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May, 2023

May Wrap Up

I have mentioned this before on Instagram, but I have had a difficult time this month with feeling unwell and have therefore found it very hard to stay focused enough to read, but I am proud of managing three books. To perk myself up, I did order eight new books. I have no idea where I am putting them, but they are very pretty, and I am excited to get started on them!

I also joined the #EightBookBash challenge, which is where you choose eight books off of your physical TBR (To Be Read) to read before the end of the year, and I am so happy with being able to fit If I Stay in before the end of this month.

None of the books this month really stood out to me, but I think my favourite would have to be The Pleasures of Autumn, purely for the growth of Sinead, and I look forward to her short story that I will read in the upcoming months.

I still have not decided yet, but what will be your first book for June?

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May, 2023

REVIEW: If I Stay by Gayle Forman

Rating: 3 out of 5.

If I Stay is a Young Adult novel by Gayle Forman, the first in the If I Stay duology. This book covers just over twenty-four hours of Mia Hall, a seventeen-year-old cellist’s afterlife. Mia is stuck in a limbo state after her world is thrown off kilter due to a tragic car accident. The world exists as it always has, but she is stuck watching as her body is treated at the hospital and her family and friends gather in the hope that she will wake from her comatose state. But her life will never be the same as it was; everything has been taken from her, and all she is left with is a possible choice. Whether it is hers or not to make, she still has to decide if she should stay or go.

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May, 2023

REVIEW: First Date by Naomi Love

Rating: 3 out of 5.

First Date is Naomi Love’s debut Erotic Romance, the first short story in her trilogy, Three Dates. Lerato is desperate to go into the new year with some ‘experience’ under her belt. As a hard-working medical student, she has not had the time or the courage to venture on her sexual awakening journey. With her head stuck flitting in and out of her fantasies, she finally takes the plunge into online dating. At twenty years of age, Lerato has her first date, with a man who lives in her darkest desires, but will Ruben be far more than she has bargained for—or is he exactly what she craves?

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