laur gluchie
i'm going to give victoria aveyard the benefit of the doubt that red queen was just a cliche first book series with a chosen one mary sue main character and she can write better things. please be able to write better than red queen.
update: “So when a mysterious immortal and deadly assassin appear on Corayne's doorstep telling her she is the last member of a dying bloodline, and the only one who can save the world, Corayne seizes the chance to have her own adventure.”
victoria no please don't do this to me i can't take it anymore-
Pre-Reading Updates
25/4/2018: COVER REVEAL ON MONDAY FJGHDKSL
26/9/2017: I'M SCREAMING OHMYGOD I'VE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS
I've received an Advance Reader's Copy of this book through a giveaway hosted by the publisher. This has not affected my rating in any way.
I have received a digital copy of this book through a giveaway hosted by the publisher. This has not affected my rating in any way.
I have received a copy of this book through a giveaway hosted by the publisher. This has not affected my rating or review in any way.
I have received a copy of this book through a giveaway hosted by the publisher. This has not affected my rating or review in any way.
Got this as a birthday present a few years ago. I was very bored with this and found it quite pointless.
DNF ~ 20%This book... oh boy.I really wanted to enjoy this one. The covers in this series were pretty, the synopsis was intriguing, a lot of my friends on here said they liked it and recommended it to me. I did see a few reviews that said this book was terrible and I ignored them in hopes of this book being good.(I really shouldn't have ignored them.)I hated the snobby, one-dimensional characters. I hated the basic, boring setting. I literally despised this book, which isn't normal for me AT ALL because I usually love everything I read... but what really made me not like this book was the writing. The writing was about the same quality as the first [b:Throne of Glass 7896527 Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1) Sarah J. Maas https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1495278054s/7896527.jpg 11138426] novel... but shittier.RANT: And lemme just say that I hated Cleo so much. She literally could've stopped that guy from getting killed, or at least had that guard step in. And then she has the AUDACITY to be all bratty and upset when she gets grounded by her father. OOH I cannot stand that spoiled ass motherfcker.TL;DR: I can't be bothered to read a shit book, especially at this point in the year.*Meaning I might come back to this. Because maybe it gets better.Probably not but I have some weird sense of hope that it does.
I have received a digital Advance Reader's Copy of this book through the publisher. This has not affected my rating in any way.
I've received an Advance Reader's Copy of this book through a giveaway hosted by the publisher. This has not affected my rating in any way.
DNF ~ 30%
If We're Being Honest by Cat Shook was not my cup of tea, and I knew this going into it. When I originally requested this via BookishFirst, I thought I would enjoy it and be able to mark of a square on my 2023 Bookish bingo card (for category: book from a genre you've never read before) if I won a copy. However, once I won I began to have doubts on whether I could truly enjoy this book. I considered contacting BookishFirst to have them cancel my win but I decided not to, thinking I might be able to push through.
If We're Being Honest follows the four cousins of the eccentric Williams family after the passing of their grandfather Gerry in Eulalia, Georgia. For me, I was so bored and miserable trying to read this to the point where I dreaded trying to pick it up most days. I couldn't find it in myself to like any of the characters and the story was bland compared to what I normally read. So I didn't push through. I just couldn't.
However, this was not because If We're Being Honest is a bad book but because it's too far away from my preferred genres that I'd feel more comfortable reading. While I normally read young adult fantasy, this is general adult fiction/women's fiction. It also heavily centers on grief and family connections which are things I'm currently struggling with, thus I was not in the right mental health space to be reading this book.
This was truly a case of it's not you, it's me. I fully believe that readers who frequently enjoy books from this genre and can handle topics such as grief will truly enjoy this book.
if this doesn't vividly and perfectly recount the toymaker dancing to spice girls through UNIT HQ its and instant dnf/1 star /j
I have received a digital Advance Reader's Copy of this book through the publisher. This has not affected my rating in any way.
[Listened to the audiobook narrated by Rebecca Soler.]
DNF ~ 10%
This was an audiobook, and I am not a fan of audiobooks. I'm willing to try this again as a regular book.
DNF ~ 30%
this wasn't boring, it was just... bleh? if that's the right word? too much gore, too many plot points that made me uncomfy ehhhh sorry
DNF ~ 20%
This was a free audiobook on Apple Books, and I saw the Indigenous and disability representation and figured why not. I went in with low expectations, but I still find myself unsurprisingly disappointed. Because I don't feel like writing out an essay today, I'm just going to bullet-point through the things I liked, didn't like, and what was in between...
The Negatives
- Sophia was a very average immature teenage girl Mary Sue Chosen One main character. She had almost no personality and I found myself wanting to skip to Liam's point-of-view chapters at times just to not have to hear about her inner monologue.
- Liam was a very typical angsty boy love interest, but given his situation I found it a little bit excusable. He was the more enjoyable of the two main characters.
- The magic system was unoriginal. Earth, air, water, and fire is a story I've read too many times before.
- The writing was very immature for a book aimed at new adults, I feel like this could've worked better as a young adult novel.
The In-Between
- This was one of those books where you can tell the writers are 100% millennials. Take that as you will.
- While the side characters weren't the most fleshed out, they weren't completely forgettable either.
The Positives
- Both of the audiobook narrators did a great job. In all honesty, their reading was the only truly enjoyable thing about this.
- The Indigenous and disability representation, which had been my main reason for reading this book, was actually very heavily present in this as far as I read in the story. Almost all of the characters are Indigenous and the love interest has a chronic disability that is present and spoken about within his point-of-view chapters.
TL;DR: Not completely awful but I didn't find any worth in continuing on with this.
I have received a digital Advance Reader's Copy of this book through the publisher. This has not affected my rating in any way.
Pre-Reading Updates: Wasn't too impressed with the first book, so I might read this or I might not. We'll see.
as someone who hasn't read Manacled and doesn't care to because I don't get Dramione, i'm interested to see what the hype is about and this seems like the perfect opportunity maybe.
i know it's probably not but i like to think that this book was named “flight of icarus” after one of my all-time favorite iron maiden songs <3 i love u eddie my fellow metalhead
"She did not know that the wolf was a wicked sort of animal, and she was not afraid of him."
Lemme just say... I MISSED MY BABY THORNE SO MUCH OKAY???? IT'S BEEN FOREVER I JUST ASDFGHJKL.
Anyways, Scarlet is probably my favourite book in the Lunar Chronicles. Cinder is just as badass and awesome as ever. Scarlet and Wolf are one of my OTPs, and that scene where he fights his brother for her?? I stan.
Did I mention that I love Thorne so much? Because I do. I just want to write about Thorne. THORNEEEEE.
