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I love Alma Cuervo, her performance in this audiobook is phenomenal. I love her cadence, tone, and variation in her range. I fell in love with her work in The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo and this performance in Wandering Stars is very lovely!

Being Fil-Am, my mother and her siblings were born in the Philippines, their mother tongue is Tagalog. Her family moved to Hawai'i similar to Bretman's family. However, my mom, aunts, and uncles forgot Tagalog after being scolded by white people to learn English. They shed most aspects of their culture to assimilate into white society. It makes me devastated but this book inspired me to get back in touch with my lost Filipina roots.

This book helped me introduce my auntie to Bretman and his online presence. She found videos of Bretman talking about the Philippines and was able to share glimpses of her childhood with me. We're now talking more about what her life was like and reconnecting on a deeper ancestral level now that I have a larger appreciation and interest. Thank you, Bretman.

Short, sweet, and straight to the point.

The section about self-reliance resonated quite a bit with me. I think I would have really adored this book so much more when it was initially released.

DID NOT SEE THIS ONE COMING!! OMG YALL!

I really adore how fleshed out the Amazon tv series is compared to the book.

I'm surprised how much changed from novel to tv, having watched the show first.

Ugh, you have to read this book. It's so good! I can see why people love the 1st 2 books so much because you get to see Feyre interact with her beaus one-on-one. Book 3 is very much, let's explore what lies beyond Feyres knowledge and dive more into the war, the Fae alliances at large, and historical accounts of the courts and individuals in this story.

Girl this book is so long and it's so dense with new characters and these unique relationships we get glimpses of.

I feel like I need a family tree at this point with a glossary of who is who. We dive into how large this world is and it is overwhelming in a way I can't keep up but I enjoy being introduced to new characters.

Not to throw shade, this book feels like it's trying to give LOTR, but if certain characters don't keep popping up in the story and we just see them in passing, the lore between the characters feels like fluff. Right? Again, no shade, just acknowledging how large this world is and what characters may matter more down the road.

I love the messy relationship entanglements!!! It's so sad who all has lost loves, and we see so many layers to the High Fae. Who would've thought there was LGBTQIA+ representation here?? Okay ally!

Also, the ending, SHUT THE HELL UP!! I can't believe you would do that Sarah J Maas!! You are sending me!!! NOOOOOO!

But I love it!

I love this lil novella. I love the vibes, it is short but I think at least it's gives us a sense of peace in between the wars, to see how characters live when they aren't surrounded by constant chaos and brutality.

For that I give this a 3.5-4/5. I wasn't mind blown, but I would say ACOWAR was better than ACOFAS when comparing the reading experience and primarily for depth of content and storytelling. It's not bad, just so short!!

I see so much of my highschool self in Sadie, it's embarrassing I have to laugh at it. This book is hilariously relatable and so snarky I adore it.

You're one of the top students at your school, make lists on lists on lists, and you don't read an alcohol bottle to see you're drinking bourbon vs beer? SMH WHAT

“You're the only person worth paying attention to” - Julius STOP IT! That's so cute!! ✋

I love how instantaneously witty this book starts out. It's hilarious, relevant in pop culture references. So much reminded me of the Netflix show Dear White People with the black caucus, cliques at university, podcast/radio show to discuss dating/relationships, and the various topics of conversation. I love how much culture was integrated in the story.

I loved their dynamic and the enemies to lovers trope. He's so emotionally intelligent, I wanted to see them work out so bad I was getting mad towards the end of the book lol

GIRL, there is 10x the amount of smut in this book, you thought our OG couple were getting off like rabbits? Baby, in this book they are F-ING

DNF'd

I read 30% of the book and just wasn't feeling the characters, plot, conflict, etc... I love Hank Green this book just wasn't for me.

So sad, beautifully written, poetic, devastating, and heavy.

I can't stand Daisy.

TLDR; the book was okay, it wasn't awful, but it didn't impress me. Still going to watch the tv adaptation!!

Watching Bridgerton along with reading the books and oh my god, the Netflix series moves so fast while the books are slow burn, they really stretch out an entire scene.

Reminds me of Evie Dunmore's Bringing Down the Duke!

Their miscommunication and opposite levels of experience are both madly infuriating!!

I love the bonus chapters we get. The gap between the couple getting pregnant then suddenly having a child felt so drastic.

Benedict feels much less problematic than the other men but again, I was probably reading with rose colored glasses.

I can't wait for his season in the tv adaptation. EEEEK!!

You have to watch the show before reading the book. I absolutely adore the written adaptation! The writing style is different and script-like but if you love the show, this won't both you!

I love this series, I think the collaboration with Shonda Rhimes was done so well, the book characters stay very true to the tv characters. This is such a lovely audiobook, props to the narrator!!

The book was fairly parallel to the tv show about 40% of the way through. After that, you see the book split off in its own way providing more detail and scenes we do not get in the tv show.

The book progresses events in chronological order, while the tv show jump cuts to different points in time. The book reveals what King George is thinking about as he's dealing with his secret while married to Queen Charlotte very early on!

What I love about the book are the extra pieces of dialogue, King George's inner dialogue and thoughts, sexual intimacy between the couple, the couple's perspective and support of Brimsley and Reynolds.

I just adore this book and the additional lore we did not get to see on screen.

You'll probably love it too ☺️

So hilarious, I have a dry sense of humor and parts of this were sending me. Listening to the audiobook was great, I was cackling at work.

If you're a serious person and have trouble laughing at morbidity, death, literal shit, people going senile, avoid this book.


A few of my favorite quotes:

“She was good for a dollar or two.”

“I saw her as a benign ghost...until you needed a little spending money”

I'm so sorry, this book was awful I didn't find it interesting but I intentionally read this book because it was on a list of Banned Novels. Some issues I had with the characters were that Curley's wife didn't even get a name, was not only stereotyped but also slut shamed. Lord have mercy we were in the depression, and I was bored.

This book has grown on me. Initially I didn't care for their dynamic and it felt like their romantic interest for one another was lacking.

However, I love the POC and LGBTQ+ representation.

I think we just don't get much of Elias' perspective and what he thinks of Catriona but all is redeemed in the ending. I think I was just impatient because each book is not like the other and therefore unpredictable.

This book was heavy with political history and geography I felt myself falling out of the books world more often but that's a personal issue with retention LOL.

I love this book because we get continuation of other couples stories along with more character development.

I had to read this before watching the tv show because the tv show trailer looked really good!

It was so hard to finish this book, no shade to the author, but I don't recommend this for the baddies bad at history/politics

Love this series omg! Was not expecting the twist and turns of relationships and character development.

I'm so glad Persephone FINALLY SAID SOMETHING!! It was driving me bananas. But now we need to see how her and Hades actually link up. None of this distant friendship.

Break it off with the toxicity already!! Omg!

This story was so immersive, I felt like I was at the lake (while In reading in the middle of winter LOL).

I love the dynamic between the characters and how we see things play out between Fern and confronting her past.

Also, LOVE THE SPICY SCENES. “I always finish my work, Fern.” STFU, his words make me lose my mind.

Dear Reader, where do I even begin?

I can't get enough of Kanthony and their chemistry, reading this book made me take the show version of their characters and place them in an idealized perspective of the book.

I couldn't find this book at either of my libraries, probably for very obvious reasons, but I don't read book bios. I read this book bc my friend read it, loved it, and I love trying new books.

TLDR; I hate this book but I'm not into that. Poor writing and characters, sexually disturbing. Gave me the ick. This book wants to be “You” and “Fifty Shades of Grey.”

0/5 stars, not for me. We don't kink shame, but the writing, dialogue, character development, and storyline felt so juvenile, corny, poorly developed, awful. I love a good romance book and will stand by poor writing if the storyline is worth it, but this one was so bad I couldn't see beyond the low quality.

I can understand why people would read this book and enjoy it, but if you aren't into that kind of content, I'd just avoid it altogether. But I learned some new vocab like non-con and dub-con, HAHAHa not for me. I'll go back to my lighthearted romances.

The beginning was so intense and visually disturbing, I thought it would get worse, but it didn't, bc she fell in love with her stalker/person that SAs her constantly. The sexual violence is... disturbing, but it captivated me to the point I wanted to know how the book ends. So here we are, I finished the book and absolutely hated every second of it.

The paranormal aspect felt like an afterthought. The gun scene was bizarre/gross/icky.

This book felt all over the place and Z was such a mess of a character. Constantly mansplaining his mission of saving the children, being one of the best hackers... It felt like the author is a big fan of conspiracy theories, doesn't understand actual Satanism, shares oversimplified stereotypes of Satanic blood rituals to spook you, (I can't tell you how many times I rolled my eyes).

It feels like they watched the movie, “Sound of Freedom,” and thought, “I like a big strong man that's into cyber security and goes on missions to save children from sex trafficking, let me spin this into a romance book with hardcore scenes.”

I absolutely adore this book! I'm not going to juxtapose Tamlin and Rhysand, it's apparent who the scrub is