Eileen’s Comments (group member since Nov 29, 2020)

Eileen’s comments from the Between The Pages group.

Team: Villains
Book Name: The Lightning-Struck Heart
Pages: 451
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Prompt: TROPES Love Triangle
Extras: Finished TROPES category

Sylvs (NOVELty Reads) wrote: "Oooh good job! Under the Whispering Door was one of my favourite books of 2021 so I'm glad you liked it :) I'm working my way through tropes and am doing some reviews soon to post along with fresh new entries. I'm also reading If This Gets Out by Sophie Gonzales and Cale Dietrich and I'm really enjoying it so far even though I'm only 50 pages in. Hoping to finish it in the next few days"

I read Only Mostly Devastated and Perfect on Paper by Sophie Gonzales and enjoyed them both. I'll have to check out If This Gets Out.

Team: Villains
Book Name: The Munchkins
Pages: 306
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Prompt: n/a
Extras: n/a

Sarah D wrote: "I've read a bunch of books but haven't written reviews for them yet so keep delaying posting them in our Finished thread. Enjoying a lot of graphic novels and am about to start Squire by Sara Alfageeh and Nadia Shammas.

Can't believe we're more than halfway through March!"

I know--it's crazy! I'm going to end up finishing the first four categories, but I only will have a handful of Aesthetics and Places complete. It's been fun though!

Okay, for the TROPES category, I am reading the following and just need to do my reread of The Lightning-Struck Heart to finish, which is absolutely hysterical if like TJ Klune's type of humor (I do) in order to finish. So far, People We Meet on Vacation and Under the Whispering Door are my favorites. To me, they are both about finding your family/home. The other romances were okay, but not nearly as good. I'm rereading Lightning-Struck Heart but this time I'm going to listen to it, since I heard really good reviews of the audiobook.

Enemies to Lovers (The Spanish Love Deception)
Fake Dating (The Love Hypothesis)
Chosen One (Wild Magic, Tamora Pierce)
Only One Bed (The Hating Game)
Forced Proximity (In Broad Strokes)
Friends to Lovers (People We Meet on Vacation)
Love Triangle (The Lightning-Struck Heart)
Found Family (Under the Whispering Door)

Team: Villains
Book Name: People We Meet On Vacation
Pages: 384
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Prompt: TROPES Friends-to-lovers
Extras: n/a

Team: Villains
Book Name: The Love Hypothesis
Pages: 384
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Prompt: TROPES Fake Dating
Extras: n/a

Team: Villains
Book Name: Murder on the Orient Express
Pages: 275
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Prompt: n/a
Extras: n/a

Team: Villains
Book Name: The Spanish Love Deception
Pages: 487
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Prompt: TROPES Enemies to Lovers
Extras: n/a

Sylvs (NOVELty Reads) wrote: "Oooh that's awesome! I really want to read more in other languages but sometimes it's hard to find copies in the library"

I'm lucky that my library has a decent selection and some are digital!

I just completed the GENRE category with Mythos, by Stephen Fry. If you're a fan of the Greek Myths, this is a series worth checking out. He doesn't go into depth into any of the stories, but just gives us the key points of as many as possible. I found it very entertaining and enjoyed listening to him as usual.

Team: Villains
Book Name: Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined
Pages: 427
Review: Mythos: The Greek Myths Reimagined
Prompt: GENRE Mythology
Extras: Finished GENRE

Team: Villains
Book Name: Under Lock & Skeleton Key
Pages: 352
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Prompt: n/a
Extras: n/a

Team: Villains
Book Name: Rebecca
Pages: 449
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Prompt: GENRE Gothic Romance
Extras: n/a

I just completed the ALL FOR ONE category with Los Tipos Malos, which will be adapted to the screen this year. I've been trying to incorporate more children's books in Spanish into my reading since I'm a beginning learner and saw that it was being adapted. It was actually quite entertaining and perhaps even funnier in Spanish, in part because I didn't know some of the exclamations. The illustrations were also humorous. I probably wouldn't bother reading this series in English, but I am finding it fun to read in Spanish.

Team: Villains
Book Name: Los tipos malos
Pages: 144
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Prompt: ALL FOR ONE Will be Adapted this year
Extras: Finished ALL FOR ONE

Team: Villains
Book Name: Great or Nothing
Pages: 400
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Prompt: n/a
Extras: n/a

Team: Villains
Book Name: Death on the Nile
Pages: 373
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Prompt: PLACES Egypt
Extras: n/a

Team: Villains
Book Name: The Secret of Glendunny: The Haunting
Pages: 302
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Prompt: n/a
Extras: n/a

Team: Villains
Book Name: The Return of Sherlock Holmes
Pages: 455
Review: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show...
Prompt: ALL FOR ONE Anthology
Extras: n/a