Kari

This was deliciously heinous. I HATED Neena, obviously. So it was a fantastic battle of wits between her and Cat and the twisty surprises were delightful.

If anyone was surprised by the “villain” in this I'm assuming it's because thrillers aren't your forte.

This just kept going and going. I can't say much was surprising and there were frustrating moments, but I quite enjoyed it.

I did not fall in love with this the way I did ACOTAR. I think maybe urban fantasy doesn't appeal to me as much. If I didn't own the second book I'm not sure I would continue, but I'm not rushing to get to it.

It will come as no surprise to anyone that I did no research before starting this. I didn't know it was an incomplete trilogy! This took a long time to set up the story, very similar to The Guardians Trilogy, but I'm invested in the lost brides!

I wasn't expecting to cry so much in the beginning of this! I love the stories Roberts builds, especially the settings. I always want to visit/live where her books take place.

Incredibly slow, but the building of tension doesn't happen until more than halfway through. Then, the descent into madness is almost comical.

This was....not good. For the first 1/4 I thought it might be some kind of advertisement for a real town. She went into so much detail about every location, every interaction and the festival. I actually did google to see if this was a real festival. And then everything was just either boring or haphazard. The “love interest” just pops up all of sudden, more than halfway through the book with background info on a suspect because he happened to see her write the suspects name down on a pad of paper? There wasn't much character development. She just plopped a ton of names in the book, but didn't really flesh any of them out. She spent so much time focusing on describing all the events for the book festival, but none of her characters.

I cannot read Amy Tan books just on a whim. I have to prepare myself and surround myself with other more light-hearted books. There is a brutality to her writing that gets me every time, but there is always beauty as well. It is no surprise - ever - to learn women were treated horrifically in China. Nor is it a secret that daughters do not appreciate their mothers until their true stories fill their ears. The Kitchen God's Wife is a good read, but it's not a feel good story!

I have said this less times than fingers on one hand, but the movie was better than the book. However, I still loved this. It isn't my favorite now after reading the prequels (that goes to Magic Lessons), but there are still things I loved.

I can't put my finger on why I didn't like this more, but I think it could be how all the siblings hate each other and that's gotten boring to me. Otherwise, the story itself was fresh and interesting and kept me guessing. I just think I didn't really like any of the characters.

Always guaranteed to make me hungry and laugh!

Very cute and sweet. I do wish I could have seen Lindsay get her butt kicked and the ending felt abrupt, but I still really liked it.

I can't believe so many things about this book. I can't believe they didn't know this was Poppy's sister. I knew the second she's mentioned at first in the book. Especially with the journal entries. It's not Poppy telling her story, it's someone reading her journal. I can't believe everyone didn't think ruining Poppy's art project and therefore destroying her chances at attending her college was “just a joke” and “not a big deal”. I can't believe that they all just thought someone they were terrible to wanted to treat them to a fancy trip and wanted them to be in her wedding. Ridiculous.

Beautifully written and heartbreaking.

There isn't anything much more fun than a creepy theme park, but this one seemed to be too cursed. There were so many horrible things happening here it felt more like a horror story than a mystery/thriller.

As with Never Whistle, there are some horribly terrifying stories here. Terrifying because they are too realistic.

I was so excited to realize this was going to tell the story of Noemi and Lula. While Sisters of the Lost Nation was a slow building terror, this felt like a full kamikaze crash into horror. Everything about this was wild and at a 10.

This was the first time I felt like we knew the victim. It made it seem so much sadder as we followed along trying to find out who killed him.

Some of these stories were so much I felt like I was going to throw up from stress. The scariest things are not the mythical creatures, but the real ones walking on two feet.

This didn't grab me the way it did others. While it was sad and the setting is creepy (you know, killers are always hanging out at summer camps), the big reveal was not at all surprising.

A sweet, everything that can go wrong does little love story. The “Pumpkin Patch” seemed like the most fun place ever and honestly, I was right there with Deja wanting to eat everything there!

The build up was intense. The back and forth between time and the hike through the wilderness, super tense, but then the reveal was a tad bit disappointing. But I did love the relationships and characters!

Sadly, this was mostly boring. I might have liked this more had any of the characters been interesting, but Martin was not, his wife was unpredictable and the two detectives were dumb (Chris) and unbelievably obnoxious (Sandra). The only somewhat entertaining one was the daughter and now I can't even remember her name.

A little too predictable at times (though I guess that's what happens when you base your premise on a famous story), but it was enjoyable.