july 2022

july came and went like a fever dream!!! my favorite book this month was a toss up between ugly love and one true loves (hopeless romantic much???) the latest and greatest of my book reviews is below:

it happened one summer by tessa bailey

alex’s rating: 3/10

it happened one summer had all the trappings of a good book: spoiled girl makes mistake & is shipped off to some no name town to learn her lesson. handsome fisherman walks into a bar and catches her attention. sparks fly. you know the rest. unfortunately the characters in this book were extremely annoying & dramatic. the plot felt forced, unrelatable and completely unreasonable. this was the first book all year that really disappointed me.

the rules do not apply by ariel levy

alex’s rating: 7/10

the first few lines on the sleeve of this book really got me: when thirty-eight-year-old new yorker writer ariel levy left for a reporting trip to mongolia in 2012, she was pregnant, married, financially secure, and successful on her own terms. a month later none of that was true. needless to say i was automatically sucked in. this feminist memoir isn’t something i’d typically pick up but it was a heartbreaking and humbling read.

ugly love by colleen hoover

alex’s rating: 9/10 

buckle up for another coho read!!! ugly love follows the emotional and painful story of a nurse named tate and a pilot named miles. from the moment they lay eyes on each other there’s an instant connection and it. is. palpable. when he first kisses her in her childhood home, i melted. love’s not perfect right? it’s downright ugly sometimes and this book explores that side of romance. nothing really surprised me with this read but damn was it a good one.

one true loves by taylor jenkins reid

alex’s rating: 10/10

be prepared to swoon not over one but two guys in one true loves. reid is at it again with an emotional and heartbreaking tale about woman who finds love after the tragic disappearance of her husband (only to find out that he’s been found alive).  emma blair is an incredibly strong woman with a difficult choice — return to her husband with whom she shared her past or marry her fiancé with whom she’s planned her future. just one fab story by a fab author.

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