Mars
i don't have much to say, except this was pretty decent. not too memorable for me, but there were a few creepy elements that i liked! & i did actually laugh out loud a couple times!
4.5
Why do I wanna cry??? I knew I was going to love this book just based on the cover & it's been one of my most anticipated reads for a while & Hazelwood did not disappoint!
The relationship between Mal & Nolan was just so compelling for me & the chess rivalry really fucking worked for me man
I loved the concept of this one but the execution was disappointing for me. It took me a while to get through, & I never really found myself eager to pick it up.
take what i say with a grain of salt because i am one of the very few outliers when it comes to opinions on this book but like...
did i read the same book as everyone else??? i would've actually enjoyed this if i could have stopped focusing on everything i disliked buuuuut!—i didn't like the writing style it was super repetitive, the main character millie is annoying & she acts stupid even though she isn't, & the plot was..meh, average, mediocre!
yet another FOMO/booktok read and YET AGAIN i am disappointed
ALTHOUGH i'm not gonna lie, i loved the epilogue/ending, but that was the only part of the entire book that i liked T.T
“the way she kissed him back at the airport, holy shit. he'd assumed it'd be a flashback of their night in the hotel, but everything had changed since then and it was totally different.
that night had been all about hot chemistry with a stranger, kissing hallie in the security line, that was something else entirely. that was like coming home.”
SCREAMSJSHHDJ
this was so perfect and erotic mmfmfnfnfj i literally teared up at the end this book is amazing wow
I don't usually rate memoirs but I have to say, the non-linear writing style just did not work for me. It's not very cohesive & I was quite confused about what point in time events were happening. It felt like there were a couple random stories that didn't really fit & were just kinda thrown in there? The organization just isn't good.
It was hard for me to connect to the material majority of the time & I wish elliot could've really delve into some of the things he talked about more descriptively and truly unpacked all of it. I really wish Elliot spoke more about his transness in this, those moments are the ones I felt most connected to & I teared up every single fucking time.
I'm not very shocked by my rating of this book. I went into it blind and with an open mind, as I often do with books, and I could tell it was going to be a hit or miss from the beginning.
When I initially started the book, I didn't like the writing style and it took quite some time to get used to. The mystery never truly intrigued me and I found myself not being as engaged as I would've liked to have been. This just wasn't stimulating enough for me. I had to switch to a different book in between my time with this one.
I didn't care much about the plot or the characters and I feel that's a big reason why I wasn't truly connecting with this book. It was recommended to go into this book without having any prior knowledge of it & I agree with that. Still, even then I had a hunch on why that would be the better way to read it and just from that intuitive feeling alone, I knew I was going to be disappointed if the story took the path I was assuming it was going to.
With that being said, my assumption was correct and I didn't like the plot twists or the ending at all. I solely kept reading to figure out what happens at the end & it's safe to say it fell flat for me as did the entirety of the book & I was expecting so much more. At first, I was confused for a bit by the ending and then I just ended up annoyed because honestly, I thought it was stupid.
This novel includes a lot of elements that I heavily enjoy so I'm disappointed that this book didn't work for me, though I think I would love it if it was a movie!
i'm not gonna lie i mentally checked out while reading this book at like 40% but the book itself is not at fault, i loved the writing so much!!
i wholeheartedly believe that the reason for my 3 star rating is because im having a hard time focusing on reading rn & personally my mood while reading reflects on my ratings so i may reread this book at some point shdhjd
4.5/ i feel like there's a bigger—unsaid—meaning to this book— regarding grief and addiction, mostly addiction, substance abuse/being addicted to ppl who aren't good for you—that i have yet to understand bcz maybe i'm just too dumb lmfao i've never been good with metaphors
The type of couple to break up after the epilogue but then gets back together & then they just keep breaking up and getting back together over the course of 5 years
4.75 // “If you can think something terrible into being, why not something great?”
my first Josh Malerman book—this book spooked the fuck out of me & I loved every minute of it, our mc Kit struggles with severe anxiety & I related to her so much because of that—this book is about anxiety & the manifestation of thoughts & it's brilliant
this book did make me extremely anxious though I should've seen that comin, anyway all i have to say now is just don't think about daphne!
“Make sure they understand the things we're told not to talk about are the things that get real bad. Those subjects get sick. And they get confused. And nobody can make sense of them because they were never allowed to talk them out.”
i just love when a book finds me & i read it during a time in my life i happen to really need it
“The problem with this is that if we beat ourselves up after a mistake, we add shame onto the guilt and frustration that we already feel about our mistake. That guilt and frustration can be helpful in moving us forward, but shame... shame keeps us stuck. It's a paralyzing emotion. When we get caught in a shame spiral, we tend to make more of the same kinds of mistakes that caused us shame in the first place.”
i never know how to go about ratin books especially memoirs considering it's a challenge in and of itself to rate a book about someones real life, their experiences, etc but i just found this memoir to be very insightful & i enjoyed readin it & gettin to know Jennette in the way she wants to be perceived
as someone whos comfort shows are mostly produced by nickelodeon, it was heartbreakin to read about it contributing to Jennettes circumstances (along with acting in general)—but gettin these behind the scenes takes is also so interesting & informative especially since it deals with the entertainment industry which impacts a lot of the media we consume; it's honestly insane to me that you would never know what these actors are dealin with just because you watch them act in a show or two—and it terrifies me to think that if Jennette wouldn't have written this book i wouldn't know anything about it, about her story
honestly i'm not even in the right headspace to write a review right now LMFAO. what the fuck did i just read
“I am gravid with exhaustion; the splitting and multiple existences drains me.”
holy fuckin vampires. this book was uniquely written & i enjoyed it, it's on the slower more character driven side but i didn't have a problem with it at all!
“Every story can have a different ending. It all depends on which one you want to believe in.”
this was such a cute story I really enjoyed it!