bookwyrm25's Reviews (219)

Carrie is kind of annoying and childish in this one, and I’m not huge on how much the town hates homeless people being in a library. Overall an ok book though. I will read the next in the series soon hopefully because I loved the first book. 

This book could have been as highly rated as the first, but the first part of the book I found the main character extremely annoying because of the back and forth in her relationship. Like you father is a criminal, what do you expect? And the fact that her dad kept insisting and pushing her to call him dad like sir, you've been absent most of her life. Otherwise, this was a super cute book with a good ending and cozy holiday atmosphere.

Cozy, fall vibes, cute romance, a character that’s actually smart and doesn’t out herself in danger, and even legitimately supportive friends and family. I’m obsessed!

This does not feel feminist. It is full of sexual assault and women being used, but it starts with men and their abuse towards women and still ends with the main character's fate being determined by a man. The book was ok. Not great, but ok. It's definitely dark and eerie, but there's no real satisfying revenge for the most part. In my opinion anyway, it's just kind of mid writing and extremely depressing.

Maybe murder mysteries just aren't for me, but I found the MC very whiny and childish. The amount of foot stamping, sighing,  eye rolling, and actual groaning made her seem like a teenager more than a fully grown adult trying to solve a murder. And the love interests are very one dimensional, just like all the side characters, which made none of it very interesting to me.

I do love this series, but I'm getting exceedingly tired of all these magic things happen and Willa being like "HUH SO WEIRD LETS IGNORE THAT AND GO ON" then proceeds to almost get killed by the killer and is saved by more magic which she then still ignores. Plus, Pandora getting annoyed by sympathy humans show one another and care that they show one another is actually so irritating. I get she's a cat, but the fact that

Willa got hit by a literal car and her response was "it's annoying that striker keeps almost crying in this 5 minute time span after it happened"

was extremely off putting. Other than that, I was half surprised by the killer as there were many suspects along the way, but I also skimmed a bit of it because it was too long and the text in my copy of the book was odd. It was normal typing then words w o u l d   b e   s p a c e d   o u t   l i k e   t his for no reason. 

Also, why are Willl and Striker described as "on again off again"? I know they are not honest with each other, which is also really tiring, but they are only seeing one another. Their whole relationship feels like they should just be friends with how they put their relationship off rather than an actual romance of any kind.

I'm sad this book just doesn't have the character development Willa needs to make this series continuously interesting past the second book so far. I'll read the next two and hopefully they get better.

My first ever 6/5 star rating. Never did I think my absolute bone shattering obsession with Gravity Falls would be renewed… but here we are. Excuse me  while I sink back into my favorite ever comfort show now that it’s back, and horrifyingly creepy and adult as it’s ever been with this grown up version of events published. I won’t spoil it, but parts of this book put a lot of the show into perspective and it’s so horrifying. I love it. 

Despite Hannah being the literal worst person on the planet at first, this actually turned out to be my favorite in the series so far. The murder didn't happen right away so there was time for some buildup and character development, there was hardly any body shaming, and some of the jokes were actually funny. Hannah for sure doesn't deserve Norman though. I still stand by that.

Ok.... let me get this straight.... because I'm at my literal wits end here with Hannah.

Norman: 
*Loyal to Hannah (even to her bakery and wouldn't visit rivals)
*Built her a literal dream house that Hannah Herself designs
*Compliments Hannah and tells her how much he loves her personality and mind
*Gets along SUPER well with her cat

Mike:
*Not loyal at all to Hannah in any way
*Constantly ditches her after promising her dates and doesn't call to tell her he'll not be there
*Tries to buy her affection back with "surprising" her with acts of affection (but also does so with another girl when she's alive)
*Does not get along with her cat

BUT SHE CAN'T DECIDE WHO SHE WANTS?!?!? At this point Norman needs to dip, he's too good for her. Hannah feels like she was written by a man who thinks women only care about looks and not literally anything other than that. 

Also, she won't stop being dumb and getting into situations where she's almost murdered. She definitely should have actually been murdered by now if she were a real person.