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I get a lot of book recs from r/suggestmeabook and this one came from there—I tend not to read up more on the book than what is stated there and because of that all i knew about this was that people were trapped in a zoo and had no idea this was an active shooter situation. Likely wouldn't have read if i had known that, but I enjoyed it regardless. Maybe it was a good way to get me out of normal thriller categories.
The baby situation was... a lot. I have too many feelings to swallow that and not get stuck, i found myself only thinking about the baby the entire rest of the book after the garbage can situation and was slightly upset to know know their fate.
I read the book over the span of less than 24 hours so i clearly enjoyed it and was hooked. My biggest complaint is that the didn't pull the zoo into the book more, it felt like the book could have taken place anywhere. I wish the setting was more intertwined in the chaos, especially considering the fact that it's not a normal location.
Good, quick read. Kept me hooked. Could have pulled the setting in a lot more. Rude that i don't know the fate of the baby.
I don't even know how to rate this book. I loved the beginning and loved the end. Both made me cry. The middle was much less moving, and it was so hard for me to feel invested in those alternate lives. I think that my issue was a lack of connection to Nora as a character, I didn't feel I knew enough about her base life to care about the alternate versions–even if the realizations were moving. I think I would have liked this more as a shorter story / novella with more detail about the base Nora and less detail in each individual book life.
Okay. Wow. So very impressed by this, was thinking the YA would be a turn-off for me but this was so much better than I ever could have imagined. And so much different than I imagined. So many different things happening and coming together and then when you think it all makes sense they throw something new in. On to book 2, I suppose.
I'm not a SiFi reader, but Reddit got me again with this one. Been wanting a quick series to read and this was on Kindle Unlimited, so I read it. And I'm in love with MurderBot. The writing was really quick and kept me engaged, plus the short length of the book made it so there was no fluff-which was exactly what I was expecting based on the Reddit recommendation. I'm onto book 2!
A true love, but not a love at first sight. Book took me a minute to get into but was for sure a personal favorite.
The book i needed to get me out of my book slump. I really loved this book, for some context i found it by googling “books about people with anxiety” and chose this one. I loved feeling so familiar with the struggles she goes through, even though she's like a space baby, lone survivor, and only hope of a new world. I'm not those things lol but anxiety sure does the same things to me and her. Amazing.
Okay feeling like this was a lot of setup for the third book. Not much reeeeallly happened in this one, tbh. Still loved it and am curious what book 3 will bring. I want Avery to be with JAMESON. Love love loved this one as well, just not as many fun puzzles and mystery in this one.
A fine book, but TBH it was a ‘Skip The Line' book on Libby and I needed an audiobook to listen to when I pounded out some time-sensitive work, and I would not have read it had I known. I thought It was an average thriller and it was a world-ending type of situation, which was not what I was expecting and was very underwhelming. Heard they're making it into a movie and I think I would very much enjoy this in visual form.
The final reveal was so weird and made no sense. I really was disappointed and disheartened at the bizarre ending. Nothing came together and the story was boring, repetitive, and then just crammed into a strange ending.
Felt drawn to this after We Spread (touched on themes of dementia/memory loss in a dark way, wanted to read something less eerie and more realistic in the realm of aging) and am very glad I was. Sad. Real. Having had a grandparent with memory loss for many years before his death, this hit a soft spot.
Hard to pick a rating for this one.
Here's what i loved:
•The story kept me very, very interested.
•I never felt like i knew what the twist was going to be, and my theories were fun and changing throughout.
•Short chapters are my shit. Love.
Here's what i didn't like:
•The twist was... unexpected. But i almost wished it had been the revenge story it was set up to be. I wanted revenge FOR the person i suspected of the murder.
•I didn't really get the “whose story do you believe, his or hers?” thing because they literally lined up on most things and i feel like that was set up as the point of the book. Lost me on that one.
•Not to be that person but i had to take off a star just for the VERY incorrect and stigmatizing reference to OCD. Home girl, OCD and perfectionism aren't even close to the same thing!!! Get more educated editors plz.
•TW for rape and sexual assault to the max. Not for me. Had to skip those parts.
Ok this one is sad because like drinking is a very new thing to me and while i know it's ~bad~ for me i didn't know to what extent before reading this and it pushing me to learn more. Like i'm not saying i will never drink again (what the author obvi would prefer) it was informative in helping me reenforce the idea that i never will drink consistently or become a social drinker because it's just not work the health or mental health risks.