4.5/5 STARS!! If I could use only one word to describe this book it would be beautiful. This tale, the characters, the writing - everything about this story was absolutely beautiful. "Hearts that loved both boys and girls were no more reckless or easily won than any other heart. They loved who they loved. They broke how they broke. And the way it happened depended less on what was under their lovers’ clothes and more on what was wrapped inside their spirits." This was my first time reading

“Even in its first faint traces, love could alter a landscape. It wrote unimagined stories and made the most beautiful, forbidding places.Love grew such strange things.” Wild Beauty is an own-voices novel about queer women of color who love their lovers out of existence and grow flowers that never keep to where their hands put them, and soft boys who appear from nothingness to relearn the letters of their names in an alphabet that's constantly changing. It's about brown-skinned men who are dr

*sighs for the next 10 hours*That was just excruciatingly slow and boring. Not even the ending or the reveals saved it for me?? Like I genuinely cannot remember a single part of the book that wasn’t slow. It was just slow from page 1 till the last damn page. I can’t deal with slow books. I’m entirely fine with books that start off slow, but when the book hits 40% and it’s still mind-numbingly slow?? Then that’s not good for me at all. I literally had to force myself to pick it up and read every

3.75 stars

Each spring felt like all of them, not just the gardens, coming back to life. They spent winters giving their flowers to ceramic pots they kept indoors, or pulling snowdrift roses out of patches of land soft enough to grow. But now all of La Pradera was theirs. They had every acre to let out the blooms that had been waiting in their hands all winter. I have never, never, never read anything more deeply beautiful in my life. Something about it just hit me. The characters, the love story, t

"Things growing just live in us," she said. I should have reviewed this weeks ago when I finished it, but I didn't know how. This book nestled itself so deep into my heart, and left me speechless every time I tried to put my thoughts down in words. Anna-Marie McLemore is a brilliant, beautiful artist who has painted the most lovely images, and sculpted the most precious lives, in this story.In this family, broken hearts were passed down like lockets. And Estrella had been enough a fool to think

before: after 2 months of agonizing wait, I’m ready to fall in love now: I FEL(L) IN LOVEI’m sorry, the pun was too good, I couldn’t resist4.5 stars, RTC! // Thanks so much to Ju for the beautiful copy!!

I don't really like encountering beautiful books, because as much as love them while reading them, they leave me such an awkward mess afterwards so that I'm left only with sentences like 'holyfuck, that was fucking amazing what should I do next?' or something to the same extent. So here I am, upon finishing this beautiful masterpeice, I stand in front of you with petals and dirt covered clothes, dazed expression, I say with every drop of love I can muster from the core of my rotten heart, this b...

My October Owlcrate Box! It's one of my favorite so far. I will add a link to my blog with close-ups of the things under the picture if you're interested ♥ More PicturesUnfortunately, I didn't like it. I did love one of the author's other books but this one wasn't for me. I'm glad plenty of people love it though. We all want to love our books. Happy Reading! Mel 🖤🐾🐺

"There's nothing wrong with who we love, what's wrong is what's always been wrong. We're Nomeolvides girls."This book is so beautiful and meaningful.

Can you do yourself a really huge favour and start this book now?Even before starting this book, I knew I would love it, I just didn’t expect to fall head over heels in love with it. But then again, this book was recommended to me by someone I trust, so I should have known it wouldn’t be a common reading experience. It only took me 15 pages to know where I stood, to know this book was so much more than ink on paper.This isn’t just a book about women growing flowers out of their hands, it’s about...

ARC received via #arcsfortrade on Twitter! (Thank you so much, Kendice! ❤) “Love grew such strange things.” La Pradera is a magical garden estate, that is curated by a family of women who are unable to ever leave permanently. The Nomeolvides girls are five grandmothers, who had five daughters, who are the mothers of the five young girls, who this story centers around. This land of La Pradera is both blessed and cursed. Blessed, because all of the women can create life in the form of b...

3.5*Every other review I've seen from people I know of this book have been 5 stars but I just didn't love this book, no matter how much I wanted to. I truly love magical realism, the lyrical writing, the odd topics set in a familiar setting, everything about it just amazes me. Magical realisms are generally slow, and I'm okay with that, I read them with patience and a suspension of disbelief in mind, but this was just way too slow for me. The writing was beautiful, the characters and their famil...

4 Stars "Everything we touch, we wreck." "So wreck me." Reviewing this is weird, as it's honestly some of the most beautiful writing I've ever read, and all my words feel clunky and out of place next to it. McLemore's lush prose beautifully weaves this story together. Every description was vibrant and decadent and made me want to sink my teeth right into this setting. While I can understand why some won't enjoy how "flowery" the narrative is, I think it blends perfectly with how unapologeti...

I received this book for free through BookLikes’ Giveaways.I give this book 4.5 stars which rounds up to 5.This was such a unique read. I have never read anything quite like this before. It’s really hard to explain what this book is about, because you kind of have to read it for yourself to find out. I loved a lot about this book. First there was all the diversity! All the main characters are Latinx. In addition there was also great LGBT rep. All 5 of the girls were bisexual and had a crush on t...

There are maybe 15 things I truly love in this life.This book has four of those things, namely:- girls- flowers- magic- books with pretty coversTwenty-six point six repeating is not bad. In fact it's kind of a small miracle.This book is fun and nice. The writing is pretty. Maybe the relationships are a little flat or annoying, maybe the world itself is kind of nonsense, but I will read about a half-dozen bisexual cousins going to balls and doing flower magic and kissing girls and screwing men ov...

🌈 buddy read with a disappointed world cup follower

*4.5/5Absolutely gorgeous

What a beautiful, beautiful book.More coherent thoughts (from a thread I wrote on Twitter), now that I've had a day to gather them:WILD BEAUTY is pure magic. It's hard to describe in words how incredible it is. While reading, I couldn't put it down, and read it in one sitting, which rarely happens. Anna-Marie's writing is like candy. It's simply divine, and I want to eat her words and savor them for the rest of my life. This book is filled with love, and family, and secrets, and flowers. It's st...

this book actually feels like reading a dream (that sounds so dramatic I know) but its genuinely has such a whimsical aura I was legit captivated from the first chapter Pros - The writing is so gorgeous, it was one of the elements of the story that immediately grabbed my attention- THE CHARACTERS- There are so many wonderfully tragic, realistically crafted characters - the Nomeolvides family 😭😭😭- the fam all love each other so much I cri- the relationships that were written were so ??!great!!?...