Hello readers! Today’s post is a wrap up for the months of March and May. I wasn’t really sure what to call it, so I decided on Spring.

Next month, I am going back to my wrap ups for just one month at a time. How has everyone’s reading gone this year so far? Mine has been good quality-wise. Unfortunately, March happened to not be a quality type of month.

March

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The Family Remains is the sequel to The Family Upstairs. I personally don’t think it needed to exist. It has to be my least favorite book by this author that I’ve finished.

We are following many different perspectives in this books. In book one, we follow a girl named Libby who was adopted as a baby and is just learning on her 25th birthday that she was left a bunch of money and a house by her birth parents. She slowly comes to learn that 3 people died in the house and the children went missing, other than her.

In this one, a detective is investigating a murder he things is connected to what happened in that house all those years ago. If you’ve read book one, you can probably guess what happened to this person. AND we already learned about Lucy’s ex in the previous book, so I don’t think Rachel’s perspective was necessary.

That whole plot with Henry was so…odd. I really thought we were going somewhere we weren’t with his character and that let me down so much. This book wasn’t really a mystery or thriller like book one, it was more of a family drama with things that weren’t wrapped up in the previous book.

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Restore Me was such a roller coaster. As far as the politics, I was enjoying that part. However, Juliette is an absolute mess. She would be upset at someone for not telling her things or keeping secrets, which is fair. THEN, they would tell her things and she would do one of two things. One, she would physically run away, or two, she would tell them she was tired of hearing them speak. Does she want to be told secrets or not? Not even Juliette knows.

She was so upset to find out the love interest had a girlfriend before her. I hate that sort of behavior. It feels very controlling and abusive. She is truly unhinged in multiple ways and she needs to reel that in very soon.

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May

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Yellowface was a wild ride. I saw I got this on Libby right after it came out and I had to read it!

This book really showcased the issues that POC authors face in publishing today, from the perspective of a white author. Too often famous people will be held accountable for something they did that was racist, or otherwise problematic, and they won’t just say they are sorry. This white lady is the embodiment of those people.

This book was unputdownable for me and that ending was crazy! I haven’t actually read anything from this author before. This book is completely out of her wheelhouse, as far as genre goes. As soon as I’m up to reading fantasy again, I’ll have to check her other books out!

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I genuinely wanted to like this and finish it, but I just couldn’t Don’t get me wrong, the story was good! It follows a girl name Jade, who is visiting her paternal family in Vietnam. It’s very similar to books like Mexican Gothic and What Moves the Dead.

However, I had to DNF around the half-way point because of the body horror. What Moves the Dead has body horror, but this one involved bugs. Liek, bugs inside of the body. I couldn’t do it! If you are okay with body horror and bugs, please read this!

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