Marissa
Whoever said this is good was a liar. The second person — SO ANNOYING. The main character — SO ANNOYING. The plot — SO ANNOYING. The length — SO ANNOYING. The ending — SO ANNOYING.
You getting the picture??? Glad I listened on 2x speed like usual so I only wasted 7 hours of my life instead of 14 but still — SO ANNOYING
I wanted to like this so bad, I really love octopi so I was very excited and it was just so boring and painful to get through
Not sure how I never put this on my goodreads. This audiobook is my comfort book truly, idk what it is about Jessica Almasy maybe it's the nostalgia of me reading this in elementary school. Maybe I should've had some theories about myself when David sat and cried because her dad was late coming home from work because “he lied”, but that's an analysis for another day and probably a therapy session
It didn't stab me in the heart like I wanted it to, but it did still hit. I think there was a little bit of a pacing issue in the middle but I've honestly felt that way about all the hunger games books. I do love all the Easter eggs here though, Ik there are some haters about that but I loved it so
She did an excellent job don't get me wrong, but it's so so hard for me to give memoirs high stars when the person is so young. There didn't feel like there was level of healing and introspection necessary for a fully mature memoir here, it felt unfinished. I could never think to write a memoir right now in my life even though I've done so much because there's still so much to learn and there's so much growing to do. I think this would've been better in 15-20 years.
Def some pacing issues, y'all know I hate a third act breakup. Spicy scenes were NOT IT. Also idk why but the piggyback ride thing gave me a huge ick oops. There was no real conflict/plot here honestly and I wish there was, like the only real problem here was Aiden having commitment issues (that were never resolved????) don't get me wrong this was well worth the read, Grayson and Mateo were chef's kiss and I adored Maya! Overall i think it needed more fine tuning plot wise to be truly good
I really don't know how to rate this or how I feel. Maybe I'd enjoy more if I watched one tree hill? But it wasn't bad? I can't explicitly say anything was bad, or maybe good?
For a second at the beginning I was like oh this is a little woo woo (and some is) but it's great food for thought
Oh this was SO good! Though for a book titled the “third Gilmore girl” there wasn't a ton about Gilmore girls but don't get me wrong all the other parts were excellent. (4 stars bc I had to deduct one for the praise of woody allen)
Might've been a 4 but of course we hate a 3rd act breakup and honestly the second half dragged for me. Could've done with about 100 less pages tbh
I enjoyed this immensely but I unfortunately felt like so much of it was about the people around Lisa Marie rather than her. Riley did an amazing job but many times it felt like it was her memoir, and many parts Lisa Marie wrote for the beginning felt like they were about her father or sometimes even her mother and that disappointed me
Got a little preachy idk maybe a little too much for me (I do b eating up reality tv nowadays but this didn't hit for me)
Coulda probably chopped this into a novella, but overall pretty good, was worth my time overall.
Unfortunately a huge miss. Too many plots interwoven all of them felt lazy and juvenile and were not fleshed out by the end and none of the characters were likable. Definitely dragged on.
Way too much going on all at once, would've been better if there was actually a solid main plotline to follow but I couldn't tell who I should actually care about - bear or Barbara
4.25
This one is for the Taylor swift girlies fs.
Love all the mental health representation too!
I was super hyped for this but it really didn't live up to my expectations. The writing was blah, summer sucked for at least 3/4 of the book and Aiden has the vibe of a bowl of cream of wheat. The only kinda okay character on the side was Kian. And nothing was really resolved?? Like so glad summer's dad has sooo much money and can just use that to get through things?
This was gonna be a 4-4.5 star read but truly the ending pushed it over the edge into a 5. Don't let how long it took me to read this fool you, the library made me return it but this was an excellent debut. I cannot wait to read more from Ms. Sangoyomi!!
Things I learned from this book
1. I still don't like Ronda Rousey
2. I actually don't care about WWE at all (at least not reading full blown descriptions of matches)
A masterpiece! amazing! Truly everything you could ever want in a book! Queeros was by far the scariest part of the book though
