Aright. King Arthur is bad. He wants to take over the world. 

sex.

There's something of a rebellion happening?

sex.

Everyone is learning how to (kind of?) use their powers.

sex.

Uhm. Zero plot other than that…

sex.

I'm bored. I wanted more camelot. and more King Arthur. There's very little of either.

Very little happens in this book. Other than Avalon messing around with a whole bunch of men and then whining because her powers come out and she can't control them.

Literally over and over and over again to the point where I was BEYOND bored. 

She won't practice using her magic for the first half of the book because she might hurt someone. She just cries about it. She's everything I hate in an fmc. 

We get some (?) answers, I guess, near the end, but I'm still entirely confused. So… book 3. Counting on you, I guess. 

Right off the bat, I'm going to start by saying this book was disappointing to me. I had to wait a very long time for this from my library. In the time I've been waiting, I've heard only good things about it. So maybe I just inflated it in my head. Maybe my expectations were too high. Tobe fair, I also didn't love Spells for Forgetting either. every other book, but these two i've read from this author, and they've been 4 or 5 stars, so I'm not sure what's happening! Maybe it's the venture into adult books, and my heart is just stuck in her YA era.

I didn't feel a connection with June, and I think that's where my downfall began. I wasn't attached to her current timeline, I had no interest in her family, I felt no sparks with the love interest, so the whole beginning of the book was pretty blah to me. 

It got a bit more interesting for me when we started diving into her family's history - and mystery, and I think I was starting to get into it. But it just never happened. This book never had that big moment for me where I found myself desperately searching for answers. It also never had that big love moment for me where my heart strings were tugged at. 

iit just didn't hold enough emotion at all. It just felt like these things were happening, and I was just reading it without anything behind it. 

The plot was interesting. The idea behind the locket was really great. I just didn't connect with this book. And I suppose that's bound to happen every once in a while.

Maybe I'll come back to it in a year when I'm feeling different and see if I have a different experience with it.

This collection of short fairy tale retellings is to die for. to absolutely die for. I went through every single emotion in this book. I got shivers. I got goosebumps. I even cried. 

some stories were better than others, obviously, I think that's just the way of short story collections. But as a whole, I wish this book had never ended. Each story flowed so well into the next and they all held the same kind of vibe and none of them ever felt out of place.

These stories teeter on the edge of being kind of dark, and they felt a bit gothic to me, which was right up my alley. 

I will absolutely, without a doubt, revisit this collection again.

This is a really good start for a series, I had a lot of fun with this book and these characters. 

I love the banter with Lawrence and Clover, and I know they’re not the love match, but I'm really hoping to see more of him in the rest of the series, he makes me laugh. I love innocent little Bartholemew and the addition of Pranmore in their little group. They all just work so well together that I honestly found myself giggling a good handful of times. 

It's a cute, fun book with a good mix of adventure and blooming romance. My only worry is we're entering “everyone loves her” territory, and that's a trope I absolutely hate, so I'm hoping that kind of teeters off. 

AG Slatter always captures this perfectly gothic and suspenseful atmosphere, and The Path of Thorns was no exception to this. 

The world that she creates just draws me in and holds me close and never ever lets me go. I found myself completely immersed in not just the story but the way in which the story is told.

I loved everything about Asher. From the get-go when we know nothing about her, and all she is a Governess with a possible underlying motive from being in the house. To the point where all her secrets are laid bare and she is this strong and powerful worman. 

This book took so many turns that I never saw coming. My heart dropped, it raced, and it absolutely froze at least once in this novel. 

It’s a gorgeous story with an absolutely perfect atmosphere and just the righ about of mystery to keep you 100& captivated.

Uhhhhhm. I don't know where to start. I don't really know what to say. I can already tell his is going to be one of those series’ that I just don't like it all, but i like to torture myself so I'm going to push all the way through it. 

I like the idea of the girl that everyone instantly forgets. I really think that I could have been well done and sweet and romantic to watch her fall in love. It's a great idea. 

I really don't like making the villain pop out of nowhere at the very end as someone it never should have been. It was dumb. It felt like the author didn't think it all the way through and needed a plot twist and thought, hey! That will work. It didn't. there were no little clues or hints or anything throughout to make it even a little bit plausible that the villain be the villain. That was a major piss off. 

Also, the explanation of Avalon was crap. It made no sense and was confusing. I also feel like the idea of the “realm” changed more than once. 

Avie was whiny and annoying. I hate an fmc who can't do anything for herself. I hate when women in a book just pick up their whole lives and quit their job so their man (men) can take care of them. It's terrible. So that didn't work for me. Neither did her relationship with any of the guys. There's no chemistry with them. As much as I'm told there's a lot of tension and they look at each other with smoldering eyes or whatever, i felt nothing between anyone. 

Anyway, maybe I'll like the next one more. I'm interested in seeing more of the King Arthur and Excalibur parts of this series. 

This was one of those books that I needed to take some time to think about before I figured out a review. 

However, I do believe that after a couple of days, I did love this book. 

It had mystery and intrigue and horror aspects of it, and I got through the book in one sitting. Not one day, one sitting. I couldn't get enough of it.

While it did start off a bit slow, I soon realized it wasn't meant to be an action-packed book. it very much felt like it hit me psychologically. I went with him on this journey of a non-believer to absolute devout follower of these seances. Watching his comeuppance and his eventual downfall held me in such a tight chokehold and took me through every emotion.

I was absolutely hooked beginning to end. 

I really do love the titles of the books in this series. If anything, Steffanie Holmes got that down to a T. 

Moving forward… 

One of my biggest pet peeves in any book series is when we suddenly switch things up at the very end. UGH. The last 8.5 bok have been told from Mina's point of view, and now… NOW after 8.5 books, we get a mixed pov. No. Nope. I don't want to start seeing into the minds of the guys. It changes the way I view them and the way I think of them. It does feel like the same characters, and it throws me all out of whack. 

We also went backward in this series when it comes to Mina and her self-confidence. I really enjoyed watching her grow after getting her diagnosys, leaving the fashion industry, and her vision deteriorating. It was wonderful to see her get into writing and find something that makes her happy. The last book we saw her kind of be hard on herself, but then with this one starting with the book launch, I thought we moved on. We didn't. She put herself down the entire book. I found this rather frustrating because we had already moved past this in the series, and it felt like a full circle. I also really dislike it because she's literally writing the first novel of this series, and it just… I don't know. It didn't feel genuine to me. 

We spent too much time chasing a duck. The guys spent too much time hiding shit and lying to Mina, and the dude that was actually murdered didn't get enough attention. 

Honestly, also really bloody obvious who the killer was in the first, is dunno, dozen pages. 

Considering this is the last one, I'm quite upset I didn't enjoy it more. 

This book feels very similar to a book that was already done in this series. An author giving a seminar is killed… versus a publisher giving a seminar at a retreat is killed… Honestly, I was frustrated reading the same thing over again. 

I complained once about Mina turning against Healthcliff in the holiday novella, and I have the same issue here. The girl has literally no faith in these guys that she loves. Just assume right off the bat they're the killers, like she doesn't even know them at all. It feels silly to me. She also spends a lot of time wallowing about people not liking her book, and feeling like a failure, which kind of ruined her character growth and development over the last 7 books. 

The one thing that absolutely KILLED this book for me is the shameless, SHAMELESS self plugs of trying to get me over to read Bree's books. It bothered me so much. It also really bothered me that Mina was writing the first book in this series. It just felt wrong, it didn't really feel like it fit for me, and it wasn't all that cohesive. 

It feels a little weird reviewing a book negatively when the author spent several chapters negatively reviewing her own work in this book, I won't lie.