**A Review of Radio Silence by Evie Dunmore**

I gave this one four stars and I have a lot of feelings about it obviously I had to see what cat was sussing about when she was talking about radio silence and like everybody else but it turns out it was really good. I knew nothing about the book going in but it is about girl named Frances whose head girl at her school in England and she doesn't feel very connected to her friends in school she doesn't feel like she can be her authentic self.

It's about her relationship that develops between her and a lad who is sweet little cinnamon roll and he is the creator of her favorite YouTube show. It's an anonymous show, my favorite thing about it was the friendship and the way the book was written but I liked that the boy and the girl they don't end up banging they're just good friends and I felt that was really special.

I didn't know if I'd like that because I like romance in my books but I actually enjoyed it in this one. I also really liked that the chapters were really short it made it really compulsively readable and I felt like after every little section there's just something in here that like you want to quote and just in general I really appreciated the overall message of this book that you don't have to do what the conventional thing is you don't have to go away to college and major in something useful, you can really take your life and do with it what you will.

I really appreciated that I thought that was a really nice message and I think that if you're a young person going into college or in high school this would really really help you with where you're at and that being said for me it wasn't a five star read for that reason, I'm out of college already I already kind of know what I want to do with my life so I don't feel like it really impacted me as much as I would have hoped it would have but this is definitely a book that I want to reread in the future and a book that will definitely sit with me for a really long time.

**Radio Silence by Evie Dunmore Conclusion**

Crushed me and I cried a little bit so really this is phenomenal and thank you so much Kat for like telling everybody about this book because it actually is fantastic and I probably wouldn't have picked it up otherwise.

**Truly Devious by Marine Johnson Review**

The last book that I read this month was truly devious by marine Johnson well me and marine we do not have the best history, I've read like two or three of her books in the past kind of hated all of them but this was actually surprisingly good.

I mean how bad can a book be when there's a character who knocked herself out when she gets too anxious I mean come on we love it self-care. The basic premise is that there's a wealthy 1930s tycoon he opens school for gifted children, it's kind of a place where you can go and study whatever you want primary school.

My arms like that said, tycoons wife and child are kidnapped and there's a note left behind by someone side truly devious mystery remains unsolved until today the are confronted with Stevie who is obsessed with solving the mystery of truly devious and what happened to a tycoon's wife and children. Child 1 child Alice, a lot of antics ensue from there.

I will say I was annoyed by Stevie as a character, I felt like people with anxiety typically are hyper aware of social cues and of the way that they are affecting others and that's why they're so anxious not so on Stevie's case because she decides that it's okay to break into other people's rooms emotions be damned.

She's kind of an unlikable character but I was able to kind of put that aside because I enjoyed the plot. The actual mystery that happens in 1930 was super interesting and then a new mystery develops in present day that she's also trying to solve along with it.

I just felt like this is really good, I would say if you'd liked the Charlotte Holmes books but she wanted more of a mystery set at a boarding school and not just like character drama, this is definitely what that is.

**Truly Devious by Marine Johnson Conclusion**

I enjoyed this. This concludes my August wrap-up I hope you guys enjoyed this I am NOT going to be doing a TVR for September because I'm going to be participating in the élysée next book bingo and contemporary Thawne but I will be posting TBR's for those single to comment down below

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: entoday we're going to be talking about all the books that I read in the month of August this month I read two one-star reads zero to star read three three-star reads seven four-star reads and one five surveyed I think total that's 13 rates if I can count correctly I'm gonna be doing this in chronological order rather than in start order so that way you guys can walk through this journey with me of the books that I read this month first book that I read this month was grievous by Jay I'm dark Howard this was the sequel to a book called Menace follows two characters Lorenzo and Morgan Lorenzo is not really a crime boss he's like the anti-crime boss he's taken out basically all of the crime mob off the mob in New York he comes across Morgan when worked in attempts to steal his wallet she is a former prostitute who was trying to get her daughter back from her abuser I really liked this that's why I read the sequel I like the first one I liked this one narration is amazing both Morgan and Lorenzo are hilarious which I didn't expect from something that was marketed it's like a dark romance I liked that Lorenzo was blind in one eye and that that actually affected his life in some ways he couldn't drive very well because his depth perception was shitty I also just really liked Morgan she wasn't a damsel in distress even though her daughter was stolen from her was a good book okay I feel like I should defend myself liking this but I'm not going to and I was funnier this month is another first I read and that was the chase by Elle Kennedy I liked her off campus Siri this one was about an ADHD fashion loving beautiful blonde girl named summer and her relationship with guy named Fitz who was a hockey player of course he also designs video games and that's what he wants to do after you graduate feel like oftentimes in new adult especially when an author has written a bunch of books in the series she can make her character slow we'll see someone the guys are all douchey and the women are all damsels in distress or weak ass that just wasn't the case here thought both of the characters had their own personalities and I honestly loved summer I thought she was amazing like she was not a typical blonde it's a lot of good talks about misogyny and like how to help your friends out when they've been sexually assaulted there's a scene and one of some rich friends a sexually assaulted and she hopes her out and I really enjoyed that and I thought it made for more interesting and fulfilling me we don't read rather than just like the typical oh yeah a bang and like get together so I like this one okay hmm the first one star read that we're gonna be talking about is the pier in the puppet by BB Reed I got about 65 percent done with this before I just said it I can't not do this to myself any more starts as most shitty new adult books do we've got this kind of like badass motorcycle riding like I'm a hard-ass but I also have emotions kind of girl her mother Mary's a very rich like tycoon type character obviously this guy has a douche bag son and the douche bag son and the girl get together what are these characters names he might ask the girls named for the guys named ever I think that should tell you everything you need to know about this book if I will explain a little bit more the plot is just laughable at best there's bullying and blackmailing by ever mm-hmm he goes into her personal spaces without her permission there's times when he sees her naked without her permission it just made me feel uncomfortable I didn't like it all so there's like a gang element to it which kind of comes in last minute and makes no sense so this guy is a douche bag football player but oh my god also he's in a gang I just couldn't do it to myself so I had to finish that book or like stop reading it so next book I read this month was the last of August my brainy couple Ari oh I will put the jacket right here so you can see what that looks like how this was okay it was just more of the same but like not fun there's a lot of angst without a lot of witty banter if that makes sense so I mean that's like what I enjoy about these books funny they are despite having like kind of dark subject matter and having a lot of angst this didn't really have a lot of the fun and it also wasn't in the boarding school which like I'm sorry I like a boarding school setting so taking it to Europe for an art heist didn't really excite me I'm gonna continue with a third book I have it I'm gonna read it for contemporary thought but I didn't like this that much next book I read this month really took me by surprise and it is it only happens in the movies by Holly Bourne I literally knew nothing about it going in it's not a girl named Audrey he was dealing with a lot in her home life essentially her dad left her mom for another woman and has a new family and doesn't really care much about Audrey anymore and then the mom is kind of an alcoholic Audrey decides she's going to get out of the house and go work at a movie theater where she meets a guy named Harry they proceeded to have a relationship sort of I can't really tell you guys about the best part of this book because it would spoil it for you but there is so much to love here it is not a typical love story it's a story about finding yourself and finding out what love actually means it's not about feeling it's about a choice that you make every day you a lot of young people probably need to hear that message it was a little depressing I will say given the family subject matter but I think it was resolved nicely in a way that wasn't too cheesy so I recommend this it was a really good read my second one star read would be co-ed by Rachel van Dyken all right um Oh a lot of to unpack here we have three guys on campus referred to as the pleasure ponies they are responsible for healing women not sexually but mentally emotionally whatever and they say not sexually because they keep saying over and over and over again in the book no penetration say heal these women by like massaging them and listen to them or whatever they recommend these women sign up free dating app because they're being paid by a dating app to provide these services to women which is pretty up and also like what the so that's great and in of itself but then we also have X tres woman who's obviously coming into the picture she's the main love and treasure Ponies are just taken aback like their dicks are pulsing in their pants they love this girl so much fetishizing of her being a mixed-race woman like this is written by a white woman don't really get any sort of representation besides just like adding colour to the story like cool she's mixed-race awesome but we get references to her skin as like chocolate milk which I found offensive I just hated it and of course the douchiest guy is the one that like Falls for her but I was just bad it was really bad Bob wasn't ridiculous made no goddamn sad no no soul if I start read for the month well as attachments by Rainbow Rowell I think for me not only do I write books based on how good they are to me how interesting they are but I also rate them based on what they made me feel and if I read them like at the right time in my life it's not a guy who is assigned to read people's emails at this newspaper this was set in late 1999 or 2000 he reads emails they get flagged for whatever content they have if these two women have their emails flagged particularly frequently so he ends up falling for one of the women who is writing these emails there's something so sweet about falling in love with someone who you've never seen before and I really enjoyed this and say the plot is anything like spectacular so if you're looking for something really hard hitting or fascinating like this might not be yet for you but I liked it the next book I read this month would still be gods it was a three star book and it was a new adult I feel like everybody was talking about this a couple of months ago and everybody like all of my friends gave it five stars it's a novella and I think it supposed to be a precursor to a series about these like super rich fancy basically the premise is rich dude at Yale it's parents on a country club poor girl works at Country Club and antics ensue they get together they consummate their hate relationship because they've known each other for a long time we're supposed to be even like they've got this history in this chemistry it just wasn't believable to me I didn't really care when they hooked up I didn't think it was that exciting it didn't feel like the background that was supposed to be built upon could really be done successfully and in develop such a short page Lee I don't know it was most whatever okay so the next two books I'm gonna recommend I actually really enjoyed and really took me by surprise I'm gonna put both of them right here because they're from the same series first one is the novella which is called flow and then the second one is the actual book and it's called grip about a black rapper from Compton who falls for his friend's sister named Bristol who was from the other side of the track she's really bred to grow up in New York and she meets and she falls for him they bond very quickly if it is not an insta love situation and it is amazing it's not a situation where you've got a black main character just to have a black main character you're actually talking about the struggle that black people face in America which was phenomenal like thank you finally no adult that actually has some sort of depth to it though as they fall for each other you know grip bells Bristol all about what it's like to be a black man growing up in America what it's like to fall for a white woman when he knows that knew their families will approve of reading that and Annabella was amazing and I was surprised at how well it was done in such a short period of time also gave four stars to grip I didn't like it quite as much a rep again in this one was really fantastic the things I didn't like it was a little too stereotypical because you could tell they both wanted to be together but like stuff was keeping them apart that seemed a little unrealistic the next book I read this month was tithe by Holly black this is the first book that Holly Luck every wrote back in like 2002 I think I gave this one three stars it's a really fun tale about a girl named kay who was raised in the human world but she's been able to see pay her entire life eventually she finds out she's more tied to the fairy world than she previously thought when she meets a Fae knight named Reuben in the forest when she's about 16 there's so many like Cardin and Jim Jude vibes between the two characters in here I will say the plot wasn't as tight or as intricate as I felt that the cruel prince was the moment we've all been waiting for radio silence I gave this one four stars and I have a lot of feelings about it obviously I had to see what cat was sussing about when she was talking about radio silence and like everybody else but it turns out it was really good I knew nothing about the clock going in but it is about girl named Frances whose head girl at her school in England and she doesn't feel very connected to her friends in school she doesn't feel like she can be her authentic self it's about her relationship that develops between her and a lad who is sweet little cinnamon roll and he is the creator of her favorite YouTube show it's an anonymous show my favorite thing about it was the friendship and the way the book was written but I liked that the boy and the girl they don't end up banging they're just good friends and I felt that was really special I didn't know if I'd like that because I like romance in my books but I actually enjoyed it in this one I also really liked that the chapters were really short it made it really compulsively readable and I felt like after every little section there's just something in here that like you want to quote and just in general I really appreciated the overall message of this book that you don't have to do what the conventional thing is you don't have to go away to college and major in something useful you can really take your life and do with it what you will I really appreciated that I thought that was a really nice message and I think that if you're a young person going into college or in high school this would really really help you with where you're at and that being said for me it wasn't a five star read for that reason I'm out of college already I already kind of know what I want to do with my life so I don't feel like it really impacted me as much as I would have hoped it would have but this is definitely a book that I want to reread in the future and a book that will definitely sit with me for a really long time crushed me and I cried a little bit so really this is phenomenal and thank you so much Kat for like telling everybody about this book because it actually is fantastic and I probably wouldn't have picked it up otherwise and then the last book that I read this month was truly devious by marine Johnson well me and marine we do not have the best history I've read like two or three of her books in the past kind of hated all of them but this was actually surprisingly good I mean how bad can a book be when there's a character who knocked herself out when she gets too anxious I mean come on we love it self-care the basic premise is that there's a wealthy 1930s tycoon he opens school for gifted children it's kind of a place where you can go and study whatever you want primary school my arms like that said tycoons wife and child are kidnapped and there's a note left behind by some one side truly devious mystery remains unsolved until today the are confronted with Stevie who is obsessed with solving the mystery of truly devious and what happened to a tycoons wife and children child 1 child Alice a lot of antics ensue from there I will say I was annoyed by Stevie as a character I felt like people with anxiety typically are hyper aware of social cues and of the way that they are affecting others and that's why they're so anxious not so on Stevie's case because she decides that it's okay to break into other people's rooms emotions be damned she's kind of an unlikable character but I was able to kind of put that aside because I enjoyed the plot the actual mystery that happens in 1930 was super interesting and then a new mystery develops in present day that she's also trying to solve along with it I just felt like this is really good I would say if you'd liked the Charlotte Holmes books but she wanted more of a mystery set at a boarding-school and not just like character drama this is definitely what that is I enjoyed this that concludes my August wrap-up I hope you guys enjoyed this I am NOT going to be doing a TVR for September because I'm going to be participating in the élysée next book bingo and contemporary Thawne but I will be posting TBR's for those single to comment down below a few to the scaletoday we're going to be talking about all the books that I read in the month of August this month I read two one-star reads zero to star read three three-star reads seven four-star reads and one five surveyed I think total that's 13 rates if I can count correctly I'm gonna be doing this in chronological order rather than in start order so that way you guys can walk through this journey with me of the books that I read this month first book that I read this month was grievous by Jay I'm dark Howard this was the sequel to a book called Menace follows two characters Lorenzo and Morgan Lorenzo is not really a crime boss he's like the anti-crime boss he's taken out basically all of the crime mob off the mob in New York he comes across Morgan when worked in attempts to steal his wallet she is a former prostitute who was trying to get her daughter back from her abuser I really liked this that's why I read the sequel I like the first one I liked this one narration is amazing both Morgan and Lorenzo are hilarious which I didn't expect from something that was marketed it's like a dark romance I liked that Lorenzo was blind in one eye and that that actually affected his life in some ways he couldn't drive very well because his depth perception was shitty I also just really liked Morgan she wasn't a damsel in distress even though her daughter was stolen from her was a good book okay I feel like I should defend myself liking this but I'm not going to and I was funnier this month is another first I read and that was the chase by Elle Kennedy I liked her off campus Siri this one was about an ADHD fashion loving beautiful blonde girl named summer and her relationship with guy named Fitz who was a hockey player of course he also designs video games and that's what he wants to do after you graduate feel like oftentimes in new adult especially when an author has written a bunch of books in the series she can make her character slow we'll see someone the guys are all douchey and the women are all damsels in distress or weak ass that just wasn't the case here thought both of the characters had their own personalities and I honestly loved summer I thought she was amazing like she was not a typical blonde it's a lot of good talks about misogyny and like how to help your friends out when they've been sexually assaulted there's a scene and one of some rich friends a sexually assaulted and she hopes her out and I really enjoyed that and I thought it made for more interesting and fulfilling me we don't read rather than just like the typical oh yeah a bang and like get together so I like this one okay hmm the first one star read that we're gonna be talking about is the pier in the puppet by BB Reed I got about 65 percent done with this before I just said it I can't not do this to myself any more starts as most shitty new adult books do we've got this kind of like badass motorcycle riding like I'm a hard-ass but I also have emotions kind of girl her mother Mary's a very rich like tycoon type character obviously this guy has a douche bag son and the douche bag son and the girl get together what are these characters names he might ask the girls named for the guys named ever I think that should tell you everything you need to know about this book if I will explain a little bit more the plot is just laughable at best there's bullying and blackmailing by ever mm-hmm he goes into her personal spaces without her permission there's times when he sees her naked without her permission it just made me feel uncomfortable I didn't like it all so there's like a gang element to it which kind of comes in last minute and makes no sense so this guy is a douche bag football player but oh my god also he's in a gang I just couldn't do it to myself so I had to finish that book or like stop reading it so next book I read this month was the last of August my brainy couple Ari oh I will put the jacket right here so you can see what that looks like how this was okay it was just more of the same but like not fun there's a lot of angst without a lot of witty banter if that makes sense so I mean that's like what I enjoy about these books funny they are despite having like kind of dark subject matter and having a lot of angst this didn't really have a lot of the fun and it also wasn't in the boarding school which like I'm sorry I like a boarding school setting so taking it to Europe for an art heist didn't really excite me I'm gonna continue with a third book I have it I'm gonna read it for contemporary thought but I didn't like this that much next book I read this month really took me by surprise and it is it only happens in the movies by Holly Bourne I literally knew nothing about it going in it's not a girl named Audrey he was dealing with a lot in her home life essentially her dad left her mom for another woman and has a new family and doesn't really care much about Audrey anymore and then the mom is kind of an alcoholic Audrey decides she's going to get out of the house and go work at a movie theater where she meets a guy named Harry they proceeded to have a relationship sort of I can't really tell you guys about the best part of this book because it would spoil it for you but there is so much to love here it is not a typical love story it's a story about finding yourself and finding out what love actually means it's not about feeling it's about a choice that you make every day you a lot of young people probably need to hear that message it was a little depressing I will say given the family subject matter but I think it was resolved nicely in a way that wasn't too cheesy so I recommend this it was a really good read my second one star read would be co-ed by Rachel van Dyken all right um Oh a lot of to unpack here we have three guys on campus referred to as the pleasure ponies they are responsible for healing women not sexually but mentally emotionally whatever and they say not sexually because they keep saying over and over and over again in the book no penetration say heal these women by like massaging them and listen to them or whatever they recommend these women sign up free dating app because they're being paid by a dating app to provide these services to women which is pretty up and also like what the so that's great and in of itself but then we also have X tres woman who's obviously coming into the picture she's the main love and treasure Ponies are just taken aback like their dicks are pulsing in their pants they love this girl so much fetishizing of her being a mixed-race woman like this is written by a white woman don't really get any sort of representation besides just like adding colour to the story like cool she's mixed-race awesome but we get references to her skin as like chocolate milk which I found offensive I just hated it and of course the douchiest guy is the one that like Falls for her but I was just bad it was really bad Bob wasn't ridiculous made no goddamn sad no no soul if I start read for the month well as attachments by Rainbow Rowell I think for me not only do I write books based on how good they are to me how interesting they are but I also rate them based on what they made me feel and if I read them like at the right time in my life it's not a guy who is assigned to read people's emails at this newspaper this was set in late 1999 or 2000 he reads emails they get flagged for whatever content they have if these two women have their emails flagged particularly frequently so he ends up falling for one of the women who is writing these emails there's something so sweet about falling in love with someone who you've never seen before and I really enjoyed this and say the plot is anything like spectacular so if you're looking for something really hard hitting or fascinating like this might not be yet for you but I liked it the next book I read this month would still be gods it was a three star book and it was a new adult I feel like everybody was talking about this a couple of months ago and everybody like all of my friends gave it five stars it's a novella and I think it supposed to be a precursor to a series about these like super rich fancy basically the premise is rich dude at Yale it's parents on a country club poor girl works at Country Club and antics ensue they get together they consummate their hate relationship because they've known each other for a long time we're supposed to be even like they've got this history in this chemistry it just wasn't believable to me I didn't really care when they hooked up I didn't think it was that exciting it didn't feel like the background that was supposed to be built upon could really be done successfully and in develop such a short page Lee I don't know it was most whatever okay so the next two books I'm gonna recommend I actually really enjoyed and really took me by surprise I'm gonna put both of them right here because they're from the same series first one is the novella which is called flow and then the second one is the actual book and it's called grip about a black rapper from Compton who falls for his friend's sister named Bristol who was from the other side of the track she's really bred to grow up in New York and she meets and she falls for him they bond very quickly if it is not an insta love situation and it is amazing it's not a situation where you've got a black main character just to have a black main character you're actually talking about the struggle that black people face in America which was phenomenal like thank you finally no adult that actually has some sort of depth to it though as they fall for each other you know grip bells Bristol all about what it's like to be a black man growing up in America what it's like to fall for a white woman when he knows that knew their families will approve of reading that and Annabella was amazing and I was surprised at how well it was done in such a short period of time also gave four stars to grip I didn't like it quite as much a rep again in this one was really fantastic the things I didn't like it was a little too stereotypical because you could tell they both wanted to be together but like stuff was keeping them apart that seemed a little unrealistic the next book I read this month was tithe by Holly black this is the first book that Holly Luck every wrote back in like 2002 I think I gave this one three stars it's a really fun tale about a girl named kay who was raised in the human world but she's been able to see pay her entire life eventually she finds out she's more tied to the fairy world than she previously thought when she meets a Fae knight named Reuben in the forest when she's about 16 there's so many like Cardin and Jim Jude vibes between the two characters in here I will say the plot wasn't as tight or as intricate as I felt that the cruel prince was the moment we've all been waiting for radio silence I gave this one four stars and I have a lot of feelings about it obviously I had to see what cat was sussing about when she was talking about radio silence and like everybody else but it turns out it was really good I knew nothing about the clock going in but it is about girl named Frances whose head girl at her school in England and she doesn't feel very connected to her friends in school she doesn't feel like she can be her authentic self it's about her relationship that develops between her and a lad who is sweet little cinnamon roll and he is the creator of her favorite YouTube show it's an anonymous show my favorite thing about it was the friendship and the way the book was written but I liked that the boy and the girl they don't end up banging they're just good friends and I felt that was really special I didn't know if I'd like that because I like romance in my books but I actually enjoyed it in this one I also really liked that the chapters were really short it made it really compulsively readable and I felt like after every little section there's just something in here that like you want to quote and just in general I really appreciated the overall message of this book that you don't have to do what the conventional thing is you don't have to go away to college and major in something useful you can really take your life and do with it what you will I really appreciated that I thought that was a really nice message and I think that if you're a young person going into college or in high school this would really really help you with where you're at and that being said for me it wasn't a five star read for that reason I'm out of college already I already kind of know what I want to do with my life so I don't feel like it really impacted me as much as I would have hoped it would have but this is definitely a book that I want to reread in the future and a book that will definitely sit with me for a really long time crushed me and I cried a little bit so really this is phenomenal and thank you so much Kat for like telling everybody about this book because it actually is fantastic and I probably wouldn't have picked it up otherwise and then the last book that I read this month was truly devious by marine Johnson well me and marine we do not have the best history I've read like two or three of her books in the past kind of hated all of them but this was actually surprisingly good I mean how bad can a book be when there's a character who knocked herself out when she gets too anxious I mean come on we love it self-care the basic premise is that there's a wealthy 1930s tycoon he opens school for gifted children it's kind of a place where you can go and study whatever you want primary school my arms like that said tycoons wife and child are kidnapped and there's a note left behind by some one side truly devious mystery remains unsolved until today the are confronted with Stevie who is obsessed with solving the mystery of truly devious and what happened to a tycoons wife and children child 1 child Alice a lot of antics ensue from there I will say I was annoyed by Stevie as a character I felt like people with anxiety typically are hyper aware of social cues and of the way that they are affecting others and that's why they're so anxious not so on Stevie's case because she decides that it's okay to break into other people's rooms emotions be damned she's kind of an unlikable character but I was able to kind of put that aside because I enjoyed the plot the actual mystery that happens in 1930 was super interesting and then a new mystery develops in present day that she's also trying to solve along with it I just felt like this is really good I would say if you'd liked the Charlotte Holmes books but she wanted more of a mystery set at a boarding-school and not just like character drama this is definitely what that is I enjoyed this that concludes my August wrap-up I hope you guys enjoyed this I am NOT going to be doing a TVR for September because I'm going to be participating in the élysée next book bingo and contemporary Thawne but I will be posting TBR's for those single to comment down below a few to the scale\n"