alltheradreads's Reviews (1.9k)

Thanks to @nelsonbooks for sending me a copy of this BEAUTIFUL book — it was a timely read for this season in our world, and as someone with “empathy” in her top 5 strengths finder results, it resonated so much with me. It’s encouraging and uplifting, with stories from her life woven throughout, and it was a great reminder to be kinder and softer and more gracious with everyone I encounter.

Fleeeeeewwwww through this one yesterday (thank you quarantine + Sabbath + a sunny day to spend outside!) and found it intriguing but also WAY too long and slow and ultimately disappointing. There wasn’t enough motive for the stalker ex-gf for me, nor enough depth to the hypnotist, and the whole thing fell a bit flat. Other Moriarty books are better!!

Everybody out there making sourdough during quarantine but I’m over here like hey I’m #glutenfree so I’ll just read this book instead!!! It was fun to read this one! Fun and quirky and light.

This one opens as one woman is about to be sworn in as the President, and flashes back to four friends in high school, and every chapter in between was wonderful. Love a good female-focused YA book, and this cast of characters was top notch. I could never quite guess which of the four I thought would end up as President, and I loved how their stories unfolded, with all the ups and downs of navigating senior year, love, friendship, family, identity, and more. Big fan of this one. (And loved realizing the author was a writer on Parenthood— my fave fave fave show!)

it’s beautiful, helpful, gentle, gracious, and so impactful. Big fan. I brought this book to several counseling sessions to talk about it more, and it was/is such a great tool in my own journey of learning how to be kinder and softer with myself as I heal and grow. It’s a gift and I’m grateful it exists.

Besides there never actually being a bookshop on the corner... this book was LOVELY and cozy and charming and a wonderful Sunday read.

This is EXACTLY the kind of read I needed right now— just dystopian enough to distract me, enough drama and intrigue to keep me hooked, characters I can get into, and suspense the whole way through. Such a great YA read — she wrote American Royals recently but this one and the two others in the trilogy came first and I’m so glad I discovered them.

Okay THIS is the Bachelor book to read!

The premise of this one was SO interesting but the execution was not excellent. Such a bummer! It had a lot of potential to be really trippy and intriguing and thought-provoking (love a good dystopia especially tied to things in our world today like social media and fame and privacy/celebrity) but it just felt halfway thought out and doubly too long.

A one day read but a pretty meh one... the characters weren’t likable (they were naive, unbelievable, shallow, underdeveloped, and like amped up mean girls), there were some scenes where a creeper intended to rape the women (and you know I’m going to give trigger warnings for that), and it just fell flat for me.