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#18 BOOKSIRENS READ: FORBIDDEN BONDS

📖 BOOK TITLE: FORBIDDEN BONDS  📖AUTHOR: ROSE FRESQUEZ  📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS:  #131stBookOf2024   Thank you to Booksirens and Rose Fresquez for granting my request to read this e-ARC and provide my honest opinions. I think the author really wanted to make Fred's and Lucy's relationship feel forbidden enough for us, the readers, to root for them. Think this: the village poor boy who is eighteen and is supposed to get married, whose family believes in polygamy, and whose father has a longstanding feud with the city girl's father; the city kind of rich girl who is eighteen and does not plan on getting married any time soon, strongly believes in monogamy, cannot and will not be a traditional wife, and is aiming to be a career woman and is still in school. So you see what I mean when I say the author really tried to make the love story forbidden; is forbidden even the right word? No, I got the right words, Out of Reach. Fred and Lucy's love story is out o
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BOOK REVIEW RUNDOWN: THE MECHANICS OF YENAGOA

📖 BOOK TITLE: THE MECHANICS OF YENAGOA  📖AUTHOR: MICHAEL AFENFIA  📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS:  #130thBookOf2024 Ebi Oh, I know that you don't like to be called a shortened version of your name, Ebinimi, but I'm calling you Ebi just to spite you. What did you take me through, from one trouble to another, and even you yourself, you are not helping matters. Complicating things for yourself in every way possible. Oh, that twist at the end—I wish I could ask the author a question. This book was so fun. Ebi and his household (if I can even call them that) took me on a trip. Characters are so morally gray that you are unable to root for anyone. I love it 😍 📖RATINGS: 4 STARS ⭐⭐⭐⭐

BOOK REVIEW RUNDOWN: FORTY WORDS FOR LOVE

📖 BOOK TITLE: FORTY WORDS FOR LOVE  📖AUTHOR: AISHA SAEED  📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS:  #129thBookof2024 I was really excited for this book, and now that I have finished reading it, I was really disappointed, but in as much as I didn't love it, it was an okay read. Personally, with the whole Golub tree, Moonlight Bay, Sammy's death, and even Kot's disappearance, there was a lot going on in this book, and introducing a love interest threw the balance off. I felt Yas and Raf needed to come to terms with the amount of change that has happened in their respective towns. So even if Yas and Raf have been friends forever, it still looked to me as if they were rushing into the relationship. Like I said, there was just a lot going on in this book that I just couldn't appreciate the love interest. 📖RATINGS: 3 STARS ⭐⭐⭐

MATT HAIG

It's the start of a new week and you know what we do on Mondays , we celebrate authors 🎉🎉. Today we'll be shining the spotlight on Matt Haig 😍. Continuing reading to find out more about him 😍🥰 Matt Haig is an author for children and adults. His memoir Reasons to Stay Alive was a number one bestseller, staying in the British top ten for 46 weeks. His children’s book A Boy Called Christmas was a runaway hit and is translated in over 40 languages.  It is being made into a film starring Maggie Smith, Sally Hawkins and Jim Broadbent and The Guardian called it an ‘instant classic’. His novels for adults include  the award-winning How To Stop Time, The Radleys, The Humans and the number one bestseller The Midnight Library. He has sold over three million books worldwide. Connect with Matt Haig on Instagram His books include; 》 The Last Family in England 》 The Dead Fathers Club 》 The Possession of Mr Cave 》 The Radleys 》 The Humans 》 Humans: An A–Z 》 Reasons to Stay Al

BOOK REVIEW RUNDOWN: THE MOST WONDERFUL CRIME OF THE YEAR

📖 BOOK TITLE: THE MOST WONDERFUL CRIME OF THE YEAR 📖AUTHOR: ALLY CARTER  📖THOUGHTS&OPINIONS:  #128thBookOf2024 There was certainly not a wow factor in this book; I felt disconnected from the story at some point because it felt overly descriptive. The side characters were not engaging enough for me; it just felt like they really didn't care about what happened to their aunt at all, leaving the work for strangers. The romance interest didn't work for me at all. I really, really tried to enjoy this book, but it just wasn't forthcoming.  📖RATINGS: 2 STARS ⭐⭐