Book Review: What Happens After Midnight by K. L. Walther

When I read K. L. Walther’s novels for the first time, I felt very conflicted. The first novel I ever read by her was The Summer of Broken Rules. I wrote a review about the book here.

The Summer of Broken Rules was, and still is, a book I feel conflicted about. On the one hand, I like her writing style. On the other hand, I hated the amount of Taylor Swift references, which is what it is famous for. When I heard Walther wrote another novel, I was curious about it. I was hopeful I would enjoy this novel more and here writing style would shine through more. With this hope, I decided to read it.

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Book Review: The Summer of Broken Rules by K. L. Walther

For many years, Booktok has been a major influence on which books become popular. A few years ago, I heard about a popular Booktok novel called The Summer of Broken Rules. It was written by K. L. Walther, who became extremely popular because of this book.

Back then, it was highly recommended by a YouTuber that I used to follow. I didn’t know at that time that the YouTuber was also a huge Taylor Swift fan and loved the book because of it’s ties to her. Today I don’t follow the YouTuber because of many reasons. One of the minor reasons is her incorporation of Swiftie references throughout her videos.

After reading the book, I felt very conflicted about how to talk about it online. This is why it’s taken me years to figure out what to say or if I should recommend reading it. Although I still feel very conflicted about how to talk about the book in a review post, I’m tired to stumbling across my book review post in my saved drafts files. So, I’m going to review it, no matter if I am sure about what to say or not.

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Books I’m Currently Reading (And Some Thoughts About Them)- August 2023

It’s been a while since I sat down and wrote a blog post about then books I’ve been reading. Since my last book post, I have been reading. Even though I really liked the premise of the books, I didn’t like all the ones I read. So, I didn’t bother writing a post about any of them. This changed in July.

Every July, I start to look forward to purchasing new books as well as reading more. There are many reasons why this is, but the major reasons is because July is when Arizona’s seasonal storms, called the Monsoon, occurs. The storms are so strong that it causes the power to go out, leaving me with nothing better to do but read a book.

This year, the Monsoon didn’t affect the power in July. In fact, there weren’t many storms or rain at all! Even though there weren’t a lot of storms, I had plenty to do that took my time away from reading. Thing changed in August, when I was able to sit down and read more often.

During the month of August, I was able to read more than five books, but I didn’t like all of them. Since I disliked so many books I read, I narrowed down the books I read to four I feel comfortable talking about online. I like some of them, but others I am starting to dislike, yet am not at the point when I want to stop reading completely.

And now, without further ado, here are the books I read in August 2023 and what I think of them!

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