Tabatha Bernier

First chapter title “Welcome to Painstown” and you know this book is gonna be filled with the teenage drama! This story follows Olivia (Livvy) Chang, who is an Asian American 17 year old who starts at her fourth school due to her mom being in the military and she lands up in Plainstown, Ohio. She hits it off with another introverted quiet kid during lunch (Griff) when she’s forced to make a quick decision on where the heck should she sit?? There’s the head mean girl fully equipped with a posse — Mitzi, a gorgeous biatch who can’t be bothered with school since she has photo shoots and tiktoks and gigs lined up during the afternoon and school is just such a cramp in her style. The mean girl squad starts a war with Livvy for standing up for herself and Griff whisks her away into the library where Livvy is welcomed by a group called the Nerd Net, where their mission is to create equality and stomp out the bad guys while staying hidden. This story turned out to actually be cute while dealing with the petty drama on high school that looking back I also had in my school but now being older I wish I could just shout to all the kids to not worry it’s just a speed bump on the long road which is your life. If you liked this—read this: 🟣 Kind of a big deal by Shannon Hale 🟣 The upside of falling by Alex Light 🟣 Posted by John David Anderson 🟣 The girl least likely by Katy Loutzenhiser Read if you like: 🔸angsty teen drama 🔸coming of age stories 🔸tight group of friends 🔸young love Some content warnings: 🔺high school bullying 🔺racism 🔺divorce/broken families

I have not read a Danielle Steele novel in quite some time. This novel really pulled at your heart and shows the struggles even wealthy people have to go through, though I cannot understand how someone could even stomach writing a character like Luca—I guess there are real entitled self centered people like him in the world and also pushovers like Cosimo. I don’t care how wealthy I am—if I had a continuous screw up for a brother enough would have been enough WAYYYYY sooner. However….the location filled with history is amazing. Venice is on my bucket list so this novel really turned me into an armchair traveler! The books plot seemed slightly rushed towards the end but in true DS fashion ended perfectly!

This was my first SA Cosby book and I did enjoy his writing. It was extremely descriptive to the point where I felt like I was working in Sheriff Crowns office as a deputy — it seems the book could have been slightly shorter as the in depth descriptions didn’t make my reading experience any better. The ending really took me by surprise though. There was a lot of characters and moving parts but for the most part they were easy to keep straight. This book has trigger warnings galore from school shooting to pedophilia and child/adult murdering it was honestly heartbreaking. I’m not sure why books like this don’t have some type of trigger warning after dedications or title page. Titus was a great character but you were left feeling bad for him all around. The ending with his Jeep was awesome.

I wasn’t sure what to expect when reading this but figured why not?! It’s a nice short novella and wow—hooked! I can’t wait to read the rest of the series. It follows some doctors/scientists who are exploring another planet area when they feel they are getting hijacked and the helpers are now the hunted. Then there’s the murderbot who has some organic human parts and other inorganic mechanical parts and wears a helmet with an opaque mask to shield his organic human face. This book had a lot of LOL moments and I was really surprised with how much I actually enjoyed this read!

How could anyone not give this book 5 stars? I need to go back and read some reviews because I don’t get it. This book was AMAZING! I was on the edge of my seat literally the whole time. I read this book -in.one.sitting- that’s how good it was! The plane needs to ditch. What happens next? Will, Shannon and Chrissy and everything normal and perfect. You get into the minds of these fictional characters and the author made it seem like this was more non fiction than fiction! It must have greatly helped with her background as a flight attendant because this book was not only amazing it was informative. Filled with a lot of information I hope I never need to really know, unless it comes up during trivia night. The lives lost and the lives survived are so bittersweet. The ending with confessions it was just 🤌🏼 I wouldn’t think this one would deter me from flying or make me question flying since it mostly focuses on when the plane is crashed and not 200 pages leading up to the crash which would scare me more. The only thing I did a teensie tiny eye roll about was Chrissy’s job. Like what are the odds she owns an underwater welding company? And she was working where she was working on a project at that same exact time. Other than that this book was amazing from start to finish. No boring parts or pages thag were skipped. It was fabulous!!

What did I just read?! I thought this book was going to go in a totally different direction. The ending was—😵‍💫 Big book about wildlife trafficking and the environment. I’m just not sure I really understand the hummingbird and the salamander still 😩 So I get the beginning and who killed her brother and I’m guessing some retribution for killing Ned—but it doesn’t make sense why go all these lengths. And she had a dang death wish set out on her—but for what reason?! I’m still perplexed as to why they wanted her dead so much, why this was all set up. I need answers lol. The book is a solid three star read because I was involved and it was interesting to me to see where this all ended. The ending was less than lackluster and I didn’t fully understand it but I was following along pretty well until the last 1/4 of the book but I couldn’t even put the book down because I needed to know how this could possibly end. It was a really melancholy book—definitely not a feel good book or a book that you finish and feel like all the t’s were crossed, but I’m sure that’s the whole point of it.

I didn’t see that coming until I picked my book up after not reading it for two days and suddenly I weirdly knew who dun it. This book was such a slow start and it took me a bit to finish. It didn’t really grab my attention but through out the whole book you hear about that plot twist and OMG etc and I just couldn’t wait to hear it. And it deff was twisty lemme tell ya! The ending was good and bad. It was great as a reader but bad for a person—if that makes sense. I know the book has gotten negative reviews for coming down hard on writers — I didn’t think so, but then again I’m not a writer so maybe the writer was tough?! But the whole “plot” is really not “the plot” 😅 it was a good book but wasn’t full of twists and turns to keep you glued to the pages.

This book was such an enjoyment to read. It brings you through many of life’s difficulties between parenthood, friendship, depression, affairs, marriage, social status and the overall feeling of being content/belonging. Sam and Nisha couldn’t be more of complete opposites and then a chance mixup at the gym between gym bags changed the women’s lives completely. This is a journey of friendship and how sometimes being down on your luck isn’t such a bad thing. The bond that both the women had with their kids was some I think a lot of us can relate to depending on what part of the social circle your are in. But what matters is how you decide to live once you’ve looked back at your mistakes. The new friendships that emerge and new love interests make this book an absolute delight to read.

A Perfect Vintage will be published on 6/6/23, make sure to add this to your summer reads TBR! * In the beginning I was trying to figure out why stephanie wanted to go on vacation so bad with her daughter and why Lea just couldn’t say no. That’s a huge ask to take someone and their daughter to an international summer long trip for nothing while she is trying to work. * You get the feeling Lea had some type of relationship with one of the house owners in the beginning. There’s huge tension between her and Gabriel that leads you to wonder do they hook up? Isn’t it usually the characters who despise each other than fall in love in the end? Sorry I’m a true enemies to lovers-lover! * The sexual tension in the first 40% of the book is real 🥵🥵🥵 * No offense but the best friend/cousin blow up was so satisfying. It’s everything I was getting annoyed with while reading the book. * Stephanie’s self riotousness bothered me so much during the ending of the book. Entitled much? Who gave you this opportunity in the first place? * The ending was perfect. Lea coming full circle with herself was just what I needed to continue being envious of her amazing lifestyle.

2.5 stars. I wasn’t a fan. The ending was odd. I didn’t really like Alison which made me feel like a jerk. The characters were all odd to me. Claire was quirky but then grew up into a sane adult—until Clive. It just never felt resolved. You felt bad for Alison but then you maybe didn’t?! The ending seemed so prolonged. There was a ton of in depth detail, maybe too much. Overall the story wasn’t bad it just seemed to be a quick read for me and I really had to force myself to finish it. I finished it in a day because I had six hours of reading time and wanted to just find out the ending.