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The Negotiator by Dee Henderson

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adventurous medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated
The Blood Traitor by Lynette Noni

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adventurous
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
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The Gilded Cage by Lynette Noni

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adventurous
  • Plot- or character-driven? A mix
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

 All in all, a pretty fun book, except for the fact that it took AGES of character and relationship building for the exciting stuff to happen. 


 Kiva was honestly a bit dumber in this book than the first. There was one scene where
she was trying to find a hiding place to listen in on a meeting. This was a time-sensitive thing, cause the people meeting were coming super soon. So what does she do? She spends a lot of valuable time sightseeing the room and only hides at the last possible moment, when she could just as easily have done that snooping after the meeting. It was super annoying.
 
 There seemed to be some discontinuity where Jaren knew less than it was implied he did in book one. 


 Some random stuff: 
 I’m sorry, I found the meta book club to be cringe. 
 Caldon is my bestie and I love him. 
 Kiva says she never harmed anyone, even those she hated, which is untrue, since in the last book there was a guard who was too touchy and instead of fixing his itchy groin problem she gave him medicine that would make it worse. 


 Ahum, and now for the biggest thing that I already mentioned in my review for book one: did I get my predictions right? 
 
Well, yes and no. Someone did die, but it was her grandmother, but she did leave her with a new-found realisation. Also, this all could still just be fixed by her marrying Jaren, and both siblings (only one of whom is really into revenge) are fine with that! So really all angst would be unnecessary if Kiva was honest and just communicated. We don’t even need to frame it as two families coming together, because apparantly none of the rebel supporters really… support the rebels. They just want to be healed.
 
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Wildfire by Rodman Philbrick

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emotional tense fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? No
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? No

3.5

 Guys, when I tell you this book was nerve-wracking. I read this before going to sleep and then I legit couldn’t fall asleep cause of how nervous this book made me lol. (This is probably more a me thing than a thing with the book) 
 What I did notice was that it was pretty predicatable that the characters
didn’t get a single calm morning. Every single time they woke up there was imminant danger.
 
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The Shadow of the Wolf by Gloria Whelan, Tony Meers

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medium-paced

3.0

 Fun book, a bit a lot below my age range but that’s fine. 
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The Reluctant Godfather by Allison Tebo, Allison Tebo

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funny lighthearted relaxing medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character
  • Strong character development? Yes
  • Loveable characters? It's complicated
  • Diverse cast of characters? No
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.75

 I kinda forgot I read this, but the moment I saw the title I remembered that I had a good time reading it. It was a fun story 
Gruwelijk Spel by Mirjam Hildebrand

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dark mysterious tense fast-paced

2.0

 Dit boek was wel leuk. Niet helemaal voor mijn leeftijd, dus niet super spannend, maar toch spannend genoeg dat ik wel lekker wilde blijven lezen. En het was kort, dus ik heb hem lekker snel uitgelezen. Er is een lesbische romance. 
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Debunked by Dito Abbott

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adventurous funny lighthearted fast-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Plot
  • Strong character development? It's complicated
  • Loveable characters? Yes
  • Diverse cast of characters? Yes
  • Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.5

 - I was in a reading slump before this book, so it took me a while to get into it, but that was on me. Toward the middle of the book, I really got into it and honestly it got me out of that book slump. 
 - There are a lot of funny quotes and you do have to be okay with a lot of slapstick, silly humour and worldbuilding. I know that’s mentioned in the description, but I did have to get used to it, even when knowing it would be like that. This was a super fun book and I have so many highlighted quotes that I loved. 
 - This isn’t completely light, though, there were some pretty gross moments. (There’s torture and a bug that burrows into someone’s skull. That last scene made me pretty nausceous. Oh, and there’s a part where a slug dies and it screams during its death. Idk it was scarier in the book) 


 Not much to say other than that this book was super fun and I’m looking forward to the second installment. 
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Royal Vengence by J.D. Ruffin

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adventurous dark emotional funny

4.0

 It’s been 2 months since I finished this, but: a good ending to a very enjoyable series. I think the second and third books are my favourites, but this was still super enjoyable. 


 Some notes: 
 - Did we ever figure out who the spy was? 
 - I didn’t really like Thorn’s character. It fluctuates so much. One moment he’s disgusted when thinking about killing innocent people, the next he’s absolutely fine with it. 
 - When that one priest was explaining how your first loyalty should be to your faith and not the crown… ngl I was agreeing. It was kind of funny being on the side of the crown in this book, when it was trying to gain power over a faith that up till then they didn’t even know was evil yet. 
 - This book has some heavy emotional stuff that kinda hurt to read but in a good way. 
 - The ending where Orla snuggled up on Dec’s lap and they sit together was super sweet. 
 - This book pulls the
He’s dead; no actually hes not; no actually HE IS; haha no he’s not
and it was a bit annoying but I get it. 
Second Thoughts Of An Idle Fellow by Jerome K. Jerome

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funny reflective slow-paced

3.5

This book gets surprisingly deep at times, enough to make me emotional, and it's always super relatable. There are also enough parts that are genuinely funny, but do expect more serious contemplations in this one. I underlined so many quotes that I really can't all put them in here, but here as some faves:
"A hatchet and a gun are the only intermediaries through which you could convey your meaning by this time."
"She was feeling annoyed with men generally. I do not blame her, I feel annoyed with them myself sometimes."
"Women have many faults, but, thank God, they have on redeeming virtue - they are none of them faultless."
"The fires of persecution served as torches to show Heaven the heroism that was in man."
"...one knows the character of magpies, or rather their lack of character"


One other thing: The author mentions Tom and Jerry (the main character in a book was "own cousin to Tom and Jerry") and I can't find anything about who they might have been and whether they were actually a famous duo or just random names JKJ decided to come up with.