Review

Behind Closed Doors by B A Paris (Review)

January 17, 2018

Author: B A Paris

Publisher: Harper Collins (HQ Stories)

Amazon Description:

Everyone knows a couple like Jack and Grace. He has looks and wealth, she has charm and elegance. You might not want to like them, but you do.

You’d like to get to know Grace better.

But it’s difficult, because you realise Jack and Grace are never apart.

Some might call this true love. Others might ask why Grace never answers the phone. Or how she can never meet for coffee, even though she doesn’t work. How she can cook such elaborate meals but remain so slim. And why there are bars on one of the bedroom windows.

When Dimple Met Rishi (Review)

May 30, 2017

When Dimple Met Rishi by Sandhya Manon

Release date: May 30th US / June 1st UK

Rating given: 4/4.5 stars.

Goodreads synopsis: A laugh-out-loud, heartfelt YA romantic comedy, told in alternating perspectives, about two Indian-American teens whose parents have arranged for them to be married.

Dimple Shah has it all figured out. With graduation behind her, she’s more than ready for a break from her family, from Mamma’s inexplicable obsession with her finding the “Ideal Indian Husband.” Ugh. Dimple knows they must respect her principles on some level, though. If they truly believed she needed a husband right now, they wouldn’t have paid for her to attend a summer program for aspiring web developers…right?

Rishi Patel is a hopeless romantic. So when his parents tell him that his future wife will be attending the same summer program as him—wherein he’ll have to woo her—he’s totally on board. Because as silly as it sounds to most people in his life, Rishi wants to be arranged, believes in the power of tradition, stability, and being a part of something much bigger than himself.

The Shahs and Patels didn’t mean to start turning the wheels on this “suggested arrangement” so early in their children’s lives, but when they noticed them both gravitate toward the same summer program, they figured, Why not?

Dimple and Rishi may think they have each other figured out. But when opposites clash, love works hard to prove itself in the most unexpected ways.

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Crooked Kingdom By Leigh Bardugo (Non-Spoiler & Spoiler Review)

December 8, 2016

Author: Leigh Bardugo

Publisher: Orion (UK) /Henry Holt and Co. (US)

Rating: 5/5 stars.

I can guarantee this whole review will just be me unable to control my emotions, because I can’t believe its over. After being VERY late to the game in reading Six Of Crows (which I finished last month and absolutely adored) I decided I would marathon this duology, mainly because after finishing SOC I couldn’t think about anything else.

I said this in my previous review for SOC, but these characters are literally everything, Leigh has created some of the most exciting, humorous, badass & diverse characters I have ever read. Each characters voice is so unique and unlike other YA fantasy books with multiple POV’s there was no *ugh can I skip this one* feeling, I cared for all of the characters. It was especially great to have Wylans perspective in this book, as thats what the last book was missing. There is also a lot of character development which I really appreciated, specially from Matthias.

I ship all the pairings in this series and this final book left me too emotional for words, you will laugh/cry/assume the fetal position, at least *cough* that was me. To me the dialogue in this book is just SO real, you get so invested, they are all precious honeys who must be protected (just saying).

The story picks up a week after the events in SOC, which I loved cause it jumped straight back into things. In terms of the plot I thought that it was just as fast paced and badass as the previous book (if not more so!) there was so many twists that I just wasn’t expecting, mostly because of Kaz’s epic plans. There is definitely a lot more of a political side of things in comparison to the previous books, of which I personally really enjoyed reading about, love me some mind games.

All in all I think that everything rounded up nicely at the end, although I could happily read another 6 books with these characters, lets be honest.

That’s all I can say without completely spoiling!

If you’ve read Crooked Kingdom here are my Spoilery thoughts: