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I love this movie, but goddamn this was like reading a textbook. This is a great example of what it's like to take a highly interesting subject and make it duller than a box of rocks. Actually, that's not fair; I find rocks to be interesting at times.

Honestly, this might just be a case of it's-me-not-you. I don't care for Capote's style. Hell, I didn't much like Breakfast at Tiffany's either. I think the real kudos go to filmmakers for being able to pull classics out of some really rote writing.

If you're going to refer to a man's penis as a “tool” during one of the many sex scenes, or mention him ejaculating pretty much straight into her “womb”, at least go all out and give readers the super-drama of her winding up pregnant. What a missed opportunity.

To me this book is straight up rape. If you're kidnapped, blackmailed, guilted, or coerced into any kind of sex act it's rape. It's ok though, the big bad motorcycle gang member with a huge dick is super hot so that makes it all alright. eyeroll

I'm surprised this book is rated so highly. Why???

While I've chosen to abandon this book it doesn't mean it was bad. It just wasn't for me. I couldn't get into it. This could have been partly due to the fact that I watched the movie before trying to read this and that the movie seemed to do a good job of following the book. Or at least what I read of it.

DNF 61.8% because if I wanted to read slower than molasses in winter slow burn YA I would. I'm pissed off the covers in this series are stupid cute but I hate that this attempts to be so meta it feels like satire. I think I'm being generous with 1 star for the covers and another for the only time I laughed.

Damien... please just kill annoyingly saccharine sweet naive no personality Amma to get your talisman back and then go on your adventure with your big bad self.

DNF 28%

Omg get over your hangups and just sleep with the guy already you angry girl.

I'm assuming the plot is the playboy reforms himself to fix the broken girl so they can fall in love. I'm more interested in playboy's sister. She seems super sweet and I bet there's something going on with her. But I'm not so interested that this is holding my attention.

DNF 9%. I was looking forward to historical fiction set in ancient Egypt as it's so rarely done. Unfortunately the writing style is not for me. I found myself skimming and speed reading just to get to the meat of the story until I realized I didn't actually care for any of the characters. The best thing I read in this book was the dedication.

The beautiful cover has claimed another victim. So much promise, so much left to be desired.

Pestilence is a solidly average book. It was good enough for me to finish, but I feel no great desire to pick up the next one in the series.

The four horsemen of the apocalypse is usually biblical and steeped in religion. Thankfully, there's no proselytizing. So, there's that to be grateful for as an atheist/agnostic.

I think the writing style wasn't for me, and I needed more from Sara, the main character. Literally plague made flesh is wiping humanity from the land, yet there's Sara, almost not even bothered by it all because Pestilence is a McHottie with abs. Where's the soul crushing anguish? The guilt? The grief?

As for the writing style...

He knows exactly what she's forgiving him for, and he's covering up the fact that he-is-shook.

I've got such a jumble in my head about this book and I can't really put it in any decent order. So I'm just going to wordvomit a little bit.

If the Mad Max, Terminator, Matrix movies, and Waterworld (without the water) had a baby it would be this.

I need this to be its own movie. Maybe a miniseries because there's a lot going on here.

Holy shit I love good robot scifi.

Why hasn't a Goodreads librarian changed the synopsis to show that Brittle thinks of herself as a female robot?

Would robots really care about gender once humans are extinct? Was it just programming and voiceboxes that had them holding onto gender? I know Cargill tried to explain this but I still think robots might have thrown off human genders. It's a social construct they have no need for. Humans are people but robots are persons so why not a distinct robot pronoun?

I wonder if there's going to be a sequel to this. It wasn't a cliffhanger but it was still pretty open ended. What happened to Brittle was cool. What happened to Mercer was not cool. If there's a sequel we'd better see him again.

DNF at 38%

The premise of a sexually-transmitted plague is pretty interesting and the writing was fairly good. I just couldn't figure out what this book was trying to be. Is it a zombie book? Maybe. Is it erotica? Definitely not so far. Is it horror or thriller? There were a couple scenes of tension, one of them pretty unnerving, but the rest of the time I just wasn't feeling it much.

I honestly got tired of everyone asking the main character what's going on, like she's supposed to know. She doesn't know anything either! Stop hounding her just because she leaves to go check on a friend or overhears something you all somehow slept right through.

There was no connecting with the main character either. In fact, I kind of disliked all the characters except for her brother-in-law. Everyone's either a stereotypical asshole, slut, or having a quarter life crisis. What a mess. I'm just going to hope they all die in the plague while the brother-in-law saves his wife and two kids and gets out of small town hell.

This book is a freight train. It might take a little while to get up to speed, but chum, when it does you're going for one hell of a ride!

Make sure you've got a few hours of uninterrupted time for the last 2/3 of the book. If you're like me you won't want to put it down because you HAVE to know what happens. And um I wish someone had warned me to have a tissue handy. I was so into the story and characters that I wasn't trying to analyze anything so it sort of socked me a little hard.

The formatting was superb. I don't think I've ever seen a book done quite like this. Very curious to see if they keep the same style. I don't want to rush the authors for the 2nd book but... no, I'm rushing them. I NEED IT!

Holy hell that was god awful. I slogged through this and it was so hard. This teetered on actually being great but then it would just slide back into blah blah snooze fest so many times. It took me a long time to get through this because it kept literally putting me to sleep. I'm not interested in the 3rd book now. I can't risk torturing myself some more.

I've known for years that the best advice I've ever gotten came from my father when I was a teen. He really only said it once, but he told me to try to use my head AND my heart equally in love and relationships. I got a lot of good advice from him, but this goes through my head to help me navigate every relationship I've been in. Thanks, Dad.

I devoured this book in a little over three and a half hours. I thought I'd just get in 20 minutes of reading before bed. Totally figured this was going to be another not-so-great YA/NA romance I'd read as fluff. Nope! I'm writing this exhausted today because I lost a lot of sleep from not wanting to put this down. Don't regret it a bit.

I laughed, I cried, I loved this book.

DNF at 15%. Disgustingly insulting stereotypes abound. Rape, almost rape, just rape everywhere all the time. A main character you can't stand. She goes from desperately wanting to escape to literally saying back to back "I'm your virgin!" and "Hurt me! Hurt me as I want to be hurt!" in the span of a few pages. Him ejaculating is what causes her orgasm. Sex doesn't work like that.

I physically tossed my kindle aside while saying out loud, “Ewww get away from me.”

I'm making a pact with myself. If I come across a book where a main-ish character has a ridiculous name then I'll stop reading. I can't do it anymore. Also, if a main female character tolerates a man's possessive or abusive nature because he's hot or rich I'm abandoning ship on that too. It's not sexy or endearing, it's terrifying.

After reading all 3 books in this series I full on don't like the turn it took. The whole forbidden romance aspect was super, but it did not go the way it should have. I wish I had stopped reading and left this as a cliffhanger. I would have felt better filling in my own blanks.

I got to the end of chapter 8 and couldn't get any further.

It takes more than 2 minutes for people to get off. 99.9% of people can't orgasm just by pretty much looking at someone and stroking themselves for however much time can pass in the length of a page. If you're going to write detailed scenes there has to be a way to convey more time passing. This kind of wham-bam-thank-you-ma'am style of sex happened multiple times, yet for the characters it was fully satisfying.

These characters are the kind of people on your Facebook newsfeed saying they love each other in comments everywhere after 2 weeks. Nauseatingly annoying and completely unbelievable.