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

A Million Junes by Emily Henry

Ok but all of the Eden and Genesis imagery. and the Adam and Eve and snakes and jfkdlsajjikl. I love it. 
Do I want to go through and find all of the references.yes.
It's the talking about writing for me.
They keep calling Jack "Junior" and my brain just jumps to Indiana Jones.
fjkdlsjjksgf;ajklfg
I'm not crying, you're crying.
400 Pages

TS Song: ...Love Story...but also Holy Ground, Fearless, and Clean. 
....a character said "Hey Stephen"....evil. 

You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty by Akwaeke Emezi

It's the girl with the really colorful hair and all the bi vibes for me. 
I. don't. know. who. I'm. supposed. to. ship. 
Ok I know who to ship.
288 Pages

TS Song: I'm getting Cornelia Street vibes....False God but slightly less steamy

A Court of Wings and Ruin

 

A Court of Wings and Ruin

By Sarah J. Maas

Pages: 699

"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. As war bears down upon them all, Feyre and Rhysand must decide whom to trust amongst the cunning and lethal High Lords, and hunt for allies in unexpected places."

This series has now been added to the list of books I wish I could read again for the first time. It started a little slow but majorly improved to the point that the ending to this trilogy had me crying and re-reading the final few chapters. I definitely recommend this series and am excited to see what Mass has in store for the second trilogy following Feyre's sister.

Darling Girl by Liz Michalski

WHAT.
WHAT
I'm getting so many Nemo and Marlin vibes
I have so many feelings. Also we love Jack.
352 Pages

TS Song: my tears ricochet, (and a bit of All Too Well (10 minute version) (Taylor's Version))
could we also make jokes about Never Grow Up

Lakesedge by Lyndall Clipstone

Character says "This love"
Me thinking that this was a Phantom of the Opera retelling but it wasn't and it was better.... fdjsklfjklajlfkj. Like it's obviously not Beauty and the Beast, but I always see the connections...
The self-sacrifice, the angst, the suffering, the haunted outdoors...my jam.
Look at the ace and demi rep for me, and I'm reading it in June. 
Hey, Rowan, if you're reading this, I'm free on Thursdays.
416 Pages

TS Song: can we make an Out of the Woods joke...for some reason "So it Goes" is what went through my head, peace, cardigan

The Godborn and the King by Kaitlyn Davis

The character growth.
Also look at my babies all being adorable and smitten 
And we're talking about characters still being able to do things even though they're different. Great tea. 
I'm just...gonna be over here stanning for Rafe and Ana...like.....Chef's kiss...Perfection. Amazing. Would die for them. 
486 Pages

TS Song: invisible string

This Woven Kingdom by Tahereh Mafi

It's got some Cinderella vibes
*looks at cover and understands it now. 
I loved the writing style because it reminded me of Pride and Prejudice and Elizabeth and Darcy.
Kamran is the level of everything that I want. He's trying his best. 
The tropes are fantastic. 
Also I wish I knew more about Persian mythology so I could catch the nuances. 
Gets to the end of the book:

Like....I need something to hold me over...a date...a title...a cover...literally anything. 
528 Pages

TS Song: Enchanted

The New York Public Library Guide to Organizing a Home Library by Kathie Coblentz

I loved some of the humor, but also like...it wasn't ground-breaking. It was just a brief collection of other references, which is fine. 
128 Pages

TS Song: NA....cause it's nonfiction

Katmere Academy: An Insider's Guide by Tracy Wolff

The bonus chapters....gahhhhhh
The content. The random information. The official art. getting to know more about the Order
Y'all. The novella. fjldkfkldfdklls. The content I always want (Hudson content); he so rightfully angsty. He be an angsty teen, even though he's been alive for a while, cause he's a vampire.
301 Pages

TS Swift: (I wanna make a joke about State of Grace...cause Grace); Dancing With Our Hands Tied, The Outside, Haunted, The Very First Night

The Monarchs by Kass Morgan and Danielle Paige

When one of the mother's names is Marjorie. (but no that is not going to be the Taylor song)
As I said before...can we just love the boys. 
I should have seen the twists. like....The characters that were introduced. I love how the world was expanded and everything. Also I just...loved the ending. Cause growth. 
448 Pages

TS: Afterglow