Book 34/30. My rating: 1 of 5 stars Ugh! This was absofuckinglutely BORING!!! The storyline, the writing, the characters, the setting… everything about The English Patient was A MAJOR SNOOZEFEST 😴 Going from not reading any 1 star book in 2022 to reading two of them in three months <<<<<<<<<<<<< I have not watched the … Continue reading The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje

Book 33/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsMy fiancé gifted me The Folk of the Air trilogy for my birthday last year and I was realllllllyyyyyy excited to dive in because Young Adult is my second favourite genre and after the Six of Crows duology I have Crazy, Stupid, Love for YA Fantasy 😍🤓In this … Continue reading The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

Book 32/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsMy fiancé gifted me The Folk of the Air trilogy for my birthday last year and I was realllllllyyyyyy excited to dive in because Young Adult is my second favourite genre and after the Six of Crows duology I have Crazy, Stupid, Love for YA Fantasy 😍🤓 The … Continue reading The Wicked King by Holly Black

Book 31/30. My rating: 4 of 5 starsMy fiancé gifted me The Folk of the Air trilogy for my birthday last year and I was realllllllyyyyyy excited to dive in because Young Adult is my second favourite genre and after the Six of Crows duology I have Crazy, Stupid, Love for YA Fantasy 😍🤓The Cruel … Continue reading The Cruel Prince by Holly Black

Book 30/30. My rating: 3 of 5 stars I finished book 30 of 30 on the 30th (of June) and that was sooo exciting to me because:1. I finished my 2023 reading challenge on the last day of the first half of the year 🤩🥳🤓2. the numbers geek I am is ENCHANTED AF by 30 … Continue reading Pachinko by Min Jin Lee

Book 29/30. My rating: 2 of 5 stars The saddest two stars I ever did give 🥴🥴 My first Alice Feeney read was Sometimes I Lie and it was a wild, twisty AF 5 star read that had me geeking out to read ALL OF HER BOOKS! Rock Paper Scissors was marketed as the latest … Continue reading Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney

Book 28/30. My rating: 4 of 5 stars3 ½ stars This was my first Christina Lauren read and I deliberately chose it for book 28 because my fiancé was 28 when we started dating 😌🥰In Josh and Hazel's Guide to Not Dating the titular characters decide to set each other up on joint blind dates. … Continue reading Josh and Hazel’s Guide to Not Dating by Christina Lauren

Book 27/30. My rating: 2 of 5 starsI watched one season of the TV adaptation of The Flight Attendant starring Kaley Cuoco (and it was rather mid which is why I have not, and will not, watch season two) before reading this novel and sadly this is one of the rare exceptions where the book … Continue reading The Flight Attendant by Chris Bohjalian

Book 26/30. My rating: DNF on page 69 I have not DNFd a book since August 2017 but yikes this was BAD! BAD!! BAD!!!In my review of We Were the Mulvaneys by Joyce Carol Oates I said that it was THE MOST BORING BOOK I HAVE EVER READ IN MY ENTIRE LIFE!!, but I take … Continue reading Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer

Book 25/30. My rating: 2 of 5 stars This was okay for a debut, but in the hands of a more experienced author it would’ve, could’ve, should’ve been sooo much better. Lilac Girls is based on the real-life story of a New York socialite, Caroline Ferriday, who championed a group of concentration camp survivors known … Continue reading Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly