Julia
I have conflicting thoughts about this book. I read this book a couple times, but this time (2020) I didn't enjoy the book as much. I don't know if this is because I read it in German and since this is a language I'm still learning, it took a lot of time and effort to read it, so I didn???t enjoy it as much or because it just wasn't as good as I remembered.
First, I thought this book was middle grade, but it is in fact Young Adult, and even though there is no romance (a positive thing for me), I was not in the right mindset to read a Young Adult book, especially since last year I have been avoiding YA books.
Second, the characters are one-dimensional, and they don't have a lot of development, not only in this book, but in the rest of the series as well. The thing that is well developed is the bond of characters as a crew, as a unit, instead of individual growth.
I guess I just was expecting too much of this book and it didn't deliver it. Overall, this is not a bad book, but it is not perfect either.
I will probably not continue with my reread of this series, because I don't want to lose my positive experience I had with this series when I was younger.
Old rating: 5???
New Rating: 3.5 ???
This was my first cozy mystery book. This was a light and fun reading experience.
The one thing that I really didn???t like was the ???love triangle??? between Katie, Steve and Declan, not that anything besides a kiss happened. But I really didn???t like Steve and how he kept trying to go out with Katie, even when it was clear that she wasn???t comfortably around him (specially in the beginning). And Katie didn???t say outright to him that she wasn???t interested.
I liked how she didn???t believe from the beginning that magic was real and that only to the end of the book she truly believed in it and what she could do.
Read 456 pages of 575.
I just can't be bothered to finish this book, I just don't care about the characters and their dramas. This book is just to long and could have half of the pages and tell the same history.
This book was disapointing in many aspects, I was expecting a cozy mystery with a cat that helps the main character solve the case. And technically we got that, but this book was not cozy enough and the cat participation let a lot to be desired.
In this book there is no point of view of the cat, and since the main character has no experience in dealling with cats his responses to the cat actions were annoying, even though I have read books with characters that are interacting with cats for the first time and liked them, in this one I was left annoyed and disspaointed.
I will not continue with this series.
This is the first book in a mystery series. If you are looking for a good mystery, this is not the book for you. The crime was interesting, but the solution was bleh (I think I would have preferred no solution to the one that was given). This book focus on the main character, his non-existent dating and relationship skills (both romantic and familiar), his drinking habits and anger. I can???t think a single positive trait of this character. There were other detectives, but they all had as much personality as a stone. I only gave this book 2 stars because it was a look in the reality of Sweden.
A middle grade retelling of Little Red Riding Hood.
There was a lot of mentions to other fairy tales. I liked the journey that Red took, her interactions with other characters and their stories.
I didn't like the reason she was making the journey and her denial about death. She goes on a journey to look for a way to make her grandma not die, but she leaves her alone while she is sick and spends days away. Which to me makes no sense, if she was really worried her sickness she wouldn't go away and leaver the grandma alone, possible diying while she was away.
If this was not a middle grade the grandma problably would have died before she came back or soon after she came.
This was a book that i read for a class in College knowing that I wouldn't like it since I don't like reading books with unlikable characters and Macuna??ma is the epithome of an unlikable character.
I really liked the book, it was easy to read and understand. The last 3 or 4 chapters were boring to me, because it focused a lot in the economy part.
3.5*
This book was a disappointment. Most of it was okay, but there was a part in the middle I liked a lot.
There was something about the writing that I didn't enjoy, I was constantly rereading sentences because I was confused about what was being described. I don't know if it was because I was having a hard time visualizing the trees actions or because the descriptions were bad.
I also didn't like the lack of communication between the characters. Red from the moment she met the Wolf knows that he is keeping things from her, but she doesn't demand answers to know what the hell is going on in the forest.
Wolf is also frustrating as a character because he doesn't want anyone else getting hurt but he can???t avoid that because he is clearly overwhelmed with the forest, and everyone including himself knows that, but he insists on doing everything alone.
There was barely any character growth in this book. Almost all the characters at the end of the book were basically the same from the beginning with only really small changes. I think the one that changed the most was Neve and that wasn???t a good change.
Little Red Riding Hood - 5
Snow White - 5
Sleeping Beauty - 2
Rapunzel - 5
Jack and Bean - 3
Beauty and the Beast - 4.5
Hansel and Gretel - 5
Blue Beard - 4.5
Cinderella - 4
Little Mermaid - 5
Rumpelstiltskin - 4
Peter Pan - 5
I loved this book. If you can handle gore (descriptions of blood and organs, etc) read this book.
We follow a cast characters where people start to gain powers and a lot of creatures that no human knew to exist start to appear, some of the creatures wants to kill the humans while others want them to coexist together. The world is very interisting and I wanted to know what was going to happen next all the time.
The book is easy to read, since I managed to read 360 pages in one day (normally I read 20-50 pages a day).
This book has 4 awesome female characters that have point of views (2 of them we get only one chapter with their point of view).
There also gay characters, there was a random couple of guys that are married, and one the main characters is gay. And no one seems care about that, besides the fact if he is going to be able to date the guy he likes.
I need more fantasy books like this where there is more than one girl “that is not like others girls” (or the wife or daughter) and there are lgbtq+ characters.
My first Jane Austen book. I really liked the narrator and the main character. I enjoyed the first half of the book, but after they went to Northanger Abbey, I started to lose interest.
I was not expecting the ending. Since the narrator describes our main character as a heroine, I was expecting more of a adventure book (and forgot that this was a Jane Austen book, so a romance), but what the narrator meant was that she was the main character of her romance story. So when she got engaged, I was surprised and not expecting that at all.
There were two main things that I didn???t like about the book, almost everyone was a bastard (some a result of rape and others of consensual sex). And that all female characters that had a more prominent role (not counting child and older women) got pregnant or took permanent measures to avoid one, while all the others, even the ones in fire guards, were just named or had a line or two in the whole book.
I don???t know if this was intentional or not, but this book showed in the characters that got pregnant a reflex of how many women get pregnant today. One of the characters doesn???t like taking the preventive herbs and believes that this is something that will not happen to her, while the other doesn???t have access to the herbs and is ashamed to ask for help.
