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1.88 AVERAGE
1.88 AVERAGE
Not what I was expecting at all. pleasently surprised at how much I enjoyed this.
adventurous
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
The pterodactyl is less her boyfriend and more she is his side piece, so points off for the misleading title. I actually feel like I just emerged from a 3 hour hallucination of a book. Multiple almost sex scenes, I guess including pterodactyl sex. So many slightly off words or phrases that even Google didn't understand, like "baseball bat in their voice" for someone sounding stern. A few different times where sentences were written poorly or straight up missing a word, because they didn't make grammatical sense as they were. This book didn't commit to being funny or to being body/psychological horror or to being a supernatural romance or teen coming-of-age. This book jumped from the ludicrous "oh yeah he's a pterodactyl, don't discriminate" to random deep moments contemplating our place in the universe to "drunk driving is bad". It feels like I drank cough syrup from the 20s.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Body horror, Sexual content
Moderate: Confinement
Minor: Child death, Infidelity, Car accident, Alcohol
fast-paced
It was very weird. I didn't hate it but I didn't like it either. I'm not sure what the point of it is.
Exactly what you think it is. This was a fun, weird read and I enjoyed it. However, the story was difficult to wrap up.
Not gonna lie, there was a lot of skimming involved. The premise sounded like it could be funny, but the execution was terrible, just like the writing.
If a good library has something to offend everyone, then a good library has a copy of this book in it. On the plus side, it was entertaining!
Going in I knew this was going to be terrible, but I was hoping it would be an enjoyable bad. A guilty pleasure type of read.
Instead, we have a book that too hard to sell you on the ridiculous concept rather than just giving us a story that knows it's silly, but still be compelling. Sadly, in other hands it could be pretty amazing. I would love to see this done by Neil Gaimen or Cherie Priest.
Instead, we have a book that too hard to sell you on the ridiculous concept rather than just giving us a story that knows it's silly, but still be compelling. Sadly, in other hands it could be pretty amazing. I would love to see this done by Neil Gaimen or Cherie Priest.
Wow. What did I just read?
This gets one star for plot and one for the most intriguing title I have ever seen. It was the title that drew me in and kept me reading. But, who would have known, HOT PTERODACTYL BOYFRIEND is actually about a super attractive/alluring pterodactyl who everyone at this high school is dreaming about. Literally. He flies into their lives, sings at their prom, plays football and wreaks havoc that only a pterodactyl can.
I am still unsure as to whether this is a satire on TWILIGHT/any teen read where people become infatuated with the alien-like newcomer or if it is actually about a pterodactyl boyfriend.
Label me confused, but I did read the whole thing so it has that going for it...
This gets one star for plot and one for the most intriguing title I have ever seen. It was the title that drew me in and kept me reading. But, who would have known, HOT PTERODACTYL BOYFRIEND is actually about a super attractive/alluring pterodactyl who everyone at this high school is dreaming about. Literally. He flies into their lives, sings at their prom, plays football and wreaks havoc that only a pterodactyl can.
I am still unsure as to whether this is a satire on TWILIGHT/any teen read where people become infatuated with the alien-like newcomer or if it is actually about a pterodactyl boyfriend.
Label me confused, but I did read the whole thing so it has that going for it...