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The Wish Collector by Mia Sheridan
My rating: 2 of 5 stars

I had such high hopes for this one but unfortunately found it to be completely tedious and lacking in any sort of emotional resonance and/or tension. I even fell asleep while reading it, on 3 separate occasions. In broad daylight. That’s how absolutely bored with it that I was. It just did not work for me, and I couldn’t wait for it to end.

The concept should have been brilliant, but the storytelling didn’t carry it through. So instead, it comes off as long-winded, predictable, and whiney.

Let’s face it, only about 1/3 of this story was necessary. And the rest is just another stereotypical self-hating rich dude who needs some dainty little naive women to love him and change his world. Been there, done that, not even the hint of Beauty and the Beast-ness that this novel has could entice me to enjoy this further.

I think a great starting point to making this book better would have been to edit out 25,000 words worth of excess. Then to go back and give each and every scene movement, emotion, and intentionality. Because it's not the concept that I disliked. It's the execution.


Pages: 504

Real Dirty by Meghan March
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Summary: I have everything a guy could want—a new single burning up the charts, more money than a simple country boy could spend, and a woman I’m planning to marry. 
Until she doesn’t show up for my proposal. 
The life I thought was so perfect, isn’t. 
The guy who thought he had everything, doesn’t. 
I’ve got my heart on lockdown, but life sends me straight into the path of a mouthy bartender who puts me in my place. 
Now the only place I want to put her is under me.
I thought I was done with love, but maybe I’m just getting started. 

She is such a strong female role in this book. I enjoyed how hard she has had to work to get what she has. Even coming from an awful family that doesn't care about her. She works so hard to keep things going, and has almost nothing to show for it. 

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250 Pages

Royally Matched by Emma Chase
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Summary: Some men are born responsible, some men have responsibility thrust upon them. Henry John Edgar Thomas Pembrook, Prince of Wessco, just got the motherlode of all responsibility dumped in his regal lap.

He’s not handling it well.

Hoping to help her grandson to rise to the occasion, Queen Lenora agrees to give him "space"—but while the Queen’s away, the Prince will play. After a chance meeting with an American television producer, Henry finally makes a decision all on his own:

Welcome to Matched: Royal Edition.

Royally Matched is the 2nd book in Emma Chase's funny and love story in the Royally Series. I was hooked again from day of this story all the way until the end. This started right up from where the last one left off.

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276 Pages

What Light by Jay Asher
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Summary: Sierra's family runs a Christmas tree farm in Oregon—it's a bucolic setting for a girl to grow up in, except that every year, they pack up and move to California to set up their Christmas tree lot for the season. So Sierra lives two lives: her life in Oregon and her life at Christmas. And leaving one always means missing the other. 

Until this particular Christmas, when Sierra meets Caleb, and one life eclipses the other.

By reputation, Caleb is not your perfect guy: years ago, he made an enormous mistake and has been paying for it ever since. But Sierra sees beyond Caleb's past and becomes determined to help him find forgiveness and, maybe, redemption. As disapproval, misconceptions, and suspicions swirl around them, Caleb and Sierra discover the one thing that transcends all else: true love.

It was nice to see that she didn't just judge him like all the other people in the town. When she gets to know him she realizes that there is nothing wrong with him. He is much better than any other guy that she has ever know.

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251 Pages