DNF only a few chapters in. I’d give it 1 star but not going to rate it since I barely read much. I read enough enough to know that it’s not for me. IDNF only a few chapters in. I’d give it 1 star but not going to rate it since I barely read much. I read enough enough to know that it’s not for me. I couldn’t stand it. It’s too much like ACOTAR but not in a good way. Thiago is completely Rhys it’s a ridiculous carbon copy. The first person pov of Iskvien is dull and obnoxious. Both characters are flat, there’s no buildup to their their insta-love. I felt nothing for the plot. ...more
DNF around 40%. I listened to this on audible. It was my first time with an audio book and I’m definitely not going to pursue anymore. I found that I DNF around 40%. I listened to this on audible. It was my first time with an audio book and I’m definitely not going to pursue anymore. I found that I just do not like other reading styles than the own voice in my head. And I did not at all enjoy the reader’s voice and style on the audible version.
The person reading the story made the main character, who is 15 and being married off, sound like a whiny little 12 year old girl. So it changed my perception of the entire story. Everything came out so immature which made the context of the engagement feel gross and weird, more so than usual.
But it wasn’t just the reader’s annoying voice that turned me off. The story itself felt like a middle-grade and not young adult. I actually had to double check.
As well, there is soooooooo much tell and not much show. It bored me. And I became quickly annoyed how literally everything the main character saw or did outside of her life at the Mill, she compared to the mill. Like sounds. And smells. And how things moved. (IE: There was a sound. A loud sound. A loud grinding sound. Like when the gears get stuck on the mill and I have to blah blah blah blah....). Oh god please stop! I get it! The bleeding mill this and the bleeding mill that.
The main character, Rhea. Ugh. She’s 15 but acts like she’s twelve. And just really freaking dumb and annoying. I haaaaaaated being in her dull head. There’s crazy magic going on all around her and she’s just like, I don’t know why the floor is falling away like puzzle pieces and then falls back into place...could be magic but...I’m just such a pointless airhead I don’t get it.
I changed the reading speed to 1.75 just to try to get somewhere, some part of the book that might just SLIGHTLY interest me. But at the speed it became comical and I decided to try reading the kindle version I had, but no. It wasn’t just the audio reader’s fault.
*fidgets awkwardly* Sooooo....yeah that happened. I fell completely in love with Winterwood it was just so atmospheric and wintry and a perfect winter*fidgets awkwardly* Sooooo....yeah that happened. I fell completely in love with Winterwood it was just so atmospheric and wintry and a perfect winter read. So I immediately ran out to my library to snatch The Wicked Deep off the shelf with the highest of hopes.
But I was instantly let down.
There are quite a few similarities between The Wicked Deep and Winterwood. They both have forest-green green eyed boys. And the author’s got a strange-boy-you’ve-just-met-sleep-over complex. In both books the main female character meets a stranger, a boy, and somehow he ends up sleeping at her house like that night, and soon after they’re sleeping in the same bed like little stray kittens snuggled up together in a barn like it’s nothing. And insta-love ensues.
Okay. But this all worked for me in Winterwood due to the extreme circumstances and loneliness and abandonment. But seeing the same trope here, again....it wasn’t situationally warranted, in my opinion *shrugs*
Also....*long sigh*...the concept was so cool. But. But really what town would just shrug and say “Oh, well. There’s nothing we can do. We deserve it.” when every year several innocent boys WILL BE DROWNED and no one does anything to stop it? Instead they throw a bonfire down on the beach like wonder who’s gonna die tonight? Har har har
*stares at the wall*
I just could not. Nope. I guess I read a different book from everyone else hahahaha...more
Good solid 3 stars. It all gets a bit long and repetitive by book three. Not bad just like I felt “over it” by the end. I definitely would still recomGood solid 3 stars. It all gets a bit long and repetitive by book three. Not bad just like I felt “over it” by the end. I definitely would still recommend it.
I really appreciated this trilogy. I’m shelving it in my “new-adult-gems” GR shelf because the characters are over 18 and this is the type of NA I am always searching for—the kind that isn’t basically porn!...more
Jan 2020: A MOVIE ADAPTATION IS HAPPENING!! OMG OMG OMG!!!Read Here For Info (Thx Oda Renate!) July 24, 2019 “You’re $2.99 on Kindle US 4/19/2020!!
Jan 2020: A MOVIE ADAPTATION IS HAPPENING!! OMG OMG OMG!!!Read Here For Info (Thx Oda Renate!) July 24, 2019 “You’re literally putting your dick in the leader of a foreign state, who is a man, at the biggest political event before the election...and you’re asking me not to tell the president about it?”
Listen up publishers! We need more books like this—NEW ADULT diverse college age characters in healthy relationships living energetic lives that are a thousand miles away from bdsm, porn, fifty shades of grey crap.
Every time I pick up a NA Romance I end up tossing it aside with disgust! They all seem to have this ridiculous porn sex and language and mentally/physically/sexually abusive relationships. I love YA, but I’m not a teen and sometimes I really need a bit more explicitness and a lot less High School and parents.
The hype is real! This is quite possibly one of the most incredible books I have ever read. I don’t even feel worthy to write a review. Like who am I when brilliant writers like Casey Mcquiston exist?!
Red, White and Royal Blue is just plain brilliant. Overtly brilliant. And this is what we are all screaming for in the bookish realm!
Who doesn’t love enemies to lovers, cheeky banter, English accents, and hot princes?? Especially with some forbidden romance, sexting, rivaling countries and political intrigue?? I mean jeeeeez I was like low-key white-knuckling these pages for three days straight.
And oh hell I could quote the love out of this book! Listen to these naughty, naughty boys:
“I could be in your bed, languishing away until I perish, fat and sexually conquered, snuffed out in the spring of my youth—Here lies Prince Henry of Wales. He died as he lived: avoiding plans and sucking cock.”
Oh hell I just LOVED the explicit voyeristic view we get into this beautiful relationship!:
“It’s all bloody useless because when I’m not thinking about your face, I’m thinking about your arse or your hands or your smart mouth. I suspect the latter is what got me into this predicament in the first place. Nobody’s ever got the nerve to be cheeky with a prince, except you. The moment you first called me a prick, my fate was sealed.”
And of course they aren’t always so dirty. They quote historical love letters (Hamilton and Eliza *heart eyes*), reference Pride and Prejudice, Star Wars, Greek lovers to each other and pour their little hearts out through emails:
“Should I tell you that when we’re apart, your body comes back to me in dreams?...That I can feel your skin against mine, and it makes every bone in my body ache? That, for a few moments, I can hold my breath and be back there with you, in a dream, in a thousand rooms, nowhere at all?"
“Alex knows it’s reckless, but all he can think is a super cut of other people’s letters they’ve quietly sent to each other. Words that went down in history—Meet you in every dream....Keep most of your heart in Washington...Miss you like a home...We two longing loves....My young king.”
And honestly I was really intrigued by the massive amount of politics. I’ve always avoided politics in real life so I find the intense front row seat of it in the plot to be really interesting! I know it’s a turn off to many who’ve read it but it is quite integrated into the story as a whole so it is rather impossible to gloss over but really it was done just brilliantly!
I especially enjoyed the effects the boys’ actions as sons of political leaders had on each other’s countries and the precautions, and cover-ups and damage control that had to be taken into account. It was a freaking thrill ride and Zahra—omg if you know, you know— is a hilarious and amazing character. I forget her proper title but basically she was like the damage-control, PR warrior??!! It’s just bloody brilliant.
Can this be a movie??? Omg yes. This needs to be a move!
I’m adding this to my contemporaries-for-fantasy-fans and new-adult-gems GR shelves!...more
This book was recommended to me by our pediatrician who cautioned me about my 8 year old’s weight at a check up.
It is colorful and easy to read and fThis book was recommended to me by our pediatrician who cautioned me about my 8 year old’s weight at a check up.
It is colorful and easy to read and full of great recipe ideas. Especially lunch ideas for school and snack ideas! Those were brilliant! The quick, build-a-lunch page was simple and fun for my kids to choose from, where you pick a meat (or protein) , pick a wheat, and pick a treat.
I often get stuck in a sack-lunch slump and come up clueless on what to pack for my kids in our busy lives while trying to be healthy as well. The school lunches are mostly hamburgers, pizza, calzones and grilled cheese so I try to only allow school hot lunch 1-2 days a week when I’m in a pinch.
What was also great for us is the entire idea of Red, Yellow and Green foods. I feel it’s psychologically better explain healthy foods vs junk foods in this way and it also makes more sense to them as opposed to hearing, “No, you can’t have that it’s not healthy.” This system gives them the why, they learn to understand what your bodies need and how much and why (ie: Green means go, red means stop.)
I highly recommend this clever and thoughtfully put together and easy to read healthy lifestyle plan! And also Dr. Sears LEAN Kids!...more
No second-book syndrome here! This one far surpasses the premise of its predecessor! And to think I *almost* gave up during book one *gaaaah*
I’d say No second-book syndrome here! This one far surpasses the premise of its predecessor! And to think I *almost* gave up during book one *gaaaah*
I’d say this series is *kind of* like Cassandra Clare’s The Infernal Devices but NOT similar in a way that it feels like a cheap knockoff and with older, more mature characters.
The characters are supposed to be 18-25 but they read and act much appropriately to their time in Victorian England and feel easily relatable to me at 33 yrs old.
Especially the male characters—Meaning at times when I am reading I forget that they’re only in the early 20’s; they come off as older but I like that.....
(I read a lot of YA but lately I’ve grown tired of reading teen characters and am beginning to seek out characters *closer* to my age—Does this mean that I am finally maturing in my 30’s???!!!—but I’m just so not ready for actual adult books like they bore me??! Please tell me you get me?!!!)
So yeah by now you know there’s demon-hunting but I never once thought of my precious Shadowhunter babies like I said it’s not similar although the main concept is along the same plot. And I especially enjoy the historical aspects that Goodman incorporates into the story with actual historical events and people! ...more
Where’d my socks go, Kiersten? You knocked them the hell off! Have you ever seen Merlin the British tv series with Colin Morgan? It’s from 2008 to 2012Where’d my socks go, Kiersten? You knocked them the hell off! Have you ever seen Merlin the British tv series with Colin Morgan? It’s from 2008 to 2012, an older show but I found it in 2015 on Netflix and all five seasons became my life!
I’ve always been intrigued by Arthurian legend, ever since childhood with Excalibur. But that level of intrigue went to new depths when I discovered Merlin.
Before this, I had only read one other of Kiersten White’s amazing works: The Dark Descent of Elizabeth Frankenstein which I was instantly obsessed with. So when I caught wind that she had a freaking MERLIN retelling up her sleeve I was beyond stoked!
AND EVEN BETTER, I WAS COMPLETELY BLOWN THE FREAK AWAY
Kiersten White, I could kiss you! But if we ever meet, I’ll ask first, and most likely I just opt for an awkward side-hug, but you get me! New favorite author here!! This lady right here!
I could not put this down! It was pouring rain for days in California which is soooooo rare that it was truly GLORIOUS, and I had a nasty cold, which meant bundles of blankets, heaps of steaming mugs of lemon tea and me in my bed with The Guinevere Deception for an entire day and despite being so ill, I was in heaven with this book!
Kiersten White writes incredible characters. I’ve only read two of her works so far but I’ve come to the same conclusion with both. Her characters are what I want in YA. Her storytelling is what I want in Ya. Layered and deep and unique and not everyone’s cup of tea. BUT IT’S MY CUP OF TEA.
I must admit, that while this retelling was fantastic, she did my boi Merlin some wrong. Hahahaha. But, it’s not a deal breaker. I just can’t not see Merlin as the precious cinnamon-roll boi, Colin Morgan as Merlin in the tv series!
Honestly I couldn’t help but picture Colin Morgan and Bradley James and Angel Coulby as Merlin, Arthur and Gwen.
Ugh and I literally squealed when Lancelot graced the pages! Come and stan with me when you read it. I’m shook, yaaaas Kiersten, yaaaasss.
Which reminds me, okay so Merlin was done wrong (only to those who stan the tv series ...more
Turtles All the Way Down is the first I’ve ever read of John Green. And I’m not a contemporary fan, so how did I get h“Your now is not your forever.”
Turtles All the Way Down is the first I’ve ever read of John Green. And I’m not a contemporary fan, so how did I get here?
I saw an update or part of a review, it mentioned mental illness rep, a fanfiction writer bff, and a “sad, smol rich boy” and something about trying to find some billionaire who disappeared. Well to me, in a way, I immediately thought of Gansey and The Raven Boys and so that’s how I got here.
Is this similar to The Raven Boys? No. Not really. Of course not. That’s just me. This is contemporary. But I mean, to me there’s just a hint of a connection. Just a hint. But enough that made me feel connected and happy enough to actually enjoy a contemporary.
“Most adults are hollowed out. You watch them try to fill themselves up with booze or money or God or fame or whatever they worship, and it all rots them from the inside until nothing is left but the money or booze or God they thought would save them.”
I feel like I’ve never read something so real. Or relatable. Parents that actually care. True friendships. Innocent budding relationships/causal dating. Relationships that fizzle out, that aren’t one-true-love/insta-love/obsession. Boys that have actual real emotions and feelings and boundries....
I grew up with a sister who has OCD, she’s only 15 months younger than me. And in this story, I was Daisy and she was Aza and I was 17 all over again. It was sometimes painful to be so deep into Aza’s suffering, her mental entrapment. Because I’ve only ever been Daisy; seeing it from the outside, the frustration of not understanding, the aggravation of just wanting to have fun and enjoy typical life experience but there’s my sister, trapped in her mind like Aza and simple things like dinner out, holidays and back-to-school shopping, became big huge torments that also became unintentionally ruined by her outward projections of her mental illness.
So when we spiraled real deep with Aza, I felt a lot of that anger and frustration from my past, the “Why can’t you just be normal?!!”, “Why do you ruin everything?!” feelings resurfaced and I wanted to yell at Aza. But then I saw everything from Aza’s perspective, I saw the other side of it. Aza wasn’t doing “it” on purpose, she was drowning inside her own mind and suffering even more than those around her.
And I thought of my sister in a way I never have. My sister who is now grown and married with two kids. Who still suffers. Who sometimes won’t let her husband into their house if he’s come home early from work because she’s, “not ready yet”, she’s not mentally ready for him to be home at a different time than he is “supposed to be” among other things.
But life goes on. We go on.
And this quote Your now is not your forever has become my new life motto as a parent. Or anytime things are hard just remember this now is not going to be forever even though it's beyond imaginable that your current suffering will come to an end. I look back and remind myself of what felt like would never end in the past but eventually did....more
2 stars. Did I read the same book as everyone else? I’ve never read anything by this author before so perhaps I don’t have a loyal disposition to her—2 stars. Did I read the same book as everyone else? I’ve never read anything by this author before so perhaps I don’t have a loyal disposition to her—which I totally get and that’s fine but this felt like it was rushed through editing.
There were a lot of inconsistencies that I am shocked slipped past editing. Things like describing the sweltering heat, but they’re wearing coats and then swimming in the warm sea, but then all the sudden it’s cold and someone’s shivering and standing by the fire for warmth??
Or in one paragraph going from a character description of his “ocean-deep eyes” to his “torrid-grey graze”. So...are they gray or blue? Is “ocean-deep” blue or black-blue or maybe gray-blue....??????
And my biggest hang up was the dialogue disaster: it’s a mashup of Victorian, Northern England/Irish?, modern day American and American slang.
I was sooooo confused. And completely turned off. You can’t from formal speech to “hang on” and “hey, bud”; sounding completely British in one sentence and American in the next.
No no no no no.
Then I didn’t understand the whole scholarship competition at all. Especially why all the “uppers”, the snobby richie-riches, would even bother to have their precious sons compete in such a dangerous game for a scholarship. Why would these rich kids even need a scholarship? Richies would be too arrogant for that!
And it’s not clear as to why everyone even needs to do this ridiculous game for a scholarship when everyone at the end took the entrance exam anyway??? It made the entirety of the plot insignificant and pointless?
This really had potential though. The beginning gave me Stalking Jake the Ripper vibes and later a dash of Charley and the Chocolate Factory with a sprinkle of Harry Potter. And my favorite scenes were the introductions of the antagonists but it all went downhill for me after that....more
I can’t leave a rating. It just doesn’t feel right to me. I feel guilty I guess that I just plain did not enjoy Pride and Prejudice whatsoever and I fI can’t leave a rating. It just doesn’t feel right to me. I feel guilty I guess that I just plain did not enjoy Pride and Prejudice whatsoever and I feel ashamed of that.
While I devoured Jane Eyre and feverishly consumed Wuthering Heights in such a way I left praises for the Brontes, but cannot say the same of Jane Austen.
Pride and Prejudice to me was a book I felt I “had” to enjoy, praise, and ostentatiously display about my home to show my “good tastes” in literature with pride. But now I can not say I am one of the cool kids in the Jane Austen book club.
I was bored to tears. The writing never pulled me in; it was all tell and very little show! And that’s saying a lot as I preferred Wuthering Heights and it’s very difficult and unreliable narration to Pride and Prejudice.
Was there even a plot?
And it was so hard for me to recall all the characters and their surnames VS Christian names and endearments and back again.
I’m no feminist but mostly this was just about “getting a husband”. And going to balls to “get a husband”. And I know this was mostly a woman’s only objective in life in this era (which is very sad)—to go to some functions, make eyes with a rich and hopefully handsome man you just met, and expect a proposal to come within the month but I didn’t enjoy the execution here.
I also wasn’t impressed with the supposed great moral of the story, the whole setting aside of pride and prejudices in the name of love or whatever happened. Maybe because I started skipping and skimming and lost touch. Or maybe the dialect of the late 1700’s was just too much for my exhausted and not very well educated mind. Or perhaps because it was just plain dull.
But I forced my way through—took me nearly 3 weeks & put me in a massive slump—and now I can finally say I’ve finally read Jane Austen....more
Dnf. I thought I was well on my way into exploring Historical Romance but suddenly it all tastes sour after snoring through 100 pages of this.
My receDnf. I thought I was well on my way into exploring Historical Romance but suddenly it all tastes sour after snoring through 100 pages of this.
My recent interest into the genre began with the Brontë sisters, which led me to try some current YA historical mysteries/romance and while Stalking Jack the Ripper somewhat gave me what I wanted Alex and Eliza did not.
This book put me to sleep almost instantly 3 separate times when I’d try to read it. It’s an info dump. It’s incredibly dull. The characters are the most 2D characters I have ever come across. Alex literally meets Eliza one time. ONE TIME. And is completely head over heels in love with her.
Even though he doesn’t even see her again for over two years. OVER TWO YEARS!
He’s only met her once.
And TWO YEARS have passed without any correspondence or visits, nothing. And he’s got it bad. For no reason. Oooookay. Not to mention he’s supposed to be “Mr-very-handsome-reputable-eligible-bachelor” where girls fawn over him at every turn.
I can understand being intrigued by this snarky, witty girl you danced with ONE time, who played hard to get two years ago. And thinking about her from time to time. But he was never a suitor. They never courted. They never wrote love letters. It’s just dumb that he was a lovesick idiot for no reason.
There was no substance.
As well I couldn’t find a plot. It was just hmmmm okay I need Alex and Eliza to come across each other so let’s just throw random scenes together in each chapter where they meet by chance and have extremely dull, pointless and cringey conversations and inner monologues.
And then I woke up for the third time with the book still in my lap and decided I was done.
I don’t understand the hype. The writing is juvenile, amateur even. I have no idea what this Hamilton broadway thing everyone’s fangirling over. And while I love historical dramas, books, regency/Victorian/Edwardian era anything and just plain history this one missed the mark for me....more
The first 100 pages were a real struggle for me. It jumps right into some action with a heist and there’sUnpopular opinion I just was not enthralled.
The first 100 pages were a real struggle for me. It jumps right into some action with a heist and there’s names thrown out there and references to past events that have no context.
It felt like picking up a sequel by mistake. I had no idea what was going on and who the main characters were talking about so I just couldn’t pay attention. I fell asleep numerous times.
And started skimming.
And then finally at about 100 pages, this bit happened:
I stopped abruptly as he broke shockingly loud wind.
Aha. Ahahahahaha. I have no idea why I found that really freaking hilarious! Maybe because I’d been so completely bored out of mind I was just plain shocked. But also I’ve never encountered something this bold in YA and it was just refreshingly awesome.
Speaking of, this is another of those marketed as YA but should be NA. But honestly were this labeled as NA I probably never would’ve touched it. I’ve yet to find a decent NA fantasy that isn’t just dumb raunchy smut.
Which reminds me, coincidentally enough the more NA aspects of the book were the only things I really liked about it: •Good quality YA/NA smut •F-Bombs •Arranged Marriage
That’s about it.
As far as characters....I really only cared for the secondary characters: Ansel, a cinnamon roll witch hunter in training. And Beau, an arsehole prince who could care less about anything—really I loved him the most but sadly he barely showed up.
And the plot.....*long sigh*....I could say I appreciated that this didn’t have the typical tropes such as 17-yr-old-smol-girl-saves-the-world, or the dreaded I-have-to-save-my-sister!
But I lost interest again and skimmed through the end and by then I was just glad to have finally be done with it....more
I went into this completely blind and I’m glad I did. Although I felt completely lost most of the time. If not for my love of the characters I wouldn’I went into this completely blind and I’m glad I did. Although I felt completely lost most of the time. If not for my love of the characters I wouldn’t have continued. Wuthering Heights is a character driven book although the narrative is very unreliable, confusing and is told through someone to someone else to the reader.....see, you can’t even explain it, it’s that confusing.
This would’ve done wonderfully well in a third person multiple pov.
But it’s a classic. And that in itself makes it brilliant. I adore the female authors who pioneered the way into publication for women today.
Wuthering Heights is a confusing, dark tale of abuse and unhealthy relationships, oppression, female oppression and lots of death. I know the life expectancy was much shorter in this era (only age 47 on average?) but I felt it was unrealistic how characters drop off here.
*i wish I was cool and could add a gif here. It would be The Croods dad, where he slaps his painted hand over the cave drawings at the end of his stories and exclaims, “Annnnnd dies!!”*
It surprised me really as I read mostly YA fantasy and no one like ever gets killed off and if they do, haha they always come back somehow.
I became obsessed with the characters however short lived. I barely cared much for the slow plot I just wanted to know what Catherine and Edgar were doing or what Cathy and Linton were up to and marriages and babies and struggles and just life.
And I couldn’t wait to see if Heathcliff got what was coming to him or not. So I read feverishly over 3 unseasonably cold and rainy days in May and I’ve never been so happy in my life during reading this brilliant old mess of a book!...more
So basically there’s this magic house. It needs a “caretaker” who idk....channels the house’s magic so it doesn’t build up too much? The house gets piSo basically there’s this magic house. It needs a “caretaker” who idk....channels the house’s magic so it doesn’t build up too much? The house gets pissed a lot. And the floor rumbles its constant protest and misery.
And there’s a girl. She grew up in the house with her father’s ward, a boy. She loves the house very much. It’s her life’s ambition to become the next caretaker after her father. She’s extremely attached to the house and vice-Versa.
The plot is basically only about this. The house rumbles and trails vines around from....idk...somewhere and shows some memories and lights fires in the hearth and the girl is just trying to get the rights to the house that was taken away.
And that was about it up to 150 pages in.
The characters were flat. Initially I assumed her father’s ward was going to be this awesomely dark and mysterious character (my favorite). But no, his character was undeveloped, flat and flighty. He and the mc were like inseparable as children but when they finally reunite years later it’s completely anticlimactic and disappointing. If that was an attempt at “mysterious”...it’s not working here. I’m not intrigued. He’s just dull, they are dull and there’s just nothing.
What a ride. Finale wasn’t as magical as Caraval, which will always hold a special place in my heart, but it was just as A solid 4 stars...maybe 4.5!
What a ride. Finale wasn’t as magical as Caraval, which will always hold a special place in my heart, but it was just as gripping, intriguing and intense. And always kept me guessing.
And do I smell an origin novella to come?!??! Oh that’d be sooooooooooooo awesome! I want more Legend. I want to be in his head. I want to know his story. His history. What he did to get to where he is!
I also may have *squeeeeeeeee’d* a few times at some awesome little twists and things I did not see coming. I was becoming almost fully satiated!
Finale took on a new depth, especially into Scarlet’s life, that I found really interesting. Usually I get bored when secondary characters take the forefront in 3rd person multiple but Stephanie is able to give all her characters almost equal spotlight so that they don’t actually fade to background noise or dull secondary character status.
Only pet peeves I had were some typical YA tropes. It’s heavy on the “I need to save my sister!”, “I have to save my mother!”, “we love each other but we can’t be together”, and love-triangle tropes.
Mostly the “need to save sister” trope which is very frequented in YA got out of hand in Finale. I know that has mostly been the main theme since book one but really, how many times does one need to save their damn sibling in one book, let alone a trilogy?! It gets redundant.
But then again, it’s YA and I’m *ahem* 33, so I let these things slide. Like slight love triangles; Sometimes I love them, sometimes I’m so over them. But I kinda enjoyed it here *guilty*.
Finale wrapped up incredibly neatly. Although I was left slightly confused on one part. And also I feel like it was too neat? Or like I don’t know....I’m shocked it’s over? anticlimactic maybe? But I have some feels inside me that I don’t understand. Like am I feeling empty because it’s all over or do I feel this weird bittersweet like feeling because it didn’t end like I thought it would? Or the ending was just kind of abrupt??
I’m not sure. But I do feel like the majority of the book should’ve focused more on the thing with Jacks. It kind of had like an epic buildup and then just...poof....It could’ve have easily dragged things out there, quite entertainingly, IMO but it’s okay. But I’m having to speak so cryptically now that I’m not making sense *anywho*
Perhaps I’ll turn to some fanfics to get what I feel I’m missing. And hopefully Stephanie really does have a novella up her sleeve!!...more
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