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A Winter’s Promise (Mirror Visitor #1) by Christelle Dabos Review

  Hi ForeverBookers, How are you? I hope you’re well. I’ve just finished reading “A Winter’s Promise” by Christelle Dabos and I enjoyed it as a whole. It was too long, I thought. Whether this was a translation issue because it’s translated from French, I don’t know but there were definitely parts that could have been taken out and it wouldn’t have made the plot not work. Also, the characters weren’t all fleshed out, I didn’t think. 3 stars! A Winter’s Promise tells the story of Ophelia, a young girl that works in a museum, who gets taken to the Citaceleste, which is on another Ark, the Pole to the one she lives on, Anima. I thought of the arks as different countries on Earth, like Anima is England and the Pole is a cold Australia. She gets sent there by her family, who don’t really like her. Her mother in particular doesn’t think much of her. However her Great-Uncle does think lots of her. He offers support at the beginning of the novel. From the beginning of “A Winter’s Promi
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An Enchantment Of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson Review

Hey ForeverBookers,   How are you doing today? I hope you’re all well and that you had a great Christmas! I’m sorry you haven’t heard from me since November. I had a really busy December! Anyway, I’ll post my favourite books of 2023 next, probably in a few days!  I have just finished reading my first book of 2024, though. It was… “An Enchantment Of Ravens” by Margaret Rogerson. I enjoyed it, although I do think it would have been better as a solely adult book. I thought making it YA made the story lacking in a few ways that I’ll get onto later. 3 Stars!  We follow the perspective of Isobel throughout “An Enchantment Of Ravens.” She’s an artist who paints the fae because they’re forbidden from painting themselves or ANY sort of art/creative work (singing songs/writing poetry/stories etc). Why? You’ll have to read to find out for yourself! She is asked to paint the prince of the autumn court, Rook. He’s our other main character. When it seems something has happened to the artwork

Haunting Adeline (Cat & Mouse Duet #1) Review

  Hey ForeverBookers,   How are you all? I hope you’re all good!  I’ve just finished reading “Haunting Adeline,” which I enjoyed.  3 Stars! It tells the story of Addie, who we meet as a twenty-six year old woman. She’s an author although, this isn’t focused on in the plot of “Haunting Adeline.” She’s knows she has a stalker. His name is revealed as Zade later in the book. He becomes her sexual partner and then her lover nearer the end of the book. How do Addie and Zade end up together? And do they stay together? You’ll need to read for yourself to find out! We also see from Addie’s great-grandmother Gigi’s POV through letters. Gigi died, how and why we and Addie doesn’t know. This is the main mystery point of the novel, that Addie is trying to figure out. I read Haunting Adeline for Reading Rivalry. The prompt is covered was “I Volunteer As A Tribute” because Addie literally gives herself sexually to her stalker, no doubt in her mind.   There are triggers in “Haunting Adelin

Satan’s Affair (0.5 Haunting Adeline) by HD Carlton Review

  Hi Forever Bookers,   How are you all? I hope you’re good! I’ve just finished “Satan’s Affair” by HD Carlton and I loved it! I buddy read it with a Facebook friend. She enjoyed it too.  We follow Sibby who features in “Haunting Adeline.” She’s abused by her father as a child, which we get flashbacks to in Satan’s Affair. Otherwise the novella details how she gets on in life as an adult (in her twenties). She murders for a living as well as having lots of sex with men from the carnival. She calls them her “henchmen.” The novella is heartbreaking at the end too.  I read Satan’s Affair for one readathon: Reading Rivalry - Horror - although Satan’s Affair isn’t horror in a lot of ways. There are lots of murders and torturous scenes that are described in detail. I class that as a form of horror! Trigger warning: There are LOTS of distressing scenes of torture and sexual abuse is brought up in Satan’s Affair, as well as generic sex scenes. Spoilers Below “One” Stab. A g

It Happened One Summer (Bellinger Sisters # 1) Review!

Hi Foreverbookers,  How are you all. I hope you’re well! I’ve just finished “It Happened One Summer” by Tessa Bailey and I LOVED it!  5 Stars! “It Happened One Summer” is about sisters, Piper and Hannah who need to move to a seaside town after living in LA for their whole lives. This first book, in what I assume is just a duet is primarily about Piper, the elder sibling and seeing her learn to accept herself and become someone new and improved. “It Happened One Summer” read like a literary fiction novel. It was very dense in terms of words and word count more specifically, I thought. What could have been said in one or two sentences was made into long drawn out paragraphs, which in some instances was fine but the novel could have been at least 100 pages less, I think. I still really enjoyed it, though! The novel is told in 3rd person. I generally don’t like third person stories because I feel disconnected from the characters. However in “It Happened One Summer,” I felt all of Piper’

Misadventures With A Professor by Sierra Simone Review

  Hi ForeverBookers,  How are you? I hope you’re well!  I’ve just finished this taboo smutty romance and it was soooo good! I WISH it had been longer!  I read this for two readathons. Reading Rivalry - featuring a life changing event. It’s a spoiler if I reveal what this is so I won’t but it’s gooood if you like a certain trope.  The Beauty and the beast readathon - MC loves Books - Zandy works with books!  5 Stars! Zandy, our female perspective wants to lose her virginity so hooks up with Oliver. What she doesn’t know after that first hookup is that Oliver is her professor. I loved the taboo-ness of this short novella. It was like the 2 characters couldn’t get enough of each other but then they remembered that they shouldn’t be ripping each other’s clothes off so stopped, but went back for more in the next chapter.  There’s a twist at the end that I won’t spoil but it’s my favourite trope in a romance book! I can’t WAIT to read the other Sierra Simone books I own now! 

Five Go Adventuring Again, (The Famous Five #2) by Enid Blyton Review

Hi ForeverBookers,  How are you all doing? I hope you’re well! I’ve just finished “The Famous Five, Five Go Adventuring Again” by Enid Blyton and I LOVED it! “The Famous Five” is a middle grade series, that was written in the early 1940’s. It therefore might have some problematic elements that we don’t see in today’s society so much. This book is the second in the series. I read “Five Go To Treasure Island” (#1) last year and I really loved that one too, so I expected to at least like this.  5 Stars!  The basic plot for “Five Go Adventuring Again” is that the Famous Five (Julian, Dick, Anne, George and Timmy the dog) all come home for the Christmas holidays. Julian, Dick and Anne are siblings and they’re meant to go home with their parents but Anne gets a letter saying that her mother has scarlet fever, so they’re to be sent to their cousin George’s home at Kirrin Cottage, where the first book took place. They go to a boarding school - the girls to a girls school and the boys to a