WHAT I READ IN MARCH _ march wrap up

**A Mixed Bag: A Review of "Maybe in Another Life" by Taylor Jenkins Reid**

As I delved into "Maybe in Another Life", I couldn't help but feel that the author's writing style was somewhat incongruous with the tone of the book. The story is told from Celia's perspective, and at times it felt like she wasn't leading the reader to a specific point or emotion, instead opting for blunt honesty that left me feeling a bit annoyed. This narrative choice is something that has been a source of frustration in Reid's previous books, and unfortunately, "Maybe in Another Life" didn't escape this issue entirely.

Furthermore, I couldn't shake off my personal reservations about the relationship between Celia and Evelyn. The power dynamic between them, particularly as it relates to their differing backgrounds and social status, felt like a major obstacle in their ability to form a healthy connection. While I understand that this was a different time period than the one in which I grew up, I couldn't help but feel that the relationship issues between these characters were not adequately addressed. Specifically, I found it difficult to forgive Celia's treatment of Evelyn, particularly when it came to how she spoke to and about her partner.

However, there were some aspects of Reid's writing style that did resonate with me. One of the things that drew me in was the nuanced characterization of Evelyn herself. She was a morally gray character who used her sexuality as a form of power, and I found this dynamic fascinating. The way she navigated these complexities and made choices that often put her at odds with Celia added depth to their relationship and raised important questions about consent, privilege, and communication.

One aspect of the book that did strike me was the way in which Reid handled the theme of relationships. While I understand that this is a common trope in many books, I couldn't help but feel that the author's approach to it was somewhat...off. In particular, I took issue with how Evelyn and Celia interacted during their conflicts - specifically, how often they would apologize or make amends without having a thorough conversation about what had happened. As someone who has been in relationships for many years, this behavior felt like something that wouldn't happen in real life. And yet, despite my reservations about the relationship itself, I couldn't help but feel drawn to Evelyn's character and invested in their story.

In the end, "Maybe in Another Life" was a book that didn't quite resonate with me on an emotional level. While I appreciated many aspects of Reid's writing style and the complexity of her characters, there were too many moments where I felt frustrated or annoyed by the way she approached certain themes and relationships. And yet, despite this, I do think it's worth reading - especially for fans of new adult romance and those who appreciate nuanced characterizations. With that said, if you're looking for a book with delightful, hilarious, heart-wrenching moments, then "Maybe in Another Life" might be the perfect choice for you.

**Up Next: A Wrap-Up and Recommendations**

With March coming to a close, I'm excited to share my thoughts on some of the books I've read over the past month. One book that did stand out was "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo", which I found to be a delightful, heart-wrenching exploration of love, identity, and the power of storytelling.

In contrast, my next review will focus on a fantasy novel that has been on my radar for some time now. If you enjoy fantasy or are looking for your next great read, then stay tuned - this book is shaping up to be one of my favorites of the year!

For now, I'll leave you with a recommendation: if you haven't already checked out "The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo", do yourself a favor and pick it up. Trust me when I say that you won't regret it.

**What's Next?**

As I look ahead to April, I'm excited to share my thoughts on some of the books that are coming my way. With a focus on fantasy novels, I know that readers will be eager to dive into the world of magic and adventure. And while I don't have too many specifics to share just yet, I can assure you that it's going to be an epic ride.

So if you're ready for something new and exciting, then stay tuned - April is shaping up to be a fantastic month for readers!

"WEBVTTKind: captionsLanguage: enwell welcome back to my channel today we're doing my March wrap-up so in total this month I read nine books which is not one of my better reading months this year but I feel like that always happens like I'll have a couple of really really high reading months and then it'll just all kind of go downhill and then you know it's like Epson flows it happens the nine books I read most of them were fantastic if I'm being honest quite a few five star reads I also had some books that I had been anticipating rooting for a really long time and sucked ass so it'll be a mixed bag here it'll be really fun and exciting the first book I finished this month was blindsided by even Finley I gave this book four stars even family still got it it was kind of on the fence about this one because I am part of Eden's like Ark list or whatever like her PR person sends me the arcs or whatever me specifically know like a bunch of different people the arcs I'm signed up for them I get them now this series is about people in sports it can be hockey players football players and I think that's all she's done so far but it's kind of about them in their male male relationships right so the first book I absolutely adored the second book I thought was trash and then the third book I was on the fence about so this was the fourth book in the series honestly I really really enjoyed it it was about Talon and Miller they have been friends since college and they've always kind of double-teamed women I mean there's really no polite way to put that basically they have sex with women but they don't have sex with each other and as the story kind of progresses they and you know going their separate ways because I believe talons a little bit older and he hands up being kind of like the Tom Brady like amazing quarterback and he ends up on the same NFL team as Miller they kind of enter into a relationship and I like it because I think the author did a really good job at showing us the characters past and why they were together why there were friends in the first place and why they should be together now I also think even Finley does an incredible job at telling stories of queer men she's a straight woman so I'm not like I can't speak to the representation however I think this is not a case of a white woman fetishizing gay man if that makes sense the sexuality is always handled so impeccably it's not just oh we're in love cool awesome everything's great you have to deal with the consequences of like being a gay man and so what that's gonna look like you have to deal with what's your family going to say those sorts of things the families in these in this series are written really incredibly and I just really really love them and the characters to me always are pretty unique she usually brings characters from her other books in the series into each subsequent book and it just feels nice getting to revisit those characters and it also reminds me that they're all different their love stories are different so they're not interchangeable it didn't feel fetishy to me even though there's like a sex scene in the opening chapter of the book I I don't know I really really liked this book I gave it four stars and I'm really excited to see where the series goes there's gonna be an age gap relationship next I think which I'm really excited about it like anticipating it for a while the next book I read was also another four star and it was a question of homes by Brittany Caballero okay thoughts this is a continuation and it's told from Charlotte's point of view whereas in the previous three books we get Jamie's bland meal mystery tight Jamie tight kissing banter hand-holding tight I can't really go into the details of this because I feel like you know it's a series continuation it's the last book in a series if you haven't read the previous ones I wouldn't spoil anything but I think this book was the best in the series for he reasons firstly it didn't focus so heavily on the mystery aspect which you would assume would be a bad thing but to be honest do you think 90% of the reason that people read these books in the first place is because the characters it's not cutting the mystery the mysteries tend to in my opinion get a little convoluted near the end and wrap up too quickly this one the mystery was very cut and dry it just it didn't feel like it was taking too much time away from the character development and growth which was the biggest thing that happened in this story seeing Jamie come to terms to Charlotte as a real full developed human being and not as this image of a human being that he has in his mind was really incredible and watching Charlotte grow from this scared and kind of resentful human being to someone who is enjoying the little things in life who is getting hot for her trauma was really fantastic to see I really enjoyed her character development the only thing I didn't like was the open ending I do not do well with open endings they piss me the off if I'm being honest it was a satisfying conclusion but it was extremely frustrating to not know if the characters were going to remain romantic is that like the most important part of the series no I think the characters their characters individual development and their relationship together developing was really important not in a romantic sense but in a mutual respect sense was important so yes like the romantic part I know I guess I don't need an answer but it would've been nice to have an answer or so the next book I read this month was a five star read shocking and it was Jack of Hearts in other parts by l-c Rose and I listened to this on audio which definitely heightened my enjoyment of the story because the audiobook narrator was fantastic I would definitely recommend this audiobook it was just pure textbook game perfection this is how more high school books need to be written honestly I think it was such a honest look into high school sexual relationships especially if you were in a sexual relationship in high school I think you'll probably relate in some way to this book basically the main character jack is asked by his friend to do a sex advice column Jack is an openly gay guy pretty wealthy at a private New York and elite high school and it's just about his sexual exploits and also about the ways in which he conceptualizes sex and what a healthy sexual relationship work looks like it's very sex positive I honestly am just like taken aback by how I I can't describe everybody talked about it and I was like okay great like awesome but until you read I don't think you can understand just how honest and unflinching it is there's discussions of sex and I would compare the actual sex that's had in this book to something like sex education the Netflix television show if you've seen it it is I mean sex is president but it's not a gratuitous sexy kind of sex it is sex for the purpose of demonstration of what's healthy and what's not so there's also kind of like a mystery blackmailing element which I thought could end up being problematic I was kind of worried at who the blackmailer was going to be I was incorrect and I'm glad that I was incorrect it ended up teaching a very important lesson I think especially for straight white women who fetishize gay men so anyway I would recommend this book the next book I read I talked about quite a bit in my vlog so I want to go too much into it but it was mr. masters my TAS wanna give this book 2 stars it was a smutty romance about an au pair named Brielle she goes to England she's Australian herself because Australians are just hot and that is where she has to be from right she travels to the UK with her friend on kind of a gap year situation they're both 25 but just trying to look escape their lives for a year so real decides that she's gonna nanny for a single mother she finds out it's actually single father once she gets there and she eventually enters into a romantic relationship with the dude I did not like the relationship that developed there was really good tension and really good bones there once characters actually boned things kind of way down home there was too much sex and the way that the book was plotted and this happens in a lot of romantic books conflicts occur and then they have sex to mate up and then it's just it's a revolving door basically you know bad should happen to have sex bad happens they have sex and there was really no communication it was interesting cuz Brielle at one point says like hey you're a terrible communicator and we need to work on this and I was like wow you're getting it yes but it never ended up happening and she just excuse his behavior because he's deep down a really good guy I also didn't appreciate his treatment of his children he was like kind of homophobic wasn't all my favorite and I definitely would not recommend this to other people the next book I read I also talked about my vlog I also have a live show on Carey's channel for this book it's fallen by Lauren Kate give it two stars I mean there's not much to say except for there wasn't a whole lot going on here that was good it's mostly just garbage so that's about it it's like early 2000s paranormal yaa and it's no Twilight you know it's just not the next book I read was another five-star read see this month it seems good it seems good until we get to the end fury worn by Claire Legrand and gave this book 5 stars it was about a woman slash girl I guess we could call them girls it was about Riel and Eleana and they are a thousand years apart in history and it's about their like kind of parallel kid it really a parallel what's a thousand years apart I don't know it's about they're two different storylines and how they are dealing with things it's a fantasy book so there's fantasy elements Brielle is someone who is able to wield different elements and in her society people can only willed one element she can wield all of them and this kind of ties into a prophecy that whoever has this sort of power is going to corrupt the world and or finish the world and then Eliana is a thousand years into the future and in this future people are under this horrible Empire regime and there's no magic anymore and she's just trying to fight to stay alive her mother eventually gets kidnapped and the story is her trying to find out what to her mother and she fights out other things along the way about her past so anyway that's the story essentially so much that worked here for me i'ma read fantasy in a long time so I think that was a really big part of it but honestly the two characters are unlikable but they are also so well developed that I think it overcomes that factor if you will and I also enjoy unlikable female characters I ended up really liking both of the male love interest in respective storylines thought they were both really fun and in general like I'm just this is the world that I'm interested in I think a lot of people's complaints are about the world building and how things are kind of left up to question but since it's the first book in a series I kind of like that things are being revealed as we go along it wasn't confusing to me personally so much else to say it's just like your textbook solid ass fantasy and I enjoyed the out of it and then we get to the disappointing reads two in a row super great first one is cursor dark lonely by Bridget camber also read this and vlog and I give this book two stars sometimes a book comes along that it's just so mediocre that you wonder how the publisher greenlight of it and then you wonder why the you picked it up and why it was hype that's really the case here this was not a terrible book it was just so incredibly mediocre and I like no offense to the author because I'm sure she's great she usually writes contemporary and I think this is her first fantasy book but holy it was a bidding the beast retelling with a girl named Harper from DC she gets basically snatched up into this fantasy world because she is supposed to be the love interest for the beast character she's captured by the beasts Royal Guard his name is gray and this story like there's just not much there the characters don't do a very good job at like falling in love I didn't root for their relationship the actual storyline figuring out what happened and why he was the beast and what's happening in the the fantasy setting because while there is a beast there is also stuff going on within this fantasy world the beast since he is too busy bee sting he can't take care of his kingdom and he's a facing invasion by a foreign nation so that's kind of another plot point my issue really was that the characters I didn't like that man we're really really boring the only interesting character to me was gray and apparently Ridgid has that he's not even gonna be a love and trust option there's gonna be no love triangle so for me it's just like why bother to continue to read this series and also God like I honestly would rather read a guitar and that is sang some I mean I like a guitar so that's like probably part of it say what you want about Sara J mask but in my opinion her characters at least you have a strong visceral reaction whether it's like love or hate for them and I just didn't have any sort of real feelings for these characters which was not great the next book that was sadly very disappointing to me was a book that a just a live show on with Dylan from Dylan the reader for our TJ read along which has come to an end because this last book that we were reading for it the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo okay where to begin I gave this three stars which is kind of generous because I really did not enjoy it and I think a big part of that is because I've read Taylor Jenkins reads other books all but one I don't like her writing is the big thing the two real big issues that I had where I did not like the writing and I did not like the relationship between Celia and Evelyn first the writing my thing is that Taylor Jenkins read I like that her writing is very easy to grasp it's not overly flowery it's very concise to the point but the issue is she has too many morally prescriptive things thrown in and it's kind of incongruous with writing that is very concise like it just she's she doesn't lead you to the point she's like this is the point you were supposed to feel this way about relationships because I'm telling you and I'm I'm not gonna show you I'm just telling you like this is this is what you should think about relationships it's really graded on my nerves and it was something that annoyed me and her other books and it annoyed me especially in this one it makes for a very quotable book but it's not something that I personally really enjoyed and I think it also doesn't help that I don't share her opinions on relationships which brings me to my second point I did not at all enjoy the relationship between Celia and Evelyn this book was written in the past I understand that there were barriers keeping these two characters apart but that was not enough really to make the relationship work for me to excuse the issues that I had my main issue is that in Taylor Jenkins reads books almost all of her characters when they get in fights do that I'm sorry in real life people maybe they do this but I I don't and as a grown adult like I think after the first time doing some stupid you'd learn from it they say things that can't be taken back they break up instead of talking about their feelings they leave their partner without so much as a word like I'm sorry after doing that once at like 16 years old that's not something that like grown adult people do and like I said I understand that this was a different time period and that things were higher stakes but oh wow it was just not excusable to me and I really really did that like that that being said I did like the fact that Evelyn was kind of unlikable character I liked that she was a little bit morally gray I enjoyed that she used her sexuality is power and if that was explored a little bit that was fascinating to me I didn't think I would enjoyed this book and I didn't and I'm a little bit sad about it because I know that it's her like a best book but I will say I'm glad that I got it she gets to read it I'm glad that I came out one whole but and yeah that's pretty much my feelings on it if you want a full more concise and more qualified out review I'll put my Goodreads link down below and you can go find that review and then the last book that I read this month wise if I start read for me and it is gonna be one of my favorite books of beer I can already anticipate it you can already tell you that it is red white and royal boil vacation a question I mean honestly like what needs to be said it hasn't been said about this book it comes out to think of May 14th I liked this for a reason that I don't think everybody probably will appreciate as much as I did but the relationship was fantastic I really did like that the thing that I loved the most was the way that Casey and that she's not even from Texas she was able to conjure feelings of my state and of my current town that I'm living in that just made me so appreciative for Austin for Texas for everything that it stands for the ending of the book feeling just so like it was an alternate ending basically to what the election and 2016 looked like seeing I don't want to spoil it but just seeing everything that happened I mean I cried and it wasn't because of their relationship it was because of the story I I don't know how to really get into the details cuz honestly I'm still emotional I just finished this book like right before I decided to film this wrap-up if I could recommend one book from this wrap-up to you it would definitely be this book I know that it seems overhyped and I was kind of like hesitant to read it because of the hype but sincerely enjoyed it the only thing I didn't like at least at first was the way that it was written a third person limited to me is very difficult to get into and it's very hit-or-miss it was a little bit difficult for me to get into this time around but once I started reading I just couldn't stop and I think god I don't know I don't know what to say I just love this book so if you wanted delightful hilarious heart-wrenching amazing mail mail and new adult rom-com you need to read this it was amazing that is it for my March wrap-up I'm really looking forward to April there's gonna be a lot more fantasy in the mix so if you enjoy fantasy stay tuned probably a lot more smut too because I'm gonna need something to break up all that fantasy but I love all of you guys and I hope you guys are having a fantastic weekend and until next timewell welcome back to my channel today we're doing my March wrap-up so in total this month I read nine books which is not one of my better reading months this year but I feel like that always happens like I'll have a couple of really really high reading months and then it'll just all kind of go downhill and then you know it's like Epson flows it happens the nine books I read most of them were fantastic if I'm being honest quite a few five star reads I also had some books that I had been anticipating rooting for a really long time and sucked ass so it'll be a mixed bag here it'll be really fun and exciting the first book I finished this month was blindsided by even Finley I gave this book four stars even family still got it it was kind of on the fence about this one because I am part of Eden's like Ark list or whatever like her PR person sends me the arcs or whatever me specifically know like a bunch of different people the arcs I'm signed up for them I get them now this series is about people in sports it can be hockey players football players and I think that's all she's done so far but it's kind of about them in their male male relationships right so the first book I absolutely adored the second book I thought was trash and then the third book I was on the fence about so this was the fourth book in the series honestly I really really enjoyed it it was about Talon and Miller they have been friends since college and they've always kind of double-teamed women I mean there's really no polite way to put that basically they have sex with women but they don't have sex with each other and as the story kind of progresses they and you know going their separate ways because I believe talons a little bit older and he hands up being kind of like the Tom Brady like amazing quarterback and he ends up on the same NFL team as Miller they kind of enter into a relationship and I like it because I think the author did a really good job at showing us the characters past and why they were together why there were friends in the first place and why they should be together now I also think even Finley does an incredible job at telling stories of queer men she's a straight woman so I'm not like I can't speak to the representation however I think this is not a case of a white woman fetishizing gay man if that makes sense the sexuality is always handled so impeccably it's not just oh we're in love cool awesome everything's great you have to deal with the consequences of like being a gay man and so what that's gonna look like you have to deal with what's your family going to say those sorts of things the families in these in this series are written really incredibly and I just really really love them and the characters to me always are pretty unique she usually brings characters from her other books in the series into each subsequent book and it just feels nice getting to revisit those characters and it also reminds me that they're all different their love stories are different so they're not interchangeable it didn't feel fetishy to me even though there's like a sex scene in the opening chapter of the book I I don't know I really really liked this book I gave it four stars and I'm really excited to see where the series goes there's gonna be an age gap relationship next I think which I'm really excited about it like anticipating it for a while the next book I read was also another four star and it was a question of homes by Brittany Caballero okay thoughts this is a continuation and it's told from Charlotte's point of view whereas in the previous three books we get Jamie's bland meal mystery tight Jamie tight kissing banter hand-holding tight I can't really go into the details of this because I feel like you know it's a series continuation it's the last book in a series if you haven't read the previous ones I wouldn't spoil anything but I think this book was the best in the series for he reasons firstly it didn't focus so heavily on the mystery aspect which you would assume would be a bad thing but to be honest do you think 90% of the reason that people read these books in the first place is because the characters it's not cutting the mystery the mysteries tend to in my opinion get a little convoluted near the end and wrap up too quickly this one the mystery was very cut and dry it just it didn't feel like it was taking too much time away from the character development and growth which was the biggest thing that happened in this story seeing Jamie come to terms to Charlotte as a real full developed human being and not as this image of a human being that he has in his mind was really incredible and watching Charlotte grow from this scared and kind of resentful human being to someone who is enjoying the little things in life who is getting hot for her trauma was really fantastic to see I really enjoyed her character development the only thing I didn't like was the open ending I do not do well with open endings they piss me the off if I'm being honest it was a satisfying conclusion but it was extremely frustrating to not know if the characters were going to remain romantic is that like the most important part of the series no I think the characters their characters individual development and their relationship together developing was really important not in a romantic sense but in a mutual respect sense was important so yes like the romantic part I know I guess I don't need an answer but it would've been nice to have an answer or so the next book I read this month was a five star read shocking and it was Jack of Hearts in other parts by l-c Rose and I listened to this on audio which definitely heightened my enjoyment of the story because the audiobook narrator was fantastic I would definitely recommend this audiobook it was just pure textbook game perfection this is how more high school books need to be written honestly I think it was such a honest look into high school sexual relationships especially if you were in a sexual relationship in high school I think you'll probably relate in some way to this book basically the main character jack is asked by his friend to do a sex advice column Jack is an openly gay guy pretty wealthy at a private New York and elite high school and it's just about his sexual exploits and also about the ways in which he conceptualizes sex and what a healthy sexual relationship work looks like it's very sex positive I honestly am just like taken aback by how I I can't describe everybody talked about it and I was like okay great like awesome but until you read I don't think you can understand just how honest and unflinching it is there's discussions of sex and I would compare the actual sex that's had in this book to something like sex education the Netflix television show if you've seen it it is I mean sex is president but it's not a gratuitous sexy kind of sex it is sex for the purpose of demonstration of what's healthy and what's not so there's also kind of like a mystery blackmailing element which I thought could end up being problematic I was kind of worried at who the blackmailer was going to be I was incorrect and I'm glad that I was incorrect it ended up teaching a very important lesson I think especially for straight white women who fetishize gay men so anyway I would recommend this book the next book I read I talked about quite a bit in my vlog so I want to go too much into it but it was mr. masters my TAS wanna give this book 2 stars it was a smutty romance about an au pair named Brielle she goes to England she's Australian herself because Australians are just hot and that is where she has to be from right she travels to the UK with her friend on kind of a gap year situation they're both 25 but just trying to look escape their lives for a year so real decides that she's gonna nanny for a single mother she finds out it's actually single father once she gets there and she eventually enters into a romantic relationship with the dude I did not like the relationship that developed there was really good tension and really good bones there once characters actually boned things kind of way down home there was too much sex and the way that the book was plotted and this happens in a lot of romantic books conflicts occur and then they have sex to mate up and then it's just it's a revolving door basically you know bad should happen to have sex bad happens they have sex and there was really no communication it was interesting cuz Brielle at one point says like hey you're a terrible communicator and we need to work on this and I was like wow you're getting it yes but it never ended up happening and she just excuse his behavior because he's deep down a really good guy I also didn't appreciate his treatment of his children he was like kind of homophobic wasn't all my favorite and I definitely would not recommend this to other people the next book I read I also talked about my vlog I also have a live show on Carey's channel for this book it's fallen by Lauren Kate give it two stars I mean there's not much to say except for there wasn't a whole lot going on here that was good it's mostly just garbage so that's about it it's like early 2000s paranormal yaa and it's no Twilight you know it's just not the next book I read was another five-star read see this month it seems good it seems good until we get to the end fury worn by Claire Legrand and gave this book 5 stars it was about a woman slash girl I guess we could call them girls it was about Riel and Eleana and they are a thousand years apart in history and it's about their like kind of parallel kid it really a parallel what's a thousand years apart I don't know it's about they're two different storylines and how they are dealing with things it's a fantasy book so there's fantasy elements Brielle is someone who is able to wield different elements and in her society people can only willed one element she can wield all of them and this kind of ties into a prophecy that whoever has this sort of power is going to corrupt the world and or finish the world and then Eliana is a thousand years into the future and in this future people are under this horrible Empire regime and there's no magic anymore and she's just trying to fight to stay alive her mother eventually gets kidnapped and the story is her trying to find out what to her mother and she fights out other things along the way about her past so anyway that's the story essentially so much that worked here for me i'ma read fantasy in a long time so I think that was a really big part of it but honestly the two characters are unlikable but they are also so well developed that I think it overcomes that factor if you will and I also enjoy unlikable female characters I ended up really liking both of the male love interest in respective storylines thought they were both really fun and in general like I'm just this is the world that I'm interested in I think a lot of people's complaints are about the world building and how things are kind of left up to question but since it's the first book in a series I kind of like that things are being revealed as we go along it wasn't confusing to me personally so much else to say it's just like your textbook solid ass fantasy and I enjoyed the out of it and then we get to the disappointing reads two in a row super great first one is cursor dark lonely by Bridget camber also read this and vlog and I give this book two stars sometimes a book comes along that it's just so mediocre that you wonder how the publisher greenlight of it and then you wonder why the you picked it up and why it was hype that's really the case here this was not a terrible book it was just so incredibly mediocre and I like no offense to the author because I'm sure she's great she usually writes contemporary and I think this is her first fantasy book but holy it was a bidding the beast retelling with a girl named Harper from DC she gets basically snatched up into this fantasy world because she is supposed to be the love interest for the beast character she's captured by the beasts Royal Guard his name is gray and this story like there's just not much there the characters don't do a very good job at like falling in love I didn't root for their relationship the actual storyline figuring out what happened and why he was the beast and what's happening in the the fantasy setting because while there is a beast there is also stuff going on within this fantasy world the beast since he is too busy bee sting he can't take care of his kingdom and he's a facing invasion by a foreign nation so that's kind of another plot point my issue really was that the characters I didn't like that man we're really really boring the only interesting character to me was gray and apparently Ridgid has that he's not even gonna be a love and trust option there's gonna be no love triangle so for me it's just like why bother to continue to read this series and also God like I honestly would rather read a guitar and that is sang some I mean I like a guitar so that's like probably part of it say what you want about Sara J mask but in my opinion her characters at least you have a strong visceral reaction whether it's like love or hate for them and I just didn't have any sort of real feelings for these characters which was not great the next book that was sadly very disappointing to me was a book that a just a live show on with Dylan from Dylan the reader for our TJ read along which has come to an end because this last book that we were reading for it the seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo okay where to begin I gave this three stars which is kind of generous because I really did not enjoy it and I think a big part of that is because I've read Taylor Jenkins reads other books all but one I don't like her writing is the big thing the two real big issues that I had where I did not like the writing and I did not like the relationship between Celia and Evelyn first the writing my thing is that Taylor Jenkins read I like that her writing is very easy to grasp it's not overly flowery it's very concise to the point but the issue is she has too many morally prescriptive things thrown in and it's kind of incongruous with writing that is very concise like it just she's she doesn't lead you to the point she's like this is the point you were supposed to feel this way about relationships because I'm telling you and I'm I'm not gonna show you I'm just telling you like this is this is what you should think about relationships it's really graded on my nerves and it was something that annoyed me and her other books and it annoyed me especially in this one it makes for a very quotable book but it's not something that I personally really enjoyed and I think it also doesn't help that I don't share her opinions on relationships which brings me to my second point I did not at all enjoy the relationship between Celia and Evelyn this book was written in the past I understand that there were barriers keeping these two characters apart but that was not enough really to make the relationship work for me to excuse the issues that I had my main issue is that in Taylor Jenkins reads books almost all of her characters when they get in fights do that I'm sorry in real life people maybe they do this but I I don't and as a grown adult like I think after the first time doing some stupid you'd learn from it they say things that can't be taken back they break up instead of talking about their feelings they leave their partner without so much as a word like I'm sorry after doing that once at like 16 years old that's not something that like grown adult people do and like I said I understand that this was a different time period and that things were higher stakes but oh wow it was just not excusable to me and I really really did that like that that being said I did like the fact that Evelyn was kind of unlikable character I liked that she was a little bit morally gray I enjoyed that she used her sexuality is power and if that was explored a little bit that was fascinating to me I didn't think I would enjoyed this book and I didn't and I'm a little bit sad about it because I know that it's her like a best book but I will say I'm glad that I got it she gets to read it I'm glad that I came out one whole but and yeah that's pretty much my feelings on it if you want a full more concise and more qualified out review I'll put my Goodreads link down below and you can go find that review and then the last book that I read this month wise if I start read for me and it is gonna be one of my favorite books of beer I can already anticipate it you can already tell you that it is red white and royal boil vacation a question I mean honestly like what needs to be said it hasn't been said about this book it comes out to think of May 14th I liked this for a reason that I don't think everybody probably will appreciate as much as I did but the relationship was fantastic I really did like that the thing that I loved the most was the way that Casey and that she's not even from Texas she was able to conjure feelings of my state and of my current town that I'm living in that just made me so appreciative for Austin for Texas for everything that it stands for the ending of the book feeling just so like it was an alternate ending basically to what the election and 2016 looked like seeing I don't want to spoil it but just seeing everything that happened I mean I cried and it wasn't because of their relationship it was because of the story I I don't know how to really get into the details cuz honestly I'm still emotional I just finished this book like right before I decided to film this wrap-up if I could recommend one book from this wrap-up to you it would definitely be this book I know that it seems overhyped and I was kind of like hesitant to read it because of the hype but sincerely enjoyed it the only thing I didn't like at least at first was the way that it was written a third person limited to me is very difficult to get into and it's very hit-or-miss it was a little bit difficult for me to get into this time around but once I started reading I just couldn't stop and I think god I don't know I don't know what to say I just love this book so if you wanted delightful hilarious heart-wrenching amazing mail mail and new adult rom-com you need to read this it was amazing that is it for my March wrap-up I'm really looking forward to April there's gonna be a lot more fantasy in the mix so if you enjoy fantasy stay tuned probably a lot more smut too because I'm gonna need something to break up all that fantasy but I love all of you guys and I hope you guys are having a fantastic weekend and until next time\n"