Miranda
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DNF @ 76%
I don't know how I made it this long. I really, and I mean REALLY wanted to like this. But everyone is so so so boring. I do not care about Mackenzie, or her family, or her dreams. Everyone is so flat, so 2D, and they give me no reason to care about them. I admire the indigenous stories and themes, those are very neat and I love learning more and expanding my horizons. But it was not enough to make me finish it. Sorry.
Okay. I had such a love hate relationship with this book. Lets lay it out. Read with caution if you care about spoilers.
Love:
- Naomi is incredibly relatable in some ways. That really really helped me reading this. Examples:
“Sure, maybe I wasn't a ride-with-no-hands or a sneak-out-of-a-sleepover-to-go-kiss-boys fun, or a call-in-sick-to-go-to-a-concert fun kind of gal, but I didn't hate fun. There was usually just too much that needed doing before I could get to the fun.”
“I don't think I talk too much. I just have a lot of information that needs to be disseminated to the public.”
“He was a man with a lot of feelings locked up tight. Part of me wanted to crack him open. The other part wanted to just go back to bed and forget everything for a few hours.”
Please check my kindle notes and highlights for this book.
Five minutes into the episode, I heard a soft snore. Knox had his feet propped up on the coffee table and his head pitched back against the cushion. His eyes were closed, and his mouth was open. I looked at Waylay, and she grinned at me. Knox snored again, and we both giggled quietly.
“The woman might have been pixie-sized, but she certainly had big ideas about how to expand the library's services to the community. It was both exciting and interesting to be part of something that was so focused on helping people.”
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such an ass?
“hot, tight channel”
“tight, wet wonderland”
“I almost went cross-eyed trying to keep my release in my balls where it churned.”
“How could you hide from a murderer who lived under your skin?”
I have finally completed the quest of finding a book that was similar to “The Ruins” by Scott Smith. This was so much better.
I absolutely LOVED this book. Everything about it had me on the edge of my seat, and made me extremely nauseous at times. Cutter's writing is stellar. I cannot get enough of this story, from the body horror to the literal and figurative creature that is Shelley, it is perfection. 11/10.
I was really hoping this book was going to be as big as everyone made it out to be. I hadn't realized how short it was, which I honestly didn't really mind. I was hoping for more but I had hopes that more would be accomplished in a such a short period of time.
But no. I feel like nothing and everything happened in the 100 or so pages this book has to offer. After hearing what everyone had to say about this book, I was hoping to be shivering in my bed with a trash can full of vomit at my side. Instead I sat staring at my screen, constantly thinking “Well, that was weird,” and finished before I even realized it. I kept saying to myself “Okay, when's the big thing happening?” You know, the thing everyone was raving about that I was so excited to read after anticipating the book to be sent to my device after having it on hold for weeks.
Although it wasn't the worst thing. I enjoyed the idea of this story. I wish this would be the prologue to something much more grand, more disgusting. To see that this was all the story had to offer left me wishing for more.
While listening to this book, I came up with a really fun game:
Take a shot every time:
-Vera mentions something along the lines of “my father built this house”
-The words “grease” and “lemonade” is mentioned
-Vera snaps her fingers four times
-You find yourself saying “What the fuck?”
I really liked this book, until I didn't.
Pros:
Sarah Gailey is an amazing author. I loved Echo Wife.
I did not predict the ending, but that doesn't mean I liked it.
I loved Francis. IDGAF, he's dad of the year. Dad of the century, even.
Cons:
Fuck Daphne
The repetition of so many phrases and words
That stupid plot twist
Really did not like that it was the house ITSELF that was haunting Daphne and protecting Vera but I like that I had no idea what was gonna happen. I also hate James. Why is he here? To be a nuisance? Because it worked. There's also a lot of little plot points that we get no explanation to. I find myself wondering just exactly what happened to Francis, or even Brandon. I found myself speculating too much, and I wish I just told what happened.
3/5 stars, docked points for the repetition and goofy ending.
Everyone should read this book if they know someone with autism, or even if they don't! I've been reading so many books about adults with autism and none of them have been as helpful and in detail as this one.
Andy Weir's “Project Hail Mary” is a refreshing taste of the modern day sci-fi novel. Although I am not much of a sci-fi reader, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. You're taken through the journey of Ryland Grace, a science teacher turned astronaut, as he uncovers a scientific breakthrough that will end the world in only a few years.
If you have any interest in biology and/or chemistry, I highly recommend this book. You will learn so much about a make believe material, you could ace a quiz at the end of the book. The chapters alternate between current-day Grace in the spaceship and the process of which he arrived there. We learn alongside Grace just exactly how he ended up in this position.
One of my favorite parts of this book is Rocky, an alien engineer from the planet Erid whose name describes him perfectly. He speaks in music, many notes forming types of chords to form words and sentences. Him and Grace manage to communicate and collaborate, putting their biology and engineering skills together to complete their mission.
No spoilers, but I definitely did not see the ending coming. Some people were very displeased, but I found it wholesome. Other problems people had with the book that I can agree with is the very caricaturistic style of the human characters. A sarcastic and charming scientist who happens to know almost everything, a Russian who loves vodka, Asian characters who speak with broken accents, and a female boss who is just so bossy and isn't afraid to flaunt it.
Either way, “Project Hail Mary” is a book that can be enjoyed by anyone, regardless of preferred genre. If you're a fan of sci-fi, a little mystery, science, and some fun interactions, I recommend this book. However, if tropes and caricatures turn you off, and you can't stand science, steer clear.
4.5/5 rounded up
I am now off the ACOTAR high and I am disappointed. This book was 99% diplomacy and war and 1% of the words SJM uses in every other sentence. We get it, the eyes are violet, the single eye is russet, they are mates, her throat bobbed, her knees buckled. I was either very bored, or felt like I got whiplash by a ton of things happening at once. Like, surprise! Dad's back! Oh wait, he's dead! Oh yeah, and Elaine? Perfectly fine now. Remember when she only spoke in riddles? Also, if she's a see-er, why didn't she just see stuff that happened in the war? What happened to Lucien's ~mating bond~ with her? Also, are we gonna even say anything about Baron not being his true dad? Why was that even mentioned? Congrats, Mor is a lesbian, what's gonna be done about it?
The first book was my first high fantasy book in ages. I had to curb my grievances with the whole absurd magic thing and weirdness and just enjoy it for what it is. I was able to fall hard into Feyre's story with Tamlin, and then dive deeper once it was with Rhys instead. But anything outside of that was left bland and odd. I hope the rest of the series is not like this book.
the tension... the character development... the relationship building... i cannot ask for more, only to bring back book 1 lucien i do not know this man in book 2
boy this book threw me for a LOOP!!! i empathized with jess during her academic freakouts, because same. if you love plot twists, some silly love triangles and “whodunnit” cliches, and problematic main characters, this book is for you.
dude. i loved this book so much. i love greta. i love big swiss. i love the donks. even though i wasn't happy with the ending, since i like things all tied up nice and neat, i find it very fitting for the story. i really do wish to know what happens in the future, or what happened to big swiss. so many questions that are probably best left unanswered. ellington and pantaloon forever!
lol i never wrote a review for this. i listened to this as an audiobook and it was fantastic. the writing is impeccable and i loved and hated listening. loved because it was great, but hated because of the gruesome detail. made me cringe but in the best way. there is cannibalism and also incest and some rly descriptive sexual assault so beware
This was such a difficult read. At times I found myself very annoyed with how coy and naive Vanessa was, along with how awful and irritating she was PB (post-browick (idk how you spell it)) It made me so angry to see how absolutely wrong and relentlessly pitiful she was. But it really isn't her fault. It's what she went through that made her this way.
I think it's safe to say I didn't like Strane, duh. Who did? At the beginning, imagining yourself as a young high school student with a super hot teacher, it's like scandalous and fun, until moves are made and then it's scandalous, terrifying, and incredibly illegal.
I think it's the fact that I cannot relate to almost any of this that makes me so irritated at nearly every point in this story. I am seeing it all from an outsider perspective, and it makes me want to pick up the entire story and throw it out a window. I wanted to scream, “How could you be so stupid?!” or “She's fucking 15! What do you mean!?” or “Yes that's fucking rape! Are you blind?” but she was. She was blind, in a way. Life and mind completely altered. Seeing everything through Strane-colored lenses, something I have the privilege of not dealing with.
I also hated every cliche younger Vanessa portrayed. It made me want to gouge my eyes out with a barbecue skewer.
But that doesn't mean you shouldn't read it. It deals with very important topics, and a very important perspective to things a lot of people slide under the rug.
This book is difficult to stomach, and could be triggering to some. Proceed with caution. 4/5