A Bookish Girl

Just okay. Decent banter between the leads, but I wanted more of the “famous guy dates non-famous girl” plot, which is the whole reason I was reading it.

Also, there's some seriously cringe stuff - the main character constantly refers to her vagina like it's a sentient being, and calls it her “oonie”. Just...ugh.

Oh and FYI this book is around 85% sex, 15% story. So whether you'll like it or not depends what you're reading it for.

Really cute.

Poor writing, as is sadly common with this sort of romance novel, but I've given it one star instead of two for the rushed ending which then introduces an issue on the 2nd last page which is never resolved. Just...what?

Really sweet.

3.5 stars.

Pretty badly-written. I wish romance authors would bother to get a proof-reader, at the very least. Just because we like smutty romance doesn't mean we're fine with it being full of mistakes. Ugh.

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!

Why do you do this to me, Maureen Johnson? I can't wait AGAIN to find out what happens next! So cruel.

What an odd book. Honestly, if I hadn't loved Jaclyn Moriarty's other books (especially “Becoming Bindy Mackenzie”), I'd have DNFed this. It does really pick up in the last 150 pages, but there's so much to get through before that!

Sean McGuire's writing is SO BEAUTIFUL. I just want to cry thinking about how I'll never create anything this beautiful.

READ THIS BOOK. And be prepared for darkness, cos it ain't warm and fuzzy, but don't be afraid, because it's not horror.

Just read it. I can't do it justice.

So... this book is good, and it's well-written, but it's not enjoyable. Everyone is so unhappy, and having a really horrible time in life. It's such a downer.

Glorious. Just as good as the first one. Jessica Townsend's imagination and knack (har-har, in-joke) for world-building are unparalleled.

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!

3.5 stars

This book is doing itself a disservice with the cheesy “topless man” cover; it's actually much better than that! I'd market it as a cute chicklit novel in the vein of Sophie Kinsella or Meg Cabot, rather. Yes, it has sex scenes, but not as many as you'd expect from a “steamy romance”, and lots of popular chicklit novels (eg: The Wedding Date or The Kiss Quotient) have even more.

I loved so much about this book. Fake romance becomes real? Check. Sexual tension? Check. Hidden identity? Check. Interesting characters and a fun family? Check.

And my favourite thing? It's set in Australia over Christmas! Now don't get me wrong, I love me some snowy fairytale Christmas romances set in America or the UK. But I grew up in the southern hemisphere, and it was so lovely to see my kind of family Christmas as the backdrop to this story. Watermelon slices, swimming, pavlova, Santa suits being WAY too hot to wear, heat and sudden storms that blow up out of nowhere... I'm here for all of it.

I loved this! Really great premise, totally adorable and sweet and funny. I was enjoying it so much I didn't want it to end. This is Danielle Banas' first novel, and I'm very excited to see what she writes next!

3.5 stars - Cute romcom style chicklit. Nothing amazing, but enjoyable and definitely better than the (surprisingly) more popular novel of the same name by Jasmine Guillory.

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.

The lightest, easiest read you'll probably ever find. Cute story, told in Meg Cabot's typical epistolary form. If you've had a bad day/week/month and you need a sweet read that takes as little concentration as possible, this one's for you.

Three stars for story, down to two stars for the dodgy grammar and spelling that showed up occasionally. Lola needs a proofreader.

Sweet story, great sexual tension, but since it never....um...came to fruition, even at the end, I was left a bit disappointed. Maybe in the sequel?

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.

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!

Thought it was going to be a smutty sexy read, but it was actually quite a sweet chicklit with a little sex thrown in. Really cute and quick read! Bonus points for being set in drama school.

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 fluff, but the pacing was kind of off, so by the time anyone got together I'd lost interest a bit.

FYI: It's a lot less sexy/steamy than the cover and synopsis would lead you to believe. Much more straight chicklit with a bit of sex.