Book Review: The Gentleman's Guide to Getting Lucky

                                       The Gentleman's Guide to Getting Lucky Review

The Gentleman's Guide to Getting Lucky is a novella that is set right after The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue and this book is about Monty trying to have sex with Percy for the first time because even though they have declared their love for each other several weeks ago they still haven't got to that part of their relationship yet. Percy has never had sex before so he didn't want to start doing right when they got together and Monty has never actually had sex with someone he was in love with so it's a new experience for him as well although he claims it's not at first. When Monty and Percy attempt to have sex everything seems to go wrong with them feeling awkward about what to do after they plan out a whole evening around it and Monty let's some of his insecurities get the better of him and ruin their evening because he won't admit to their existence.

This book goes on to deal with Monty and Percy having a heart to heart about where their relationship is going in the future in more than the physical sense and talk about what is really getting in the way of the two of them connecting the next day. The two of them try to hook up again and things do feel a lot more natural and fun between the two but things don't go to plan then as well but it ends on much happier note anyways.

This book is great and it reminds me of a really well written fanfiction in the best possible way since it's all about the characters relationship and getting to the part where they have sex with each other but it also deals with other emotional problems in a way that perfectly connects to this other part of their relationship. The relationship and the characters where as great as I remembered them and I'm so happy that there is going to be another book in this series that comes out this summer. Please tell me your thoughts on this book or the series as a whole in the comment section below.

TV Review: Nancy Drew: Pilot(1.01)

                                               Nancy Drew: Pilot(1.01)Review

• There is a story of some girl in the past who died the night that she won the Sea Queen crown and after winning Sea Queen Nancy sees what looks like her ghost and although she doesn't believe in them I have a feeling that this will come into play later on.
• Nancy became interested in solving mysteries after she saw her parents unbury a chest in their backyard in the middle of the night and tried to convince her that she was dreaming. Nancy became even more obsessed with solving mysteries after she found a missing girl but she stopped being interested in solving mysteries after her mom died of cancer.
• It's established that Nancy is working at a diner where an old classmate that hates her, George  is her boss because she tanked her grades for the last half of her senior year. We also learn that she hooking up with a guy named Nick, she works with a guy named Ace who's not very smart and a girl named Bess who is rich and not from around her town and is taking a gap year.
• Things start to get a bit weird when a wealthy man named Ryan Hudson and several of his friends insist that they eat at the diner after it's closed while he tells them to bring a plate of food to his wife who for some reason is staying outside by the car rather than coming in.
• After a power outage Nancy goes outside to check on Mrs. Hudson only discover that she has been killed.
• I disliked how Ace pretty much throw all of his coworkers under the bus when he was questioned by the police.
• The police chief seems like a dick with how he's accusing Nancy, George, Bess and Nick of being murders simply because they found the body. Also him revealing things he knows about them in the most dickish way possible also makes me hate him.
• I like that George pretty much says that the reason the police chief hates Nancy is because she does his job for him.
• I find it funny how Bess thinks that the police chief was calling her an ex con when he also listed rich girl as a description which clearly would be her.
• I'm curious about what crime Nick committed in his past but I still feel like he's a good person regardless of what he might've done in the past.
• I really hate how the police chief just blindly believes that Nancy is the one that killed Tiffany Hudson when he has no proof and it just feels like he has a personal vendetta against this nineteen year old girl which just makes him look pathetic.
• I'm sad to learn that Nancy and her dad haven't been communicating well since her mom died since he has been spending so much time at work.
• I find it interesting that Nancy caught Tiffany's death on camera and that it appears that it was a ghost that killed her.
• I like that Bess after seeing the video completely believes that Tiffany was murdered by a ghost and I like that Ace tells a little more about the ghost who is called dead Lucy.
• We learn that George dislikes Nancy because she was friends with people that spread rumors about her sex life in high school.
• I like that Nick stopped by the diner and I like that Nancy told the others that they are dating since Nick has been wanting her to tell people about them for awhile now.
• I like that when Nick asks Nancy how she would go about proving that Ryan Hudson was behind his wife murder that she started listing off all the things that they should be looking for in order to solve the case before saying that maybe they should just let the police handle it.
• I felt so anxious when Nancy broke into Ryan's house and the security alarm went off which led to the company coming to the house while she was there. I felt even more anxious when Nick went in after her to make sure that she wouldn't get caught.
• I like that Nick decided to follow Nancy because he thought that she might do something dangerous and I like that he told her that she was worth the risk of possibly being caught breaking the law.
• I like that Nick is trying to get Nancy to open up to him but he is also making it clear that he's willing to wait until she is ready to do so but since Nancy doesn't think she'll ever be ready she pushes him away.
• I like that Nancy ends up asking George for help figuring out the meaning a fishermen themed necklace that she found at the Hudson's house because she comes from a family of sailors.
• I like that both George and Bess decide that they are now going to be helping Nancy with her investigation whether she likes it or not.
• I like that after they find an address for a medium in the necklace that when Nancy says that she does this types of things alone George points out that she wouldn't have found the address without her and Bess points out that a medium would be able to tell she doesn't believe in ghosts so she needs her as well.
• I like that Nancy, Bess and George all have different reactions to the medium with Nancy just trying to ask questions right away, Bess really believing that she can communicate with the dead and wanting to see her do that and George wanting Nancy to wait until after the medium does her thing to ask questions because this session was expensive.
• I find it interesting that the medium accidently communicating with dead Lucy is something that frightened her.
• I felt bad for Nancy when she saw her dad and her family friend Karen kissing because she believed that her dad was still mourning her mom.
• I liked that Nancy went to Nick and that she opened up to him and that she tells him about how she doesn't like her current life and how he's the only thing that makes it a little bit better.
• I like that Nancy tells Nick that he doesn't have to tell her about his past until he's ready since she can tell he's not there yet.
• I found it interesting that Nancy's father was Nick's lawyer and the fact that Nick was charged with manslaughter and that Tiffany Hudson was the witness that's statement got him convicted does make him a suspect but since we literally have footage of a ghost killing her I don't think he did it.
• It turns about that Bess isn't rich but is living in a van and that she somehow stole Tiffany's ring, that George is having an affair with Ryan Hudson, Ace is spying for the police chief and Nick is hiding something in one of the cars at the shop.
• I find it very suspicious that Nancy's parents were hiding the dress that Lucy died in but I have no idea what this means.

Please tell me your thoughts on this episode.

Book Review: Sharp Objects

                                                      Sharp Objects Review

Sharp Objects is about Camille Preaker who is a reporter in Chicago who has to go back to Wind Gap Missouri to cover a story about to elementary school girls who were murdered in a similar way within the last year. Camille hasn't been back to Wind Gap since she graduated high school since she and her mother have also had a cold and distant relationship and everyone around town loves her mother which makes it an uncomfortable place to be. Going back to her home town and staying with her mother is the last thing Camille wants to do but she doesn't have a choice because of her job.

Coming back to Wind Gap brings up a lot of old bad memories for Camille considering that very little in town has changed since she was a teenager. Camille ends up finding out that the police don't seem to have any really clue who is behind the murders but she does learn that the killer took all the teeth out of the girls mouth after they were killed. The girls that were killed were girls that had a bit of a dark side to them and who rebelled against the conformity that Wind Gap puts its girls into which makes Camille like them but also makes her wonder if that was the reason that they were killed in the first place. Camille also gets to know her younger sister Amma who was born while Camille was in College and Camille sees that Amma is very popular and seems to be pretty good at controlling people.

Overall I really loved this book which has complicated characters in a dark situation that doesn't seem to have any solution that ends up with the characters being truly happy. This book has good writing and intriguing mystery that I feel is more about the why than the who is behind the killing which are intriguing reasons. Please tell me your thoughts about this book in the comment section below.

Movie Review: Knives Out

                                                         Knives Out Review

Knives Out is about how a wealthy crime novelist named Harlan Thrombey  is found one morning with his throat slashed by his personal nurse and his remaining family gathers together after his death because a detective named Benoit Blanc believes that his death may have been a murder. The family that consist of Harlan's grown children, their spouses and his grand children all seemed to have a motive to kill Harlan since he got in some kind of argument with them that involved money on the night of his death. Harlan's nurse Marta is also called in to be questioned and it turns out that she has a disorder that every time she lies or even thinks about lying she throws up which makes Blanc want her help on his investigation.

This movie was a pretty fun one and with how it's revealed quite early what events led up to Harlan's death it makes the story take quite a different turn as to how a typical murder mystery story would go which adds something to this movie. There is of course a few twists in this movie even after we see Harlan's death that I didn't really see coming but made a lot of sense. This movie had a good story, interesting characters with good acting and directing as well. Please tell me your thoughts about this movie in the comment section below.

Book Review: Lucky in Love

                                                            Lucky in Love Review

Lucky in Love is about how Maddie, a straight A student whose family has been going through money problems for the last couple of years ends up winning the lottery on her eighteen birthday. Maddie is made out to be someone who is responsible and sensible to the reader but as soon as everyone in Maddie's life finds out that she's a millionaire now, Maddie starts spending her money in really stupid ways. Maddie basically gets convinced by people she either didn't know or barely knew before she won the lottery that she should spend her money on them or on something that she doesn't really want just because they would if they were her.

Maddie before she won the lottery was working at the Zoo and she had a close friendship with a co-worker named Seth who went to a different school than her that she was starting to develop feelings for whether she wants to admit it or not. Maddie keeps the job at the Zoo but as a volunteer after she wins the lottery and she doesn't tell Seth about her lottery win because she likes that she can still feel normal around him.

Overall I didn't really like this book because I found myself being really annoyed about the way that Maddie decided to spend her money on dumb things and she kept that she won the lottery from Seth way too long to be understandable and while it didn't lead to the dramatic betrayal on his end that I was expecting it still was another decision of Maddie's I couldn't stand. I liked the romance and thought it was cute but it sadly wasn't really that big of a focus in this book. Please tell me your thoughts on this book in the comment section below.

Top 10 Songs that Hit the Billboard Hot 100 in August of 2019

1. Cornelia Street-Taylor Swift:  This song is the story of  a relationship and how Taylor is terrified of the relationship possibly ending because the heartbreak that would come from the end of this relationship is one she fears she would never get over if it happened. This songs music and sing sounds great as well.
2. Death By A Thousand Cuts-Taylor Swift: This song is about how hard walking a relationship can be when one becomes so entangled with their partner and how the ending of the relationship feels like a death by a thousand cuts. This song of course sounds great like almost every other song on the album.
3. Paper Rings-Taylor Swift: This is a very happy love song about loving someone so much that you wouldn't mind marrying them with paper rings because what's important is that your together not how fancy the things around you are. This song is one of the happiest sounding ones I've ever heard and that shows in the production and the singing.
4. Afterglow-Taylor Swift: This song is about Taylor apologizing for blaming her lover for all the problems in their relationship and admitting that she let her insecurities get to her and she blamed her lover for things he never even did. This song is one that has a soft and dreamy feel to it that I really love.
5. Boyfriend-Ariana Grande Feat. Social House: This song is about an unhealthy non-relationship where neither party wants to be in a relationship with each other but will be furious if they hook up with anyone else. This song also sounds really good even though Ariana is clearly a much better singer than the Social House guys.
6. Slide Away-Miley Cyrus: This song is about mourning an end of a relationship even though it's clear to her that the relationship is one that hasn't been working for awhile and that it's time to move on. This song has somber dreamy tone that just makes this song one that I want to listen to over and over again.  
7. I Think He Knows-Taylor Swift: This song is about how at a beginning of a relationship where Taylor sings about how she doesn't have to tell the guy how much she likes him because she's pretty sure that he can tell by the way she acts around him. This song as a really fun and playful sound to it that makes it a delight to listen.
8. Small Talk-Katy Perry: This is a song about running into an ex long enough after a break up that it isn't painful experience but it still awkward because they are now stuck making small talk with each other like they're strangers even though used to know everything about each other. The song as an interesting premise and it sounds really good as well.
9. Miss Americana & The Heartbreak Prince-Taylor Swift: This song is one that I used like a lot more when I first heard it than I do now but it's still a good job. I think this song works fairly well as dramatic love story set in high school but I think it doesn't work that all that well as a political allergy if I think about the song's story in that constant it feels confused and this is big reason why I don't like this song as much as I once did. The song still sounds really nice and I really like the title for the song.
10. Right Back-Khalid: This song seems to be about being okay with a relationship developing slowly and I also just really like the way in which the song sounds.

Top 10 Books I Read in 2019

1. The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue: This book is a historical adventure novel that is also a really good coming of age story in great character introspection and relationships that develop wonderfully as well. This book is the one that surprised me the most and I love it all the more for it.
2. Archenemies: This book is the second book in the Renegades series and it does great job expanding the story and the world of the first book. I continued to love the characters and I loved the main romance as well even if it wasn't the main focus of the story.
3. The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo: This book is one that focused on the life of a very complicated character that I didn't always liked but was always interested in what she was going to do next which is something that I actually quite enjoy in books.
4. Shadow Kiss: This book is the third book of the Vampire Academy series and everything expect the main romance of the series really worked for me in this book. This book had a bit more of a stronger plot than the previous books in the series and I liked how this book expanded upon the world's mythology as well as developing the characters and their relationships in this book.
5. The Blood of Olympus: The final book in the Heroes of Olympus reminded me once again why I love the world that these stories are told in and assured me that I still love this characters and that I want to follow the next spin off series as well.
6. Fallout: This book is the last book of the Crank series and set almost twenty years after the second book and instead deals with Kristina's children and shows how they turn out after having Kristina for their biological mother and not really being a part of their lives. This book is once again told through poetry like most Ellen Hopkins books are.
7. The Luxe: This book is the first in a series of books that deals with the life of wealthy New Yorkers in the late 1800s and I find that enjoy reading about their scandalous lives more than I expected that I would.
8. P.S. I Like You: This book is a really sweet love story that has to do with secretly sharing love notes with someone they don't know the identity of.
9. If I Stay: This book is one that is really sad but one that also really does a good job at keeping your attention.
10. The Lady's Guide to Petticoats and Piracy: This book is the second book of the series that started with The Gentleman's Guide to Vice and Virtue but this book focus on Felicity that wants to be a doctor in 1700s and how her attempts to become one ends with her getting involved with pirates.