The Backstagers #4 by James Tynion IV
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
March 7-10
It’s opening night, but the Backstagers have gone so far past the barrier of no return that even the Stage Managers can’t find them!
Review : The boys go backstage to find sasha and they found him but they might have encountered a ghost .
Restore Me by Tahereh Mafi
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
March 6-9
Juliette Ferrars thought she’d won. She took over Sector 45, was named the new Supreme Commander, and now has Warner by her side. But she’s still the girl with the ability to kill with a single touch—and now she’s got the whole world in the palm of her hand. When tragedy hits, who will she become? Will she be able to control the power she wields and use it for good?
REVIEW: I loved this book I dont know how im supposed to wait for the next book. So this takes place after ignite me and shes taken over sector 45 and I love thats its in dule Pov . So we find out a lot Julliette is adopted and her parents are coming to find her and they were as much monster’s as her adopted ones she has an older sister she didnt know about . I love warner and julliette but warner needs to work on openening up to to her I was sad they broke up but I think with everything going on maybe they need to not be together at this moment I still want them together. I still love kenji and hearing his backstory was so sad I did love seeing him trying to flirt with the new character so cute. The ending was crazy her freaking parents took her to some location and she finds old pictures of herself and one with warner omg cliffhanger.
Quotes
Yeah first question: why are you such a dick ?
Warner stands up . Sweetheart , he says quietly , I hope you will forgive me for what I’m about to do to his face.
Hey , asshole , I can still hear you.
Men , she says , are always so baffled by women’s clothing. So many options about a body that does not belong to them. Cover up , dont cover up – she waves a hand no one can seem to decide.
But thats not what I – Kenji tries to say.
You know what I think, she says , still smiling , about someone telling me what’s legsl and illegal about the way I dress ?
She holds up two middle fingers.
I’m very tired I say to him please go directly to hell
“I love the sight of his naked body.
especially in these quiet, vulnerable moments. These brackets of time stapled between dreams and reality are my favorite. There’s a sweetness in this hesitant consciousness – a careful, gentle return of form of function, I’ve found I love these minutes most for the delicate way in which they unfold. It’s tender.
Slow motion.
Time tying its shoes
“She reaches down, her fingers trailing along the zipper of my pants, and the movement sears through me. My vision goes white. For a moment I hear nothing but my heart, pounding in my head.
“You are trying to kill me,” I say.
“Aaron.” I can feel her smile as she whispers the word in my ear. She’s unbuttoning my pants. “Please.”
And I, I am gone.”
“You’re a total catch.” “I know, right? I keep trying to tell people.
“Idiots are highly flammable, love. Let them all burn in hell.”
Who says you can’t be cute and kick ass at the same time?” Kenji winks at me. “I do it every day.”
I mean , I’ve always known I had a great face. But now I know, like, for sure that I’ve got a great face. And it’s just so validating.”
The Backstagers #3 by James Tynion IV
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
March 7-7
It’s Tech Rehearsal for Les Terribles and Beckett is determined to nail every cue, but Sasha’s mistake brings new drama to the stage!
Book review : loved it Beckett is such a cutie I related to what he says how he likes to be alone sometime. So he has this Crystal to help power the lights and sasha ends uo breaking it and Beckett gets mad and Sasha goes to find a crystal oh my.
The Backstagers #2 by James Tynion IV
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
March 6-7
The rest of the stage crew kids might be used to all the magical weirdness that goes on, but Jory is thrilled to discover more about the worlds backstage
REVIEW: This issue was so cute Jordy wants to know more about the magic and Hunter takes him along to get paint and they almost get attacked by spiders Hunter I think has a crush on Jordy I totally ship it so cute.
The Backstagers #1 by James Tynion IV
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
March 6 -6
When Jory transfers to the private, all-boys school St. Genesius, he figures joining the stage crew would involve a lot of just fetching props and getting splinters. To his pleasant surprise, he discovers there’s a door backstage that leads to different worlds, and all of the stagehands know about it! All the world’s a stage…but what happens behind the curtain is pure magic
REVIEW : This was such a cute first issue this is about Jordy he transfers to this all boys school and checks out the drama club and they send him backstage and he meets the backstagers guys and there is magic and lots of creatures and jordy decides to be a backstager loved it .
Silent Strength by M.A. Innes
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Feb 28-march 2
Eric knows what he needs…he just doesn’t think anyone else will want it too.
He’s finally reached his breaking point. There’s only so many times he can put himself out there and get shot down. After a disastrous first date at a BDSM club, Eric is ready to walk away and push his desires to the furthest reaches of his mind—but then up walks Marcus. But just because the sexy older man is looking for a submissive doesn’t mean he’s looking to be someone’s daddy.
Marcus knows what he wants, and he’s spent months getting everything perfect for his boy…now he just needs to find him.
When Marcus sees Eric at Bound & Controlled, he’s immediately drawn to the sweet submissive who’s desperately trying to hide his devastation. Marcus steps in when he sees the sub’s evening going wrong, but he’s not sure what the shy submissive is looking for. Just because he wants the boy to need a daddy doesn’t mean he’s going to get what he hopes for.
As they discover their mutual desires, Marcus is sure that Eric has the strength to go after what he yearns for; he just needs his daddy’s help and love to see it.
Book review : well this was different ive never read anything like it but I thought the relationship was really sweet and cute . So eric has been through a lot since he was a teenager when a friend of his told people he was gay and he was into age play which is really fucked up that he told people .Then it moves ahead to when eric is older and hes in a BDSM club and there he meets marcus and they get along and they end up doing a daddy little relationship and I thought this was a fun read .
Every Day by David Levithan
My rating: 3 of 5 stars
Feb 8-25
Every day a different body. Every day a different life. Every day in love with the same girl.
There’s never any warning about where it will be or who it will be. A has made peace with that, even established guidelines by which to live: Never get too attached. Avoid being noticed. Do not interfere.
It’s all fine until the morning that A wakes up in the body of Justin and meets Justin’s girlfriend, Rhiannon. From that moment, the rules by which A has been living no longer apply. Because finally A has found someone he wants to be with—day in, day out, day after day
Book review : I really enjoyed this book this book is about A I don’t know how to explain I think it’s a spirit he takes over a person’s body for just one day what I loved about this book it was beautifully written and I loved A as a character so one day A is this guy Justin and there he meets Rhiannon who he falls for they spend the day on the beach and A just really likes her but A can’t forget about her so A meets her as another person and another until A tells her the truth first she doesn’t believe A but then she does and she really likes A but she has a boyfriend and A is dealing with with a guy who believes A is the devil but A ends up talking to him and A explains to him that A isn’t the devil and that this has been it’s life forever . A knows that it has to say goodbye to Rhiannon and A does and A Says goodbye ugh I want to know what happens next but I loved the story it was beautiful.
Quotes :
If there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s this: We all want everything to be okay. We don’t even wish so much for fantastic or marvelous or outstanding. We will happily settle for okay, because most of the time, okay is enough.”
It’s one thing to fall in love. It’s another to feel someone else fall in love with you, and to feel a responsibility toward that love.”
“The moment you fall in love feels like it has centuries behind it, generations – all of them rearranging themselves so this precise, remarkable intersection could happen. In your heart, in your bones, no matter how silly you know it is, you feel that everything has been leading to this, all the secret arrows were pointing here, the universe and time itself crafted this long ago, and you are just now realizing it, you are just now arriving at the place you were always meant to be.”
She is so lost in her sadness that she has no idea how visible it is.”
You like him because he’s a lost boy. Believe me, I’ve seen it happen before. But do you know what happens to girls who love lost boys? They become lost themselves. Without fail.”
I notice you, I want to say. Even when no one else does, I do. I will.”
Taming Him by Kennedy Fox
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Jan 29-Feb 23
Alex Bishop is your typical cowboy.
Charming, sexy, and wears a panty-melting smirk.
Working on the ranch helped build his solid eight-pack and smoking body. He’s every girl’s wet fantasy, and he knows it too. Alex doesn’t follow the rules of your typical playboy bachelor. After wining and dining his dates and giving them the best night of their lives, he always sends flowers and calls the next day—even if it’s to say, let’s just be friends. His mama taught him manners after all, and his Southern blood knows how to be a gentleman. Still, that isn’t enough to tame the wildest of the Bishop brothers.
River Lancaster has finally met the man of her dreams. Too bad after six months of romantic bliss, she finds out he’s married. With a broken heart and blind rage, she books herself a ticket to Key West, Florida. Tired of cheaters and liars, she’s set on escaping to forget he ever existed. Who needs a man when there’s an all-you-can-drink margarita bar, anyway? That’s what she tells herself until she bumps into the right guy who can make all those bad memories disappear.
Even if it’s only temporarily.
Two weeks on the beach is what they both need. No strings attached, no expectations, no broken hearts. Too bad the universe has other plans—one that’ll change the entire course of their lives in just nine short months.
Review: this book was so cute I loved alex and river . River has been through a lot she lost her little sister when she was a teenager which made her want to be a nurse and then she gets into a relationship with a man who turns out to be married and dumps him but the heartbreak hurt her and her best friend invites her to come with her and her boyfriend to key west and there she meets Alex they decide to have some fun on this trip but when its over she didnt call him why river alex is sweet and sexy but then alex gets a vistor its river and shes pregnant with his baby I legit screamed river decides to move to texas with alex and I loved the family in this book alex has a lot of brothers hes the youngest and I cant wait to hear the stories from the other brothers . And they had a boy so cute and Alex proposed in the cutest way. River decides to go back to work and hears some gossip about Evan who hooked up with a girl and she stole his clothes and omg she is the new girl at work his story should be interesting.
Quotes:
Fuck you. My dick takes offense to that.
Yep! Pack your bags because we’re about to give Key West some Southern cowboy hell!
Well, my friend over there said there was no way you’d find me good-lookin’. I told him there’s no way you’d be able to resist my Southern charm and undeniably sexy abs, so since we can’t seem to agree, I figured I’d come right to the source and ask myself.
Text me if you’re not coming back tonight so I don’t worry she’s kidnapped you.
You have seven days to give me your best, cowboy,” she teases, licking her swollen lips. “Let’s not put them to waste.”
“I think you have yourself a deal, cowboy.”
The girl of my dreams is right here, in my arms, telling me we’re having a baby.
Out of us all, I swore Jackson would be the one to knock up someone.”
One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Feb 15- 21
In her twenties, Emma Blair marries her high school sweetheart, Jesse. They build a life for themselves, far away from the expectations of their parents and the people of their hometown in Massachusetts. They travel the world together, living life to the fullest and seizing every opportunity for adventure.
On their first wedding anniversary, Jesse is on a helicopter over the Pacific when it goes missing. Just like that, Jesse is gone forever.
Emma quits her job and moves home in an effort to put her life back together. Years later, now in her thirties, Emma runs into an old friend, Sam, and finds herself falling in love again. When Emma and Sam get engaged, it feels like Emma’s second chance at happiness.
That is, until Jesse is found. He’s alive, and he’s been trying all these years to come home to her. With a husband and a fiancé, Emma has to now figure out who she is and what she wants, while trying to protect the ones she loves.
Who is her one true love? What does it mean to love truly?
Emma knows she has to listen to her heart. She’s just not sure what it’s saying.
Review : This book had me sobbing Emma goes through a lot I loved that it goes into the past and present so we know how it starts . Emma and Jesse relationship they love each other they love travel but then Jesse goes missing and is believed to be dead. three years have past and she is looking to play piano and sees sam who worked at Emma’s parents bookshop and he liked Emma back in high school and they agree to go on a date and everything with them is great they get each other . Emma is the manager of the bookstore and she’s happy and her and Sam are engaged . But then Jesse is found and things are really complicated Sam tells her she needs to work out what she had with Jesse and decide and she does they go away together and they are so different now this situation is so complicated and I was crying a lot in this book . But Emma picks Sam she explains to Jeesse that they are different and she loves Sam. She goes back home and goes to Sam they get married this book was beautiful.
quotes :
When you love someone, it seeps out of everything you do, it bleeds into everything you say, it becomes so ever-present, that eventually it becomes ordinary to hear, no matter how extraordinary it is to feel.”
There is other love out there for me. But it’s different. It isn’t this. It isn’t this exact love. It’s better and it’s worse. But I guess that’s sort of the point of love between two people—you can’t re-create it. Every time you love, everyone you love, the love is different. You’re different in it
don’t think that true love means your only love.
I think true love means loving truly.
Loving purely. Loving wholly.
Maybe, if you’re the kind of person who’s willing to give all of yourself, the kind of person who is willing to love with all of your heart even though you’ve experienced just how much it can hurt . . . maybe you get lots of true loves, then. Maybe that’s the gift you get for being brave.”
The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Dec 30- Feb 18
Nina Redmond is a librarian with a gift for finding the perfect book for her readers. But can she write her own happy-ever-after? In this valentine to readers, librarians, and book-lovers the world over, the New York Times-bestselling author of Little Beach Street Bakery returns with a funny, moving new novel for fans of Meg Donohue, Sophie Kinsella, and Nina George’s The Little Paris Bookshop.
Nina Redmond is a literary matchmaker. Pairing a reader with that perfect book is her passion… and also her job. Or at least it was. Until yesterday, she was a librarian in the hectic city. But now the job she loved is no more.
Determined to make a new life for herself, Nina moves to a sleepy village many miles away. There she buys a van and transforms it into a bookmobile—a mobile bookshop that she drives from neighborhood to neighborhood, changing one life after another with the power of storytelling.
From helping her grumpy landlord deliver a lamb, to sharing picnics with a charming train conductor who serenades her with poetry, Nina discovers there’s plenty of adventure, magic, and soul in a place that’s beginning to feel like home… a place where she just might be able to write her own happy ending.
Review : I recommend this book to anyone who is a book lover . This is about Nina and she’s a librarian and she loves loves books but the library is changing and Nina goes to Scotland to start a bookstore van which is such a cool idea .Nina goes through a lot she has a grumpy landlord , almost gets killed by a train , delivers a lamb which was awesome. she hires a teenager who has a lot of family problems . The situation with her and the train guy just seemed sketchy turns out he has a son and girlfriend WTF. Her and Lenox start getting closer and end up having sex but he has a crazy almost ex wife but they deal with it. They are cute together I really enjoyed this book.
quotes :
Books were the best way Nina knew – apart from, sometimes, music – to breach the barrier; to connect the internal universe with the external, the words acting merely as a conduit between the two worlds.”
Because every day with a book is slightly better than one without, and I wish you nothing but the happiest of days. Now,”
There was a universe inside every human being every bit as big as the universe outside them. Books were the best way Nina knew – apart from, sometimes, music – to breach the barrier, to connect the internal universe with the external, the words acting merely as a conduit between the two worlds.”
Some people buried their fears in food, she knew, and some in booze, and some in planning elaborate engagements and weddings and other life events that took up every spare moment of their time, in case unpleasant thoughts intruded. But for Nina, whenever reality, or the grimmer side of reality, threatened to invade, she always turned to a book. Books had been her solace when she was sad; her friends when she was lonely. They had mended her heart when it was broken, and encouraged her to hope when she was down. Yet”
The Princess Saves Herself in This One by Amanda Lovelace
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Feb 14-14
Ah, life- the thing that happens to us while we’re off somewhere else blowing on dandelions & wishing ourselves into the pages of our favorite fairy tales.”
A poetry collection divided into four different parts: the princess, the damsel, the queen, & you. the princess, the damsel, & the queen piece together the life of the author in three stages, while you serves as a note to the reader & all of humankind. Explores life & all of its love, loss, grief, healing, empowerment, & inspirations.
Review : This book of poetry was beautiful I connected with a lot of them . This is one of my favorite books of poetry I highly recommended reading this if you like poetry .
Quote
I am a lioness who is no longer afraid to let the world hear her roar
Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, Vol. 2 by Yuto Tsukuda
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Jan 28- Feb 5
Leaving home for the first time in his young life, Soma moves into the school’s Polaris Dormitory—a place run by an old crone and filled with crazy and eccentric students! Barely settled in, Soma quickly finds himself in one of Tohzuki’s legendary cooking duels—a shokugeki! Who will his very first opponent be?
Review : Soma is moving into his dorm but first has to pass with a cooking assignment with the land lady but once he does he meets all the other interesting characters living in the dorm isshiki invites him to join the others for a little party but how he invites soma is from the ceiling hes a weird dude . Soma and him kinda do a cook off but isshiki informs him its not offical the real ones have to be accepted and you have to give something to get something . Megumi and Soma check out the bowl club which is close to shutting down thanks to erina but soma wants to save it so he challenges Ikumi to an offical food war and he wins. Next they are all going to cooking camp which should be interesting.
Food Wars!: Shokugeki no Soma, Vol. 1 by Yuto Tsukuda
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
Jan 25- 28
Soma Yukihira’s old man runs a small family restaurant in the less savory end of town. Aiming to one day surpass his father’s culinary prowess, Soma hones his skills day in and day out until one day, out of the blue, his father decides to enroll Soma in a classy culinary school! Can Soma really cut it in a place that prides itself on a 10% graduation rate? And can he convince the beautiful, domineering heiress to the school that he belongs there at all?!
Review: Soma works in his family restuant until one day his dad tells him hes going to a fancy cooking school with only a 10%graduate rate. He ends up cooking for Erina who so picky and she doesnt like him at all and ends up failing him just on princable .But he gets In somehow so for his first class he ends up cooking with megumi who is close to failing out of school but there food gets tampered with but soma finds a way and they get an A .I really enjoyed the first vol i’ve been watching the anime and I love both.
Nimona by Noelle Stevenson
My rating: 5 of 5 stars
Jan 19-21
Nemeses! Dragons! Science! Symbolism! All these and more await in this brilliantly subversive, sharply irreverent epic from Noelle Stevenson. Featuring an exclusive epilogue not seen in the web comic, along with bonus conceptual sketches and revised pages throughout, this gorgeous full-color graphic novel is perfect for the legions of fans of the web comic and is sure to win Noelle many new ones.
Nimona is an impulsive young shapeshifter with a knack for villainy. Lord Ballister Blackheart is a villain with a vendetta. As sidekick and supervillain, Nimona and Lord Blackheart are about to wreak some serious havoc. Their mission: prove to the kingdom that Sir Ambrosius Goldenloin and his buddies at the Institution of Law Enforcement and Heroics aren’t the heroes everyone thinks they are.
But as small acts of mischief escalate into a vicious battle, Lord Blackheart realizes that Nimona’s powers are as murky and mysterious as her past. And her unpredictable wild side might be more dangerous than he is willing to admit.
Review : I had heard this graphic novel was good but it was really good I loved it. I read it with the audiobook which made the experience way better .This is about Nimona who is a shapeshifter who is working with a super vilian this graphic novel was crazy cause there may be more to her powers that blackheart doesnt know and the prince is an interesting character I really enjoyed this book I recommend it.
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