Book 1/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsI intentionally chose You and Me on Vacation for the inaugural read of my 2023 reading challenge as my fiancé and I would be on vacation at the time I was reading it. I know that’s a little a lot on the nose, but I have a lot … Continue reading You and Me on Vacation by Emily Henry

Book 44/30. My rating: 5 of 5 starsMy 2022 reading challenge goal was to read 44 books and my plan for book 44 was a romance novel because:1. The number 4 is incredibly significant to my relationship 😌2. I’m super into saving the best for last and so I chose to close the year with … Continue reading The Love Hypothesis by Ali Hazelwood

Books 41, 42 & 43/30. My rating: 2 of 5 starsWhew! The Forbidden Game trilogy was 750 pages of silliness and immaturity 🥴🥴🥴I enjoyed the four primary works in The Vampire Diaries series i.e. The Awakening & The Struggle and The Fury / Dark Reunion and in my review of The Fury / Dark Reunion, … Continue reading The Forbidden Game by L.J. Smith

Book 40/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsThis was my second Isabel Allende read, the first being The House of the Spirits which I rated 2 stars. I may have rated Daughter of Fortune 3 stars, but for the life of me I cannot tell you why I gave it one more star than THotS … Continue reading Daughter of Fortune by Isabel Allende

Book 39/30. My rating: 4 of 5 stars4 ½ stars.This was sooo good. So much so that I'm going to do something I rarely do which is give this an extra ½ star. I’ve mentioned a few times before that I’m not a believer in ½ stars when it comes to reviews, so this is … Continue reading Reconstructing Amelia by Kimberly McCreight

Book 38/30. My rating: 5 of 5 starsI almost never reread books but I decided to change that because I own wayyy too many amazing books to only read them once.This was my second time reading A Thousand Splendid Suns, the first time being in 2015 as part of my first ever structured reading challenge … Continue reading A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Book 37/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsAmerican Dirt has the most riveting first chapter I have ever read!! It harrowingly sets the tone on what to expect from this fast-paced book about a mother and son forced to flee to America from the Mexican cartel. Unable to use any of the conventional methods of … Continue reading American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins

Book 36/30. My rating: 2 of 5 starsOh dear. It sucks to say this about a book published posthumously, but I just did not enjoy this.I added The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories to my Want to Read shelf on Goodreads on January 6, 2016 and I was excited to finally getting around to … Continue reading The Opposite of Loneliness: Essays and Stories by Marina Keegan

Book 35/30. My rating: 3 of 5 starsThis started off realllllllyyyyyy well. Funny, frivolous and sooo much fun!!! Crazy Rich Asians has a myriad of characters and while some are more interesting than others, every one of them made the book so funny, frivolous and fun. I was dead sure I would rate this 4 … Continue reading Crazy Rich Asians by Kevin Kwan