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hopeful lighthearted fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: N/A

Miles is so sweet. I love him and Maria together

A Novel Christmas

Charity Shane'

DID NOT FINISH: 50%

This started off well for me however I think I'm not a fan of the author's writing. That being said I can see how others would love it. It's a small Christmas town romance and it is very cute. For me things started to go downhill when the
fmc gets catty with another woman for being a little flirty. And while I can understand that the way that she handled it was immature and I didn't appreciate the way she talked about the other woman behind her back. The mmc also refers to the fmc in a "not like other girls way" that I found offputting. I also just found a lot of the dialogue to be cringey
adventurous challenging dark emotional hopeful lighthearted sad fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Yes
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

Loved this! I love the relationship between Ciara and Lincoln. Love both of their families and found families and I cannot wait to finish the series.

I will say that I was annoyed with
both the way that Ciara felt like she had to face everything on her own and the way that Lincoln felt responsible for things that he had no control over. Both of those are some of my pet peeves. In addition I did find some of the dialogue to be a little cringe but I loved their story and the ending was satisfying

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Murder by Page One

Olivia Matthews

DID NOT FINISH: 17%
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: No
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I originally DNFed this at 92% because I truly just didn't care. The main character has no valid reason to be involved in any of this. Everyone is calling her like "you're all I have" HOW?? You don't know that girl.

Because I wanted to be be Investigator Throreaux in Noir Apothecary for Blackooween I decided to finish it because the last book that I was planning to read was boring and I knew that with my busy schedule I probably wouldn't finish it in time. 
By the time we get to the end of this book we're told that everyone is a big happy family who looks out for their own and I'm confused because at the beginning of this book the characters either didn't know or hardly talked to each other
dark emotional tense fast-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: Yes
mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: A mix
Strong character development: No
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus: Yes

I know that MCs in cozies are usually dumb but Bronwyn takes it to a whole new level
funny lighthearted mysterious tense medium-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
adventurous hopeful mysterious tense medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven: Character
Strong character development: Yes
Loveable characters: Complicated
Diverse cast of characters: No
Flaws of characters a main focus: Complicated

This was not bad. It has the typical cozy elements with an amateur sleuth that asks too many questions and loves to put themselves in dangerous situations,

Would recommend if you would enjoy an apothecary setting and water witches

Birthday Girl

Penelope Douglas

DID NOT FINISH: 61%

I picked this up just to see what the hype was about and surprise surprise I didn't love it. The only reason I kept going for so long was just curiosity. I don't really like Jordan, Cole is a piece of shit and I knew exactly what would happen there. Pike is probably the character I like the most and that's not saying much,