Emi

This book was so beautiful and the ending was so beautiful

Someone please explain to me why I didn't read this sooner? I'm confused.

3.5/5 stars

There's absolutely nothing like the trope of surprise marriage sprung on an unknowing audience at the most vital of times to feed my appetite

Love the plot of this series. Not a big fan of the romance though

Maybe a 3.5. Idk how I felt about this book.

3.7.

That went 0 to 100 really quickly...

This book was actually deep? And not scary at all? Talk about a plot twist. Didn't expect that at all.

There is so much that I hated about this book that tbh I don't even know where to begin

3.75/5 stars “Like, wouldn't it be better to send us in when we're a bit older? No one finds the love of their life while they're a teenager.““You haven't read any YA novels recently, have you?”
He's something you probably don't know about me. I love low budget movies. Anything with far-fetched plots, bad acting, and poorly done CGI is the closest thing I have ever gotten to drugs. I love low budget movies so much, that when I watch those box office superhero movies that everyone and their imaginary friend has seen, I get so disappointed. Good acting? Reasonable plot? Explosions that look realistic? What the frick are you suppose to make fun of?

This book was the YA equivalent to a low budget movie. Within the first few pages, I realized this and changed all my expectations. This wasn't going to be a James Bond film. Instead, it was gonna be that one spy movie starring Hailee Steinfeld and the girl from Game of Thrones .

Within ten pages, I stopped reading for a well-written YA book, but instead started reading for something I can make fun of. Which was a great shift of attitude, as I ended up loving this book so much.

So in this book you have Caden. Who has been raised by a spy agency to be the nice, boy next door. And Dylan who was raised to be the brooding bad boy. Why were they raised that way? Why did that have to be the nice boy versus bad boy? I have no clue but I don't even care. I don't question low budget movies.

Well these two boys are sent to small town nowhere to make this incredibly brilliant girl named Juliet fall in love with one of them. And honestly, the only time Juliet is every brilliant is when it enhances the plot. But again, I don't care. Whoever she doesn't fall in love with gets killed, which seems like a waste of time and money to that spy agency but again idc. Whoever she does fall in love with will spend the rest of their lives spying and manipulating her. But hen plot twist! Caden and Dylan fall in love with each other and Juliet won't find her Romeo.

I am also now convinced that Jay-Z and Kanye West are Love Interests and you can't convince me otherwise. Other notable love interests: my boyfriend Kaz.

Honestly this book can easily be mistaken for swiss cheese. Not only is it cheesy af, but there's so many plot holes.

Also all the characters are super flat and under-developed, but again. I don't even care.

That's just my philosophy for this entire book. I don't care. Whatever.

DNF @ ~16%

It isn't that this book is bad, but the messages between the two characters are reminding me of something that I'd rather not be reminded about, so I'm gonna quit while I'm ahead for my mental health.

3.5 stars. Not as good as the first tbh

3 books down, over ten more to go. My school library only has til the 8th so idk what I am going to do once I get to that poiny

2.25/5 stars

I read this because it's been on my TBR for like 7 years now. It should have just stayed in my TBR. This was 300 pages of absolutely nothing profound happening.

Better than the first, still not the best.

I was hesitant going into this book knowing it is not something I would usually pick up, and afraid that the 80s pop culture references would go over my head, but I finally picked it up after hearing too many amazing things about it. The world was fascinating and the story line was beyond intriguing. Definitely one of the best books I have read all year. Would recommend to anyone.

4.5.

This book is good, but the TV show is better and I'm gonna spend my entire life convincing everyone I meet to watch the TV show

4.5.

4.25/5 stars

It only took me 7 years to get this book off my TBR but I did it guys. I read it. And like, why didn't I read this 7 years ago???? I hate myself.

Even if I've read this a million times before, this book is still so much fun.

One might even say it's legendary.

RTC.

4.25/5 stars

Once upon a time, an angel and a devil fell in love. It did not end well.

Things I Will Probably Never Do In My Life
bc hi, my name is Emi and I'm scared of everything, especially commitment

Things This Book Makes Me Wanna Do
but probably won't bc hi, my name is Emi and I'm scared of everything, especially commitment

as technically they are already in love with each other but KAROU HAS NO MEMORY OF HER LIFE AS MADRIGAADSAL AND ANGEL DUDE DOESN'T KNOW IT'S HER

Karou.

Example A:

Example B:

Example C:

Example D:

Example E:

Akiva.

okay

Zuzna.

Kaz.

Conclusion? Conclusion??? Conclusion.

I thoroughly enjoyed this book more than I thought I would. The characters were easy to connect to, the plot was super fun, and the teenage angst was done in a way that wasn't cheesy. And the relationship between Harper & David is my absolute favorite thing in this entire story.

This book was junior high Emi's shit. I had the movie cover edition and everything. And loved that cover. I was a completely different person back then.

Unpopular opinion, but this doesn't need to exists

3.25/5 stars

I just love having opinions, which is why I read this book ASAP, because you can't form a solid opinion without doing research (contrary to the beliefs of my family on Facebook). And to be honest, I was expecting to come out of this read with my very own pitchfork and burning torch. I just love the Beauty and the Beast villager aesthetic.

But do you know what (much to my dismay)? This wasn't horrible. I'm not in love with it, and a lot of the book I did hate, but like myself at age 2, there was so much potential. Will that potential also get wasted like mine did? Probably, but I'm gonna be optimistic.

Because while yes, the worldbuilding wasn't sturdy and it took almost the entire book for me to become somewhat attached the characters....and the writing was annoying at times...and there was no build up between scenes and plot points, but I expected much work. There are fantasy series that are much worse and we as a book community should be spending our energy on hating on them instead. cough Gild cough

Shout out to my boy Oro for carrying most of this book, he's the true VIP.