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3.25 stars, 0.25 comes from the ending, which I thought was fun.
Not sure how I feel about this book? Gen's humour and mind were funny, but there was so much explanation of everything that it slowed the story down for me, even though it went by quite fast.
I was going to read the rest in the series because I have them all, but I realized I packed away the 3rd book
Not sure how I feel about this book? Gen's humour and mind were funny, but there was so much explanation of everything that it slowed the story down for me, even though it went by quite fast.
I was going to read the rest in the series because I have them all, but I realized I packed away the 3rd book
Wow, I was hoping for so much more when I bought this book, and I'm disappointed. Bees are the best!
For some reason, I thought that this was NA, not YA, and I'm really not a fan of YA Contemporary anymore
For some reason, I thought that this was NA, not YA, and I'm really not a fan of YA Contemporary anymore
4.25 stars!
Full Review:
“It’s for the best,” he said. “You need to grieve, anyway.”
“You don’t deserve my grief,” I said.
“I meant your mother.”
Oh. Her.
“Don’t tell me what I need.”
The Bodyguard will definitely hold a spot as one of the funniest books I’ve ever read. The humour was a deadpan, dark, straight-faced, oops-I-accidentally-insulted-you and questioned-my-sanity style and was right up my alley!
The fact that I absolutely love the movie The Hitman's Bodyguard played a massive role in how much I loved the beginning of this book. Hannah was hilarious and I was so intrigued to see how the story would play out. The reverse roles in the book were refreshing and unique, considering the bodyguard trope is almost always the MMC, but I loved it this way! I now need more stories where the FMC is the bodyguard!
If you like:
❤️️Fake dating
❤️️One bed
❤️️Forced Proximity
❤️️Piggy-back rides
Hannah has some of the same inner feelings I do as well (and her humour is so similar to mine) so I related hard with her.
“But How does anybody just ever assume they’d be somebody else’s first choice? Was I better than all the other great people in the world? Was I special enough to be the one somebody picked over everybody else? ”
I will be rating this 4.25 stars in the end since there wasn’t much actual romance or spice - actually no spice and a little bit of tension/build-up, but I’m rounding up to 5 stars since I loved the funny parts.
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Full review to come after the release date, but in the mean time, check out my Instagram review I made for this book!
Insta Review
Full Review:
“It’s for the best,” he said. “You need to grieve, anyway.”
“You don’t deserve my grief,” I said.
“I meant your mother.”
Oh. Her.
“Don’t tell me what I need.”
The Bodyguard will definitely hold a spot as one of the funniest books I’ve ever read. The humour was a deadpan, dark, straight-faced, oops-I-accidentally-insulted-you and questioned-my-sanity style and was right up my alley!
The fact that I absolutely love the movie The Hitman's Bodyguard played a massive role in how much I loved the beginning of this book. Hannah was hilarious and I was so intrigued to see how the story would play out. The reverse roles in the book were refreshing and unique, considering the bodyguard trope is almost always the MMC, but I loved it this way! I now need more stories where the FMC is the bodyguard!
If you like:
❤️️Fake dating
❤️️One bed
❤️️Forced Proximity
❤️️Piggy-back rides
Hannah has some of the same inner feelings I do as well (and her humour is so similar to mine) so I related hard with her.
“But How does anybody just ever assume they’d be somebody else’s first choice? Was I better than all the other great people in the world? Was I special enough to be the one somebody picked over everybody else? ”
I will be rating this 4.25 stars in the end since there wasn’t much actual romance or spice - actually no spice and a little bit of tension/build-up, but I’m rounding up to 5 stars since I loved the funny parts.
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Full review to come after the release date, but in the mean time, check out my Instagram review I made for this book!
Insta Review
“Because you can’t get your head out of your ass long enough to realize that you’ve gotten complacent. Comfortable. The fact of the matter is, you don’t want to upset the status quo because it might change your place in the world. You’ve become exactly the type of hero we said we’d never be.”
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
This was such a relevant book, but keep in mind the trigger warnings of police and politician corruption and abuse of power - murder, frame-ups, scapegoats. It was a unique telling of police brutality, and I thought it was portrayed very nicely.
“You did this to yourself. This was your choice. Actions have consequences, Sol.”
“Yeah, they do. But I guess Seelie don’t have to think about that, do they?”
It’s so easy to ignore your privilege sometimes and stories like this remind you of why it’s so important to listen, acknowledge, and change your behaviour, as Jericho eventually did. But they weren’t so kind in the beginning:
“He liked how things were. He liked the black and white of it all. He liked knowing who was good and who was evil by the scent of their magic. He liked being able to say that if a redcap committed a crime, they were likely to commit another, and they should be taken off the streets.”
This was my first book with a gender-fluid MC, so I can’t speak to the authenticity of their thoughts/reactions but I thought it was done quite well! There was also a trans main character, as well as many queer side characters, so it was well-rounded in representation which was nice to see.
So, if you like:
⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️/5
This was such a relevant book, but keep in mind the trigger warnings of police and politician corruption and abuse of power - murder, frame-ups, scapegoats. It was a unique telling of police brutality, and I thought it was portrayed very nicely.
“You did this to yourself. This was your choice. Actions have consequences, Sol.”
“Yeah, they do. But I guess Seelie don’t have to think about that, do they?”
It’s so easy to ignore your privilege sometimes and stories like this remind you of why it’s so important to listen, acknowledge, and change your behaviour, as Jericho eventually did. But they weren’t so kind in the beginning:
“He liked how things were. He liked the black and white of it all. He liked knowing who was good and who was evil by the scent of their magic. He liked being able to say that if a redcap committed a crime, they were likely to commit another, and they should be taken off the streets.”
This was my first book with a gender-fluid MC, so I can’t speak to the authenticity of their thoughts/reactions but I thought it was done quite well! There was also a trans main character, as well as many queer side characters, so it was well-rounded in representation which was nice to see.
So, if you like: