Emi
3.5/5 stars
This is a rating I'm gonna have to sleep on and whether I'm gonna round it up or down. But anyways, I'm sad.
5.15.2021 update lol I hated the second book so much that I can't bring myself to keep the rating of this book at 5 stars. this is the quickest I think I have ever changed a rating for a book
5.12.2021 original review ]
Omigod...
RTC when it's not 2 hours past my bedtime and my brain can maybe fathom what I just read
2.25/5 starsThis is a hard one to rate, because while the romance in this book was absolutely dog shit, one of the most lackluster and chemistry-lacking romances I've ever read, the rest of the book was interesting. It tried to create a discussion on the culture of elite gymnastics and the abuse that has surrounded it. However, thinking back on it, I don't ever felt like it really dived into the brutality of elite gymnastics and mental health. The representation was kinda superficial? It could have opened that door a bit more, even if it's a hard topic to approach. But instead, I felt like I was told about the issues instead of being shown. They didn't affect the main character, but the side character (Hallie, the best part of this book), but we never get to see how Hallie deals with this other then a few scenes of Hallie obviously needing a therapist but no one really doing anything other than giving her a pep talk. And these issues were based off real events. We all know what happened, but if you need a reminder, the US gymnastics team doctor (who's name I won't mention, because I don't want to give that disgusting excuse for a human any more attention then he deserves) sexual assault over 100 athletes. For years. This is not something that something that should be written about and fictionalized to be a subplot for a romance novel. It wasn't handled poorly in this book, but it could have been much, much more impactful and tasteful. The book [b:Break the Fall 45993634 Break the Fall Jennifer Iacopelli https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1563188107l/45993634.SY75.jpg 68996280] may be a YA book, but I still think the same topics were less sugar-coated then they were in this book.
tw: sexual assault, grooming, racism
Three stars because I found the writing to be blotchy at times, but if you have the chance to read this, please do. It talks about important topics that people are often to scared to discuss.
3.25/5 stars
This book started out really good, but by the end, I just stopped caring. I think it was because there didn't seem to be much of an actual plot behind all the action.
But the feminist themes and representation of different romantic relationships were worth an entire star.
3.5/5 stars
When it came to the plot and the characters and the representation, I adored this book. It was so, so good. But the writing and me never really connected.
April 2021 review:
This book is so good, I'd give it a 10 stars... but that's not possible so I give it a 5...
This is probably my favorite go to comfort read at this point. I can already guarantee I'll read it again before the end of the year
June 2020 review:
For absolutely no reason other than because it can be, this is my favorite contemporary novel. There is absolutely nothing special about it, but it makes me so, so happy. And every single year, I pick it up again and reread it, wondering if I'll feel the same unconditional love for it, and I always do. I love it so much.
3.5/5 stars
Bonnie, because I know you'll be reading this, I actually liked this book. I thought it was cute.
This book? Pointless.
The 30-going-on-14 year old characters? Pointless.
The plot? Pointless.
My time? Wasted.
A book about a girl who sells her soul to the devil?
Are you sure this isn't about me? Because I've sold my soul to Victoria Schwab.
10.6.20 Update
IT'S HERE
IT'S FINALLY HERE
I'M CRYING
I'M SHAKING
I'M SO EXCITED
ITS BEEN FOUR YEARS SINCE I ADDED THIS TO MY TBR AND I'M STILL NOT READY
2.99/5 stars
This book wasn't awful but it was also full of so much wasted potential? I didn't hate it but I'm also more disappointed then my mother.
But tbh the problem is probably me. I found 90% of this book was so, so incredibly boring. There's 6+ main character and I don't feel attached to any of them. The magic system was either underexplained or I'm just too dumb for it (probably the latter tbh). There was random parenthesis in the middle of paragraphs to add in additional information that wasn't really relevent and it was the worst writing style I've seen since I read a book with no capital letters.
I read this book extra slowly to try to understand the plot but in two weeks, if you asked me about anything that just happened, I won't be able to tell you
Anyway, I won't be reading this book ever again and will not be continuing the series. Thank you and have a nice day.
4.5/5 stars
For some reason this book actually really disturbed me. Idk what to think. I don't feel right.
I wanted to love this book, I really do. But, like, I was so bored by everything. There was so much wasted potential. The worldbuilding could have been so much stronger. It shouldn't have been first person POV. Everything about this book was just fine.
This was my most pathetic year of reading ever.
I've read 52 books this year, which is honestly impressive considering I work full time and go to school full time. So I'm proud of my 52 books.
However, what we don't talk about is that 25 of those read books were from the same trilogy. We really don't need to discuss this
And 9 of those books I only read because my university classes made me. One was a parenting book. I'm not even a parent.
40 of the books I read this year were actually rereads. That's just over 75%
Which makes only 12 were books were ones that I read for the first time.
8 of those 12 first time reads were for university. They barely count. I didn't read them willingly.
So out of 52 books that I've read this year, only 4 of them were books that I've never read before and actually wanted to read.
So in reality, only 4 books of these 52 books were books that I wanted to read and haven't read before.
I'm pathetic.
2.5/5 stars
Not me saying that this book reads like a TV show before it was revealed that everything I'm this book was a TV show .
Anyways, I was actually liking this book up until we got answers, but then the answers made me hate everything.
Okay this was incredibly cheesy and had fake dating (which, I've realized now, I don't like) but it was still cute and it referenced Louis Tomlinson, Harry Styles, and One Direction so that's a plus.
3.5/5 Stars
So I'm gonna sleep on my star rating and perhaps change it in the morning. I rounded down because I found there to be a lack of chemistry between the two main characters (the love story was not the knock-off Nina&Matthias romance I was lead into believing it would be) and I was confused about a lot of things that happened in this book (I still don't know how the main character lost her pinky
DNF @ 90%
For the first time in like 3 years, I am DNFing a book. Tragically. Even though I only have less than 50 pages left until I'm done. I just don't have any interest in actually finishing this book.
