I found a lot of parts of Ninth House to be boring and slow. I first started off reading the book and almost marked it as a dnf, but I decided to try the audiobook. Doing the audiobook made me get into the story more, but I did find parts still slow. I did enjoy the world building and found Alex to be a strong female character.

Rating: 4.5/5 Stars
First let me preface, do not read this during the time of a loved ones death anniversary because it makes it really hard to read.
This book is about grief and growing as an individual when your love has died. It’s beautiful in the way it is written. It’s heartbreaking as well.
Lydia’s fiancé dies on her birthday and she must grieve the loss of him. However, she gets some sleeping pills and it allows her to be with Freddie in an alternative universe. Will she still grieve him in a normal fashion or will she be living a double life?
I loved, loved this book and loved the growth of Lydia over the two years we have of her. I do wish we had an epilogue to see more of the ending.

Sarah J. Maas does it again! Her world building and characters are amazingly done.
Bryce was a party girl and experiences a great loss. This causes her to become a ghost and when some murders start happening that has links to Bryce. Bryce gets dragged into the cases and must try to solve the case.
The mystery of the book was well done and Sarah still has it with making you gasp. This book is a slow burn and all the small moments are sweet to make up for the jaw dropping ending.
This is a must read.

Rating: 3.5/5 Stars
Carey and James are assistants who end up going on a tour with their bosses even though they had separate plans. They have to keep their bosses from fighting and to look like a happy married couple. If they can’t then they may lose their jobs. On the tour James and Carey start to develop feelings for one another.
The Honey-Don’t List is a fast read and is good, but not as great as their other works. I felt like there wasn’t that much romance in the book and it focused more on their bosses rocky marriage instead of on James and Carey. So, I was a bit disappointed with that. At one point in the book, I became really annoyed with our secondary characters and got sick of them. I still look forward to Christina Lauren’s next book this October.

I loved the Infernal Devices series, so I was stoked about Chain of Gold since it follows Will and Tessa’s children and friends. However, I found Chain of Gold to be long and boring. There were many people and point of views to keep up with as well as keeping up with nicknames. It was a lot. I liked seeing Will and Tessa again and I loved the action scenes.

DNF at page 116. I tried to like this. I did, but it is awful. The writing feels jumbled. I’m going to admit here that I have bipolar disorder and one of my manic symptoms is racing thoughts. The way the character talked and how it was written felt manic to me. It hurt my head.
Also, I really hated April. She was under-developed and super annoying.
Thirdly, I felt like the plot was lacking. There was something missing and I can’t put my finger on it.

DNF at 68 pages. It was really slow and boring. Couldn’t capture my attention. It felt dreary as well.

Really boring. There is a lot of telling in the book, which makes it boring. The main character is whiny. Some of the main characters come off as one dimensional.

Rating: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️
The ending was not what I was suspecting. Olivia has a traumatic past and it creeps back to her 20 years in a twisted way. She wakes up from sleepwalking to find a dead body of a man who once found her twenty years ago. Who killed him? Will people connect the dots that these two are connected in someway?

I first read Shatter Me in 2011 during the dystopian genre boom and gave it 4 stars. Now it is 2020, and I’m finally rereading it because I want to read the sequels and it has been a very long time since I read this. I remember it well, but to be safe I wanted to reread it again. The writing is not the greatest, but I believe it was a debut back in 2011, which is fine. I gave it four stars then and now because of how fast the love story happens as well as some events.