Glendowie College

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Codename Charming

By Lucy Parker

4 stars

Adorable
Onyx Storm

By Rebecca Yarros

5 stars

Oh no, I need the next one.
The Love Edit

By Laura Starkey

4 stars

Fun,cute. Interesting that emotionally abusive exes seem to be a thing for her
Love Off-Script

By Laura Starkey

4 stars

This is such a vehement reaction against the Netflix 'Persuasion' that I kind of feel the need to go rewatch just to check I did actually like it.
Battle Royal

By Lucy Parker

4 stars

Cute.
Act Like It

By Lucy Parker

4 stars

I'd forgotten how much I like this series.
The Graphologist's Apprentice

By Whiti Hereaka

3 stars

Wildly miscategorised as a romance by an Auckland public librarian. Does anyone really think like that, and if not, why do all protagonists of literary fiction think like that?
Ella West

By Rain Fall

4 stars

So, like, I liked this book but she's 15 and he's 17 and they're declaring their love for each other and ehhhhhAlso going up the mountain was a stupid ass decision and made me think less of her. Cool portrayal of small town mentality though
Only in Your Dreams

By Ellie K Wilde

4 stars

Yeah, I really liked it.
The Cosy Coffee Shop of Promises

By Kellie Hailes

3 stars

Yeah, cute.
Her Best Friend's Wedding

By Abby Gaines

3 stars

Her characters start out as such jerks and yet end up being adorable.
Whose Lie is it Anyway?

By Abbey Gaines

4 stars

Really obvious this book was written during Obama's presidency. I wasn't sure about the characters at first because Maverick financial people just sound like criminals to me but they won me round, and they went to Waiheke at one point which was adorable.
Mr Monfort's Marriage

By Vonnie Hughes

2 stars

She got kidnapped. Why don't they just stay inside the house when some villain is out to get them? It would solve so many problems.
Iron Flame

By Rebecca Yarros

5 stars

I was ready for this to be bad because so many people panned it after they loved the first one, but it does a really good job of escalating the stakes while still keeping the stuff that made the first book so good.
Entanglement

By Vonnie Hughes

1 stars

Boo, I was looking forward to this after the first one I read by Vonnie Hughes but the heroine is a wet blanket.
Fourth Wing

By Rebecca Yarros

5 stars

It was great. Definitely the best world building of any romantasy I've read.
My Estranged Lover

By Shelley Monroe

2 stars

Still just tickled that there are shifter romances set in Middlemarch. Won't be finishing the third one though. The high country station is making me really want to do an Essie Summers binge
Coming Home

By Vonnie Hughes

3 stars

Generally pretty good. Never heard of this NZ author, so I'm trusting the Auckland Libby list.
My Assassin

By Shelley Munroe

1 stars

It's a shifter romance set in Middlemarch. Like, just, why? It's pretty accurate in its descriptions though, and functions to read on a bus ride to Queenstown as the characters were travelling there too.
Overdues and Occultism

By Jamie Sands

3 stars

Very cute.
Kākāpō Keeper

By Gay Buckingham

3 stars

I imagine the conditions were a lot harder than are described and weirdly since Evie's War, I want the horror maybe?
Playing God

By Glenn Colquhoun

5 stars

Beautiful. I've taken pictures of two for our Poetry in Motion unit next/this year.
Bound by Marriage

By Nalini Singh

1 stars

Wild that this book was written in 2007 not the 80s.
Dreamquake

By Elizabeth Knox

5 stars

I did not understand what was happening when I first read this book. I need to go find out why Knox wrote a book so obviously in NZ but without an indigenous population.
Dreamhunter

By Elizabeth Knox

5 stars

Love this world and its magic.
The Anger of Angels

By Sherryl Jordan

4 stars

Probably unfair of me to be mad that it doesn't get to the blurb until halfway into the book. Ending feels like the beginning of a series.
Dream Girl Drama

By Tessa Bailey

3 stars

Maybe I was poisoned by 'manic pixie dream girl' in the description, but both characters just felt desperate and melodramatic.
The Monster at the End of This Book

By Jon Stone

5 stars

Probably one of the best books ever written. All the other narrative action books are chasing this high.
Pet

By Catherine Chidgey

4 stars

Detailed and absorbing. I've described my behaviour management style as 'cult of personality' too many times to feel completely comfortable reading this book.
James and the Giant Peach

By Roald Dahl (c/o James Acaster)

4 stars

Way more tragic than I remember.
Fangirl Down

By Tessa Bailey

5 stars

Cute, hot
Stuck With You

By Carla Burgess

1 stars

Meh. Like what even happened really?
The Duke Knows Best

By Jane Ashford

3 stars

Yeah, fine. Absolutely diabolical descriptions of making music though.
Ransomwood

By Sherryl Jordan

3 stars

A bit slow at the start. I wish I knew what the inspiration was. Medieval pilgrimage is a wild choice
Winter Wonderland

By Elizabeth Mansfield

3 stars

Cute
Evie's War

By Anna Mackenzie

4 stars

Way too readable on the last day of term
Pandemic

By Sally Stone

2 stars

Is two stars fair when it's not really for me.
The Rival

By Emma Lord

4 stars

Cuuuute
Slipstream

By Made Maril

5 stars

Love a nuanced neurodivergent protagonist
The Governess and the Duke

By Lydia Drake

2 stars

Limped to the finish honestly.

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