alltheradreads's Reviews (1.9k)

I LOVED the Harold Fry and Queenie books by this author and was looking forward to this one, but it was nowhere near as wonderful. The plot was sooooo slow and the characters hard to connect with, and the overall premise just didn’t engage me. The alternating between two characters seemed disjointed until I figured out the connection— if you read this one, when did YOU figure it out?! Overall, it just seemed to drag on, and I would highly recommend reading Harold Fry and suggest skipping this one!

I have loved following Sharon online for a while, and was so excited to read her book.! I’ve been increasingly more convicted of my own self-focused nature lately (especially as i continue my counseling journey) and it was such a timely and helpful reminder to keep shifting my attention outward and upward to Jesus. Grateful for the conviction and the heartfelt, thoughtful tone to this one!

This book is small but MIGHTY. It’s best read once you have a solid understanding of the Enneagram, as it’s mostly affirmations and releases for each type. I can’t tell you how moving the list was for my type (#enneagram1) and how convicted i was by the releases for my type. I want to write all of these down and read them again and again as i love toward a more healthy, integrated way of living! So, so good.

This one was just ehhh. I kinda wanted to know what happened to the characters so i kept reading until the end, but i expected much more drama and interest... and there wasn’t much. Not a whole lot happens and the characters aren’t all that likable with their lies and weird family tensions, and i just wouldn’t really recommend taking the time for this one!

This book was exactly what i needed to read in this season. Convicting, compelling, helpful, healing. I tend to focus solely on my brokenness and forget to remember God is in the business of wholeness and restoration, and this book reminded me of truth and the way to the Father’s heart where freedom lies. So, so good.

This book looks girly but it is MIGHTY. Grateful for Jess and her wisdom, heart, soul, and fire for Jesus. This book will make you want to grab hold of grace like never before, to step into holiness like you never knew how, to fire on all cylinders for your calling. This one is a powerhouse, ladies.

Read this on the plane and was pretty unimpressed, but still felt the need to finish it. There was a lot of layers to the story and the characters but it didn’t really build much suspense (i had it figured out super early on) and wasn’t terribly original or compelling. As far as thrillers go, this one didn’t wow me, but it made for a solid book to read on the go!

This was such a fun read (and i needed a solid fiction book after several duds!) and so strangely relevant to our political climate in America right now even though it was written before our election season. Amanda is a reporter and the book follows her career, love life, and just drama in general, and it’s so entertaining without just being fluff. I flew through this one and wanted to read more like it! This is 100% the kind of light fiction i love mixing into my reading life (and would love to watch as a movie too!).

THE DEETS: Thanks, Blogging for Books, for sending me this one!

I gave this one nearly 200 pages and kept waiting for something to really happen and get interesting.. but it never did. After a bunch of people messaged me saying it never really got better, i threw in the towel. The lives of the rich should be fascinating, but this one was painfully slow in its plot and pretty flat in its character development. There are lots of affairs (which i did not enjoy) and not a lot of good parenting (also didn’t enjoy)... this one wasn’t a winner for me.