Emeline
Meh
The ending felt so rushed, it kind of ruined it, and the world building didn't pique my interest :( that's such a bummer because it was promising, it was just poorly executed in my opinion.
Just like Holden didn't seem to care about or to like a lot of things, I didn't care about him really
It feels like Taylor Jenkins Reid's books are all the same in different fonts; and they're good, but after having read several of them, it starts getting old
3.5 arrondis à 3
J'ai beaucoup apprécié le style d'écriture de Radiguet, plutôt agréable à lire et sans trop de tournures vraiment complexes. J'ai eu du mal à me plonger dans l'histoire, mais une fois l'intrigue clairement établie, la finir n'a pas posé de souci, surtout vu la longueur du livre. Par contre, je me suis attachée à aucun personnage, ni n'en ai profondément détesté, mais l'histoire d'amour et le détail des sentiments du protagoniste valent le coup !
Again, 3.5/5
I'll start with what annoyed me (basically the same things than in the first book) :
- The decision that has to be taken in the beginning took more place in the book than what it should have in my opinion
- The dialogues are still waaaay too theatrical -I personally wanted to shake the characters and tell them “no you're not on stage every second of your life lol”
- The flirt is too cliché (and cheesy but that's more of a personnal preference) (and Arthur Montgomery is embarrasing af with Serena lmao, I read the original version in French so I don't know about the translations but yeah-)
- Some characters are so dumb like you know Serena is a jerk, but she offers you one tiny present and suddenly you trust her again ?????? c'mon, you remember that she has a button to kill you all, don't you ?? so either Leonor is dumb and doesn't realise they're acting, either they're not and then they're kind of stupid :')
I still enjoyed :
- How we see them starting to live in this colony on Mars, it was highly enjoyable to read for me
- How you see clearly the differences in their personnality
- The constant swing between “okay cool they're going to be good” and “oh no they're all dying”
- Juste the plot in general lol
I was expecting more, to be honest. I can't exactly say that I'm disappointed but my expectations were higher haha.
The second book for me announced more action in this one than what in fact happens, and what we get mainly occurs in the last tier. I also feel like the book could have been shorter, and at the same time I'm not completely satisfied with the ending
Je l'ai lu il y a quelques années et j'en avais très peu de souvenirs, sinon que j'avais beaucoup aimé. C'est toujours le cas après cette relecture, je pense que ce qui me plaît le plus est l'époque où l'intrigue se déroule. C'est un roman facile à lire, super pour se divertir simplement.
Le nombre de fois où les seins de chaque personnage féminin sont évoqués crie à plein poumons “un homme a écrit ça”
Now I regret having only this book cause I'm left here wondering what happens next lol
Anyways, I want to say a few things:
1) I really like the plot! It's easy to read
2) I love Leonor (though she falls in the NLOG trope)
3) However, I'm not convinced by the writing : it's sometimes naive (the girls are just frivolous sometimes and it's such a cliché, it doesn't sit well with me tbh), the informations (about the plot as well as the characters' descriptions) are delivered awkwardly, it could be done more efficiently and naturally. Also some informations are repeated quite a lot throughout the book, which is unnecessary because we got it the first time, it's not very difficult to understand or to /forget/
4) It's still an enjoyable book in my opinion, very entertaining. What I mentioned right above didn't bother me that much, it just is unfortunate because except this, I think that the idea it really great
Woooow
I really liked the first one, especially because of the setting in the beginning of the XIXth century, but this one is even better in my opinion. There's a lot more action and the plot seems more complex than in the Dark Days Club book, so I'm glad this one isn't just a filler to introduce the last book and therefore the peak of the story.
