Marissa

I LOVED the first book but wtf was this. I HATED Hannah get her out of here

Way too much going on here but overall the Boone as okay

Good, enjoyable, not overly memorable to me

I truly don't think there's any way I can rate this. Good and bad aren't terms that could even begin to describe how I felt about the book. This book isn't for everyone, I still can't tell you if it's for me or not (I probably never will be able to) but I have no regrets reading it

I wanted to like this book so badly because I heard so many wonderful things about it, but it was sooooooooooo slow. Autobiographies are typically the only nonfiction I enjoy, but this one just felt dry.

Reread finished 2025 - this book is so funny and cute and I don't think I truly appreciated it as much reading it as a kid. What a book!

This book is not at all what I was expecting. I don't think there is any way to put it into words and I don't think I'll ever fully understand it

Just a reminder to myself when I read this again (which I absolutely will) that I'm Still Standing is one of the funniest things I have read in my entire life

I'm going to be honest. I thought the entirety of parts one and two were bad, and I thought most of part three was bad, but once the pair visited Rome the book got good, so I guess I'll give it three stars because part four really hit me in the feels, it was so raw and real.

I really wanted to love this — fantastic writing, a fantastic idea,, but I knew it was written by someone who usually writes things for the screen. It just didn't hit for me because of that. There was too much over describing like what one would do for a script it didn't read naturally enough for me. Now Mr. Thomas if you make this a movie I'll be right there opening night, probably ready to pee my pants in gear.

I did just read a review by someone named “mark” who said “the author's extensive experience writing for television is all over this book. Easily digestible, simplistic character types rather than three-dimensional characters, a narrative flow that would easily translate in the arcs you see spread out across a tv season, various vivid but unrealistic scenes that may pop on the screen but feel artificial on the page, moralistic lessons for each of the characters that may make sense during an hour-long episode but feel trite and predictable in a book, and that are not particularly tied to any overarching theme throughout the book.”

And I think that's so accurate, and way better than anything I could've written myself

ouch!

It in fact did not get better and the baby was a minor nuisance of a plot point

Here's the thing, if you have a master's degree in Shakespeare, and your authors note tells your readers that you had to use a whole extra book to navigate “the textual maze that is king Lear” maybe that's a hint that you're doing too much. Maybe if I enjoyed Shakespeare more this would've been better, who knows (this coming from a former theater kid who knows more than the average reader about Shakespeare).

The final “act” of this book really saved it for me but if you took out the Shakespeare quotes and such, we probably could've had a nice (and possibly more readable) novella on our hands instead of this. For those niche dark academia readers who love Shakespeare I'm happy this exists for you, but personally, not my cup of tea.

I didn't love The Vanishing Half but now upon reading this and understanding Brit's true talent I think I need to reread it. Maybe I read too quickly and missed what I needed to. This book was phenomenal in every way, the dialogue, the conflicts, the characters each and every one of them. Heartbreaking and heartwarming all at once. This book should truly be considered a modern classic that everyone should read.

I don't think there's an appropriate way to rate this. I will say though it made me immensely depressed - which is kind of the intent so good job on that I guess

I'm sorry I know everyone loved this but I hated it! The format didn't work at all, and I didn't like a single character (except maybe Elizabeth who's literally dead)

Don't actually look at my rating for this. It just wasn't for me, I don't think it was objectively bad and the story wasn't bad, I just am not really into manga apparently. Thank you to BookRiot's Read Harder challenge for making me branch out and try this, maybe I'll try another manga but I will say this was a pretty okay one if I had to read a manga

For a book about movies there sure was not a lot about movies

I feel like this would've slayed so hard if I finished the heros of Olympus series and read this right after

I wish Ms gay nothing but love and healing for the rest of her life

Yall gotta be lying that you like this book fr,,, I don't get it at all

Who's rating this 4 or 5 stars???? This is genuinely one of the most awful books I've listened to. I was so close to DNFing (which is very rare for me) but it's so short I suffered. Everything about this was annoying.

Jennifer's body meets black swan. I hate the French but loved this book! Some pacing issues but overall an excellent debut! I'm very excited to read the next

Excellent, phenomenal. Definitely a slow burn compared to Ace of Spades but still a wonderfully written and compelling book.

I do not typically write reviews of books; frankly because I do not have the time. This book infuriated me on so many levels, but most of all I just had to let everyone know what I think happened when this book was written.
I believe that Jesse Ball got an old beat up copy of the Catcher in the Rye. Read it. And decided that Holden Caulfield needed a girlfriend who was an even worse character than he was.

Save your time and money and go find a book with a character who actually goes through development and has more personality traits than being a sad, angsty, teenager who claims everyone in the world is a phony (or a poser in this case).