The Friend Zone by Abby Jimenez

Summary: "Kristen Peterson doesn't do drama, will fight to the death for her friends, and has no room in her life for guys who just don't get her. She's also keeping a big secret: facing a medically necessary procedure that will make it impossible for her to have children. Planning her best friend's wedding is bittersweet for Kristen--especially when she meets the best man, Josh Copeland. He's funny, sexy, never offended by her mile-wide streak of sarcasm and always one chicken enchilada ahead of her hangry. Even her dog, Stuntman Mike, adores him. The only catch: Josh wants a big family someday. Kristen knows he'd be better off with someone else, but as their attraction grows, it's harder and harder to keep him at arm's length."

Josh is one of my favorite romance heroes...ever! He's just a sweet, vulnerable, awesome teddy bear. I preferred Josh's POV chapters to Kristen's. And this story is probably not for everyone, but Josh's character makes up for its various issues.

367 pages

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Whatever Life Throws at You by Julie Cross

Summary: "Seventeen-year-old Annie Lucas is too young to remember her dad's glory days as a pitcher for the Yankees. So when her father is offered a coaching position with the Kansas City Royals, Annie is intrigued to see the baseball side of her dad. Of course, knowing he'll be a mentor to hot young rookie pitcher, Jason Brody, certainly makes it more enticing."

One of my favorite re-reads during the summer! And a good filler for missing sports. And a Missouri setting!

373 pages

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The Revolution of Ivy by Amy Engel

I love Engel's writing style. The characterization. I'm crying. Someone send help. Sacrificial love and mercy. People having inherent dignity due to the fact that they are human

All of the outdoors survival things.

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I love Bishop.

I love all of my sweet babies. My baby boy.

It's about the found family, y'all.

Yes to non-toxic relationships *Opossum lady-Let's snap for Apple*

Yes to honesty and communication and working through issues; yes to fights where people say what they're feeling without attacking the other person. RELATIONSHIP GOALS. Someone call my best friend.

Where do I find myself a Bishop (I know where to find a Catholic bishop). I want a man of marriagable age, who is single and has the wonderfulness of Bishop Lattimer... I like a guy who knows how to hunt and can fix stuff and you know, treats me like a person....Is that too much to ask..
....That scene from the end of the Fox and the Hound.Yeah...that hurt.

...The epilogue. dsfkjlsfdjklsfdajklsfd;jklsfdjklsfd;jklsfdajklsfdjklsfd
400 Pages

House of Earth and Blood by Sarah J. Maas

Bryce Quinlan had the perfect life—working hard all day and partying all night—until a demon murdered her closest friends, leaving her bereft, wounded, and alone. When the accused is behind bars but the crimes start up again, Bryce finds herself at the heart of the investigation. She’ll do whatever it takes to avenge their deaths.

Hunt Athalar is a notorious Fallen angel, now enslaved to the Archangels he once attempted to overthrow. With a demon wreaking havoc in the city, he’s offered an irresistible deal: help Bryce find the murderer, and his freedom will be within reach.

As Bryce and Hunt dig deep into Crescent City’s underbelly, they discover a dark power that threatens everything and everyone they hold dear, and they find a blazing passion—one that could set them both free, if they’d only let it.

Pages: 816

The Book of Ivy by Amy Engel

Ahhh Missouri.... yes humidity..but her writing makes me want to actually go outside. All of the outdoors summer things.
Finally some good freaking Missouri content. YA content, fanfic tropes. AHHHHHH

I love that we're talking about difficult topics that are real to life and different ways to come at the problem. AGH SHE'S INSPIRING MY WRITING.
I love my beautiful baby Bishop. He looks like a cinnamon roll and could actually kill you...but he's also a cinnamon roll.
I will go down with this ship.
Insert that scene from Mr. and Mrs. Smith
How I was expecting Bishop to react:

I can't believe there's fanart... God is real. I just have a lot of feelings and I don't know how to talk about them. I need to own a physical copy of this book. I'm fine I'm fine I'm fine. Just all of the Bishop. Just leave it at that. Bishop and Ivy.
304 Pages

Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

I love this in audiobook format!

....Dude there's a virus and quarantine...haha

....Dude we're only halfway through the book.... crud

DEAD POET'S SOCIETY SFJKDASFJKLDJKLSFD

istg if this turns into Shakespeare

.....sfjkleasjkldsfdjklsfjkld

Nope nope nope nope I'm done. I quit.

This is like the Mars episode of Doctor Who. I quit.

Insert that first scene from the Star Trek reboot movie with Jim's dad.

608 Pages

Eight Doors of the Kingdom by Jacques Philippe

I love that Philippe broke down the beatitudes into their own chapters and went into detail about how to live them out.

Yeah, I've underlined like a third of the book....

224 Pages

More by Tessa Dare

After years of fending for herself, Kate Taylor found friendship and acceptance in Spindle Cove—but she never stopped yearning for love. The very last place she'd look for it is in the arms of Corporal Thorne. The militia commander is as stone cold as he is brutally handsome. But when mysterious strangers come searching for Kate, Thorne steps forward as her fiancé. He claims to have only Kate's safety in mind. So why is there smoldering passion in his kiss?

Pages: 374

On the cusp of her first London season, Miss Madeline Gracechurch was shyly pretty and talented with a drawing pencil, but hopelessly awkward with gentlemen. She was certain to be a dismal failure on the London marriage mart. So Maddie did what generations of shy, awkward young ladies have done: she invented a sweetheart. A Scottish sweetheart. One who was handsome and honorable and devoted to her, but conveniently never around. Maddie poured her heart into writing the imaginary Captain MacKenzie letter after letter … and by pretending to be devastated when he was (not really) killed in battle, she managed to avoid the pressures of London society entirely. Years later the real Captain Logan MacKenzie arrives on her doorstep—handsome as anything, but not entirely honorable. He’s wounded, jaded, in possession of her letters… and ready to make good on every promise Maddie never expected to keep.

Pages: 384

Once a King by Erin Summerill

Secret tunnels.
I miss Britta and Cohen...Because I love them.
Aoden looking at Lirra: This pleases me:

None of these problems would happen if all y'all just dtr'ed and told each other your feelings.

Please protect the smol bean. And Dad is back. Heart eyes.

My babies.. my beautiful babies. My ship. No one touch my ship. I have feelings ok....
464 Pages

Ever the Brave by Erin Summerill

My ship. My beautiful ship.
Baby brothers. I'm fine.
Secret tunnels
Into the garbage shute
....I just want my ship to be canon... I will riot if they don't get together.
Ok no. We can throw that fanfic trope out the window please. No no no no no no.
Cohen is a sweetie pie and he deserves the world. He is too pure and must be protected.
Alexa play "It Doesn't Get Better Than This" from The Prince and Me.
480 Pages

The Kingdom of Back by Marie Lu

Sibling relationships. All of the feels. Help me.
I love Marie Lu's writing.
Somebody protect baby brother. fadsklfdsaj
I just want so much fanart of little baby Wolfgang.
336 Pages

Emerald Green by Kerstin Gier

...Gideon...use your brain.

Grandfather... sfdafsajlkfsdajklsfldak

Man I love that gargoyle.
Gollum. Yas
Alexa play Chandelier

I'm going to collapse from feelings.
Costume lady...I love her.
I'm stressed...all the time.
Screeching.. yes to the epilogue
480 Pages

Sapphire Blue by Kerstin Gier

I just love time travel. sfdjkljsfdajklsda Historical fiction.
Memories from Cats... yaaas
Flips table because I have feelings.
384 Pages

Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon

Dragonfly in Amber by Diana Gabaldon

Claire Randall returns to Scotland with her grown daughter intent on revealing a truth she has hidden for twenty years: about the ancient circle of standing stones, about her flight through time into the arms of a fierce Scottish warrior named Jamie Fraser. Now Claire lays bare her story for Brianna, revealing the truth about Jamie, their time in Paris in the 18th century, and their fight to save Scotland from Bonnie Prince Charlie, the Battle of Culloden, and its aftermath.

Book #2 in the Outlander series. 743 pages.

The Book of Three by Lloyd Alexander

The first book of the "The Chronicles of Prydain" series
....Yeah I'm reading it because of Disney's The Black Cauldron....
I love the sassy harp.
All of the wisdom mic drops.
I love Eilonwy; she is so fierce.
Hen Wen!

224 Pages

Allied by Amy Tintera

I've said it before, and I'll say it again: I love Cas.
Olivia's whole situation reminds me of Azula from Avatar the Last Airbender.....
And I know it's obvious, but I love Em and Cas.
Galo is a sweetie. Aren is a sweetie. Everyone is a sweetie and they all need to be protected.
I'm so happy for all of my babies.
432 Pages

Ruby Red by Kerstin Gier

Oh my gosh I love Gwyn. She is so sassy. What is it with guys named Gideon....
...aand the British school system.
Go off Gwyn. Throw that tea.
Also Lucy and Paul...cuties.
352 Pages

The Foxhole Court by Nora Sakavic

What is it with all of the sports fiction that I read having a team that's obnoxiously bright orange....
.....How does he....how does he know all of these languages...wth
I live for mafia problems.
262 Pages

Hunter by Mercedes Lackey

Ok so mana is the life force...y'all the bread that God gave to the Jews....and the Bread of Life...Jesus...come on.
I'm having trouble liking Joy--like, she just seems too perfect (I mean if we forget that she's kind of judgmental). I want her to be bad at something, and I want her to actually feel feelings besides mean feelings. I think it's because I'm very character oriented, and she doesn't think she needs to grow in anything.
400 Pages

Shatter Me by Tahereh Mafi

Insert "Adam" vine
I stan characters who believe that they are monsters, but are cinnamon rolls...Cause same.
I love the writing style.
James... just James
When will men understand the concept of no
The polar bears are dying vine
.....Things are way too happy...Secondary location.... and they were roommates.
464 Pages



Song thoughts: Monster--Broadway Frozen, No by Megan Trainor

Sadie by Courtney Summers

Ok so I am in pain.
This was amazing as an audiobook!
Me and my love of Criminal Minds is getting the best of me, and is getting me into trouble.
336 Pages

Northanger Abbey by Jane Austen

Jane Austen going off on writers who make heroines hate novels and not read fiction.
"I have no notion of loving people by halves. It is not in my nature" If we completely ignore which character said this, and just look at the quote, it's amazing, and honestly I relate to it so much.
Someone please protect Catherine from all these mean people.
I am so stressed. We need to get rid of these lying manipulative jerk faces.
240 Pages

Becoming the Dark Prince by Kerri Maniscalco

Thomas....use your brain. But I love getting in this loser's head. The sweetie pie. And his notions of love... Ugh I'm going to die alone.
I love getting to see Thomas being adorable and thoughtful. sfjkldfsjldafdjkl. I love him.
67 Pages

Capturing the Devil by Kerri Maniscalco

Thomas is too good for this world, and he's going to kill me. He is the reason my expectations for my future husband are so high. sfjkld;jlsga;sklda
Ok but Audrey Rose preaching about how a husband and wife aren't supposed to complete each other but complement each other! YES! Yes my queen! FINALLY
.....whelp
Go grandmama.
Give em the old razzle dazzle
"The greatest trick the Devil ever pulled was convincing the world he didn't exist." It wasn't quoted in the book, but I was reminded of that, when Thomas talks about how the world likes to close its eyes to the evil present, because if you can't see it, it doesn't exist.
Thomas's sugar addiction makes me feel called out.
Not to reference Criminal Minds again, but killers always do a test run....
...and now we have a psychopath
480 Pages

Escaping from Houdini by Kerri Maniscalco

I love magic and illusions and carnivals. The whole vibe it gives off is just. Aghaklsdf. The atmosphere.
Titanic vibes. Titanic vibes everywhere.
And as always, I am a blushing mess over Thomas.
These two are going to kill me.
480 Pages

The Enneagram Type 4: The Romantic Individualist by Beth McCord (Author), Emily P. Freeman (Foreword)

I am such a 4... As always I feel attacked.
The childhood message of "It's not ok to be too much or not enough." Ooof that hurt a lot.
160 Pages

Avenged by Amy Tintera

Ahhh. This is what I get for starting Criminal Minds while in quarantine. my newfound obsession is not helping me rn...because I see antisocial personality disorder....everywhere.
Em trying to explain Caz to Olvia....that scene from Beauty and the Beast where Belle says "he's kind and gentle" around Gaston.
I've only had Aaron a day and a half, but if anyone hurts him....
Violet is such a shipper, and I love her. I didn't realize that I would love her.
Caz is a cinnamon roll.
Caz...the sweetie
There really is a Gaston in this book... Ew
Bruno is our hope in this world
I am stressed.... Again.
I am in pain.
432 Pages

Ever the Hunted by Erin Summerill

.....These idiots.... How can they be so stupid....Define the relationship, y'all. This would save so much angst.
I'm just gonna be a blushing mess over here. I'm fine.
Y'all..... The classic fanfic trope that kills me every time it happens... It happened...
These dodos caring more about the well-being of the other.... Don't mind me; I'm just crying about sacrificial love...
The horse is the third wheel... or is Britta the thrid wheel? The world may never know.
Ok but the line where Britta thought about how she actually wanted people to like her, and that she was kind of lying to herself when she pretended that what people said about her didn't hurt....That hurt. I did not sign up to be attacked like this.
416 Pages

Midnight for Charlie Bone by Jenny Nimmo

I remember my fifth grade English teacher reading/following this series soooooo....
I love the concept of Charlie's power. Ok I love the concepts of a lot of the powers that have an form of story telling (so like, being able to hear photos speaking, or feel an objects past, or hear animals)
I love the doggo Runner
Rainbow cats.... where are the other three, idk.
It does not help when one character is named Billy and another is Benny. I am confusion.
401 Pages