Great beginning, can't wait to read more!

not enough character development for the number of people you see, but a good start.

Interesting book but it seemed very obvious what all the author was saying. There was no new information within the book, just confirmation of what most people already knew

This is a great book for young kids about confidence! I love the illustrations, they're full of joy and fun. I would definitely recommend Cannonball to pre-readers! Maori culture is present, but the book is really about a little boy who wants to make the perfect splash with his epic cannonball form!

boring, repetitive, and no sentence structure.

With the personification of wind, I’m not sure it will communicate the meaning to children, but it is great fun and quite short.

Arguably, this book is no better than the rest of the series. The repetitive lines, the mistreatment of characters, the obnoxious emo-Edward... Yet I had a lot of fun listening to the audiobook. If this had been a fanfiction I would give it 5 stars, but the idea that this was edited and published professionally is criminal. I can't believe they had such a long time to sit with this book, yet still made some of the choices Meyer went with. Give Rosalie some credit and give Edward more maturity after 100 years living on this earth.

If you liked Twilight as a teen, this book is a fun read; I'd never recommend it with any seriousness though.

This is a great book that explains anxiety and how to be a good friend to someone who deals with it! On top of being an absolutely adorable story about a possum realizing they can be comfortable with their own fears and anxiety, the illustrations are wonderful! I would strongly recommend this to anyone with young kids.

Every few years, I give poetry another chance, but it is my least favorite form, and I would have enjoyed it much more had this been a memoir-in-prose as opposed to verse. I’m still glad I read the book; it was hard for me to follow the story from poem to poem. My rating is not reflective of the quality but my own experience reading it.

This was just a nostalgic reread for me because I had 4 hours left in the work day and had just finished my last book, so I listened to the audiobook. As an adult, I wish it had less music included; for children, it is probably a cute and fun addition.

Also,as a child, I never picked up on the fact that Rabbit’s main character flaw is that he’s conservative so that’s fun I guess!

It is a technically beautifully written book, but I didn't enjoy myself for even a moment of reading. I never got lost in the story, always over analyzing everything that occurred. It seemed less gothic and more slow-burn-haunted-house-horror. It was an interesting book, I just don't know what to think of it across the board.

Similar to If You Give A Mouse A Cookie, this book is a hilarious view of a young boy failing to set boundaries for his dog. The book is adorable and well-illustrated, but there isn't much resolution. He doesn't seem to learn from his mistakes and continues to allow his puppy to make a mess, but it's still a cute picture book. Perfect for story times, because it's very short.

This book does an excellent job at showing a flawed character, but building empathy for her regardless of her cringey moments. I think the end was a little rushed, but overall I enjoyed the story. It’s a very new-adult-esque YA - even when she’s acting juvenile, there’s an adult element to the story that I don’t see in a lot of YA. Yes, the book takes place during Alaine’s senior year, but she spends so little time in the school building that it’s easy to forget how old she is.

Did I read too much into this book? Most likely... But look, the only reason the other animals accepted the elephant is because of what he could do for them. They hated him up until he proved himself useful and I think the elephant deserves better friends than that. It had a strong immigrant subtext and I didn't appreciate the fact that it was made clear the elephant was not welcome (especially because at the end of the book, the tree-dwellers became skeptical of Elephant inviting friends to live with them in the tree) but tolerated and having that as the plot of a picture book is just not the type of message I would want to spread to children. But that's just me and I know I'm being too nitpicky.

This is a great book to start a discussion with younger kids who don't understand why they can't see their friends because of COVID, but also as a reminder that it won't last forever. It's a super sweet book that would have been nice to have earlier on in the pandemic, but I'm glad I saw it now to recommend it to parents.

This book is crazy. It’s super funny at times, not very realistic, but if you’re looking for a comedy suspense then this will be a great read for you.

The book was actually quite good, but it was only tangentially about Cleopatra. Before reading the book, what I knew about her was that she was a queen of Egypt but was actually from either Greece or Rome and that she had a relationship with Antony (Thanks, Shakespeare). Now, I know that she also had a relationship with Caesar and had kids with both men. I do know a lot more about Rome though, that's for sure!

This was a super cute book about friendship, first crushes, and family drama while staying true to the middle-schooler voice throughout the entire story.

Nina deserves to have her own series and her story entwined with Nikolai makes quite literally no sense. The book was good, but I would have preferred to see them as individual books rather than alternating between stories many lands apart. The next book better pull out all the stops, because right now it feels very incomplete.

This is nothing I expected it to be. If you want a book about extreme mental roadblocks to standing up for yourself and emotional fatigue, this is the book for you. If you want a romance anything like Hoang's previous books, maybe look for something different or reread the first two in the trilogy because this book is the farthest thing from being romantic, even though there is technically a relationship starting within these pages. It fell flat for me and I needed to skip through entire sections because I was simply bogged down with annoyance and frustration for the situation and choices the main character made. The Heart Principle is an extremely dense book that has you wading through medical trauma, abusive relationships, and a majorly emotionally taxing undertaking.

If this book had been YA, maybe some of it would have been better? The two main characters were just so awful! It is actually offensive in many parts, and I wouldn't recommend this to anyone.

Some of the stories were good, most were meh, but a few stood out as amazing. I loved A Shadow In Ember, Little Green Men, and Passing Fair and Young!

too light on the romance, too heavy on the shitty boyfriend plotline, plus add in some CW: biphobia (not supported by the MC, but still everpresent) and sexual assault

Political thrillers are not my typical genre, but this was a lot of fun to read!

I was happily surprised with this poetry collection! I haven’t found modern poetry enjoyable, so to learn that this was published in 2009 took me aback! I enjoyed every single one and will definitely seek out more of this poet’s work!

Well there wasn’t much mystery, definitely no thriller… there was maybe a romance? The book technically had a beginning middle and end, though I think it focused more on making country music name drops and less on… idk, a plot? If this is what Jimmy Patz writes, I’m not sure how he’s gotten this popular, you’d think one of his ghost writers would be doing better work on such a big name publication! Better luck next time I suppose.

A goofy book that was perhaps longer than necessary. It was fun enough, nonetheless.

This book had a rough start, but really picked up by the middle of the story and managed to deliver the message effectively and with a lot of heart in the end. I’m glad the characters ended up the way they do and while I will forever wish all the characters had been queer, it was perfectly cute for a straight-led story.

Would have been 4 stars, but apparently the author didn’t even have someone check her Spanish grammar??? If you’re going to write within a culture outside of your own, the bare minimum is getting the language grammar & spell checked by someone from inside the culture imo.