It's early 2000 on New York City's Upper East Side, and the alienation of Moshfegh's …
It kind of slayed, despite the lack of plot
4 stars
This was very interesting…the book touches on things like the art world, mental health, rich people, and even the simple act of lying, and brings in such beautifully written and very interesting ideas about all of those things. The writing was so good, I was literally thinking and talking in the style it’s written in for a while. But the characters were insufferable, and I got kind of bored in the middle, so I think 3.5 stars is a good rating.
Seventeen-year-old Cassie Hobbes has a gift for profiling people. Her talent has landed her a …
Showed up for the serial killers, stayed for the drama
4 stars
This was so iconic on so many different levels. The mystery in this one I thought was even better than the first book, and the way that Deans trauma is revisited through the lense of The Naturals solving the crime, was an incredible way to weave everything togather. The 5 main kids in this book all love and hate each other so much, and it’s honestly beautiful. Like they all found family. IM A SUCKER FOR THAT TROPE. Also in the end, I think Cassie really did pick the right guy out of the love triangle, I was simping all through both books, SO I THOROUGHLY APPROVE. These characters truly do feel like my children, I WILL BE READING THE NEXT BOOK AS SOON AS I CAN SECURE IT FROM BARNES AND NOBEL.
Nora Stephens’ life is books—she’s read them all—and she is not that type of heroine. …
This book was my therapist
5 stars
The writing was actually hilarious. I was cackling, and kicking my feet like an insane person almost all the way through. On top of that, the families in this story were so flushed out and beautifully written, and the way everyone is so wonderfully represented is incredible. Main love story was incredible, funny, and tender, I cried like a baby at multiple points towards the end. I appreciate that the main man in this book actually feels his feelings at some points, instead of having the emontional depth of a woodchip. INCREDIBLE READING EXPERIENCE, I NEED TO READ MORE EMILY HENRY SOON.
This felt like the Peeta and Gale love triangle, but if Gale wasn’t an asshole
4 stars
I was very bored for the first like 120 pages of this book. Don’t think it was necessarily bad, just wasn’t locked in on the mystery and FBI element to fully enjoy it. But once I DID lock in, this book was so amazing and entertaining. I know the plot might be basic to some people who read a lot of murder mystery, but I’ve not experienced a lot of the genre so the plot kept me guessing the whole time. The layering of serious and compelling murder and FBI training with teenager romance and drama made it so silly, loved this.
He has a heart of ice … but for her, he'd burn the world. Alex …
😀…excuse me what
1 star
LADIES. PRO TIP. If a man says the words “you belong to me”, your instantaneous reaction should be to RUN, not spend the remaining 250 pages of this train wreck book, falling HEAD OVER HEELS FOR HIM. The crime/murder sub-plot was actually somewhat interesting to me, but the way Alex acts and treats Ava in this book sent it immediately to one star. BOUNDARIES? Who is she. EMOTIONAL REGULATION? Never heard of her. ANGER AND VIOLENCE MANAGEMENT? She’s not even in the same universe. Alex should’ve gotten a restraining order about 800 times throughout the duration of this book. I’ve been scarred for life🫡
The Song of Achilles is a 2011 novel by American writer Madeline Miller. Set during …
“He’s half my soul as the poets say”
4 stars
It was very difficult for me to follow the plot of this book. My tiny brain was struggling to memorize all of the long ass names, and unfortunately I am not nerdy enough to have the system of society in Ancient Greece filed away in my brain. I was lost and confused and honestly a little bit bored, BUT I DON’T CARE. This was beautiful. It was queer joy, feminist anger, teen angst, and a wee little history lesson ALL IN ONE. The way the author like spreads out the 21 year long plot line through out the book is masterful, and the characters and their individual actions are written so damn well, that I don’t even need to know the plot! The ending broke me, I was crying for literally the entire last sixty pages. This is the most beautiful story I’ve ever read. Not THE BEST, and certainly …
It was very difficult for me to follow the plot of this book. My tiny brain was struggling to memorize all of the long ass names, and unfortunately I am not nerdy enough to have the system of society in Ancient Greece filed away in my brain. I was lost and confused and honestly a little bit bored, BUT I DON’T CARE. This was beautiful. It was queer joy, feminist anger, teen angst, and a wee little history lesson ALL IN ONE. The way the author like spreads out the 21 year long plot line through out the book is masterful, and the characters and their individual actions are written so damn well, that I don’t even need to know the plot! The ending broke me, I was crying for literally the entire last sixty pages. This is the most beautiful story I’ve ever read. Not THE BEST, and certainly not the most interesting, but 100% the most beautiful. Achilles and Patroclus have the most heartbreaking love story of them all, I wish them nothing but happiness. <3
Liz Buxbaum has always known that Wes Bennett was not boyfriend material. You would think …
Liz Buxbaum has stolen my brain cells and my will to live. Send help.
3 stars
I kind of loved everything about this. The man is top tier in a way only a guy in a YA romance can be, the parents are all hilarious in a very “haha I'm Gen X and I’m dead inside let’s talk about it” kind of way, and the settings, THE VIBES, were TOP TEIR. It was the set up for a CUTE LITTLE COMFORT NOVEL. But the main character made me want to put myself into a paper shredder. I know a lot of her behaviors and bad habits are heavily centered around the death of her mother, and that is obviously valid, but her delusions, weird hate of other women just because a guy liked them, and insistence on being quirky, just DID NOT do it for me. I know that there are some pretty extreme Liz fans out there, but for me personally, she just kind …
I kind of loved everything about this. The man is top tier in a way only a guy in a YA romance can be, the parents are all hilarious in a very “haha I'm Gen X and I’m dead inside let’s talk about it” kind of way, and the settings, THE VIBES, were TOP TEIR. It was the set up for a CUTE LITTLE COMFORT NOVEL. But the main character made me want to put myself into a paper shredder. I know a lot of her behaviors and bad habits are heavily centered around the death of her mother, and that is obviously valid, but her delusions, weird hate of other women just because a guy liked them, and insistence on being quirky, just DID NOT do it for me. I know that there are some pretty extreme Liz fans out there, but for me personally, she just kind of brought the book down, and made me WAY angrier than I should have been reading a freaking YA romance novel.
Everyone who I’ve ever heard talk about this book, either online or in real life, has talked about how they absolutely LOVE it, and how it made them cry and how it has a beautiful message about abuse and feminism as a whole. And while I do agree and really appreciate the message and themes, I didn’t love this one. Maybe I’m simply not the target age, and need to read it when I’m a bit older. But as of right now, though I appreciated this book and what it was trying to do, I was just kind of being a hater the whole time I was reading it. I was annoyed and angry the whole time, but for some reason I never quite felt sad. AND I’M NOT TRYING TO SOUND LIKE AN ANTI-FEMINIST OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, OBVIOUSLY EVERYTHING THE WOMEN GO THROUGH IS ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE, I just …
Everyone who I’ve ever heard talk about this book, either online or in real life, has talked about how they absolutely LOVE it, and how it made them cry and how it has a beautiful message about abuse and feminism as a whole. And while I do agree and really appreciate the message and themes, I didn’t love this one. Maybe I’m simply not the target age, and need to read it when I’m a bit older. But as of right now, though I appreciated this book and what it was trying to do, I was just kind of being a hater the whole time I was reading it. I was annoyed and angry the whole time, but for some reason I never quite felt sad. AND I’M NOT TRYING TO SOUND LIKE AN ANTI-FEMINIST OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT, OBVIOUSLY EVERYTHING THE WOMEN GO THROUGH IS ABSOLUTELY HORRIBLE, I just didn’t personally connect enough to everyone to truly feel despair while reading this. I just felt angry at all of the horrible things that were happening, and annoyed at little things that characters were doing along side of that. But despite that, My Dark Vanessa still made me THINK. Though it’s not really connected deeply, and emotionally to my soul like other books I’ve read, I don’t think this is a story I will ever stop wondering and thinking about.
This book broke me in two, while simultaneously preforming an exorcism on me, and ridding life of its horrifying reality. I would like so much to say that this was just a silly little series that was all fun and games, and I’m DEFINITELY not crying now, but all of that is in fact, wildly untrue. This was insanity in a weirdly addicting way, and if Kai and Pae don’t get a cute little ending, and throw themselves into each others arms, I am going to go live in a hole and rot there for the rest of my mortal life. Can’t wait for book 3!!!
My Roman Empire is when Kai Azer puts a damn shirt on
4 stars
UG I wanted to dislike this book so bad. It’s weirdly overwritten and dramatic and the male main character is so cliche, for me it seemed like it’d be like a more hunger games focused Shatter Me. But it wasn’t. For some odd reason, I loved this book so much and blew through it really fast, and got really invested and attached to the characters. Kai is oddly heartwarming, Kitt is an interesting look on what can happen when you do nothing but seek approval, and I kind of adored the way Paedyn ruthlessly gaslight, gatekeep, girlbossed her way through everything.
