caitlinking's Reviews (426)

The Vagus Nerve Reset: Train Your Body to Heal Stress, Trauma, and Anxiety

Anna Ferguson

4.75

informative inspiring fast-paced

Pearl

Siân Hughes

5.0

emotional reflective sad slow-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Oh the writing in this book is just absolutely beautiful. I read this on my kindle and was just constantly highlighting passages within it. A couple of my favourites;

When someone takes their life, they don’t only steal the future out from under our feet, they also desecrate their past. It makes it hard to hold on to the good things about them. And no one deserves to be judged on the worst five minutes of their life, even if those five minutes turn out to be their last.

Taking off all her layers of clothes made her smaller and smaller and smaller until I was left with this tiny dark creature in a nest of unpeeled clothing. I felt like a huge pale blob beside her, as if undressing me made me bigger and bigger, loosening all the layers that had held me in.

Ruthless Vows

Rebecca Ross

4.75

adventurous medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: A mix

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Yes

Diverse cast of characters: Yes

Flaws of characters a main focus: No

What July Knew

Emily Koch

5.0

challenging dark emotional mysterious sad tense medium-paced

Plot or Character Driven: Character

Strong character development: Yes

Loveable characters: Complicated

Diverse cast of characters: No

Picked up this book thinking it was just a mystery book but soon realised it was so much more. A powerful and emotional read that I found myself racing through!