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It was good, but I guess I found it too short. Maybe I would have enjoyed it even more if he had been able to flesh out the story and the characters more than they were. Alas, a short story can only do so much ¯_(ツ)_/¯

You know, on an some level I could probably put this higher, but with the terribleness of it all I can't really bring myself to it.
The storyteller is a racist among other racists, and it comes through in every description of people who aren't white just how racist she is. On top of that, she wants to employ sympathy from the reader for her and her friends, almost just as much as for the main character of the story. And then there's the glossing over of these really terrible and awful acts as if they're not completely appalling. I just can't.
It's definitely an interesting read, but there's just so much bad shit from the author's side that I'm like.... no.

I did end up enjoying it some, but I found it hard to get into, and in general I think it's just a case of ‘this story isn't for me'. Huck Finn is a little too reckless and adventurous for me to not constantly feel like he's in danger. And Tom Sawyer is just.... a bad influence? Like that boy is just too much. Wayyyyyyy too much. I couldn't deal with him. 
Whenever The King and The Duke were around I was worried for Huck Finn's safety. By the time Huck Finn reaches Aunt Sally he has become more tolerable, and when Tom Sawyer shows up, Tom is clearly the worse of the two, which automatically puts Huck Finn in a better light. 
I don't know, there were some parts to enjoy, but for the most part it just wasn't for me.

I actually quite liked this, it was mysterious and interesting. Miles, the little brat, I really liked, and I actually would have loved to see more of him. It's unfortunate it ends as it does, but it was a good little horror/ghost story.

Hm. Definitely one of the most interesting classics I've read so far. I was pretty much never bored, you know, it was really well paced.
Um... but it was also just deeply unsatisfying. I think I had too much sympathy going both sides and somehow that ended with me feeling that the ending was not tragic enough for either of the two sides.
Also, just don't end your story with the villain monologuing why they did what they did. A bad idea. That actually WAS boring. Don't do that, it is awful. The end.

Really not what I was expecting at all, but I enjoyed it so much! And I found the ending so unexpected, like I truly did not see that coming.

I'm sorry. What? 

Not sure I completely get what Antar's role is. Is he the new Laachan? Is he the Ronald Ross of his time? How on earth do these people not age? I just am so confused and I don't understand anything at all, but I had a good time being confused as all hell.
But what was up with that imagined moment between Urmila and Murrugan?? I was totally getting vibes between Urmila and Sonali, so it felt so out of place.

If it was possible to give more than five stars, I would.
I spent the first two minutes after finishing this book just squealing. Well, technically, I spent the last three chapters squealing, I think.
It was just wow. I don't know how to express my feelings. It was probably the best ending to a series I have ever ever read. It's not one of those endings where things are barely solved and then it ends, no, it's one of the good ones, one where you get more, so much more!
I honestly can't deal with my feelings right now. I loved it. I just plain fucking loved every single bit of it, even the hard and terrible bits that made my heart crumble.
But here's a spoiler for everyone that won't be hidden:
No one dies.
This fact alone made me happier than Iko when she got her escort body.

Holy shit, I loved this book. Holy mother of god, I don't understand it. People say that Cress will be even better, and I'm just like, “how???” I am so fucking excited to read Cress and Winther, this was just absolutely wonderful, and I fucking love every single one of the new characters, they're all amazing, and funny, and badass, and great, and cool, and damn, I wish I knew them in real life.
Holy crack-shit-couch, everybody needs to read this series because W.O.W.

OH MY GOD, WHAT
DID I JUST READ THE MOST EPIC RETELLING OF CINDERELLA EVER IN THE ENTIRE WORLD HISTORY OF CINDERELLA RETELLINGS?
Yes.
I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT TO SAY, I JUST LOVED IT SO MUCH
IT CAN'T END LIKE THAT, I DON'T UNDERSTAND HOW ANYTHING WILL BE FIGURED OUT IF THE NEXT HAS A NEW PROTAGONIST
WILL WE SEE MORE OF KAI AND CINDER, BECAUSE I NEED MORE KAI AND CINDER, I NEED MORE OF CINDER PERIOD. AND KAI.
I DON'T KNOW, MAN, I JUST REALLY FUCKING LOVED IT, LIKE, FUCK, HELP ME, I DON'T OWN SCARLET OR ANY OF THE OTHER BOOKS HOW WILL I SURVIVE????
And, ohmyfuckinggod, Queen Levana, I can't even comprehend the evil that lives inside of that woman, like what even.
Honestly, I feel like reading it again, literally, right now. And I just finished it.

Had to read (listen to the audiobook) twice before this made any sort of sense to me. Ridiculously technical and descriptive and there was no dialogue. Did not enjoy it whatsoever. 

I liked the writing, and I found myself interested and invested in the story overall. The main character had moments where he really got on my nerves, but he was never un-interesting. The ending was somewhat ambiguous, but if what I think happened happened then I'd say “yeah that tracks”. The main character could almost get an award for stupid decisions but who am I to judge that? 

4.5 stars
OH MY GOD
HOW COULD IT END LIKE THAT
I DON'T KNOW HOW TO REACT WHAT TO DO WITH MYSELF RIGHT NOW I JUST
THIS BOOK WAS NOT AT ALL WHAT I EXPECTED AND OH MY FUCKING GOD

I ended up really enjoying this reading experience, which was a relief upon the disaster that was Catch-22. 
Kesey is great at making the characters feel both vividly realistic and caricature-like at the same time. They're incredibly enjoyable characters and they play off each other really well. Having the story told from someone who essentially is a fly on the wall, but literally is within the story is clever. The story feels less subjective and very observative in that way even though it actually isn't. Following McMurphy's storyline and how he affects the others is also a joy all the way through, and the only time that lags is when McMurphy himself has a temporary change of heart halfway through. 
It was an interesting, thoughtful, and enjoyable read that had to something to say about authority figures and how easily we trust (and betray) others.  

It was really good. I loved the way it is was written, sort of meta at some points which was really nice. It grounded the story even more in a reality than it already was. It tells the story of a Jewish WWII survivor personally, and it's so emotional. When volume II began and the author was telling about how the father had died and he was having trouble continuing the story, it's just felt so much. Really really liked it. Super sad, but also kind of cathartic. It was really easy to get into and I didn't at all mind the way people were drawn with different animal faces depending on what nationality they were. It was a nice way to show certain things, and how when a jew would disguise themselves as Polish officers, they would be drawn as wearing a pig-mask. I just really dig the way it was told and the honesty in the way the son had grown up with a survivor who had sometimes been a pretty harsh father, and he wasn't maybe particularly fond of him. But he wanted to tell the story and, ahh, okay I just really liked it.

I don't even know what to say. It's incredibly difficult to rate this book. It was weirdly inconsistent in managing to grab my attention. I felt like I was on a roller-coaster in some ways because it kept going up and down when it came to grabbing my interest. At times I was completely into it and couldn't stop reading and at other times I was slugging through it, bored out of my mind. This would have been helped if it was simply shorter. 
The book was also unexpectedly homoerotic, but with, like, no pay-off whatsoever. I've never read something so distinctly homoerotic and yet so unequivocally heterosexual in execution.
To call it a modern classic is accurate, in that it gave me all the same feelings as practically every other classic I have read. Particularly, I have similar feelings about this book that I do the Great Gatsby. The characters are flat and unlikeable which makes things hard for me, but they are at least interesting characters, which makes me want to continue. The good thing about Gatsby is that it's a short novel, whereas this one was way too long. That's what made it so boring at times. The good thing about TSH is that it has interesting plot points, which Gatsby sometimes lacked. Overall, though, I find neither particularly impressive.

I don't know if this is the right rating. It was so intense and I spent the majority of it feeling like my heart was going to burst out of my chest - and not in a good way.
It was addictive and terrifying. God, Paul was so terrifying. It was really good.

This was very cute! It had me more in the first half than the second, not gonna lie, but overall it was a solid 3 stars. 
Part of what pulled it down was in the cliched writing, and I don't mean as in tropes, I mean as in literal lines of dialogue or monologue that we have heard a million times before. They stop being funny or cute at some point, be and just become cheesy and cliche to a point where I can't take it serious. 
I also think this book could easily have been longer, which is not something I often say. There are moments that simply seem rushed because we haven't had enough time with the characters and their feelings. 
But this was exactly what I was in the mood for and needed right now! A good read, for sure.

There was barely a plot but the vibes were all there. 
I nearly felt sick at times at the suspense of when everything would go to shit, knowing it was right around the corner.
Ines truly ends where she started. Theo's brainwashedness is so awful to read. CH clearly drugged him on “three pills a day” and the hypnosis-plasm stuff they do. Of course, he was always obsessed but by the end, he's barely a person anymore. Just a shell obsessed with immortality and beauty. It's so gross.

I don't know why Adam Silvera wanted me to go through this misery. I cried. It was such a great book. Man, I felt sad and happy so many times.
As Rufus would say it; This was mad chill, dude.

okay, i literally don't even know what to say
it was so good????????
like omg???
like, holy shit, frances is just so relatable and amazing and i love her and i love everything and omg it was just so good what the hell!!!
also, side note, alice oseman is twenty five years old and has written like eight books, i am in literal awe, especially if all of them are THIS GOOD??????????
i'm just completely entirely wholeheartedly one hundred percent in love with this and i can't. oh my god i love it so much.
thank you, that's it
x

2.5 Stars.
I'm not sure what to really say about this book.
You don't just leave one character miserable, like what the hell is wrong with you??? Don't do that.
They focused on all the things that I didn't care about.
I wanted a lot more of Clara's parents, because I'm in love with her dad. Michael is just A++++ tbrfh.
Honestly, in general Michael and Maggie's story would have been a better one than Clara's. Just saying.
I was sure that since this was the third book, it would be better than the second because the second is always the one with all the relationship drama. Somehow, even though literally no one was actually in a relationship, THERE WAS MORE RELATIONSHIP DRAMA. HOW DOES THAT EVEN MAKE SENSE WHAT THE FUCK!
Yeah, so I had to hold on to those occasionally good moments. Because god, this was annoying.

This was so gooooooooood!!
I really loved seeing Helene POV as well (although it did take me a little while to get used to her), her storyline brought so much to the table and eventually the plot of the next book and I'm just so excited for it!!
I really wish there was more Laia and Elias team-up in this book, because I'm not sure how that's going to happen going forward and I really just want more of it. But it's exciting and I'm excited and I really wish I could binge the rest of the series but only one more book is out and I do not own it.
Also; AVITAS ENDED UP BEING SUCH A FAVORITE, WHO WOULD'VE EVER THOUGHT. LITERALLY EVER.
And damn, I totally wish Tas would have stayed with Elias, I just wanted them to be a family so bad.

4.5 stars
A fantastic final novel to the trilogy. This is definitely my favorite of the books because kickass Juliette is real and Warner is asdfghjkl and Kenji is the best person in the entire world and James is so cute and there were actual funny things that happened that I actually laughed out loud at.
Loved it. Loved it loved it loved it.

3.5 stars
Really enjoyed this! Like so much!
It was incredibly intense and so addicting. I didn't want to put it down.
I did not know that this was a dystopian type of book, so when I found out that we were living in this post-apocalyptic sort of world where nature has basically gone to shit, like, it threw me off for a moment!
I can't quite tell where things are going considering the love story, because I've heard things about it that I don't see in the first book, but I guess we'll see in the next! Because I'll definitely read Unravel Me. Just you wait.