Review: Fight For Power! (Rule of Three #2)

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Dystopia.
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: nope.
Cliff Hanger: Yep!
Rating: 3.5 Stars

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 9
Plot: 8
Characters: 8
World Building: 7
Flow: 6
Series Congruity: 8
Writing: 7
Ending: 9

Total: 7.5

In Depth

Best Part: Bad guys got what was coming to them!
Worst Part: draggggggingggggg.
Overall Feels Felt: Dragging; Oh snap!; NOOOO!

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: yep
Recommending: yah
Misc.:

Short Review: Well this was another sequel i read recently that didn't live up to my dreams for them! I love this series thou. I love how real it is and how it truly shows how shit will go if this event for sure happens. I did love the happy parts. I won't spoil! The ending nailed it for me. But the middle dragged kinda bad. I can't wait to see how this is gonna end!

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Review: Burned! (Pretty Little Liars #12)

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Mystery
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Love triangles.
Cliff Hanger: yepp
Rating: 4 Stars

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 7
Plot: 7
Characters: 7
World Building: 7
Flow: 7
Series Congruity: 7
Writing: 7
Ending: 8

Total: 7

In Depth

Best Part: Getting more back story.
Worst Part: Still crazy "small world"
Overall Feels Felt: Grabbing straws!; A upping the game!

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: yes
Recommending: yes
Misc.: Buddy Read :D

Short Review: Well, the ladies are sure grabbing at any and all straws they can. I do question how Emily seems to always run into girls who are into kissing girls. I wonder how! A is upping their game and i'm loving it. I love the action! I was getting bored with the story, but this book really made me jump back in :D

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Review: The Fill-In Boyfriend!

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Contemporary
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Love Triangle.
Cliff Hanger: Nope.
Rating: 4 Stars

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 8
Plot: 6
Characters: 6
World Building: 7
Flow: 7
Series Congruity: n/a
Writing: 7
Ending: 8

Total: 7.5

In Depth

Best Part: Sassy supporting character!
Worst Part: Romance central.
Overall Feels Felt: Shallow!; Sass Queen!

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: n/a
Recommending: yah
Misc.:

Short Review: This book was just okay. The MC annoyed me at times. She was very shallow and was totally okay with lying to her "best friends". I loved the sassy supporting character thou, she made the book so much better. Plus my son's name is Hayden and that's the one of the characters! It wasn't nothing special but still a good, quick read.

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Review: Finding Paris!

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Contemporary
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: nope.
Cliff Hanger: nope.
Rating: 4 Stars

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 8
Plot: 8
Characters: 7
World Building: 7
Flow: 8
Series Congruity: n/a
Writing: 7
Ending: 8

Total: 8

In Depth

Best Part: Vegas references :D
Worst Part: The "twist" :(
Overall Feels Felt: Oh a mystery; Vegas!; Oh no :(

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: n/a
Recommending: yes
Misc.: Trigger Warning; Rape.

Short Review: Well, this book is a emotional roller coaster. First, i love the scavenger hunt the MC has to go on to find Paris. I was torn into feelsville at about the 3/4ths spot. And the "twist" at the end! Ah. I was feeling!!! A great book for sure.

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ARC Review: A History of Glitter and Blood!

I would like to thank NetGalley and Chronicle Books for providing me an ARC copy of this, all opinions are my own.

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Fae
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Love triangle.
Cliff Hanger: nope.
Rating: 3 Stars.

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 9
Plot: 5
Characters: 7
World Building: 7
Flow: 4
Series Congruity: n/a
Writing: 7
Ending: 8

Total: 7

In Depth

Best Part: Pretty pictures!
Worst Part: Misplaced genre
Overall Feels Felt: Pretty pics; Whoa; Cute ending!

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: n/a
Recommending: eh. see short review first.
Misc.: ARC copy.

Short Review: Okay so this book was okay. Honestly they genre should be different maybe. The fae part is only maybe 10%. The rest is sex! THIS WHOLE BOOK IS ABOUT SEX! I didn't know that going in but that's all they talk about. They have to sell their bodies to get more food and that's all that goes down most of the time. If i knew that i doubt i would have requested a copy. So beware of that.

Oh and you really never know who is writing this "book". it's confusing at times and i just gave up trying to figure it out.

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Library Haul 5/21 :D

I will hopefully be getting a good amount of reading done while i'm soaking up the sun :D

Here's what i grabbed today!

Everyone keeps telling me VA gets better after book 1. So time to see if it's true :D

Review: Miss Mayhem! (Rebel Belle #2)

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Fantasy; Magic
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Love Triangles.
Cliff Hanger: no.
Rating: 3 Stars.

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 8
Plot: 6
Characters: 6
World Building: 6
Flow: 8
Series Congruity: 9
Writing: 8
Ending: 7

Total: 6.5

In Depth

Best Part: Personal advancement is high.
Worst Part: Nothing happens.
Overall Feels Felt: Bored; Still bored; Oh some action; bored.

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: yeah.
Recommending: eh.
Misc.:

Short Review: Well i was super excited for this book after loving book 1 and i was so badly disappointed!!! Ugh. The characters were so shallow this time around. 85% of the book is all of them freaking out over who is kissing who or who is "with" who. It's dumb. There was very little action and i was bored for most of it. I skimmed the last few pages. I will read the last book but i won't have my hopes up as high as i did with this book.

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Review: Stunning! (Pretty Little Liars #11)

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Mystery
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: nope.
Cliff Hanger: yepp
Rating: 4 Stars

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 8
Plot: 7
Characters: 7
World Building: 7
Flow: 8
Series Congruity: 8
Writing: 7
Ending: 9

Total: 8

In Depth

Best Part: A was way more involved this round
Worst Part: Unrealistic twists.
Overall Feels Felt: Get some respect!; Gayle is crazyyyy; Not cool A!

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: yep
Recommending: yep
Misc.: Buddy Read :D

Short Review: Well. The "twists" keep getting more and more out there. Their world is getting smaller. I highly doubt in real like any of this would still be going on but i guess that's why this is fiction. I was glad A was getting a bit more involved in this book. Supporting characters are helping the story not be so drag-ish.

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Library Haul :D 5/16!

Where's the first place i hit up once i'm settled from my trip?! My local library of course :D Since i have a system to reading, i need to "stock up" so i grabbed more than i usually do!

Also got

  

My son wanted to get those!

I have a beach vacation next week, so i'll probably grab a few more to bring along for the 8hr drive and the 5 days i'll be soaking on the sand :D

Review: Seraphina!

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Fantasy; Dragons
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Slight love triangle.
Cliff Hanger: nope
Rating: 3.5 stars.

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 8
Plot: 7
Characters: 7
World Building: 7
Flow: 5
Series Congruity: n/a
Writing: 7
Ending: 5

Total: 7

In Depth

Best Part: There's dragons!
Worst Part: Drawn out writing.
Overall Feels Felt: What is going on?!; Ohhh...; Dragon fight!

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: yes
Recommending: eh.
Misc.: Buddy read!

Short Review: I struggled to get into this book! The writing is weird to me. It's very drawn out. Details everywhere. It was until about 40% in that i actually started getting what was going on. The first half was just all over the place. I liked it after the 40% mark thou! The thing that really killed me thou was that Seraphina is treated beyond well by the princess and that seems to mean nothing to Seraphina, and she proves that in the last few pages. Also why does the music assistant have such pull in the royal family? what too unrealistic for me.

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Review: Ruthless! (Pretty Little Liars #10)

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Mystery
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: insta!
Cliff Hanger: YES
Rating: 4 stars.

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 8
Plot: 8
Characters: 7
World Building: 8
Flow: 10
Series Congruity: 10
Writing: 8
Ending: 9

Total: 9

In Depth

Best Part: Mystery is at an all time high!
Worst Part: So much insta love!
Overall Feels Felt: Who are you!; Back off girl!; Who is A?!

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: yes
Recommending: yes!
Misc.: Buddy read!

Short Review: This book killed me for lots of reasons. For one, these girls throw themselves at everyone in this book for some reason. Then they wonder why they keep getting screwing over! Maybe because youre too damn trusting and you don't seem to think anything through! I loved the new girl, Kelsey. She added to this story greatly! I was really convinced on who was A in this book, but the last page proved me wrong!

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Review: Twisted! (Pretty Little Liars #9)

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Mystery
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: nope
Cliff Hanger: YES
Rating: 4.5 stars.

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 8
Plot: 8
Characters: 8
World Building: 8
Flow: 10
Series Congruity: 10
Writing: 8
Ending: 10

Total: 9

In Depth

Best Part: So much action!
Worst Part: none.
Overall Feels Felt: WHAT???; OMG!!!; ohhhhhh.

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: yes
Recommending: yes!
Misc.: Buddy read with Sharon Mariampillai Found HERE!

Short Review: This book was a bit different. Major difference, they skipped 10mths of their lives!! That's not cool. I need to know what happened in those ten months!! Major spoilers i want to talk about but wont. Lets just say, everyone has new secrets for A to tell. The ending nailed it. I was on the edge of my seat reading this, and that ending, made it perfect. This book has the prefect amount of mystery too. Just a great book. :D


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Review: Wanted! (Pretty Little Liars #8)

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Mystery
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Love Triangles
Cliff Hanger: YES
Rating: 4.5 stars.

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 8
Plot: 8
Characters: 8
World Building: 8
Flow: 10
Series Congruity: 10
Writing: 8
Ending: 8

Total: 8.5

In Depth

Best Part: So much action!
Worst Part: Unbelievable Plot Twist.
Overall Feels Felt: Seriously??; WTF; Whooo!

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: yes
Recommending: yes!
Misc.: Buddy read with Sharon Mariampillai Found HERE!

Short Review: I loved this book, it was a perfect way to end most of the story lines Sara had going on. Were they believable solutions? Eh, i had trouble with some. I rather not spoiler, but i will say, i felt grasping at straws, but it was well done. I am beyond anxious to see where this series is gonna go now thou. Lots of nail biting. Especially since it's written a couple months down the road, which this have always been pretty much back to back time frames so far. Very interesting to sees.

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Review: Infinity!

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Fantasy; Paranormal
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Insta Love!
Cliff Hanger: Meh.
Rating: 3.5 stars.

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 8
Plot: 7
Characters: 7
World Building: 8
Flow: 6
Series Congruity: n/a
Writing: 7
Ending: 7

Total: 7

In Depth

Best Part: Zombies!
Worst Part: Very boy POV.
Overall Feels Felt: What is going on!?!; I'm lost; Oh fangs!

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: Yes
Recommending: Eh, if you're a boy then yah :D
Misc.: Trigger Warning; eating disorder talked about.

Short Review: It was brought to my attention that i tend to only read books written in girl POVs, so i have been looking into books written in boy POVs instead. Well i really found one here. There was so much talk about boobs and sexual things. Wow. That aside, this is a re read for me, this time i listened to the audio book. The plot is all over the place, making it a bit hard to follow. I liked the story and will be reading book 2, thou i might have missed some stuff in book 1. Theres a lot going on in this book so i wanna see where it goes from here. Plus the millionaire now was fangs :D

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Review: Heartless! (Pretty Little Liars #7)

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Mystery
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Slight Love Triangles
Cliff Hanger: Yes!!
Rating: 5 STARS!

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 8
Plot: 8
Characters: 8
World Building: 8
Flow: 10
Series Congruity: 10
Writing: 9
Ending: 10!

Total: 9

In Depth

Best Part: So much tension!
Worst Part: Um, none! :D
Overall Feels Felt: Nail biting; WTH!!; Oh shitttt.

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: YES
Recommending: YES
Misc.: Trigger Warning; eating disorder talked about.

Short Review: I completely understand why the book before this was short on action. This book was soooo full of things happening!!!! Every few chapters something major was going down!!! I won't spoil anything, but i have to say, this book was i think the best so far! The ending killed me thou, i almost cried! I have a major theory but i keep thinking of what else it could be instead. Tricky Tricky!

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Review: Killer! (Pretty Little Liars #6)

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Mystery
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Slight Love Triangles
Cliff Hanger: Yes!!
Rating: 5 STARS!

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 8
Plot: 8
Characters: 8
World Building: 8
Flow: 10
Series Congruity: 10
Writing: 9
Ending: 10

Total: 9

In Depth

Best Part: The ending!
Worst Part: Girls can be dumbbb.
Overall Feels Felt: Nail biting; Why you so dumb?!; Oh shitttt.

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: YES
Recommending: YES
Misc.: Trigger Warning; eating disordered talked about.

Short Review: Spencer, you dumb b, you should have done wayyyyy more research. Aria, Xavier is gonna ruinnnn shit, get out now! Hanna, Kate seems like the queen b now, best get working on that. Emily, your boy's mom is crazzzyyy, maybe the apple doesn't fall far from the tree? :D

Overall, i liked this book better than book 5. There was a lot more building going on. I was on the edge of my seat reading this one. I was waiting for the pin to drop since ending book 5 and i feel like i got that. And that ending?!?!? AHHHH. I can't believe it ended like that. Cliff hanginggggg. I have a good idea on a theory of who dun it, and i'm waiting to see if I'm right. I am reading into everything while i read this one!!

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Review: Wicked! (Pretty Little Liars #5)

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Mystery
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Slight love triangle
Cliff Hanger: YAS
Rating: 4 stars

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 8
Plot: 8
Characters: 8
World Building: 8
Flow: 8
Series Congruity: 10
Writing: 8

Total: 8.5

In Depth

Best Part: The flow is well done!
Worst Part: Nothing too major happened.
Overall Feels Felt: Bitches gonna get it; Oh snap; OHHHHHHHHH

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: yep!
Recommending: sure
Misc.: Trigger Warning; eating disorder mentioned.

Short Review: I knew going into this book, it probably won't be nothing major going on. A lot of shit went down in the last book, so i knew this book should just be building up stuff. Sara is doing a great job of getting the flow just right. Each book lines up with the last nicely! I'm excited to see where this series is gonna go now since they uncovered A in the last book. I keep trying to guess who i think it is now :D

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Review: Afterworlds!

**I would like to thank NetGallery for providing me an advance copy of this book, all opinions are my own.**

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Fantasy
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: Insta love
Cliff Hanger: nope.
Rating: 3 stars

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 7
Plot: 9
Characters: 8
World Building: 9
Flow: 8
Series Congruity: n/a
Writing: 7

Total: 8

In Depth

Best Part: Two stories in one :D
Worst Part: The ending felt too rushed.
Overall Feels Felt: Interesting; Wait...what?; Huh?

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: n/a
Recommending: sure
Misc.: Trigger Warning; there's kidnapping and hints of child rape.

Short Review: So this is two stories in one. One is Darcey getting a novel published and dealing with that world. One the book Darcey wrote. I loved Darcey's storyline, i grew crazy bored of the book she wrote. I eye rolled too much reading the 'afterworlds' storyline. I loved the idea, but it was very bad writing in my opinion. The MC is a a girl who is in a major relationship with a girl, so there a plus as well :D The 'afterwolds' storyline did a bad job of ending, i have no idea what really went down at all.

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Review: To All the Boys I've Loved Before!

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Contemporary; Romance
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: (fake) Love Triangle
Cliff Hanger: Nope
Rating: 4 stars.

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 7
Plot: 7
Characters: 6
World Building: 7
Flow: 8
Series Congruity: n/a
Writing: 7
Total: 8

In Depth

Best Part: The love between the Song sisters
Worst Part: Kinda anti-climatic
Overall Feels Felt: Meh; Aw, crap's gonna hit the fan; Oh never mind :(

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: yes
Recommending: yes
Misc.:

Short Review: The was a good, quick, sweet read. I was expecting more to happen. I was expecting some major drama to happen from the letters getting sent but instead everyone just kinda accept it. Also the MC is supposed to be 16, but honestly i felt like she was maybe 13 or 14, just by the way she acted and dressed. I liked the story overall, i was just expecting more drama.

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Review: A Darker Shade of Magic!

At A Glance

Genre: Young Adult; Fantasy
Love Triangle/Insta Love?: No :D
Cliff Hanger: nope
Rating: 5 STARS!

Score Sheet
All out of ten

Cover: 9
Plot: 9
Characters: 10
World Building: 9
Flow: 10
Series Congruity: n/a
Writing: 9

Total: 9.5

In Depth

Best Part: Lila's sass!
Worst Part: It ended!!! How dare it end!!
Overall Feels Felt: Love this already; YES!; Sass queen in the house; Take that you B!

Conclusion

Continuing the Series: YESSSSSS
Recommending: YESSSSSSSSS
Misc.: Trigger Warning; there is a rape scene they talk about.

Short Review: This is by far my favorite read so far this year! I loved every minute of this story. The different worlds were great, explained well. I could imagine everything that was being explained. I loved the two MCs. Lila is amazing, i loved her so much. She is sassy and strong willed and independent. A great role model. Kell is a stubborn, loving person with some pain in his life. I do hope there is a bit of romance, note; not a lot of romance, just a hint!!!!!!! I highly recommend this to everyone, it's a great fantasy with great characters.

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April Wrap Up :D

Take a look back at what I read in April :D

In Real Life

Cory Doctorow and Jen Wang

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Read the printed book on April 3rd.

Pretty Little Liars

Pretty Little Liars #1

Sara Shepard

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Read the printed book on April 4th.

My Review!

Flawless

Pretty Little Liars #2

Sara Shepard

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Read the printed book from April 4th to April 5th.

My Review! 

Cinder

The Lunar Chronicles #1

 Marissa Meyer

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Listened to the audio book from March 27th to April 7th.

My Review!

Perfect
Pretty Little Liars #3
Sara Shepard
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Read the printed book from April 7th to April 8th.

My Review!

A Darkness Strange and Lovely
Something Strange and Lovely #2
Susan Dennard
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Read the E-book from March 31st to April 9th.

My Review! 

Jackaby
Jackaby #1
William Ritter
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Read the E-book on April 9th.

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Unbelievable
Pretty Little Liars #4
Sara Shepard
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Read the printed book from April 9th to April 10th.

My Review! 

 The Wrong Side of Right
Jenn Marie Thorne
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Falling Into Place
Amy Zhang
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We All Looked Up
Tommy Wallach
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Read the printed book on April 12th.

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Every Day
Every Day #1
David Levithan
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Read the E-book from April 13th to April 15th.

My Review!

Blood-kissed Sky
Darkness Before Dawn #2
J.A. London
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Read the printed book from April 15th to April 17th.

My Review! 

After Daybreak
Darkness Before Dawn #3
J.A. London
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Ugly Love
Colleen Hoover
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My Heart and Other Black Holes
Jasmine Warga
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Half Wild
The Half Bad Trilogy #2
Sally Green
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Read the printed book from April 19th to April 20th.

My Review! 

Across the Universe
Across the Universe #1
Beth Revis
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Listened to the audio book from April 7th to April 21st.

My Review! 

Red Queen
Red Queen Trilogy #1
Victoria Aveyard
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Read the printed book from April 19th to April 21st.

My Review! 

To All the Boys I've Loved Before
To All the Boys I've Loved Before #1
Jenny Han
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Read the printed book from April 21st to April 24th.

Review to Come.

A Darker Shade of Magic
A Darker Shade of Magic #1
V.E. Schwab
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Read the printed book from April 25th to April 27th.

Review to Come.

April Stats: 

Printed Books Read - 16

E-books Read - 3

Audio Books Listened To - 2

Total - 21