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Like other reviewers who read The Lost Apothecary I was excited for Penner’s next book. The title and cover intrigued me enough to pick it up without a second thought. I noticed the goodreads rating dropping and was confused because the first few chapters were so good. As the book progressed, I started understanding. Never question my goodreads friends (ha). This is…
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I picked up this book as a recommendation and dove in quickly as it’s already been made into a show on HBO. I admittedly didn’t know this book was written for children. As I struggled to get into the story, I found myself appreciating the imaginative world the author built. I’m not against reading children’s books……
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No matter what your thoughts are with my rating, in the end this is such a sweet story. I personally had a hard time really diving in and letting this magical-realism world the author created take over. It was a wonderful overall story, wonderful setting and I really loved all the baggage each character had. It was…
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What it comes down to is I get why the author directed this to men, but it’s a shame. There are some really good nuggets of advice in here but as a woman you have to be creative to decode. On the other hand, I get why he would skinny down and make a book he wanted,…
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There is not a lot to dislike about this book….. NYC, tarot, gardens, magic(?), museum, lake house… I mean… it has the making of a great book. Hays took every piece of of a good story people love and threw it in a single story. Yet, it felt held back. So held back in fact,…
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Let’s start this review off by saying, I’m a Riley Sager mega fan. Now, let’s talk book. If I had to describe this book in one word the answer would be ‘messy’. The overall plot… messy. The ‘setups’ to try to confuse the reader were … silly, coincidental and unbelievable. There were so many holes…
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This was a messy one for me. Left me relieved it was over, if I’m honest. If you’ve read any of my reviews, you’ll know I’m a big dialogue girl. I love books based and pulled along with pure dialogue. So, it should come as no surprise that one of the biggest sticking points…
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Luckily there still exists a glimpse into the world we left behind in the first book, Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe, but overall I felt lost and longing to go back to the magic that Lewis created in Lion, Witch and the Wardrobe. This story struggled to get my attention. I felt I missed my original characters too…
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The date finished is really the date I gave up. Life is too short to force yourself to read a book that doesn’t deserve it. I was bored in the beginning, stayed bored in the middle and as I neared the end the boring was getting so bad that I had to stop. The book wasn’t…
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