ﾀﾏｻ｢ｻ昀ﾈﾓｮｷｽｷｨ 2024 Year in Books

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2024

45,418

pages read

139

books read

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In Bed with the Stablemaster by Sophie Jordan

Shortest Book

pages

Longest Book

821

pages

Average book length in 2024

326

pages

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by Victoria Schwab

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Dini - dinipandareads窶冱 average rating for 2024

4.0

Highest Rated on ﾀﾏｻ｢ｻ昀ﾈﾓｮｷｽｷｨ

4.82 average

Dini - dinipandareads窶冱 first review of the year

really liked it

If you're like me and you pick this up solely because of the cover, and you don't look at the synopsis, you might go into this thinking it'll be a cute story about... Sheets? Turns out, while there are many sheets involved, it's not at all the light-hearted cutesy story that I thought it would be. This deals with heavy themes of death, grief, belonging, and loneliness.

It's told from two main POVs, Marjorie a living girl and Wendell, a young ghost If you're like me and you pick this up solely because of the cover, and you don't look at the synopsis, you might go into this thinking it'll be a cute story about... Sheets? Turns out, while there are many sheets involved, it's not at all the light-hearted cutesy story that I thought it would be. This deals with heavy themes of death, grief, belonging, and loneliness.

It's told from two main POVs, Marjorie a living girl and Wendell, a young ghost boy. My heart hurt for Marjorie and all that she was dealing with窶杷rom the grief of losing her mother, an absent father who's lost to grief and depression, and running a family business that's being sabotaged by a nasty man. She's such a resilient character who was easy to empathise with. Wendell was also a character whose story made my heart feel heavy. He doesn't feel like he belongs in the land of ghosts and goes to the human world and lands in Marjorie's family laundromat by chance. The Land of Ghosts and the story behind the community of young ghosts who exist there with Wendell made my heart hurt even more! But I loved the way they still had fun and stuck by each other, even when they didn't always get along. I also appreciated how the author delineated between the living world in colour and the land of ghosts in monochrome. I also think that the heavy themes were handled well and touched on sensitively, if not a bit lightly. I did want a bit more depth to the story, especially Marj's interactions with the other characters in the story like her swim coach and the popular jock who rocks up out of nowhere in the end (although he has some presence from the beginning). I hope that this will be explored further in subsequent books in the series!

Also, thankfully, both our MCs' stories end on a more positive note which signifies that everything is going to be alright. Overall, if you can handle a sadder read, it's worthwhile picking it up for a wonderfully illustrated story about death, grief and belonging. I'm glad I finally read it :) ...more

DINI - DINIPANDAREADS窶儡 2024 BOOKS

Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel

it was amazing

The Places I've Cried in Public by Holly Bourne

it was amazing

The Reason I Married Him by Meghan Quinn

it was amazing

The Exception to the Rule by Christina Lauren

it was amazing

Drop, Cover, and Hold On by Jasmine Guillory

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett

Act Your Age, Eve Brown by Talia Hibbert

it was amazing

Emily Wilde's Map of the Otherlands by Heather Fawcett

Olivia and the Masked Duke by Grace Callaway

Pippa and the Prince of Secrets by Grace Callaway

Fiona and the Enigmatic Earl by Grace Callaway

The Wolf and the Wildflower by Stacy Reid

A Night at the Tropicana by Chanel Cleeton

The One Hundred Years of Lenni and Margot by Cronin Marianne

it was amazing

To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang

Romancing Mister Bridgerton by Julia Quinn

it was amazing

Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Benjamin Stevenson

Magic, Lies, and Deadly Pies by Misha Popp

it was amazing

A Botanist's Guide to Parties and Poisons by Kate Khavari

The Midwinter Mail-Order Bride by Kati Wilde

All That's Left in the World by Erik J. Brown

it was amazing

True Love and Other Impossible Odds by Christina Li

it was amazing

Near Misses & Cowboy Kisses by Katrina Emmel

it was amazing

Dini - dinipandareads窶冱 last review of the year

liked it

I think this short would be best enjoyed by those who have read at least one of the books in The Rogue Files series. As not even 30 pages, this was a fun and delightfully sexy short and I enjoyed getting a story about the people in histroms who make manors and estates run smoothly! Vera was saucy, Rufus was the cheeky thorn in her side, and it was clear that they had repressed feelings for each other. The only thing I found misleading was the cro ...more

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