charliauthor's Reviews (531)

This started out a little slow for me admittedly and took a while to really get into. However by the end i was successfully sucked into the emotive YAness of it all that had me wanting to continue just to find out whether two of the characters will kiss! Lol

Saoirse is a siren living in a world where this is basically illegal. She spends her days killing people for hire to sate her lust for the kill and struggles with the fact that she isnt sorry about this in the least. That is until she meets and falls for Hayes - crown prince with the egomaniac father you know the deal - and struggles with her growing feelings for him and her thirst for murder. 
Their connection and Hayes’ sunshine to her grumpy was the most interesting part but a lot of this was overshadowed by the clumsy worldbuilding and overcomplexity. Coupled with fast pacing/easy time jumps and conclusions, it just felt odd. Not bad just…odd lol

A lot of repetition to enforce things we already know but what i did enjoy was that even though Saoirse was a bit of a bitch to everyone, her reasons and self flagellation came full circle and made me feel bad for her. By the end, her resistance to loving Hayes was super cute and i need more. 

Another decent YA outing with no spice of any kind but a fairly original story with some twists that call for me to continue despite initial resistance. A bit like a siren’s song one might say 😉

I like Alejandro and his slips into Spanish really messed me up haha but overall it was more a fxckfest then i usually enjoy for no real reason. Im aware what im reading is for the dark spice and thats great but theres a balance and i think this one went over the edge for me a little too often.

Once you get past the mean insufferable and cantankerous female main character there is actually a lot here to be enjoyed. I laughed out loud at so many parts of the internal dialogue as well as the descriptions of online gaming and fantasy nerd dialogue text so relatable. This ended up being surprisingly funny and heartfelt which i thoroughly enjoyed. 

I went into this thinking I was going to get the book version of She’s The Men and in many ways i did (source material is the same of course) but it was so much more than that because of how emotional Viola was at the end. 
I could have done without the American Football play by play simply because i didnt understand half of it lol but the pseudo Game of Thrones and Dungeons and Dragons was sending me! Lol so so funny!

I couldve done with a lot more romance than we got simply because it was so so cute. The grumpy/sunshine trope is always a gem and grumpy girl opening up is just chef’s kiss and i wanted more. 

Very cutesy YA for the win