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TBR JAR prompt: Read a book written by a male author ✍️

TBR JAR Prompt: Read a book with a red cover ❤️

TBR JAR: Red a book with a red cover ❤️

75 pages in and I am once again confused… and somehow also bored??

It feels like nothing has actually happened yet, which is slightly concerning considering this is a sequel. I’ve already done the groundwork — why are we starting from scratch again?

Really hoping this picks up much faster than the first book did… my patience is significantly lower this time 😬

Wow 78 pages in and nothing has happened yet this is a great start.

300 pages in and things are finally starting to get interesting… which feels like a problem in itself.

Still not entirely clear how all the characters fit together, which is frustrating this far in. Add in the repetition (training, hair dye… please make it stop) and the pacing is really dragging.

I’m intrigued now — but it shouldn’t have taken this long to get here.

I like where this is going, but the pacing is already testing me. About 25 pages could have easily been cut and I’m only just over 100 pages in…

Also slightly concerned that I still don’t know who the love interest is?? Please don’t let this turn into a why choose situation.

And respectfully — they need to stop dyeing this girl’s hair.

Trying to do the right thing and actually read the first book before purchasing the second!

TBR Jar prompt: Read a book I already own on kindle.

Only reading this because it’s a book club pick (I truly had no choice), and I am already deeply uncomfortable.
23% in and completely freaked out — turns out deep water horror is not for me.
This is going to be a long read… 😬🌊

TBR Jar prompt - Read a book with dragons!

TBR Jar prompt - Read a book with dragons 🐉

TBR Jar pick - A book with Dragons…

Went in blind and was not prepared to connect with the characters this quickly — had to put it down early because I was feeling too much. The opening pace was great, though it’s slowed now. Loving the world and the symbolism of Red being the colour of blood. Very much rooting for Darrow, but I have complicated feelings about Eo and the pressure she puts on him.
Still intrigued.

This book is slowly killing me. It is painful 😭

This is definitely not standing up to a lot of Elsie Silver’s other books….

I think it might be time to give up I have finished 14 books since I started this one…..

When your husband picks a book for you and the only explanation is “he is holding a chainsaw, that’s pretty cool” 😜

This book is not what I thought it would be — and that realisation hit me hard, early. Less than 100 pages in and I was already in tears. The writing is almost lyrical, the kind that settles quietly into your chest and stays there. It’s tender, aching, and unexpectedly devastating, driven more by feeling than plot. I’m reading slower now, not because I’m bored, but because I want to feel every word.

It is time to start my Rebecca Ross journey. Excited doesn’t even cover it.

Honestly struggling. The over-description drags the pacing to a crawl, the characters are hard to like, and the FMC’s moral flip-flopping makes her impossible to root for. Decisions feel rushed, introductions feel sloppy, and at this point I’m reading more out of stubbornness than enjoyment.

I made a TBR prompt jar this year and today’s was “read a special edition” still feeling unwell so I am hoping this cosy sounding book doesn’t take a lot of energy to follow along with.

Not going to lie I am so excited by this! I am a huge fan of the show so to have the books is like a dream.

Come on Lucy I need this to be the book that saves Christmas!