danadoesbooks's Reviews (954)

Thank you Avon and NetGalley for the eARC of The Wedding Witch!  All opinions in this review are my own.

I love the Graves Glen series so I was looking forward to Bowen's book!  This Christmas romance was so much fun to read!  I love the time travel and Parent Trap-esque plot!  Also, the banter between Bowen and Tamsyn is funny, especially their digital communication in the opening chapter.  My only complaint is that I wish it had been longer!

Overall, this is a great magical/witchy fall series that continues into Christmas!

Thank you Minotaur Books and NetGalley for the eARC of A New Lease on Death!  All opinions in my review are my own.

I really enjoyed Olivia Blacke's previous series, The Record Shop Mysteries, so I was excited to start her new paranormal cozy mystery one!

A New Lease on Death is such a fun read!  I like how it is told from both Coredlia's and Ruby's point of views.  It's funny in the beginning to see how they have to learn to interact with each other.  We got a lot of Cordelia's backstory in this book so I am hoping that we learn more about Ruby in the next one!

The mystery itself is well-paced and starts in the first chapter.  A New Lease on Death is a strong start to this new series and after the way this book ends, I am anxiously awaiting the next one!

Thank you Simon & Schuster Audio and Libro FM for the ALC of Twenty-Four Seconds From Now!  All opinions in this review are my own.

I am a huge Jason Reynolds fan so I was really excited to see his newest title available from Libro FM!  His writing is beautiful and I feel like I enjoy it even more when I listen to it!

Per usual, Reynolds is able to expertly capture and describe emotions in this novel that at first appears to be about young love, but also deals with the complexity of family dynamics and grief.  

The story is told backwards with larger and larger jumps in time.  I liked this structure because you are able to see how much the character relationships have deepened and how much they have been through.  Because the story is told backwards, it puts more of an emphasis on it, rather than the reader having to reflect on it at the end.

Overall, another fantastic read from Reynolds and I highly recommend you try listening to the audiobook version!

Thank you Sourcebooks Landmark and NetGalley for the eARC of Then Things Went Dark!  All opinions in this review are my own.

I am a huge fan of the reality TV show trope so I was really excited to pick this one up.  Unfortunately, I found the writing style difficult to follow at times.  The writing is very dialogue heavy with voiceover cut-ins (like you were watching a reality TV show).  There were also tweets at the end of the chapters and then a quick snippet of the investigators trying to solve the murder.  I understand what the author was trying to do but it didn't work for me.  Maybe the text will be formatted more in the physical version so this won't be as much as a problem.

There were some pretty big twists in this book that made it exciting.  I wish they had not revealed the murder victim in the beginning of the book because I think it would have helped make the book more thrilling.

Overall, if you are looking for unexpected twists, this is a good read, but I recommend trying it on the physical version.

Thank you St. Martin's Griffin and NetGalley for the eARC of If I Stopped Haunting You!  All opinions in this review are my own.

My favorite part of this book was the setting.  I love a bunch of writers get snowed in a haunted castle in Scotland to write their next thriller or horror novels!  It reminded me a lot of the conditions that Mary Shelley wrote Frankenstein in!

I enjoyed the haunted house/ghost story aspect of this book, but I wasn't a huge fan of the romance because of the characters.  Pen is too immature and Neil is too arrogant.  I feel like the characters never really evolved beyond the caricatures that they were in the beginning of the book.

Overall, a really fun read, but the romance characters needed more work.