Reviews written by fantasyreads11

Better Than the Movies by Lynn Painter feels like stepping straight into a rom com but with more heart than expected. I absolutely loved it! Liz Buxbaum lives her life like she is the main character in a movie, holding onto the idea that love...

Unexpected Visitors the seventh book in the series and isn’t a letdown at all. In this one, Bea and her classmates are told that very important visitors are coming to their school, which immediately puts everyone into stress mode. They have to clean, decorate, and basically make everything look perfect,...

The Lightning People Play feels deeper and more emotional than it first looks. At its core, it’s about Kirby trying to help his younger brother Baxter, whose epilepsy is getting more intense and confusing, especially with the strange “lightning people” he sees during seizures....

Hello Sunshine is one of those stories that feels confusing at first on purpose, and that actually ends up being one of its strengths. The story follows a group of people trying to understand what happened to Alex after he suddenly disappears, and you...

Secret Spells (Diary of an Accidental Witch, #4) is a fun but slightly more serious entry in the series, because it focuses a lot on choices and consequences instead of just magic and chaos. Personally, it also felt a tad bit more realistic to me when compared to the other...

Ghostly Getaway will give you a spooky adventure vibe that’s exciting but also a little uncomfortable in a real way. Bea is thrilled about going to Cadabra Castle at first, and honestly, I would be too because the idea of a creepy, magical castle...

Classroom Chaos feels like reading someone’s diary…if that diary suddenly started arguing back. In this story, Bea isn’t just dealing with school stress or magic practice, she’s dealing with an actual witch legend, Minerva Moon, whose ghost is stuck in her diary and casually...

Halloween Ball by Cargill continues Bea Black’s story in a way that feels both fun and a little stressful in a good way. Bea is still stuck at witch school even though she doesn’t really want to be there, and now she has to...

The Trial Period by Auburn Morrow is one of those stories that starts off feeling chaotic and kind of funny, then slowly turns into something a lot more real. Parker and Lizzie already don’t like each other, so the idea of them being forced...

Angel is the seventh book in the Maximum Ride series, and it keeps the story feeling exciting while taking things in a slightly different direction. At this point, the world feels bigger, the stakes feel higher, and everything the flock has been through starts...

Maximum Ride #6 by James Patterson feels like the point in the series where everything starts getting a little more intense, a little more emotional, and honestly a little messier in a way that makes it hard to stop reading. The group isn’t just...

Maximum Ride #5 continues the series with another high-energy mission, this time centered around strange environmental disasters in the ocean. The flock gets pulled into figuring out what’s going on with dying sea life and destroyed ships, which leads them into a situation that feels bigger than just another escape...

The Angel Experiment is one of those books that throws you straight into action so it peaks your interest early on! It follows Max and a group of kids who can fly, but their abilities come from something much darker than just being special....

The Girl in the Castle is one of those stories that really pulls you in with its mystery and keeps you questioning what’s real the entire time. The book follows Hannah, who is living in two timelines at once, one in the present where...

Chicka Chicka ILY is such a sweet and playful book that takes a familiar alphabet style and turns it into something full of love and positive energy. The story uses rhymes and letters to spell out affectionate words, making it both fun and meaningful...