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Honestly there wasn't much I liked about this. It felt like a very basic grief ya contemporary. It had a very linear plot, the writing wasn't stellar, and I just didn't enjoy myself while reading it. The strongest point of this book was that Rumi was a unique main character because she was asexual, had Hawaiian family, and was interested in music. But in the end, this was very forgettable and not enjoyable for me.
This is a really good book with a lot of super helpful information, i just knocked off the star and a half for obnoxious organization and writing things. She would do this thing where she would present an idea and then say “well get to that in chapter 5” or whatever and it happened so. often. like every few paragraphs. it happened mostly in the fictional examples of the four women recurring throughout your book. they almost always ended with “she needed to do this thing we'll talk about in a later chapter” and it was just tiresome. It was also an extremely repetitive book; perhaps it's because she's a teacher but it recalled itself so so often that it felt like when you haven't gone to class for a couple days so the teacher does a big recap, but in this context I was reading it quickly so i was just being hit over the head with not only the same information, but the same phrasing. Anyways, besides those I think this is a really helpful book with a ton of great information that could've easily been whittled down.
i seriously love this book so much because of how much i can relate to it and what a perfect time in my life it came to me. the only reason i didn't give it the full five stars is because i wasn't a fan of the romance; i didn't like diego and the romance was kind of all over the place. but i still am seriously in love with this book omg
Beautiful and heartbreaking. This was one of the most raw and honest books I've ever read. The way Eden deals with her trauma is so so honest and we are able to see exactly how an event like this shapes who you are for the rest of your life. I love how this book holds nothing back. I did have a couple issues, the main one being the time frame. Because it spans over four years, it feels a little rushed. If it had been over two years instead I think it would have run a bit smoother. I also really wish we got to see more of her relationship with her parents before and after because they were hardly in the story. But overall, this was a stunning book i won't be forgetting any time soon.
The writing of this book was beautiful and I liked the main character but honestly, the romance really didn't work for me. I didn't understand the chemistry, there was really no repercussions for the things we find out about the love interest, and I feel like by the end I didn't really know Evan. The rest of the book had really strong, interesting points but in the end, a romance book should have a good romance and this one just didn't do it for me.
bruh why am i crying
alice oseman is the only person allowed to write teenagers from now on
you know those poems college magazines love that quote greek myths and compare instagram to medusa or whatever and you think “yeah that sounded nice but my soul feels even more dead, not because of a good poem but the fact that something else this pretentious is being propped up”? this is that as a novel.
i thought this book would be great because i loved jenny han's other trilogy, but the writing was just not there and the characters, especially conrad, were very inconsistent. belly was at day very about my with her constant selfishness and overall brattiness. i did feel her a lot when she was recounting being left out as a kid, and i did really like Jeremiah, but of course, that's not the guy belly likes.
i liked this, but a lot of times the comedy felt over the top and excessive. i enjoyed the honesty and the overall story, but the ever changing format was frustrating.
Honestly, the incest was the thing I had the least problems with, in theory. Everything about this book was so bad. The writing was okay sometimes, and other times it was absolutely atrocious. The dialogue was always stiff and weird. The way sex was discussed sounded like a health teacher talking about abstinence, with how frequently “loving each other emotionally” and “just wanting to touch” was brought up. All of the interactions felt so awkward and uncomfortable. All of the events that took place happened for seemingly no reason. Every event up until the end just seemed like filler to keep the story “moving,” although where in the world it was moving to, I have no idea. The characters were so stiff and strange, especially Maya. Lochan was a bit more fleshed out, but his actions frequently made no sense. Every bad thing he did went without consequence up until the end, and the end had nothing to do with the actual harmful things he'd done. Maya was so contrived and her whole character seemed to exist just so there would be an incestuous relationship. The actual relationship was honestly not believable; the two siblings obviously have a stronger bond than just brother and sister, but when they began their “relationship” they immediately just started making out and saying how much they love each other, which does not show anything besides how contrived it was. The whole thing just felt very messy and underdone; if it had gone through a few more rounds of editing or had just been constructed better, this probably would have been a better book. However, I commend the author for trying to handle this topic; I just didn't think it was good.
i mean,,if i'm being honest this felt like a book of reveals and then fluff for 100 pages but tahereh knows i'm trash for her bullshit.
twisty, turny, fast-paced, immoral world feigning morality, charming & complex characters. what more could i ask for?
this book was one big disappointment. disjointed, boring, and all tell-no show. it's one redeeming point was the mental illness rep, which was only good for the one therapy scene with mikey and the doctor. i really, really didn't like it, i'm sorry to say.
This book was so heartbreaking and took such a glaring look at assault from every angle, but the writing and actual story was so YA that it wasn't a five star for my taste anymore. Still highly, highly recommend and this meant so much to me.
I found this book super enjoyable and I really liked what it had to say. It reminded me of the kinds of YA thrillers that I enjoy, which is more of the scream tv show over pretty little liars. However the completely unnecessary and underdeveloped supernatural plot line as well as the ending as a whole brought this down from somewhere in the four range.
this was a really solid story that accomplished what it set out to do. for my personal taste, it was just a bit too short and expected. i liked what it was saying but i'm not sure it was actually doing anything.
some of my dislike of this was definitely personal preference. the childish writing style, while i understand its purpose, drove me up the wall. i also figured out the twists relatively early on. also, nothing about this felt particularly horror. i didn't absolutely hate this but if i didn't have the audiobook i absolutely would have dnf'd this book.
scariest thing about this was how often it described things as smelling like vinegar.