Harvey
tbh i'm kinda at a loss for words. idk what to say. this book affected me in so many ways. there were so many different points of intrigue, and everything just leading up to the plot twist
this book fucking tore me apart. i felt like i was slowly going crazy with james and oliver. they were so obviously queer from the very start and it PAINED me. i'd say the story isn't entirely on their love, but it's the one thing that you'd remember from it. when oliver said it “transcends any notion of gender” i thought it was so beautiful. they had a love so strong; everyone knew what oliver would be willing to do for him, which is why fillipa didn't tell him. and i think that's so scary yet beautiful in the sense that oliver would do anything for james, anything in the world. i hate books like this because they fucking destroy me. this book specifically focuses on a murder which eventually makes everyone spiral out of control. can i just say i hated wren and james ??? like as a couple. they were awful. everything felt forced as fuck. at least meredith and oliver felt real, even if it wasn't entirely. i love the quote “do you blame shakespeare for any of it?” and oliver replies with, “i blame him for all of it” because despite everything, this book lives and breathes shakespeare, and he's a very crucial theme in the book. i find it so eerily fascinating that they can talk exclusively in shakespeare quotes, and i think a lot of his quotes contributes to the emotions of the scene. i also really loved the parts where they'd be acting, yet oliver would take the words seriously, as if the other person was directly saying that to him. and it almost felt ironic how every shakespeare line they said was relatable to the situation they were in. it made it feel like the line between acting and real life was blurred. lastly, the end broke me. oliver saying, “the whole truth is that i'm in love with him still.” i think it's so fucking heartbreaking that they never got to say those words to each other. it's so heartbreaking that everyone knew, including them, how they felt, yet they never said anything. it just broke me that they could never be who they wanted to be.
Okay I reread this and I am losing my mind. This book is amazing? It discovers and dives into the macabre, into all things perverse and weird. This is because the class are not subject to normality - they have created their own socialisation and so they have their own rights and wrongs. Charles does not see loving camilla in more than a brotherly way as perverse or incestuous - he is not aware of the social stigmas around incest. The same goes for the rest of them. This is why Richard stands out so much as the newcomer who's been newly exposed to all of their weirdness. He comments on Charles' and camilla's relationship and they brush it off as they find it normal. He is the only one to think it weird as he's the only one who's experienced life outside of the group. They all feared Henry I think. Nobody wanted Bunny dead beside him. Henry made them all fear what bunny would do, planted an image in their minds so he wouldn't sound crazy in his idea to kill him. Everyone was accomplices in his game. Henry I find so strikingly mundane but simultaneously insane. He talks so casually about the most odd subjects that it makes one question the normality of his world. My new favourite line is from Francis, who says, “forgive me for all the things I did but mostly for the ones I did not.”
The found family in this is so beautiful. It's a story of hardships, friendships, and romance but above all, it's about family. And I love that reminder of not needing to be blood to be family.
SO GLAD THEY CUT THE EXY GAMES DOWN. i did not need 4+ pages of a sports game i did not come here to read
oh my god OH MY GOD ?? six of crows was so good and yet this was so much better ???? NO BECAUSE WHEN WESPER FIRST KISSED BUT THEN JESPER HAD ACTUALLY KISSED KUWEI IT WAS SO EMBARRASSING
this book was a fucking rollercoaster bye. i hate the ministry so fucking much on god wanted to kill myself multiple times during reading scenes with umbridge in them !!
riko is getting too god damn big. who the fuck does he think he is????.... there's so many different storylines in this idk how to keep up
quite possibly the most queercoded book i've ever read. “i know what you are.” , “ronan lynch lived with every sort of secret.” I COULD GO ON !!! okay but to find out that ronan is canonically not straight is the best thing that has ever happened to me i'm so happy. I liked Kavinsky. There I said it. he was annoying as shit and borderline obsessed with ronan but it was CUTE ok ?!!?! i really liked him :'( anyway the whole thing going on with blue and gansey like WHAT IS THIS !!! JUST GET TOGETHER !!! also we all know adam is gay maggie literally spelling it out for us
this book had characters in it ive never seen before. each one was so original and raw, especially neil and andrew. ANDREW IS SO INTRIGUING like i just need to know everything about him. also his and kevin's friendship better be explained more because i want to know more about them!!!! fuck nicky and aaron i don't like them! dan and matt are my favs!!!!
Girl this was so fucking good. I love how they used something innocent seeming, like animals, to portray how intrinsically toxic society is and how things work out. To start off with a revolution which becomes a classless group of animals who seem to get along and respect each other shows the naivety of how we think. As time passes things become distorted and the animals no longer know what to believe - they are brainwashed by the dictator, Napoleon. I like how it reflects real life situations - I believe a lot of it mirrors the american revolution and how america is today. Also, nazi germany in the way the pigs were above everyone else and the rules were catered around them. I think animal farm is about a moral message to humans that we cannot achieve peace because there will always be people who want to do bad that will eventually prevail.
A raw social commentary on the subtleties (and extremities) of racism and how it feels to be invisible as an individual of a marginalised group. Who is there to help us? Why can't anybody see our struggle?
the author should rename this “the diary of a time thief” because my biggest regret is reading this book. i hated every word, ever letter. it has to be the worst book i have ever read in my whole life. 151 pages of entitled, pretentious bullshit. it practically follows a cishet white man that thinks he is quirky as he emotionally manipulates and destroys girls. the “plot twist”, if you will, is that he ends up getting his own heart broken by a girl that does the exact same to him. good on her. i really hate how he kept repeating “if this gets published”, because really, how did this book ever see the light of day? i would rather sit through a lecture on the history of maths than put my eyes upon this book ever again. want to forget i ever read this book. i never want to think about it again. unworthy piece of shit.
I FUCKING HATE THIS BOOK. there are so many things wrong with it. 1.) snape. harry thinking against snape the whole book and everyone shutting him down pissed me off more than i could ever imagine. dumbledore looked like an old ass fool when harry told him that he suspected snape and he was there like “no i trust severus with my life
The ending fuckifn destroyed me a bye Thetis character redemption arc But still fuck tjay bitch
this book is perfect. it's so fucking beautiful. the language is so simplistic and yet every single sentence has a deeper meaning. i love ari because he's so realistic - he's stubborn and he's normal and i love that. and dante's just beautiful, he's lovely and he's free and he doesn't care. and the fucking parents too oh my god i wish i had those parents they are so amazing. i love most characters in this book (excluding some of the very small characters that were fucking assholes). i just think it's a very teenage book — it explores what it's like to be a teenager and all of these questions about the universe. i like that it makes you think. i love this book.