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I highly recommend researching the author and her actions before deciding to pick up one of her books. I no longer support Dana Isaly and I will not be reading any of her other works. 

 I didn't really enjoy this book at first but at the end, I began to enjoy it a little bit more. It wasn't the best John Green book I have read.

Read it in high school. Don't remember much about it, all I remember is that I didn't like it. 

Ahhh I love Nessian!!! Also one of my favorite Nesta lines comes from this book! Cassian: "have you ever been with a male Nesta?" Nesta: "Have you?" She so sassy and I love her!!

My favorite book in this series love it with my whole heart! I absolutely love Nesta and Cassian! Love seeing Nesta's growth. 

I read this book a LONG time ago and I remember nothing about it outside of the fact that it was incredible boring and that I absolutely LOATHED this book!! 

I’ve been trying to write this review for days now and I can never get my thoughts to come out clearly and concisely so please excuse me if this review is a mess. 

This book is way longer than it needed to be and nothing happened the whole time. It was the same thing chapter after chapter. 

This book is 500+ pages of world-building and by the end, you still understand nothing about the world or the magic system. The world is way more complicated than it needs to be, we are constantly being given information about the world that adds nothing to the story and only confuses us more. 

I know this isn’t the author's fault but I have to add it, the map in this book frustrates me so much! The map though beautiful, is useless. It is way too cluttered and it's impossible to find anything on it because of that and to make it worse all of the writing on it just blends in with the background. I was trying to find one of the locations and I spent thirty minutes looking for it and still found nothing. 

The characters are boring and have no real development throughout the entire book. the only characters I was interested in were the villains ( I will say one thing about Victoria Aveyard, she knows how to write an AMAZING villain!). There are also way too many characters, there are a ton of side characters that play no real role in the story that just randomly get brought up and we expected to remember them even though the last time they were talked about was 200 pages ago. 

Overall, this book had a lot of potential but ultimately it fell flat for me. I am going to continue with this series because I already have the second book and I do see some potential for the rest of the series. 

The Ethical Slut by Janet W. Hardy and Dossie Easton teaches you the ins and outs of polyamory/non monogamous relationships and is a great introduction into the world of loving freely and outside of society standers! 
The Ethical Slut is written in a enjoyable, easy to understand way that will leave you with a better understanding of what polyamory really is and how you may be able to fit it in your life (if you want to). 
You can find information on communication, dealing with jealousy, and so many other aspects of relationships that can be helpful for anyone not just polyamorous people within this book. 
The Ethical Slut is inclusive of all genders, race, ethnicities, sexualities, and lifestyles and over the years has had three different edition, the content within changing with the times in order to include new idea and terminology that may not have been around when the book was first published in 1997.

After reading this book I fully understand why it's basically the bible of the poly community. It taught me so much about polyamory, relationships, sex, and even my own mind. You can definitely tell that this book was written by a therapist because all of the information given was so well researched and it gives you so much helpful advice when dealing with the struggles brought up in this book and even exercises to try. I'm definitely going to be reading the other works done by these authors!
Honestly I highly recommend this book to anyone, polyamorous or not but specifically to anyone who wants to learn more about polyamory/non monogamous relationships.

Ratings: 
Plot:⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
Writing:⭐⭐⭐/5
Characters:⭐⭐⭐⭐/5
Overall:⭐⭐⭐⭐/5 
Romance:❤️❤️❤️❤️/5
Spice: 🌶️/5

An Offer From A Gentleman by Julia Quinn is the third book in the Bridgerton series and is a Cinderella retelling with Benedict as the leading man. 

I'm honestly pleasantly surprised by this book, I thought I was going to hate it due to the things I have heard but I quite liked it. I liked our leading lady Sophia and thought her relationship with Benedict was pretty cute. That being said, I'm not gonna say that I don't understand why people dislike this book so much because I completely understand, there are some very valid reasons to dislike this book. Yes Benedict did act like an ass but I honestly found that him asking Sophie to be his mistress didn't bug as much as it did other people. I think the reason for this is because he grows and realizes that what he did was wrong and he shouldn't have asked her to be his mistress and when she said no, he should have left it at that and not continued to push. 
The thing that got on my nerves the most about Benedict was the fact that he refused to see anything from Sophie's point of view. He refused to try and understand why she couldn't possibly agree to be his mistress and why that might not be something she wants in life instead he just took it as a hit to his ego. He did the same thing when it came to her not revealing her identity to him, he refused to see it from her point of view and instead just got mad at her. 
That being said, I really liked Benedict which I honestly surprised I totally thought I was gonna hate him, in reality, I actually think his my favorite Bridgerton brother (Colin being my favorite). I found him to be so funny and to have a lot more personality than Anthony did. I also love how cocky he is, I was in fits of giggles every time Sophie mentioned his little cocky smirk. Can I also just say that they cast him perfectly in the tv show? 

I loved that we got to see more of Violet Bridgerton in this book! I absolutely adore her, she is so kind but also so witty and very much like her kids. I loved seeing her relationship with Sophia and I loved how much she cared about her. 

Overall, I think this is my favorite book in the series so far, Sophie has become my favorite leading lady and I am very surprised with how much I enjoyed this book.