en-US Sat, 26 Apr 2025 14:53:47 -0700 60 144 41 /images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 59754566 They don’t play for the same team. Or do they?

Jamie Canning has never been able to figure out how he lost his closest friend. Four years ago, his tattooed, wise-cracking, rule-breaking roommate cut him off without an explanation. So what if things got a little weird on the last night of hockey camp the summer they were eighteen? It was just a little drunken foolishness. Nobody died.

Ryan Wesley’s biggest regret is coaxing his very straight friend into a bet that pushed the boundaries of their relationship. Now, with their college teams set to face off at the national championship, he’ll finally get a chance to apologize. But all it takes is one look at his longtime crush, and the ache is stronger than ever.

Jamie has waited a long time for answers, but walks away with only more questions—can one night of sex ruin a friendship? If not, how about six more weeks of it? When Wesley turns up to coach alongside Jamie for one more hot summer at camp, Jamie has a few things to discover about his old friend...and a big one to learn about himself.

Warning: contains sexual situations, hotties on hockey skates, skinnydipping, shenanigans in an SUV and proof that coming out to your family on social media is a dicey proposition.]]> 326 Sarina Bowen 1954500491 Tarryn 4 4.10 2015
author: Sarina Bowen
name: Tarryn
average rating: 4.10
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2016/09/30
date added: 2025/04/26
shelves: m-m, new-adults-are-dumb, scribd, smut-with-some-substance
review:

]]> 38251245 The fourth book in the New York Times bestselling Charlotte Holmes series!

Charlotte Holmes and Jamie Watson think they’re finally in the clear. They’ve left Sherringford School—and the Moriartys—behind for a pre-college summer program at Oxford University. A chance to start from scratch and explore dating for the first time, while exploring a new city with all the freedom their program provides. But when they arrive, Charlotte is immediately drawn into a new case: a series of accidents have been befalling the members of the community theater troupe in Oxford, and now, on the eve of their production of Hamlet, they’re starting all over again. What once seemed like a comedy of errors is now a race to prevent the next tragedy—before Charlotte or Jamie is the next victim.]]> 320 Brittany Cavallaro 006284024X Tarryn 4
I don’t think I ever expected a satisfying end for this series, and yet here we are, and I’m satisfied!

I think it’s truly the fact that Cavallaro took a departure from the more convoluted plots and let us see a softer, more vulnerable Holmes that really made this excellent. Plus, it was such Holmes x Watson fanservice that I could cry. I mean, okay, maybe I’m already crying. I truly couldn’t have asked for a better farewell.]]> 3.96 2019
author: Brittany Cavallaro
name: Tarryn
average rating: 3.96
book published: 2019
rating: 4
read at: 2019/04/01
date added: 2025/04/18
shelves: great-ends-for-great-series, made-me-angry, mystery, otp-otp-otp, scribd
review:
Original review from 2019:

I don’t think I ever expected a satisfying end for this series, and yet here we are, and I’m satisfied!

I think it’s truly the fact that Cavallaro took a departure from the more convoluted plots and let us see a softer, more vulnerable Holmes that really made this excellent. Plus, it was such Holmes x Watson fanservice that I could cry. I mean, okay, maybe I’m already crying. I truly couldn’t have asked for a better farewell.
]]> 35444098 New York Times bestselling Charlotte Holmes series.

It’s been a year since the shocking death of August Moriarty, and Jamie and Charlotte haven’t spoken.

Jamie is going through the motions at Sherringford, trying to finish his senior year without incident, with a nice girlfriend he can’t seem to fall for.

Charlotte is on the run, from Lucien Moriarty and from her own mistakes. No one has seen her since that fateful night on the lawn in Sussex—and Charlotte wants it that way. She knows she isn’t safe to be around. She knows her Watson can’t forgive her.

Holmes and Watson may not be looking to reconcile, but when strange things start happening, it’s clear that someone wants the team back together. Someone who has been quietly observing them both. Making plans. Biding their time.

Someone who wants to see one of them suffer and the other one dead.]]> 336 Brittany Cavallaro Tarryn 3 mystery, scribd, slow-going
This book really didn’t even get interesting until about 70% through. The emails at the end almost make up for everything though because my heart feels satisfied.]]> 4.08 2018
author: Brittany Cavallaro
name: Tarryn
average rating: 4.08
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2019/02/21
date added: 2025/04/18
shelves: mystery, scribd, slow-going
review:
Original review from 2019:

This book really didn’t even get interesting until about 70% through. The emails at the end almost make up for everything though because my heart feels satisfied.
]]> 38908121 The first book in a witty, suspenseful new series about a brilliant new crime-solving duo: the teen descendants of Sherlock Holmes and John Watson. This clever page-turner will appeal to fans of Maureen Johnson and Ally Carter.

Jamie Watson has always been intrigued by Charlotte Holmes; after all, their great-great-great-grandfathers are one of the most infamous pairs in history. But the Holmes family has always been odd, and Charlotte is no exception. She’s inherited Sherlock’s volatility and some of his vices—and when Jamie and Charlotte end up at the same Connecticut boarding school, Charlotte makes it clear she’s not looking for friends.

But when a student they both have a history with dies under suspicious circumstances, ripped straight from the most terrifying of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Jamie can no longer afford to keep his distance. Danger is mounting and nowhere is safe—and the only people they can trust are each other.]]> 330 Brittany Cavallaro Tarryn 4 3.87 2016
author: Brittany Cavallaro
name: Tarryn
average rating: 3.87
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2017/01/17
date added: 2025/04/18
shelves: instalove, mystery, reread, scribd
review:

]]> 30256105 Watson and Holmes: A match made in disaster.

Jamie Watson and Charlotte Holmes are looking for a winter-break reprieve after a fall semester that almost got them killed. But Charlotte isn’t the only Holmes with secrets, and the mood at her family’s Sussex estate is palpably tense. On top of everything else, Holmes and Watson could be becoming more than friends—but still, the darkness in Charlotte’s past is a wall between them.

A distraction arises soon enough, because Charlotte’s beloved uncle Leander goes missing from the estate—after being oddly private about his latest assignment in a German art forgery ring. The game is afoot once again, and Charlotte is single-minded in her pursuit.

Their first stop? Berlin. Their first contact? August Moriarty (formerly Charlotte’s obsession, currently believed by most to be dead), whose powerful family has been ripping off famous paintings for the last hundred years. But as they follow the gritty underground scene in Berlin to glittering art houses in Prague, Holmes and Watson begin to realize that this is a much more complicated case than a disappearance. Much more dangerous, too.

What they learn might change everything they know about their families, themselves, and each other.]]> 317 Brittany Cavallaro 0062398946 Tarryn 3 3.59 2017
author: Brittany Cavallaro
name: Tarryn
average rating: 3.59
book published: 2017
rating: 3
read at: 2017/01/31
date added: 2025/04/18
shelves: angsty-angst, annoying-mains, arc, character-deaths-that-got-me-shook, mystery, reread, scribd
review:

]]> 33124137 This is an alternate Cover Edition for ASIN: B00K3NEE56. When the Creeds move into a beautiful old house in rural Maine, it all seems too good to be true: physician father, beautiful wife, charming little daughter, adorable infant son-and now an idyllic home. As a family, they've got it all...right down to the friendly car. But the nearby woods hide a blood-chilling truth-more terrifying than death itself-and hideously more powerful. The Creeds are going to learn that sometimes dead is better.]]> 580 Stephen King Tarryn 4 4.21 1983
author: Stephen King
name: Tarryn
average rating: 4.21
book published: 1983
rating: 4
read at: 2019/04/09
date added: 2025/04/03
shelves: angsty-adult-love, creepy-af, ghosties-and-ghoulies, scribd, undead-creatures
review:

]]> 199785 Accidents happen. With ghostly consequences, if you're Susannah Simon.

The RLS Angels are out for blood, and only Suze can stop them - since she's the only one who can see them. The four ghostly teenagers died in a terrible car accident, for which they blame Suze's classmate Michael... and they'll stop at nothing until he's joined them in the realm of the dead.

As Suze desperately fends off each attempt on Michael's life, she finds she can relate to the Angels' fury. Because their deaths turn out not to have been accidental at all. And their killer is only too willing to strike again.]]> 289 Jenny Carroll 0060725133 Tarryn 5 4.09 2001
author: Jenny Carroll
name: Tarryn
average rating: 4.09
book published: 2001
rating: 5
read at: 2016/02/02
date added: 2024/10/27
shelves: favorites, ghosties-and-ghoulies, in-love-with-a-fictional-character, otp-otp-otp, quirky-snarky-unique-heroines, scribd, reread, to-physically-own
review:

]]> 187811 287 Jenny Carroll 0060725117 Tarryn 5
Incredible! I fell in love with the story, the characters, everything! When I first bought this book, I was in fifth grade. I gobbled it up. I was in love. And as soon as I was ready to buy the second book, they all disappeared. We couldn't find these books ANYWERE! Mind you, this is back when it was published under Jenny Caroll. They all just vanished. I seriously tried to buy some of them from Sweden. And when the sixth one came out and they were all republished my mom called me from the bookstore, ranting about it and my heart nearly stopped. She bought me all six and I read them within a couple days. I love this series and I love this book.]]> 4.05 2000
author: Jenny Carroll
name: Tarryn
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2000
rating: 5
read at: 2016/01/16
date added: 2024/10/27
shelves: favorites, ghosties-and-ghoulies, in-love-with-a-fictional-character, otp-otp-otp, quirky-snarky-unique-heroines, scribd, to-physically-own, reread
review:
(older review)

Incredible! I fell in love with the story, the characters, everything! When I first bought this book, I was in fifth grade. I gobbled it up. I was in love. And as soon as I was ready to buy the second book, they all disappeared. We couldn't find these books ANYWERE! Mind you, this is back when it was published under Jenny Caroll. They all just vanished. I seriously tried to buy some of them from Sweden. And when the sixth one came out and they were all republished my mom called me from the bookstore, ranting about it and my heart nearly stopped. She bought me all six and I read them within a couple days. I love this series and I love this book.
]]> 36479541 Honeybee chronicle the on-again off-again process of letting go.]]> 160 Trista Mateer Tarryn 5
Every time I read this book, it’s like picking at a scab. Reopening a wound, somehow hoping that will make it heal faster.]]> 3.98 2014
author: Trista Mateer
name: Tarryn
average rating: 3.98
book published: 2014
rating: 5
read at: 2018/06/08
date added: 2024/10/27
shelves: angsty-adult-love, f-f, favorites, libby, poetry, reread, scribd, to-physically-own
review:
(review circa 2018)

Every time I read this book, it’s like picking at a scab. Reopening a wound, somehow hoping that will make it heal faster.
]]> 8130430 1396 Stephen King Tarryn 5 4.38 1986
author: Stephen King
name: Tarryn
average rating: 4.38
book published: 1986
rating: 5
read at: 2019/01/08
date added: 2024/10/27
shelves: creepy-af, favorites, god-tier-audio, libby, murder-x-attempts, made-me-cry, reread, scribd, the-world-is-totally-fucked, to-physically-own
review:

]]> 123262814
*Listening Length: 1 hour]]> 1 Donte Collins Tarryn 5
Put down milk & honey. Put down the sun and her bullshit.

Pick this up.

And then cry.]]> 4.75 2017
author: Donte Collins
name: Tarryn
average rating: 4.75
book published: 2017
rating: 5
read at: 2020/06/01
date added: 2024/10/27
shelves: favorites, lgbtqai, libby, poetry, reread, scribd
review:
This. Is. Fucking. Good.

Put down milk & honey. Put down the sun and her bullshit.

Pick this up.

And then cry.
]]> 8581187 420 Diana Peterfreund 0061861472 Tarryn 2
The unicorns were the most believable part of the story because the characters were absurd. Not to mention they were so whiny!! And I don’t think I have it in me right now to get even touch the gross virginity plot line, the even grosser rape plot line, the abhorrent parenting (and human-ing! What a bad human!), or the thin as fuck villainous plot line. Maybe I’ll have it in me later, but right after having spent nearly four hours binging the last half of this audiobook so I could rid myself of it, now I have nothing left.

There’s a book two and I’m sure as hell not reading it right now. There’s always the chance I’ll torture myself into completing book two eventually but that’ll be when, in the words of the great Taylor Swift “I forget about you long enough to forget why I needed to.”]]> 3.61 2009
author: Diana Peterfreund
name: Tarryn
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2009
rating: 2
read at: 2021/04/21
date added: 2024/01/07
shelves: adventure-is-out-there, annoying-mains, land-narwhals, instalove, scribd, slow-going, teenagers-who-make-my-head-explode, wanderlust-worthy-locations, kindle-backlog, series-dnf
review:
This book was not good.

The unicorns were the most believable part of the story because the characters were absurd. Not to mention they were so whiny!! And I don’t think I have it in me right now to get even touch the gross virginity plot line, the even grosser rape plot line, the abhorrent parenting (and human-ing! What a bad human!), or the thin as fuck villainous plot line. Maybe I’ll have it in me later, but right after having spent nearly four hours binging the last half of this audiobook so I could rid myself of it, now I have nothing left.

There’s a book two and I’m sure as hell not reading it right now. There’s always the chance I’ll torture myself into completing book two eventually but that’ll be when, in the words of the great Taylor Swift “I forget about you long enough to forget why I needed to.�
]]> 24828896 **Explicit Scenes and Language**

I used to think everything was black and white, truth or lie, easy or hard, that if I could just escape my strict, overbearing, abusive father, my life would be perfect. But since I’ve found a reason to risk his wrath and leave, to help a friend in need, I’ve come to realize everything I thought I knew is wrong.

Friends have their own agenda, honesty comes with a dosage of lie, easy doesn’t even exist, keeping secrets sucks, and love...love is the most painful thing of all.

Maybe if Quinn Hamilton hadn’t asked me to skip classes for the day and help him pick out an engagement ring for my best friend, I wouldn’t have fallen for him so completely on that sunny Tuesday afternoon and I wouldn’t feel so conflicted. But I did, and I can’t take it back, no matter how hard I try. So I have to deal with the fact that even I’m not as good, or honest, or caring as I’d always thought I was, and no matter what I do next, someone’s going to get hurt. Probably me.

-Zoey Blakeland]]> 504 Linda Kage Tarryn 4 4.27 2015
author: Linda Kage
name: Tarryn
average rating: 4.27
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2020/09/21
date added: 2023/12/28
shelves: angsty-angst, covers-that-make-me-cringe, girl-friendships-are-complicated, instalove, libby, new-adults-are-dumb, reread, scribd, smut-with-some-substance
review:

]]> 25251169
It was amazing. She was amazing. Life was amazing.

I lived for each time I could see her, and nothing else mattered, not that our families were enemies, our time together was forbidden, or we had to meet in secret.

Our love could conquer all.

Until it didn't.

So I was ripped away from the love of my life and shoved into hell, forced to continue without her.

It shattered me, broke the best parts of me, left me permanently damaged.

Or so I thought.

Years later, I swear history’s trying to repeat itself because she’s back in my life, and I’m just as drawn to her as I was before. But I'm older and wiser now, and I know she should stay away from a worthless ex-con like me.

So, I will not let her in. I absolutely refuse to hurt her. I will keep her away.

Then again, sometimes risking your greatest fear to get to a smile makes everything worth it, and besides, I’m not sure I can resist her, anyway.

This is the story of how Felicity Bainbridge changed my life forever, starting one summer day long ago after I was forced to change a dirty diaper...

--Knox Parker]]> 395 Linda Kage 1515136329 Tarryn 4
My reaction as soon as I actually started the book: HEART EYES FUCKING EVERYWHERE.

Worth It, book 6 in the Forbidden Men series is not one that I wanted at all, and yet it may have ended up possibly being my favorite one of the whole bunch. Knox and Felicity's love story was so believable and getting to see how they fell for each other was swoonworthy and totally natural. I will forever cry tears in mourning of little baby 18 year old Knox and desperately hope he's able to find himself again.]]> 4.16 2015
author: Linda Kage
name: Tarryn
average rating: 4.16
book published: 2015
rating: 4
read at: 2021/04/22
date added: 2023/02/21
shelves: angsty-adult-love, angsty-angst, libby, murder-x-attempts, new-adults-are-dumb, reread, scribd, smut-with-some-substance
review:
My initial reaction to finding out who this book is about: Knox and Felicity? WHO THE HELL ARE KNOX AND FELICITY AND WHY IS THERE A BOOK ABOUT THEM THAT'S KEEPING ME FROM MY PRECIOUS BABY ASHER?

My reaction as soon as I actually started the book: HEART EYES FUCKING EVERYWHERE.

Worth It, book 6 in the Forbidden Men series is not one that I wanted at all, and yet it may have ended up possibly being my favorite one of the whole bunch. Knox and Felicity's love story was so believable and getting to see how they fell for each other was swoonworthy and totally natural. I will forever cry tears in mourning of little baby 18 year old Knox and desperately hope he's able to find himself again.
]]> 93739
Every year, Princess Mia spends the holidays in Genovia with Grandmère. This year, she's looking forward to the most perfect Christmas ever: her boyfriend, Michael, and her best friend, Lilly, are coming to Genovia, too.

But even a princess's plans can go awry. Lilly has a lot to learn about palace protocol, and with all the state holiday functions Mia must attend, there's no time to linger under the mistletoe with Michael. Worst of all, Mia hasn't been able to find him the perfect gift.

Can Mia stop her (bah-hum)bugging long enough to see that the perfect present has nothing to do with international express courier -- and everything to do with real love? (Though some shiny silver ribbon never hurts ...)]]> 85 Meg Cabot 0060754338 Tarryn 4 3.64 2003
author: Meg Cabot
name: Tarryn
average rating: 3.64
book published: 2003
rating: 4
read at: 2022/12/20
date added: 2022/12/20
shelves: fluffy-bits, girl-friendships-are-complicated, reread, royalty-blows, scribd
review:

]]> 54303829
After his latest mistress unfavorably criticized his skills in the bedroom, Jeremy is looking for reassurance, so he has gone to the only woman he trusts to be totally truthful. He suggests that they embark on a brief affair while at the house party—Jeremy can receive an honest critique of his bedroom skills and widowed Diana can use the gossip to signal to other gentlemen that she is interested in taking a lover.

Diana thinks taking him up on his counter-proposal can only help her win her wager. With her in the bedroom and Jeremy’s marriage-minded grandmother, the formidable Dowager Marchioness of Willingham, helping to find suitable matches among the eligible ladies at Elderwild, Diana is confident her victory is assured. But while they’re focused on winning wagers, they stand to lose their own hearts.]]> 345 Martha Waters 198216087X Tarryn 4 3.47 2021
author: Martha Waters
name: Tarryn
average rating: 3.47
book published: 2021
rating: 4
read at: 2021/05/02
date added: 2022/12/15
shelves: arc-after-release, better-than-book-one, dangerously-funny, fluffy-bits, fun-love, historical-setting, lgbtqai, scribd, smut-with-some-substance
review:

]]> 28821460 I needed Sarah to survive.
I needed sex to remain sane.
And I could never mix sex with Sarah.

I just knew—deep in my marrow—that if I did, I’d somehow lose her. All my deepest darkest secrets would crack open, bleed out, and ruin everything between us. I wouldn’t unleash the shit inside me on my worst enemy, let alone her. So she stayed strictly in the friend zone.

People probably thought I never went there with her because of her cerebral palsy, but f*ck them. She knew she was the most important person in my world, and I wasn’t about to risk hurting our relationship just to make my c*ck happy.

Until the moment she begged me to take her virginity.
Now it’s all about to hit the fan, because how the hell do you resist the one person forbidden to you when she says please?

--Brandt Gamble

*Recommended for ages 18 and up due to explicit scenes and language*
New Adult Romance, Can be read as a standalone.]]> 348 Linda Kage Tarryn 4 4.25 2016
author: Linda Kage
name: Tarryn
average rating: 4.25
book published: 2016
rating: 4
read at: 2021/12/15
date added: 2022/12/15
shelves: libby, new-adults-are-dumb, reread, scribd, smut-with-some-substance
review:

]]> 32297888
I mean, I had goals: college to graduate in one semester, a future I was working hard to reach, and an image of myself I wanted the world to see. My life was stacked into these precisely placed blocks. But then Colton Gamble came along and knocked them all askew.

I hated how he messed everything up, how he could hog all my attention whenever he was around, how he made my pulse quicken—but only because he ticked me off... not because I was attracted to him. Oh! And I hated how he knew how attractive he was too, the shallow, full of himself, doesn't take no for an answer, too-flirty, too cocky, extremely irritating jerk.

The boy had all the qualities that turned me off. Or so I thought.

One night he wasn't quite the brainless, over-confident jerk I usually took him for.

One night, he took care of me when I was at my lowest. He opened up to me and made me open up to him.

Now I'm learning maybe he's not what I first thought he was. And maybe I'M not what I first thought I was. Maybe it’s okay to rearrange a couple of my perfectly set blocks. Maybe, just maybe, I’ll stop worrying about what I’m afraid everyone else will think and finally reach for something I really want. It’s possible some of my plans need to be destroyed, and Colton Gamble is exactly the kind of mess I need in my life.

What do you think? Should I give him a try?

Desperately seeking your advice,
Julianna Radcliffe]]> 374 Linda Kage Tarryn 3 4.06 2016
author: Linda Kage
name: Tarryn
average rating: 4.06
book published: 2016
rating: 3
read at: 2021/06/11
date added: 2022/11/03
shelves: angsty-angst, murder-x-attempts, new-adults-are-dumb, reread, scribd, smut-with-some-substance, you-lose-something-on-the-reread
review:

]]> 54641340
Eight years ago, my family was betrayed by those closest to us. Now we’re back in Sabine Valley, staging our return during the feast of Lammas, where I step into the ring and ensure we’re given what we’re owed. Who we’re owed.

Our enemies send their seven best warriors against me. With each victory, I win a Bride for each of my brothers. And for me? I’m saving the best for last. My Bride is Harlow, the woman claimed by the man I used to call friend—the one responsible for our exile. Eli.

And if Eli has a problem with it? Well, then I’ll take him as my Bride, too. All the better to enact my revenge…and bring Sabine Valley to its knees.

The Paine brothers are back, and we’re here to stay.]]> 225 Katee Robert 1951329104 Tarryn 3 3.61 2020
author: Katee Robert
name: Tarryn
average rating: 3.61
book published: 2020
rating: 3
read at: 2021/06/25
date added: 2022/09/13
shelves: angsty-adult-love, angsty-angst, enemies-to-lovers-babyyy, lgbtqai, m-m, murder-x-attempts, scribd, smut-with-some-substance
review:

]]> 55822109 Seven Brothers. Seven Brides. A revenge seven years in the making.

I never wanted any part of my family’s revenge, but no one asked my opinion when my oldest brother handed out the Brides during Lammas. Now I’m saddled with Monroe, heir to the Amazon clan. She’s as deadly as she is sarcastic, and nothing like the woman I really want. Shiloh. My best friend.

The night Monroe and I consummate our handfasting is like nothing I’ve experienced before. It’s dark and brutal and intoxicating in a way I’m not prepared for. Which means it can never happen again.

But now, every time I turn around, I find Monroe and Shiloh together. She’s spitefully seducing my best friend, the woman I truly want, and there’s not a damn thing I can do about it.

I can’t have one without the other, but letting Monroe close might mean I lose myself completely.]]> 296 Katee Robert Tarryn 3 3.83 2021
author: Katee Robert
name: Tarryn
average rating: 3.83
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2021/07/16
date added: 2022/09/13
shelves: angsty-adult-love, enemies-to-lovers-babyyy, lgbtqai, murder-x-attempts, scribd, smut-with-some-substance
review:

]]> 58231506
Featuring disarming illustrations by Saul Freedman-Lawson, Special Topics in Being a Human elaborates on "Asking Bear"'s premise: a gentle, witty, and insightful book of practical advice for the modern age. It offers Dad advice and Jewish bubbe wisdom, all filtered through a queer lens, to help you navigate some of the complexities of life--from how to make big decisions or make a good apology, to how to get someone's new name and pronouns right as quickly as possible, to how to gracefully navigate a breakup. With warmth and candor, Special Topics in Being a Human calls out social inequities and injustices in traditional advice-giving, validates your feelings, asks a lot of questions, and tries to help you be your best possible self with kindness, compassion, and humor.]]> 271 S. Bear Bergman 1551528541 Tarryn 5 4.41 2021
author: S. Bear Bergman
name: Tarryn
average rating: 4.41
book published: 2021
rating: 5
read at: 2021/11/26
date added: 2022/08/18
shelves: arc-after-release, essays, feminist-reads, informational, lgbtqai, scribd, to-physically-own
review:

]]> 54659771 He was supposed to be a myth.
But from the moment I crossed the River Styx and fell under his dark spell... he was, quite simply, mine.

Society darling Persephone Dimitriou plans to flee the ultra-modern city of Olympus and start over far from the backstabbing politics of the Thirteen Houses. But all that’s ripped away when her mother ambushes her with an engagement to Zeus, the dangerous power behind their glittering city’s dark facade.

With no options left, Persephone flees to the forbidden undercity and makes a devil’s bargain with a man she once believed a myth... a man who awakens her to a world she never knew existed.

Hades has spent his life in the shadows, and he has no intention of stepping into the light. But when he finds that Persephone can offer a little slice of the revenge he’s spent years craving, it’s all the excuse he needs to help her—for a price. Yet every breathless night spent tangled together has given Hades a taste for Persephone, and he’ll go to war with Olympus itself to keep her close�

A modern retelling of Hades and Persephone that’s as sinful as it is sweet.]]> 380 Katee Robert 1728231736 Tarryn 3
I’ve seen some critique that it was formulaic and predictable. However I think that’s why it’s enjoyable. I didn’t pick up this book because I wanted my mind blown. I picked it up for a smutty good time and it gave me that.]]> 3.68 2021
author: Katee Robert
name: Tarryn
average rating: 3.68
book published: 2021
rating: 3
read at: 2022/03/03
date added: 2022/08/18
shelves: angsty-adult-love, its-all-pretend-until-it-isnt, perverted-and-unashamed, reimagined, scribd, smut-with-some-substance, spies-and-espionage
review:
3.5

I’ve seen some critique that it was formulaic and predictable. However I think that’s why it’s enjoyable. I didn’t pick up this book because I wanted my mind blown. I picked it up for a smutty good time and it gave me that.
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After being swept up in the magical world of Caraval, Donatella Dragna has finally escaped her father and saved her sister, Scarlett, from a disastrous arranged marriage. The girls should be celebrating, but Tella isn’t yet free. She made a desperate bargain with a mysterious criminal, and what Tella owes him no one has ever been able to deliver: Caraval Master Legend’s true name.

The only chance of uncovering Legend’s identity is to win Caraval, so Tella throws herself into the legendary competition once more—and into the path of the murderous heir to the throne, a doomed love story, and a web of secrets…including her sister's. Caraval has always demanded bravery, cunning, and sacrifice, but now the game is asking for more. If Tella can’t fulfill her bargain and deliver Legend’s name, she’ll lose everything she cares about—maybe even her life. But if she wins, Legend and Caraval will be destroyed forever...

Welcome, welcome to Caraval . . . the games have only just begun.]]> 451 Stephanie Garber 125009531X Tarryn 3 4.11 2018
author: Stephanie Garber
name: Tarryn
average rating: 4.11
book published: 2018
rating: 3
read at: 2022/01/20
date added: 2022/08/18
shelves: a-world-but-not-our-own, adventure-is-out-there, annoying-mains, attack-of-the-sequel, disappointments, instalove, libby, magical-people-magicking, mythics-kicking-ass, reread, royalty-blows, scribd, slow-going
review:
3.5. I don’t know if it was because it was Tella’s point of view or the fact that the mystery wasn’t the fresh introduction into the world the way the first book was, but something about Legendary lost the luster the story initially held for me. There were definitely things I liked, but a lot just felt off for me. And it took me like 7 months to get through it which is ridiculous. Caraval was so enthralling that I devoured it in two days. Who knows if Finale will bring it all back together for me but this one was just okay.
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One Christmas wish, two brothers, and a lifetime of hope are on the line for hapless Maelyn Jones in In a Holidaze, the quintessential holiday romantic novel by Christina Lauren, the New York Times bestselling author of The Unhoneymooners..

It’s the most wonderful time of the year…but not for Maelyn Jones. She’s living with her parents, hates her going-nowhere job, and has just made a romantic error of epic proportions.

But perhaps worst of all, this is the last Christmas Mae will be at her favorite place in the world—the snowy Utah cabin where she and her family have spent every holiday since she was born, along with two other beloved families. Mentally melting down as she drives away from the cabin for the final time, Mae throws out what she thinks is a simple plea to the universe: Please. Show me what will make me happy.

The next thing she knows, tires screech and metal collides, everything goes black. But when Mae gasps awake…she’s on an airplane bound for Utah, where she begins the same holiday all over again. With one hilarious disaster after another sending her back to the plane, Mae must figure out how to break free of the strange time loop—and finally get her true love under the mistletoe.

Jam-packed with yuletide cheer, an unforgettable cast of characters, and Christina Lauren’s trademark hijinks, this swoon-worthy romantic read will make you believe in the power of wishes and the magic of the holidays.
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author: Christina Lauren
name: Tarryn
average rating: 3.65
book published: 2020
rating: 4
read at: 2022/01/16
date added: 2022/08/18
shelves: contemporaries, dangerously-funny, fluffy-bits, fun-love, reread, road-trips-and-holidays, scribd, space-and-time-and-dimension-travel
review:

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