Debbie
I wasn't expecting to like this book as much as I did. Even though Avery Black upset me several times over her stupid AF decisions, I didn't hate her. She was very human and very much paying the price for being selfish. There were a few grammatical mistakes but I gave it a pass as it's an e book. I'm very much looking forward to the next book
This was a nice filler in between series. The war is over so everyone is now trying to start their life over after the aftermath. A few things pop up that will be major things later on. It's not an action packed book and I wasn't expecting it to be. SJM stated way early on that it wasn't a full book. I enjoyed seeing all the different POV's. Sort of like a preparation for the spin offs. I may have teared up a time...or two. You could probably skip this and just wait for the next series to start if you aren't a fan of novellas..but i'm a fan so why the fuck wouldn't I? Plus I enjoyed it. So a win all around for me.
Finally...a Darcy Coates book where I'm not frustrated or left wanting by a character. Why stick around then? Because she really does write a good story. This isn't technically a haunted house story but I really enjoyed it nonetheless. The first half definitely had a creepy factor...unless you aren't the type to be creeped out by old houses left to you by a great aunt you never met and upon entering said house you see weird things but you can't ask anyone in the very small town because she was apparently eccentric and people steered cleared of her and her creepy house...but then why are you here?
I definitely enjoyed where it went. I even liked the ending. So i'm quite happy with that because this would have been the last Darcy book i'd have read otherwise.
John Persons is a PI who gets hired by someone to kill their stepfather. That someone is a ten year old child. The stepfather is a monster...but as it turns out so is Persons.
I am not well versed in Lovecraftian horror. I know what it is but I'm no expert on the genre as I've only read a book or two here and there. This book fits that bill. Now here's where I am unsure of how I feel fully about this book....Lovecraftian horror, set in the early 2000s with a PI who speaks like he's a noir character straight of the 40s and he's the only one. That being said the story IS a good one albeit short. Roughly 100 pages. And Khaw seems to have the ability to pack a lot into a short story and have it all flow well.
Maybe I went too long in between books but I didn't really feel this one like I did the first four. But I also don't feel like going back and reading the others again to see if I am correct...sooooo 3 stars it is!
Windwitch didn't go in the direction I was expecting. I was positive I knew who would go to where and when they met up it would be CURTAINS FOR EVERYONE. No. I am not complaining. This book had a different dymanic than Truthwitch and if you're wanting what you got from the first book you'll find yourself disliking this one. I'm okay with letting the author lead down their path instead of the one I have preplanned in my head ( WE'VE ALL DONE IT SO DON'T EVEN LOOK AT ME LIKE THAT).
This is Merik's book. I like Merik. Merik had a lot to learn and this book kicked his ass. This book kicked everyone's ass. Not necessarily in the physical sense. Safi, Iseult, Vaness, Aeduan (AEDUAN MY BABY CAKES GIMME GIMME). Finding out truths about yourself, what you thought was fact, who's really your enemy and who's really not, and that your truth isn't THE truth can knock you back farther back than a fist straight to the middle of your face.
If you're looking for romance you won't get that here. Love, absolutely.
3.5 stars
I'm a huge SJM fan so I was very excited to see this... Afraid but excited. While I'm assuming she had artistic freedom, still... Not her world or her character(s). Not to mention that Catwoman is one my OG favorite supervillian/antiheroine. So afraid but excited.
The story was fine. I didn't really find myself loving Selina like I have in the past. She was fine. Luke Fox was fine. I didn't hate or love them. They were just fine. Lol
What I found myself was wanting SJM to so a story on Harley or Ivy. I felt like they had more life then Selina. Even in their descriptions.
I did love when it all hit the fan. The endgame and all that jazz. That's what bumped it up to the 3.5 stars. Because I found myself GLUED to all that was going down.
That cover tho. 5 stars.
I knew two things going in....the formatting of this book was the same as Illuminae (YAY!)...Ezra, Kady, Aidan aren't the MCs here (WHAT? NO? WHY?). To that I say, how dare I question Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff. This was just as much a wild ride as Illuminae. I love Kady and Nik is a new cinnamon roll baby for me to love.
Something about the pages just does it for me. Reading a book full of documents sounds boring...but this just isn't. Opening up a page with bloodstains on it? GASP! NOOOO. SOB. I don't want it to be over. Obsidio is next and last and then it's over. I DON'T WANT IT TO BE OVER. But you know what, I know nothing about the next and last book. I haven't even read the blurb. I'M READY. LET'S GO.
If I could just get over how much I couldn't stand Mara and just wanted to sock her a good one right in the middle of her face. I tried to understand her but she just came across as an entire bitch. I would have given the book one star if I was basing it off of her alone. But I really do like how Darcy weaves a horror story....but it's her characters that I seem to never really vibe with.
3.5 stars. A story about a young Puerto Rican lesbian from The Bronx, who goes to intern with her favorite author somewhere that is definitely not The Bronx, while trying to figure out where the hell she fits in all of this mess we call life.
This book gets very raw and some parts can make you uncomfortable. It didn't for me but I can totally see why someone else would. Here's another thing....the book basically has no plot LoL. Normally that would have annoyed and/or bored me but I was just so into seeing Juliet find herself. Also..it's just 300 pages so there's that.
This book is about a lesbian woman of color. BUT that doesn't mean everyone can't walk away with something from this book. No you're not going to like every character (Like Harlowe...ugh..), but I feel like most of us know someone like most everyone in this book. It may not end up being your favorite book ever, but i still feel it's a must read.
Insert big ass SIGH here. I hate endings....that I hate. This book started off well enough and I was creeped out reading. It was a lot of madness at one point. Couldn't tell what was real or not. Was it all in Silla's head..or was this all really happening. Then at one point it stopped being creepy because it was most of the same. The aunt screaming in the attic and the whispers at night and the voice coming from the hole in the floor stops being creepy after it's been repeated for several chapters. But that ending...cue massive eye roll. I know this isn't the most heart warning review but I really didn't hate the book. Just the ending. Funnily enough the one other Kurtagich book I've read I also hated the ending while loving the rest of the book. I hope that's not a pattern.
Normally I read the thing before watching the thing. However, I'm a rebel even with myself so I went ahead and watched the show first. And I absolutely loved it. Fast forward to now when i finally picked this up....and it was meh.
In comparison to the show...I am 100 percent on board with the changes that were made. I just am. I know it probably goes against Book Worm Rules that the book is always better....and even though that may be true 90 percent of the time ( don't look that up) it's not always the case so stop lying to yourself.
On the comic itself...it's a bit all over the place for me. Like the idea for the story is there and great but it wasn't executed to its full potential. Not bad. I've read bad. This was not bad. Just okay. The art work is not really my jam. Not including all the cover artwork which I think is fantastic.
You had me at school of assassins. This was totally fucking amazeballs. It had magic. It had murder. It had mayhem. It had smut (albeit a very small bit). I'm ready for book 2. Which I have so go away and let me read!
Between either cliffhangers or twists I can never guess (Don't even tell you can you lying ass liar. Those people are annoying) I can't get enough of Meghan March's books. This one had two!! At least it was a twist for me. Five stars all around.
I know I've said it in another review or two but I have a messed up relationship with Coates' The Haunting of..... books. Why? Because I'll love the atmosphere of the story itself...but hate the main character. And these stories don't have that many characters.
I'll say I won't read her books again...But here we are. HERE WE ARE.
This one didn't even have the atmosphere I love going for it. I wasn't drawn in by an other worldly vibe. It was bleh. That's all I have folks. It should've been a quick read...less than 200 pages..but I put the book down twice.
Side note....if you're house sitting a strangers house and you find a locked door as you check out the house...would you break open that door some nights later? Even though at no point was that door mysteriously unlocked. No, no you wouldn't. Would it also not be the first door you broke in said home? No because who does that? Nobody. Nobody does that.
That was a great ending to the series and seeing every thing come full circle. But as much as I loved how it all ended.... I'm going to miss Criminy.... because who doesn't love shirtless vampire magicians? Anyone know where I can get a black victorian top hat? 🤔😂
This one was insanely anticlimactic. I didn't hate it. But there was absolutely not one thing to love about it. And I guessed the big secret within the first few pages which is never any fun for the big reveal.
699 pages of OMGOMGOMG and AAAHH! and I didn't see THAT coming and I LOVE RHYSAND FO EVA AND EVA. As soon as I finished I knew I was going to open it up and read it again. There were a couple of things I would have like answered and I hope Sarah J does in the spin offs. However, if she doesn't this is still one of my top favorite series I have read. EVER. Did I mention that I love Rhys?
This. Book. Is. AFUCKINGMAZING.
It's so hard to talk about a book like this for fear of giving anything away so kindly just there as I get this Asksksksksksaaaahhhh out. Trust me, with this it's best to go in blind.
The whole book reads like a dossier/ transcript which is fantastic because it is well done. It just adds more to the sci fi effect. It's also EMOTIONAL AF. My anxiety and tears were all over the place.
I can get why someone wouldn't like this. The formatting takes some getting used to if you're not expecting it when you first open the book. I found it to be unique and exciting and just plain FUN...even though I cried. CRYING CAN BE FUN TOO.
You'll never know how happy I am that I already have Gemina...
NOW SOMEONE COME TALK TO ME ABOUT ALL MY FEELINGS.
I liked it but i kept waiting for the BIG THING to happen. I wanted to feel the BOOM one usually gets with a KA book. I don't feel like this had one. But it was still enjoyable.
I debated hard about 3, 3.5 or 4 stars. I really did. IT MATTERS...at least to this book worm it does.
3.5 Stars.
As much as I love retelling, reimaginings, do overs, loosely based on, etc etc whatever whatever..I realized I had never read anything based on Sherlock save the originals. I don't know how this happened. So I was perhaps somewhat guarded as I read this. I don't know why.
With that being said I didn't hate it at all. I wasn't sure how Sherlock and Watson-y the author was going to get with great great great grandchildren of the OG sleuthing duo....so maybe that's why I didn't want to get attached. You know..in case i hated the shit out of this book. I appreciated the crimes in this first book. A nice nod to the originals.
Between Con and Vanessa's back stories/childhood, a twist i wasn't expecting and how awesomely honest they were with each other, this was a great read. And I really hope Lucas Titan has his own book. Because his name alone had me like yes, please and thank you.
