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A lovely treat!
I cannot think of a purer love than this. Very very funny, I laughed a lot. Very easy to read too. The plot twist of Howl knowing about her curse from the very start, linked so perfectly that it was very satisfying to read. Every character is so charming. The ending was just so...perfect, how they just go into a world of their own even while everyone is bugging them because after all Sophie is an elder sibling and they cannot have a single moment of just their own. They truly are soulmates. I cannot think of anymore adjectives to describe this book. Any elder sibling would love this story.
A perfect post-breakup book.
I really liked the writing, surprisingly. This was my first Emily Henry book.
I feel like the book was more about the idea that the worst possible thing can happen and...you will survive. You have to. Life moves on. And you will move on too. You cannot let the bad thing trample over other good things, like living in fear that a relationship will end and not enjoying the present, not believing in the present.
I didn't like the main guy. His backstory was lazy and cliche. He was more charming in the starting when we didn't know much about him.
The book was more about dealing with pain than romance. And that was just what I needed. Maybe I projected onto the book. Maybe I didn't. I don't know. I read it in one day.
To say that this book is my favourite horror novel, would be an understatement.
I have always been very intimidated by classics, and this is the first classic I have ever read so naturally, I was hesitant. But then I read the first line and before I knew it, I was reading the last line. This classic literally left me breathless. The fact that I didn't know what I was getting myself into, just added on to it. I expected the horror to be supernatural, but it quickly became a thriller.
The foreshadowing, the descriptions, the inner monologue all was just so wonderful. This one paragraph where the author related this children's game, “The Old Witch” to explain her feelings and horror, left me in absolute awe. Maybe it was because I used to play that game a lot or maybe it was due to the brilliance of her mind to connect it with the book. The way the author wrote, left me with goosebumps. I did not want the novel to end. And now that it has ended, I don't know what to do with myself.
This was absolute trashfire.
First of all, the writer was born in the UK so his views on the hatred that Pakistan and India harbour towards each other being stupid, are invalid. The main character's mother dying in a rally and her just accepting it as her mother being a victim of “circumstance” rather than the fault of the British, is just infuriating. Also the protagonist just ended up liking a white boy, the fuck?
Secondly, the writer is a male and 9/10 times male authors cannot writer female characters for the life of them. The only two categories of women to them are either “pick- me's” or “whores”. This was another one of the cases. And the main character being a woman...well you can just guess how it played out.
Thirdly, 95% of the characters were overweight. The writer conveniently made all of the problematic characters overweight.
The only redeeming quality this book had was that it was easy to read and fast paced. Only slightly better than the Midnight Club.
Last time I had read something from this genre, I was 14. I didn't know if I would enjoy this and was very doubtful but needless to say, I absolutely adored this book. It was not cringe, cliche or boring. The world building is brilliant and it had me addicted from the very first page. I can't wait to read the next book. I didn't want to put this book down at all and felt the same way I did when I was 14. Also the romance is just chef kisses
This is the book I would want to be buried with.
Gillian Flynn really knows people. These characters, they are real. The most terrifying thing about her books is that all of the stuff which unfolds is very very distrubingly real. It is more of a non-fiction and a study than it is a fiction. Weirdly enough there is relief in that. They help me find solutions more than a self help book ever can even though they are in the end, murder mysteries.
My FAV book out of the series. It was perfect. I loved the representation. The characters were funny and I loved Zaf's family. Also ofc the smut was top tier.
