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Feb 15, 2026

4.0

Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

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After DNFing People We Meet On Vacation, I thought Emily Henry wasn't for me. But Funny Story proved me wrong. Her writing wasn't the issue, in retrospective it was definitely the plot. I picked this up without much thought and was surprised by how much I like it and how fast I read it. The theme and characters arc are coherent and touching, the couple has chemistry, the side characters are amazing. It's a really solid romcom

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Funny Story

Emily Henry

A shimmering, joyful new novel about a pair of opposites with the wrong thing in common. Daphne always loved the way her fiancé Peter told their story. How they met (on a blustery day), fell in love (over an errant hat), and moved back to his lakeside hometown to begin their life together. He really was good at telling it…right up until the moment he realized he was actually in love with his childhood best friend Petra. Which is how Daphne begins her new story: Stranded in beautiful Waning Bay, Michigan, without friends or family but with a dream job as a children’s librarian (that barely pays the bills), and proposing to be roommates with the only person who could possibly understand her predicament: Petra’s ex, Miles Nowak. Scruffy and chaotic—with a penchant for taking solace in the sounds of heart break love ballads—Miles is exactly the opposite of practical, buttoned up Daphne, whose coworkers know so little about her they have a running bet that she’s either FBI or in witness protection. The roommates mainly avoid one another, until one day, while drowning their sorrows, they form a tenuous friendship and a plan. If said plan also involves posting deliberately misleading photos of their summer adventures together, well, who could blame them? But it’s all just for show, of course, because there’s no way Daphne would actually start her new chapter by falling in love with her ex-fiancé’s new fiancée’s ex…right?

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Happy Place

Emily Henry

Harriet and Wyn have been the perfect couple since they met in college—they go together like salt and pepper, honey and tea, lobster and rolls. Except, now—for reasons they’re still not discussing—they don’t. They broke up six months ago. And still haven’t told their best friends. Which is how they find themselves sharing the largest bedroom at the Maine cottage that has been their friend group’s yearly getaway for the last decade. Their annual respite from the world, where for one vibrant, blue week they leave behind their daily lives; have copious amounts of cheese, wine, and seafood; and soak up the salty coastal air with the people who understand them most. Only this year, Harriet and Wyn are lying through their teeth while trying not to notice how desperately they still want each other. Because the cottage is for sale and this is the last week they’ll all have together in this place. They can’t stand to break their friends’ hearts, and so they’ll play their parts. Harriet will be the driven surgical resident who never starts a fight, and Wyn will be the laid-back charmer who never lets the cracks show. It’s a flawless plan (if you look at it from a great distance and through a pair of sunscreen-smeared sunglasses). After years of being in love, how hard can it be to fake it for one week… in front of those who know you best? A couple who broke up months ago make a pact to pretend to still be together for their annual weeklong vacation with their best friends in this glittering and wise new novel from #1 New York Times bestselling author Emily Henry.

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It's great so far, I feel things while reading it and I like that. There's just one thing that rubs me the wrong way, it's the whole "single parent being their child's best friend" thing. As someone who works with kids in the social field this is such an unhealthy dynamic. Like no a parent and their kid, no matter the age, should consider eachother a friend, it's not their place. Even more so when the parent doesn't have a partner or friends, I've seen it in real life and the consequences for the daughter/son can be devastating. An adult should never rely on a kid to find that kind of bond/interaction, they're not made to carry this weight. You can't be just a mom or a dad, you have to be a woman or a man too. And a child has to be a child. I had to say this bc it's presented like a good thing when really it's not. The difference between generations is meant to be a protection of some kind for the psychological development of everyone, it's not meant to be crossed in a family context. You can still be closed and loving while maintaining that line/boundary.

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The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)

Maggie Stiefvater

"'There are only two reasons a non-seer would see a spirit on St. Mark's Eve,' Neeve said. 'Either you're his true love...or you killed him.'" It is freezing in the churchyard, even before the dead arrive. Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue herself never sees them — not until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks directly to her. His name is Gansey, and Blue soon discovers that he is a rich student at Aglionby, the local private school. Blue has a policy of staying away from Aglionby boys. Known as Raven Boys, they can only mean trouble. But Blue is drawn to Gansey, in a way she can't entirely explain. He has it all — family money, good looks, devoted friends — but he's looking for much more than that. He is on a quest that has encompassed three other Raven Boys: Adam, the scholarship student who resents all the privilege around him; Ronan, the fierce soul who ranges from anger to despair; and Noah, the taciturn watcher of the four, who notices many things but says very little. For as long as she can remember, Blue has been warned that she will cause her true love to die. She never thought this would be a problem. But now, as her life becomes caught up in the strange and sinister world of the Raven Boys, she's not so sure anymore. From Maggie Stiefvater, the bestselling and acclaimed author of the Shiver trilogy and The Scorpio Races, comes a spellbinding new series where the inevitability of death and the nature of love lead us to a place we've never been before.

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Modern Divination (Modern Divination, #1)

Isabel Agajanian

Aurelia Schwartz has spent twenty-three years maintaining the equilibrium between her carefully curated human life and the magical one that she endures in secret. With a devoted best friend and top marks at a prestigious university, she has everything one could possibly want neatly within her grasp. Except, her gift of green magic has begun to fade, and if that wasn’t enough to upset the balance of her life, a fateful run-in with another power-hungry witch with a penchant for stolen magic has threatened to bring it all to ruin. Cast into an unexpected alliance with her dreadfully arrogant classmate, Aurelia goes into hiding among a peculiar family of witches, where she discovers that the secret to their safety requires breaking rules she has followed all her life: Make no promises, Tell no one what you are, and Never stay the night.

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An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)

Sabaa Tahir

This is a previously-published edition of ISBN 9781595148032.Laia is a slave. Elias is a soldier. Neither is free. Under the Martial Empire, defiance is met with death. Those who do not vow their blood and bodies to the Emperor risk the execution of their loved ones and the destruction of all they hold dear. It is in this brutal world, inspired by ancient Rome, that Laia lives with her grandparents and older brother. The family ekes out an existence in the Empire’s impoverished backstreets. They do not challenge the Empire. They’ve seen what happens to those who do. But when Laia’s brother is arrested for treason, Laia is forced to make a decision. In exchange for help from rebels who promise to rescue her brother, she will risk her life to spy for them from within the Empire’s greatest military academy. There, Laia meets Elias, the school’s finest soldier—and secretly, its most unwilling. Elias wants only to be free of the tyranny he’s being trained to enforce. He and Laia will soon realize that their destinies are intertwined—and that their choices will change the fate of the Empire itself.

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Enjoyment: 4.0Quality: 4.0Characters: 4.0Plot: 4.0

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This book is for every woman driven to insanity by a man, and betrayed by psychiatry. This book is for every family that inherited this secret burden.

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Mon vrai nom est Elisabeth

Adèle Yon

Une chercheuse craignant de devenir folle mène une enquête pour tenter de rompre le silence qui entoure la maladie de son arrière-grand-mère Elisabeth, dite Betsy, diagnostiquée schizophrène dans les années 1950. La narratrice ne dispose, sur cette femme morte avant sa naissance, que de quelques légendes familiales dont les récits fluctuent. Une vieille dame coquette qui aimait nager, bonnet de bain en caoutchouc et saut façon grenouille, dans la piscine de la propriété de vacances. Une grand-mère avec une cavité de chaque côté du front qui accusait son petit-fils de la regarder nue à travers les murs. Une maison qui prend feu. Des grossesses non désirées. C'est à peu près tout. Les enfants d'Elisabeth ne parlent jamais de leur mère entre eux et ils n'en parlent pas à leurs enfants qui n'en parlent pas à leurs petits-enfants. "C'était un nom qu'on ne prononçait pas. Maman, c'était un non-sujet. Tu peux enregistrer ça. Maman, c'était un non-sujet.'Mon vrai nom est Elisabethest un premier livre poignant à la lisière de différents genres : l'enquête familiale, le récit de soi, le road-trip, l'essai. À travers la voix de la narratrice, les archives et les entretiens, se déploient différentes histoires, celles du poids de l'hérédité, des violences faites aux femmes, de la psychiatrie du XXe siècle, d'une famille nombreuse et bourgeoise renfermant son lot de secrets.

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Please don't hate me for saying this (I know this book is well loved, sorry in advance), but even though I mostly like what I'm reading, it feels like a veeery looong introduction and I'm getting impatient. Slow plots aren't usually an issue for me (I'm a Robin Hobb and V. E. Schwab stan) but god this is a slow start, even almost 200 hundreds pages in. It's taking his sweet time and I don't feel like we're making that much progress.

So far the themes remind me of The Hunger Games. Except for some reason I'm less engaged in my reading, and the execution reminds me of Divergent (which I'm not a fan of) with less action. It's not that I don't care what happens, it's just that I wish it would get to the point. Some of the detours feel unnecessary, like they don't add much to the story. I was also surprised by how young Laia sounds in her chapters.

I also struggle with the characters having "I can read minds" moments. Like no, you can't just guess someone's interior thoughts/motivations/emotions with one eye contact. I noticed that several times with several different characters. It's one of my pet peeves in books, when they know something they're absolutely not supposed to know. It's not "credible" and it seems a bit lazy as a way of telling us informations.

It's not a super good time or super enjoyable so far. Right now I'm not that excited to see what happens next either. At least not like I thought I would be. But the next books have potential and our protagonists show some signs of having possibly interesting arcs. I'm not like mad or going to dnf it but I expected slightly more sadly. I will just hope for the best bc I want to love this so much

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Some light/fast paced book recs?

So in my country we have this amazing thing for the people that turn 18 were you are given money to spend on cultural activities or media, that means free books😎 I’ve been on the search of books to build the perfect list but all of them are really dense and sad and though i love big sad books sometimes I struggle and i would love some lighter recomendations, they don’t have to be short , just engaging enough for me to not stop reading or dnfing them, maybe some romance, or a contemporary idk i trust all of you with your recs

Thankyou!!

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Fun Question: Do you care more about strong character development or a gripping plot?

For me, character development plays a big role in the story's progress, always. I’ll follow emotionally complex characters even through a slower plot. But having a bit of both is so important overall for the book, otherwise the whole book will be so plain and bland. SO I GUESS BIT OF BOTH

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