Serene 💐
I think this book is beautifully written. The pace is good, and I'm glad we got both the main characters point of views. However, I do wish that we learn more about the center. The ending felt abrupt and we never find out who was calling, which seemed like it was becoming a bigger thread towards the end only to stop.
I hate that comic books have so many naked minors in it. Also just the slavers, ableism, homophobia that we are immediately thrown into just told me it's not for me like I'm tired of having to hear/deal with that shit to get to what's apparently a feminist story
This was the most confusing and frustrating books I have ever read. Most of the chapters are just the characters arguing with each other, and there's three romances but we don't know enough about the characters for any of them to actually feel interesting and exciting. The interludes are also annoying because they either give away what happens in the next chapter or doesn't add anything to the story as a whole. “The game immortals play” is never explained, and any time it's about to be explained to someone that character gets cut off, so the whole time the story is happening you aren't even quite sure what the game is or what the main characters need to do other than ‘win' it.
If this book helped your mental health that is great. I do not want to knock it if it's important to people, so if you are fond of this book for that reason you should stop reading this review as I am critical of it, but also want to be mindful it could help some people.
I think this book has some views on life and health that doesn't sit right with me. Having someone stop himself from getting a heart attack because “he got healthy again” is a problematic view point, especially considering most heart diseases are hereditary and not because you don't work out as much as you did when you were 20. I also think the librarian telling someone who committed suicide that there's “Tissues are like lives. There are always more” ignorant.... If someone commits suicide that's it. I think if I was a loved one of someone who committed suicide I would be very upset seeing that be said.
The whole time I was just going “what the fuck”. The ending was also so disappointing. I know it was a short book already, but it honestly felt like it could have been cut down even more. The choice of words was so strange, so the writing didn't feel like it flowed. I'm also so tired of having to see how much women are abused and how much suffering they go through to see that misogyny is wrong.