"a boy you like should never make you that confused."
pgs: 243
heard: april 21-22, 2022
book: 13 in 2022
THOUGHTS
this one was cute. well, yea it was cute.
it's just a simple (well not simple like, whatever) story about two college kids who totally like each other but don't know how to make it work until the end when they finally do.
I liked that there was a 14 point view of their love story from friends to a bench and a squirrel. it didnt feel idk like it deviated from the main point of the story to have so many people. mostly cus everyone sort of knows each other so its easy to follow. the teacher kinda pissed me off cus she was hella anti Hilary and while she could be annoying at times i in no way feel like her anger was ever justified towards Hil. tooo much for the little couples game you play.
there is reason to why Gabe is shy girl with homegirl but i mean, everything takes its time. i was just happy that there was an explanation for it. even if it does take til the end of the book.
this is a quick cute listen too.
super quick spoilers below because there really isnt anything to spoil other than as to why Gabe was shy girl.
SPOILERS
gabe was in a car accident that caused him to lose his hearing. he didnt have the courage to tell Leah specially because he was in denial himself. so every time that she would talk to him, she'd basically place herself on his bad side so he couldn't reply to her because he couldn't hear her. in the end he finally realizes that he needs to get his shit together and he tells her and the ending is them beginning basically <3
"confrontation is not my style, i have learned that watching is the most powerful weapon."
- Concierge
pub: 2022
pgs: 360
heard: april 8-11, 2022
book: 12 in 2022
"Clueless is dangerous. its makes you vulnerable."
-Jess
THOUGHTS
oooooh this one was a dooozy.
i was over it but i couldnt get enough! and then when it was all revealed i was like woah! i wish it would have been over literally probably anything else but lucy makes it work and well if you arent a fan of what its all about, well at least the twists get you....i think.
its like woah! unfortunately, i cannot say much because even a little would be to spoil the book.
before you get to this book, DO THE AUDIO!!!!!!!!!!!!
i put it on hold at the library expecting to wait mooonths but it came in soon and i dove right in and im glad i went this route because there is a lot of french and it was pretty nice to have it read to me properly. unless im telling you my name, that i'm american and that i want a sandwich please, im doomed.
did you see it? how its all - how they're - gah! see, spoilery! i mean, i didnt see it but i was not surprised when it was revealed. it makes sense. people with money aren't that good at sharing.
"those who have the most money are often the most close fisted about handing it over."
- Sophie
everything starts kinda unfolding like 80% in but it makes you appreciate some of the work put in before. i just wasnt a fan of like how easy it all was for Jess. shes in another city, doesnt speak the language, has nowhere to stay (as in like she was supposed to be fucked but still gets in) but saves the day like nothing. and Ben, what an asshole. here he is pushing Jess away every chance possible and here she is chasing after him. all the time. i get it, its family, you dont just leave them behind but Ben made little effort to like make sure Jess was even alive and she continues to idolize him no matter how bad he treats her. yikes. it felt kinda like "keep trying no matter how hard people push you away."
also, jess! dude. why was she written to basically want to sleep with EVERY DUDE THAT HELPS HER IN THE STORY! lol. did you notice that? Theo. Nick. some random dude walking by.....all of the people! and BEN! well, lets not get started there.
it was cool, I liked it, I appreciate the groundwork lucy laid down on this one even if for as serious as the overall story is, jess was written to just get all the bingo cards that were called out with not one ounce of trouble.
but please note that as i "finish this up" on the 3rd of may, my appreciation of this book just keeps growing more and more the more i think about the work put in. definitely liked this one.
on to the next book!
SPOILERS
so i wrote the spoilers then i went back to look at my notes and LOL! i forgot a lot and i messed some stuff up (for example who "killed" ben). im still leaving what i wrote but i am adding an upload of the last notes pg that i took. towards the end i summarize (i took 8 pgs worth of notes) the entire thing. i am leaving what i wrote wrong up because its fascinating to me how the mind works/remembers.
let me make some things up above a little more clear now that i had a refresher. (LOL IM A MESSS!!!!!)
when they were in college or idk Ben met Nick, Nick spilled the beans about his family and then went down on Ben.
years later Ben hits nick up and this foo thinks its love.
blah blah blah, Nick realizes what ben is up to, so after hesitation he calls his dad, Jack, to let him know that his golden boy ben is just a shit (his dad was basically in love with ben because he was what his own son's would never be.)
so jack is the one who kills ben (not mimi like i mention below).
by the time mimi sees jack trying to kill ben she already knows the truth about her family and that ben is actually sleeping with Sofie. (bro, in this book ben sleeps and is wanted by all and jessica wants to fuck all the dudes that help her...) so anyway, mimi attacks and kills jack. sofie lies to nick and antoine and tells them that its bens body but in reality, it was their father they are burrying.
sofie kept ben barely alive in some idk room that jess had seen the door to but ignored (this happens 17% into the audiobook and i even made a note of it. i had knowns all along!)
and uh yeah.
bens alive and the winery was a cover up for a brothel situation that was staffed with women basically being held hostage.
jess and ben manage to save all the ladies and give them monies to make it out alive but of course they pimp out their freedom for a little fee.
now below is how my mind remembers it.
NAME KEY (I left my notes at home and I'm too lazy to goback and change things so they will be named as follows):
sofie - sofie (didn't forget her name). It's Sophie. Lmao.
dude 1 (divorced dude) - Antoine
dude 2 (lame dude) - Nick
nervous girl - Mimi
roommate - Camille
wife - idr her name but shes dude 1's now ex wife
dad - Jack
Theo - he was Ben's "boss". Jess calls him to see if he knows where Ben is at and somehow these 2 turn into Scooby-Doo and shaggy even tho they only talk once and he of course ends up being a p.o.s. he's in and out the story but I'm not mentioning him below so I'm getting him outta the way here.
basically....
everyone who lived in the apts is related.
sofie marries jack.
The two dudes are brothers (dude 1 is divorced dude, dude 2 is lame dude). nervous girl with the roommate is their step sister.)
except they all play like they don't know each other.
the reason that Ben went back after 1000 years is because he remembered the story dude #2 told him about his father (and tbh, I should have seen it then because ❗️) & he had started piecing things together (i was wrong here. he already knew), he had also promised to help some other homegirl out. anyway so he starts piecing things together and just as his bad sister Jess shows up he goes missing. (the reason jess is on the run from her job is because her boos flashed her his penis so she stole all the money from the register while he was in the shitter. lucy made it seem like it was worse but i mean, her reaction, meh, not that bad! anyway...)
She lets herself in after she sees dude #1 fighting with his wife and sees him punch in his code. everyone tells her to leave but she gives no fucks.
All this drama.
it turns out that dad who claims to have a very profitable wine company is actually running a prostitution ring. every girl is labeled after a wine so clients can order as is and then they can do to them as they please. that's what Jess had seen in those weird ass invoices.
anyway.
Sofie.
Sofie was dad's bottom bitch, dude!
homegirl started from the bottom now she here.
ben was back in dude # 2s life because he wanted to expose his family. And he was writing an article about it.
Ben flirts with nervous girl, she blows it out of proportion, swears they are in love even though they have never spoken more than two words. so after forever she's planning sexy night and sneaks in to his place. She finds his journal where she finally realizes the truth about her family.
not only that but she's not sofies actual daughter.
nervous girl is the daughter of one of the women who worked, well was kept against her will at the uhm place. I think her mother was killed or she died during child birth. I don't remember. any way, I think she like blacks out and she's the one that "kills" Ben. (once again i was wrong. she does not black out. she sees her "father" jack try to kill him so she kills jack defending ben).
In reality, Ben wasn't killed. He was being held hostage in some attic or some shit barely alive. and the reason he was being kept alive is because he was hooking up with sooooofiiie!!!!!!!!!!! and she was down for him.
uhm and uh, the person that the 2 dudes buried was actually their dad. I forgot how sofie caught him (i forgot how sofie catches mimi and all that mah bad) but his own damn kids burry him. Cold blooded
Uhm and yea.
Shit gets exposed and yea.
Oh and the Concierge was actually nervous girls grandma. I know she gets knocked the fuck out but I think she gets killed? Idk. I gotta check my notes. (i was wrong again, she runs away)
But basically that's the gist of it.
OH!!!!
remember divorce dude. Lol his wife left him for nervous girls roommate. 😂
"just because something ends doesn't mean it didn't have value."
pub: 2020
pages: 308
heard: 8/23-24/2021
book: 28 in 2021
SYNOPSIS
THOUGHTS
well i went into this one not having read the synopsis so i genuinely had no idea what to expect but i figured it was something along the lines of "he's guna try to fuck her over but she's guna end up on top in the end" and whadaya know? i was right?
THOUGHTS
well i went into this one not having read the synopsis so i genuinely had no idea what to expect but i figured it was something along the lines of "he's guna try to fuck her over but she's guna end up on top in the end" and whadaya know? i was right?
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its now 5/1/2022 and i probably wrote that around the time that i had finished the book; here we are now months later.
i sort of remember the story but what i do remember the most is that i still feel like this is very "meh" of Swanson. i had to go back to my post about this and apparently i liked it but the end left me very over it. like it fucked with me (maybe because i went into this one blind) but it ended bland. his last few books have just not been it for me.
this one wasnt bad. its just all that just to end like that?
idk.
over it. just tryina get all my posts out.
i still love swanson tho! (luckily i got all the spoilers out! good job, me!)
SPOILERS
well i guess the biggest thing would be that Bruce is the bad guy.
essentially he is part of this club of a bunch of sad whiny bitchy men who bonded over torturing women that have done them wrong. (bruce's mom left them when he was a kid and apparently it fucked him up a whole lots).
the fucked up part is that they're the ones that set them up for failure in the first place.
like Abigail.
she randomly met this dude (the dude being Bruce) who asked her out to dinner and on the 3rd date told her "hey ya know what kid, you're the one for me even though i've never even heard you fart." and they get engaged and he's all "yo, have a bachelorette party....why noooottt.... ill set it up! and pay for everything." and of course he did.
and of course she goes.
but he also had "Scotty" (really Eric Newman) there to test her loyalty which of course she fails cause scotty beams her up if you know what i mean.
scotty "stalks" her telling her they belong together but she's all "nah, fool."
she marries bruce.
they go on their honeymoon to an island with -0 service and -0 isnt a thing so do the math. and on the first night there, homeboy doesn't even try to sleep with her. she's all whatever.
anyway, guess who is also there?
yep.
scotty.
and this dumb bitch still thinks its a coincidence. like bro.
turns out they were aaaaaaallllll in on it.
while on their honeymoon they run into the only other couple there, Alec & Jill and because im over this shit already, jill is there because Alec lured her there because she lied about being a virgin but he was also linked up with Porter who was at some point in his life engaged to jill herself but she was also set up by him with a bartender. (damn. poor girl got set up twice! by two different dudes in the same club. what are the odds?)
anyway, theres one night where ab & bruce are asleep when she hears something by the window. she goes to check and notices it was jill and she was bleeding badly. ab goes out after her but she loses her in the woods. ab goes back and tells bruce, they go to the lobby and the dude in charge of the place, Chip (i should note that of course bruce has monies in on this too) tells them that its impossible because he himself took them to the airport so they could leave home.
they bullshit her so bad. like they didnt even try.
in the end, she ends up telling bruce that she knows something is off, they fight, they pretend theyre on their way to the airport thing when Scotty (by this point in the book he's known by his real name) is all no, you and me only, im not letting Bruce take you, blah, blah, blah, all the men are in on it, they drug her, she ends up in a room with Jill, they tell each other their stories more in depth or whatever.
in the end, they come around to like a bonfire and there's men wearing masks and theyre taunting both women stating that they are whores and theres a part where bruce & alec are asked if they are ready and bruce pretends to stab Ab.
alec was supposed to pretend too but he ends up beating Jill with a rock or something.
Ab manages to get away and hides in the closet in their own bunk. her thought process was that no one would suspect that she'd go back there. but in the closet bruce had there was a hidewaway that gave her enough space to not get caught.
she debates killing him, decides not to because she wants to get away, ends up killing him, shooting scotty, killing some other dude and getting away in a kayak (and ive just learned that we have all been saying that word wrong!). when she finally crosses the ocean, water, lake, whatever the fuck (which now that i think about it, im surprised someone didnt go after her in the water?) runs into an old dude and calls the cops.
she manages to tell her story and bruce's messy ass story comes to light.
assuming they didn't seize all his money, she just made a pretty penny because he didn't make her sign a prenup.
oh, and it turns out that sposably eric, scotty, whatever killed his wife. which given that he belongs to this group, its believable.
and thats it.
in the end she notices that eric was in fact at her wedding.
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