I don’t know how I feel about this book. I think I enjoyed it? It’s a weird one… I read it in two sittings, but when I finished reading it, I didn’t really feel overwhelmed by it, I didn’t feel like I had accomplished something and I didn’t really know how I felt. But, whilst I was reading Kids of Appetite, I obviously enjoyed it because I binge-read it, it made me laugh, and the characters were interesting… See what I mean? …
I had this book pitched to me that it was a gay re-telling of Cinderella, but after reading and finishing the book, it didn’t seem like a re-telling at all. The book stood as its own novel. Sure, there were parts of the book that had the Cinderella trope such as the missing shoe, and the step-family, but that is where the similarities end. …
I was lucky enough to be sent an arc of this book from the publishers, and then I ended up winning an arc in a Goodreads giveaway! It was amazing to be able to hold this highly anticipated book in my hand; the cover was even more gorgeous in person and the arc was floppy! It was a floppy paperback, which is one of my favourite types! …
This book wrecked me. It inspired me. It moved me. It gave me all the feels…
I absolutely loved it. …
What would you do if you won £140 million? This is the question that kept circling around in my head as I read this book. That’s a lot of money. And me saying that it’s a lot of money is a massive understatement. I’ve never understood why the lottery even exists… Surely, a better way for those jackpot amounts to be spent would be for the government to build a homeless shelter? Or even better yet, to buy homeless people homes and food and clothes? Not to give that money to someone who probably doesn’t need it… Well, that’s what this story is about… …
The Help was another book that I had to read for university, alongside The Color Purple. I knew that The Help was a newer book than The Color Purple so I was a bit weary that it wouldn’t be as good (I don’t know why I thought this, but I just thought that Stockett wouldn’t capture the racism of 1962 in Mississippi. …
When reading the blurb of this book, it reminded me of the 2008 film Wild Child, starring Emma Roberts. It was set in a boarding school and there were catty friendships and backstabbing. It all sounded a bit cliché, to be honest. Boarding schools have this tendency to be portrayed in a very bitchy way… But I decided to give the book a shot anyway because I enjoyed reading Cat Clarke’s The Lost and the Found. …
A re-telling of Cinderella and geekiness… What’s not to love about the concept of this book. I am a geek. I am proud of being a geek and if anyone calls me one, I’m like ‘HELL YEAH!’ Cinderella isn’t my favourite Brothers Grimm or Disney story so I didn’t think that I would absolutely love it. But I did… I really did. …
I have been meaning to read this book for so so so long… I mean, it’s a classic so obviously, I have seen it absolutely everywhere and loads of people have been telling me to read it – but with my already-massive TBR pile, I knew it would be a while until I got to it. BUT THEN… I had to read it for university, so The Color Purple got bumped up to the very top of my reading list. And because it was for university, that’s why there are all of the different coloured tabs in my book. Each coloured tab represents a different theme throughout the book. Anyway! Let’s get into the review! …
It’s 00:27 and I’ve literally just finished reading The Upside of Unrequited and I can tell you this: it had all the feels. My heart was crushed but it also soared because of how amazing Albertalli’s writing is… …