jussygillis's Reviews (761)

“Did it count as a meet cute if you got hit by oncoming traffic while swiping right?”

While at times this book was hilarious and the stories were fine. I found my mind wandering a lot while reading this book so something kept breaking my attention on it and I can’t put my finger there.

“It was all-or-nothing time. She already had nothing, so instead she chose all.”

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Lucky St. James is struggling with an mentally ailing grandmother and now being evicted from their home she’s unsure where they’re going to go. Until she is told a story that leads her to a old tunnel where she finds a spoon and for the first time it feels like everything is going go workout. 

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Thank you NetGalley this eARC in exchange for my honest review. 
I loved this book from the beginning. Different from what I’ve read from Cherie in the past but just as captivating. The focus on women finding themselves while telling their backstories. I loved  focus on sisterhood and working together for the greater good. 

“Just be careful ‘cause when you apologize that much, it all becomes white noise and loses its meaning.”

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In Limbo tells the story of Korean immigrant Deborah (Jung-Jin) Lee and the struggles she faces growing up in a beautiful and sometimes heartbreaking graphic novel memoir. 

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I cannot accurately describe the feels I felt while reading this. My heart ached for this girl. While I could never ever understand the extent of what she faced growing up there were some points that hit home for me. 

“Since October, none of them had liked being alone in the dark. It wasn’t that they were afraid, exactly. But they had learned that bad things could happen to you. At night. Alone. In the dark.”

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Let’s drive in a snow storm to a secluded winter retreat where everything goes wrong. 

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I made the mistake of reading this one before bed. 10/10 do not recommend, as some weird dreams were happening. I liked this one about the same as the first but I’m still bothered by the description of Brian, to me it feels like the author added a Black character just to say there’s “diversity”. It’s really not done very well. At the end of the day am I going to read the third one, yes.

“If a five year old has that kind of visceral reaction to my acting I must have done something right.”

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Tom Felton talks about growing up as an actor while maintaining a semi normal life as a child. Ans then the struggles he faced in early hood. 

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Growing up as an HP kid I have since separated myself from the franchise but still respect the place it held in my childhood. I also respect the actors who put so much into these movies, it was fun listening to Tom speak of his memories as a child actor and EXCUSE ME I didn’t know he was in The Borrowers?! Now I need to go rewatch it. Overall I adored this audiobook, and I know I know celebrity memoir. But I still loved it. 

“Though bloodlines among the people were usually considered in regard to marriage, if the Prophet directed it, it was believed God would honor the union. Biological and scientific issues would not come to pass as long as the couple had “enough faith.”

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Rebecca rehashes her life growing up and escaping FLDS and the part she took in helping bring some big names to justice. 

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It took me almost all month to read this book, there’s times where I had to leave it for a couple days at a time. Rebecca’s story is heartbreaking and disturbing but so inspirational seeing her escape what was her reality for so so long. 

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Karis mom disappeared when she was just days old, her father was in an accident leaving him unable to care for himself. 
Karis cousin finds a bracelet that has belonged to her mother, as soon as she touched the bracelet she started seeing visions of her mother leading her to more and more questions of what happened. 

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I cannot express how much I loved this book. The story is so much more than what you see at surface level. Friendship, family mixed into a perfect horror brought real. 

Let them call her dad, let them shake their heads, let them give her detention tomorrow. At least tomorrow the weather would change and she would not be stuck in school on a nice day, answering questions.

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After suffering a tragic loss, Ollie has changed. No friends, no clubs, just books. 

Then a field trip goes horribly wrong and she starts to think depending on people isn’t so bad. As long as they stick to small spaces. 

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This was a creepy middle grade read, I really think it has a good way of talking about grief for kids to understand. My one gripe is the author talks about one character being black. That’s fine but pointing it out literally has nothing to do with the story.

“Can’t I just like horror because it’s great? Does there have to be some big explanation?” 

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Jade convinces herself she’s living in a real life slasher and she tries to convince those around her it’s true including recruitment of newcomer Letha. Is it really trash bear like everyone is claiming or is there something else going on?

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Soooo this is a reread. The first time I read this as an ebook.. I didn’t love it and was very vocal, the slasher references were almost TOO much for me. Flash forward to me receiving the eARC of the sequel to this. I started it but I quickly got confused so I had to go back and reread. 

I am going to be completely honest. I enjoyed the audiobook version SO MUCH MORE. The story hit harder for me and I was invested in Jade and her inner monologue of slasher. 

Moral of the story is sometimes the format makes all the difference. 

When I finished this one I liked it well enough, but for me it drug on and I found myself and my mind wandering a lot. But this could be because I don’t love historical fiction