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Charity Curtis has the summer job of her dreams, playing the “final girl” at Camp Mirror Lake. Guests pay to be scared in this full-contact terror game, as Charity and her summer crew recreate scenes from a classic slasher film, Curse of Camp Mirror Lake. The more realistic the fear, the better for business. But the last weekend of the season, Charity’s co-workers begin disappearing. And when one ends up dead, Charity’s role as the final girl suddenly becomes all too real. If Charity and her girlfriend Bezi hope to survive the night, they’ll need figure out what this killer is after. Is there is more to the story of Mirror Lake and its dangerous past than Charity ever suspected?

The reason why I read this book is because I’ve heard a lot of good things about this book and I have already read 2 books by the author which I had really liked. But after trying to read this book I gotta admit that this book was very painfully cringey to read and I just needed to DNF this book or I would never pick up any other book if I had completed this book.

The plot of this book is very slow and I just couldn’t find anything in the plot which would interested me enough to keep reading. The first 50 or so pages of this book is just scenes skipping between each other and the councilors talking about the final slasher simulation of the summer. Which really made me bored and uninterested because the plot in the first half was just the councilors walking around the property, talking and checking on props they were using in their simulation.

The plot would also gives us the glimpses of the woke political views, like police not carrying about black people and only being concerned about the safety of white people. Which really was the final straw for me to make my mind about DNF-ing this book. Because I personally hate it when authors use their fictional books to shove their political views down the readers throats. Im completely fine with the authors having their own political views but if the author is writing a fictional book then they shouldn’t fill the book with their real life political views.

At the same time the plot in this book is so much cringey and it plays on the slasher movie theme stereotypes. Where the main character constantly says “I cant die since I’m the final girl in the simulation”. Which didn’t help me liking this book and giving this book a good review. 

The writing style in this book, honestly felt like it was generated by chatGPT or some other AI chat. Because the entire writing style in this book was like “this happened, then this happened, then that happened, and lastly this happened” which made it seem to me like it was written by AI or the author just didn’t bother with this book and she just needed a quick paycheck.

The characters in this book were very annoying and shallow. The main character in this book would constantly say “I’m black and I’m gay” which made me annoyed and frustrated because like I get it that the main character is black and gay but the author doesn’t have to rub it in and remind me of it every 2 pages or so. It was almost like the main character’s whole personality was that she was black and gay.

All the characters in this book are very shallow and have no personalities to them besides their personalities being all about their looks and their sexuality. Which made me want to buy out every copy of this book and burn them to the ground.

This book gotta be easily my most hated book I have read so far in my life and that saying something looking at the fact of how many books I have read and reviewed on this website.

I Give This Book 1 / 5

Musical lover Riley has big aspirations to become a director on Broadway. Crucial to this plan is to bring back her high school’s spring musical, but when Riley takes her mom’s car without permission, she’s grounded and stuck with the worst punishment: spending her after-school hours working at her dad’s game shop. Riley can’t waste her time working when she has a musical to save, so she convinces Nathan—a nerdy teen employee—to cover her shifts and, in exchange, she’ll flirt with him to make his gamer-girl crush jealous. But Riley didn’t realize that meant joining Nathan’s Dungeons & Dragons game…or that role playing would be so fun. Soon, Riley starts to think that flirting with Nathan doesn’t require as much acting as she would’ve thought.

I gotta admit that I didn’t have a lot of expectations of this book because I had a lot of mixed feelings about this book before reading this one. But after reading this book I gotta admit that it isn’t half bad.

The plot of this book is very cute and sweat which made me like this book a little bit. But at the same time the plot of this book is very generic YA plot. 

There was a huge thing that annoyed me a lot in this book. Which is that main character in this book is a teenager girl who is obsessed with with musicals and theater plays. So she and her friend steals her mom’s car and drives to the neighboring state to watch some theater play while she didn’t have a driving license. And when her parents learn about their daughter without a license stealing their car with a friend only gives their daughter 7 weeks of her needing to work for free in her dad’s board games store.

This aspect of this book made me think that me think that that the author of this book had no idea how serious it is when a teenager without a car license stealing a car really is.

But other than that I gotta admit that this book is kinda cute and fun to read. Even thou it is very generic to the YA book category. I gotta admit that this book hasn’t worked on me beside being a quick book to read because of how simple and easy going it was.

The characters in this book are all over the place in this book. I found Nathan being a very good character but Riley on hand was very annoying for me personally because her entire personality was about theater and being overall a rich kid who done what she wanted. And for characters and people like Riley all I have is pure hate because I find them to be very very annoying.

While reading this book I gotta admit that I had few moments where I wanted to DNF this book just because of how annoying I found Riley to be. But I pushed through it and I am kinda happy that I have finished this book. 

This book had a lot of potential to be a very good book if Riley wasn’t so annoying a acting all the time as a spoiled rich kid who was just playing on my nervous all the time I was reading this book. Which makes it safe for me to say that I wasn’t a fan of Riley even thou I loved the rest of the characters in this book.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep’s genius granddaughter, they’re the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides—namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations. The plan for damage control: staging a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince.

The reason why I bought and read this book is because I watched the movie adaptions of this book and I liked the movie. And this book is very hyped up on the internet and I wanted to see if this book was worth the hype. And I gotta admit that this book doesn’t deserve the hype it but of course I’m gonna explain everything in this review so if you are interested then keep reading the review.

This book has a sweet and uplifting story in it, which I really enjoyed reading because when I read this book this year I was in a reading slump and this book helped to get out of it.

As I have seen above the story in this book is pretty good but it does have some moments which I found to be boring or uninteresting. Which means that I cant give this book a perfect rating. And I know that my opinion about this book might be very unpopular.

The first 40% of this book was really interesting for me personally but the deeper I got in this book the more and more I began to be very bored because for me personally the deeper I got into this book the more the story in this book started rolling down the hill faster and faster.

The romance part of this book is not that great in my opinion because it is the haters-to-lovers romance which I personally don’t like the most of all the romance sub topics because I find it to be very unrealistic and cheesy. And this book wasn’t as cheesy and cringe as I expected it to be but still there are quiet a few cheesy moments which got me rolling my eyes at. 

However I really enjoyed the political aspect of this book because I’m a political drama junky and “House of cards” is my all time favorite series. So because of the political aspect of this book, I gave this book some extra points for because the political aspect in this book was really good and enjoyable.

This book talks about self-discovery because Alex is confused about his sexuality and if he is straight, bi or gay. And I really like this aspect of this story because I really like the self-discovery aspect in books.

The writing style in this book complements the storyline of this book very well. Because the writing style is very simple and easy to read which really works well with he simple storyline of this book. 

The writing style is simple and easy yes, but it isn’t too simple like in some other YA books I’ve read in my time. The best way to describe the writing style in this book is that its like on the everyday conversion level. 

The characters in this book are very good, they are very relatable and likable. Both of the main characters are in their early 20s if I remember correctly. Both Henry and Alex are very good main characters because they feel like real human beings and thats what makes me like time a lot.

I Give This Book 3 / 5

The tale of the sea king’s daughter, Ariel, is a beloved one of losing— and then finding— one’s own voice. The story has been told many times and in many ways. But always the mermaid wants more than her world can offer, and her father demands that she live within the confines of his domain. Her rebelliousness costs the little mermaid her voice and nearly her soul. But the power of good prevails, and Ariel emerges proud and unchanged.

This book is the third in the “Disney Villains” book series. I need to admit here that the deeper I get into this series, the more I find myself enjoying the books in this series and the series as a whole in general. But without making the intro longer than it needs to be lets get into the review.

As you can guess from the cover of the book or the summary of the book, this book is about Ursula from the story of The Little Mermaid. To be very honest here, I was never a fan of that story as a kid because I found it to be very boring and uninteresting. But after I read this book, I fully stand by saying that The Little Mermaid story should have been told from Ursula’s perspective. Because I found her perspective to be very interesting, and for me personally, Ursula’s perspective gave the story more depth and made the whole story so much more interesting. 

The plot in this book is very complex, but at the same time very interesting and at times very sad and tragic. As I’ve said above, Ursula’s perspective adds more depth and complexity to The Little Mermaid story, which really made the whole story more enjoyable and interesting for me personally. 

But for the most part, the plot in this book is very easy-going and simple. But at the same time, it gives us a lot of complexity and a fun aspect. 

The characters in this book have a lot of depth to them, which I personally thought was missing from The Little Mermaid Disney story, which was one of the main reasons why I disliked the story as a kid. 

Some of the characters from book 2 in this series have pretty big parts in this book as well. And this book is more or less what happened right after the events from book 2 in this series, named “The Beast Within”.

The characters we got in this book, which were also from book 2, had a huge character development from book 2, which really made them so much more complex and good characters than they were in book 2. 

As of Ursula and Ariel in this book, Ursula is a very badass and fucked up character because of all the things she does in this book. Which, in a way, gives her more layers than what she got in the Disney movies. In a way all of the fucked up things Ursula does in this book makes her feel more human because of how complex character she is in this book. 

When it comes to Ariel, we don’t get to spend much time with her. Because this book focuses on Ursula and her journey and story. Which made this book so much better for me, because I always found Ariel to be a very annoying character even as a kid watching The Little Mermaid animated movie. 

The writing style in this book is very YA typical, which of course means a simple and easy writing style, which makes this book a quick read. But even thou the writing style is simple and easy, it plays well with the easy-going plot of this book, making the plot and writing style in this book play together very well. 

I Give This Book 4 / 5

A cursed prince sits alone in a secluded castle. Few have seen him, but those who claim they have say his hair is wild and nails are sharp–like a beast’s! But how did this prince, once jovial and beloved by the people, come to be a reclusive and bitter monster? And is it possible that he can ever find true love and break the curse that has been placed upon him?

This book is the second book in the Disney Villains book series by Serena Valentino. I gotta admit here that the deeper I get into this series the more I love the books in this series and the whole series in general. But of course I will explain everything in this review, so without making the intro longer than it needs to be lets get into the review.

First of all I need to mention here that this book diverges a little bit from the original beauty and the beast story. But it still was very good and interesting. The reason why this book diverges from the original story is because this book is told from Beast’s perceptive. 

This book is written form the Beast’s perceptive and we see the story unfold from his perspective which makes us see different aspects of the story than we do in the original version of the story. Which I personally loved a lot, because having this story told once again but from Beast’s perceptive really adds more depth to the original story and it makes the story more fun in my opinion at least. 

This book starts with telling us how the Prince changed into the beast and why he changed into the beast. Which in my opinion adds more backstory and information to the tale. I personally found it to be very interesting and enjoyable to actually get the backstory of why and how the prince Prince changed into the beast. Because ever since I could remember I always to know what got the prince to be changed into the beast. And this book tells us exactly what happened to make the prince change into the beast and what were the requirements for the beast to change back to his normal self.

The characters in this book are very good and well written. Because the characters in this book are very relatable and likable at the same time the characters in this book feel like real human beings in a way because of how much depth and personalities they have. 

The characters in this book doesn’t have anything new to them which they didn’t have in the original story of Beauty and The Beast. But at times those characters feel somehow different but thats because we get to see those characters from Beast’s perspective rather than Belle’s perspective.

The writing style in this book is very YA typical, because it is very simple and easy to read. Even thou the writing style is easy and simple it complements with the storyline in this book very well. The writing style really nicely captures the storyline in this book which really made me give this book some extra points for doing. 

I personally found the writing style in this book to be very hypnotizing because of how the writing style truly grabbed my attention and didn’t let it go until the very end. 

But there is one thing which annoyed me with the writing style in this book. And that thing which annoyed me in the writing style of this book is the fact that at times the writing style tried way too hard to sound very poetic and musical. Which at times really made me cringe and make me annoyed. 

Because of the easy writing style this book is a very quick read, it could very easily be read in one sitting because of how interesting it is and how it grabs your attention right from the start and doesn’t let it go until the very end of this book. 

In my opinion the story feels pretty rushed at times, because there are certain paragraphs in this book which move very fast. Which in a way made me disappointed because I wanted this book to be longer and go more in depth into the Beast’s perceptive which it didn’t.  And this for me personally is the only downside of this book. 

I Give This Book 5 / 5

For anyone who’s seen Walt Disney’s Snow White, you’ll know that the Wicked Queen is one evil woman! After all, it’s not everyone who wants to cut out their teenage step-daughter’s heart and have it delivered back in a locked keepsake box. (And even if this sort of thing is a common urge, we don’t know many people who have acted upon it.) Now, for the first time, we’ll examine the life of the Wicked Queen and find out just what it is that makes her so nasty. Here’s a hint: the creepy-looking man in the magic mirror is not just some random spooky visage—and he just might have something to do with the Queen’s wicked ways!

I gotta say that I’ve heard a lot of good about this series, and at the same time, I was very interested in reading this series ever since I found out that it was a thing. And now I finally did read it. So if you are interested in hearing my thoughts about this book, then continue reading this review.

First of all, the plot in this book was interesting and enjoyable. I had very high expectations for this book (and this series as a whole), and I gotta admit here that this book didn’t live up to all of my expectations I had for it. 

The plot was interesting, as I’ve said above, but I felt like there was something missing in here. Because we only see a very little of the Wicked Queen’s backstory and her transformation from being the good stepmother to being the Wicked Queen. Which in a way disappointed me in a way. I wanted to see more of her transformation into the Wicked Queen. 

But overall I really liked the plot because I found it to be very engaging and fun to read, even thou it had some downhill moments throughout this book. The plot itself is very depressing, and said that really made me very depressed at times because of all the sad things that happen in this book, which really made me give this book extra points for. Because when the transformation for Wicked Queen arrives, she is completely justified for turning into the bad guy because of all the depressing things she faces in this book.

The characters here felt shallow and very one-dimensional if you compare them to the characters we got in the snow white movies (not including the Rachel Zegler snow white movie because that movie was a dumpster fire of everything snow white stands for). 

The characters we got in this book didn’t feel like the same characters we got in the snow white movies, which in a way disappointed me. But I really liked the Wicked Queen in this book because the author was able to really make Wicked Queen really likable and not only the “bad bitch” which we got in the snow white movies. Which really made me like this book more.

The writing style is very easy and simple. In a way, it felt way too simple and easy for my liking. Goodreads says that this book is a Young Adult book, but the writing style in this book aims more towards middle school readers rather than young adult readers. 

But the writing style really played well with the plot in this book, because both of them are very simple and easygoing. Which really made me give this book some extra points for doing. 

However, this book tends to change perspectives mid-chapter, which really annoyed me a lot. I found it to be very confusing and annoying. Which really made me not like this book as much as I wanted to. 

I Give This Book 3 / 5

As the day dawns on the fiftieth annual Hunger Games, fear grips the districts of Panem. This year, in honor of the Quarter Quell, twice as many tributes will be taken from their homes. Back in District 12, Haymitch Abernathy is trying not to think too hard about his chances. All he cares about is making it through the day and being with the girl he loves. When Haymitch’s name is called, he can feel all his dreams break. He’s torn from his family and his love, shuttled to the Capitol with the three other District 12 tributes: a young friend who’s nearly a sister to him, a compulsive oddsmaker, and the most stuck-up girl in town. As the Games begin, Haymitch understands he’s been set up to fail. But there’s something in him that wants to fight and have that fight reverberate far beyond the deadly arena.

I need to admit here that I wanted to read it since this book was announced to be publish, and now I finally did. Without making the intro longer than it needs to be, lets get into the review.

I need to mention here because I was kind of disappoint in this book because after reading “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” in 2022, I was expected to love this book as much as I did “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”. But I cant say that I did. Yes I liked this book a lot but I didn’t love it. 

The plot here was very good here, but there were times I felt like this book was dragging a little bit especially at the beginning of this book which really made uninterested in this book. Since it took so damn long to give us the action here. But overall I had a lot of fun reading this book because it was interesting and enjoyable.

At the same time the action we actually got in this book felt at times very unrealistic. Before you comment that it is a fictional book, yes am aware of this. But I personally prefer the fantasy, utopia books to be at least somehow realistic. And as I’ve said, there are a handful of moments where this book abandoned all logic and realism. 

The characters in this book, were pretty okay. I really loved Haymitch in this book because he is an incredible character in this book and it really gives us more of his background and why he is such an underrated character in the main trilogy of the hunger games books. President Snow was also an incredible character in this book because we learn more about him after the events of becoming the president but before the first book in the original trilogy of hunger games.

I need to say that Haymitch didn’t feel like the same character we see in the original hunger games trilogy. Because he is very stand-offish and very calculated in this book  which I don’t remember about him from the original hunger games trilogy. It can be just my faulty memory when it comes to books I’ve read 5 ish years ago because in the 5 years time period since I read the original hunger games books, I have read a lot of books and because of this my memory can get a little blurry on some details.

When it comes to the rest of the characters I gotta say that they didn’t land well with me personally. Because I felt like they didn’t have a lot of personalities to them. I felt like the only reason why the side characters existed was to either die in the hunger games or be side characters no one really cared about. Of course it can be just me being too harsh on the side characters but thats just my thoughts which I had about the characters in this book. 

The writing style was pretty good, not as good as it was in “The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes”, but it still was pretty good. The writing style plays well with the storyline of this book which I really like. 

I gotta admit that the story has some very tragic moments which will live rent free in my head for a while because of how fucked up they were. I really linked a lot those tragic moments because it gave this book another depth if you will. But they also show how fucked up President Snow is and I personally have a love and hate relationship with President Snow. Because on one side I really love him because he is a very good and memorable character but on the other side I really hate him because of all the fucked up things he have done.

I Give This Book 4 / 5

When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder― much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It’s hard to call the police when the murderers are invisible to everyone else and when there is nothing―not even a smear of blood―to show that a boy has died. Or was he a boy?

I gotta say that I have to stop reading those very overhyped books on the internet, since neither of them are actually good in my personal opinion. 

This book is a very typical YA book, with the plot being very unbelievable. Like the beginning of this book where the bouncer at a nightclub lets in 2 15-year-old girls into the nightclub. 

I personally found this book very boring. The reason behind this might be the fact that it was in a huge reading slub while I picked up this book and tried to read it. Its important to say that I DNF-ed this book 150 pages or so into this book. 

I think that I was bit of too harsh to this book because of the reading slub I was in during reading this book. And because of this I wanted to read it again some time in the future. 

This book has a good beginning because its interesting and somehow enjoyable. But the deeper you get into this book all the momentum this book had during the beginning disappears and all the interesting parts just vanish into thin air. 

The writing style in this book is a very typical for a YA book, which means that its easy to read and it isn’t advanced. But I personally liked the writing style in this book because it played well with the plot of this book. 

The characters in this book were very generic for a YA book, which really disappointed me a bit because I’ve read on the internet that the characters in this book and the entire book series are very good. 

But after reading this book I gotta say that the characters are pretty flat and somehow shallow. Because they have very little personality and they almost blend together cuz they are so similar to each other in their personalities. 

I Give This Book 1 / 5

Feyre has returned to the Spring Court, determined to gather information on Tamlin’s actions and learn what she can about the invading king threatening to bring her land to its knees. But to do so she must play a deadly game of deceit. One slip could bring doom not only for Feyre, but for everything-and everyone-she holds dear.

This book is the third book in the “A Court of Thorns and Roses” book series. And I gotta say that so far this series is getting better and better with each book I read.

The plot here is very interesting because it involves so much action. We get battle preparations and a battle itself which were very very interesting and I didn’t noticed when I read this book. Because I was so much clued to this book and just couldn’t bring myself to put it down and stop reading it.

The sexual aspect, wasn’t so frequent as in the 2 previous books, because this book focused more on the action aspect which of course is the battle and the battle preparation which this book goes through. I personally didn’t miss it, because the action it was replaced with makes up for it. 

The writing style in this book is even better than the writing style in the first and second book. Somehow Sarah J Maas improved her amazing writing style for this book. Its even more interesting and it grabs your attention from the first page and doesn’t let it go until the very end of this book. Which I personally love when it happens in books. 

The writing style was very very good. It was almost like the author knew what words to use to completely grab my attention and to not let it go until the very end of this book. 

The characters in this book are even more incredible and amazing than in the first and second book of this series. 

Each of the character had so much character development in this book as well as in the entire series as a whole. I gotta admit that with each book of this series I read and I cant help but fall more in love with the characters of this series. 

The ending in this book was a roller coaster ride of emotions. I cant say what happens since I don’t want to give away spoilers for people who haven’t read this book or the series yet. But wow, I wasn’t expecting such an satisfying and emotional wreaking ending to this book.

I Give This Book 5 / 5

In the blink of an eye everything changes. Seventeen ­year-old Mia has no memory of the accident; she can only recall what happened afterwards, watching her own damaged body being taken from the wreck. Little by little she struggles to put together the pieces- to figure out what she has lost, what she has left, and the very difficult choice she must make. Heartwrenchingly beautiful, this will change the way you look at life, love, and family. Now a major motion picture starring Chloe Grace Moretz, Mia’s story will stay with you for a long, long time.

I gotta say that I’ve heard a lot of good about this book, which got me interested in reading this book. But after reading it I gotta say that this book is very very overhyped and not as good as people on the internet say it is. 

The plot in this book is very ridiculous because it is all over the place, if a vampire showed up in this book I wouldn’t have gotten surprised because its very ridiculous.

There is a point during this book where the main character Mia, is in a hospital bed very close to dying and all she thinks about is how cute her boyfriend is. If you ask me it is very unbelievable.

I need to admit that I have had DNF-ed this book and I didn’t read the entire book because this book was pure torture for me and I just couldn’t read the entire book since it was giving me a huge reading slump.

My best adept to describe this book is to say that it was probably the most boring book I’ve read in 2024. Wish says a lot looking at the fact that ive read over 200 books in 2024.

The writing style in this book is very very bad. Because it feels like it was written by a junior high girly girl. Which for me personally it doesn’t work. Because the writing style is way to cheesy and cringe.

The relationship in this book was almost not existing. Because the only thing which made the relationship in this book was the girl and boy calling each other “boyfriend” and “girlfriend” but other than that the relationship aspect of this book didn’t exist.

I Give This Book 1 / 5