If We Were Villains

Book: If We Were Villains

Author: M. L. Rio

Review: Rio explores a different approach than Tartt in her book which is about how seven students who are friends from within their college manage to get themselves into trouble. Rio starts us off with a simple friendship that grows sour by the time one of their friends end up dead in a lake near a boathouse. What seems like a murder mystery becomes a tale of sacrifice and death as the student makes a final decision to sacrifice his life for his best friend into college. Rio gives us a collective of his memories after he comes out of prison and in between parts gives us his testimony of how much had happened at his local college which makes it a Tartt-esque reading experience.

Star Rating : 5 of 5

Spice rating : 1 of 5

Book Recommendation : Yes/To those who love mysteries and college conspiracies.

Thoughts:

• A mysterious death.
• Something a little different yet Tartt-esque.
• The perfect cliffhanger.
• Crime and sacrifice.

A Curse for True Love

Book: A Curse for True Love

Author : Stephanie Garber

Review: The Valory Arch is open and Evangeline had fallen under a curse that had erased her memories from the previous two books in the trilogy. What had seemed like a happy ending with a prince turns into a nightmare and Evangeline searches her memories that the prince had taken. On Jacks’s search for true love he finally finds a happily ever after and so does Evangeline.

Star Rating : 5 of 5

Spice rating : 1 of 5

Book Recommendation : Yes/To those who love fairytales, true love, and romance.

Thoughts:

• A beautiful fairytale.
• True love always wins!!
• Looking forward to more fates, curses, apples and kisses for true love.
• #TeamJacks

The Ballad of Never After

Book: The Ballad of Never After

Author : Stephanie Garber

Review: Garber weaves a fairytale of forbidden love, secrets and a wanted conclusion to this trilogy. The second book to the Once Upon a Broken Heart series gives us the villain who has become the hero to Evangeline Fox. Unexpectedly, the prince is under a curse and Evangeline is saved from ferocious vampires and accursed princes by the unlikely cold and uncaring Jacks. She faces the magick of the Magnificent North as she looks for the stones to open the arch. An enemies to star-crossed lovers fairytale, it will leave the reader enchanted and charmed and deliberately left to wait for the third book within the trilogy.

Star Rating : 5 of 5

Spice rating : 1 of 5

Book Recommendation : Yes/To those who love fairytales, beloved villains and romance.

Thoughts:

• A twistingly stunning fairytale.
• Certainly, a beautiful ballad.
• Leaves the reader waiting to hear more.
• Leaves the reader to question about the third book and how the fairytale will end.