Reham
2.75
A petulant child calls his wife a bitch because she has refused to have sex with him after laying out a rule stating that she will only sleep with him once and he agreed to it. Then, despite her refusing, he still went down on her because he couldnt help himself around her and needed something from her and justified it by saying that she didnt specify where he can kiss but she never actually said kissing was allowed he put that rule there himself. The author made him admirable by making him a kind soul, who protected and cared for evie while that was nice of him, the words bitch echoed throughout the rest of the book. Not only that, but evie really drained her standards by settling wth someone like him, who did the bare minimum and thought he was great.
St vincent is not that man he thinks he is.
THIS is how you do an enemies to lovers and dark romance. This is how you you create a possessive lover who will protect his woman through thick and thin. This is how you create a damaged soul that is shown love and accepts it.
i read this book based on a book aesthetic post shared on instagram and i think for the first time ever it did not disappoint. mafia romance books are usually cliche (much like 365 days) and cheesy, and make you cringe and wonder what you are doing with life but this book, gOdaAmn, this book was beautiful. i devoured it. i inhaled it. the chemistry, the characters, the romance, the story, the fact the male mc wasn't just morally gray, but completely dark. sometimes you have to read about main mc with no redemption streak to them and accept them the way they are.
anya is my favorite. shes such a funny kid. I love her. and what a wholesome family. the fact that twilight wants to defend his “fake” wife and kid instinctively rather than because its the right thing to do. and the interview infuriated me but it was so funny seeing anya getting confused and answering truthfully. i wonder when will he find out about her telepathic powers.
started reading without knowing the synopsis and i guess, i'm glad i did that because otherwise i might not have read this. it was an okay read, i suppose the fact that it received a somewhat happy ending made it a tad bit unrealistic. i hoped for something much darker, i was ready to bawl my eyes but nothing happened. not even a little tremble of the lower lip or a simple frown.
i'm probably just heartless.
this one is my favorite of all 3!!!!
Jacob is so fucking cute, like i just wanted to kiss him almost in every scene. And eve, i loved her the best. I felt more related to her than the other 3 sisters. I sympathized more with her than anyone else.
One thing I thoroughly enjoyed about this series is that talia hibbert never gave dramatic plot twists. There is no cheating, there is no inappropriate shit. Just completely wholesome vibes. And excellent smut in this one.
This keeps getting better. I genuinely loved and enjoyed this one a lot more than the previous one. I love ravi and pip together and their dynamic, their small jokes. I am sad that we didn't see the aftermath of pip releasing max's recording. This was just so great!
This one gave me chills multiple times!
wasted 1.5 hours reading this where i could have read something better?
also i just realized that this book is written by a white author representing a black female character like that is so unnecessary
also, the book is so boring and slow paced. like i get that the author tried to invest us in laurie's previous relationship just as much as she was so we can understand her pain but because of that i no longer cared about the main plot of the book. there was absolutely no chemistry between the main characters in the beginning and that...put me off.
time and time again i am reminded that british authors are not worth my time (maybe except for beth o'leary)
where do i start? where the fuck do i begin?
i'm so so happy that i found this series, because what would i have done without it. i feel like my mind, my life, my heart was empty before i read this and now i feel full, i feel complete, i feel whole again.
this saga broke me, patched me up and tore me apart all over again. i dont think i am ever going to find any other series similar to this, any other characters that will come close to the ones i've come to love and adore in this, or have similar story to what this saga had. to that one person who brought the name of the first book on my feed on twt thank you
5/5. in fact 10/5.
if there is one fantasy series i would get physical copies of and reread again and again, it would be this.
it's difficult for me to articulate how i feel about this book but to be fair if i hadn't read this for my 24 hour readathon challenge then i probably would have dnfed it half way.
the only thing i found interesting in this book was the description of shanghai, but other than that, it seemed too mundane. like the gangs are described so scary and powerful but honestly it didnt live up to its name, it felt like it was all names and no games (???).
2.75
this was my second riley sager book and it had the same style of plot twists like the other one did. however this was scarier and kept my heart beating wildly with fear and anticipation of what will happen next. although the cover is just horrendous, the book is written well.
3.25
At first, I devoured the 40% of the book which i started last year but then i came to a stop and couldn't find the energy to understand all that was happening from different POVs. I generally try to avoid reading books with multiple POVs as it gets confusing and exhausting. The story looked promising but then half way through, i think it all felt scattered and redundant somehow. It stopped making sense to me, or perhaps it is just not my kind of book. I have read Alone With You In The Ether by the same author and i devoured that book in matter of a day.
Besides, fantasy isn't my favorite genre to begin with, so. I didn't get the hype around this book, it's well written and you can tell the author is brilliant, but...nope.
the book was great in context of highlighting real life problems such as manipulative, controlling parents, deadbeat fathers, sef-loathing, homophobia in many different ways where people think they're just being funny, eating disorders (in a way?) but the story itself didnt do much for me
i had recently read somewhere that translations could never fully do justice to the original work and i suppose thats true while reading this book.
This book was...in simpler and shorted words, complex and heavy. It was interesting but traumatizing. I completely hated natsuki's family, her mother and sister, her dad for being a silent freak yelling. The end of the book is kind of confusing but oh well
started out with such great potential, became so redundant and the plot twist was fucking bullshit and lazy. i apologize to the author but all the effort the protagonist put was washed away by a white boy who thinks he helped her and now somehow owns her.
i'd like to know what is the point of this book. I cant even say that it started out great and went downhill, it was bad from the beginning. So bland and dull. The characters felt as though they have no depth, no purpose, no reason. I understand the message conveyed by the book perhaps is that regardless of how much you plan, fate intervenes and all, but it still didn't make sense to me. In simple and short words, I hated it.
1.5/2
at first, i was sort of skeptical because it's interesting seeing how other people view muslims and how well they do their research, and even though there was a usage of ‘inshallah' in a sentence that didn't make sense, but it was fine. I guess. I did like that the zafir clearly stated he wasnt connected with religion, so his actions were not based on what he believed. In a way, i felt like my religion was being respected in that regard. To me, zafir seemed like a regular pakistani male i come across and i liked him. If only actual british paki people were like him lol
However, i did find a lack of chemsitry between danika and zafir. There was attraction but maybe im used to reading that raw, intense burning chemistry but not every book has to have that. Despite it all, i did enjoy reading this. I did like this more than chloe's book and i found danika more interesting than chloe to be honest. Zafir is wayy better than redford.
With that being said, i will definitely read the next in the series.
PS. i have seen some people review this book and stating how zafir does not resonate with them and they dont feel that he represents muslim accurately then i guess they havent really met enough muslim people? I found zafir's rep fine
3.75/5
I won't lie and say it was great, because it wasn't. The writing was easy to get through but there is something about fantasy that a person needs special talent to be able to explain the world building, the terms, the connection to one thing to the next. It lacked here in my opinion.
The characters were likable, but i didn't feel any deep connection to them. They were not relatable (of course not) and the chemistry was sometimes present and sometimes not.
Will i read the second book? Probably not
it was fascinating to see how the events of a casual day could come back to bite you in the future. it was an interesting read but to be fair, it got a bit boring by the end and i just stopped caring. maybe i am just not smart enough to read the message conveyed by the book or i just dont care enough to
this was an interesting read. the translation was really good in the sense the writing was smooth and simple.
the ending was predictable but i didnt keep any guesses, but regardless this book was fucked up and i like fucked up books. this also goes to show that if cannibalism would be legalized how many screwed in the head people would thrive and use meat as an excuse to slaughter people for the fun. but also how terrible the world would become.
3.5/5