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💫 Mini Review 💫

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The Cheat Sheet by Sarah Adams is your new smutty book on the block ✅

I can promise that in 48 hours, you will snavel this novel up and will be continuing on your book buying binge for ALL other Sarah Adams books. (click me and you can see them 😉)

Bree and Nathan have been best friends since high school. Nathan dreamt of becoming an NFL superstar and Bree dreamt of becoming a professional ballet dancer. Sadly, only one of their dreams came true. After having a few years apart in collage, Nathan and Bree have reconnected and their friendship is stronger than ever. It is also particularly threatening to any of the women Nathan’s chooses to dates, mainly as all of these woman can see the unrequited love between the two of them that neither care to admit.

This friends to lovers trope takes a great turn when Nathan’s celebrity stardom approves of Bree as a potential cutesy girlfriend after yet another breakup goes wrong. Que, the two of them in a fake relationship and oh how this is entertaining to read!

Okay positives and contrary aspects:

+ve’s:

  • Written as if the author is talking to you in conversation which makes the novel extremely easy to read
  • Friends to lovers trope
  • Characters are really warm and loveable
  • Dual perspective
  • Bree is so quirky and cute that she is what every girls dreams the main character is in these smutty novels (… or maybe that’s just what I enjoy reading!)
  • The whole premise of this book happens over quite a short period of time

Contrary:

  • Not a lot of depth to the environment or back story of each character. I wanted a little more historical detail surrounding Bree and Nathan’s teenage years and friendship bond back then
  • Wasn’t long enough … I was invested 🤗
  • There wasn’t a big dramatic peak as there usually is in 80% of novels in this genre. I was kind of waiting for a big secret to be exposed or a disagreement to happen over something minuscule and then have the main characters make up … but it didn’t really happen. In a way this was kind of a positive as the character’s didn’t resent, argue or disagree with one another. The novel just ended in a peachy kind way which was warm and fuzzy.

All in all, this smutty read is perfect for a rainy day, with a nice hot cup of tea!

Purchase or download your copy via this link: The Cheat Sheet by Sarah Adams

Kindle Vs. Paperback

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Here is the ongoing debate of Kindle versus Paperback books. I recently had a lovely discussion with my artistic, intelligent and avid reader friend, Elle, about this topic. We both own Kindles and we both agree that a Kindle is modern-age and portable way of reading. We discuss the use of our Kindles often and talk about the pros and cons of reading digitally.

I have just been gifted a Kindle and if you’ve read my 2022 book goals (click here to see them if you missed it), you will have seen that I am wanting to read more on Kindle for the sake of saving money and precious book shelf space – to which I actually have no shelf space left 🤣 The Kindle I received was the Paperwhite 11th Gen (click here to see this type of Kindle) and honestly, I find it so easy to read on. Here are the reasons one avid book reader may like to invest in a Kindle:

⭐️ Portability ⭐️ Storage ⭐️ Money-Saver (in the long run. Initial cost can be a hit to the bank account) ⭐️ Easily read multiple books at the one time ⭐️ Lowering your environmental footprint ⭐️ Read at night time without additional lamp or ceiling lighting ⭐️ Small and compact ⭐️ Light-weight and slim, perfect for handbags or travel bags ⭐️ Easily enlarge text ⭐️ Digital highlighting ⭐️ Dictionary & Translator built in (which is one of my favourite features) ⭐️ Connected to GoodReads reviewing app ⭐️ Can buy new books in an instant ⭐️ Size of a book isn’t as overwhelming because you don’t see your physical progress, you just keep tapping the page and see your percentage down in the bottom corner ⭐️

These pros are really cool, don’t get me wrong! But, it is only fair for us to look at the cons of reading on a Kindle:

⭐️ No book feel ⭐️ No book smell ⭐️ Can’t loan your books to other people ⭐️ Flat battery ⭐️ Cannot physically make annotations in margins or put tags inside the books ⭐️ No bookmarks ⭐️ No physical connection to the book (eg. no hugging, throwing, passionately waving 🤣) ⭐️ Cannot see the coloured book cover all the time ⭐️ Sometimes skips past the book cover and dedication when initially opening a Kindle book ⭐️ Can become too easy to spend money on new books ⭐️ Loss of connection to physical bookstores and libraries ⭐️ Spending more time on technology ⭐️ Cannot appreciate a book you’ve just competed sitting on your shelf ⭐️

At the end of our ongoing discussions about Kindles, Elle and I always agree that there is no such joy, pleasure and comfort as reading a physical book. There is no comparison. Yes, Kindles make our life easier like most technology devices that are created but sometimes the good old fashioned way is still the best. I will always be a physical book lover because I love everything that goes along with it. I love the heftiness of a book, the page turning feeling and the hugging 🤗 I also love bookstores, libraries and all things connected to the environment of books as they always seem to have a calming effect on me. I would love to hear your perspectives and why you read on either Kindle or Paper – comment below 💬