Take a photo of a barcode or cover
3.14 AVERAGE
3.14 AVERAGE
I FINISHED THIS.
DEFINITELY NOT FOR EVERYONE BUT I JUST RESONATED WITH THIS FCK, I HATE AMY ZHANG ALWAYS MAKING ME CRY AT 4AM.
03/06/14
WAIT SO APPARENTLY IT ISN'T RELEASED THIS YEAR (2015) BUT THAT'S OKAY BC AFTER HSC YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY
I HAVE A FEELING THIS BOOK WILL KILL ME
'DOUBTS'
'ASKING FOR IT'
kill me it's like she's reading my mind
and also cover is just breath-taking yes beautiful YAY
HELP ME OH MOTHER OF GODS AMY ZHANG HAS A NEW BOOK I WILL READ ANYTHING SHE EVER WRITES AND IT'S RELEASED 3 DAYS AFTER MY BIRTHDAY? UM YES UM YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!
(wait shit i just forgot i have exams - HSC?! WHY CRYING BRB FOREVER CRYING)
DEFINITELY NOT FOR EVERYONE BUT I JUST RESONATED WITH THIS FCK, I HATE AMY ZHANG ALWAYS MAKING ME CRY AT 4AM.
03/06/14
WAIT SO APPARENTLY IT ISN'T RELEASED THIS YEAR (2015) BUT THAT'S OKAY BC AFTER HSC YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY
I HAVE A FEELING THIS BOOK WILL KILL ME
'DOUBTS'
'ASKING FOR IT'
kill me it's like she's reading my mind
and also cover is just breath-taking yes beautiful YAY
HELP ME OH MOTHER OF GODS AMY ZHANG HAS A NEW BOOK I WILL READ ANYTHING SHE EVER WRITES AND IT'S RELEASED 3 DAYS AFTER MY BIRTHDAY? UM YES UM YESSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!!
(wait shit i just forgot i have exams - HSC?! WHY CRYING BRB FOREVER CRYING)
So I listened to the audiobook for this and i thoroughly enjoyed it.
I feel like I can't really talk about this book without being spoiler-y. So there is a trigger warning for rape in this book and that part of the book was really intense and ultimately I would say 'changed the course of history' for the characters as it kinda of created the major complication in this book.
I really liked Micah on this book and ultimately I felt sorry for him, I feel that Janie used and manipulated him throughout the book and he was so often left behind by her.
I mean I also felt sorry for Janie, she was mistreated and felt abandoned by her parents and then she was raped by her boyfriend when she was very drunk but that doesn't excuse the way she treated Micah and other people in the book. I really liked the parts from her journal and how they were fairytales though.
Also the fact that Micah had (I'm pretty sure) selective amnesia played a really interesting part in how things unfolded.
Ultimately this was an enjoyable (albeit intense) listen and I would recommend.
I feel like I can't really talk about this book without being spoiler-y. So there is a trigger warning for rape in this book and that part of the book was really intense and ultimately I would say 'changed the course of history' for the characters as it kinda of created the major complication in this book.
I really liked Micah on this book and ultimately I felt sorry for him, I feel that Janie used and manipulated him throughout the book and he was so often left behind by her.
I mean I also felt sorry for Janie, she was mistreated and felt abandoned by her parents and then she was raped by her boyfriend when she was very drunk but that doesn't excuse the way she treated Micah and other people in the book. I really liked the parts from her journal and how they were fairytales though.
Also the fact that Micah had (I'm pretty sure) selective amnesia played a really interesting part in how things unfolded.
Ultimately this was an enjoyable (albeit intense) listen and I would recommend.
Phenomenal book, I loved it so much I am practically forcing everyone to read it! It is so eye opening, I will NEVER stop recommending! It could be confusing at times but it is amazing!
I felt angry throughout the entire reading process, this was so bad.
Honestly, I don't know what to think, to some degree I thought it was okay, but I also hated it..
The plot is just.. I don't know!
So first of all, I could not connect to any of the characters.. Which isn't a good thing while reading a book.
Secondly even though Amy Zhang's writing style is very good, how this book was laid out was beyond confusing.. The book skipped from 'Before' and 'After' which wasn't to bad, there is dates so you can kinda keep track of the timing, but the fact that the story was coming from both Janie and Micah at different times made it so hard and confusing.. You didn't know who was talking or who things were happening to. This really annoyed me throughout the book because instead of focusing on the story you were spending a couple of pages trying to figure out whose point of view you were looking from. I would much prefer to just know straight of who the view is coming from and then concentrating on the story itself.
Next, why are they drinking so much?!? I get the main idea is that life is shit, but until Janie actually goes missing what the hell have they got to worry about so much. You don't find out why they are so depressed or whatever they are, which really frustrated me as someone who likes to know the backstory of characters, to get to know them and connect with them
And how old are these two? I know they are in highschool so, how the hell can they get so much alcohol all the time?
There are also so many things that were left unexplained or there were bits of information that were thrown in that felt like they had no meaning towards the story whatsoever.
I'm done, this whole book was confusing, annoying and I didn't like it at all..
The plot is just.. I don't know!
So first of all, I could not connect to any of the characters.. Which isn't a good thing while reading a book.
Secondly even though Amy Zhang's writing style is very good, how this book was laid out was beyond confusing.. The book skipped from 'Before' and 'After' which wasn't to bad, there is dates so you can kinda keep track of the timing, but the fact that the story was coming from both Janie and Micah at different times made it so hard and confusing.. You didn't know who was talking or who things were happening to. This really annoyed me throughout the book because instead of focusing on the story you were spending a couple of pages trying to figure out whose point of view you were looking from. I would much prefer to just know straight of who the view is coming from and then concentrating on the story itself.
Next, why are they drinking so much?!? I get the main idea is that life is shit, but until Janie actually goes missing what the hell have they got to worry about so much. You don't find out why they are so depressed or whatever they are, which really frustrated me as someone who likes to know the backstory of characters, to get to know them and connect with them
And how old are these two? I know they are in highschool so, how the hell can they get so much alcohol all the time?
There are also so many things that were left unexplained or there were bits of information that were thrown in that felt like they had no meaning towards the story whatsoever.
I'm done, this whole book was confusing, annoying and I didn't like it at all..
I'm so conflicted about this book?? Like the writing is gorgeous but it felt kind of...I don't know, pointless? I'm not sure what I was supposed to get out of it.
Also, Janie just felt like another Margo Roth Spiegelman, and I didn't particularly like her in Paper Towns.
Also, Janie just felt like another Margo Roth Spiegelman, and I didn't particularly like her in Paper Towns.
I don't really know how I feel about this book. It's pretty raw and emotional, but somehow didn't exactly go anywhere. I'll give it a good rating, though, because I did kind of fall in love with Micah, and Dewey is a great character.
The main character is such a manic pixie dream girl/“I’m not like other girls” that I hated her from the start and never recovered. What an utterly unlikable character. Was that the point?? Maybe a little but it went too far in making the point for my taste and it made the rest of the book unpalatable.
More like 3.5 Stars.
-------
Not sure what it was about this book, but I just couldn't connect with Janie and Micah. I felt for them, but it was very superficial.
-------
Not sure what it was about this book, but I just couldn't connect with Janie and Micah. I felt for them, but it was very superficial.
Nope, I don't recommend it at all. The friendships are so toxic and not something that I want to be reading about, I do not even know why I finished it. The only part I liked it the end, the twist was pretty cool;)