Katharine Forsyth
Very sweet story, and a very important one for kids to read. It's aimed a little younger than the children's books I generally read, but when I heard about it I decided it was something I needed to read. There weren't any books about refugee kids when I was young - I'm so happy children's books are so exciting and diverse these days, so I just wanted to read this to be a part of that!
This was fun, but not nearly as lovely as Geekerella. Still, Geekerella was a tough act to follow, since it's SO GOOD. But this one felt a bit more rushed (maybe because it all takes place over a few days at the Con, so there wasn't time for the love stories to develop adequately). I also found the fandom stuff a bit... forced, I guess? And I love a fandom - but it just had an air of trying too hard about it.
Still, I'm a fan of Ashley Poston, and I'll definitely read her next book.
Cute story, but there were just so many misunderstandings and “I'm going to ignore you for no reason” subplots that it got really wearing.
Glorious. Just as good as the first one. Jessica Townsend's imagination and knack (har-har, in-joke) for world-building are unparalleled.
Cute but not as compelling as the first books in the series. Also, it really needed an editor/proofreader to pick up on all the little errors scattered throughout. For that reason it gets two stars instead of three.
Meh. Barely anything happens for most of the book, and the ending is sudden and really unsatisfying.
I'm so disappointed in this book. Hundreds of pages of nothing but the same conversation over and over again, round and round in circles. Basically nothing happens. I couldn't warm to the MC at all.
If I'd read this book as my first Sally Thorne, I wouldn't bother picking up another one. Thank goodness I read the wonderful “The Hating Game” first!
Not quite as good as the first two, but they did set the bar pretty high. Still, a sweet ending to this trilogy I really loved.
Cute, easy read, but I don't get the big deal everyone is making out of this book. It's pretty much the same as dozens of other sexy chicklit/romance I've read. The only thing of note is that the main character is autistic, which is at least interesting as it's something different, and also it's great to find diversity popping up in a genre that's usually quite samey when it comes to its female leads. However, I don't think that's enough to make this book more than likeable but unmemorable.
Convoluted, confusing (in a good way) and gripping as hell. I loved this. Layers upon layers upon layers of clues and ingenious crime-solving. 4.5 stars.
What an absolutely wonderful, magical book. Jessica Townsend has a great talent for world-building, creating in Nevermoor the same sort of fantastical, delightful details that readers loved so much in Harry Potter.
Meh. The premise was so much better than the book. It sounded so interesting, but it was actually just really dull. And SO much religious discussion, which is not my thing.
I'd have given it one star for “I didn't like it”, but I reserve that for books I really hated, which Goodreads doesn't have an option for. It was somewhere between “Ok” and “I didn't like it”. So 1.5 stars.
The first two thirds of this book really didn't grab me, but it picked up in the last 100 pages or so. It was this close to being rated 2/5, as I really didn't care about any of the characters for ages, but once it all pulled together I started enjoying it.
Thoroughly sweet and readable Christmas chicklit! And I loved the fact that it was set in the London opera world. My only gripe is that the author (and/or her editor) seem to have a massive aversion to commas, and the lack of them made some sentences difficult to follow. I'm not mentioning this because I want to be a “This is WRONG!” grammar Nazi, but when there are sentences like, “I'm going to get you Mary” or “I'm upstairs John” without commas, it's REALLY jarring, and pulls me right out of the world of the book. Plus it can change the meaning sometimes (hence the book “Let's eat Grandma!” :-))
I'm definitely keen to read some other books by Jules Wake, but I hope they don't all have this problem!
I LOVED this. Admittedly it contains everything I love - it's set in a theatre, and contains endless info about how things work backstage; there's a cute romance that's lovely but isn't the centre of our MC's whole world, she has to hide her job from her family, so there's all sorts of lying and sneaking around; there's a famous film actor making his stage debut in a play that sounds more than a little like Harry Potter, so she has to deal with him, too - it's like Maggie Harcourt IS ME (only with better writing skills :P).
4.5 stars!
This was not the sweet fluffy romance I was expecting. There's a lot more heavy stuff here, especially Audrey's mother being recently divorced and suffering from extreme depression. Our hero, Harry, is charming but flawed. Ultimately it's a pretty good book, well-written, but not what I expected from the cover & blurb.
Badly-written. So many grammatical errors, ugh. People have got to stop treating romance novels like it doesn't matter if they're full of mistakes! We still want a well-written story while we enjoy our smut. :-)
Really rushed ending as well. Meh.
Really, really good, though in my opinion it ended a bit too abruptly after all the fantastic build-up. I'd still 100% recommend it, though.
Cute enough, and I loved the Broadway setting, but it needed a bit more build-up to the climax. It was all a bit one-note.
I can't exactly say “I liked it”, which would be 3 stars, because it was quite sad, and it made me sad. And since I rate according to the goodreads system, I'm going to have to give it 2 stars for how it made me feel.
It is, however, well-written and emotional and quite beautiful in places, so in terms of that I'd give it a 3 or even 3.5. I just don't like books that are this unhappy, but it might be just the thing for someone else.
Meh. The first quarter of this book was good. All the “fake girlfriend wedding date” stuff was great. And then there's three quarters of a book to fill with cliched misunderstandings and forced conflict so that something actually happens. Yawn.