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Oh God. I really enjoyed this book. I love how Thompson could visually portray his internal conflicts from his childhood and young adult life... From his abundance and then eventual lack of faith, ending things with his first love, patching things up with his brother after years of no communication... I could go on. Visual autobiographies should be a huge thing as physically seeing how Thompson experienced these events through his illustrations drew me in more than Bossypants by Tina Fey - which is saying a lot!
8 july 2019
A Darker Shade of Magic is one of those books I picked up and put down a few times and before finally finishing it, and that is because I wanted to make sure I could COMMIT to it. The Darker Shades world is so incredibly vivid and intricate that I wanted to be able to absorb every aspect of it. I loved the two MCs as well as the world building!!! Plot wise, I also thought it was excellent. I have the next two books and will definitely be finishing off the trilogy very soon.
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30 june 2019
tbh this is the third time ive picked this up and the ONLY reason i put it down is bc i wanted to be able to DEVOTE MY LIFE to this world and unis over so i can do it now :-)))
the only way i can describe this book is... odd. i don't really know if i really enjoyed it. it was a pretty hard book to read, and probably the most misogynistic book i've ever read. i can see how this book would anger die-hard feminists, but it needs to be remembered that this is a pure work of fiction. just a crazy, crazy read, and i... guess i'd recommend it? just prepare yourself for being upset at the whole world it's set in.
ok i love eadlyn as a main character wayyyy more than america. gotta love strong independent women
i'm reading hell bent atm & am obsessed with it so i WILL eat up a romantic ninth house
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i'm reading hell bent atm & am obsessed with it so i WILL eat up a romantic ninth house
i listened to the audiobook read by santino fontana, and i have to say he did a fantastic job! he really pulled off joe's psycho asshole character and made it a really pleasant listening experience. having watched the netflix series before listening to the book, the ending didn't surprise me at all which is what i mainly look for in a mystery/thriller. i have a feeling that if i hadn't watched the show beforehand, it could've been a five star read. nevertheless, i still loved this book and would definitely recommend listening to the audiobook!
actual rating: 3.5 stars
i love amy poehler and everything she's ever in but this audiobook fell kinda short for me.... i didn't necessarily like how it was structured and found myself very bored a lot of the time. i wasn't really as roped into her story as much as i thought i would be until maybe the last 20% of the audiobook. i still love amy poehler and her personality, but i didn't love this. or maybe i just don't like memoirs. who knows???? i'll read more memoirs to find out.
using this as a placeholder for boycotted titles bc fuck SMP & fuck authors that aren't pro-palestine. no promo from me :)
jan 2024
1. read an SMP title
Ngl was a little confused about how I felt about this book until I read the Author's Note and realized how Niven's loss of her loved ones inspired the book. Definitely made it much more personal and made me appreciate the book!
As a Veronica Mars fan from when the series aired (or when I decided to watch the whole show during a weekend in March 2013), I truly think this book does the series justice. I watched the movie last month when it came out, but I didn't realise until two days ago that Rob Thomas had also gotten a novel published as a continuation to the movie and when I immediately downloaded the eBook and matching audiobook (WHICH IS READ BY KRISTEN BELL OMG??). I started out listening to the audiobook but I just couldn't just sit there and wait 8 hours to finish this book, and zoomed through the eBook in less than half that time.
There is so much I love about this book. I love that Rob Thomas wrote it and perfectly captured Veronica's to a T in an unfamiliar format. Veronica's thinking process was totally nostalgic to the TV series and an older and more mature Veronica meant she was allowed to take more risks making the storyline a million times better than what the TV series had given us. It was sosososo smart of Thomas to reacquaint the fans with Veronica's mommy issues that weren't addressed in the movie but definitely shaped Veronica as a character.
I am just so happy this book series isn't utter shit and turned out to be a lot better than I had expected and still encapsulated everything Veronica Mars is without missing any traces of her identifiable smart ass remarks.
Props to you, Rob Thomas! I am definitely going to read the next book of this series if/when it comes out.
rly fun to read from her perspective, but i wanted to know more about genya before living in os alta :(((
Okay. So. This is the first John Green book I've ever read, and because I'm that person that tries to disregard whatever people are hyping up, I started this book thinking I wouldn't like it.
But, holy shit. This book hit me like a fucking bus. I felt helpless during the last few chapters. Green wrote Hazel and Augustus' dialogue so perfectly, making them so literate but also witty and still so when the worst came to worst... I fucking sobbed, and I never cry while reading.
Fucking hell, John Green. You messed me up. You made me weak. I'm definitely going to read another one of his book ASAP.
I read this book in a day and a half, it took me around two hours. The first few sections of the book were engaging as fuck; Cadence would mention events of previous summers until it got down to summer fifteen. I needed to know what happened, why she was suddenly so fucked up and confused. When I got to Part 5, though, it just went down hill. It turned the whole premise of the book into a cliche. Wow, a traumatised teenage girl hallucinating about her dead cousins and boyfriend? Totally unheard of.
Aside from the ending, I really enjoyed the book. I love how it portrays that youth, although they haven't experienced the bulk of the world, are capable of striving for morality. I love how they were able to see how ridiculous their mothers were acting about the inheritance and trust fund. For me, the highlight of the book was the little revelations Cadence had about her family's selfishness and arrogance only from the short remarks her grandfather, mother and aunt would make. It made the book more engaging. Even Lockhart's prose was well written within the first few parts, specifically the dialogue between Cadence and Gat.
The book's downfall is the ending. Everything else hit the nail on the head. It honestly felt like Lockhart just wanted to finish writing the book, so she just decided to kill the rest of the Liars off (I mean, it was only 200 pages sooo I mean, it's possible isn't it?).
Although I've only given this book 3 stars, I do recommend it! It is a quick, easy read that is thought provoking but not to the extent that it makes your head explode. Perfect for a quick YA fix.
All I have to say is this book broke my heart into a million pieces. A good read, definitely recommend. Slow at the start, but when things start to happen it just flows and you never want it to end. It's a perfect mix of a sappy love story with a hint of reality sprinkled into it. A must read, definitely.
this is the lighthearted trash i needed, let's see if i get through the whole series lol
As someone that doesn't usually go for dystopian novels, Delirium wasn't really a game changer for me. That being said, the love story embedded into the plot made my inner thirteen year old want to continue reading. The novel had some elements for a good plot (a totalitarian alternate present, an Invalid living among the townspeople, a tainted family reputation, etc), but ends up falling short as it came off more superficial than Oliver had probably intended. Throughout the novel certain key events were so heavily foreshadowed that even the climax of the plot could have been predicted less than halfway through the book. Delirium definitely didn't give me any βfeels' and I probably won't be reading the rest of the series. Two stars for a setting that has potential and a satisfactory plot line that by no means exceeded my expectations of this book.