goatsrsexy's Reviews (604)

This just wasnt for me

My favourite romcom of the year by far! I had so much fun reading this book. It had very few of the annoying tropes I dislike in a romance book and most of the ones I love!

It's about a filmmaker who goes to shoot a promo about the Coast Guard (btw I still find it so weird that the coast guard is military in the US). But anyways there was lots of cute found family vibes, self love, a cute dog, and lots of nice descriptions of the Florida Keys. What's not to love? The romance was cute and believable and the conflict was annoying but acceptable. The climax of the story was also unexpectedly exciting!

I'll definitely be recommending this one! Thanks to Netgalley and the publisher for the advanced copy.

I LOVE Emily St John Mandel. I love her prose and her characters and the way absolutely nothing of interest can happen in a chapter or portion of her novels but it's still gripping because it's just so well written.

The Sea of Tranquility was a very near perfect book. I was thrilled to see how much it connected to The Glass Hotel, which was my favourite read of 2024 and I was happy to spend some brief moments with those characters again.

Gaspery was a great main character and I just loved the way this book made me think.

My top genres are litfic and sci fi. So this book was a big win for me. It's about a paraplegic Nigerian American author who writes a hugely successful science fiction novel, and her celebrity status opens her up to interesting things that make her feel a bit like she's living in her own sci-fi novel. 

There are alternating chapters from her perspective, from her novel, and from her family members giving interview style responses...

Some parts of the book did drag a bit for me here and there but the fun part about this more experimental form of storytelling is that as soon as you start getting bored, the perspective switches and things are interesting again.

I found the end of this book touching and surprising, in a great way! This was my first book from this author but certainly won't be my last.

I listened to this as an audiobook, which for me is very different than reading because I'm not great at focusing without a visual. So my mind drifts and I miss things etc.

I really enjoyed this book! I loved the Goldfinch and I always wanted to read this, then I saw the audiobook specifically mentioned in Perfume And Pain by Anna Dorn (which I loved) so I thought why not. I pretty much only listen to audio books on my 15 min commute home from work so it took me a long time to read.

I listened to American Psycho earlier on and I didn't like it at all. I'm not a fan of Brett Easton Ellis at all but the reason I bring him up is because this book felt like what I wanted his books to be. Maybe it's the female author factor, maybe I just prefer The Secret History. Either way, this book was exactly what I wanted it to be.

I hope I get the chance to read this with my eyes sometime to get the full experience.

I really enjoyed this book. It was certainly a fairly shallow take on its subject matter, but it was a lot of fun and quite funny. This is a satirical story about rich people who do horrible things to each other and the people around them. Like I said, it was a bit shallow. But it made its point, and I found a lot of Demi's chapters quite poignant. I'd certainly recommend this book to those who enjoy satire and unlikeable characters.

Unfortunately I accepted this Netgalley arc from the publisher right BEFORE reading Marisa Cranes debut novel. If I had read it first I would have known that her style of writing is not for me. A Sharp Endless Need has beautiful prose, it's well written, it's an objectively good book... I just didn't like it. I just didn't find it particularly engaging and I didn't really relate to the story. 

If you liked I Keep My Exoskeletons To Myself, and if you are interested in an intense sapphic sports romance, you will most likely enjoy it and I recommend giving it a try.

This book was just okay. Tbh I was definitely expecting more because I love Ava Reid but this story felt like it was missing something, especially the second half of it. The world building and stuff was super interesting and I was really into it at first but when things started happening I kinda lost interest. I didn't feel a lot of chemistry between the characters and the ending felt soooo rushed with an open ended completely unsatisfactory ending. Overall, while there were parts I did enjoy, this book was a miss for me. 

I loved this series but unfortunately this last book was my least favourite. There were many parts I truly enjoyed, but overall the story was just too slow for me and I didn't connect to the characters in the same way I did in other books. Maybe that's cus there were no human characters?? I don't think that's the reason though.

Warning for mild non specific spoilers!!


I loved this book. Obviously we go in knowing what's gonna happen which is so traumatic tbh. Seeing a young Haymitch full of love and hope and knowing how he is 24 years later is so sad!! There were also so many characters we know in this book! It felt like a true prequel to Catching Fire. 

Honestly, seeing how everyone tried and had hopes of ending the Hunger Games, and knowing that they do ultimately succeed but not until 25 years later, it was rough. I cried a lot reading this book and I'm not a big cryer!

I love the way the two prequel books contribute so much to world building for the Hunger Games, personally I like both prequels a lot more than the original trilogy and I think it's clear that Suzanne's writing skills have improved a lot. I loved the epilogue of the book and I'm so glad we got it. I really hope the movie finds a way to put that in as well. 

I really hope there's more books in this universe eventually, I feel like there's so many stories to tell!