Happy Friday bookish people! I hope you are all feeling well today. I keep seeing a lot on social media about which tropes people love and hate in books and it got me thinking, what ones do I like.
To start with I didn’t think I followed tropes like that… then I took a look at the books I loved and which ones I did not and I realised there is a pattern.
Tropes I Love:
‘Unbreakable’ codes
Talking animals
enemies to lovers
isolated mystery locations
reluctant heroes
Tropes I Hate:
The chosen one
Militery
Love triangles
miscommunication
cliffhangers
amnesia
So, those are my lists but I’m curious, what tropes do you love and hate?
Happy Monday bookish people! I hope you are all having a good day today.
Today I am bringing you my book review for The Mistletoe Motive by Chloe Liese, a very short romance novel that I read at the beginning of December.
He loathes the holidays. She loves them. She’s full of festive cheer. He’s brimming with Bah, Humbugs. Besides unreasonably seasonable names, the only thing Jonathan Frost and Gabriella Di Natale have in common is a healthy dose of mutual contempt. Well, that and the same place of employment at the city’s most beloved independent bookstore, Bailey’s Bookshop. But when the store’s owners confess its dire financial state, Jonathan and Gabby discover another unfortunate commonality: the imminent threat of unemployment.
With the Baileys’ requests to minimize expenses, win new customers, and make record sales dancing in their heads, Jonathan and Gabby conclude—barring a financial Christmas miracle—one of them will soon be cut from the payroll. Neither are willing to step down from their position, so they strike a bargain: whoever has more sales in December gets to stay on in the new year; the loser will resign. With a lifetime’s worth of festive tricks up her sleeve, Gabby should easily outsell her nemesis, except the unreadable Mr. Frost’s every move seems purely designed to throw her off her game.
As if that wasn’t bad enough, Gabby’s deceptive ex won’t quit pursuing her, and her anonymous online friend suggests they take a break. Worst of all, as the pressure mounts to save the bookshop and her job, Gabby meets a new, tender side of Jonathan. Is this the same man she’s called her cold-hearted enemy?
Maybe he’s got a motive she just can’t figure out—or maybe Jonathan Frost isn’t as chilly as she once thought. Maybe Jonathan and Gabby already know—and love—each other in ways they never thought possible.
This is an #OwnVoices story for its portrayal of autism by an autistic author.
My Review
If you have seen most of the reviews on this blog you will know that I don’t usually pick up a romance by choice and if I do, it is unlikely I am going to enjoy it. Not because of any bad reason, just because I find them quite predictable and yes, you can say that about this book too. After all it follows the romance plot that they all do really, BUT I did enjoy this book. It was short which I think was a big help in making me enjoy it, it had a lot of plot but didn’t feel too drawn out because it was short.
I love an enemies to lovers, if I am going to read a book with romance in it then that is what I want. Give me some tension. This book had a ton of that, which I very much enjoyed. Plus it was set in a bookstore and I can relate to both the characters being desperate to keep their jobs working in the bookshop. I really can’t say much about this book without spoiling anything but if you are looking for a short, festive romance then I would recommend this book.
Happy Monday bookish people! Today I am bringing you a book review for Get A Life Chloe Brown by Talia Hibbert. This is a very popular romance book that I read as part of the Thousand Doors readathon which was hosted by TeaBooksandTamzyn, Drinkingbymyshelf and MegwithBooks on YouTube.
In this book review I will give star ratings to four categories and I will write a little about each one. I will try to keep it as spoiler free as possible. I hope you enjoy my book review.
Get A Life Chloe Brown Plot:
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rating: 4 out of 5.
As anyone who looks on my blog often will know, I am not the biggest fan of romance books. However, I did enjoy reading Get A Life Chloe Brown. The whole make a list of things to help me get a life that Chloe Brown made was something that gave the plot the substance I was looking for. It created a great situation for Chloe and the love interest to engage with each other, it wasn’t forced like I expected it to be. The thing that I loved the most about this book was the humour, there’s a lot of witty conversations in this book and that is the main thing that kept my interest. Also, I think this book counts as enemies to lovers and that’s one of my favourite tropes.
Get A Life Chloe Brown Characters:
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rating: 4 out of 5.
The main character, Chloe, is a very interesting character to follow, she’s stubborn and fiery and is a great example of disabled representation. Red is a good love interest, he didn’t quite keep my interest – not as much as chloe, and I did feel that some moments he acts out of character or he overreacts to create the tension in the book when he doesn’t need to and that did stop me loving the book. I also love that we see a few scenes with Chloe’s sisters and that gives the book something extra because it’s not all focused on the romance.
Get A Life Chloe Brown Writing and Dialogue:
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rating: 4 out of 5.
As I said, there’s a lot of humour in this book and I will say that if the writing style had been different and less humour I would not have finished this book.
Get A Life Chloe Brown Overall:
⭐⭐⭐⭐
Rating: 4 out of 5.
I gave this book four stars because it was a romance book that I actually slightly enjoyed reading.
Blurb/Synopsis:
Chloe Brown is a chronically ill computer geek with a goal, a plan, and a list. After almost—but not quite—dying, she’s come up with seven directives to help her “Get a Life”, and she’s already completed the first: finally moving out of her glamorous family’s mansion. The next items?
• Enjoy a drunken night out. • Ride a motorcycle. • Go camping. • Have meaningless but thoroughly enjoyable sex. • Travel the world with nothing but hand luggage. • And… do something bad.
But it’s not easy being bad, even when you’ve written step-by-step guidelines on how to do it correctly. What Chloe needs is a teacher, and she knows just the man for the job.
Redford ‘Red’ Morgan is a handyman with tattoos, a motorcycle, and more sex appeal than ten-thousand Hollywood heartthrobs. He’s also an artist who paints at night and hides his work in the light of day, which Chloe knows because she spies on him occasionally. Just the teeniest, tiniest bit.
But when she enlists Red in her mission to rebel, she learns things about him that no spy session could teach her. Like why he clearly resents Chloe’s wealthy background. And why he never shows his art to anyone. And what really lies beneath his rough exterior…
That’s it for this book review, I hope you all enjoyed it!
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