themelodyofspring

Good

Enjoyed this a lot. Wish I got to read this book when I was a lot younger. Loved the characters except Thoooom

3 stars

This book was hilarious in hindsight. It flipped the gender norms so everything happening in the book to men, is what happens to women in reality. Read it thinking that and you'll have a lightbulb moment like aha! Men do this in reality and say thinly veiled insults like this every damn day.

Generous 2 stars

Good concept, poor execution. Make it make sense please. Or at least hint at something. The cover for this reminds me of the forest from annihilation. Mumbo jumbo of words without any ending, open or closed. Also this is written specifically for KU so I know it wasn't a formatting error, but the way the poems were written was so bizzare. Just write normally. And what was with the romance in 30 pages? No sense anywhere. After the disaster is the second book of Orisa, I don't think I can enjoy this author's writing anymore.

4 stars

Liked this one. It wasn't out of this world but it also wasn't mundane or boring. And the writing style was normal

4 stars

This one was different, and very well written. Loved the symbolism of the candles. This is my second favourite so far after Saint.

4 stars

Oh my god! This was sooo creepy but also so good. Most of the twists and turns you can guess after they've been hinted at. Makes the story more fun to read. I knew the short story by Tamsyn would have lesbians in it and I wasn't let down.
Edit: 2nd favourite story. The only story with gay rep. The longest of them all. The creepiest too.

2 stars

Not bad, but I feel like everything is going to fall short after the Saint story. I needed a bit more on the main characters.

1 star baaaad

Uhhhh.... Pretty generic and the only thing new or different was the ending. Almost turned into a generic YA novel about factions or magic school but thank God we ran out of pages before that possibility could be considered.

5 stars

What was this omg! Best short story I've ever read! This was so damn cool. And so full of heart and love. I knew Alix wouldn't disappoint me since I loved January so much ❤️
Edit: Having read all the stories, this remains the best of them. This story had everything.

What the hell was that ending?! I had to listen to the last few chapters twice and then Google “ending explained”

4.5 stars
Finally finished this after starting and stopping in February. It was sooooo good. There were a lot of descriptions of forests and castles and other scenes that bored me so much in the beginning. But I did guess where it was going near the end. Liked the twists and turns and the cliffhanger we ended on.

Beginning and end were fun. The middle dragged so much. Wasn't really all that mind blowing. Read for the dragons, got only one dragon for very short time

4.5 stars

This was surprisingly good. Kept me at the edge of my seat. I had suspicions about the culprit, and I liked how I was wrong but still close. At least the one person I trusted turned out to be good

Lovely ending

Forgot to write a review for this.
I don't know what I just read...... This was so confusing! And I like confusing sci-fi. The research discussions between the scientists were my favourite part. Not so favourite parts were the scary things the visitors did

3.5 stars! I got nothing to say for this. Didn't hit where it should have.

500 stars ✨
The second last twist in this one was delectable! The last twist was more hilarious than surprising. The double page illustration of the orange shorts

This was only read because it was selected as book of month for the first book club at my workplace. While it had some good points, it wasn't super impactful. Just okay.

One chapter that had the author's personal experience triggered me so fucking bad that I had to skip the whole thing. A little warning, people.

I loved this book! 10/10 no notes!

Loved this book so much! The narration for all the characters was so good. The story for this was lovely. A bit sad in the beginning, but it was nice to see how Lucy did without her found family. The mystery surrounding the Problem got very interesting. Loved all the character interactions. Kipps grew on me in this one.
And we continue the tradition of ending books on jaw-dropping cliffhangers

Okay this was pretty good considering it made me sad so many times. Everytime something happened to Poe and Katsa I was wiped out

Noooooooo!

Why do all the books end on cliffhangers?! Why would you keep doing this to me? Percheeeee

WTF was that ending

4.5 ✨
Loved this! There were so many small cases and other details that didn't make it into the show. So many of George's sick burnsss didn't make it in either

Lovely

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