Cecilie
My god, Cassie and Sarah, just shRED MY HEART INTO A MILLION TINY PIECES WHY DON'T YOU???
I was scared shitless that this book would end badly, like those endings where 20% is good and 80% is bad, and with about 20 pages left I was severely concerned. But, thankfully I got what I wanted. It was a good ending albeit not 100% good (one person's death left me severely scarred) but otherwise it made me happy. And while there were an uncountable amount of times where I wanted to scream and kill the protagonist, there was an explanation for my wanting to rip her head off, and yeah, idk, man, it was pretty well flushed out tbh and I enjoyed it!
Thank god, the book is still fantastic. There's a lesser sense of general angst once you already know everything, but it's still pretty angsty though, lmao. But in the best way. Like, the pining, OH, THE PINING! I love me some good pining.
Julian is such a ruthless bastard and I can't tell you how much I love it. Like, Jace is the fake badboy who tries to convince everyone he's bad and never succeeds, whereas Julian is the kind of person who could literally turn into the villain if he'd been dropped into the wrong world, you know what I mean? Like, he'd do anything for his family, like quite literally ANYTHING.
I adoooooooooore Emma and Christina's friendship, I would just die for the both of them, honestly, and the two of them together. Oh, the love. I love me some good girl friendship, I crave it, even, and Cassie just deliverrrrrrrrs!
Hands down the best of Clare's first books in a series. Not just for the writing, which is better with every series she does, but things like the overarching plot of the book, the setup for the trilogy as a whole, and its role as a first book in general; it is just an immense amount of fun and feelings.
Also, soft boy Mark Blackthorn is literally everything.
This was wonderful, but now that my analyzing glasses have been on during the entire book, I'm seriously wondering how this is a children's book. The main character may be ten years old, but the plot and the story... it's worse than the Hunger Games for god's sake!
God, I don't know what to say about this book.
It was great, it really was, but somehow it just lacked something, but I can't even figure out what. It just didn't have what the other books had (yet I don't even know exactly what that is).
All I know is that I didn't enjoy it as much as I did the others, I think it could have been a shorter book, and I don't know, maybe it just didn't go in the direction I wanted to.
I've read this book once before, but I constantly found myself being like “I don't remember this AT ALL”. Most often when the scene happened I'd remember it, but I couldn't pinpoint what would happen next. Seems like maybe I didn't want to remember it all?
Gosh, I don't know.
It was great, I really did enjoy it! Just not as much as the other two.
I was not expecting to feel that way.
I have been reading this book for TWO YEARS. FINALLY!
“You pierce my soul. I am half agony, half hope. Tell me not that I am too late, that such precious feelings are gone forever. I offer myself to you again with a heart even more your own than when you almost broke it, eight years and a half ago.” This quote completely did me in. I practically raised my rating with a whole star. No one does confessions like Jane Austen.
2.5 stars
NOOOOO
I WANTED MUCH MORE OF FLISS AND LORCAN
I DIDN'T CARE MUCH FOR LOTTIE I DON'T UNDERSTAND WHY IT WAS MOSTLY ABOUT HER
FLISS WAS MORE INTERESETING
GODDAMMIT
WE DIDN'T EVEN GET AN ACTUAL END TO FLICAN'S RELATIONSHIP
It's been a looooong time since I read the first book of this, but I saw that this little novella existed and just went for it, and it was super cute. More sex than I thought there would be, but I guess that's just because I didn't remember how much there'd been in the firt one.
This was good, though, I liked it. Dan and Elle are so cute.
This was a very interesting read. I've never read something as animal-centric as this, and the point of view of an elephant and the liberties taken in this story with elephant “culture” is definitely interesting as well.
It's 3 stars because I don't have any strong feeling about it. It was fine and I enjoyed some parts of it.
In the beginning there was a lot of confusion about timelines and the connection between characters, but it eventually became a very interesting story to follow as the characters unravel the workings of a secret organization. It was a solid mystery novel.
I liked it, it was pretty good. The cast in the audiobook I found were really good, which helped a lot.
A heartwarming (at times frustrating) play about being a black family living in Chicago in the 1950's. I enjoyed it, but don't have any strong feelings about it.
Two school works finished in one day.
This one wasn't too bad. I kinda liked it. It was funny sometimes.
Finally get what the Oedipus-complex is...
I think I enojoyed this book more the second time around than I did the first. I remember thinking it would be avery cutesy book and was slightly disappointed that it wasn't, because that's what I was expecting. But this time I knew what I was getting into, and I knew what to expect, so I could just enjoy the story that much more. It's still heart-wrenching and gut-churning but in the best ways possible (you just feel so much). Also when I first read the book, I didn't listen to the songs as I went along but I've heard them since, so when I picked up the book the second time, it was just amazing to recognize the lyrics and hear the song it turns out to be in your head while the narrators read them to me, because yes, I listened to the audiobook for this, which was GREAT. The narrators are fantasic and I really believe that the audiobook is one of the main reasons why I enjoyed it more this second time around.
Love it love it love it. Just love it.
What a novel. I've never given much thought to the life of people within ISIS, so this was my first foray into that. It was an incredibly interesting, gut-wrenching, and terrifying story.
LOVE THIS BOOK SO FUCKING MUCH
IT'S HILARIOUS AND THE BANTER IS AMAZING AND I JUST, IT WAS SO SO SO GREAT
(I know it has the cheesiest title ever in the history of titledom, but like, the book is SO. GOOD.)
It just wasn't for me.
The whole thing is written in letters though, and I found it was hard to get through, even though it was very well written. My main problem was the length of the book, I felt it went on for way too long, and found myself skipping pages because they irrelevant. I also didn't like the ending, it had gone too far and it just... the whole thing frustrated me to no end and I couldn't stand that.
Overall the book annoyed me quite a lot, and when I finished it I found that I really hadn't enjoyed reading it. It just wasn't for me.
I had such strong reservations going into this book, because I just remember being really annoyed with it the last time I read it, but I was super surprised by how much I enjoyed it!
There was of course the annoying and frustrating, but “inevitable” relationship drama which really was the only thing that made me mad about this book. Considering the short period of time in which this book is set, SO MUCH STUFF HAPPENS and it's AWESOME! I loved all the things that was not the relationship. It could have been a close five had there been a good relationship in it, but then I guess all the things that happened couldn't have happened but, like, still.
Okay what the actual fuck just happened??? I have SO many questions and I do not understand anything in that last chapter, did it not just unravel everything about the previous chapter?? I don't get ittttttt
I really need to to see more of Adam in the next book I miss him SO MUCH, and what in the world is up with Jordan, like how the fuck, and why ir RONAN THE ONE AFFECTED I DO NOT UNDERSTAND AND IF I DO THEN I DONT LIKE THE IMPLICATIONS HERE LIKE I LITERALLY CAAAAAN'T
SO MUCH HAPPENED IN THIS BOOK
I JUST COULDN'T DEAL
ALL THE FEELS
IT WAS AMAZING
AND I ONLY HAVE TO WAIT TILL FEBRUARY
I'M SO FUCKING EXCITED
OH MY GOD I JUST LOVE THIS SERIES
SYDRIAN FOREVER!
Spoiler AND THE WEDDING I JUST COULDN'T IT WAS SO CUTE THE WAY ADRIAN MADE THE WHOLE THING AND THE RINGS AND THE CLOTHES AND THE FEELS!!! I JUST KNEW THAT SOMETHING WOULD HAPPEN TO JILL WHEN EDDIE LEFT, I JUST KNEW!!! THE WHOLE AUNT TATIANA THING IS SO FUCKING SCARY AND IT CREEPED ME THE HELL OUT AND THE ONLY THING THAT MADE IT TOLERABLE WAS THAT ADRIAN WOULD MOSTLY NOT LISTEN TO HER! AND THE BREAK-OUT SCENE FROM THE RE-EDUCATION CENTER WAS FANTASTIC I COULDN'T I JUST OH MY FUCKING GOD!
Ohhhh my god. I love Julie James' books, like they're so great, and cute, and wonderful, and funny, and the protagonists are fantastic, and the woman are badass as well as the men and I just...
Think I loved this book even more this second time around! It was just so great! It's not a complete four point five, but it's like a four point.... three or something. Loved it!
I'm on a total romance kick right now and I love it.
This was sososososososososo great and cute and amazing and holy crap, I fucking loved this. It's a freaking novella, like, it's short but so entirely cute that I can't even deal, like, oh my god, and it's funny-so fucking hilarious at times, Daniel's family is fucking great and I just can't this was too cute I can't fucking handle it