RTC

4.75⭐

oh god, did i enjoy this 😩

i've been hooked, can't lie, i read through three quarters of the book in less than three days, it's been a while since that happened

it's just that life happened and i dont know why i hit a block and the ending didn't hit as good as i wanted it to, but don't ask me why, i'm in a weird funk so i blame that

i can't express how much i loved jack and how much i despised how the cartwright sisters felt so wrongly aged. i still can't believe kat is 31 or any of the sisters are in their 20's and act as if they were teens

but that aside, miss dawes i will need a book for each and every one of the sisters and just so everyone knows, lila dawes is a new autobuy author for me, keep em coming 💸💸

4.25⭐

i am still in shock about the ending 😐 i need to regroup my thoughts before i give a review so stay tuned 🫡

update, it's been a week and i'm still thinking about that ending 🫠

i think i've fallen in love with meg's horromance scify writting and i can't get enough.

give me all the stories, i don't care how weird they are, i am here for it

must be the toxic in me but i can't blame kit for thinking hot damn, i want the broken bot, because i'd be that girl too 😂 this felt like a nightmare, but in the best way possible? i was so lost at times but then i also knew exactly where i was?

this story is an experience and the only thing i can do is recommend you read it and experience it for yourself 🫡

thank you meg for providing the arc before it published, i am so grateful 🫶🏻

as always, my opinions are my own but don't let them deter you from reading the story if you want to!

a ver, aqui una nunca lee en español asi que a lo mejor me meto donde no me llaman 😂

me ha gustado el libro? obviamente, sino no le estaria dando 4⭐🙄

creo que la mejor frase que puede describirlo es "del amor al odio hay un paso" o para que le quede mas a pelo, "del odio al amor hay un paso" 😂

el angst de este libro? por las nubes, no podria haber sido mejor

eso si, aqui empiezan los peros 😅 he terminado un poco cansada de la falta de comunicación entre los protas (y lo que no son protas porque vaya tela, les venia de familia eh?) 🙄

evitarlo una vez? vale, dos? bueno, tres? macho que teneis 25 tacos *inserte eyeroll*

a pesar de eso, me ha gustado mucho como ha atado la leyenda nahkoia con la historia de ellos dos, un detalle precioso 🫶🏼

y ya lo que si me ha matado, y cuando digo matado es MATADO, que practicamente me he pasado todo el libro traduciendo al ingles todas y cada una de las conversaciones 🥲 entiendo la ambientación y de donde salen las expresiones de la autora porque son muy reconocibles en la literatura inglesa/americana, pero creo que esperaba algo un poco mas castellano-correcto, no se (lo dicho, apenas leo en español no sabria decir si es algo normal en los libros de hoy día 🥲)

eso si, catch me leyendo el siguiente libro porque tate? 👀 tate y su insufrible empeño por conseguir a mackenzie? si, lo necesito en vena, gracias 😂

así que aqui estaremos para el próximo 💅🏼

4.25⭐️

I really needed a meet cute, and this one was perfect 🫶🏻

If you are a romance girlie, and I mean romance in the purest form of the word, this is for you. No shmutty little scenes here, everything just happens when it needs to, and you know what? I missed sweet romances like this 🫶🏻

Even though I kind of guessed why the third act breakup would happen quite early on, I was still on the edge of my seat waiting for it to happen.

Margot and Oliver are the cutest and they are so respectful with each other, I can't. They had me giggling with each of their interactions 🙈

Thank you NetGalley for the chance to read this early!

As always, my opinions are my own and they don't need to align with yours, so give the book a chance if the blurb catches your attention 🤗

2.75⭐
not to be negative, i never intend to be, but why does this always happen to me?

i hate when reels catch my attention and then the book doesn't live up to the expectations

i think i need to specify i might be in my horromance era, i've discovered i have an appetite for it

i LOVED meg's writing style, she had me in from the start, the characters? awesome, the story? even better

give me a weird sentient planet with explorers on it any time

the only but i have is i wished the ending were different, i would have liked it a bit more action packed a bit more run for your life, you know?

but either way this was a really good novel and i can't wait to pick up more of her stories

3.5⭐
this had everything i expected for a short story, even though at times i wish it had been more fleshed out and a tiny bit less confusing

3.75⭐

promised myself I'd be writing reviews for all the books i read in 2025 so here i go

this book was... weird? but i thought it'd be weird in a way i'd like, kinda dark, kinda gross with the blight and all, but i actually ended up feeling weird like it was some sort of “gran hermano” show with a group that felt like a mix of the cullens and the inner circle... so it was definitely weird, right?

don't get me wrong, i was invested in all the drama
i spent most of the book being like, welp who should i ship her with? i was getting mixed vibes from all characters, and i mean ALL of them

why didn't i read this before?