courtofbooksanddogs's Reviews (350)

dark mysterious tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Great messages, not great plot 🫠
adventurous emotional inspiring lighthearted relaxing fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A
adventurous emotional inspiring lighthearted relaxing fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A
adventurous inspiring lighthearted relaxing fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: N/A
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

My heart. The way I love this series and the characters so much! It’s crazy to me that I contemplated not continuing after finishing book 1. The series evolves and grows so much depth! 

The best part is now I can finally look up all the things and won’t be spoiled 🤘 

If you’ve debated reading these OR struggled after book 1, I recommend giving it a second try!
adventurous challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

This book is HEAVY at times, check your trigger warnings on this one if needed, people. Even with that being said, I loved this book so so so much! An author who can make me gasp, cry, laugh, and not shut up about the story is a favorite author! The characters and story are just so so so good!
emotional funny lighthearted reflective relaxing fast-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: Yes

Ok I LOVED this! I’ve had the audio sitting in my Libro.fm library for months and started it on a whim yesterday. It was such a fun, witty, and surprisingly emotional. 
challenging dark emotional funny mysterious sad tense slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Plot
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I’m torn. I think of all the books so far this one was definitely the most confusing. I don’t know if it’s the multiple POV’s or what, but I kept having to look up characters to remind myself who people were šŸ˜…

The way I see it, this is more of a build up into the bigger story, so it’s my least favorite of all of them, but I also enjoyed it because I love the world and Pierce’s writing. I’m eager for Dark Age! 
emotional funny informative inspiring relaxing medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: No

This was cute! It’s definitely a YA high school romance in terms of plot, but I still had a good time reading it. I enjoyed the disability and Deaf aspects to the story. I found myself laughing a few times at the parts I found relatable as a Deaf/HoH person.
emotional funny inspiring reflective relaxing medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Picture this. You walk into your closest breakfast diner to meet with your book club besties. You all order waffles, coffee, and discuss your latest read about a romance between two high school faculty members.

You all giggle at the cuteness, the banter, the naked cat, and the princess bride references. You all awe at the fantastic mental health rep that goes so much deeper than anxiety and depression. Then you immediately schedule next month’s book clubs for book two because there’s no way just reading the first is enough. 

How does that vibe sound? Amazing? Well it should. Go find yourselves a copy of Thinking Out Loud by Grayson Long, eat some waffles, and settle in for a cozy and sweet romance šŸ’ 

I adored this book and I think you will too! ā˜ŗļø