Heartless by Marissa Meyer

☆☆☆☆☆

An absolute must read.

“Long before she was the terror of wonderland, the infamous Queen of Hearts, she was just a girl who wanted to fall in love.”

This novel brings readers excitement and illicit romance between two star crossed lovers.

The protagonist, Katherine, is the daughter of a noble and only wants to open a bakery to share her love of pastries with the folks of wonderland. But fate has other plans when she is suddenly told of the foolish King’s desire to marry her.

I found this novel to be painfully beautiful because as the reader we already know that she is going to marry the king. We know how the story ends. We know and yet we hope stubbornly that she will succeed in her quest to follow her dreams by opening a bakery and be with the one she loves. And when she ultimately fails we can’t be surprised; we knew this was coming.

I give this book 5 stars because I will be crying over this book ‘till the end of time.

Please give me Book Recommendations

I’m allowed to get a few books for Christmas and I need some recommendations!

My list so far:

Madeline Miller’s Song of Achilles and Circe, American Gods and Norse Mythology by Neil Gaimen, Any Shakespeare play, And The lord of the rings (I have somehow never read it and I’m finally giving in to peer pressure)

Any recs would be welcome, but my parents are buying them and they’re homophobic Christian conservatives so if it’s pagan or queer it has to be sneaky.

Thank you for any help!

Has anyone else ever really wanted to read a book, and then went on goodreads to check it out, and not want to read it anymore? Like, people on goodreads diss my favourite books, so I know I shouldn’t trust their opinions. Plus, you’re not supposed to listen to random strangers on the internet anyway. But their reviews are so harsh that they make every book seem terrible. Goodreads has killed SO MANY of the books I’ve wanted to read recently… RIP all those books lol.