Susan’s Book Blog

Paris Daillencourt Is About To Crumble by Alexis Hall Pub Date: Nov 1, 2022 🍰  3.5 stars out of 5 🍰   Despite having been warned that this book wasn’t a romance or a romcom (those are debatable) and that the anxiety rep was intense, I still feel underprepared for what this book was. (Not that I even *know* what it was.) I feel almost unable to assess it properly after just one read-through. My opinion of it changed drastically several times while reading as I adjusted and readjusted my expectations. I’m not sure I can give a coherent or meaningful opinion on it right now. I’m also not sure I want to reread it so…  🤷🏻‍♀️  But I’ll do my best to come up with a review that says more than “…it was okay?”  The TV show characters are all back and even more enjoyable than the first go-round (in Rosaline Palmer Takes the Cake), in my opinion. The on-set animosity between host Grace Forsythe and producer Jennifer Hallett is great. Not really sure why but I enjoyed th...

  The Sizzle Paradox by Lily Menon This book is out TODAY! Read my full review of it HERE 📋 🗒 📊 👩🏼‍🏫  Cute, fairly run-of-the-mill contemporary romance. The writing is a little cheesy and so is the basic premise but it’s also charming and the love story is sweet. I liked the academic setting and I loved Lyric & Kian’s friendship. I was definitely rooting for them! I thought how the story came to a head in the final parts of the third act was well done and compelling. The grand gesture was sweet and the epilogue was so great. dual POV academic setting friends to lovers fake dating  “we need to get it out of our systems” Very cute and enjoyable! 3.5 stars out of 5 Thanks to NetGalley and the publisher for providing the digital arc.

 Happy Pub Day to this sweet YA/college time loop romance by Rachel Lynn Solomon (with the prettiest cover ever)! Click here  to read my original review! 

  See You Yesterday by Rachel Lynn Solomon Publishing May 17, 2022 3.5 stars out of 5 From the author of Today Tonight Tomorrow comes a magical romance in the vein of Groundhog Day about a girl forced to relive her disastrous first day of college—only to discover that her nemesis is stuck in the time loop with her. ⌛⌛⌛ This could be called Barrett Bloom and the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Day. It’s her first day at college and… everything has gone wrong. Not just wrong. Epically, disastrously bad. The day culminates in her nearly burning a frat house down. But luckily (or not) when she wakes up the next day, it’s not the next day. It’s the same day as before. She gets a do over. But Barrett needs a redo for more than just her first day of college. She’s kind of running from her past, which adds an extra element of interest to the story and some emotional weight. Barrett is smart and witty but her brusk demeanor eventually got on my nerves a bit. She tends to be somewhat h...