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Books I won’t be reading in 2024…….

 


Including those ones from my most loved authors plus some authors I just won’t read from again.

Let’s call this post Ex’s and Oh’s part 2.

The Long Game by Elena Armas. No. Nope. Don’t like the cover, don’t like the blurb and sure as hell don’t like soccer. I have read and will continue to read sport romances but soccer? Yeah no. [Side note: this does not and will not ever apply to Striker by Ana Huang. Nothing applies to Ana Huang books. Ever.] Hockey. Rugby. Basketball even I’m fine with. I’ve seen the reviews – through research here and I trust my gut. I know before giving it a chance that it won’t be make it to my top 20 let alone top anything else. I’ve read the blurb it just doesn’t sell to me. In all fairness, I’m still in New York, Manhattan with Aaron, Lina, Lucas and Roslyn so. Just don’t even want to speak about or have anything to do with Adalyn and Cameron. Also, the cover – immediately no. Sorry Elena – not this time. Still love you babe. I am going to pre-order her newest release The Fiancé Dilemma. Let’s hope it’s not a amped up version of my faves.

Fourth Wing. Not into that kind of stuff. 

Ali Hazlewood. Not a stem romance kind of girl. I did buy The Love Hypothesis & Love On The Brain (silly mistake) but couldn’t get past page 10 in The Love Hypothesis so I just left it and never touched it again. Good news? I gave it to my friend who really was itching to buy it so since I had it, I saved her money and my bookshelf gained another empty space. Also, she loved the read and everything Ali Hazelwood after so I guess the real winner is the author herself. I’ve never liked to mix academia with fiction, least of all science. Gives me high school days flashbacks. Yeah. Do not need those.

Jagger Cole. Why did you let me down? What did I ever do to you? I was in the middle of writing a review for it but it was just so draining. I’m not spending time talking more about a book that took me so hard to finish. There’s so much yet so little to say about it. I appreciate a mafia romance just as much as the next girl. However, what I didn’t appreciate was the windwhirl of relatives, characters and all of this mafia business that a) didn’t make sense and b) wasn’t why I picked this romance for. It was for the line that TikTok perfectly advertised for people like myself. Evidently, the author knows a lot about the Bratva and had a deep passion for writing about it. Unfortunately, I was more interested in Eilish and Gavan (not going to lie, took me a minute to remember his name) rather than the business Gavan was always on about. I did start in the middle of the series though. Hold up. Didn’t I say I wasn’t going to review this book? Safe to say I won’t be reading the others.

Colleen Hoover. Let me make it make sense. After I read It Ends with Us & It Starts with Us, nothing really spoke to me after that. I have picked up Heart Bones which is seemingly starting out to be another heart wrenching read but not all of her stories are for me. I can’t say she’s up there with Ana Huang or Tessa Bailey for me so I won’t be reading anything from Colleen in the future unless that is she releases something that I find aligns with my palette. What I’m trying to say is that it’s not just the fact that everything feels relatively similar to me with her writing but also, it’s not an author I’m actively waiting for new releases from. With that said, on the edge of my seat for the movie to come to the big screens. Read my posts on it, you’ll be side-eyeing me so hard.

Sadie Kincaid. I mentioned in my most recent post that I’m reading about the infamous Dante Moretti. Spoiler, Dante Russo is still the most loved Dante ever. I’m failing to understand the hype or finish the book for that matter. Where’s the progression? It’s like one second, they can’t stand each other then the next they’re at it like dogs. It’s lowkey giving 365-day vibes. That movie wasn’t even a movie it was a puberty lesson for teenagers. Show that in schools and you won’t have to do much talking. It’s safe to say there is no way in bookish hell anyone could tie me down and make me look at let alone read Joey or Lorenzo. Big fat flying nope with a popping p.

 This is just hitting the surface; March has landed and April will be here before I know it. Don’t get me started on all the new releases I’m counting days for. I’m talking red marker, calendar, alarm – the whole lot. Maybe I’ll write about it before they release?

Job hunting sucks. So much rejection but I have to persevere because no one will do it for me.

Keep me In your prayers and help this blog reach levels I didn’t know it could. New York is waiting for me and buddy I’m dying to get to you too.

Sigh.

Don’t forget the paper pages. My life is on it.

Mwah.

Don’t forget to keep reading, because as long as you do, it’s making a struggling authors day that much better. Reach for the starts of success.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 


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