Court by Tracy Wolff

I. love. this. series. Was I cackling and smirking through the majority of this....yes...I love it. The characters.
I just have so many memes and gifs (Avengers) that I could but I can't remember them because I read it over a weekend and didn't take notes.
I just desperately need the next book....
Hudson. I love him. We know this.
Anxiety rep. fantastic.
Anytime Cyrus says anything I just....am tempted to slap him
everyone is gonna need therapy, y'all. 
Everyone's talking about Harry Styles and his album, and I'm just WAITING for someone to please mention Taylor Swift, except the album was created because of quarantine, so does it exist in this world...I have no idea. 
720 Pages

TS Song: ....all of Reputation (I Did Something Bad, Don't Blame Me, and Look What You Made Me Do)... Plus a little bit of Mad Woman

What We Harvest by Ann Fraistat

fdskl;kf;sld the idea. just the whole concept. the rainbows.
Derek and Wren are adorable...ok well I think they're adorable
the zombie people.
We stan horses and cute doggos. 
336 Pages

TS Song: Mary's Song (and then there's like...all the Stranger Things/paranormal vibes but we're gonna ignore that for this song pick)

Devil in the Device by Lora Beth Johnson

All the AI tropes. Zhade is just doing his best.
I still love how the language is adapted because language is living so like...gah.
I wish we had seen more of Zhade's brother because like...I was intrigued. 
That ending tho...
432 Pages

TS Song: .....I got nothing... uhhh...

A Court of Mist and Fury

 

A Court of Mist and Fury

By Sarah J. Maas

Pages: 624

"Feyre has undergone more trials than one human woman can carry in her heart. As her marriage to Tamlin approaches, Feyre’s hollowness and nightmares consume her. She finds herself split into two different people: one who upholds her bargain with Rhysand, High Lord of the feared Night Court, and one who lives out her life in the Spring Court with Tamlin. While Feyre navigates a dark web of politics, passion, and dazzling power, a greater evil looms. She might just be the key to stopping it, but only if she can harness her harrowing gifts, heal her fractured soul, and decide how she wishes to shape her future—and the future of a world in turmoil."

I know the relationship in the first book was too easy. The turmoil and 180 turn that this book took really stepped it up from the first book. I am beginning to see why so many people loved this series as things are now getting interesting and a wider plot is revealed after the threat in the first book is removed. The characters have gotten much more complex from the somewhat flat feel in the first one. I definitely recommend reading the first as it sets up everything in this next installment but I really enjoyed the sequel over the first book.

Portrait of a Thief by Grace D Li

the yellow car.
kgfjld'gjklfdl;jklgfds
My mind is slightly blown that people can sleep through a 14 hour flight....like...
the found family and the heists and the sneaking. The heists aren't necessarily the focus or the shinning moment of the story, but I suspend my belief for anything. 
The sibling relationships. sfjkld
Also the commentary on imperialism. Let's go. 
384 Pages

TS Song: New Romantics (it's for the lyrics and the young adult vibes), Getaway Car, Cowboy like Me....

The Agathas by Kathleen Glasgow and Liz Lawson

The mystery. The intrigue. The Agatha Christie references. 
Me taking notes of all the details because I need to be smart:

Also, I see you potential set-up for sequel.
416 Pages

TS Song: The obvious choice is no body, no crime; but also: seven/tolerate it.

Wild and Wicked Things by Francesca May

All the Gatsby vibes, but make it queer.
the backstories are my favorite.
432 Pages

TS Song: ...Ivy...and Treacherous... (and any song that has a Gatsby reference)

A River Enchanted by Rebecca Ross

Tarin reminds me of Chaol (and Brigan (who was like...one of my first book crushes when I started reading YA... from Fire)
It's got all the witchy vibes.
I loved the characters so much, and the yearning..which is just like...perfect. I love sibling relationships. 
480 Pages

TS Song: Willow (I had a hard time picking a song because like...there were multiple characters and plot lines, so it's more for the witchy vibes)

Part of Your World by Abby Jimenez

*sees that the love interest is a carpenter...sign me up. 

It's the baby goat in pajamas and the roo-rooing dog for me....
The snark. Is just. My favorite.
Also the commentary on how communities that are rural and less-populated tend to have less access to affordable medical care and just suck it up and muddle through.
The statistics on domestic abuse and how the most dangerous time for a victim is when they leave.
ER doctors are just fantastic--cause like...they have to think on their feet and stuff and deal with people on their worst days. 
All the small town vibes, and the small business vibes and the handcrafted.
It's just fluff and rainbows and I love it. It's a Hallmark movie in a book, I knew what I was getting into. 
400 Pages

Taylor Swift song: Daylight (also King of My Heart)

Covet by Tracy Wolff

Cyrus to Hudson and Grace:

Hudson, I know you're a vampire, but crud you're thirsty. 
All my babies gonna need so much therapy. Cause trauma...trauma everywhere. 
The entire prison section is just.. love it. 

Hey look, is that commentary on how the prison system is kind of messed up and unfair and broken.
I love the characters. I love the humor. I love the references. It's like Twilight, but better.
600 Pages

Taylor Swift song: I Know Places...there's a scene in NY so I'm like...tempted to put Welcome to New York.
                            

A Court of Thorns and Roses

 A Court of Thorns and Roses

By Sarah J. Maas

Pages: 433

"When nineteen-year-old huntress Feyre kills a wolf in the woods, a beast-like creature arrives to demand retribution for it. Dragged to a treacherous magical land she only knows about from legends, Feyre discovers that her captor is not an animal, but Tamlin—one of the lethal, immortal faeries who once ruled their world. As she dwells on his estate, her feelings for Tamlin transform from icy hostility into a fiery passion that burns through every lie and warning she's been told about the beautiful, dangerous world of the Fae. But an ancient, wicked shadow grows over the faerie lands, and Feyre must find a way to stop it, or doom Tamlin and his world forever."

I started this series as I really loved Maas' Throne of Glass series, but to be honest, I was a little disappointed. The initial set up was great, but the slow pace in the middle was a weird contrast to the final few chapters where everything happened at once. Also the relationship between the main character and Tamlin felt too easy. I am hoping the series improves in the next two books as I have heard good things about the series that aren't meeting my expectations yet.

People We Meet on Vacation by Emily Henry

THE CAT IS NAMED FLANNERY O'CONNOR
I just like....I feel personally attacked because I also wanted to be a travel writer and meet people and make connections and tell their stories so I'm like... Emily Henry knows how to hit me emotionally. 
So I relate to both Poppy and Alex (and also yes I thought of going to UChicago, so really hitting where it hurts)
The requited unrequited love and the yearning and the angst. I loved how we saw the past trips and the current trip.  
I just wanna hug Alex all day because like...backstory. 
400 Pages

Taylor Swift Song: Lovers

Book Lovers by Emily Henry

Sooooo I'm hoping there's cameos. 
just say they're wearing chacos, it'll make me feel seen. 
Such an oldest sibling..
"I'm fine"
He sneaky and I love it..
*remembers a "throwaway" line about a character, that probably isn't a throwaway line: well this isn't going to go well if it follows the tropes....*gets to end of book: ha I was wrong
The way that the mom is described just reminds me of how Kathleen described her mom in You've Got Mail. 
I love Nora so much...and Charlie...
400 Pages

Icebreakers by R. L. Graziadei

Insert the get-along shirt
They both love FMA Brotherhood
ALSO: the surviving on Iced Coffee
"Tom Holland and Zendaya: A bisexual's dream" I mean.
Ok but the dissociating when the depression is bad just hits. 
and the parents taking care of the kids but not knowing the kids....oof. 
ok but the fanfic.....smirk face. 
320 Pages

Taylor Swift Song: this is me trying (and Sparks Fly)

The Friend-Zone by Abby Jimenez

Just a heads-up, there is a character death, and head-trauma, and comas, and an accident involving a drunk driver
I'm gong to put all my feelings right here and then one day I'll die
Am I still confused why they send firemen to accidents, yes. Am I going to complain. Absolutely not. *looks up why...aha.
It's the little dog with the doggie stairs for me...because my dog is 16 pounds of zoom and leaping lizards
384 Pages

The Ghosts of Rose Hill by R. M. Romero

I'm not crying, you're crying
It's the blue-eyed boy for me.
And it's also the Jewish folklore and the history for me. 
384 Pages

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

There's time travel and pandemics and space exploration (ok not really exploration, but people live on the moon) 
272 Pages

Beach Read by Emily Henry

"January is a unique name...It's not like I'm a Christy or a Christine" ....rude. 
Maybe depressed writers can only write depressing books...laughs uncomfortably
"promise not to fall in love with me"
Alexa play basically every song from Folklore cause it could be relevant.
hey look that's trauma that's been normalized when it shouldn't have been.
It's the people watching and the bouncing ideas of each other and being neighbors at the lake for me. 
I will protect Gus with literally everything in me--and also I relate to him because he has EMOTIONS that he wants to understand.
384 Pages

The Book of Night by Holly Black

I just....love the characters so much, Charlie and Vince.hdfjksd;jfksdl
The plot-twist....like... I'm mad at myself.
I love that we're talking about trauma and shadows and I'm just... here for it. 
That last sentence....I'm like...hi can I have more content please. Because I don't do open-endings. This is why I hate standalones.  An epilogue....A twitter post...Googles: ok so it's not a confirmed standalone, so there might be redemption, but like....sfjiod
320 Pages

If the Shoe Fits by Julie Murphy

Yes my brain automatically went to "If the shoe fits, walk in it, till your high heels break"
Me: hi can I have a meet-cute on my plane ride, please.
It's Cinderella, and it's the Bachelor. And the mice are there in the form of triplets, and like.... fdjklsafjklds
I loved all the side characters, and how Henry had more depth than the original Prince Charming (but again, that wasn't really hard). :P
Did I love that it was a fashion designer and person who runs/owns a fashion company...yes...because yes it reminds me of my favorite ship in the world, Adrienette,
304 Pages