Courtney
This book goes out of its way to absolve Chevy Chase of any responsibility for anything that wasn't great in his career and it gets weird. There are also half page (or more) plot summaries of all of his films and television appearances for some reason.
I'm not really sure how to articulate just how much I loved this book. I just... I really, really loved this book. (I guess I did figure out how to articulate it, please ignore the first part of this review)
Bloated, way too long, too many characters and c/d plots, and the climax was way too quick for a nearly 1000-page book.
Timey Wimey stories are the best, and this one was really clever. My only real problem was with Amy and Rory's characterizations - their interaction was a bit off, but not enough to really hurt the story.
Doctor Who novels are either brilliant or horrible and this was the latter. I immediately drew problems with Amy's characterization - she's absolutely nothing like what she's like on the series - and the Doctor as well seemed very off-kilter. The author's grasp on Americanisms was nil (I promise you an American knows what a ‘somersault' is). The plot itself was boring, with many secondary characters who serve essentially no purpose - in Doctor Who, novels as well as the series, one-off secondary characters tend to have a great deal to deliver to the plot, but this one just had no pay off for several of them even being there.
There was a cute bit from the point of view of an elephant, though.
This book moves so slowly and I got through it so quickly that I didn't realize until halfway through that I wasn't enjoying it. By which point I figured I may as well finish it. It didn't get better. The story is told mostly in strange, short vignettes and moves along at a snail's pace, and none of the characters are particularly engaging - some of them are downright creepy, in a gross but still somehow really boring way. The whole book is kindof just, “eh.”
I'd never read Brandon Sanderson before and heard this was a good one if you're a newbie. What an absolute delight!
First DNF in ages. I guess the splatter punk genre isn't for me lol. It wasn't even the contents I didn't like, I just thought it was really poorly written. ¯_(ツ)_/¯
Cute couple with a cute dynamic but the story was not good, the conflict didn't kick in until very late in the story and therefore wrapped up super quickly and was not very satisfying.
Reader, I CRIED like 8 times.
This was gorgeous, but holy shit I have not related to a character so strongly in so long as I related to Jacob, like it fucking HURT to read.
I loved this, 10 out of 5 stars.
It's described as being a “camp” gothic romance by the author of The Love Witch - I loved that film! - but it's mostly just incoherent.
Knocked an entire star off of this review because she called Uncle Buck “sub-par” and I have never been so angry.
This is my first Nora Roberts. The structure and pacing were super weird, and it ended abruptly, but the story was good.
It has been a hot minute since a book has made me cry but, Reader, when I tell you that I CRIED several times!
Was not a huge fan of abandoning the main character of the previous books in the series in favour of trying to convince me to care about the least likable side character and most boring side character, respectfully. She accomplished one of those successfully - Nesta was established as being The Worst from the very beginning of the first book (and remains The Worst for a lot of this book), and that's pretty much acknowledged and addressed in a satisfactory way. Nesta is The Worst. She knows she's The Worst. She's sorry about that.
I don't Dislike Cassian, I just think he's uninteresting - and I still do. This book is all about Nesta's hero's journey and very cool new besties and also about Cassian... being there.
The first half of the book is monstrously tedious and repetitive (which is insane in a book that's over 700 pages), and ultimately brought down the Very Good second half of the book.
Also I DO NOT BUY some people who have less than a year of warrior training under their belts winning the Blood Rite against a bunch of people from a warrior culture who trained their whole lives. It was supposed to be a Hell Yeah Women moment but it didn't feel earned.
Also, just... why do Feyre and Rhys - you know, the main characters of the series - just Do Nothing the whole book? For 700+ pages the main character Existed but Over There.
Like, the story wasn't bad but I don't care about These characters, I care about Those characters. Like, why am I here?
This isn't a book about fandom, it's a book about the One Direction fandom and a little bit about how tangentially that related to a couple other fandoms, mostly music fandoms. Which is way too niche a way to approach a discussion on online fandom imo, and impossible to connect with if you, like me, only know 2 1D songs. That being said, props to the author for explaining the Larry drama because holy SHIT.
