hello all and happy sunday! what better way to spend the days leading up to christmas than watching cheesy christmas movies on a loop. i’ve watched so many lame and sappy christmas movies within the last few days that i may or may not be starting to believe that true love exists hahahahaha (kidding) BUT i am a believer in all the christmas spirit. i’m a sucker for all the predictibilty, cheesiness, and happy endings. thank you hallmark channel and netflix for all the hella cheesy movies!!!
this post actually has nothing to do with christmas, but i’m in such a christmas mood i had to make the title and intro christmas-themed. i actually want to talk about a couple books i read recently that i didn’t exactly love, but also didn’t hate. i mean, you could technically read this post and still feel like these books might be different/better for you, so who knows, maybe you’ll want to gift them to a fellow book lover this season.
anyway, i had high hopes for these books and rather than ending in that wonderfully explosive way where your mind is blown and you feel like a different person, i felt confused and disappointed. i enjoyed both of these books while reading them but felt that when i finished, the ending didn’t do the book justice overall.
i really wanted to love this book y’all. it started off so good, had suspense in all the right places, but i just felt like rather than feeling satisfied after the whirlwind of emotions and thrill, it was like i had read the book and coped through all the suspense for no reason. i love me a good murder mystery so of course i felt like judging by the title, this was going to be juicy af. and with all murder mysteries, i was very invested in figuring out who dunnit, but it ends up being such a far-fetched story that didn’t really work in my opinion. i don’t want to say the book was a waste of time but, like, i felt like i had kinda wasted my time. despite all of that, the writing and sh*t was very good, it was essentially just the story line and resolution after the climax that didn’t sit well with me.
ok so this one legit pissed me off. i may or may not have purchased this to read just because there’s a glass of wine on the cover. i was considering watching the show on starz but if i did i wanted to read the book first. this is unlike any other book i’ve read, but with the novelty (pun intended) of the writing style also came lots of confusion. it kept leaving breadcrumbs of suspense for me just enough to keep reading. i made it through so many f*cking pages of the main character figuring out how to work in the restaurant industry while having multiple existential crises, drinking and using way too much drugs (i’m not judging but it was literally like eat, sleep, snort, mess up at work, drink, snort, drink, repeat) all for it to just end in a bunch of anti-climactic nowhere. i enjoyed this book for all of 5 minutes but it took getting 3/4 into the book to do so. no thanks y’all.
i had hoped for a more positive post but i felt like the world needed to hear my thoughts on these books. i’ll be back soon with a summary of books i enjoyed, i swear! i’m never without a fiction suspense-filled book which means i’m either reading a thriller or cosmo. and on that note, i’m wishing everyone a merry af christmas, happy christmas harry, happy everything!!! i’ll be taking the time to enjoy being with family and friends, having lots of food (and wine duh), watching many more cheesy christmas movies that might just make me believe in love, and of course, a few days off work. byeeeeeeee!
