joyreads2024's reviews
93 reviews

This Side of the Grave: A Night Huntress Novel by Jeaniene Frost

Go to review page

adventurous emotional funny inspiring sad slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

In this book, Cat deals with themes of self-acceptance and grief. Ian deals with wanting to bone Veritas in the middle of a battle. Vlad deals with Vlad. Mencheres, Bones, Kira, Spade and Denise have to deal with all of them and Marie.
Perfect Chemistry by Simone Elkeles

Go to review page

challenging dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.5

This book provides such a good, clear example of living on the wrong side of the tracks. Where on one side you have gangs, and turf wars; and on the other you have rich houses and hidden problems. The love story between Alex and Brittany is so wonderful, and I loved seeing them get an upper hand on Colin. I also loved that the author didn’t pull her punches when showing that getting out of a gang is hard, and the lifelong consequences of that.

While also portraying gang violence, it also highlighted a family’s love for a member of their family with disability, and the story portrayed her with respect, and Shelley holds a piece of all her hearts.
Expand filter menu Content Warnings
Eternal Kiss of Darkness by Jeaniene Frost

Go to review page

adventurous dark emotional funny inspiring lighthearted medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.75

Any book with Mencheres and Vlad is bound to be good LOL. The book had good pace, and I really enjoyed reading it. I also loveeee that it’s setting us up for the rest.

Same with the PTSD imagery in the previous book, this book’s imagery of hopelessness and guilt is really good. Love love loveee the ending. A very nice book!
Every Thing is F*ucked by Mark Manson

Go to review page

informative medium-paced

4.0

This book was really interesting and made me take a deep hard look at myself (also helped me make the connection that I needed to go to therapy lol).. but lost me with AI in the last chapter
The Scarlet Rose by Valia Lind

Go to review page

adventurous dark lighthearted mysterious medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.0

This was a very interesting beauty and the beast retelling. While it was a good overall book it didn’t have any details about character apparences (or if it did it had minor), and the world building was meh. The ending was good tho and it wrapped up somewhat nicely (despite absolutely no resolution with baba yaga), hence it being a 4
Branded by Fire by Nalini Singh

Go to review page

adventurous emotional funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious tense medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

4.75

These two are so goddamn cute I can’T even

Tatiana controls the HA chairman, but doesn’t coerce him into pressing the trigger etc; we meet Bo and Lily who kidnapped Nash who is working on something for medical reasons (e.g. giving humans changeling strength), we meet Adam too; bomb goes off; Henry programs Psy to kill others (we meet Samuel Rain)
Expand filter menu Content Warnings
First Drop of Crimson by Jeaniene Frost

Go to review page

adventurous dark emotional funny hopeful inspiring tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

I didn’t love the way that the situation with Nathaniel was portrayed, I actually think it was a pretty bad way of portraying it. Besides that, the love story between Spade and Denise was amazing, and PTSD was portrayed in such a good way. I think the book as a whole was good, and I thoroughly enjoyed Spade punching Ian into the sea. Ian always brings the fun, and it was a good introduction into Mencheres’ book which is the next one in the series
Expand filter menu Content Warnings
Neon Gods by Katee Robert

Go to review page

dark relaxing slow-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

The smut was great but the plot was mid
The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch by Melinda Taub

Go to review page

adventurous lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

This book was  good, but I must admit I am not used to the writing style and content. It was a light hearted, witchy retelling, that unfortunately touched on some issues in a not delicate manner.
Expand filter menu Content Warnings
One For the Money by Jeaniene Frost

Go to review page

adventurous relaxing fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.0

A good short story where Justina learns how to throw knives and Bones and Cat go back to Bite. Why Justina had to be there no idea but aight, character development or what not
Expand filter menu Content Warnings