Alex

I wish I liked this one more than I did. The plot is good. Death cast is a company that calls people on the day they are going to die so that they can live and appreciate those last hours doing whatever they think is appropriate for that occasion. That's the best thing to take away from the book: to sort of realize how short life is so we can enjoy it as best we can. It's a cliche idea but a very powerful one if we really think about it.

The problem I have with this book though, is that the middle part of it was not enjoyable. It has a great beginning and end but the rest is not up to par. 
Even though we know what will happen in the end it manages to keep the reader engaged and even a bit surprised as the last passages unfold. However some things felt tedious and even forced as if it was the Hollywood adaptation of the story and that's where this one lacks the power to be rated higher.

Although there were some good, inspiring and interesting messages in this book, I felt I was reading a book for kids. It failed to connect with me and I felt those messages, lessons or words of wisdom could've been told in a different, more adult manner. 

Still, it was by no means a horrible read and there were definitely times I had a cozy feeling when reading it. That alone makes it better than other reads in my book.

“We are all there, goddess and mortal and the boy who was both.”

I had a difficult time deciding whether or not to give this book five stars, but it all became clear once I watched a video of some girl in YouTube telling her experience with it and I almost cried again. 

An amazing romance book for me. It had Greek mythology, war and violence, great dialogue, and a not so happy ending.

I loved the writing in this book. It had just the right amount of flowery to it that it made it beautiful but not super hard to follow.

I will definitely check out Circe and read the Iliad to get more into this great world I've been missing on.

Incredibly bingeable book. I was always on the edge of my seat throughout the whole thing. 

It provides a great angle on how we treat celebrities, gifting with all our atention but also scrutinizing their every move in horrible ways. 
It also has some powerful stuff on love, how it varies from individual to individual and how valuable it is to someone and why we should always seek to be with those that we love despite what life throws at us.

This was my introduction to adult fantasy and I couldn't be happier I chose it. Every detail, from the magic system to the world building felt complex enough but not overly complicated and I was able to catch all I had to catch from this book. 

I'm not giving it five stars just because I strongly believe there are things in store in this series that will impress me even more. But it came incredibly close to getting there and so far is the best book I've read in the year. 

Favorite characters so far: Ham, Sazed, Breeze, Dockson and Marsh.

I can safely say that this book definitely got me into fantasy and I will continue to explore the cosmere in the future.  

Solid book. I'm glad I read it and that I finally understand the big fuzz surrounding it. I will definitely check some of the others in the series. 
I loved that almost every single chapter ends in a cliffhanger, so you literally can't put it down because you wanna get to the bottom of it.

At the end it felt a little underwhelming in that things were fixed so quickly, the bad guy,(although it did provide a good plot twist) was beaten rather easily and our protagonists were finally happy.  I thought it had more potential and it could've ended stronger, but the ride was super enjoyable.

I felt this book was not as great as the previous two entries. As with every collection of stories, some were very interesting and solid Sherlock stories, but others seemed a little lower in quality and even repetitive. Still, the highs in this book were very high and it goes to show how good this series is.

My favorite stories from this book were:

• A scandal in Bohemia
• The red headed league
• The five orange pips
• The man with the twisted lip
• The adventure of the noble bachelor

I have mixed feelings when it comes to this book.
There were passages that I enjoyed A LOT, and would incline me to rate it incredibly high. But there were also pages where I felt the story was not as strong, especially once we knew what was going to happen, what Louis was going to do all along. I personally thought that around 80 to 100 pages could've been more fast paced and to the point. 

I really liked that instead of being horror centered on paranormal stuff, it's more focused on death, which can be terrifying and way more relatable than ghosts and all those creepy creatures we can find in books like this. I found some really interesting pieces on death and bereavement in this book that truly exemplify how a person deals with death and the toll it can take on a group of individuals.

Overall, I would recommend this book to a lot of people, and I found it way more enjoyable and appealing than past Stephen King stories I've read.

This book was not for me. I thought it was a cheap romantic story you can find hundreds of times on Netflix at any moment.

The style of writing was horrendous. The fact that it had no punctuation to indicate dialogues made my heart hurt.

I also saw the excerpt from Conversations with friends and it's the same thing, so I will most likely not be checking out any more of Sally Rooney's work.

“Podría morir ahora mismo o en veinte años, de cualquier manera voy a morir”.

Leer a Camus siempre es un deleite, y no dejo de sentirme identificado con la filosofía del absurdo. 
De la misma manera que Meursault se percata, a punto de ser ejecutado, que no importa morir, sino haber vivido y exprimido al máximo nuestro tiempo en este mundo, yo intento vivir mi vida sabedor de que no es relevante en absoluto para el resto del mundo.

Estemos dispuestos a vivirlo todo de nuevo.

So far this is my favorite book in the series. I thought it did a good job in transitioning the story to a more mature one, handling topics that start resembling more the problems that a young man encounters rather than a kid.

Sirius Black and professor Lupin were great characters that in my opinion jumped the ranks quickly to become some of the best in the series.

The writing was also an improvement in my opinion. Although there were times where the pace was extremly slow.

Moving forward I expect more of the same as Harry comes of age.

I enjoyed this book quite a lot. From beginning to end it kept me engaged in the story and that's because of the way it's presented. Through what seemed to be letters written by the protagonist is that we get to know the story. This makes it especially interesting because we not only get to read about the dog, but about the thoughts and vague ideas that go through the mind of our protagonist.

It's a good story about mourning and bereavement. It depicts the impact the loss of someone close has not only on us humans, but on dogs as well. Also, it walks us through the connection a person can create with a pet and the emotion and sentiment that goes into it.

I've always been a sucker for dogs, so the premise had me drooling over it, and I believe it delivered, but maybe not as greatly as I had expected.
Really good book that I would recommend to many people, just not life changing or anything like that.

At times I liked this one more than the first but also the other way around.
Overall it was a good follow up to the series that continues to set the foundation for the story. 

However, I couldn't help but feeling like it was the same book as the first one, a build up ending with another Voldemort and Harry fight, and it loses some points because of that. 
The plot twist at the end was super entertaining.

Parte importante de la baja calificación es lo grande que es el hype de este libro. Me pareció una historia bastante cliché, con elementos que serían fácilmente encontrados en una película barata de Hollywood o en una serie cancelada de Netflix.

Lo mejor del libro a mi parecer es el ritmo con el cual se desenvuelve. Consigue que el lector quiera seguir leyendo ya que la mayoría de capítulos terminan en buenos cliff hangers.

Personalmente, en el momento en que lo leí, me encontraba intentando construir el hábito de la lectura y debo admitir que me ayudó a encaminarlo. Así que de alguna forma siempre tendrá algo de especial.

A very good book that truly shows why it's held in such a high regard among the classics.
A very terrifying utopia where everything we do and think is controlled by the government. There were some passages in the book that really left me speechless and reconsidering everything in life.

In my opinion this book was ahead of its time on so many levels, although to be fair, the story of the protagonist fails to be as enticing. But in the end I liked how things unfolded, it captured greatly the essence of the world the book is trying to depict, with all its grimness and desolate feelings.

I felt this book was the novelization of The Prince, and I loved the execution of it. I'd definitely recommend it to a lot of people and look forward to rereading it in the future.

This was a very demanding read personally. As a non native English speaker, I viewed this book as a way to challenge myself to follow a difficult plot till the end, and also as a tool to expand my vocabulary.

Looking back I think it was a very important and useful experience in my reading life, and I look forward to reading it again in the future, plus some other works by Dickens that are supposedly easier and less substantial than this one.