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There was a lot more Molly/Andrew in this one and it was definitely giving Feyre/Rhys in ACOSF at times with the amount of spotlight they got in a book that isn’t even theirs. But still loved this one!

This is always such a fun, cute holiday read!

Always so cute

BKB has done it again! This was super cute. I did feel like it was missing something for me personally, but I still had fun! 4 stars.

This had everything I love - Christmas romcom, murder mystery, a love interest who’s a total simp. It did verge on being a little melodramatic for my personal tastes at times, but still was so much fun. 4 stars.

I totally forgot she killed off a dog in this book 😭 That aside, this is still as gripping & fun as I remember it being. Thankfully, I forgot all the twists and got to enjoy watching them unfold again! The audiobook was also excellent. It featured multimedia sections that were voiced by a full cast & spliced among the normal single-speaker narrative. -1 star for Barney who didn’t deserve his fate 😭

The perfect read for this time of year! Plus the audiobook is a 10/10.

That nitrous-fueled race-against-time scene is always so much fun to read.

This came out FIVE YEARS ago???????

While this was not particularly well written, I stuck it out and the story grew on me. It was a fun, cute, if a bit shallow, diversion. Not sure if I’ll continue with the series though since it ended pretty decisively. 3 stars.

This needed an epilogue. Though slow, I was enjoying it, but the ending didn’t hit the HEA home enough. It was a bit depressing which lowered my overall enjoyment of the book. 3.5 stars.

This will never not be the perfect audiobook to listen to on a crispy cold autumn day 🥰

At once laugh-out-loud funny and resolutely heartfelt, this fifth entry in Disney’s Meant to Be series was a fun yet meaningful ride from start to finish. The romance needed a bit more development, but aside from that, I thoroughly enjoyed my time with this book and could not put it down! 4 stars.

This is always such a fun audiobook 😍

This was SO much better than book 3! Fresh, fun, and really engaging. Similar to book 2, some of the resolutions were difficult to buy into, but I could suspend my disbelief a little more this time. I also found the ending to be a little too neat, and the decision to allow a scheming antagonist—whose actions killed thousands—to live seemed like a hamfisted attempt at teasing the sequel. But overall, I had fun!

Lmao. This was like a bad telenovela. The twists were insane and so far out of character from what was established in book one that I couldn’t suspend my disbelief. Also??? Whit doing what he did and then telling her he’s not even sorry????? You can have no regrets for your actions but still feel remorse. That’s possible. The fact that he had neither was crazy. Boy bye.

Oh man I forgot about that twist. I have a bad feeling about the sequel now 😅

Iiiiiiiii really needed way more of a conclusion than what we got. Literally in one of the last interactions between the MCs, the MMC makes a cutting, unnecessary jab at FMC. I understand his emotions. But then why are you forgiving her? Then we fast forwarded 1 year and all additional conflicts that blossomed from that revelation are glossed over. Idk. I needed to see more growth before I could buy the HEA.

This was extremely engrossing. I loved it. However, I have to say that one contradiction with the antagonist’s story breaks the world building apart for me. The instant she becomes a vampire, she zeroes in on feeding off woman—becoming what she hates, a predator who targets women. We are told halfway in that she morally decayed over time, but she was always like this—a monster no different than her husband.

I’ve sat on that ending for 10 days and I still don’t know how I feel. The majority of this book was incredible. I had so much fun—maybe even more fun than the first duo featuring the original MCs. But there was just a lot here that I’m not sure howwww she’s gonna unravel. I guess it’s onto the next. 4 stars.

These two are such drama queens. TBH they’re made for each other. “Throw my coat into the river. I care not.” *throws coat* ‘that was my favorite coat D:’ 🤣

LISTEN, loved this, it was so fun, so badass. But that ending???? Where was the rest of it???? I also super don’t buy a lot of what happened there at the very end, but DLJ wrote herself into a very tough spot, and the only ending I saw that would work wasn’t on the table. After leaving it to simmer, book one was more of a 4.5, book two was more of a 3.5-4. I’m so excited for the new characters though!!

This was SO FUN. AND THAT ENDING. GOD the angst!! The next one is gonna be so good 😆 I will say though, based on what went down, idk how DLJ is gonna write her way out of this one. But I am SAT to watch it all play out 🤣

The ANGST

Oh god why didn’t she warn him 😭

I’m literally crying. Oh my GOD this book WRECKED ME. It was so meaningful, filled with so much wretched, excruciating heart that I felt like my own was being ripped out several times. I will say that I agree with critics that argue the events in this book make the OG trilogy less plausible. But fuck, I don’t even care! This was so good. Time to go cry myself to sleep ✌🏻

“Let me go. Let me go with them, please.”

LITERALLY SOBBING

I feel SICK