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Closer To Nowhere by Ellen Hopkins
Rating: 3/5
"Luck is mostly a matter of effort."
This was a good story, and I think very appropriate for Middle Grade. The story was easy to follow but still pulled on the heartstrings. It shows how to deal with family problems from two different children's perspectives and how they ended up being alike more than they thought. It was a cute story of cousins coming together and being a happy family.
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Sync by Ellen Hopkins
Rating: 3/5
"You can't wait until life isn't hard anymore before you decide to be happy."
I didn't know that Hopkins was still writing, so I was very excited to see this book and it came out last year! This book focuses on twin siblings, Storm and Lake. Unfortunately they are put into the foster system and ultimately separated after a mishap in one of their homes. It follows both Lake and Storm as they navigate through their lives and hardships and always wondering if and when they'll see each other again.
I did enjoy this book, but it did have strong trigger warnings for addiction, suicide, and SA. So just take that into consideration when reading. I noticed that her books don't always have that warning and I believe that they should because they are all hard to deal with and people should know what is in a book. But, if you've ever read Hopkins I think a lot of people know that her books mostly deal with these topics, so tread lightly with reading them. Overall it was a good book, the ending did feel abrupt, but full circle in a way.
One of my goals this year is to reread and read any of her books that I haven't gotten to (I did read a few last year). So prepare for Ellen Hopkins review spam!
2am Thoughts by Makenzie Campbell
Rating: 4/5
"It had been forever since I had been in your arms. When you embraced me, even though a gesture as old friends, I fell right into you... and fit perfectly."
I love taking a break from novels and reading poetry, it is a great way to break up the different types of books that I'm reading and is also relaxing.
I thought that this collection was great, and really put you in the feels for every poem. While there is a lot of love poems in here or poems about how a person is thinking of how they loved someone even when they were gone, it shows that love doesn't define you even if it feels like it in the moment.
Stars in Their Eyes by Jessica Walton & Aśka
Rating: 3/5
"You've been through too much crap to have to put up with nonsense like that."
A cute graphic novel. It was a sweet love story between two people trying to find their own in the tough world that they live in. Multiple representations in this book, for both characters. I really liked how it related to multiple different people and showed the reader to love who you are even if you're in a tough situation. Would definitely recommend. Really was a great story especially with the positive relationships with both sets of parents and letting their children be who they are and not having conflict with it.
The Paradise Problem by Christina Lauren
Rating: 4/5
Spice: 2/5
"Is this my Chose One moment? I thought it would come sooner than my twenty-fifth year. I also thought there'd be a sword. Maybe dragons."
I laughed out loud during this book multiple times. Anna and Liam "West" bicker, communicate, and love in their own way and it's beautiful. I didn't want to put this book down. It had romance, family issues, and a little bit of spice. But Anna's humor and their love for each other, once they realized it, kept me sucked in until the end.
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Most of All You By Mia Sheridan
Rating: 2/5
"It's not the things you do with love and good intentions that you end up regretting. It's the things you don't do that you have to live with."
After falling in love with Asher's voice I couldn't wait to read this book. WHAT A DISAPPOINTMENT. I just couldn't vibe with it. I finished it and hated every minute of me wasting my time to finish it. And I hate being harsh, I really do, but I just couldn't stomach Gabriel. He gave me the ick even when they got together...
Won't be reading the rest of the "series"
The Glass Girl by Kathleen Glasgow
Rating: 3/5
"Romantic love is dizzying and wonderful and frightening and lovely, but don't let it obscure you."
This book heavily reminded my of Ellen Hopkins books, it just wasn't written as poetry. I felt so hard for Bella and her family and friends. The poor girl was only fifteen years old and didn't know how to cope with her life and where everyone needed her to be all at once.
She loses her friends, her boyfriend, and almost her life.
I was sad reading this thinking about how young Bella is and the struggles that she goes through. While she makes it through after a terrible almost fatal event, you can still see that she is struggling.
It was heart wrenching and emotional to read.
Things We Hide From The Light by Lucy Score
Rating: 4/5
Spice: 4/5
I always want to deep dive into these books and read for hours to finish them, but they just don't hit for me like her others. Don't get me wrong, they're good, but it doesn't ever feel like I can't put the book down like other romance books. The hooks just happen to far in and by that point, I just want to get it read and done. I do love Nash and Lina, but it was a bit predictable for their story. I do related to Nash with the panic attacks and only have one person that you trust to pull you out of them and make it feel like you are going to be okay. I will be reading the 3rd in the series. but hoping it hooks me sooner than the first two.
Goodbye Earl: A Revenge Novel by Leesa Cross-Smith
Rating: 4/5
"You know, despite everything we have to deal with, aren't we the best girls in the world?"
I really enjoyed this book because of the story of how the friendship stayed in tact even when one of the friends was living away. It goes to show that even when you are apart, when you get back together it is like nothing has changed. Even with a love story wrapped in, I loved that this book was strongly focused on the friendship between the girls no matter the past and especially for the future.
1984 by George Orwell
Rating: 4/5
"In the end the Party would announce that two and two made five, and you would have to believe it."
This was a reading prompt on one of my 2025 challenges. I never had to read it in school, but I know a lot of people did. And if this isn't the knock on the door of history is repeating itself...
A story of struggle and not wanting to conform to society, or lack there of, and falling in love but then throwing them to the trenches at the last possible second to save yourself. Goosebumps... I think that Orwell gifted articulated this story and was able to bring it to life with his words. Words that today we are still living by and living in fear. I don't think I can do this book justice with a review, because of how close to home this may feel for others right now. But, take care of yourself and take care of your loved ones.
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Onyx Storm by Rebecca Yarros
Rating: 3/5
Spice: 5/5
"If I'd been there, beyond the wards, I would have drained the very Earth to its core to keep you safe."
MEH. The most anticlimactic book, unless your Violet and Xaden. ;)
I'm going to be honest here...I ordered it for the edges, it was a complete filler book and the ending literally still has me in a rage almost 12 hours later...
I love the characters, I always will, but the story line was a little drab and it took me 300 pages to actually get into the book.. Listen, if I'm not into the book by page 100, I'm most likely going to DNF it. BUT with that being said, I'll finish this series even if it takes me weeks to get through the book because I need to know what is going to happen.
Forever team Vi and Xaden, mostly just Xaden. But, also lets give up some love for broccoli the cat. IYKYK.
Hoping for more in the next book, will still pre-order for the edges (hello, toxic trait). If you loved it, let me know why. Or let me know if we're on the same page.
Wild Eyes by Elsie Silver
Rating: 5/5
Spice: 3/5
"You look like a teenage girl who got kissed by a Jonas Brother. Are you going to swoon? Not wash your face for a week?" Another five star read of the year. Two in one month? I hope to keep that momentum going. This book made me very emotional, made me laugh, and made me want more.
Coming from someone who fell in love with someone who had a child, that was very involved since the beginning of our relationship, I couldn't help but feel every part of their friendship and it growing as the book went on.
I don't usually go for the single parent trope, but this book had me by a chokehold.
Dragon By Midnight by Karen Kincy
Rating: 2/5
"Losing your past can't stop you from finding your future."
I didn't really care the for this book. To be honest, I read it as part of a book challenge and my goal this year is to finish every book I start and that's the ONLY reason I finished this book. It's a retelling of Cinderella, but a very different one at that. The key points from the fairy tale are there in the beginning but that's about it once she leaves the ball as a dragon... The only reason that I didn't give it a 1 star is because of the beautiful details that the author put into the book.
Sorry, wouldn't recommend.
Some Other Time- Angela Brown
Rating: 2/5 **This post contains spoilers**
"That's where you're wrong. It wasn't fate, it was me. I'd find you in any lifetime, Ellie Adams."
This book is based on the what ifs. What if I took a different path? What if I chose to turn left instead of right? It touches on parental choices and a mother trying to cope with her daughter not needing here anymore, a marriage at the end of it's ropes, parents trying to save their daughters marriage, and a daughter who does need her mom but doesn't want to ask for her.
Ellie and Jonah are on their way to tell their family that they are divorcing, which doesn't go well. When they return home from their trip and go their separate ways, Ellie has her week planned and how to go about with the divorce and everything (mostly) that comes with it. But then she wakes up the next morning, her parents are no longer in FL, in fact they've never lived there, and she is no longer married and can't seem to find Jonah. Through twist and turns and an alternate reality they find their way back to each other and decide that they want to give their marriage another go all while healing their other relationships in their lives with their loved ones.
This may be an unpopular opinion, but I think the alternate reality of these characters, even though Ellie and even Jonah knew what was going on, was better. They learned and grew so much in those parts of the story that it was hard not to like it better. But, I guess, most would like the alternate reality more because it led to Ellie and Jonah being together again and Ellie and her daughter getting their relationship back.
Matlida- Roald Dahl
Rating: 3/5 "And don't worry about the bits you can't understand. Sit back and allow the words to wash around you, like music."
One of my reading goals this year is to reread books that brought me joy when I was younger. But along with that dipping into other books from the authors that I loved. Roald Dahl was one of those authors. Not only have I never read Matilda, but I have never seen the movie either. So that will be done soon as well.
Overall I enjoyed the book. I kept trying to compare it to snippets of the movie that I have seen through social media and then bothering my husband for information to see if it was the same. But, he wouldn't spoil it for me...
This was a quick short read, that kept my attention, had me laughing, had me wanting more for poor Matilda. I don't know if it's because I related so much to Ms. Honey being a teacher, but I was rooting for all of her students to do well but at the same time rooting for Miss Trunchbull's demise.
I can't wait to dive more into Roald Dahl books and let my mind wander into the depts of imagination.
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Carrie Soto Is Back- Taylor Jenkins Reid
Rating: 4/5
Spice: 0/5 "Maybe it's a lie that you have to keep doing what you have always done. That you have to be able to draw a straight line from how you acted yesterday to how you'll act tomorrow. You don't have to be consistent. You can change, just because you want to."
Carrie Soto is back out of retirement and ready to resume her status on the tennis court at the age of 37. While everyone thinks that she is a witch with a capital B, she was brought up that way. She is a confident, smart, beautiful woman who has been trained under her dad her whole life after losing her mother when she was young. While it was her dad's idea to make tennis her life, she never strayed from it until it was time for her first retirement. Now that she's back and training with her dad she is learning why he wanted to be so involved the first time. Even though this books leans heavy on growth within Carrie, it also shows the growth between her and her father as well. And just when you think that there won't be any romance, Carrie is reconnected with an old flame.
I really enjoy these types of books from Taylor Jenkins Reid. I like that she uses different types of mediums to tell the story, like news articles and interviews. TJR is one of my favorite romance authors, but then she has books like this that remind you that authors don't have to stick to one genre. Yes, there was some romance in this book, but it wasn't the main plot of the book. It was how Carrie grows as a person as well as within her relationship with her father. I hope TJR releases more books that are told through stories as well as interviews and articles because it definitely keeps me reading.
The Striker - Ana Huang
Rating: 4/5
Spice: 5/5
"If her smile was a burglar, her laugh was a fucking thief because I was pretty sure she just stole a piece of my heart from right out under me."
I really enjoyed this book. I think that Ana Huang is quickly becoming one of my favorite authors. He couples and how they mesh together is something that I enjoy. Each book that revolves around a new couple becomes my new favorite in her stories. Scarlett and Asher are a beautiful couple, and I'm not talking about looks. While their attraction came early on in the book it wasn't rushed. Scarlett stood her ground but when she knew it was the right time she took the next step forward and then we get to watch them fall in love. But, it didn't just revolve around their love story there was also family issues and issues that they had to deal with on their own that made their love stronger. I really enjoyed this book and I can't wait to continue the series and dive into more Ana Huang books.