July Book Review (3)

Happy Tuesday everyone it's not Tuesday and this post is late due to my lack of motivation,

I just realized I accidentally posted my 2019 New Years resolutions instead of clicking save. I work on it as I make posts to keep track of everything so hopefully, no one saw that. If you did leave a comment!

1.) It Takes Two: Our Story by Drew and Jonathan Scott

I've had this on my reading list since it was released into stores because I love the show property brothers. I was waiting out purchasing it because of how I feel about hardcovers but then I saw a signed copy at the bookstore! This is my first ever book that is signed so I was properly jazzed about the purchase. I hesitated in reading it though because I'm not really an autobiography person which is why it took me so long to read. I realized while reading it that Property Brothers isn't on Netflix anymore! It would have been cool to watch it while reading (Yes, I'm one of those people that can read while watching tv but it's mostly just background music. If I don't have the tv on then I have to play music.) I'm slowly doing this with the Sherlock series. I read it while watching the series on Netflix. Back to It Takes Two, I had a lot of fun reading this and I'm so happy to welcome it to my shelves.

2.) Still Here by Rowan Blanchard

Going into this I didn't realize that Rowan Blanchard is a Disney star. At first, I thought it was wild that someone so young published a book of poetry! And one that features work from Rupi Kaur! It was when I looked her up on Instagram that I realized who she was and that she stars in one of my sister's favorite shows. Now I really liked this book and will definitely be using it as an influence for the poetry book I want to write. I loved how she included pictures, pressed flowers and pieces of paper with handwritten poems. It made it a little difficult to read but I loved the look of everything. It was like opening someone's notebook. This is what I think Noor Unnahar's book should have been more like.

3.) Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews

I have had this book for years! I can't even remember if my mom bought it for me in high school or middle school. It's a huge book of almost one thousand pages because it's two books out of a five book series. My mom said she had read when she was younger and that she would buy it for me so of course, I agreed. Well, I finally got to it and my overall summary in one word is. . . Ew. I read all of the first book and got eight chapters into the second book in maybe two sittings before I stopped to reflect and decided there were certain aspects of the story that did not sit well with me and I decided to read no further. I'm not going to talk about the gross parts but the premise of the book is that there is a family of six and the father dies. Forcing the mother and her four children to move in with the mother's parents in order to charm the father into writing her back into the will. Now the father cannot know about the children for icky reasons so the children must hide in an attic where they are not allowed to leave. The mother leads them on for over two or three years saying when her father is dead and she gets his money she will free them and they will live somewhere else together and be rich. But she marries her father's lawyer and it later comes out that in the fathers will it says if she has any children from the icky reasons then she will get none of the money. So when he dies she moves away from her husband and does not tell her children. They don't learn about the death of their grandfather or of the will until more than a year later and after one of their siblings dies due to "pneumonia". When the three living children learn about the will and their dead grandfather and the fact that their mother left them there, they begin to put together that their mother had been poisoning them with arsenic powdered donuts. The sibling that died at the other siblings share which is why he died first. When the three living children put all of this together they escape to safety and the first book ends. Now once the gross stuff happened I wanted to stop reading but needed to know if the children got out of the attic. I read a little bit into the second book to make sure all was well but more gross things happened and I decided I was content knowing they got out but didn't need to follow their story any further as it was obvious to me that the children were very broken and may not recover from the damage which would lead to more gross things. Honestly, the storyline of being trapped and all of that I enjoyed but the gross stuff ruined it all for me.

Totally Ky