Rate the last book you read

What the title says I rate my books on a 5-star scale, but you can rate yours however you'd like.

I'll start us off by rating all the books I've read this month.

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling - 5/5
Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling - 5/5
Yall know what these are about

The Last Thing to Burn by Will Dean - 5/5
Incredibly powerful story about a Vietnamese victim of human trafficking. The story starts off 5 years into her captivity as the wife of a horribly abusive monster. It was a tough story to read, but really captivating and worth it in the end. I'd highly recommend it, for anyone who is able to stomach something so dark.

The Teacher's Billionaire by Christina Tetreault - 0/5
I got this ebook for free, and it was my first time giving one of these generic, indie-published romances a shot. And man, it was pretty awful. I could only get through 3 chapters before I decided life is too short to waste any more time reading this.

Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid - 5/5
I've been waiting for this one for a long time. It's been on my hold list at the library for quite a while, but it was worth the wait. TJR is so great at writing characters and family dynamics. It was a great story, but I will say, it was not at all what I thought it would be. I think the blurb for this book is really terrible. It makes it out to be something completely different than what it is. But thankfully, I love TJR's writing and her characters, so I ended up really enjoying it anyway.

Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris - 2/5
This one was... interesting. Started off really captivating. The last chapter was fantastic. But everything in between ended up being a bit boring, very repetitive, unrealistic, and just kind of bland. I kept waiting and hoping for something exciting to happen, and it just never did. Until the last chapter, which is far too late to give the reader any kind of payoff. Disappointing.

What have you guys read lately?

 

Twice in a Blue Moon by Christina Lauren - 4/5

I wasn't sure how I was going to feel about this one as the story progressed, because the love-interest betrayed the main character in a pretty significant way early on in the book. So I wasn't really sure if I was going to be able to forgive him and get on board with her getting back together with him.

But, in the end, it worked out well and I was able to be happy about them being together again. It wasn't my favorite love story ever, but it was enjoyable and the writing was good. It's been a little bit since I've read a good romance, so it was enjoyable.

 

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban - 5/5

I really enjoyed this one. There were some significant points in the book that were left out of the movie, and I loved getting to hear all of that background on The Maurauders, Lupin, Black, Pettigrew, and Harry's dad. That was really interesting.

I think Professor Lupin might be one of my favorite characters. I liked him in the movies, but he's even better in this book.

Although I still think one of the most ridiculous parts of Harry Potter is the fact that nobody in the entirety of Hogwarts decides to take Harry away from the Dursleys. I mean, it's like super well known that his aunt and uncle are abusive and that they don't care about him at all. If he just went to Hogwarts for a school year and then decided to live with Ron's family from then on, and never returned home or spoke to the Dirsleys again, they probably wouldn't even care or bother to try to get him back. They'd just be happy to have him out of their hair. Heck, he'd even be better off sleeping on Hagrid's floor or living with Professor Mcgonagall.

This is made even more obvious when Sirius Black offers to have Harry come live with him, and Harry accepts immediately, because duh. It doesn't end up working out, but it just highlights how easy it would be for him to just live with someone else. Sure, Sirius was his actual legal guardian, but does anyone think the Dursleys would actually sue Ron's parents, or file a police report at all, if they simply took Harry and didn't bring him back to them? I really doubt it.

 

I'm trying to reas this book called The Date by Louise Jensen, but I'm just not feeling it. I'm about 14 chapters in, and I'm still kind of bored. There have been several scenes that I think are supposed to be a bit intense and thrilling, but they just bored me. It's been a lot of repetition of her thinking someone might be in her house, and then not finding him, and then that repeating. Idk, it just hasn't held my interest yet at all.

And the main premise of the book is that she has been in an altercation, that she can't fully remember, that has given her brain damage that caused her to have Facial Blindness. But so far, I feel like that has barely even come into play. I thought it would be a little more twisty, like she is spending a lot of time with people and we aren't sure if maybe her attacker is one of them, because she can't recognize anybody. But instead, it's mostly been about the guy being in her house and messing with her that way, which has nothing to do with her facial blindness. That could happen in any book about any subject. So it really seems like, so far, this book hasn't delivered on the premise at all, which is disappointing.

 

War and peace by leo tolstoy (wordsworth classic translation) 10/10
I think this book is just perfect , the characters , the prose and the plot . Perfect.

To kill a mockingbird , 9/10
Its a kids point of view of the unjust world , good but not even close to war and peace.

A hundred years of solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez.
I would not recommend this book as it contains some very triggering content and I myself have not read it more than hundred pages because I couldnt compromise on my streak , other than the erotic content , this book is pure gold (as far as I have read it)