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Book Review, Nonfiction

All About Love by bell hooks ~ Book Review

Morgan

Nonfiction
My Rating: 🍪🍪

What I appreciated most about this book was the discussion of romantic love and how society emphasizes it as being the most important kind of love. hooks discusses the importance of love between friends and family, which is often more enduring than romantic love. It was refreshing to reframe this and make myself more cognizant of how society has shaped my views.

What I appreciated least about this book was the focus on spirituality. For me, that approach does not resonate and it felt like it was being forced on me in order to try to understand hooks’s perspective. While someone with more religion or spirituality in their life might find this effective, it caused me to skim over much of the book to try to pick out pieces that felt more relevant to my life.

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Book Review, Fantasy, Fiction

A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J. Maas ~ Book Review

Morgan

Bloomsbury Publishing
Fantasy
Release Date: May 5, 2015
My Rating: 🍪🍪🍪🍪.5

The hype is so real!! For some reason I was convinced that I wasn’t much of a fantasy person (despite loving Harry Potter), but A Court of Thorns and Roses proved that very wrong. When Feyre accidentally kills a faerie disguised as a wolf, she is forced to live out the rest of her days in the faerie world, or lose her life.

I got major Beauty and the Beast vibes as Feyre begins to get to know her captor, Tamlin and explores his grounds and her new world. The world-building wasn’t too overwhelming, and I was able to get sucked into the story fairly quickly.

The romance in this book was so unexpected and well done. It was a pretty main theme throughout the story as Feyre learns more about Tamlin and his past. I loved the setting of Tamlin’s estate and the atmosphere it set (I got a Bridgerton feel).

The action picks up a lot in the last quarter of the book and the pacing change kept me completely invested until the end. I will absolutely be picking up book two.

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