Lydia

The ending saved this book. Once you find out what's going on the rest of the story makes sense and is actually pretty good, but I have to admit it was a struggle to get there. I almost stopped reading it a dozen times because I was frustrated with the characters from the very start, especially the “romance”.
If the bulk of the book was more like the ending this would've been a 4 star, but as is I struggle giving it a 2.

God, this book is disturbing on a whole new level. I'm giving it 4 stars because it's well written and definitely draws you in, but before diving in I would recommend reading some trigger warnings.

I'm on the fence about this one. Parts of it had me on the edge of my seat, a lot of it made me want to put my head through a wall. 2.5, but i'll round it up.

This was a short, fun, thrilling read that I ate up in less than 48 hours

Couldn't finish this. It was just too gross, not gruesome, gross

I never thought I would be giving a vampire love story a 4.5 star rating, but here we are.

I love Christopher Moore, but this one didn't do it for me at all

Haunting, infuriating, and hard to put down.

But PLEASE BE AWARE: SEXUAL ASSAULT TRIGGER WARNING

Didn't finish

This book was absolutely everything. Easily my favorite book that I've read this year. Scratch that, easily one of my favorite books of all time. I hope they do a decent adaptation of this because I can't give up these characters yet. Absolutely incredible, everybody should read this

Didn't finish. I was bored to death.

If the love story had been left out this would have been much, much better. The forced romance was ridiculous and boring.

What a terrible ending to a terrible book.

Can I give this book a negative rating? This whole series was so terrible and I can't believe I actually finished it.

This was so beautifully written. I actually really loved the ending, as tragic as it was. It's just so very Shakespearean. I do like how it's left, open to interpretation. It makes much more sense that he did indeed kill himself, but I like to pretend it was a happy ending. I normally don't like endings that don't truly wrap things up, but in this case it felt fitting.

My only critique is that the mystery element wasn't so mysterious. That may be more because I read a ton of thrillers, so a twist has to be HUGE for me to not see it coming, but this book was more about the journey than the destination.

-May Swifite Book Club Book

I'm really hate reading by this point. God, this book is terrible. If anybody here thinks that the relationship portrayed by Daniel and Luce is real love PLEASE REEVALUATE YOUR LIFE!

LOVED this. I definitely would recommend it. It reminded me of Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. Almost too much so, really. But I still enjoyed it once I got past that annoyance.

I've never been so disappointed in a book. I LOVED The Butterfly Garden because it was unique, thrilling, and absolutely fucked up. But Roses of May is just like every other detective novel that I was trying to avoid. SNOOOOZE. The characters aren't likeable or relatable, the plot is predictable, the climax is boring, and the string connected the The Butterfly Garden is as thin as can be.

The first book is still one of my favorite books of the 2010s, but Roses of May was simply awful. I started The Summer Children with hopes it will be better, but so far looking like more of the same lame cliches and boring plot lines. Dot should really have quit while ahead.

Eh, it was alright. I think I'm just getting to old for these YA novels.

Oh for Christ's sake, this book was torturous. I had to fight my way to the end because I wanted to know what happened, but even with the MAJOR cliff hanger I just refuse to read the next in the series. Every single character went from interesting(in Soulless) to downright obnoxious! Save yourself the agony.

3.5ish

Final thoughts: This book is a fucking ride. It's pretty graphic, not something I'm usually into, but it really made me connect with the characters. If you can power through the graphicness then it's a really good read. It's not your typical romance in the slightest, it's definitely more of a thriller. I really, really enjoyed it because it kept me on the edge of my seat. I completely understand if it's not for everybody, but I definitely enjoyed it.
Some of the writing is eh, and like I said it's pretty graphic. But I enjoyed it.

I think that the audiobook is part of why I liked it so much. The narrator for asa was just a despicable sounding human being. God, I wanted to choke that bastard.


Spoilers:
All of that being said, there were several things that really pissed me off about this book. Of course, some of the content is going to piss you off, if it doesn't then you are not a normal human being, but that's not what bothered me. What did bother me was the weird structure at the end. There was no need to label the first epilogue as an epilogue, I could have just been more chapters in the book proper. That was a very strange choice.

Another very strange choice was naming the child Dalton? Like why the fuck would you choose to do that? Makes absolutely no sense unless Colleen forgot that she already used the name? They should have named the kid Drew, that would have made so much sense and been a nice payoff.

Speaking of her brothers, what the fuck happened to Stephen? It's like Colleen just used her for the plot twist and then left him hanging. We didn't get any sort of satisfying wrap up at all, and it's weird that Asa didn't try to use him against Sloan during the final showdown. I was really hoping maybe Stephen would connect really closely with their baby and it'd be some sort of amazing breakthrough since he doesn't connect with many people at all, but nope! No mention of Stephen whatsoever

My only complaint is that the ending was a bit predictable.

“Surely Farmer Jake wouldn't eat a pig for Thanksgiving!”

Jokes on your, Turkey. I prefer ham on thanksgiving.

Solid 3.5

I was on my edge of the seat the whole time. I couldn't put it down.