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 Destiny suggested this as a buddy read and I'm always down to buddy read with her no matter what it is. This isn't a book I would have picked up on my own but I'm glad I did read it because I ended up really liking it. This isn't for the faint of heart. This book was a lot. There's murder, rape, abortion really you name it this book probably has it, and the author wasn't afraid to get into the gruesome details. I didn't like how it switched back and forth between past in present or between characters with each chapter. It made it a little hard to stay in the story when you're trying to figure out what characters perspective we are getting. The present chapters were pretty fast paced but when it would switch to telling something that happened in the past it kind of slowed the progress down a little. I liked getting the past chapters, but I feel like they needed to be done differently somehow. Like I said this book was a lot and it was hard to read at times so be sure to check trigger warnings. I'm glad I read this one and I can totally see myself reading more by this author. 

This is just a DNF for now. 

 A friend of mine recommended this book to me to help me fulfil the "X" prompt in the a to z challenge. She told me ahead of time that she wasn't a fan of it, but I decided to go ahead and read it because it was a short quick read and that's what I needed. It's been a couple days since I've finished this and honestly, I don't have any words. I didn't realize this when I read it, but this is the 2nd book in a series but I'm pretty sure each one follows different couples. This was insta love to the max. I don't normally mind insta love but this was too insta love like to the point where it wasn't believable. It was also a bit repetitive. This kind of read like the author didn't know what she wanted the book to be and all of the aspects of just didn't completely work for me or come off as believable. This just was not for me. 

 I want to thank the author for providing me with an eARC in exchange for my honest review. This is the first book in the start of a new series by this author. We get fake dating, friends to lovers with some humor and a touch of spice. I thought this was a cute romcom. Both characters are flawed but I loved seeing their growth throughout the book. These characters had pretty good communication and it was leading me to believe there wouldn't be a third act breakup but there was. I would have preferred there not be the breakup, but it all worked in the end. I've read several books by this author at this point and have enjoyed them all and I'm looking forward to what some comes out with next. 

 I started this series last month and really enjoyed my time reading it and wanted to continue on with the series. I don't really have anything else to say about this volume that I didn't already say about the first one. I think the representation is on point. I'm a double amputee myself. I love the illustrations, and I will be continuing on with the next volume. I believe there are 5 in total. 

 This book was recommended to me to help me fulfill a prompt for the A-to-Z challenge I am doing this year. Is it just me or are Graphic Novels/Manga hard to review? Overall, I enjoyed this one. I like reading zombie books, and all of the ones I've read are pretty much somber, but this one is a fresh take on zombies. This one's more let's say upbeat (even though I don't think that's the right word to use but I can't think of the right one right now). This was a quick read with a great story and illustrations, and I liked the metaphor. My only complaint has to do with the illustrations. Why were a lot of the zombies naked? Like I get clothes rot off or whatever, but this was done in a sexy way and was just weird. 

 I started this book back in October and it took me until now to finish it. Not because it was a bad book because it wasn't my reading has just been off these last 6 months of the year. I also buddy read this one with Jonny who has been waiting on me to finish it so we can discuss it and post a buddy reads and rants post which will hopefully be coming soon. I didn't realize this was Aiden Thomas' debut novel but man what a debut it was. I loved learning about the Latinx culture. It's something I wasn't really familiar with before picking this up. I really just loved so much about this book it's hard to talk about everything without spoiling it. I only had 2 issues with this book while reading it and they didn't really detract all that much from my enjoyment. I loved Julian from the jump however there were times where his behavior was a bit annoying and a little over the top in my opinion but by the end I loved him so much. The romance!! I didn't know how this would play out and I was fully expecting to get my heartbroken and I did just not in the way I was expecting. I loved the romance with every part of my being, but I felt like it kind of took over the plot. There's a bit of a mystery throughout the book and they are trying to figure out what has happened to the kids who have gone missing but that takes a backseat to the romance plot. I feel like they weren't balanced. That being said I truly loved this book so much and I can't wait to read more by this author. 

 This is the last book in the Smythe-Smith Quartet by Julia Quinn and I buddy read this and the rest of the books in this series with Ashley. This one started out good. We know the MMC has to get married quick, and he has a secret. I had no idea what the secret was going to be. Both characters have great communication in the beginning which led me to believe that whatever the secret was the MMC would talk about it with the FMC but that was not the case. He kept putting off telling her until the he had no choice but to tell her and even then, he wasn't the one to come clean. I hated the way the MMC handle this, and I hated him even more after the secret was finally revealed. He started acting in a way that was out of character for him and it just made the whole situation worse. As for the rest I did actually enjoy most of this book. If you took the MMC out of it, it would have been perfect. 

 Y'all are probably looking at this cover/title thinking this isn't something she would usually read, and you would be correct, but this year I've been trying to step out of my comfort zone a little and read things I wouldn't typically read. When Destiny asked if I wanted to buddy read this one with her, I said yes of course. I didn't go in with any expectations, but I was blown away by this collection of short stories. This is my first book by this author, and it definitely won't be my last. This is a collection of 10 short stories and with the exception of a couple they were all amazing. You have some that didn't feel so much like horror but were still really good. There was one that went completely over my head, one I felt like I needed more from and one that was a little less unbelievable but still good. The rest of them were really good and had me on the edge of my seat wanting to know what was going to happen. Some of them were more on the cute side than horror but still so good and then of course there were some true horror ones. Overall, I really enjoyed this collection of short stories, and I think it's the best one I have ever read. 

 I got this book through Booktasters on Instagram in exchange for my honest review. When I joined, they sent me links to 6 different books to choose from and I decided to go for this one for 2 reasons. The first being that the synopsis sounded intriguing, and it was the shortest book being offered and I wanted to start out easy. I didn't really go into this one with any expectations, but I am so glad that I ended up enjoying it so much. The epilogue and the prologue are from the present, but the majority of the book is about what happened in 1996. This book tackles a lot of hard topics, and I feel like it was done in a respectful and authentic way. The author did an amazing job of pulling me in and keeping me hooked. It's not often that I read a short book, and I'm fully invested in all of the characters. Usually, I just don't feel like I had enough time with the characters but that was not the case with this book. I was cheering the characters on while reading this and getting my heart broken over and over again. By the end I was in tears. My only complaint and the reason it wasn't a full 5 stars was because of the epilogue and prologue. They didn't flow well with the whole story. They just felt out of place and unneeded to me.