Bibliophile Bindings

I am giving this book 4.5 stars! Let's start with Kaz frickin' BREKKER! I absolutely love how smart and strategic he is. How street smart he is blows my not so street smart mind haha. I LOVE IT! I need more. I also can't believe Kaz and his band of misfits are all around my age, and are looking to make so much money. The things they can do makes me wish I could do all of that while I'm still young. We get a hate to love romance and a friend to love romance, which I find to be really cool! When the book is written in one perspective, you might not notice the romance for other characters. Bardugo wrote in multiple perspectives. We get to read the romance in the two people it involves, and the characters that get to watch it unfold. So watching the romance play out for multiple people added a special spark to it for me.  Inej and Kaz. I love them. They broke my heart. I love how their romance isn't central for them. It's an extra little something on the s...

I am giving this book 4/5 stars! I enjoyed reading this book, and I do think this trilogy finished strong. This has to be my favorite book out of the three. The Darkling didn't show up as much as I would have liked, which sucked because he is one of my favorite characters. I wish we could have seen more of him and that his personality (not just the villain side of him) was unpacked more. We got to see a little more of that part of him, but I think there could have been more. (This applies to the entire trilogy) The ending could have been more climatic. It felt lacking in suspense and didn't pull at my emotions the way I would have liked. I felt more emotion when the search for the bird was completed and for what happened after the climax than I did the actual climax. The epilogue pulled at my emotions even more than those though.  It seemed a little repetitive when looking at the trilogy as a whole. Things were continually brought up about the past, the same moments ...

I am giving this book 3.5/5 stars. This book was more interesting than Prodigy , but not as interesting as Legend . Maybe more like Champion , in my honest opinion. I wasn't really interested in the beginning. It went slow and didn't feel like it was starting until around half way through the book. The beginning gives a lot of information on Antarctica's technology (which I was glad to learn more about) and I loved seeing how Day and Eden work through their past traumas and relationship struggles. I liked seeing how the Republic is handling things after war and what happens to Day and June after the events at the end of Champion . It goes over different types of relationship tensions and how their lives have changed and are going. I think it could have been shortened at least a little bit though. - SMALL SPOILER IN NEXT PARAGRAPH - We don't see Eden's bullies after the Level system is shut down. I found myself wondering what was happening to them and how the...

I am giving this book 5/5 stars!  Okay so I finished The Queen of Nothing before reading this book and it definitely left me in a big book hangover. After a week or so I knew the only way to get out of it or push it along would be to read a book that I will love equally as much or more, so I picked this book off my shelf... It has made me go from one book hangover to another, and I'm not even completely finished with the last one! I wasn't even half way through this book when I began to really click with the characters. It happened very quickly and without my knowledge. I love Ansel, Coco, Lou, and Reid. So much character development occurred, especially for Lou and Reid. It happened in a way that made me love them even more. I have to admit, at first I didn't know how I felt about Reid. I didn't think I would end up liking him as much as I do, and that's what I call good character development! An event occurred close to the middle of the book that had me ...

This review is the version that  CONTAINS SPOILERS!  Proceed with caution.  You have been warned. I am giving this book 5/5 stars! GUYS I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S OVER! I DON'T WANT IT TO END! I really enjoyed reading this book, and I wish there were more books to come. I definitely think that there could be more if Holly Black wanted to make it happen. I live for Jude and Cardan's relationship, and their own personalities. I love these two so much. They are so skillfully crafted and have many layers to their personalities. There is more than just the sad, drunk boy, more than just the strong, power hungry girl. Their relationship grows in such a great way in this book. It tore me up!  Many questions that had been unanswered in the second book are answered in this book, and I like that she brings up events from the first two books, like when Cardan is staring at her while two magical folk are on him and kissing him. I feel like there are questions I ...

This review is the SPOILER FREE version. I am giving this book 5/5 stars! GUYS I CAN'T BELIEVE IT'S OVER! I DON'T WANT IT TO END! I really enjoyed reading this book, and I wish there were more books to come. I definitely think that there could be more if Holly Black wanted to make it happen. I live for Jude and Cardan's relationship, and their own personalities. I love these two so much. They are so skillfully crafted and have many layers to their personalities. There is more than just the sad, drunk boy, more than just the strong, power hungry girl. Their relationship grows (in a good or a bad way, you will find out) in this book and it tore me up! Many questions that had been unanswered in the second book are answered in this book. I feel like there are questions I still have that this book brought up, but it's nothing big that will eat at me for all eternity... I like the first half, but I really like the second half of the book. So much happene...

I received this book after telling the author I would love to Beta Read her book, which was in response to her newsletter. It releases November 27, 2019! I am giving this book 5/5 stars! I didn't know what to expect from this book. Just before starting it, I had finished another Beauty and the Beast retelling ( A Curse So Dark and Lonely )that had quickly made it to the top of my list of favorite retellings. I didn't expect this book to be as great as that, but it was! Gilded Rose: A Beauty and the Beast Retelling quickly made it to the top of my list and is now one of my favorite retellings.  The Beast is one of a kind in my eyes. He seemed more demonic and I honestly loved that. It made me think of Persephone and Hades. I hadn't read a book where the beast was portrayed this way, and it left me wondering how on earth the author was going to have Amicia fall in love with someone like that.  The first chapter did a great job at setting up the story and getting i...