Fiona

I always expect to be blown away when something has the sort of following this has but the second half seemed convoluted and uninteresting. I can see how this would have resonated in Thatcher's Britain though.

A fairly standard coming-of-age tale. The novel's greatest strength is the setting. I found the main character an annoying every-girl caricature; she has no interests or hobbies other than boys and apparently owns more clothes than necessary. I was more than ready for the climax when she finally grew a fucking spine and I might have enjoyed this book if she had shown that sort of willfullness earlier on.

Many thanks to Wednesday Books for the ARC.

This felt like it needed another round of edits; there's far too much unnecessary tedium and a distinct lack of narrative thrust. The setting is the book's strongest attribute but it's hard to carry a whole story on that.

The author clearly has a lot of research they wish to share but hasn't managed to distill it into a digestable form. Also, the lack of data from Australia, where they have mandatory voting, confounds me. Interestingly, the author seems aware of some of the book's shortcomings as they are clearly outlined in the introduction.

Does a wonderful job of capturing the mentality of the historical era.

I found the resolution rather disappointing, frankly. This trilogy was just too darn long and would have been more effective as a duology since there was entirely to much blah-blah filler-recap for my taste. Ultimately it bogged down the narrative and pulled me out of the story.

There's a lot of Sherlock spin-offs on the market these days and this is yet another one, comprising three novellas in one book. This might be interesting for anyone obsessed with Sir Doyle's clever works but I was too bored to even read it all the way through, skipping to the end (which was, unsurprisingly, predictable).

I spent a good part of this book wondering why this needed to be whole damn trilogy; feels like the story is being dragged out longer than necessary.

Starts off very slow with more set-up than necessary but an engaging and enjoyable tale with a charming ending. The artwork looks rushed and amateurish in some parts, with inconsistent line thicknesses and poorly done backgrounds. Really needed another round of edits, imo.

I have been putting off reading this until the trilogy was finished to avoid the agony of waiting to read the next installment. Thoroughly enjoyable, very immersive. I am always slightly bothered by the lack of underlying science to all these super-abilites which is why I don't go in much for hero books but Meyer does it so well, I can suspend my disbelief without resentment.

Pretty standard academic-ese but not unreadable. Informative overall; I now know what the Overton window is.

Conceptually, this is genius. But, as the author acknowledges in the acknowledgements, she's not so good with feelings and this is reflected in the book. It doesn't distract plot-wise since there's so much to be entertained by, but I felt the characters lacked emotional depth.

Highly recommended and I eagerly await Walschots next literary foray.

I find the choice to update this as a graphic novel but not actually UpDate it very odd.

If I hadn't enjoyed Lord's first book so much I wouldn't have found this so disappointing but here we are. From the opening scene, which could have been much cleaner and consequently engaging, to the epilogue, which was clichéd and predictable, I was bored. Next!

Some kind of gofundme self-published magic comic that I got from a neighbor. I can only assume it's a couple of teens and is the modern print-on-demand eqivalent of a zine because that's how the thing reads. All the hallmarks of youngsters developing thier craft are here: thin plot, cliched dialog, some bad layout choices, etc. But a nice effort in zine terms and not unreadable as the artwork is quite competent.

I get really bored about halfway through; Ms. Hillenbrand's second book is amazing but this failed to deliver the same narrative suction.

I couldn't get into to this because author has this little quirk where the character's thoughts are detailed without describing what's actually occurring physically. DNF as there's too many other reading options in my world.

Very meh. There seems to be little value added by the graphic treatment to most of the ballads presented, although the artwork is nice overall.

Highly recommended. Keefe does a wonderful job of delivering an impartial account of The Troubles and the evolution of the “conflict” (as the English insist on labelling their occupation) through the stories of several key figures, notably Gerry Adams who really seems like a sociopath to me now that I understand the backstory and I get why my father disliked him..

The first half is interesting enough but the world-building is terribly thin and without rationale so the tale doesn't hold up. There's never any explanation for why a society would choose to do away with love or what end is served by such a decision.

Its such a forgettable book that it wasn't until I wrote the above review that I realized I had started reading this book 6 years ago and abandoned it due to lack of interest halfway through.

Despite the title, this book is merely a philosophical treatise on the need to engage in violent measures to exact wide-spread societal change. From an historical standpoint, this is not an outlandish proposition but the writing is tediously academic and is unlikely to sway anyone who doesn't already agree.

Very thorough and eminently practical. It even covers what to do if you find yourself in a riot, as well as more pedestrian situations like your house being caught in a wildfire. However, specific data and advice is targeted for U.S. readers.

I laughed out loud at least twice while reading this and, given that I'm currently descending into one of my regularly-scheduled depressive episodes, that's impressive.

Conceptually, this sounded promising. An alien who accidentally becomes a cat! There's all kinds of plot-fodder there but the author presents us with a rather tame tale of a girl who has internalized a random remark by her mother's new boyfriend before being sent to spend the summer with her grandmother. By the end of the book, said boyfriend and mom have magically broken up with no explanation given and the alien has decided it likes being a cat with fEeLiNgS and being part of a family is superior to the hive mind existence on his home planet even though a hive is just a really big family. Maybe kids who really like cats would be into this but its mostly boring; it never plays out like there's anything actually at stake for the characters.

I received a free copy of the book from the publisher for review.

Very detailed and thoroughly researched. Really long though, and (consequently) heavy enough to be unwieldy.