anais

4,5
friendship is so precious and I'm so happy that this book exist <3
(the love declaration that Rooney gave at the end... I love her so much)

it's a shot of life, a shot of hope and a sheers to women

honestly sally rooney is a queen
I love the way she brings the past into the present, very fluid
the non-existence of the quotation marks isn't a problem for me

DNF
I couldn't take this book seriously... yes it's a fiction but it just didn't work for me

auto-5s
I appreciate taryn pov but you know... I don't like her still

4,75
all my love for Dante
I don't have the five stars feeling even if i LOVED this finale, stephanie garber is just my queen

im conflicted,

the first half of the book was really difficult to get through, I didn't understand anything that happened THEN the romance take another turn as well as the pace of the story

the second half was good ?¿
i really don't know, on one hand the representation of sa survivors is well developed, the writing style and the gothic atmosphere was really good
and on the other hand the transition between enemies to lovers (if we can say enemies) happened when the fmc told the mmc her trauma, the spicy scene was sooo stereotypical, the mmc said that he would be kind, that she was beautiful etc... but he done nothing but p3netrate her (so classic behavior of men)

this is so fucked up ???

heartbreaking
‘People can't always give us what we want from them, you can't ask them to love you the way you want and no one can be blamed for that' my heart skipped a beat

she just suffered so much in this one

absolute banger

kinda love this one

I love her so much, could read anything that melissa wrote even her grocery list

4,5 stars
just because, I don't even know why, it took me 3 months to read this sequel ?!? but I enjoy every word, every chapter and every letters

this book is the exception when I say that I don't really love romance, Ashley Poston is killing it !

at 30% I wondered if the rest of the book was gonna be only pages of cheesiness and “life is worth it and so precious” etc... let me tell you, it is !
if you love cheesy romance like “our fault in the stars” then you'll love this one
but for me it was so boring and just no plot AT ALL, the excess of “your mine, im yours” was too much that the story became comic in a sense

this book is not YA at all !
a lot of topics as; dr*gs, domestic violence, torture...
definitely high stakes ! never bored and badass heroine, I loved Lazarus ^^

just finished and im speechless
the writing is amazing, so true, so honest, so real

oooh that was a journey my friends
honest, raw, eye-opener... my jaw was, at multiple times, on the FLOOR by the easiness Bell is able to put words on complex behavior (yet, she explained it so simply that I was like, duh, of course it's the easiest thing to put into words...)

why is it not 5 stars ? as a non-religious person it feels pretty close to a religious book at times
I find myself forced to read about the bible and its content

The book start very strongly and I was directly invested or more specifically disturbed - and as a result I wanted to understand
But the more the story progressed the more I find myself not liking the book
I was intrigued by the synopsis, but the actual content was over the top. I read a lot of gay books with a destructive-codependent relationship, and this one was definitely pushed to the extreme.
anjir's transition felt unexpected and simply to feed the plot of the book, this is a touchy subject and I'm not directly concerned so I'm not going to speak any further on this matter
I can't say that I love the characters but I was really intrigued by their story
Thank you net galley for the copy

first, thank you netgalley for the copy

At this point I'm embarrassed. It's not even the amount of cursed words because, yeah there's A LOT of them. It's the terms that the author use like lesbos, r-word... but when the n-word popped up I couldn't listen to this book anymore. So this is a DNF at 70%.

it was so sweet !!

why did I loved it so much ?!
raw exposed trauma, right up my alley
“happy anger” felt it
“my life; a reusable waste” felt it too

my main problem is that, there's a LOT of conversations and dialogues which gave no space for characters' development, as a result the story felt flat
I couldn't stand kendall and her internal monologue so I struggled to ruth for their couple
however the audiobook's narrators were good

thank you netgalley for the copy

déçu par toutes les recommandations élogieuses de ce livre
scène de violences psychologiques passives, « légère infidélité » avec « un gracieux animal, espagnole blonde » qui renforce son amour pour Marthe puis plus tard avec une amie de Marthe croyant « bénéficier d'un viol facile »

écœurée devant un texte grammaticalement bien construit qui fait passer des scènes misogynes comme si c'était romantique

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