Let’s talk about the books we all read together in April!

Unfortunately April was a big bust for me. I DNFd our fantasy pick and didn’t love our thriller pick so let’s discuss…

Fantasy: The Book of Fallen Leaves

This was one of my most highly anticipated new releases for 2026. This was pitched as Game of Thrones meets Shogun which are two of some of my favorite shows of all time (I haven’t read the books). I honestly went in pretty blind other than knowing that pitch. I don’t DNF books this early on EVER but I only got 50pages in and knew this book wasn’t going to be for me. I have since seen very many mixed reviews. The book is very slow and dense and within those 50 pages, I had no idea what was happening and where the story was going. If anyone has finished this book please let me know if you enjoyed it and if it’s worth revisiting!

Thriller: If You Lie

I listened to this book on audio and there wasn’t anything necessarily wrong or bad about this book. I think I went in with too high of expectations first of all because I loved You’ll Never Know by the same author. That book was so fast paced from beginning to end I literally could not put it down! But I found If You Lie to be very slow. It’s not a bad book by any means, however, I haven’t thought about it at all since we finished it and there wasn’t much for me to actually discuss with this one.

Let me know your guys thoughts and make sure to join the discord to discuss!! No worries if you didn’t get to these books in April. You can always message in the dedicated chats for these books in the future if you ever decide to read them.