Bookish Kas

It's crazy to think that this is officially my last blog post of 2021. I will see you soon in 2022 now! Wrapping up the year 2021, I have read 166 published books this year and a bunch of other Wattpad books. Originally at the start of 2021, I had kept my reading goal for 80 books, but I realized I had hit that goal too soon in August and bumped it up to 100. In September, I went on a total reading spree and finished 33 books which, I am not going to lie, shocked me as well.  I calmed down in October a bit because I had my Term I exams, but I went on a mini-reading spree again with my best friend in November. To get to my main point, I had to edit my Goodreads Reading Challenge a few times. The final Reading Challenge was 150 books, and I am proud to say I moved even beyond that challenge. So in this post, I will be listing my favourite reads of 2021. It's definitely hard to choose a few favourites from 160+ books I have read this year. I consider myself not a very harsh critiq

Title  - Red, White and Royal Blue Author - Casey McQuiston Genre(s)   - Romance, LGBTQ+ Trope(s)   - Enemies to Lovers, Fake Relationship (Friendship), Forbidden Romance Trigger Warnings - None as such Overall Ratings  -  ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ | Goodreads |   | Barnes and Nobles |   ✦ﾟ━━━━━━━・❦・━━━━━━━ﾟ✦  SYNOPSIS First Son Alex Claremont-Diaz is the closest thing to a prince this side of the Atlantic. With his intrepid sister and the Veep's genius granddaughter, they're the White House Trio, a beautiful millennial marketing strategy for his mother, President Ellen Claremont. International socialite duties do have downsides—namely, when photos of a confrontation with his longtime nemesis Prince Henry at a royal wedding leak to the tabloids and threaten American/British relations. The plan for damage control: staging a fake friendship between the First Son and the Prince. As President Claremont kicks off her reelection bid, Alex finds himself hurtling into a secret relationship with Henry

Publishing Date  - 7th June 2022 Author  - Lindsay MacMillan Genre  -  Romance Trigger Warning  -  Depression, Toxic Relationship  Ratings  -  ⭐️⭐️ | Goodreads | Barnes and Nobles |  ✦ﾟ━━━━━━━・❦・━━━━━━━ﾟ✦    SYNOPSIS The young investment banker is tired of being single in New York City. Deep into a quarter-life crisis, she's overwhelmed by all the external pressure to rise the corporate and romantic ladders at the same time. Feeling the biological clock ticking, she vows to close the deal on locking in a husband before her 30th birthday. The Manhattan dating scene has as many ups and downs as the stock market and leaves Rae exhausted from late nights formatting spreadsheets at the office, followed by even later nights reciting her resume to strangers at over-crowded bars. She considers throwing in the towel, but her friends come to the rescue, continually boosting her up with ice cream and cheap wine that they share in their sixth-floor walk-up. Rae soldiers on until she meets Dust

Author  - Kerri Maniscalco Genre - Fantasy, Romance Trigger Warning - Death, Gore, Violence Ratings - Kingdom of the Wicked - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️                   Kingdom of the Cursed - ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️  ✦ﾟ━━━━━━━・❦・━━━━━━━ﾟ✦   SYNOPSIS Two sisters. One brutal murder. A quest for vengeance that will unleash Hell itself… And an intoxicating romance. Emilia and her twin sister Vittoria are streghe – witches who live secretly among humans, avoiding notice and persecution. One night, Vittoria misses dinner service at the family’s renowned Sicilian restaurant. Emilia soon finds the body of her beloved twin…desecrated beyond belief. Devastated, Emilia sets out to find her sister’s killer and to seek vengeance at any cost-even if it means using dark magic that’s been long forbidden. Then Emilia meets Wrath, one of the Wicked-princes of Hell she has been warned against in tales since she was a child. Wrath claims to be on Emilia’s side, tasked by his master with solving the series of women’s murders on th

The Hating Game is a book I loved so much when I read it. The book was enemies to lovers, Grumpy x  Sunshine, forced proximity, how can I not like it. Josh and Lucy's chemistry was just so explosive and I absolutely wanted to read more of it and I was so excited for the movie but once again people prove that book to movie adaptations are not it.  The Hating Game trailer dropped a while ago and I needed a lot of time to process that trailer. I've embedded the video here but I am also going to link the trailer at the end so you can also check it out.    If we talk about casting Lucy Hale as Lucy was excellent casting, Austin Stowell as Josh might not have been the best choice. I don't want to badly criticize Austin, but most of the fandom expected a different Josh. They also kind of butchered josh's entire personality, and I was cringing so hard through the trailer at that. In the book, Josh is so grumpy, and one of Lucy's main aims is to get Josh to smile. The whole