Misha

I forgot to review this one.
I liked it, obviously, but it did not leave as much of a mark on me as when I read it in High School.

This is, easily, one of the best books I've ever read. It's warm, it's (mostly) happy, and I loved every bit of it. I can't really put so much of my thoughts into words here. It made me feel so much and I cried my eyes out at the end. I loved the rep (gay protagonist) but also the message and the ending. The protagonist, Linus, really is perfect. He's older than your typical protagonists, he's overweight, he's got a ‘meh' job, is openly gay, and possess a lot of dad energy. I love him dearly.

If I had to point something out that I disliked it'd be perhaps how quick a certain section in the story's final act was. I'd give it one more chapter... Honestly I'd read ten more books about the house in the cerulean sea.

When I first picked up Dune, I never thought I'd enjoy it as much as I did. I don't have anything to say that hasn't been said hundred times in the thousands of previous reviews. Dune is truly magnificent. To me it sits as one of my favorite stories right beside [b:The Lord of the Rings 33 The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3) J.R.R. Tolkien https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1566425108l/33.SX50.jpg 3462456]. A masterpiece in more ways than one.

This book's rating is greatly skewed by Mr. Hickson's YouTube fanbase. The 4 stars do not, at all, represent a fair, unbiased rating.

I made an utterly terrible, outright awful, mistake. I believed that a book written by a YouTuber with no works of fiction to his name could provide something of value. It cannot.

The book, and the author, lie to you in the title and then again in the book's description. It is not about writing, but it is also not about worldbuilding. This book is a way for an internet personality with a large following to garner views. Most likely you came here, because you watched Mr. Hickson's YouTube videos and came here to defend him. If so, please disregard this review.

There are sixteen chapters in the book. Right from the start I felt that to be a little too many, especially given how low the page count is! I was right to fear. Not one of Hickson's chapters go beyond surface level. This is advice fitting for high school. Let me stress this a bit further. If you want to write a novel of your own, this book will NOT help you.

Majority of the chapters include a cartoon by the name of Avatar: The Last Airbender as a primary source. Why? It's the author's favorite cartoon. He even calls those who dared not to watch it plebeians. What a joke! The cartoon is fine, of course it is, but let us not pretend a Nickelodeon cartoon is a prime example of storytelling, because it is not.

After finishing the book, I took a look at his videos. Many of the chapters are identical to his videos. There is little new. You could watch his videos, which do include some slightly offensive jokes, and many more references to the Avatar cartoon, but in general you would learn the same - nothing, or very little.

The final insult is the final chapter of the book - “How I Plan a Novel”. Mind you Mr. Hickson has published exactly ZERO books in his entire career. In his debut book he tells you how to write. I was unable to find any works credited to Mr. Hickson either, as such I conclude he is not a writer. What Mr. Hickson is I can't really tell.

You know, I was ready to come here give The Gravity of Us 2 stars while complaining about how the premise is a bit wonky, how no politician would ever defund NASA shortly before a launch, etc... etc... and one more effing etc... Then I realized I'm being pedantic while focusing on the wrong things! I didn't buy the book to read a realistic political drama with NASA as the core.

It's a great book! I had fun and even though the whole social media thing is totally lost on me (seriously what is ‘Condé Nast'?!) I came to like Cal's obsession with it. Leon was amazing and sweet and deserves all the kisses he can get.

Anyway, I don't have much more to say about it. It's fun and gay which makes it just infinitely better:D

Arc of Scythe as a whole has, for me, evolved from an above average start with [b:Scythe 28954189 Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1) Neal Shusterman https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1456172676l/28954189.SY75.jpg 49179216] to pretty damn good with [b:Thunderhead 33555224 Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2) Neal Shusterman https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1505658534l/33555224.SY75.jpg 54332060] but even with it I had some reservations.Now I don't rate books 5/5 that often. There are only handful of them deserving of the rating, in my opinion, but The Toll is one of them not just for being a great book but an amazing conclusion to the Arc of Scythe trilogy.While usually I note the things I disliked in my reviews, I can't think of anything worth mentioning. It was a fast read (about 5h in total) and I enjoyed it immensely. The ending left me satisfied and I teared up a bit.

This book was incredibly disappointing. The premise had so much potential, and I started with high hopes, but it fell flat.

April is deeply flawed. Trauma doesn't excuse one's actions. They are contextual but you don't get to act horribly to people just because you experienced something horrible. She is horrible. She never faces any consequences for anything she does.

Men in the story are depicted in the most stereotypical, almost cartoonish manner. One male character, in particular, is portrayed so poorly it reads like a summary of a trope than a character in published novel.
He suggests that two instances of sexual harassment differ in severity.

‘Having your arse pinched is not the same as being, like, violently raped.'

...

I'm just saying, there is a spectrum to these things. You can't lump in something like pinching an arse with something more damaging.

exactly

He sits back, puffing his chest, spraying his alpha scent over me like a skunk that's been stamped on.

I hate men.

This is a weird one but my gf is being really offish because the other morning she woke up to find me having sex with her. I thought it was a sexy way to wake her up but she said it's made her feel a bit strange. I'm sorry cos i didn't mean to upset her but i also think shes overreacting a bit. I wouldnt mind if she woke me up with a blowjob would i? How can i make her see that its not a big deal?

I hope you die. I hope you fucking die... Go die now please, you pathetic cunt of a human being.

Of course he's fucking gay, but it's a start.

born

I received a copy from the publisher via NetGalley.

I cannot express just how I was excited to receive an early version of this book. While I hated Bonds of Brass' ending and the twist there, I was excited and hopeful that Oaths of Legacy would take steps to remedy that.

And it did... partially.

I'd love to say the story grabbed that twist and twisted it further and created something amazing but it didn't. It did almost exactly what I predicted last year after finishing Bonds of Brass. But hey! That's fine. I don't mind predictable.

There are two things about Oaths of Legacy that I disliked. The first is feeble and weak while the other is a major gripe that made me stop reading for almost a month.

Nothing happens. The story just continue but from start to finish, very little happens. There's so much talking amongst seasoned military command making the stupidest choices imaginable. Gal is the prisoner and POV here yet he's just allowed to wander around. I get why narratively and if I try very hard my suspension of disbelief can pretend everybody drank Amnesia Water (TM) and forgot their years of training. Also the attempts at intrigue and “politics” fall flat. I much prefer the spectacularly written space battles. This has been the weaker negative.

What I truly hated about Oaths of Legacy was Wen. I liked Wen in Bonds of Brass. She was a fine, fun character. A strong woman with streetsmarts. You know how I mentioned this book is from Gal's POV? It should have been from Wen's! She goes through a wince-worthy character change to become THE FLAME KNIGHT completely ‘off-screen'. Everybody is just so impressed with her and she survives the most ludicrous situations. Even when the narrative is begging for her to make some sort of sacrifice for her utter stupidity, there are no consequences. This lead me to think of her as Wen Sue. If she were the POV for Oaths of Legacy, I think it'd get 4 stars from me. Wen is a fantastic character ruined by the focus being Gal's story where very little happens (see the previous paragraph).

The ending was actually quite good. It was unexpected and while it was not at all foreshadowed, it was cool. It could have been longer. The whole book should have been to be honest. 29 chapters (+ Epilogue) as opposed to Bonds of Brass' 31. For a second book in a trilogy I'd expect at least a couple of chapters more.

I'd love to give it 4 stars but I can't. There's just too much that I disliked to warrant that. I hope Book 3 will give this trilogy a proper conclusion at which point I might change my rating for the first two books.

If anything, Gideon the Ninth was fun! I genuinely had a lot of fun reading this book and given it's all dark and filled with death and so many skeletons I'm a bit perplexed to admit it true.

There are a few gripes I had with Gideon though. First and foremost: Charles Stross' quote on the cover of my reading “Lesbian necromancers explore a haunted gothic palace in space!” is damn misleading. Neither Gideon nor Harrow are confirmed lesbian but their relationship can be seen as entirely platonic. I definitely wouldn't count this as an LGBT book by any means.

My second gripe is the sheer number of characters. There's seventeen characters. They're just not introduced well. For most of them their introduction is quite... swift and then they're mentioned only somewhat rarely. Their names aren't exactly easy to remember too. Then, in some instances, the narration refers to them only as “the Eight” or “the Fourth” or their first/last name and it's a hot mess.

And the third, final gripe of mine is just how much downtime there was. So many pages were empty of dialogue and relegated to bear nothing but tired descriptions that went on for far too long. Even the fight scene at the end was maybe a page or two too long. It never got to the Lord of the Rings levels of almost pointless descriptions but it did make some chapters feel a bit... boring.

The characters, those that stick, were fantastic! Gideon was great but my favorite was Harrow for whatever reason. (I tend to be the caster and Gideon's anything but that.)

Anyway, four stars! Definitely enjoyed reading it. Took my ±9 days to finish and never felt like a chore.

I finished this book in about 24 hours in two reading sessions. It flew incredibly well with only the most minor of hiccups. Yet I would still rate Bonds of Brass only a 2/5. Why is that and why my review is actually 3/5 I will try to explain in as few a words as possible.

I do my best to buy books knowing as little as possible. More often than most I truly do judge a book by its cover. Though generally I read the first few lines of the summary here on Goodreads before making a purchase. Bonds of Brass I bough based on very little. All I knew was that there is an LGBT relationship between two men in a sci-fi setting. The reason why I am saying this is for it to be understood why I picked Bonds of Brass up in the first place.

Thankfully the relationship is great and my favorite part of the book. Gal and Ettian, our two main characters, are adorable lovable dorks. A lot of their decisions, especially those of Ettian who is our POV into the story, are influenced by their love to a point of being outright insane. There is a lot of tropes ranging from there being just one bed in a motel room to fake dating and a lot of pining. I LOVED IT. It was funny, it was great. I adore those two.

The characters as a whole, including a third main character Wen, are alright. I feel that the side-characters never got their time to shine, but given how the story goes I prefer the focus on Ettian and Gal. What I do not prefer are the chapters all about Wen that just weren't fun. As a character Wen is... I'm sure there is a word for it. I didn't like her about three chapters after she was introduced, when she became just uneeded in the story save for the ending.

I can stomach somewhat meh characters if the story is interesting. Sadly, for the life of me, I cannot do the opposite. The story in Bonds of Brass is contrived. It feels over-plotted, where the author forced things to happen to get the characters where she wanted them to be. This is all perfectly encapsulated in the ending that I absolutely and utterly dislike.

There is a reveal, a big plot twist, in the final chapter. It's so predictable that I outright dismissed it when I thought about it somewhere around...reading the summary on the jacket. The paragraphs leading up to it I begged the book not to do it, but it refused to listen. Ending is paramout and this was bad. Not ok, not meh, but bad.

Now to reveal why 3 stars and not the 2 that I initially wanted to give the book. There's a sequel coming. Bonds of Brass is the first book of a trilogy! I genuinely believe that the ending, which is the source of the sour taste the book left in my mouth, can be remedied in the second book. If it doesn't, I'll edit this review and change it to 2 stars.

Not to end the review on such an overly negative note, I want to say that I enjoyed Bonds of Brass. Truly, I did! I can't wait for the sequel; I just hope it's better.

What a travesty the Aurora Cycle has been.

Rising - 2/5
Burning - 1/5
End - 2/5

I guess I can say the book matched the first one? That's positive in the least.

I don't know what the authors were thinking making this one a “time-travel” story. The tag line of “it's about time” is fantastic and made me interested but... mothercustard this one was also just not good and the one star extra is for Finian x Cat being adorable.

My reviews never contained spoilers but this one... oh yes, this one does because this book has made me genuinely angry with how wasted the potential was. It reminds me of a lot of M. Night movies that have an amazing premise but fail at everything else.

The Aurora Cycle and it's End is just that. It has some fun characters (Fininan, Magellan) and the story can be interesting at times... or I guess it could have but the way Kristoff and Kaufman took this is just stupid.

Aurora is terrible and good 80% (or even more) of her lines are either:
a) “Kal? Where is my SPACE ELF boyfriend? I miss Kal
b) I am the SAVIOR. I am the CHOSEN ONE.
c) Forgetful.
Did I say 80%? I meant 100%. They made the TITULAR character Bella from Twilight. Our elf Kal even had imprinted on her just like Jacob did to the monster CGI baby in whichever Twilight movie that travesty happened.

Kal is easily the worst character and has been since book 1 when I give it proper thought. His lines are all about Ben'shmai or ‘The Enemy Within' which sounds wince-worthy even when I try to imagine I'm thirteen. His fight scenes are lame.
Really, Kal should have died in Burning (book 2) to show the consequences of what can happen if Aurora fails her mission of defeating the plant-based villains.

Tyler, the Gary Stu of the group aka Goldenboy, is... OK. Except he starts a thing with a MASS MURDERER. Do we just forgive Saedii's self-admitted crimes? No: “I love you but you like... helped to kill billions of people. Sorry babe.” Jesus...

Finian and Scar are great this time around but I'm still salty that Finian, like ever character worth talking about, got a cishet relationship. Nope. You don't get a poly rep, an enby rep, nope. All you get is Mary Sue Zila being a lesbian with a character we've never heard of before. That's now how you do rep, you muffins.

The story is a mess. There are three points in time. Out of them one (the future) is entirely irrelevant and if you were to tear those pages out of the book (which I had wanted to do the 54th time Kal whined about his Ben'shmai being the bestest and strongest of women) nothing would change. The story would work anyway. Then the best one (the past) is fantastic but also easily skippable if you just don't care.
The one that does matter is the present with Gary Stu Tyler but that one is damn boring until the end.

Ah and the ending.

“The ending is paramount,” I always say.

And I do mean it. Even a mediocre series could be easily turned into a fantastic one by a good ending. Weirdly enough the start of Aurora's End was amazing and I had fun with it wanting to rate it 4/5 but everything else just dragged it down to a 1 or 2 out of 5.
The Ending was boring and predictable. Out of the main cast nobody felt any consequences for their utter stupidity. The ending even has them get money deposited in the past so they can be rich.

Did a rattlesnake write this?

Terrible series and a terrible end to it brought to a 2/5 by the virtue of it being readable (unlike Book 2).

I use GoodReads reviews as a public reading diary and usually I keep my reviews quite focus on the things that matter to me.

Not here.

I've come here to write about how average this book is and how the format of letters hurts it. I'm gonna get to that, of course, but first I must laugh at the popular negative reviews written by quite clearly Americans.

It might come as a surprise to the culture that thinks teenagers are mature enough to go and die invading foreign countries but not old enough to drink but teenagers date each other! Holy hell, the “age gap” debate is so stupid. It's a gap of three years. Jo is 15 and Kurl is 18. They're both in high school. Do you think teenagers are celibate until they mature? No! Teenagers are undergoing puberty. Most of them want to explore that.

Further, I see a lot of women commenting on the fact that this book has been written by a woman about a same-sex couple (not always that means both are gay, you should know that). It is beyond ironic how anyone can criticize a woman for writing about gay teenagers when they themselves are not male, gay, teenagers. As a member of the male species who has been in same-sex relationships, please be quiet.

This does however lead me to the homophobia of the sigh ‘butcherboys'. It served no point and was boring. Same as, really, most of the book it was just about nothing that important. The fate of Jo's mother and his familial troubles were great and I wish they were explored more but Kurl's side was done stupidly.

Honestly, the letter format needed to go and shift to a present tense of two POVs instead. Nobody writes letters with dialogue they had with the recipient of said letter. Like, what? That was dumb.

Jo was adorable. Kurl was okay.

I liked it because it's gay and I'm gay for all the gay things. Cheers

Initially I clicked this as 2/5 naively thinking I could find something good.

Nope.

The blandest characters return in yet another installment of this travesty of a trilogy. Let's go over the characters, as the books does, knowing very well that it's near impossible to remember these blank slates (except Fin).

We have Tyler, a prominent member of the Sue-Stu family but not a ‘Gary Stu' just yet. He is the Alpha, the leader, the best at everything except when the story wants him to be stupid.

Scarlet, Tyler's twin sister, who is as obnoxious as in Aurora Rising. A passage about one of her dozens of ex boyfriends being “too much tongue” made me want to tear that page out of the book. YUCK!

Zila, the genius who would study college-level material at 6 years old returns and is as forgettable as her cursive-writter, flashback of a backstory.

Kal, now here we have a fantastic ‘Gary Stu' specimen. He is perfect, he is gorgeous, he is so powerful whole armies would fall to his wrath. One word: YAWN.

Auri... I've liked Aurora in the first book but here she is horrible as the writers wrote this horrible romance for her and Kal that just screams “wish-fullfilment”. They have no chemistry what-so-ever.

also they yet again omitted any sort of a m/m or f/f romance for the sake of more hetero romance, good job, clowns

Lastly, we get to Finian who is the best character in this whole damn book. He fall into the hetero fall of despair by having a crush of Scarlet, who given her extensive dating record which she seems to be weirdly proud of (it's not really that normal to have dated 30+ people by the time you're 18 or so) is not a good choice what so ever. At least Fin is the one very openly bi. Yay. Small victories.

Now, the story.

HA! There is a disjointed mess of bullshoot and even more bullshoot in the second half. The villains are caricatures so bad that Voldemort is more of a complex villain than them. Jesus... or should I say ‘mothercustard'?

The plot happens and then it's over with a stupid, boring, terrible cliffhanger at the end.

I'm getting mad just thinking about this travesty. 0/5!

My first DNF.

What an utter disappointment this book's been. I cannot for the love of me understand how could anyone compare this to Lord of the Rings. The Priory of the Orange Tree just vomits names and characters and POVs at the you and expects you to remember everything. There is no main character, there are dozen and a half plot-lines without any distinction as what is important and what's secondary.

Labeling chapters as a cardinal direction was the stupidest choice I've ever seen. The approach of “Chapter 1” or named chapters is fine. A Song of Ice and Fire's approach of naming chapters after the POV character would be fantastic here as the sheer amount of characters you go through is staggering at times.

I've had easier time reading DUNE, the Silmarillion, or any literary classic. Joyce's Ulysses would probably keep me entertained better than this. Not that I hate it but it's presented terribly. The writing is weird, the characters are not memorable what so ever besides a few of them but by virtue of the multiple scattered POVs it's impossible to root for any of them (Except Sulyard who is killed "off-screen" WHAT THE HELL?

I've gone through some 400 pages of this and I can't stomach another 400. Nope! I'm sorry but not only this is nowhere near Lord of the Rings, this is plain sub-par run of the mill fantasy.

First book of 2022 that's not 5/5 for me. I'm giving Lost in the Never Woods a 4/5 as it was just a fun and easy read but I do have things to complain about. Let me introduce you to a duo of problems. One is Eugene, who will not hurt, and the other is Dwayne whose gaze alone breaks my bones.

Eugene is this constant expository narration. So many times the book keeps retelling events from the past which are not exactly necessary. So many descriptions to a point of being annoying. I was so tempted to skimp.

Now Dwayne is the wasted potential of the book. Peter Pan is a weirdo and the world (and the characters) rightfully think him to be suspicious. Of course our protagonist Wendy does come around to trust him quite quickly but I wished for Peter to not be the fun, nice, happy guy. I wanted this story to go just a few steps further and make Peter Pan into a complex character. There is a part that humanizes him a little but it's extremely predictable and, well, it's not exactly resolved. It's revealed very close to the book's end.

It's sad how long the book is and how much of it is wasted. :(

Still 4/5!

This book was a mess. I finished Gideon the Ninth and went straight into Harrow excited to read more. Then I saw it's in second person and got very worried because I very much dislike second person writing; it's boring, in my modest opinion. Funnily enough I didn't mind it at all.What I did mind (read: hate) was everything else. Erasing Gideon for the most predictable reason is by far the worst decision ever. The confusing, boring, aimless plot is on par.The ending came out of nowhere and included a literal “teleports behind ‘Nothing personnel kid' “ meme. I hated this book. The extra star is for the one twist that I didn't predict which amounted to a “hm, that's cool” reaction from me. Can't wait for [b:Alecto the Ninth 39325106 Alecto the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #3) Tamsyn Muir https://s.gr-assets.com/assets/nophoto/book/50x75-a91bf249278a81aabab721ef782c4a74.png 60943284] to be written in future tense and for 3/4 of it pretend like nothing from the first two existed.

What is going on?! First three books in 2022 have so far all been 5/5s. I can't believe it.

And this is a graphic novel too; I don't like graphic novels that much and still Bloom was just sweet and nice and I loved it.

I don't read graphic novels/manga/comic books (at all, pretty much) so I can't really review as I normally would but Bloom's story was just a warm blanket to get through before bed. I want more!

Also, another cutie soft gay boy named Aristotle? YES

This is the definition of ‘fine' or ‘average' for me. I'm serious! If there is a book that is the most deserving of 2.5 stars it is Shadow and Bone.

Why? Because it's exactly that - fine, ok, average, alright, and all the other beautiful synonyms. It's not a grand adventure written by a master of prose and an excellent storyteller, the characters aren't nuanced and multi-layered, the worldbuilding isn't captivating to a point I'd want to live there.

But you know what? That's OK! I had fun reading it. Alina Starkov was a fun character even if with maybe too little character at times. The antagonist, who I shall not name as it is supposedly a spoiler (it's more blinding than Alina's light magic, come on now), is also fun. Mal is fun even though I desperately wanted to see more of him.

A lot of the plot came from absolute nowhere. Suddenly X is revealed as a thing and it is just plain random. Do I mind? Yes. Does it ruin the enjoyment of the book? NOPE.

- incoming: sticker rant -

What I disliked the most, by far, is the fake sticker informing me Netflix is about to ruin ehm... adapt the book into a show. Seriously, publishers stop abusing beautiful covers like this. At least make it a normal, real sticker I can peel off.

- sticker rant over -

Anyway, Shadow and Bone is fine and I liked it. I've already bought Siege and Storm, Ruin and Rising, and the Six of Crows Duology. I also already own King of Scars, which I bought last year thinking it to be standalone.

I didn't like it mostly due to the valley of difference between what I had expected to be and what the book actually turned out to be. It's not like I hated it but I've expected a horror! I've expected something more profound.
The message this was trying to tell, the author's “secret” were all so painfully obvious that I just had no fun with it.
Cool but just meh.

This one is so hard for me to rate. Not only I went into this expecting [b:They Both Die at the End 33385229 They Both Die at the End Adam Silvera https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1494333138l/33385229.SY75.jpg 49456196] levels of quality (which it does not reach), I also had my own ideas of where the story should go as I read on.Up until pretty much the ending this was a 4/5 deal. Not reaching the heights of The Both Die at the End but still fantastic. Then some twists happen and all the emotions that I had from the start are drained away.It's still a great read but it lacks a good ending. I just didn't like it and I am being be very honest in saying that it is the case just because of immensely subjective reasons. For you it might be a 5/5 ending, it is in no ways objective bad.

Now this was fun! I did not expect this to be sci-fi(ish) so it being revealed as one surprised me in the best of ways. I did enjoy the story even though it was a little ‘eh' at times. Todd was fantastic as a little bratty protagonist and Violet was the best.
There was some potential left wanting here. I still don't understand where Prentisstown got thousands of people but that's such a minor complaint.

Contrary to what I'm seeing I enjoyed this much more than [b:Shadow and Bone 10194157 Shadow and Bone (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #1) Leigh Bardugo https://i.gr-assets.com/images/S/compressed.photo.goodreads.com/books/1339533695l/10194157.SX50.jpg 15093325]! It still falls into the nice box of a very nice albeit super typical YA fantasy except just a tad bit better all thanks to Nikolai! He is the best, he is fantastic. There were some things I didn't fully expect at the start and it was fantastic revisiting some of the locals of Shadow and Bone.The worst part is Mal which is about as an unpopular statement as love for bacon. The other problems are the “YA” part of the series. Alina is great but she's also such a typical “not like the other girls” protagonist that it hurts to read. The jealousy both Mal and her showcase is pretty childish. I was alright with it in Shadow and Bone as that was their introduction but here Alina is THE SUN SUMMONER and should know a bit better. Final problem is the lack of worldbuilding. The Grisha powers are still unexplained beyond a simple “lights, oh also there are mirrors” but it's fine, I don't really mind that.I really liked Siege and Storm! It's not quite 3 stars but not 4 either (half-stars please GR!) but thanks to Nikolai being awesome I'm giving it 4!

A quick, quick read. Murderbot is running out of steam a little bit it seems. This one did not grab me nowhere near as much as the first two. Not much more to say really. I wish these were longer.

Reading this during a depressive period when I'm not feeling like reading is weird. It's just so okay but it refuses to go where it promises to go. I wish there was more but not because it's so good but because it needs to continue; original material be damned.

I finished in about an afternoon. Wasn't an easy read, I must say. Mainly due to all the tears filling my eyes!

I tend to go at least somewhat into detail in my reviews, for the benefit of “future me” and GoodReads users, but this one... I can't. It's got flaws but here they so don't matter.

Please, read it. Your future you will thank you.