Kari

The ending dragged on for far too long. Sarah was made out to be far more mysterious than she actually was and everything just became too predictable and I lost interest there in the last 20-ish pages.

I really enjoyed the first half of the book but then something happened a little past the halfway point and I kind of lost some enthusiasm. I can’t put my finger on why. I still really liked it in the end, but I’m not sure, despite the cliffhanger ending, if I will read the next.

This was a slow burn sort of story with a painfully slow (but in a good way) ending. There were a few things that didn't make sense, like what happened to the trucks, but other than that it was good.

Started out promising and the the last quarter of the book it became slightly comical. A drug for children that has a weird side effect of making them want to do chores?? There was almost no one to root for here and just a lot of people I hoped were the victim.

This was fine. Hunger Games with a king instead of a President like Hunger Games was The Running Man with a President instead of a game show host.

Reacher at his Reacheriest. I liked that I had absolutely no idea how this was going to turn out.

While I feel like there's so much more to get to know about Ghost, I thought this was fantastic. I loved the supporting characters who were literally there to support Castle, though I was disappointed in the principal at his school. You can't just feel sorry for a kid and his circumstances when you work in education. But other than that, this was a sweet, emotional story.

Greased made me physically nauseous. What a way to end a collection!

I read books in chunks. I read a third then move on to the next and rotate. It helps me get through books I might not love as much, I think. I knew I loved this book when I got to the time I should stop and switch and I just kept reading until the end. Loved.

I wish I felt more optimistic that we could turn things around.

Blink has always been one of my top three favorite bands, Mark and Travis, my two favorite musicians. I can't believe it's taken me this long to read this, but worth it.

Maybe because this reminded me a bit of Bear Brook or just because the story wasn't so far fetched, but I really liked this one when I've been kind of lukewarm about the last few.

Anything that makes complicated subject matters easier to understand is good!

Maybe I just wasn't in the mood, but I couldn't get into this.

Don't love that a major incident happened in a novella before this book, but then when I went back to the novella it was so brief it just seemed like she wrote it because she forgot to in the main books. I felt like I was missing something and even went back to reread the last part of book 18 didn't help. It started me off frustrated with the book and then it didn't really improve much from there.

Not as gripping as You Can Talk to My Back, but full of introspection and honesty.

More of a cookbook than a story. I wish there was as much story as there was cooking but it was still enjoyable and I saved a few recipes for later!

Lovesickness was fantastic! The Strange Hikizuri Siblings was more ridiculous and gross. The Mansion of Pain was kind of fascinating and the last story just cracked me up. Comic relief, I guess?

Realistic horror is not my favorite of the horror sub-genres. It leaves me feeling melancholy in the end. It took awhile for me to get into this one too.

Yamada Murasaki write so honestly about being a mother and wife. Despite being written decades ago, it feels pretty timeless.

A little wild and out there, but it kept me hooked. There were times I thought Dawn was making some incredibly dumb choices but it didn't matter, I still had fun!

This was so sad! I guess I should have realized it would be due to the title but alas, I did not and now I'm sad.

I love the way this left you feeling like you weren't sure what was real. Everything was tense and suffocating. Good stuff!

I didn't want to put this down. I NEEDED to know what the heck was going on.

Sweet and emotional. I liked how everything wasn't wrapped up neatly at the end.