Long Live the Pumpkin Queen by Shea Ernshaw YA Fantasy, 2022 by Disney Press, 315 Pages What I Didn’t Like: There’s no real world building, there’s world borrowing. Characters are used in the exact ways as the movie with no additional depth or creativity. I kept finding myself getting annoyed when the mayor or Oogie’s... Continue Reading →
It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover Fiction , 2022 by Atria publishing , 320 Pages What I Didn’t Like: This is a sequel, a continuation of the first story (It Ends with Us). In this story I felt that the timeframe didn’t match up to the character's actions. Ryle was a controlling abusive person... Continue Reading →
I am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika L Sanchez YA Contemporary, 2017 by Knopf, 344 Pages What I Didn’t Like: This MC is obnoxious. Since it’s 1st person you have to be in her head and that is NOT fun. She’s so flippant about her sister's cause of death that it almost feels... Continue Reading →
20th Victim by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro A Mystery/Thriller, 2020 by Little Brown, 432 Pages What I Didn’t Like: A few grammatical errors and continuity errors jumped out at me while I was reading. Nothing big or story altering, but errors nonetheless. The 20th book in this series recycles things from the previous 19. There... Continue Reading →
Party by Tom Leveen YA Contemporary, Originally published in 2010 by Random House, 240 Pages What I Didn’t Like: There are some storylines that don’t play out until later which means there are some characters you won’t like when their perspective chapter is done. CW: death, fighting, racial slurs, implied sex, and underage drinking. What I... Continue Reading →
Lady Smoke by Laura Sebastian YA Fantasy, 2019 by Delacorte Press, 512 Pages What I Didn’t Like: It’s slow. That is the EXACT OPPOSITE of book 1 in this series which I liked particularly because it moved fast. This one suffered from a lack of major plot points and a lot of cycling around the... Continue Reading →
Feed by Mira Grant A Science Fiction, 2010 by Orbit, 600 Pages What I Didn’t Like: Content warning: blood, disease, nastiness, and death. The blog entries were fine but I could’ve done without most of them. I will say I paid ZERO attention to the dates on them so if those mattered … oops. What I... Continue Reading →
Dead Until Dark by Charlaine Harris A Paranormal, 2001 by Ace Books, 292 Pages What I Didn’t Like: First instinct: the author seems obsessed with traditional beauty standards. It died down a bit as the book went on, which is a good thing, but it’s definitely there. I didn’t love Sam. This led to problems later... Continue Reading →
Godmother: A secret Cinderella Story by Carolyn Turgeon Fantasy, 2009 by Broadway Books, 273 Pages What I Didn’t Like: There was a little bit too much description and detail given on the background and not story relevant items. It was hard to keep attentive when it seemed like we were reading more than necessary to... Continue Reading →
Saving Max by Antoinette van Heugten A Mystery/Thriller, 2010 by Mira, 393 Pages What I Didn’t Like: This book came out in 2010. Yellow pages were GONE by then. iPhones didn’t flip (they never did). Everyone knew about GPS and Google was commonplace. Those inconsistencies drove me right out of the book every time they... Continue Reading →
