Sheila Sanchez

I picked this book as part of Amazon First Read for February. I liked the book and I think it's funny and sexy, and it had some pretty cute moments. I also loved Jon.
However, I had some issues with Reggie. I am a fan of accomplished, kick-ass women, but Reggie was a bit exhausting for me.

I really wanted to like this book. And I would have if it had revolved around Jessie's coming back home and getting back in touch with herself, rebuilding her relationship with her mother, being part of this amazing group of women and getting that much needed time to heal and recharge. It was obvious that she needed to break from the endless routine that was her life to be able to, from a distance, see what needed to be fixed.

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What really annoyed me about this book was the relationship with Brother Thomas. It was dishonest and unnecessary. I was annoyed from the moment, after a two-sentence conversation, they both decided they were “in love” with each other. When, in truth, their relationship was just a parenthesis before both of them went on with their lives. They were NOT in love. They just cheated on their lives and I wonder if it was really worth it to hurt the people around them.

 Well, this was the cutest little story. I am so glad that Jane found her “happily ever after”. And I am not talking about getting the man. I'm actually happier that she found her family. I only hope we could have gotten a little more of the romance.

I have to say I love Julia Quinn and I've loved all the books by her that I have read. This will no be one of my favorites, but I still thought it was sweet.
This is a book about an interrupted love story. Robert Kemble, the earl of Macclesfield, and Victoria Lyndon, the vicar's daughter met when they were very young and it was love at first sight. Lies tore them apart and when they meet again, seven years later, there is a lot of mistrust and resentment between them.

 I really liked A Spindle Splintered, and to be honest, I also liked the idea of this book. I loved the fact that this time around we would see the story from the side of the not-so-evil villain. What I didn't like was the execution. And it's also a problem that the more I get to know Zinnia, the more I don't like her. She is a selfish brat. There, I said it.
The other thing I don't particularly like about this book is the way the rules of magic keep changing. In book one, it was perfectly safe for Prim to leave her world, go to our very un-magical world and marry Charm, completely changing her story. But in this book, the whole multiverse would implode if either Eva or Zinnia decided to stay in the other's world... So that's the limit? Only one princess and absolutely no evil queens?
I will probably still read the next book in the series, if and when it's published, but I don't know if I will keep going beyond that.

I really enjoyed reading this book. I really liked the characters, particularly Tower. I love that he is not the perfect hero. Actually he is far from that. He is a real person who has made lots of mistakes, but he is willing to put his life at risk (and the lives of the people he love) to protect two women in trouble. Even though these women are doing everything in their power to make matters even more difficult. The story keeps you engaged and wondering what will happen next and how it will all turn out.

This was very nice. My son took this book out of his school's library and, after reading it, thought I would like it too. And I did. It has a very good message of working together to achieve something.

“The world is a cruel place. Especially in video games.”

  I received an ARC of this book as part of the Novel Suspects Insiders Club.
To quote that great philosopher Shrek, this book was like an onion. When you thought that you understood what was going on or that you knew where the plot was going, you found yet another layer of deception and treachery. It was like riding a rollercoaster... And I loved every minute of it.

This book completely played me!! And I absolutely loved it! I spent most of the book in the same state of disorientation and puzzlement that McGrath was feeling himself. Then the book turns our world upside down rendering everything we thought we knew irrelevant. And when I was starting to accept this new reality, the book PLAYED ME AGAIN!!
Beckman could not have explained better in page 531: “His endings are seismic jolts to the psyche. Parting shots that keep you awake wondering for days, for the rest of your life.”

STOP if you have not read this book.

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Ok, I am done with Thornicus, the Dynasty Sword being brought back and taken away again, and anything that has to do with Luanda. Can we move on please?

On the other hand, I really like the development of Godfrey's character. I just love how he always ends up saving the day with his unorthodox ideas. And I am not sure how I feel about Alistair being Thor's sister. That is a very dysfunctional family if you ask me.

I am hoping that the next book can bring back everything I loved about this series, which has been missing from the last couple of books.

I really liked this book. I have read a lot of historical fiction books about WWII, but they're usually set on Europe, mostly France. This is the fist time I read a WWII book set on the pacific theater. I loved the impossible love story between Aiyi and Ernest, which was full of hope and regret. I was really touched by the way their brains were telling them to stay away from each other, but their hearts were constantly reaching out. Theirs is such a bittersweet story.
This was the book discussed by the book club in my local library for the month of May, 2022. It was a great experience because Weina Dai Randel was able to attend to talk about the book and answer our questions.

Entertaining

I really liked the character of Genevieve. That's a woman who will not leave everything to fate. She took control of her life and went on to find her forever.

It took me two years to finish this series, but I am happy I finally decided to read the last book. I never imagined this would become my favorite book in the series.
Now, you have to understand that when I read the first two books in this series, I finished emotionally exhausted. Without planning it, I found myself reading them right after my mother passed away. Of course, in the series we met Lou, who loses a very important person in her life and has to deal with her grief and learn to live with that loss. It was, honestly, too much for me at a time when I was dealing with my own grief.
I remember I bought all three books at the same time and this one, spent two years on my bedside table. I am so happy I decided to finally pick it up. I really loved Lou in this book and the way she finally embraced herself.

I really liked this book. I had watched the movie first and I also liked it, but not as much as I liked the book. I am so completely in love with Anthony O'Hare that I can't even begin to explain it.
I thought it was interesting to read about the life-altering love affair between Jennifer and Anthony and how it contrasted with the somewhat ugly affair between Ellie and John. I liked that it was only through Anthony's letters that Ellie realized she was missing out and what John could give her would never be enough.
The Last Letter from Your Lover will become one of my books to re-read and one of my movies to re-watch.

 So it seems that a happy ending for one person means exactly the opposite for another...
I really liked this book because it goes a little more deeply into the complex relationships between the characters.
Agatha's choice at the end of the first book changed everything. Suddenly, good vs evil is not so important anymore. The battle here is boys vs girls. And so, ever and never girls as well as ever and never boys have to work together to defeat a common enemy.
In this book Agatha gets to choose again and things get even more complicated. I hope that at some point in the series Agatha will realize that she doesn't have to choose between her prince and her friend. She already chose one and wished for the other. I'm pretty sure the same thing is going to happen again. Can't she have both? 

In this second book we see Fallon, her training and her hero's journey, as well as her family. Concurrently, we see life in New Hope. I have to admit this last part was a lot more interesting for me, as I already had an emotional connection to New Hope and it's residents, particularly the New Hope originals. I also loved the way Fallon, Duncan and Antonia recognized each other, even though they had met years before when the twins were babies and Fallon was still in her mother's womb. I really liked this book and I am looking forward to the last one.

I was very interested in this book when I first heard about it because of the premise. I find the unexplained disappearance of Agatha Christie to be a fascinating topic and I really liked the story that Nina de Gramont created around it.
I enjoyed reading this book and I fell in love with the characters. Nina de Gramont is a new to me author, but I am definitely planning to check out her other books.

 I liked this book, but I feel like I would have liked it a lot more if I had read it years ago. I will definitely read the second book in the series, but I'm not sure if I will continue with the series after that. 

I really love this book. I have read it three times already, and every time it feels like the first time

I really liked this book. I love that each one of the characters was so well defined and completely independent from the others. They all felt like real people. I loved the complicated family dynamics with petty disagreements and old resentments, as well as shared history and love. And I definitely love the idea of spending the summers in Nantucket or Martha's Vineyard.
I have enjoyed all the books by Elin Hilderbrand that I have read until now, and I can wait to read another one.

I really liked this book. It had been a long time since I read a book from Isabel Allende. I remembered why I like her books so much

Okay, I am finally done with this series. I have been unhappy with the direction the story is going for a few books already, but I was reluctant to drop the series because I still remember how much I liked it at the beginning and I was hoping that I would return to that. Also, I was very annoyed by the fact that I have already invested so much time in this series. Therefore, I was trying to soldier on so it wouldn't be a complete waste. But I still have seven more books to go and I will be even more annoyed if I keep going hating every minute of it.
And it's not only the fact that the story seems to go round and round in an endless loop. For me, the worst is that I no longer can recognize the characters that I once loved.

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Do not continue if you have not read this book......

I cannot understand how Gwendolyn can be so naïve, thinking that years and years of resentment could be so easily healed. She miscalculated and in doing so, put everyone in danger.

I am so disappointed in Reece. He may try to put all the blame on the Upper Isles MacGil, but he has no one to blame but him. And don't get me started on Selece (that's her name, right?) Why would she kill herself because Reece didn't love her anymore????? Where is the strong, independent, kick-ass woman that we met in previous books???

And WTH is the pilgrimage? Who thought that it was a good idea for all the soldiers in the Legion and the Silver to abandon King's Court? Why would you leave the city unprotected?

Romulus and Luanda... Well, I was already sick and tired of them. I really don't have the strength to watch them work together to destroy the Ring.

Yo empecé a leer este libro sin ninguna expectativa y tengo que decir que fue una muy sorpresa. Me sentí muy identificada con María Isabel. Debe ser muy difícil dejar de ver a nuestra madre como la mujer perfecta que existe en nuestros recuerdos infantiles y verla como una mujer. Este libro me encantó de principio a fin y me hizo sentir nostalgia por el Puerto Rico del que salí hace años.

I liked the book and the characters. I found they were well developed, maybe because this is the second book of the series. I hated Louis and Karol and even Melinda, but that was the author's intention and it worked. I had some issues with Johanna's impulsiveness and (dare I say it?) whining, but I really felt for her. I was constantly thinking: “Just give her a break!” My favorite characters were definitely Preston, Athena and Aidan.

 I won this book in a Goodreads giveaway last April.
I wish I could say I loved this book because it's about one of my favorite things in the world: K-pop. But I didn't like Grace at all. She was so annoying and immature. And (OMG!) she was so unprofessional. I cannot believe she would get the chance of a lifetime and then show up so unprepared. And it's fine that she didn't know the industry, but why didn't she research it before showing up for work? She didn't research the company she was going to work for. She didn't research their artists. What is wrong with her????
And let's not start on how unrealistic it is that the company would trust the most popular K-pop group to an intern. An intern that is constantly messing everything up. Not even if her uncle was the CEO. If SWT were as big as the book wants us to believe they were, they would probably have more than one manager.
I'm not even going to talk about the ending because by that time we had already passed absurd.
This book was clearly written by someone who recently discovered K-pop but really doesn't know the industry. It's obvious that she did research but then, wanted to include absolutely everything, whether it made sense or not in the story. That's why there are so many random facts just thrown at us throughout the book. It was very distracting.