Alex

I had a good time with this book, especially considering this is not a genre I'm too much into. It was a quick read despite being kind of long in terms of the number of pages and that made the story easily approachable.

Going through a breakup myself I definitely felt identified with some of the passages and thoughts from the characters, to the point that it even made me reflect on my own relationship, behaviors and attitudes toward love.

It was funny at times and I liked that at the end they didn't end up together, but instead they stayed true to themselves and followed each other's dreams. 
It lacked some punch, I don't know how to put it but that's why I'm only giving it a bit over 3 stars. I would recommend it but not like a must read whatsoever.

“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.

So far this is my favorite book in the series. I thought it did a good job in transitioning the story to a more mature one, handling topics that start resembling more the problems that a young man encounters rather than a kid.

Sirius Black and professor Lupin were great characters that in my opinion jumped the ranks quickly to become some of the best in the series.

The writing was also an improvement in my opinion. Although there were times where the pace was extremly slow.

Moving forward I expect more of the same as Harry comes of age.

This was my introduction to adult fantasy and I couldn't be happier I chose it. Every detail, from the magic system to the world building felt complex enough but not overly complicated and I was able to catch all I had to catch from this book. 

I'm not giving it five stars just because I strongly believe there are things in store in this series that will impress me even more. But it came incredibly close to getting there and so far is the best book I've read in the year. 

Favorite characters so far: Ham, Sazed, Breeze, Dockson and Marsh.

I can safely say that this book definitely got me into fantasy and I will continue to explore the cosmere in the future.  

I just couldn't do it. I had to skim through most of the book because otherwise it was gonna take me years to finish it.

Annoying, dry and dull writing. If it was indeed written by a girl then it reflects just that aspect of childhood in that they complain all the time and believe no one understands them.
I'm aware the subject and context of this book are grim and serious, but it just felt boring to the core. Simply not for me.

Short book that serves well as an introduction to Tolstoy. I definitely want to keep embarking on reading more of his work and can now get a grasp on the topics he talked about.

I liked the story of Pakhom and his pursuit for land more than the story of the shoemaker and his encounter with an angel. It had multiple takeaways:
- How we perceive and value a certain lifestyle, so much that we are willing to make many sacrifices in order to keep living said lifestyle.
- How much we care about what others will say about us in the groomiest of circumstances: “If I stopped now, after coming all this way, well they'd call me an idiot”.

I didn't like how big a part religion had in the two stories of the book. However I do understand and somewhat expected it because of the time it was written.

Overall a very solid, quick and easy read.

Toda una experiencia emocional. Una situación triste la de la protagonista que hace que ponga en perspectiva diferentes situaciones de mi propia vida y que estás palidezcan en comparación. 

La vida cambia de un momento a otro y este cambio nos puede perseguir para siempre. Queda estar atento e intentar hacer lo mejor que podamos, además de saborear esos momentos tan llenos de paz y plenitud que solo pueden considerarse como felicidad.

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.

Out of the three novels I've read so far I'd rank this one last. In my opinion it was slower paced and didn't have the same intrigue as the previous two. 

I would highlight that in the beginning there was the whole midterm of wether or not the whole ordeal was supernatural or not and that provided a twist that wasn't in the other entries. 

However I didn't feel as engaged as I did in the other stories and the characters weren't as endearing aside from Sir Henry Baskerville and a little bit Mrs Stapleton.

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.

At times I liked this one more than the first but also the other way around.
Overall it was a good follow up to the series that continues to set the foundation for the story. 

However, I couldn't help but feeling like it was the same book as the first one, a build up ending with another Voldemort and Harry fight, and it loses some points because of that. 
The plot twist at the end was super entertaining.

Okay, I'm hooked!
Very solid and exciting starting point for this series. It sets up a lot of interesting storylines I'm pumped for.

Just like book number 3, I felt this book was not as great as the first two entries. As with every collection of stories, some were very interesting and solid Sherlock stories, but others seemed a little lower in quality and even repetitive. The highs in this book were not as high as I expected and this book pushed me to take a break from this series.

My favorite stories from this book were:

• The adventure of Silver Blaze
• The adventure of the Yellow face 
• The adventure of the Gloria Scott
• The adventure of the Reigate Squire
• The adventure of the crooked man
• The adventure of the resident patient.

I have mixed feelings towards this book. On one hand I didn't have big expectations for it, and it still delivered some genuinely funny bits and good advices, so I could even say it exceeded what I was hoping for. 

But on the other hand, it took me a while to finish and I found myself constantly avoiding it. The heart doesn't lie at the end of the day, so I'd say this was a pretty average book that made me laugh but was tedious at times.

Un libro que por momentos es difícil de leer y digerir. Sin embargo lo disfruté muchísimo. Sin duda hay mucho que reflexionar al respecto, pero lo principal que me llevó de esta lectura es simplemente lo poco que la vida humana ajena nos puede importar.

I felt this book was not as great as the previous two entries. As with every collection of stories, some were very interesting and solid Sherlock stories, but others seemed a little lower in quality and even repetitive. Still, the highs in this book were very high and it goes to show how good this series is.

My favorite stories from this book were:

• A scandal in Bohemia
• The red headed league
• The five orange pips
• The man with the twisted lip
• The adventure of the noble bachelor

Incredibly bingeable book. I was always on the edge of my seat throughout the whole thing. 

It provides a great angle on how we treat celebrities, gifting with all our atention but also scrutinizing their every move in horrible ways. 
It also has some powerful stuff on love, how it varies from individual to individual and how valuable it is to someone and why we should always seek to be with those that we love despite what life throws at us.

I think I would've liked this book a lot more had I read it in a different point of my life. I just feel like the setting of WWII is overused and now I'm determined to skip books like this for some time.

This book does, however, bring something different to the table. The fact that it's narrated by death itself is interesting and darker than most books of this kind. 

I had a good time exploring the friendship Liesel had with Rudy and with her foster parents Rosa and Hans. I think the key of the book is there, to see how people can still be kind and nurturing to their loved ones even in tough times.

Solid book. I'm glad I read it and that I finally understand the big fuzz surrounding it. I will definitely check some of the others in the series. 
I loved that almost every single chapter ends in a cliffhanger, so you literally can't put it down because you wanna get to the bottom of it.

At the end it felt a little underwhelming in that things were fixed so quickly, the bad guy,(although it did provide a good plot twist) was beaten rather easily and our protagonists were finally happy.  I thought it had more potential and it could've ended stronger, but the ride was super enjoyable.

The story of Valentino Achak Deng is amazing and unbelievable. The way Dave Eggers told it was not. It took me almost five months to finish this book and that's even considering I had to skim through some of it, otherwise I firmly think it'd taken me six or seven months. The reason for that is merely the storytelling. 

Throughout this book I found myself thinking this was great and even recommending the book to people - but then it hit me that even though the stories in Achak's life are so incredible, full of pain and distress, and that one can't help but feel sympathy for him and all the people in Sudan -the storytelling was just not up to par, and it made the book so much less enjoyable. 

I do think this needs to be read just to learn about the implications in the story itself, but I would even say watching a documentary on it would be better and far more exciting. Overall I would say it was a poor execution. 

I really liked this book. As with every Sherlock story, the writing is incredible and soothing in a way that very few other books accomplish.

I was loving every bit of the story up until they went after the launch, it seemed to hit a bump on the road and it only went back up again when they had finally captured Small. 
I would rank this slightly lower than A Study in Scarlet, but still a great entry in the Sherlock universe.

I liked the story a lot. It's amazing to see how many different topics can be tackled in such a few pages. However, I think a little more pages would've been good if it meant to give the reader a clearer perspective of the ending, which I felt was very sudden and abrupt. 

The writing was also not very enjoyable, some diary entries were not transitioned in a smooth and I felt all along like it lacked something.

From how society has treated women and how man-oriented circumstances have been, to gaslighting them to the biggest extent, the subject of this book is a very powerful one, and the horror is definitely accomplished. I just think that it would've benefited from being a little longer.

I have mixed feelings when it comes to this book.
There were passages that I enjoyed A LOT, and would incline me to rate it incredibly high. But there were also pages where I felt the story was not as strong, especially once we knew what was going to happen, what Louis was going to do all along. I personally thought that around 80 to 100 pages could've been more fast paced and to the point. 

I really liked that instead of being horror centered on paranormal stuff, it's more focused on death, which can be terrifying and way more relatable than ghosts and all those creepy creatures we can find in books like this. I found some really interesting pieces on death and bereavement in this book that truly exemplify how a person deals with death and the toll it can take on a group of individuals.

Overall, I would recommend this book to a lot of people, and I found it way more enjoyable and appealing than past Stephen King stories I've read.

Just a fantastic book overall. There's something about the way Sherlock's stories are presented that keep me on the edge of my seat every time. This being the introduction to our protagonists, is an amazing start. 

The first half of the book, focused entirely on Sherlock and Dr Watson, from how they get to be roommates to how they get involved in the mystery of Drebber's assassination, is just perfect.
I didn't love the pages set in Utah on the love feud between Jefferson Hope, Stangerson and the aforementioned Drebber as much as I did the ones set in England and that actually included Sherlock and Dr Watson in them. 
Even though I understand the huge importance of that part of the story, they're simply not as good as the rest and I would've preferred it if it were shorter and overall, we had a bigger part set in England. And because almost half of the story tells said love feud, I don't give this book five stars.

I really enjoyed this book at the beginning. I was connecting with the experiments and works cited in it and highlighting a ton of passages that I thought would be useful in the future. But after the halfway point I'd say it took a dip in terms of quality, and finally it capped off with some pretty interesting exercises, ending on a good note. 

I believe feeling good about what we're doing is crucial in determining how much we can keep doing it, and this book left me with that idea well cemented in my head. It also provided a new angle for me to look at people, from the way I engage with them to the way I can even “use” them as a sort of accountability tool. 
It made me look at procrastination differently as well, having to go deep into it and analyze why we truly sometimes can't find the motivation to do something. Not always can we accomplish something off of pure discipline, we must have more to it. 

Among other useful ideas, this book delivered and accomplished its goal, in my opinion, which is to serve as a starting point for one to form a solid foundation of productivity and goals for the short, mid and long term.