Reviews and Comments

This was absolutely incredible!! The wild and random plot threads through out the book were my perfect kind of batshit crazy and all the characters have my heart forever. Emily Henry is 100% my favorite romance writer currently, I don’t know what she’s sprinkling into the pages of her books, but it’s wonderful. One of the easiest 5 star ratings of my life, loved every second.

This was a good mix of heartfelt family connection and good old-fashioned YEARNING. Not life changing, and it took me a while it finish it. Some of the characters I feel like could have been fleshed out more, and Florence gave me some Liz Buxaum vibes at times traumatic flashback but overall pretty solid and entertaining romance novel.

This was WAY too high fantasy for my tiny little brain. The romance was cute, the lore was fire, the maps were beautiful, Jase has rizz. But I had 0 idea what was going on in this book most of the time, and sometimes I was just like “here for the vibes” but other times i was so lost I considered DNFing (a war crime) soooo very mixed bag.

This series keeps getting better and better. I appreciate that the love triangle is FINALLY resolved in this book, so we can just have a cute little romance sub-plot (which btw I think was actually really incredibly written I know YA romances can be shallow but I think this one was wonderful.) And the plot just went all sorts of crazy in the last 150 pages, but I’m so here for it. 4.5 stars! I love this series to death, it’s so readable. Definitely a rec for people still getting in to reading!

My best explanation for why this book didn’t work for me is as follows. I think How High We Go In The Dark was meant to be consumed by me in a slow intellectual manner, while sipping a cup of earl gray tea as I take the time to read a couple pages every day. Intstead I rage-read this in around 24 hours while inhaling a package of Oreos. That may be a bad explanation to why this genuinely beautiful book just won’t click in my brain, but it is the only reasoning I seem to have.

LETS BE CLEAR. By no stretch is Josh anything other than a massive red flag. But like…I was over here kicking my feet like “WHAT he’s not stalking her for over a year and threatening to kill anyone who looks at her?” (Cough cough Alex from the first book) The parts of the story that didn’t center around the romance I also thought were really well done and somewhat interesting. So I think just because Josh wasn’t pulling an Alex Volkov and because the B plot kinda slayed here I am giving it 3 stars. The bar is in hell for this book series, truly. (I’m probably gonna read the 4th one🥲)

Taking a break bc Bunny was making me slump and reading possibly the dumbest book in existence instead😀

This was so cute! Beautiful illustrations along with some things that I will 100% take with me as I continue to traverse through life❤️

AWWWW. THIS WAS ADORABLE. AND HILARIOUS. AND SIMPLY AMAZING IN EVERY WAY. The banter, plot, writing, characters, and the dialogue were all written amazingly. Humor in this book is also handled so well, and I was cackling and smiling at every other sentence, and I know a book is good when it makes me look like crazy person in public:) The old gay British ladies, brought warmth into the iceberg that is often my heart, and just the pure love that Eve and Jacob share is beautiful in a way that’s somehow simultaneously wonderfully down to earth, and also straight out of a fairytale. Possibly the best part of this story though, was the way being neurodivergent was represented and written! The different representations of autism and ADHD were amazing, and I think I relate to Jacob a little too much…Top-tier book, this was incredible!

This book had me looking longingly at my bookshelf, daydreaming about reading literally anything else. I honestly just don’t think the writing style was for me. There was no plot, no likable characters, and the whole book just felt like a fever dream. I feel like the author was trying to say something about feminisim and art, but it didn’t hit for me at all.

The slight bit of boredom I felt while reading about the work/office sub-plot took this a tiny bit down from 5 stars. THIS BOOK WAS STILL INCREDIBLE THO. Both main characters were actually incredibly likable, which was kind of like a breath of fresh air after all the morally grey characters I’ve read as of late. Iwan and Lemons love story is SO TENDER AND SWEET, I CANNOT. I strive to have a love story like that, this was such a silly little treat.

This was very interesting…the book touches on things like the art world, mental health, rich people, and even the simple act of lying, and brings in such beautifully written and very interesting ideas about all of those things. The writing was so good, I was literally thinking and talking in the style it’s written in for a while. But the characters were insufferable, and I got kind of bored in the middle, so I think 3.5 stars is a good rating.