guga

not going to rate this one bc it doesn't feel appropriate to me

this was a very hard read at times, part I was very strong, part II not so much (I wish it was shorter but also I guess after finishing I understand why it is the way it is)

3.75
i liked it alot!!! shouldve been shorter and the interview/book research parts were boring to me but overall a solid read :)

2024 REREAD
rereading this was a mistake, way boring than i remembered. still love gus tho

2.5

finishing this book felt like when u hav a dream in which u did something awful and went to jail and then u wake up and you are so happy it was just a dream. thats how i feel now.

3.5?
i have no clue how to rate this one. the first 60% of the book were boring but i pushed thru bc of the reviews and the promise of amazing plot twists. well I did get the plot twists but i predicted most of them, so it didnt really pay off for the boring first half. i did enjoy the book but I also feel nothing after finishing, I think i just hyped the book too much for myself for months and i was just underwhelmed???? but also its a debut so i dont wanna be harsh, it was still solid

this is penpal but without the atmosphere, mystery and just not as good

I finally came around to reading this book after trying like 5 times before but I wasn't ready. This was a hard and frustrating read but so good and important. I love that Vanessa isn't perfect, especially in the 2017 parts but as a reader you understand why she is like this and its just very sad. The only reason I didn't give this 5 stars is bc in my opinion it was too long, especially in the second half and there were moments where I zoned out bc nothing really happend. 50pg long chapters were also a little annoying to get thru

3.75

i'm not a fan of short stories collections bc they are always too short for me to engage but this one was surprising to me. there was only 2 stories i didnt like and the rest of them were like 4 stars on avrg. my fav one was Peach Cobbler, it made me very sad at times and i think i understood it the most. i liked the mentions of christianity and culture around church esp in the last story bc some of those topics were similar to what i experience everyday. one thing i wish was diffrient was the first two stories being longer coz i really liked them but they just kinda ended and i wanted more :( overall i think its a great collection and i think theres something in it for everyone.

3.5

1.5

i had such big expectations going into this, i even bought matching pink tabs specifically for this book (!!!) coz everyone seems to love it so i thought i will too. this was so dissapointing and so unfunny it actually made me angry. the absurdity worked for me only in the 3rd story, which i liked alot, but the more i read the more i kept rolling my eyes. in the whole book i enjoyed maybe like 5 stories, but even those were like 3/5 good, dats why im rating the whole thing 1.5/5. maybe if u enjoy bojack, you will like this but ive never watched the show and tbh this book made me even less interested in it. honestly im just sad bc i really expected to love this but here we are, next time i wont make the same mistake by hyping up a book for myself ig :)

I am finally freed from this book.

Me not fully liking this one is 100% my fault as I'm not american and do not understand american health care system and this book is sadly in 70% just about that. Each chapter is about a different person and I loved the little bits abt their own personal experience, why they chose abortion and how it went, BUT the second we started talking abt american abortion laws and systematic issues I zoned out. That's why I'm not gonna rate the book coz it's simply not fair, I believe its an amazing position for people who are affected by those specific laws and terrible health care and want to understand it more but for me it was just confusing.

I enjoyed it for what it was

the mystery overall deserves 3 stars but i bumped it to 4 for the wlw couple coz i loved it and also the commentary on rape culture and men abusing their power

Great one for people who know nothing about the mystery or want to refresh their memory (me). There's no conspiracy theories and other crap, just a very well put together course of events and the aftermath of the tragedy.

3.5

i really loved the characters and the boarding school setting so i thought its going to be a 5 star read. sadly the mystery and plot twists and juicy secrets didnt really work for me, nothing surprised me or left me shocked for some reason. its still a good book and i enjoyed my time, i was just underwhelmed by how it all came out :/

2.5

cool story, would've been better as a movie tho

i did not just waste my day listening to this shit??????? THIS BOOK GOES NOWHERE, NOTHING HAPPENS???? besides the surface level commentary literally nothing happens im going insane. also this had so many weird sexual comments abt the kids in the book, specifically the daughter whos a minor...? very weird and disgusting bc they were thrown there for literally no reason. i think this is the worst book i've ever read and it makes me want to punch the wall

so fucking boring. I'd dnf after one chapter if it wasn't for the fact that I paid full price for this book and I refuse to waste my money

I tried reading dracula and it was a very boring experience but this was the opposite. love the queer themes and the way it's written but it didn't grip me like I hoped it would? (didn't read this in english so maybe the translation is at fault idk)

i love ravi

2023 reread:
god i still love this series and ravi so much

i don't understand how a book with such a interesting and disturbing concept could turn out to be so boring?

3.5

read that in one day, a solid book. theres alot of stuff that bothered me abt this one but at the same time it was very fast and entertaining to read. i didnt really connect to the characters as much as i would like to so all the stuff that happend didnt make an impact on me. loved the plot twist doe, didnt see it coming.

2.5

The description sounded so good and i really thought I will love it but here we are. It was funny and had interesting parts but overall it was very boring. It's so short but i couldnt push thru without an audiobook on 2x speed which isnt good. I didint hate it, i like the writting style and the humor but thats about it.

2.75
eh this was so good and promising at first, loved the first 60-70% but then it just fell apart and was kinda messy. also a little too religious for my liking

4.5
my fav volume so far, wish i had a group of friends like they do

2.5

this was so YA but not in a good way and I don't mind that genre when done right. this was just not for me and I didn't really care about the plot bc u know what's going to happen so there was nothing in this book that kept me wanting to continue besides the fact that I paid money for it so I had to finish. also how the fuck is there two more books, this is crazy