My Goodreads Reviews Part 57
- Bernard Jan
- Apr 26
- 3 min read
Here is a collection of ten new books I’ve read and reviewed in the past two months on Goodreads! LGBTQ+ fiction, romance, thrillers, horror. Enjoy!
Boy Shattered, We the Animals, The Light Reflected (The Provincetown Series Book 2), The Boys from Biloxi, Something Like Autumn (Something Like, #2), The Random Patient, Rewind (The Midnight Book Club 3), Kissing With Teeth, Midnights Like This (Book Club Boys 2), Recursion
I do not know why I kept this book for so long on my to-read list. Completely unjustifiable. I hope to redeem myself by recommending it far and way to everyone who loves an excellent, page-turning, easy-to-read, emotional, hurt comfort, coming of age, young adult, MM romance love story with a detailed description of a high school shooting as a backdrop.
All the praises for this exceptional literary work are justified. I am blown away.
The brave sequel to Favorite Son! A love story between Max and Danny, two hot Provincetown young men, may be a challenge for some gay romance fans. For me, it is as it should be. Although I may be a little surprised with the ending, I am aware that not every love story ends happily. That’s our cruel reality. Kudos to the author for his courage to challenge a key characteristic / trope of romance genre and readers’ expectations.
Reading this book was a challenge because it was the longest, slowest and most boring first pages John Grisham ever wrote. And I am not saying the first five to ten pages but fifty plus unnecessary long, too detailed, descriptive pages on which it seems nothing is happening. Then there is a sudden switch and things are finally interesting. It’s like I was reading a new book altogether. Like the author found himself and I was reading again one of his stories I liked.
While the part of the book with Victor held me in its grip through every page, I thought that the part with Ben—because I was familiar with it—wouldn’t be so interesting while reading it for the second time. Despite my fear, new moments kept it flowing until the end, which again shattered me.
Erasemed is a curse if you drink it, for it will control you and you will lose your (bad) memories. But Erasemed is also a blessing, because you won’t forget The Random Patient once you finish reading it. I hope that this first suspenseful, medical thriller by Kristina Gallo is not also her last one and that she will keep exploring the unscrupulous intentions of pharmaceutical companies.
I thank the author for an advance review copy, which I have received at no cost and with no obligations toward the author.
Rewind is a sweet, suspenseful, mysterious surprise. This is why I love this horror writer.
Intense. Very intense and gripping.
No doubt Max Walker can make your reading experience steamy. He can also make you turn the pages faster while you are eager and curious to find out who is the murderer. Although I enjoyed the story, somehow I feel that hot, erotic scenes are not the ideal choice for the family crime drama in which a mysterious murderer has killed the main protagonist’s mother.
Too many false memories of dying can make you lost in space and time if you loosen your attention and focus while reading. If you don’t drift away, you will enjoy the gentle longing, tenderness of love, and incredible apocalyptic descriptions of destroying our world.
Happy reading!
BJ
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