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Favorite: Caraval
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Caraval by Stephanie Garber
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
September 8-27
Whatever you’ve heard about Caraval, it doesn’t compare to the reality. It’s more than just a game or a performance. It’s the closest you’ll ever find to magic in this world . . .
Scarlett has never left the tiny island where she and her beloved sister, Tella, live with their powerful, and cruel, father. Now Scarlett’s father has arranged a marriage for her, and Scarlett thinks her dreams of seeing Caraval, the far-away, once-a-year performance where the audience participates in the show, are over.
But this year, Scarlett’s long-dreamt of invitation finally arrives. With the help of a mysterious sailor, Tella whisks Scarlett away to the show. Only, as soon as they arrive, Tella is kidnapped by Caraval’s mastermind organizer, Legend. It turns out that this season’s Caraval revolves around Tella, and whoever finds her first is the winner.
Scarlett has been told that everything that happens during Caraval is only an elaborate performance. But she nevertheless becomes enmeshed in a game of love, heartbreak, and magic with the other players in the game. And whether Caraval is real or not, she must find Tella before the five nights of the game are over, a dangerous domino effect of consequences is set off, and her sister disappears forever.
Welcome, welcome to Caraval . . . beware of getting swept too far away.
Review: I loved this book it was beautiful and magical. Scarlett has been obsessed with Caraval since she was a kid and her grandmother told her stories about it . Scarlett started writing to Legend and he finally answered and gave her tickets. But she can’t go cause she supposed to marry some count her abusive father set her up with . Her sister tella is determined to go and her friend Julian helps kinda kidnap Scarlett to get her to the island . Caraval is very magical . Julian and Scarlett start working together and part of the game this year is a wish and Legend takes Tella as part of the game. We learn their grandmother was the woman Legend fell for but then married another man. We also learn about Rosa a woman who fell for Legend but after the game was over she killed herself. Julian and Scarlett get closer. Julian is definitely an interesting character I could tell he was hiding something. Dante a guy Scarlett met and who helped Scarlett somehow was working with Julian because Rosa is Julian sister. The count and her father shows up. Julian gets caught in the crossfire and the father tries to kill Julian he freaking nuts .Scarlett knocks the count out with some perfume and ties him to a bed . Scarlett finally meets Legend and he says him and Julian have been working together and the whole Rosa is sister is fake and Legend kills Julian. Scarlett finds Tella and Tella is trying to tell Scarlett it was all fake and that she isn’t in danger. Tella tells her she fell for someone but its really Legend and their father and the count shows up and Legend threatens the father and Tella kills herself. Scarlett tries to save her and Scarlett goes to see Legend who isn’t really Legend and is an actor whatttt. Scarlett talks with Julian and apparently Legend is Julian brother.
I loved this book onto the next one Tella gets a letter from Legend on their end of the deal.
Quotes:
Some would probably call him a villain. Others would say his magic makes him closer to a god.”
No one is truly honest,” Nigel answered. “Even if we don’t lie to others, we often lie to ourselves. And the word good means different things to different people.”
Whatever you’ve heard about Caraval, it doesn’t compare to the reality. It’s more than just a game or performance. It’s the closest you’ll ever find yourself magic in this world.”
She imagined loving him would feel like falling in love with darkness, frightening and consuming yet utterly beautiful when the stars came out.
He tasted like midnight and wind, and shades of rich brown and light blue. Colors that made her feel safe and guarded.”
Trouble with the Hotshot Boss by Holly Renee
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
August 30-September 11
How do you screw up your life in three steps? Easy.
Step one: Graduate from college with no prospective jobs lined up.
Step two: Move back home with your parents because no job unfortunately equals no money.
Step 3: Forget to social media stalk the guy who broke your heart before accepting a job in a town with a smaller population than a frat party on a Wednesday night.
I should quit but living with my parents forever doesn’t seem like a solid life plan.
Jase Hale is the golden boy. Our boss thinks he’s beyond talented. The receptionist sends him more flirty smiles and baked goods than is considered normal for a woman old enough to be his mom.
I try to avoid him and his undeniable charm at all costs.
He does everything he can to get under my skin.
Every encounter leaves me reeling.
Every smirk makes my stomach flip.
I assume he’s playing with me, just pushing my buttons like always, but when he lifts me onto my desk and shuts me up with his lips on mine, I’m more confused than ever.
It doesn’t matter that he’s trying to prove me wrong. Having my heart broken by the same jerk twice in one lifetime isn’t an option.
He already blew his shot, and I have no intention of getting in Trouble with the Hotshot Boss
Review : Loved the story between Jase and Sophie
Sophie is Tucker sister and Jase is Tucker best friend
Years ago Sophie and Jase almost hooked up but Tucker almost interrupted and Jase freaked out . Sophie ends up working with Jase at a architecture company. Sophie is trying to deal with working with Jase. Jase and Sophie end up having sex . Sophie knows she shouldn’t get attached to Jase that he could break her heart .Tucker and Kennedy come into town for their wedding. Jase ends up telling Tucker about him and Sophie and Tucker punches him but he tells Tucker that he’s in love with Sophie. Sophie ends up getting a job in Seattle but turns it down but Jase hears about it and freaks out and gets pissy at Sophie cause he thought Sophie was taking the job. He apologizes they officially start dating. A year later they are working on the building Sophie is working on Jase and Sophie are engaged.
Quotes :August 30-September 11
How do you screw up your life in three steps? Easy.
Step one: Graduate from college with no prospective jobs lined up.
Step two: Move back home with your parents because no job unfortunately equals no money.
Step 3: Forget to social media stalk the guy who broke your heart before accepting a job in a town with a smaller population than a frat party on a Wednesday night.
I should quit but living with my parents forever doesn’t seem like a solid life plan.
Jase Hale is the golden boy. Our boss thinks he’s beyond talented. The receptionist sends him more flirty smiles and baked goods than is considered normal for a woman old enough to be his mom.
I try to avoid him and his undeniable charm at all costs.
He does everything he can to get under my skin.
Every encounter leaves me reeling.
Every smirk makes my stomach flip.
I assume he’s playing with me, just pushing my buttons like always, but when he lifts me onto my desk and shuts me up with his lips on mine, I’m more confused than ever.
It doesn’t matter that he’s trying to prove me wrong. Having my heart broken by the same jerk twice in one lifetime isn’t an option.
He already blew his shot, and I have no intention of getting in Trouble with the Hotshot Boss
Review : Loved the story between Jase and Sophie
Sophie is Tucker sister and Jase is Tucker best friend
Years ago Sophie and Jase almost hooked up but Tucker almost interrupted and Jase freaked out . Sophie ends up working with Jase at a architecture company. Sophie is trying to deal with working with Jase. Jase and Sophie end up having sex . Sophie knows she shouldn’t get attached to Jase that he could break her heart .Tucker and Kennedy come into town for their wedding. Jase ends up telling Tucker about him and Sophie and Tucker punches him but he tells Tucker that he’s in love with Sophie. Sophie ends up getting a job in Seattle but turns it down but Jase hears about it and freaks out and gets pissy at Sophie cause he thought Sophie was taking the job. He apologizes they officially start dating. A year later they are working on the building Sophie is working on Jase and Sophie are engaged.
Quotes :
It didn’t matter though. I would let him take a tour of my panty drawer if it meant I could get him away from my crazy mom.
I was going to tell him that, but his eyes were firmly planted on my ass. I snapped my fingers. “Up here, Mr. Hale.”
Hating Jase Hale was far easier than liking him
Jase in his work clothes was hot. This Jase, this was my every teenage fantasy come to life.
Fuck you, Jase.” She spit the words at me. “Ah, darling. You already have.”
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Favorite:unscripted and the unhoneymooners
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Favorite: The friend zone and Eight perfect murders
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Favorite : a heart in a body in the world
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Favorite: heartstopper vol 3
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Favorite: Regretting you colleen Hoover
The Tea Dragon Society by Katie O’Neill
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
August 18
From the award-winning author of Princess Princess Ever After comes The Tea Dragon Society, a charming all-ages book that follows the story of Greta, a blacksmith apprentice, and the people she meets as she becomes entwined in the enchanting world of tea dragons.
After discovering a lost tea dragon in the marketplace, Greta learns about the dying art form of tea dragon care-taking from the kind tea shop owners, Hesekiel and Erik. As she befriends them and their shy ward, Minette, Greta sees how the craft enriches their lives — and eventually her own
Review : I loved this graphic novel it was so cute . I so want a tea dragon for myself now . This is about Greta who finds a dragon and her dad says it belongs to Hesekiel and she brings him the dragon which is a tea dragon named Jasmine . Greta meets Minette and they soon become friends and Greta is learning about tea dragons . She is given her own tea dragon named ginseng.
Can’t wait to read the next one .
Quote :Memories don’t just live inside you, Minette. They live in all the people and objects you share your life with.”
The Perfect Marriage by Jeneva Rose
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Aug 14-16
Sarah Morgan is a successful and powerful defense attorney in Washington D.C. As a named partner at her firm, life is going exactly how she planned. The same cannot be said for her husband, Adam. He’s a struggling writer who has had little success in his career and he tires of his and Sarah’s relationship as she is constantly working. Out in the secluded woods, at the couple’s lakehouse, Adam engages in a passionate affair with Kelly Summers. But one morning everything changes. Kelly is found brutally stabbed to death and now, Sarah must take on her hardest case yet, defending her own husband, a man accused of murdering his mistress. The Perfect Marriage is a juicy, twisty, and utterly addictive thriller that will keep you reading all night long.
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Review: This book was insane I couldn’t stop reading it . Sarah is a powerful lawyer married to a writer their marriage doesn’t seem to be a happy one Sarah is the breadwinner of the house and Adam is still working on being a writer he ends up having an affair with Kelly who is married to an abusive cop . Adam comes back from their lakehouse and he was going to leave Sarah until sarah decided she was ready for a baby. But then things happen . Adam is being accused of killing his mistress and Sarah is representing him as his lawyer wow . As things start to happen we find out the mistress was pregnant. The main sherif was very suspicious like one minute he was flirty with Sarah and then he was being a dick . I was trying to figure out who could of had motive to kill kelly was it her abusive husband or was it Adam . Anne Sarah’s asstaint took photos of Adam cheating but didn’t tell Sarah and then there is Bob who is the brother of Kelly’s first husband. The verdit comes they got the third DNA from Kelly autopsy it was the sheriff’s Kelly was sleepingwith him to . 11 years later Adam is about to be put to death sarah visits him for the last time. In the end Sarah and Bob worked together to kill kelly and frame Adam. I really didn’t see that coming . I had a few problems with the book the characters were very shallow and not very likeable I still recommend it if it you can get past that.
Quote: I’ve always believed the eyes cannot lie. They hold the truths we are unable or unwilling to speak.
Marrying Up by Abby Knox
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Aug 4-5
When loyal ranch hand Smitty is asked to help a big city wedding planner arrange his boss’s nuptials, he’s ready to saddle up. The gorgeous whirlwind of a wedding coordinator quickly takes over the ranch and stakes a claim on Smitty’s heart.
Ally has one job to do and that’s to get Sam and Wren married in one week. Tall and capable, this ranch manager turns out to be pretty good at more than just helping her drape tulle at this rustic-chic affair; his kisses also touch down like a twister in Tornado Alley.
Review : This book was adorable Smitty is so cute and sweet and I love Ally their relationship is sweet . Ally is the wedding planner of Sam and wren . Smitty helps Ally with the wedding planning and they get closer after sam and wren wedding they go off to have some fun. A year later they get married and it doesn’t go smoothly but it was fun and cute . Then it goes to 5 year later where they have kids and they are planning for another loved this book.
Quotes :
Let’s go check on the mamas, Charmander.” Yes, I named my horse after a Pokémon character.
Am I going to let this cowboy put his hands on me? Yes. Yes, I am.
You better marry that girl, or it ain’t proper.” I whirl around and I see Sam and Wren.
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