Alex

Although there were some good, inspiring and interesting messages in this book, I felt I was reading a book for kids. It failed to connect with me and I felt those messages, lessons or words of wisdom could've been told in a different, more adult manner. 

Still, it was by no means a horrible read and there were definitely times I had a cozy feeling when reading it. That alone makes it better than other reads in my book.

A very good book that truly shows why it's held in such a high regard among the classics.
A very terrifying utopia where everything we do and think is controlled by the government. There were some passages in the book that really left me speechless and reconsidering everything in life.

In my opinion this book was ahead of its time on so many levels, although to be fair, the story of the protagonist fails to be as enticing. But in the end I liked how things unfolded, it captured greatly the essence of the world the book is trying to depict, with all its grimness and desolate feelings.

I felt this book was the novelization of The Prince, and I loved the execution of it. I'd definitely recommend it to a lot of people and look forward to rereading it in the future.

Personally, this read was very impactful and inspiring. Learning about how someone who had it way worse than I did, at least on paper, was able to overcome all those obstacles was encouraging to say the least. I've been kind of a loner for some time and it's good to learn about someone who despite being on her own, ended up coming out of it with a victory and an amazing story to tell. 

You can tell the toll it takes on someone to be raised in such a manner. In a very personal manner, this book increased my despise for religion when it is imposed and when there seems to be no cure to the ignorance that certain precepts of it imply. I also loved the way the topic of family is portrayed and could not agree more with the fact that we sanctify it and put it on a pedestal. That should not be the case.

Seek knowledge and dispose of everything and everyone who is setting you back, regardless of who they are and the title they possess in your life.

“We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.”

I had a difficult time deciding whether or not to give this book five stars, but it all became clear once I watched a video of some girl in YouTube telling her experience with it and I almost cried again. 

An amazing romance book for me. It had Greek mythology, war and violence, great dialogue, and a not so happy ending.

I loved the writing in this book. It had just the right amount of flowery to it that it made it beautiful but not super hard to follow.

I will definitely check out Circe and read the Iliad to get more into this great world I've been missing on.

This book was not for me. I thought it was a cheap romantic story you can find hundreds of times on Netflix at any moment.

The style of writing was horrendous. The fact that it had no punctuation to indicate dialogues made my heart hurt.

I also saw the excerpt from Conversations with friends and it's the same thing, so I will most likely not be checking out any more of Sally Rooney's work.