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Your Fault: 2 (Culpable)

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The start of this book is slow burn. It gives a lot of wonderful little gems as it shows you about the characters. While I generally like a faster burn however this just had something to it that made it very interesting. Daniela loves to write poetry but stays secretive about this passion of hers. Rinn is a bookish content creator who loves to read, and that's something I was so so happy to see because who doesn't want to see their enthusiasm being reflected in a story they read? My dramatic self would say I almost cried when Rinn talked about how fulfilling content creation can be but also comes with the struggle of always being online, always engaging, always keeping up one's numbers, and always feeling a sense of pressure from the community and audience itself. It didn’t tell me any of the things I wanted it to and I just wanted to yell DO WHAT MAKES SENSE AND IS ALSO INTERESTING FUN AND/OR EXCITING...PLEASE I BEG OF YOU… I'm not 100% sure how a book that has so many blatant similarities isn't being pegged for plagiarism. So, massive spoilers ahead, but.... oh well. You've been warned. I will admit that Grace put me off quite a bit. I felt that she wasn't a person I would want to deal with.

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The authors voice is very clear in this story and I can tell from his style and intelligent wordplay that he connects with his characters and their struggles, observing human behaviour, passing what he sees on to the reader. there are many things i liked about the book, and among them, my favorite has got to be the ending. i’m sure that the author has put a lot of thought into it, because while it’s not the one i was expecting, it was very realistic and perfectly done. N2 - Set in a 1960s English new town, Your Fault charts one boy’s childhood from first memory to first love. A year older in each chapter, Peter’s story is told to him by his future self as he attempts to recreate the optimism and futurism of the 1960s, and to reveal how that utopianism fares as it emerges into the Seventies. It’s an untold story of British working class experience, written with extraordinary precision and tenderness. If you don’t need an engineer, our brilliant UK and Ireland based team will call you within 30 minutes to help solve your issue. I was getting weary of the book about half way through as I started to find it very repetitive. Grace was repeatedly being asked to do unreasonable & unrealistic tasks at work but didn’t feel she could say anything because of her probationary period.Your broadband speed can vary for the first 10 days after connection as your line adjusts. Use our troubleshooter if you’re experiencing slow speed after this time. I experienced a rollercoaster of emotions reading this, which is fitting because a regular day working at Wild Nights turned into a rollercoaster of events happening one after another.

All Your Fault by N.J. Moss | Goodreads All Your Fault by N.J. Moss | Goodreads

Many thanks to the publisher, macmillan, for sending me a free ARC in exchange for an honest review From TikTok and Wattpad sensation Mercedes Ron comes the English translation of the next in the hit Culpable series, a delicious and angsty enemies-to-lovers romance. This would have to be my favourite Safi book. I loved it from the very beginning. The characters were all different and well rounded. I liked that their differences brought them together and how the unlikeliest people make the best friends. This spans over a day in an independent bookstore that’s being lost to financial greed. But it’s also so much more than that, it’s about personal struggle and the struggles that we can’t see that people go through inside of themselves and that they hide from everyone else. There is humour and passionate personalities and who all feel that this bookstore is their second home. Their home away from home. And I absolutely loved the setting of the bookstore. I think that the author did an amazing job at truly making this bookstore come to life. It was almost like it was its own character and I loved the fact that we had all of these very different characters who came together to tell its story. You guys, I cannot make this up. I am literally shaking, I am so angry. Empire Records is one of my favorite movies of ALL TIME. I know the movie scene by scene by scene. I cannot fathom how this book got through dozens and dozens of readers, editors, etc and nobody said, "Hey, this is too much like the movie and is treading on dangerous ground."Set in Bristol, Grace Addington little sister Hope wasn't suppose to die on her pink bike but she had no chance against a speeding bullet of a car. Her courageous little sister. Grace saw it all happen, the hit and run, it's all my fault, it should have been me instead. One of my favourite aspects of the story is Rinn and the fact that she has a pretty huge social media platform talking about books. I feel like we have gotten so many YA stories about characters who love books and/or who are writers but I cannot remember ever reading about someone who is a "bookish influencer". It was genuinely SO MUCH FUN to read about Rinn and her creative process for making content. The story doesn't end up quite exactly like Empire Records (even though there is an employee dance party on the roof), but the majority of the book made me feel a little (at first) like I was reading Empire Records Fan-Fic...then it just became "I think I'm reading Empire Records...with minor changes. WTF is even happening right now?" our main character trio consists of rinn, a sweet girly girl who seems to radiate positivity 24/7 but is secretly dealing with anxiety, imogen, a feisty and honest badass who loves poetry and is learning to cope with her depression, and daniela, a bossy tough cookie who keeps her feelings to herself all the time and pours her heart into her writing. in short, they appear to be as different as can be, but are actually more alike than they think. the story begins with the girls disliking each other, but as it progresses, they get to know each other better and eventually form a sisterhood of sorts. this process was so well written and natural, and i loved seeing the three girls slowly warm up to each other and pool their talents together for the sake of the bookstore!

This Is All Your Fault by Aminah Mae Safi | Goodreads This Is All Your Fault by Aminah Mae Safi | Goodreads

A story set in the midst of books, the incredible aura of a bookstore is well portrayed through the beautiful decorations, the shelves, and the heart-warming vibe of regulars and newcomers finding their own solace and meaning in this place. The underutilised time space of twenty-fours to play out a story is cute little bow to everything, especially since it's brought down to just the working hours of a store and makes you even more pleasantly surprised to see how such tremendous emotional progress and events were made in such small time frame. But she's soon having second thoughts about the job. The work is okay, even though it's more like busy work that anything else. The other employees seem to be under the impression that she's done something to get this job. And she feels that someone is following her. Overall, I had a really good time reading this story. I don't think it is anything that will stay with me for a long time but there is also nothing that I actively disliked about it.

I did not see the twist coming which is always a bonus reading a thriller, my only criticism if I were to give one would be the "action" part and twist could have gone on longer and filled quite a bit more of the book. In general while I truly didn't feel very attached to these character because of the nature of this story and the short time span, I just genuinely adored the way these characters were portrayed as flawed but willing to learn and grow. Some of these characters are truly unlikeable but it doesn't make them any less enjoyable to read about. The story moves on 17 years and still with a strained relationship with her mother, Grace is married to Troy who works in insurance and they have two children, Mia aged 10 and Russ aged 5. Russ is starting school and Grace has her first job interview, a part time PA post that pays very well. The interview didn’t go too well, or so she thought, but she lands the job anyway. It turns out to be a bit strange and she soon finds herself going above and beyond her job description. Is her new boss taking advantage of her need to keep a well paid job by working her all the hours or does he have an ulterior motive? As she becomes more stressed and tired, she starts to worry that she is being followed. Could it be her imagination – after all her grandmother was schizophrenic and killed herself in a horrific manner – or is there another kind of madness at work? I feel really privileged to have received an ARC of All Your Fault in return for an independent review. This was so skillfully done I couldn’t be sure, and the ending is absolutely one I wouldn’t have seen coming in a million years. A definite ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️ from me.

Your Fault by Mercedes Ron - Penguin Books Australia Your Fault by Mercedes Ron - Penguin Books Australia

The entire concept of an independent bookstore closing down due to an apparent financial crisis so a parking lot can be constructed on the same grounds is a prime example of the current scenario around bookstores losing a battle against online retailers, technology, and the mere hunger for money by some selfish personas.

The star of this novel is surely the relationship developing between these three girls. They were not friends at the beginning of the novel, so I really liked how their friendship developed, and I think their differing dynamics were handled super well, and provided really great foundation for their friendship. This became a prominent focus in the second half of the book and it totally made the book for me. As this was set during the course of one day, I really liked the fact that some of the side-relationships were pre-established, it really helped to contextualize the characters. I also wasn’t the hugest fan of Rinn’s character, mostly due to the fact that she was a booktuber. I find stories about social media really tiring, and they never feel organic or realistic to me, and it was no different here. Maybe it’s due to the fact that I spend so much time in the online book community as a blogger, but I just found any mention of that aggravating. For example, Rinn would talk about how she is always thinking of things in terms of lighting and what would look good on a photo, and I just kind of rolled my eyes at that.

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