Coming in late but OMG I was surprised with how much I enjoyed The Housemaid. It's SO trashy and ridiculous but I literally read it in less than a day and jumped right into the sequel AND a couple more of Freida McFadden's other works. It's such a digestible and light read for a thriller (maybe domestic thrillers are made that way?). I wouldn't call it good literature but had a lot of fun reading it.

Have you read An Education in Malice... ??? I'm looking at your redemption arc... academic rivals to lovers... boarding school/university setting... 👀You might really like it... maybe???

I read a fanfic the other week that was the absolute perfect enemies to lovers/forced proxinity/slow burn and its awful how nothing i get from amazon will hit me as much as this fic

OKAY i have to know, who do you ship in Legendborn?? (if you do have any ships)

I cannot wait to hear your thoughts on Our Wives Under the Sea. I read it recently! Also: I never liked classics until a friend who adores Jane Austen pushed me to read Pride & Prejudiced. What sold me was them saying “it’s just hot gos’.” And they were damn right. The pettiness and hot tea got me.

Pleasee do another- Den of Vipers is pretty nutso

Pleaseeee do more of these you are the best to listen to

What if, and just tolerate me, someone apart from the towny came into their mansion and murdered them? Like do they even have the concept of locks? This would have been an entirely different book 😂

I actually like the HERO LOSSES THEIR POWER trope but wen I tell you that I HATED the orphanage/powerless/st*pid ending of a certain book that I USED TO LOVE WITH ALL OF MY HEART. Sometimes I get passed it and sometimes I just rage.

>cheating trope shout out to emily giffin's something borrowed and the heart of the matter 🙂 utterly mediocre books

I 1000% agree with love triangle being highly variable. It can be so good and so fun, but it can also be unbearable to read😂

I literally could not get over the names of the people and places in Things We Never Got Over. They were so bad

I actually hate this book

I've only read 2 of these (Song of Achilles and Percy Jackson) and I 100% agree with your placements

I read a book with a love triangle (one of the two was brother's best friend) where the main character gets into an accident then she gets amnesia and then loses her unborn child she didn't know she was pregnant with and it was the worst book I've ever read

*begrudgingly adds all glowing recs to my tbr*

I watched this a few days ago and this video really stuck with me and when I saw this book on sale at the store I decided to ruin my peace with it and all I have to say is thank you for showing me the cursed book. I am so excited.

I'm sorry, but I can't help but judge people for liking this book. It's filled with so much disgusting material, shitty lessons, and excuses for abuse that someone who enjoys reading this is either too young to understand the implications or is an adult that sees family gatherings as a Tinder alternative. I feel sick remembering just half of the disturbing dialogue from Jake, let alone thinking of Kaleb's actions. Eugh...

I'm so excited for what you'll have to say about One Dark Window 🥺

extremely early comment, 9 minutes into the video, because i paused on your 2022 oscar page, and girl, you gotta watch rrr. that movie is absolutely bonkers in the best way possible. absolutely deserved its, unfortunately only single, nomination and win

I'm glad I'm not the only one who read the setup of Icebreaker and was like "...wait this is just the one bed trope but with a rink" LMAO

Thank you for doing this cause I was not planning on reading it 😅

someone take the phrase "i stop breathing for a moment" and all its variants away from penelope douglas right this moment bc i swear to god it being a key feature in EVERY SINGLE SEX SCENE is making me want to blow my fucking brains out

This book was so gross.

“Men do not be shopping and women do not be motorcycles” As an enby I am both motorcycles and do shopping

Have you read purple hyacinth, or watched full metal alchemist? I feel like you would enjoy both of them: full metal alchemist has a bodyguard romance, and purple hyacinth is extremely slow burn

You'd prob like Elantris by Brandon Sanderson (I will not reveal which tropes this rec is based on)

Why spoiler free. I want spoilers

I actively look forward to every post!! Thanks for sharing girlie!

I can’t even think about the book it makes me sick to my stomach. Reading the reviews is just nastyyyyy. My god thank gosh I don’t have to read it and you did it for us!

lexi, i’m sorry for the real life/mental stuff you are going through; you talking about how difficult it is to do something you love, and then feeling guilty about it, is so real and something i also feel on and off. but just so you know, after watching a few of your videos a month ago, you have helped me gain to courage to pick up a book again after yearssss. i’m on book five, and i feel like a part of me is whole again. so thank you for that, and i hope the later half of the year treats you well. ❤️

The most surprising part of this video to me was that it had ads… don’t know how you did it, but I’m impressed

I totally understand people enjoying smut and wanting to explore taboo topics in a safe environment (like a book or a movie), but I can't imagine anyone unironically defending this. Even if the smut is good (which I assume it very much isn't), having it all wrapped up in a very disturbing fantasy like this should completely kill any notions people would have of liking the book. This is one of those things were I can see some of the intent of the author and why some people would like it, but the way the book portrays Tiernan shows how absolutely gross it the book is on the inside. Forbidden love, losing one's innocence, polygamy, winning over someone's heart over time, etc. are all topics that can make very really good and really engaging books, even outside of smut. Buttttt, the continued gaslighting and berating of Tiernan by the narrative is essentially just the author writing a weak strawman with the intent of violently tearing it down over time., implicitly stating that people who disagree with Tiernan's journey are simply just innocent and need to be corrected like Tiernan. The fetishization of Tiernan's age, the constant focus of "we're relatives, but like omg not really so it's totes okay," the ludicrous defense of a violent abuser because he's hot. This whole thing reads as the author writing a self-insert fantasy because of a crush she had on a cousin/uncle when she was young, while also saying she's sooo hot and soooo good in bed that she can turn a literal silent monster into a functional person.

It’s crazy just eliminate the prize fighting and poker gambling stupid shit and this is literally my relationship with my ex and I’m still sitting here trying to get over him😅😅😅PLEASE

If I had a nickel for every time Lexi reviewed a cursed romance novel, where the main love interest breaks out into song apropos of nothing, I would have 2 nickels. Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.

Thank you! I just got back into reading after 10years of not and I’m aggressively reading so much that I feel like I ran out of “good book” to read because the last few I’ve read have been trash but now I have sooooo many books to add to my Want To Read. Love your vibes 🎉

I'm so tired of the misgony in these books oml 😭 the girls they hate end up being the most interesting/chill characters too LOL

I would like to propose a video amendment-all books inspired by Reylo must be disclosed during a recommendation

just started watching, just wanted to comment that i love this sweater 1:00 it's so pretty

Every romance novel I’ve read has made me uncomfortable I don’t know if there’s something wrong with me or the book

the speed in which you're talking is perfect <3

I went to college in South Carolina .... (for a year because I transferred from USC to WCU)

We often miss the small details authors include when we read too much and too fast. We think we understand, but sometimes we don't. After reading a book, we analyze it and ask ourselves questions. This is a common practice in the research industry. Why does Violet style her hair like a crown? Why are the ends of her hair silver? What is her second signet, as the author hinted it would be revealed in the second book? Why does her brother have a rune on his hand? What is the purpose of the runes? Why do the Venin have runes on their backs? Why did Xaden's mother leave him, and where is she? Why does Xaden want Violet to know how to ask the right questions? Why did Andarna wait 650 years to hatch? What makes her so special, and what did she see in Violet? Why are her scales changing colors? Is this related to Violet's eyes? What do the Sages want from Xaden and Violet, considering both of them have dreams about the Sages? Why did Jack save Violet even though we know he wanted to kill her? Violet mentioned that he doesn't know she owes him two lives. What if he does know? Why did he come back, and did he make a deal with the Sages?At the end, Xaden said to Violet,I'm going to buy you time. They're still waiting for their leader and me. Why? Finally, we ask ourselves what Xaden or Violet could do to improve their characters. Would you stay with a person who doesn't want full disclosure?

May I highly highly recommend Mrs. Nash’s Ashes. An excellent debut novel and incredible, fun, yet deep romance

I love your earing's! I really appreciate how well you explain each book you are reviewing. You give your honest opinion, you've helped add to my tbr so many times with how well you dive into each book.

Welp, looks like I have to go buy 27 books now 😂

Ok lexi now you need to go through and give recommendations for all these

I bet the sequel will be about Noah and his nephew.

As someone who has been an avid reader since I could read, I do think (for reasons I won't get into now) people are being waaaayyyyyyyy too overdramatic when they wail that "booktok is destroying reading" (when an emo theater kid is telling you that you're being overdramatic, *you're being overdramatic*). I agree (mostly) with what KrimsonRouge said: "Quite frankly, as long as you're reading, you're doing something right and I don't care". But HOLY FUCK some of the stuff that gets popular there makes me even more scared for humanity than I already am.

I had to watch this in too sittings because I could feel my brain rotting from the absolute absurdity of the book