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i quite liked this one! it reminded me a lot of the show alias w/ jennifer garner! for some reason the end seemed a little too convenient and a little cheesy to me, but i do think it makes sense. but the plot leading up to the big reveal really had me on my toes
Just... Holy shit. I listened to the audiobook version of this book (which was over 18 hours, might I add) and I am honestly so happy I did. This book didn't really appeal to me during the first part because it felt like it was just dragging on, but as I kept listening I realised how important every single detail was.
I thought “this book is going to be really fucking predictable” - I knew Amy had framed Nick since part one, but the extent of how she did it... Props to you Flynn! It's probably the most unpredictable books I've ever read. I was so anxious to see if Nick or Amy would end up on top and I love how Amy's last chapter didn't clarify who it was.
And Amy's character though. I had predicted her framing Nick but???? Holy shit??? The lengths she went to. SHE MURDERED DESI!?!?!?!? And got away with it? Never would I ever have predicted it. I mean I knew she was a conniving, psychotic bitch but I had assumed she would run away and somehow take care of Desi the same way she did with Nick.
Honestly the part that surprised me (in a very good way) is how well Flynn was at making Amy seem faultless at the beginning. Dropping all these clues that Amy was framing, but making it look like she was doing it for a just cause? I just can't. I can't see any faults of this novel. No wonder this was on the best seller's list. SERIOUSLY did not disappoint. Every should read this.
Such a typical John Green book. What really annoys me is that all the protagonists in his books I've read (Miles, Hazel, Q) have someone of the opposite sex of which their happiness relies on. Also there are many parallels between Miles and Q as well as between Alaska and Margo from Paper Towns; it just seems like the scope of his writing is limited to adolescent first world problems. That being said, I'll most likely still read his other work as everyone continues to rave about all his books.
i'm sorry i found this soooo fucking boring and didnt care about any of the characters but who knows maybe ill pick it up again in the future (unlikely)
I didn't love it, but I didn't hate it. At the start, I hated Neve's character as she was very self pitying, and once she met Max it was just oh so predictable; obviously this would be a “pancake relationship” to start with but it was just so obvious that they would fall in love and she'd forget about William. Also the fact that William was engaged? Called it! Although it was a typical chick lit novel with a very predictable plot and whiny characters, I thought it was a decent read. I must say, the book ended exactly how I wanted it to but I wouldn't be excitedly recommending it to anyone.
after listening to 30 mins of this i decided i didn't care enough to invest 16 hours to listen to this audiobook and will instead watch uncarley's summary video
actual rating: 4.5 starsi'm sure we've all read a really terrible dystopia novel in our day (the most memorable shitty ones for me were [b:Shatter Me 10429045 Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1) Tahereh Mafi https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1310649047s/10429045.jpg 15333458] and [b:Delirium 11614718 Delirium (Delirium, #1) Lauren Oliver https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1327890411s/11614718.jpg 10342808]), but i PROMISE YOU this one isn't one of those! i love the world of scythe, the world building was done very well. set in a world where there is no mortal death and those who die are ‘gleaned' (aka selected to be killed for population control), you will be intrigued to see comparisons of their dystopian society to ours in the present. the concept of gleaning is a very interesting and complex with many grey areas that are explored throughout the book. the mc's, rowan and citra, are two very clever teenagers that face very adult dilemmas and handle them in very mature ways. i really, really enjoyed this book! when my book ban is over i am definitely going to pick up [b:Thunderhead 33555224 Thunderhead (Arc of a Scythe, #2) Neal Shusterman https://images.gr-assets.com/books/1505658534s/33555224.jpg 54332060]!!!!
such a great concept and really great writing, but the pacing was horrendous & the end was so unfulfilling. it felt like he got tired writing about emma & dexter and decided just to quickly wrap it up
ANYWAYS is there a colleen hoover version of this book bc i bet it would SLAP
read the description after reading the first vol and i didn't know that was the concept of the manga at all? i didn't come through in the vol
it was cute but don't like it enough to continue
I had high hopes for this book after reading The Fault In Our Stars for the first time a few months ago. Honestly, I didn't really enjoy it. Q's journey to different pseudovisions and constant quoting of Whitman made the book drag on. The characters were mostly two dimensional and all of them, even the Quentin as a protagonist, had minimal character development. For me, the only highlight of the book would be the occasionally humorous adolescent banter between Quentin and his clique but other than that, I didn't really enjoy this book. 3/5 wouldn't recommend.
A tale (not even, there was no plot) about two angsty teenage girls that go out of their way to judge anything and everything to compensate for their drastic self loathing. I had watched the movie and thoroughly enjoyed it, then read the book and found that so many changes were made - and for good reason, the book was complete, utter shit.
There was no plot (which is alright if anything else about it was good, but nothing was), the characters had minimal development that had only occurred towards the end. The whole 80 pages were purely two teenage girls fucking with people in the most distasteful way and bitching about them behind their backs whilst also trying to figure out their hopeless futures with their only obstacles being a series of first world problems. I hated every single thing about this book, besides the fact it was so short - I don't think I could've bared anything longer than what it was.
bro i loved it so much!!! i'm obsessed!!! also fuCK aaon & i love sabrina and henry heehehe god this was so cute
march 2022
there is a TITLE and a COVER and a RELEASE DATE
ARE WE ALL FREAKING OUT OR IS IT JUST ME
march 2024
“I'm bound to you, Stern. To the woman who brought me out of hell. I will serve you ‘til the end of days.”
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LOVED how plot-heavy and fast-paced this book was, but it didn't wow me the way ninth house did. can't fkn wait for the next book tho bc i love every character
3.5
i liked this much better than the ‘if love' books bc of the soap opera-esque dramatics. very trashy, very entertaining. also surprisingly not as spicy as i was expecting
im so invested in these characters!!! & cal is so different from the other two idek what to expect from the next book :o
god this book was absolute trash and i ate that shit UP
i read this book bc a booktoker said this book had the craziest plot twists and i was thinking, what kind of plot twists could a romance have that has it stacked up to verity? let's just the plot was def twisting, but it was LAUGHABLE just how ridiculous it was.
ok so spoilers:
i knew this was gonna take a turn for the ultra dramatic when ari got hit by the car, but never in my life did i expext ari to 1) be PREGNANT and lose the baby and 2) for her to have AMNESIA bgiuergnrenfow this book was ridiculous but i loved it. also i'm sure we all think chase is a snake for trying to take ari back after her slept with her and didn't want anything to do w/ her until she started falling for another guy. team noah. i love u noah.
anyway this book was way too long. 600+ pages? needed some editing for sure & i skimmed here n there but lol if u want a book to take u on a RIDE read this one.
3.5 stars
did i think this book was necessary? tbh no, i didn't. but i recommend reading it if you want to see lily get the happy ending she deserves.
ngl kinda excited to read about fucked up family drama without the predictable plot twist bullshit
i feel like i can fully appreciate this book once I reread this bc I had no idea where it was going and it ANNOYED ME SM but the last quarter of the book things got really interesting!!!