Chloe
it's the way the villain ACTUALLY mysteriously strolled out of the dark, SLOW CLAPPING at one point. omfg
this shit was high-key boring & not only that, THEY EDGED ME THE ENTIRE 459 PAGES BC THESE BITCHES DID NOT TOUCH TIPS ONCE.
NO BONING. NO CREAMING THE TWINKIE. NO SQUAT THRUSTS IN THE CUCUMBER PATCH. NO BIRDS OR BEES. NO FILLING OUT THE FMC LIKE AN APPLICATION. NOTHING. AT ALL! ACROSS ALL 459 PAGES!! Just so, so much edging.
But he did tie her up once and call her a ‘good girl'?? like what-
I am so heavily blue balled by this book that my brain has lost a significant amount of its function due to the extended redirection of blood within my body without any period of release. this book gave me erectile dysfunction.
my retort to wuthering height stans:
I understand the complexities which emily bronte strives to broach and explore throughout this book but, at the end of the day (to me) all it succeeds in accomplishing is reinforcing that people suck.
the techniques employed to structure the story's narration as being told from several people - oft, at times, being recycled across a lineage of individuals - is impressive especially when considered to be in conjunction to the quality of language wielded by bronte to outline her multi-faceted world with intentional detail.
however, while these elements are praiseworthy, I personally did not find the subject matter particularly enriching; terrible people doing terrible things, squandering any hope of redemption, makes for a rather taxing read to me. With life's inherent challenges, I question the appeal of reinforcing negativity through a gothic romance when I could simply watch the news 😭
now, i understand that others may find value in the themes i struggled with &, my critique isn't to discredit their admiration either but, only to explain why, for me, the book's messages left me largely disenchanted.
simply put: good read but it was just not my style. i hope this clarifies that my mediocre reception of the novel isnt a dismissal of its literary merit, but rather a reflection of my own personal taste. excessive praise for a narrative that extensively dwells on human depravity strikes me as overdone.
uhhh- oddly enough this book has the same energy as those rom-coms where the mc is like “take me... home” proceeds to smolder out the window, looking at literally nothing
anyways, to rate this series? 0. 0 points. that ending could easily be one of the most unsatisfying things I have read in a long while. not only that, this entire series completely wasted my time bc the plot literally (and when I use the term literally- I MEAN LITERALLY) kept repeating itself.
big sexy man –> oh no, he's bad! –> I like this man, but I shouldn't because he's bad ^~^ –> fuck society, and fuck him (literally: they start fucking) –> ahhh, this post nut clarity is nice and I love him so much even though he is a closet racist hellbent on committing genocide –> I can't love him! I have to run away (back INTO the maze mind you) and become his prey –> big sexy man –> oh no, he's a bad hunter! and so on...
this was a really shit story which makes me question myself: why did I enjoy it so much? The characters' ideological consistency was wack, the plot was wack, and DON'T EVEN GET ME STARTED ON THAT ENDING but the one good thing? design. the world was sooooo amazing & it made me want to keep reading it. the characters' designs were so cool (!!) and the world was so beautifully enchanting w/ the orgy lore being so pleasantly entertaining that, all in all, I just had to keep reading it.
everything else though? terrible.
but, as a guilty pleasure read, it did its job. I enjoyed it at least & the smut was pretty aight (albeit violent and extremely stupid [at times]). it's a 1/5 though. rip. I never want to read this again, but boy, am I glad I did :)
i feel like booktok severely hyped this book up - it wasn't the bible of autobiographies.
but, her story was engaging and I found myself really enjoying the narrative she portrayed.
Praise to the author for writing this in such a succinct, to-the-point fashion - I was never bored and the plot just kept plotting.
bro I don't think u understand. my heart aches rn. WHERE IS KENJI'S WEDDING? I WANT TO SEE MY BOY'S WEDDING!!!
I want to be reincarnated as their mother. every single character's mother just so that I can hug them and kiss them and tell them I love them and make them Sunday roast and bake them sweet treats and watch them and their children (aka my grandchildren) grow up and get old and then die happily.
GOD DAMN the author built this entire character relationship ABSOLUTELY BEAUTIFULLY. I don't think I have been this attached to characters before (namely kenji and warner). This was an extremely wonderful story and I am so happy to have embarked on this ride. This is a comfort series now and is easily a 100000/10 read.
favourite book series of all time, even if I read anything else, nothing will ever beat this series. ever. THIS is my favourite. I would love to reread it all over again.
absolute perfection and I am so, so happy. I don't even want to say goodbye to this series and stop reading because then that means that the characters ‘die' inside my imagination. I want to live in this world beside them, sending all my love. I love (most of all) the characters. so wonderfully written and characterised that I find it hard to live without them accompanying my thoughts.
bye bye Shatter Me series. I loved reading this book and I really, really want to thank the author for writing it. goodbyes are hard. I love you, inanimate object (the book).
i'd like to extend a toast to all the smut in this book.
not a lot of plot, but there was a lot of PLOT
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this shit was straight ass man.
the characters were weird as fuck - very much the vibe of when Edward watches Bella sleep/the forest ‘i know what you are' scene except that was their every interaction. this mans would just stare at the girl from a dark corner of the room and her inner monologue would be all ‘i know he's watching me... my kuchi is throbbing in morse code, translating his every movement to my nervous system.' likeee, EVERY SCENE BRO?!? what happened to HELLO? HOW ARE YOU? they could just not be normal. THIS HAPPENED LIKE 6 TIMES.
and the amount of unnecessary enemies-to-lovering was driving me INSANEEE. and the reason?!?!?!?!?!?!?!?! SPOILER ALERT: this man's aversion to the FL was basically spawned from the fact that she didn't die in a kidnapping when she was a toddler but his sister did & then he made the executive decision to kill someone bc of a matter regarding this issue. LIKE??? WHAT WAS SHE SUPPOSED TO DO, BITCH? DIE?? GO BACK AND ASK HER KIDNAPPERS FROM 20 YEARS AGO TO ‘FINISH THE JOB'???? let's be so fr rn. AND ITS THE WAY THIS BITCH GOES TO APOLOGISEEEE??? FOR WHAT??? BREATHING?!?!?!?!?
thick as a mf brick bro. omfg.
and they were so edgy for no reason. I did not picture the ML as some hot brooding motorcyclist mafia man. no. i pictured him as fuckn tatted-up marilyn mansion bc this bitch was saurrr fookin emo & I just know he dyes his hair black and does a sick frickin side part in the mirror every night before he goes to bed listening to paramore. he literally said ‘you assume I have a heart'. whats more emo than that?
and the fml was so stupid man. THE CONFLICT OF THIS BOOK - AND I ASSUME THE NEXT BOOK BC IT WAS NOT EVEN CLOSE TO RESOLVED (WE'RE STILL ESSENTIALLY AS CLOSE TO SOLVING THE COMPLICATION AS WHEN THE PROBLEM FIRST AROSE) IS ALL BECAUSE HER DUMBASS COULDN'T RESIST AN ELEMENTARY DARE. yeah. her rando ass ex bf (which she'd had for a couple of weeks) simply dared her to make a MASSIVE, MILITARY-ASS VIRUS (just to see if she could??) to which she obliged and had the audacity to be surprised when this mans took off with the virus, selling it to the highest bidder or whateva.
like, it's simply amazing how this girl was written with the IQ of einstein but lacked the braincell capacity to use that brain she was gifted with.
this book astounded me. baffled me, even. much buffoonery was afoot here.
Just finished the book and... I'm utterly obsessed.
I cannot count the amount of LITERAL CHILLS the plot twists gave me.
TINGLY TINGLY SENSAAAAATIONSS
this was a christmas special.
nothing boils my blood like christmas specials.
trees were murdered to fuel this literary injustice. #savethetrees
frankly, i have no idea why this was in my tbr and yes, it does worry me a little that it was. this book was just a big ass instruction manual on how to summon/work with demonic nobles... like, bruh.
my fav demons were sitri & foras. absolutely adored crowley's drawing of foras (his ritual must be the equivalent of the writing on bathroom stalls with a phone number + a request to call for a good time, iykyk).
also, didn't really understand this one but... a lot of the hell princes' powers were teaching ppl Liberal Arts & Sciences? so... to all uni attendees with a similar major... maybe this is the tutor you were looking for?
This excerpt describes Kalanithi's memoir perfectly:
” He wanted to help people understand death and face their mortality. Dying in one's fourth decade is unusual now, but dying is not. “The thing about lung cancer is that it's not exotic,” Paul wrote in an email to his best friend, Robin. “It's just tragic enough and just imaginable enough. [The reader] can get into these shoes, walk a bit, and say, ‘So that's what it looks like from here...sooner or later I'll be back here in my own shoes.' That's what I'm aiming for, I think. Not the sensationalism of dying, and not exhortations to gather rosebuds, but: Here's what lies up ahead on the road.” Of course, he did more than just describe the terrain. He traversed it bravely. “
Everyone involved had a truly wonderful way with words and I will, indeed, be crying for the next week or so.
