I really enjoy writing these reviews. They are quick, strictly to the point, and they challenge me to sum up my thoughts on each of the books. If you haven’t seen the first post I did, you should definitely read that, but basically, this idea came from the necessity of reviewing books that I don’t have much to talk about. This doesn’t mean I didn’t enjoy the book, most of them (if not all) I did enjoy quite a lot, but I don’t have enough things to point out about them that justifies a dedicated review. So today is time for another five books.

The Saturday Night Supper Club by Carla Laureano

Food, romance, and house goals.

I had so much fun reading it. It really gave me wishes to have my own kitchen to make dinner parties for my friends and cooking while mingling or to show my knife skills – which are unexisting. The romance was really simple and fluid, maybe it was a bit rush, I usually prefer when it’s more slowed down to create an expectation. I also enjoyed how the friends were present all the time for the gossips, to help, to give advice, instead of the story just focus on the romantic relationship.

Sadie by Cortney Summers

The audiobook was too distracting.

I never got to fully emerge myself in the story. It’s great to have a full cast of voice actors for each character but I felt lost multiple times without knowing who was talking or whom they were talking about. It’s a story about a hard felt topic but it didn’t surprise me or shock me. I still want to read a physical copy of it and see if I didn’t click with the story or if my problem was really with the audio version of it.

Turtles All the Way Down by John Green

Rather not have a mystery.

I was actually enjoying the mental health part of this book. We get to be inside the characters head and “experience” it in first-person, but then there’s kind of a murder mystery put into the mix and it gets weird. I would rather have a book focus on her well-being and her relationships with others instead of adding a mystery to be the plot. One minute she is obsessing about germs and on the other she’s imagining a murder plan. I love mystery but for the first time, I didn’t enjoy reading about it.

The Red Notebook by Antoine Laurain

From stalking to sweet romance

The romance it’s actually really cute and like a little spark, but the protagonist could have made it less creepy if he could open up the game to her. She gets her purse stolen and dumped somewhere else, our protagonists find it and decides to try and discover the woman which it belongs to. So far he’s just being a really nice person until he finds her and becomes an awkward mess. He pretends he’s a friend of hers to other people, never tells the truth, and since he falls in love with her, it becomes very hard for him to approach her and tell her everything. It was a story that started off well but became a bit strange.

Long Way Down by Jason Reynolds

Loved it, expected something else.

I guess when I started reading I wasn’t fully aware of what the story was about. I had the impression that the protagonist was with some else on the elevator that wanted to kill him or that he wanted to kill. Turns out he was alone the entire ride – so to speak. The story is raw and deals with the consequences of simply obey the rules we were thought without question anything ever. The message it carries is amazing and if it works as a wake-up call to anyone this book has made its purpose.

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