Marissa
This was too disjointed for me, it felt too memoir but also then it would just jump around I didn't feel the weaving of nature in a story just a lot of words
Again, goodreads needs half stars. This was so close to a 4 for me but I couldn't do it. The writing is beautiful but I wish there wasn't the “magic” in it. It just didn't do it for me, not because of the author, I just don't care for it
I'm don't think the writing itself was bad but I think this story would've been better if someone else wrote it. Also rose is the wooooorst!
I need to stop reading essays/memoirs/literary nonfiction by millennials bc they're always sooooo annoying to me
The writing style of this felt like a reeeeeally long essay but boy are these some amazing mothers
I'll probably never stop thinking about this book tbh.
Nesta girl I am SO sorry for the things I said about you in the first 4 books. I love you
3.5 rounded down - a few too many characters for my liking, by the end with the reveal I had literally forgot who the killer was in relation to the rest of the group, oops. Overall a good read though
Maybe if millennials (specifically 90s era millennials) didn't write this and insert 8 trillion bits of pop culture references or if they had a better editor, I would've enjoyed this. The analysis on the dolls was quite mid too but the chapter on Williamsburg + the founder slayed the house down
Wiglaf is the only real one around here, the rest of the band is fake af. Wiglaf should've just kept the treasure bc wtf did everyone else do??? Nothing!
I would maybe rate this higher but idk so many characters in this made me so mad. I also kinda hated the last quarter idk I just wanted to stay in the beginning.
I'd say this was more of a 3.75 but I'll round up. Very twisty turny but also I hate everyone in it (but like in a still readable way)
Anyone who rated this a low amount of stars isn't from wi. This is meant for people from wi and the other little cheese lovers out there but mostly wi.
Anyways I love cheese.
And this was really funny - the audiobook was excellent!
There was absolutely 0 point in having the rape subplot within this book. You can't tell me one that I'll agree with. If I ignore that it was pretty good but idk I'm not into douchebags who think they're all that (yeah yeah I know it's the he'e a softy for her trope, but like no actually that's not the case because he's nice to other men just not women??? Doesn't sit right with me)
I don't think I get this one because I don't have a sibling,,, this one isn't for the only children of the world sorry
I don't think I could've made it through this if I physically read instead of listened as an audiobook too
Thank god it's finally over.
I'm sorry maybe I'm the problem but genuinely truly you could pay me a million dollars gun to my head to give the full name of one of the women in here and k could not. She's talk about someone for like 1 page and then just never again? There were SO MANY PEOPLE.
I wanted to like this book so badly. I can get behind flowery language, I did like several of the letters, but everything in between made no sense. This was a no plot just vibes book but in a negative sense. There was no context to make me feel for the characters, understand the war, understand why the they in particular were in it. It just didn't hit for me, sad to say.
A few things
1. I'm sorry, Ruth Ware is not the Agatha Christie of our generation
2. Maybe I'm just old fashioned but I don't think Teslas and smart houses belong in gothic horror it just killed the vibe for me
3. The ending didn't really make sense and felt very forced
4. To whoever at Booklist made a “starred review” of this saying it's a spin on the Turn of the screw's gothic foundation, I think you need to reread that book (and probably watch House of Bly manor because THAT is how you put a “spin” on turn of the screw)
