Sam Walker-Schaefer

This was SUCH a beautiful, sad, and powerful story!!!!!!! I'm sure I can't say anything that hasn't already been said, but I'm so very glad that this is such a popular book, because I really do think it has an important message!!!!!!! Also, I will admit, it exceeded my expectations!!!!!!!!

Oh that was SUCH an AMAZING sequel!!!!!! I LOVED coming back and seeing all of these familiar characters, and I ADORED the ending!!!!!! This was Such a fun and sweet series!!!!!!!!!

This was SUCH a sweet and delightful historical-romance!!!!!! I'm So Glad there's a second book, because I need more of these characters!!!!!!!

Honestly? I'm just glad to say I finished and can move on to something else.

This was SUCH a fun and sweet read!!!!!! While it Did touch on some heavier topics, it was still light-hearted and an overall delightful read!!!!!! I simple ADORED all of the characters!!!!!!!

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I am feeling so many things that I can not describe I need to to lay in the dirt I feel ill I feel like a rabid animal there is Something wrong with my brain!!!!!!!!

I LOVE Mary Oliver's writing SO MUCH I need to go lay in a river RIGHT NOW!!!!!!!!

This was a delightful history of the unicorn!!!!!

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WHAT??? OH MY GODS!!!!!!!!!! That was!!!!!!! SO MUCH!!!!!!!!!!!!! I don't think I can coherently articulate how I feel about this other than that was SO OUCHIE!!!!!!!!!!!! This is Literally a tragedy (or at least it was to me) because I could see all of the bad things coming, I knew they were going to happen and that those choices were going to be made, I just had foolishly hoped that I was wrong!!!!!!! But I sure wasn't wrong!!!!!!!! HIGHLY recommend though!!!!!!! Just be prepared to be burned!!!!!!!!!!

OH MAN I have stayed up way too late to finish this but that was SO GOOD!!!!!!! There were so many unseen twists right at the end that I couldn't put it down!!!!!!!! HIGHLY RECOMMEND if you want a creepy fantasy/horror!!!!!!!!

This was PHENOMENAL!!!!!!!! The writing was Beautifully fast paced but not too fast!!!!!!! The banter between the characters was my FAVORITE!!!!!!! And I grew so SO attached to the characters in such a short time!!!!!!! Also the whole concept was just So original that it hooked me Instantly!!!!!!!! Highly recommend!!!!!!!

This was a fascinating and beautifully diverse set of stories!!!!! It gives such good insight to other cultures around the world, especially the ones I wasn't already familiar with!!!!!

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HOLY SHIT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! This was SO GOOD!!!!!!!!!!!! It took me while to get into, but once I did, I was Hooked and didn't want it to end (hence why it's taken me over a month to read, that and school lmao)!!!!!!!!! I have too many feelings that are inexorable to articulate, but this series and the way it was written feels So so familiar and comfortable to me!!!!!!!!!!

HOLY SHIT????? I think this broke my brain a little, but like in a good way!!!!!! This was SO well written, with Such good descent into madness And unreliable narrator elements!!!!!!! I don't wanna say too much about it because this is the kind of book that is Definitely better to know less about it when starting it!!!!!! HIGHLY recommend though!!!!!!

This was FANTASTIC!!! I didn't think I would like it more than the other Lydia Kang book I've read, Toxic, but it surpassed all my expectations!!!!!! I LOVED Tillie as a character and grew so very attached to her!!!!!!! This was absolutely Delightful!!!!! And That ending was definitely a shock!!!!!!!

This was WONDERFULLY informative with a Lot of humor!!!!! I Greatly enjoyed this and learned quite a bit from it!!! Would definitely recommend giving it a read at least Once, as it has so much good information on nature's real vampires!!!

Ok so it feels like I've been reading this forever but it was SO worth it!!!!!! This was one HELL of a wild ride, and I grew so SO attached to these characters!!!!!! This is DEFINITELY one of King's BEST Books in my opinion!!!!!!

Oh my GOOOOOOD!!!!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHHHHHHH THAT WAS SO MUCH!!!!!!! And now I have to wait until 2023 for the next one :,))))))) Oh well, Absolutely worth it!!!!!! I can't wait to see where it's going to go from here!!!!!!!

This makes my brain hurt and gives me more emotions than I signed up for!!!!!!

This is SUCH an interesting autobiography!!!!!! Normally, I don't like autobiographies, or even biographies, but Marjane Satrapi wrote this SO exceptionally well!!!!!! Not to mention, she is just a Fascinating person in general!!!!!!

Ok I LOVED THIS!!!!!! It was Such an interesting take on Raven's past, and I really liked the art style too!!!!! Also, that ENDING!!!!!! I gotta get the next book so I can find out what's gonna happen!!!!!!

Who Boy that was Bad. I mean like Seriously bad. There's a Lot to unpack here honestly, from the way it sexualized the 16 year old main character, to the way it slut shammed a character in the Next Chapter, to the Blatant Terf ideology (you know, all or at least most men are evil monsters, the only women who are powerful are the ones who can have periods, ect), to the weird almost fetishizing way periods were talked about, it was Bad. This definitely shouldn't be marked as YA either, considering how graphic the sex scenes are. I skipped a Lot of this book because it was That bad. Even skipping, I could keep up with the whole plot, the writing was also that slow. Also, changing writing styles in the middle of the book and then going back yo your original style of writing only works if you're a good writer. Which was Decidedly not the case here. This is only a “feminist” retelling if your feminism is only about abled cis-women, and if it is, that's not real feminism. I'm black listing this author for sure, as I don't want to even try to read anymore of her books.