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boring till the end.
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i would enjoyed it more if it was just the trial or just the murders and not all the added shit. like i enjoyed her friendship with emma but how everything was put together in the book was confusing. that confusion made me bored. i felt like i was reading 4 different stories at the same time.
its very pretentious book. john greens writing always has to do with teens and philosophy istg. theyre so emo ALL THE TIME. even with that i enjoyed this book. plenty of times i got second hand embarrassment but thats normal with john green.
goodreads hates me cuz it kicked me out the first time i tried to write my review.
you know that one dance moms quote that is like “im just trying to enjoy my evening when all of a sudden i hear this agitating grating voice” that is me when the chapter is not in leos pov. i forgot how much i disliked the new group. jason and piper get better throughout the book but they are so annoying at first it makes it hard to read. i really do miss the old group. i have two notes one after another on my kindle copy that say “i miss percy” and the one a few pages after is “i miss grover too”. like u cant outdo the doer ya know? maybe its just nostalgia that makes me think this but i just finished the first series so i think my point is justified.
#firstbook2024ewwhydidithavetobethis
girllll the way this book is soooo much better than the first. i actually enjoy the new characters and percy is there. my annotations were a lot more kind this book and i literally am opening up the next book as i write this.
Sylvia Plath is a mastermind of descriptive writing, especially when it comes to suicide and mental health. It shouldn't surprise me as she killed herself, but the way she describes Esthers depression and attempts is so ruthless. The entire book is meticulous in how it builds up to the end. There are some moments where I couldn't quite tell if what I was reading was happening in that moment of the book or if it was a flashback, and I think that helps tie into Esthers feelings of loneliness and numbness. I recently had the option to chose this book for my english class but I would've had to wait another month before finishing it and I just couldn't. The book just pulls you in and you don't want to look away because every little detail has a meaning in here. “I am, i am, i am.”
i <3 britney and thats all that matters
i think its hard to really judge a memoir so i wont
4.5 stars
omg what a wild and disgusting book. you wouldnt know that it was the same author as myorr if it wasnt printed on the book. its a complete 180 in story telling and content of the book. yes there are writing similarities but damn.
i finished the book late last night and was super tiered when i threw a sticky note in their listing the 7 deadly sins. idk how i thought it was supposed to connect but with the story revolving around god. i thought somehow maybe each of these “main” characters represented a sin. i still havent thought it through but still think it's interesting.
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every singe character disturbed me and made me feel gross but by far the worst for me was Ina. cuz wtf was she doing this entire book besides being a fucking menace. like old asf witch comes to town and all the villagers think is omg let her nurse our babies. and letting marek eat her out is absolutely foul as marek is a fool and doesnt know shit.
i had a feeling as soon as marek started his stay at the castle that he was going to end up king by the end of the book but it was really quick and fast how everyone happened.
the fact that the story starts with marek unknowling watch his real father die and then ends with marek killing his brother knowingly is so silly to me. like okayyy go off ottessa.
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overall i really enjoyed this book and how everything was laid out and you had to look for the details.
ottessa you sick son of a bitch, thank you.
i really dont know what think abt this book. i enjoyed it and although i was confused when i first finished it. i get it more that ive sat on it, but still really strange.
i enjoyed this more than i thought i would tbh. unlikable characters make for good books imo.
cryinf im so upset abt a few relationships but it makes sense on how they ended up. was so good oml. all the relationships were toxic. major biphobja and transphobia unfortunately. also rape ? confused by that. every character is a terrible person but the art was pretty.
ive taken my time rating and writing this but i still have no major stance on this book except for i love it and i hate it. This is my favorite book because its so simple on the surface but supposedly has a much deeper meaning, and it does. god my mind is in scrambles every time i try to write out my thoughts about it. The reviews on it are funny and i enjoy them. It is so much and I think everyone should read it just because of how wild it is.
3.5, would've been more fun if it was gayer and Gatsby ran away before he got killed. All in all blah blah blah hated that i had to read it for a class instead of on my own, makes reading books less fun.
a very nice break from my horrid rotation of books lately. very nostalgic and nice to have a reminder of how much i really enjoy reading
the last half of this book is just that final scene in the nge series where everyone is clapping and saying “congratulations
Ive gone and read so many reviews on this book and all i can tell is people hate it for the exact same reasons why people love it. I know thats the case for a lot of books but this book specifically its crazy.
holy shit. I hate this book so much. It is such an absolute pain in the ass. I didn't like any of the characters until the very very end. I think its stupid, and nothing was really solved. Like.... yes now we know that the magic is not real, but the grace year isnt gone. rykers dead. and micheal is there. God i really did not like it. and then ending on a cliff hanger that doesnt even need another book to finish is just cruel. I guess its fine as is but gosh i really hoped something more would happen like, idk, when tiereny gets back she tells everyone how the grace year is a bunch of bull shit ? what abt that author. then there could have been a war or something. jesus fucking christ man. What a painful book.
honestly so funny. will reread probs.
edit: very simple writing and very surface level.
3.5
this book is good. at some points it just seems kinda unrealistic. some chapters will be really boring and then have an important detail almost hidden in it. I really don't understand how she got over what happened to her in A YEAR?!! that shits traumatic. for such a short book it took me a month to finish, not because of how disturbing the books content was but how boring the rest of it was.
