Book Review: Villains Are Destined to Die vol. 1 by SUOL

Villains Are Destined to Die, Vol. 1 by SUOL
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

My name is Brittany and I’m in love with Callisto and I wanna punch Derrick in the face.

So I have been avoiding this manhwa for a very long time for some reason, and now that I read it last night, I have to say that I really enjoyed this. Penelope Eckheart is the villainess in a mobile game, and every time you would play as her, you would die, multiple times. Now that the girl is in Penelope's body, she starts to act and play just like Penelope, only a whole lot different and a heck of a lot smarter.

For one, she called Duke Eckhart father, which unlocked her to speak freely and to finally use her own actions to tell the story of how she wanted to tell Penelope's story, then she had to deal wit
h her brothers, Reynold and Derrick-who I really hate TBH (Derrick, not Reynold, Reynold's a good petunia) and then we went to the Second Prince's Birthday party...

And, um...like most villainous men I fall for, I met and fell for Callisto Regulus who can fold me any kind of way and I'd thank him for it. Penelope remembers him killing her multiple times when she always play his route, so she tries to get him to kill her again so she can have the reset button...only to hold a sword against her neck and told her to find another way to tell him that she loves him.

....my brother in tyrant christ, I can think of FIFTY ways to tell you that I love you.

Dragging an assasin in the ballroom and scaring the crap out of everyone? Yes. Dang near breaking the assasin's ribs with just the hilt of your sword? Yep, uh-huh, that's why I love you, yep, break it a little more, I like his screams to be played on my spotify. Your red eyes that could be very close to crimson? Yesss.

But at the end, even when Penelope meets Vinter in the end of the garden (looking like Xavier Shen from LADS, I might add)she decides to go after the only love interest in the whole game that might actually love her--a slave knight named Eclise.

I cannot wait to get my hands on book two because it was so much fun. The artwork in this is is very well drawn and very well written, and I cannot wait to read on, to see how Penelope finds Eclise and deal with all the other problems in her life right now. Also make sure that Derrick gets punched in the throat. Dearly.


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Book Review: A Forbidden Alchemy by Stacey McEwan

A Forbidden Alchemy by Stacey McEwan
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

To the many people telling me that this was SUCH a good book...

*In Sir Integra Hellsing's voice (the abridged version)* YOU WERE RIGHT.

This book has PEAKY BLINDERS vibes, with a mix of magic, tunnels, secrets, and the SLOWEST of slow burns I've ever read. I loved the fact that Nina Clarke is trying to save everyone and the town of Kenton Hill, and at the same time, she falls in love with Patrick Colson, the leader of the Miners' Union. It also kind of had a love triangle between Nina, Patrick, and Theodore, but to be fair, I really didn't give a flying crap about Theo.

AT ALL.

I wanted him to go away each time he showed up, all jealous of the fact that Nina was getting close to Patrick, and I felt like Theo was going to fight him. I was waiting for him to buck up and actually swing, but he didn't. At the end, he actually helped Patrick face the troops and try to help him find Nina, even when Patrick revealed his secret.

As for Patrick, reading his POV was quite interesting. I really liked how he tries to hide everything from Nina, only for it to turn around and bite him CLEAR across his behind when Nina kept asking fifty million questions and wanting to know about this and wanting to know about that. When the landslide happened and Nina jumped in to try and stop it, Patrick tried to stop her. He even thought something really bad had happened to her as she charmed the earth and saved his brother Gunner and all of the miners from the landslide. But Nina saved a LOT of people that day, and I was glad that she tried to protect Patrick at the end, when he revealed himself to be the alchemist.

I was shocked when he told her that-that the last alchemist died and he became the last Alchemist, mostly because I really didn't believe it. But as he explained how he became the alchemist, I understood it, even to it's painful end. This book was such a good book and I would read it all over again, to visit this world once more and be welcomed back to Keaton Hill again.

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Book Review: Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood

Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood made me feel...so, so seen in so many ways. I related to Belle more than I ever did to any other character that I've ever read. The way Belle is worried about other people, how she puts other people first before herself, and how she doubts herself...I was about 5 pages in when I realized that Belle is basically me in a book....if I were a witch working at a bookstore and rarely use magic. But this book wrapped me up in a hug as I kept reading, and I also kept cheering for Belle as she trains with Artorious to use her magic so she can become a witch.

I liked the learning aspects of the book because I felt like you were learning along with Belle as she learns how to do many things with her magic, and even when she starts to doubt herself, Arty tells her not to give up. That is why Belle is my favorite character throughout the book-you see her grow and learn her magic, to the point she faces her fears and does things she'd never thought she'd do.

From quitting her job and buying her beloved bookstore, to facing the women who have risen up to power by using dark magic and had killed their brother and blamed the other one. It was so painful to see how family hate can drive people to become power hungry--and I was glad that Belle stood up to them, even saving her best friend during the fight, thus completing the tasks in the grimoire that she was learning from. I was scared that she wasn't going to make it, her and Ariadne, but all in all, I really did enjoy myself, and I am going to read more of Lucy Jane Wood's books because this book was SO GOOD, and I enjoyed myself reading this book.

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Book Review: Love's A Witch by Tricia O'Malley

Love's a Witch by Tricia O'Malley
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This book just became my favorite book I've read so far this fall.

Love's a Witch felt like I was watching an episode of Charmed, but somehow the special guest star was Richard Armitage playing Knox Douglas. I don't know why, but he popped into my head when I was reading this book, and somehow it worked SO MUCH.

So Sloane MacGregor and his sisters came to Briarhaven because their grandmother told them to come back. The moment they stepped foot into Briarhaven, Knox came in and...grabbed the suitcase and told them to leave. Like now. Not today, not tomorrow, not next week, now. Sloane got upset and said, 'hell to the nah, we're staying' and told the house to never let him in again.

Ooof.

But throughout the book, we see both Sloane and Knox going head to head on a lot of things, and how Knox is trying too hard to get rid of the MacGregors. But when Sloane's powers come in on her twenty-fifth birthday, things get chaotic and also very romantic when both Knox and Sloane get together and things happen-like Sloane morphing her car into a dragon, mushrooms popping up everywhere, and her nearly burning the curtain down when she kissed him.

The ending almost made me cry when Knox got all of the townspeople that were related to the founding families to help the sisters try and break the snowy curse, and when they do, they find out that it's not over. I'd never thought that I would like Groupy x Grumpy but I did, and I enjoyed myself reading this book so much that I wanted to stay in this world. Tricia O'Malley did a fantastic job with this book, and I cannot wait to read more.

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Book Review: Silvercloak by L.K. Steven

Silvercloak by L.K. Steven
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This might be my favorite fantasy THIS YEAR. L.K. Steven, thank you for this book, and thank you SO MUCH for writing this book. A woman going undercover in a magical mafia to try and nab them? PERFECTION. I was rooting for Saffron to finally get her revenge on the Bloodmoons and to figure out what they're actually doing and stop them. I was hooked the moment I started reading this book, and I needed to know more about why Saffron wanted to bring the Bloodmoons down and to also expose them for what they were doing.

I did get worried that some of Saffron's contacts would get compromised, but the more I read and saw how she tried so hard to protect them, even when they couldn't even touch her because of the magic not working on her. I kept seeing her try and try over and over again to figure out what the Bloodmoons are hiding, while at the same time working with them to get what they want. When they face the Silvercloaks again, some of them are shocked that she's working for the enemy, while some of them knew that she was undercover, so they try not to hit her.

The ending of this book got me SO BAD. i wasn't even expecting it or that Levan, the son of the leader of the Bloodmoons, knew Saffron's secret. I thought she was keeping it on the down low, but that journal entry at the end told us, the readers, that we knew that she was a timeweaver, and that he was going to take her down.

Oh no.

Oh, Saff, girl, you are in BIG TROUBLE.

Especially when Levan and Lyrian are trying to bring back Lorissa.

Oh no, girlie.

Time to run.

I need book two right now to know what happens next, because that ending was BRUTAL. But I loved it nonetheless.

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Book Review: A Demon's Guide to Wooing a Witch (Glimmer Falls #2) by Sarah Hawley

A Demon's Guide to Wooing a Witch by Sarah Hawley
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

Sarah Hawley, you beautiful human you.

I am loving this series, and I really don't want it to end. I want this series to keep going because of how good it is, and also how fun it was. I was scared of the amnesia trope, but when she did it for Astaroth of the Nine and how it worked perfectly with the story, I loved it to bits. I really didn't like Astaroth in the beginning of the series. Still, with the second book all on him and how he travels with Calladia Cunnington to figure out how to get his memories back, it was SUCH a fun time that I want to read some more before the series ends.

This book touches on subjects like abuse-mental abuse, thanks to Calladia's ex and her mother, telling her that she's not good enough, she needs to tone herself down, and things like that. It did urk my nerves when her mother brought up all of the things that were wrong with Calladia and not love who she is as a person, and I'm glad that in the end, Calladia got her lick back and isn't gonna be around her mother ever again.

Astaroth of the Nine changed my perception of him throughout the book.

He shocked me so many times--from learning that he was a half-demon, his mother is Lilith...who writes War of the Roses tentacle AO3 Fanfiction--something I wasn't really for or to learn about--but I found that I liked that about her--and that he needed to find a life witch to help him get his memories back. So teaming up with the witch that hated him so much, Calladia, he goes on a road trip to find the witch that can restore his memories, and also find a way to stop a demon named Moloch, who is currently hellbent on killing him.

Throughout the road trip, from fighting werewolves to falling in love and sleeping in a tent, Astaroth had slowly shocked me and Calladia to the point that they fell in love. The ending was really fun, and for secrets to come out when Astaroth got his memories back and realised that he didn't want to go back to the Demon Council, to represent the demon hybrids and be their speaker in the council. Instead, he wants to be with his warrior queen, whom he had fallen in love with.

...Though there were some things I really didn't need to know about, like him and Lucrezia and Cesare Borgia...didn't need to know that part....really didn't....

But I really do love this book series so much and I cannot wait to read the next one.

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Book Review: The Witching Moon Manor (The Spellbound Sisters #2) by Stacy Sivinski

The Witching Moon Manor by Stacy Sivinski
My rating: 5 of 5 stars

This month it seems like my Libby holds have gas after gas after gas-and reading The Witching Moon Manor made me really happy-just like the first book, it is a happy, warm hug while you sit and enjoy a cup of tea.

The Quigley sisters are reunited again after having their birthday visions and came home, each sister having problems-Anne is the Diviner of Chicago, but even she can't figure out why Mr. Crowley hasn't done his final Task. Violet had an accident at the circus with her husband, Emil, and decided to come home, and Beatrix...well, Beatrix can't write herself a new novel, and she's in a writer's block. So the three sisters come back together to figure things out like they always do, and just like magic, things start to unravel themselves and are put back to rights in their own ways.

Beatrix is having a problem writing her new book. She sits in front of her notebook, but no words have come to her. So she gets up and helps her sister, Anne, only to find herself in a bookstore where she becomes the sole owner thanks to Violet, and she opens a book and starts to read it, thinking that once she gets to the end, she'll see the words The End.

Instead, the words are scratched out, and new words are written...words I have forgotten, but I think they said "There are new endings' or something like that?

Once Beatrix reads those words and is also around Jennings and is slowly falling for him, it turns out that the dusty bookshelf is an enchanted bookstore, and then soon Beatrix is writing again.

Anne is trying to figure out how to keep Mr. Crowley and Philip together in the afterlife once she figures out what Final Task Mr. Crowley has been ignoring/didn't do. She meets his nephew, Vincent, and the two work together to figure out who the ring belongs to. They do butt heads during the whole thing, but then when they do come together, that's when she finds out that thanks to the ring and her new powers, she can walk through the past, and thanks to Vincent's help, she figures out who the ring belongs to, and even though it does belong to Vincent Crowley, it went from Mr. Crowley, Anne, May, Philip's sister, and then Vincent.

Violet was having problems with what had happened at the circus, and she threw herself into helping her sisters with their problems, ignoring her own. When she finally has a chance to sit down and think about what happened at the circus and to poor Emil, she talks to her sisters and drinks some tea, then goes to bed and has a dream that changes everything. Then, when they were together at the end, they all looked at the tea leaves....

...and finds out that someone is pregnant and is going to have a baby by the sign of the birds or something in the tea leaves.

This is my favorite series of all time and I need everyone reading this cozy series.

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