30something_reads's Reviews (820)


Ummm. To be honest I'm not really sure about this one. I think I really just kept reading because I needed to know how it ended. This was one of those impulse reads that you see on TikTok. Can't win them all I guess.

I'll come back when I have the proper words to describe my feelings after this book

Katee Robert really is just the queen of wonderfully smutty stories. (especially stories with loving triads. I hate an unbalanced love triangle but she just writes the perfect throuples every time and makes my little heart so happy.)

I loved this one! It's actually the first one that I've read from the series but now I know I need to go back and read all of them.

Also.... LOVE the connection to her Dark Olympus series!! Love a good cross-over so now I'm going to be keeping an eye out for those little gems everywhere.


This book was just utterly sweet and wonderful ❤️

Alex and Henry are hilarious and heart wrenching all at once. ( These sweet babies trying to navigate learning who they are & living/loving authentically while being under so much pressure to meet familial & societal expectations. )

As I said, utterly sweet and had me in happy tears there towards the end.

" "You can't eat SOME of a dumpling and put it back," Oak insists. "That's revolting.".... Cardan considers that villainy takes many forms, and he is good at all of them. "

1. These illustrations are to die for.
2. Such a wonderful little sneak peak into Cardan's mind and what he and Jude are up to after The Queen of Nothing.
3. I will never get enough of these little moments where Cardan gets to experience the mortal world.... Boba tea and dumplings, movie nights, and having a successful interaction with a clerk at the local gas station.

Only James does a great job of making you fall in love with psychopaths. It's a gift!

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Spoiler Alert- this book (unironically) gave me ALL THE FEELS!!

I went in to this with a very general understanding of the premise- plus sized fmc whose into fanfiction & cosplay meets and falls for the lead of the show her favorite fandom is based. Fluffy romance ensues.

WRONG! (Well, mostly right, but also very wrong)

I wasn't prepared for how much depth came with all of the above. It was not just about April's experience as a plus sized woman dating a famous actor. She is a beautiful, intelligent, accomplished woman in her field but still learning how to open up and share all of herself with the people in her life. She's also working through a lifetime of the people in her life trying to FIX her fatness like it's a defect - don't even get me started on the psychological trauma of dealing with her father and mother being the biggest perpetrators of this.

THEN factor in Marcus's own struggles with late-in-life diagnosed dyslexia and dealing with his academic parents that gave up on his education and have completely rejected his entire acting career. So he puts on this unaffected/dim persona for the world to protect his true self from experiencing that same rejection again.

WTF, Olivia Dade.