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Technically I gave this 2.5 stars! Haha, but it's more how much I have to share about the book on whether it gets a Whine Club. And if I need to spoil it and can't talk about in my monthly recaps.

Thank you!

I so desperately wanted to be a gamer when I was kid but could barely make it past level 4 in Aladdin on Sega 🤣 I've watched my friends play Silent Hill and went to midnight showing when the movie came out though!

Happy New Year to you too! Here's hoping 2025 is filled with five-star reads!

Thank you! I really am loving this box! Might be dropping two others to make sure I can keep getting this one 😅

Thank you for watching! And thank you for the words of encouragement!

😅 You'll be happy to hear I rated a romance that I read in December 4 out of 5 stars!

Right? It's okay to describe the character or person and then move on. I'm much more interested in their actions and thoughts than what they look like. Unless they look like David Beckham, then feel free to describe him with as much detail as possible! 😄

Happy Christmas to you! I'm doing a top 10 worst reads of 2024 😅

@@sarcasticstephaniereadswrites Wine time yess

Thank you for watching! And same, I love this series. Highly recommend The Party Crasher and Twenties Girl if you haven't read those by Kinsella either! The Party Crasher reminded me of Confessions of a Shopaholic but with a whole new cast of characters. The main character Effie had major Becky Brandon (nee Bloomwood) vibes. That's a neat idea to revisit the series. I hadn't though about it, but could look at doing a Shopaholic ranking or more in-depth reviews of the books.

I have read You Shouldn't Have Come Here and did not love it because I was not expecting it to be more focused on the romance. It felt like the thrilling elements were thrown in at the end instead of being a bigger part of the plot. It could have been a great cat and mouse read, but I didn't gel with it. I do want to check out The Wife Upstairs as I do like Rachel Hawkins! Did you read it? And like it?

I just bought a Kennedy Ryan in a recent Book Outlet book buying binge! Might save it for February as a Valentine's Day read. I went with This Could Be Us!

@@sarcasticstephaniereadswrites I'm really excites to hear your thoughts on it positive or negative

That's okay to feel that way and communicate that to your partner. In this it just felt like manufactured conflict and felt like it was there to ramp up the drama instead of an actual fear the character had.

Haha, I don't think you come off as a hater! It's good that we all like different things :D I do want to give Christina Lauren another try, maybe in the summer when I can sit outside and read!

That's a good point! It is more like "Us." Also, can't stories just be their own? Do we always have to do X meets Y?

@@sarcasticstephaniereadswrites exactly!! not everything needs to be compared

Whoa, wait, what's a romance thriller?! That sounds interesting!

I'll have to check her out!

😂 It's been a rough time! I need the little things to put a smile on my face haha!

@@sarcasticstephaniereadswrites what is your favorite movie

@@PoppyMorreale Hands down it's The Mummy from 1999! Yours?

I'm sorry to hear this month has been depressing for you. Hope you're hanging in there and finding things that bring you some semblance of joy and happiness.

It was so funny! Ridiculously so!

Those are great points and I so agree that Rosalie was so full of potential and in the hands of a different author would have made for a badass heroine. She lost everything she wanted, she did not want to be a vampire, but has embraced her life (or undead state) as it is and makes the most of it. She's found a partner who is her equal, she indulges in her hobbies of fixing cars, and while she got her revenge she never fully gave into being a monster. She did not consume them to keep the men responsible for her pain with her. And the whole notion of "she's beautiful, what did she expect? Maybe she shouldn't have been so pretty." Disgusting. And yes, on Edward and his telepathy. I mean he never uses it for anything good. He could have saved Bree or at least warned her of what would happen to her. He knows the pain Rosalie has suffered and basically told Carlisle she's the worst and now they're stuck with her. I also did not love the idea that Carlisle was hoping she'd hook up with Edward... not a great reason to be saving her, my guy.

I haven't read any sci-fi thrillers recently, but I do have Wrong Place Wrong Time on my TBR, as well as The Three-Body Problem. My husband really enjoyed Dark Matter's sci-fi elements.

An author that comes to mind is Freida McFadden, but I've read her in reverse. I read her more recent work first, that was traditionally published, and enjoyed it and tried some of her other titles from early in her career and can definitely see how she's grown as a writer.

Glad to have someone corroborate it! I love getting notebooks as I hoard those like people were hoarding toilet paper during the pandemic! But I did get the email that it was an oops and it should have been stickers!

I think the books are hit or miss for me. I do like that they vary the genre so it's not the same thing month after month, but I do see this box declining in quality a bit. Which is a real shame because it has a good community. How long were you a subscriber?

The show began airing when I was 10! It might not have been until the second or third season when I watched it when it aired. I know for sure I was tuning in each week during season 3 because I remember Prue's death vividly and wondering what was going to happen. I've probably watched seasons 1-5 at least seven or eight times. I've seen season 6 twice, as it does have some good episodes. I just don't have that season downloaded like I do the others. I wouldn't mind it in my rotation, but I'm also not going to go out of my way to buy it. I watched season 7 once, and I checked out the first few episodes of 8 and noped right out of that.

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😂 that's totally okay!

Thank you! No, he's more into sci-fi or non-fiction books!

You are correct, I do not have a baby.

Haha, no, never! That was fantastic! That's a show I so wish I could watch for the first time again.

@@sarcasticstephaniereadswrites Its based off a book

I haven't but I did watch Amanda the Jedi's breakdown of it. Did you go see it?

@@sarcasticstephaniereadswrites she’s an amazing TH-camr wow you spoiled yourself with movies without watching

Tbh I don't listen to that many podcasts, but I do watch some true crime here on TH-cam. I really enjoy Just Thought Lounge's videos and Reporting Live From My Sofa!

I have not, but looking it up on Goodreads it sounds quite good! Did you read it?