jmelauren's reviews
125 reviews

This was a pleasant surprise! Best friend's brother isn't a favorite trope of mine. I thought it would be this unrequited childhood crush, but maybe that's brother's best friend. Idk. This was an adult best friend and meeting the brother for the first time.

This is seriously bookish! It's fun to read something with bookish lingo dropped into normal conversation, as if everybody knows what tbr and arc means.

I totally agree with maxime though, you must explain the one star not just not rate a book that doesn't hit 4 stars. And since when is 3 stars a bad rating? 3 stars is a solid good book!

Kelly Bishop was part of the original inspiration for A Chorus Line. I had no idea she was such a Broadway baby!

She briefly mentions some guy touching her on a public bus and not swatting him away, not moving or anything, just insulting and humiliating him. And I could just perfectly see that. Very Emily Gilmore. 

I admire how she spoke about abortion. Very matter of fact, and how planned parenthood does not take it lightly. 

This story was just meh for me. A little boring , didn't particularly like the characters,  but Nora Roberts books are so east to fall into! It's hard to say I didn't like it.

Bad boy/good girl
Enemies to lovers 
Opposites attract 
Dual POV 
Banter
Disability rep 

Interesting that the cannibalism wasn't the grossest part.

Seriously though, these people are unbelievable! 

The book was broken up into different parts, so it interwove the survival story with srories of the parents trying to find their boys. It would have been more interesting if we just got the survival story. The parents' stories kind of dragged. 

I didn't think this was unbelievable, but it definitely kept my attention and the did download some of the other books in the series. 

It started slow, but sped up halfway through. I thought there was too much down time after all the action. 


Romantic thriller
Childhood sweethearts 
Slow burn
Tortured hero
Small town
Multi timeline
Forced proximity 
Dual POV 
Second chance 
Cute nickname 
Past trauma
Gun violence 
Spicy
Found family 

Hard to believe one book has so many tropes!

I love how caring and respectful they were of one another. Each MC was so fun and lovable. It really was a joy to follow their story! There's great character development and disabilty rep, and it was wonderful to see that instant connection followed up by them actually getting to know each other before all the I love yous.

I don't normally like epilouges, but this one was so pure and heartwarming.

On A Limb by Hannah Bonam Young 
Disability rep 
Meet cute
Spicy
Surprise pregnancy 
Forced proximity 
Instant connection 

I was hoping for something to live up to The Last Letter. This was good, but didn't quite get there for me because I don't really enjoy the tropes used. It is not so heartbreaking either.

There was not room on the door!

Military 
Airplane meet cute
Multi time line
Bookish
Music
Second chance 
Spicy

Historical fiction 
World War 2
Disability rep
Book love
V for victory 
Nazi Occupation 
Love story


"Authors made it easy for her to live a rich and full life without having to experience the actual emotion herself."


This story is not as long as the book.
After the story of The Wartime Book Club there's 
Author note
Book club kit 
Reading list 
The lost art of letter writing 
Eat like an islander
Inspirational islanders
Post script 
The price of bravery
Places to visit
Bibliography 
Acknowledgements
And finally the closing.

Her age at the beginning really confused me. From the context it seemed like seemed like she was a very small child, however the voice was very very mature. I just couldn't imagine a child having those thoughts and speaking the way she does.
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Wait. Why did Jane fall in love with Mr. Rochester? He's mean and rude and 30 years older than she is and he refers to Adele as 'it'.

The fortune teller thing was just weird.

I must have wrinkled my nose in disgust a hundred times because of how he spoke to her.

Why does he call her Janet?

I understand that help for mental health was not a thing in the nineteenth century and that the woman was violent, but it seems really cold hearted to just lock her up and pretend she never existed. 

He was actually Mad the she rejected him after learning he was married? 

And then he tried to explain himself, but he just sounded like a bratty child who didn't get his way so he just pretended his problems didn't exist.
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After Jane left Mr. Rochester I had a brief moment of hope that they were not end game, but that disappeared when she discovered she had family. 

It's crazy to me that she started to voice her dislike of Sinjin because of how he treated her. But Mr. Rochester treated her the same way!

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Romance in 1847 was severely lacking. Why is this so revered today? I can't name one good thing about this story. Isn't it time that we as a society hold up something featuring good people who treat others with kindness and respect? 

Yes. Jane is a great character and she was ahead of her time, but times have changed. I don't think this is relevant anymore.