The Facade by Judy Corry

RAT TERRIER. BABY.
"squeeze your hand three times" 😭😭
the epilogue "I know Asher" my brain:

378 Pages

Threads That Bind by Kika Hatzopoulou

She can see threads.
Also like all the Greek/Egyptian mythology
432 Pages

Behind the Scenes by Dahlia Adler

I feel like part of that happy ending was a little too easy.
But also. Protect Liam
328 Pages

If You Could See the Sun by Ann Liang

....Did this come out before turning red.
It's the commentary on the private school system and the enemies/rivals to lovers for me.
Also the Descartes(?) quote at the end hinting at the thing.
352 Pages

Cherish by Tracy Wolff

Y'all my ship my ship my ship my shipppppppppp
Hudson continues to be the sweet treat that is too good for this world, and we don't deserve him and his singing.
The ribbon mobile for the baby.
Everyone finding out the deets.
Jaxon and his hair.
Flint: 

Alexandria my home.
My ship my ship my ship my ship
I kept expecting the dew to be a baja blast.

My babies. I love them. I can't protect them. I love them.
Me having the bonus content from special editions to give me life.
592 Pages

The Comeback Summer by Ali Brady

Me: Immediately uncomfortable with Lou. It's sus. And I feel unsafe. And not in a good way.
....I'm being attacked

"knock down those walls" no no no no no. There's a door in the wall come through there.
a boy who wants to learn knitting. hellooo
I'm not going to no secondary location, rob.
I hate Libby. And maybe it's because I'm Hannah with an outside view of everything. Granted, I'm also Libby, but with more therapy in my brain....
The irony that the romance reader doesn't like having big feelings.
Ok fine Libby grew on me.... a little
480 Pages

Bow Before the Elf Queen by J.M. Kearl

....the prince Phillip and Aurora vibes, except Aurora isn't from a super royal family, really.
The secret pining is my favorite.
And the magic...Obvs
Oh and in the audiobook they had two narrators, but they swapped back and forth throughout the chapters and had the guy read all of the guy dialogue and stuff. Which I thought was neat.
598 Pages

The Book that Wouldn't Burn by Mark Lawrence

So I didn't understand all of the stuff and my brain kind of got lost, but like....
Library of Alexandria
Love story
The River Song and Doctor vibes.

But I'm excited to see where the next book takes us.
576 Pages

Julieta and the Romeos by Maria E Andreu

The You've Got Mail vibes
Also hi I want colorful hair.
Julieta living the dream of finding a person to write with and a person to talk to about writing and stuff.
400 Pages

Unmasking Autism by Devon Price

The amount of notes I took.
ADHD and PTSD being sibling conditions to autism. like .,sfjkld
"you're only seen as less adult and less of a person if you disrupt the illusions of self-sufficiency" 
"Sensitivity, despite being a sign of attentiveness and discernment, is frowned upon when you're good at detecting things people would rather not see"
 "it is not cultural appropriation or faking a disability to try out these tools. if autism friendly resources and adaptions prove helpful to you--that's another key signal that you belong in our spaces, or at the very least have a great deal in common with us"
304 Pages

Two Wrongs Make a Right by Chloe Liese

The fake dating. The anxiety. The autism. And the attentiveness. jsfkdsafjkld
Jamie's adorable. Anxious tall mess.
362 Pages

Into the Bloodred Woods by Martha Brockenbrough

I feel like there was too many different fairy-tales trying to fit into one story...Like....I see how it should only be one book....but also like... I've read so many books (cough Lunar Chronicles, Ravenspire) where they have multiple fairy-tales in the same world, and it's just more cohesive and clear... It felt kind of rushed, even from the beginning. 
377 Pages

TS Song: ...The Man...there's too many characters....

Life's Too Short by Abby Jimenez

And the attacks on Missouri by contemporary romance authors continue.
Geriatric Chihuahuas give me so much life. I love them. I say that as someone who has a 10 year old rat terrier that might have some chihuahua in her...
I love the assistant. I love her.
It's fine....Vanessa's like...living out part of my dream and that's just..goals... It's the travelling part.
When characters talk about therapy and enabling behavior and like...going to therapy... love it. Here for it. 
384 Pages

TS Song: I Wish You Would, Never Grow Up, (and a bit of imaginary Champagne Problems for the angsty)

Outlander by Diana Gabaldon

*looks at characters: Y'all gon need so much therapy.

My Catholic butt is just....I'm fine... There's an abbey and there's Benedictines and Franciscans... thinks about how I've slept through my perpetual adoration shifts before.....

Claire worrying about surviving the Jacobite revolt, and I'm just thinking about the awfulness that is all the second-half of the 1700s for literally any country in Europe.

Do I want to go into the culpability and morality of time travel and trying to change events, with the fear that it may actually make things worse....it's fine...this was written in the 90s...there wasn't a giant Reddit time-travel thread. 
672 Pages

TS Song: Evermore (like...it's got some of that energy) and because Claire compared it to Alice...yes I will also say Wonderland. 

An Arrow to the Moon by Emily X R Pan

Hey is that a reference to the Leo DiCaprio Romeo and Juliet
Hey look. West Side Story. 
I'm not crying, are you crying.
The Chinese mythology. The Romeo and Juliet. The commentary on fjkldadfjkla
400 Pages

TS Song: .. the two obvious choices are Love Story and the Archer

Sense and Second-Degree Murder by Tirzah Price

So I love Edward from Sense and Sensibility.... and I love Mr. Brandon except my entire image of him (I hate to say it, because it's Alan Rickman) is tainted by Alan Rickman and the fact that he was like....49 playing a 30 something...
Am I a Marianne....yes... I know that about myself.
I love the way that the characters were adapted into the murder mystery tropes. And we're talking about drugs and chemistry and crime. Which is just...my jam. 
432 Pages

TS Song: ....Edward said Enchanted... We all want to aggressively sing Mean at Fanny

Darkest Minds

 Darkest Minds

By Alexandra Bracken

Pages: 488

"When Ruby woke up on her tenth birthday, something about her had changed. Something alarming enough to make her parents lock her in the garage and call the police. Something that gets her sent to Thurmond, a brutal government “rehabilitation camp.” She might have survived the mysterious disease that’s killed most of America’s children, but she and the others have emerged with something far worse: frightening abilities they cannot control."

I haven't read a sci-fi in a while and this one follows the dystopian hype that followed Hunger Games. I did enjoy the start to the series, but it did drag in pacing at the start. However, the twists and dialog made up for the pacing and the ending broke my heart. I fell in love with the characters that join Ruby and am intrigued to learn more about the political side plot that is starting.

Court of Frost and Starlight

 Court of Frost and Starlight

By Sarah J. Maas

Pages: 272

"Months after the explosive events in A Court of Wings and Ruin, Feyre, Rhys, and their companions are still busy rebuilding the Night Court and the vastly-changed world beyond. But Winter Solstice is finally near, and with it, a hard-earned reprieve. Yet even the festive atmosphere can't keep the shadows of the past from looming."

I enjoyed this little novella. It didn't have much plot impact but was a cute, wintery, Christmas-episode aesthetic story, and a nice way to wean off of the end of the series. It provided a bit of closure on the characters, while somewhat setting up the next trilogy, though it was not the best writing in comparison to the main books.

Yesterday is History by Kosoko Jackson

Me guessing what might happen to Michael. 
I'm not crying, you're crying. It's the allergies. It's the humidity on my face.
336 Pages

TS Song: August

All of Us Villains by Amanda Foody and Christine Lynn Herman

It's got like some Deadly Education and Hunger Games vibes.
Do I have a favorite character. Yes. Is it the one who thinks he's a monster and that he's the villain...Also yes.
And now I'm going to be stressed until August.  
400 Pages

TS Song: Bad Blood