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Review: Write Me For You - Tillie Cole

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Review: Write Me For You - Tillie Cole - July 2025 I've learned to strategically plan my Tillie Cole reading sessions. This book? It required the fortress of my bedroom, door closed, tissues within reach. Because while I'm not typically a crier when it comes to books, Cole has this uncanny ability to crack open my chest and reach straight for my heart. Twice in this story, I found myself with tears streaming down my face—not delicate, single-tear moments, but full waterworks. Write Me For You transported me back to my eleven-year-old self, sprawled across my bed in the late '90s, devouring Lurlene McDaniel novels and learning that young adult fiction could break your heart in the most beautiful ways. Tillie Cole has crafted a story that carries that same bittersweet ache, but with her own signature touch. We meet June Scott, a young woman whose cancer refuses to respond to treatment. Enrolling in an experimental drug trial at a ranch, she encounters Jesse, Chris, and Emm...

Review: A Court of Wings and Ruin - Sarah J. Maas

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      Review: A Court of Wings and Ruin - Book #3 ACOTAR Series - Sarah J. Maas - May 2017 This series and author is one of my reading goals for 2024, I am aiming to complete all of her titles and I have been given from a fellow bookstagrammer, a reading order that combines all three of her series as some of them interweave and have crossovers of characters. In ACOWAR, I didn't go into this one with high expectations as unfortunately book #2 felt a bit of a slog reading for me. I got there but it wasn't a favourite, especially after reading the first book which was a 5-star read. This one, however, was a good read and more action-packed as the war with Hybern was coming up quickly and we read as some of the high courts of Prythian banded together to fight against Hybern - the evil human King.  Tamlin can go suck it as he's just a petulant fae who throws tantrums as Feyre wanted Rhysand and not him. I did love the fact that Lucian followed Feyre instead of staying wit...