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3.41 AVERAGE
3.41 AVERAGE
challenging
dark
emotional
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
2022 Popsugar Reading Challenge prompt: a book with a misleading title
Mt. TBR 2022: book #8
I almost DNFed this book but I was using it for a lot of challenge prompts so I pushed to finish it. I don’t know what it was, but this book was just not a favorite.
Mt. TBR 2022: book #8
I almost DNFed this book but I was using it for a lot of challenge prompts so I pushed to finish it. I don’t know what it was, but this book was just not a favorite.
must read
For survivors like me, reading the authors end note really sealed the five stars. I cried, because the depth of her words and how they accurately reflect and convey what I have felt…. I wish she understood how much it feels empowering to be seen by someone you’ve never met.
She sees me, and she accepts me.
This book is truly… truly a gift.
For survivors like me, reading the authors end note really sealed the five stars. I cried, because the depth of her words and how they accurately reflect and convey what I have felt…. I wish she understood how much it feels empowering to be seen by someone you’ve never met.
She sees me, and she accepts me.
This book is truly… truly a gift.
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I went in with high expectations for this book because I had seen that Netflix made a movie adaptation of it. However I never really got too invested in the story as I found the narrator to be very vain and immature. As a person in their late twenties, this book seems to be better suited for a juvenile crowd - but do be warned that there are some heavy themes and topics within the story that should be approached with caution if a younger audience is to read it.
I am pleasantly surprised by this book. I really liked it.
Not exactly what I expected but this book sucked me in and ended up being a quick read.
Hate to be so harsh…NOT! This book deserves it — it took a long time to get to the meat of the book and I struggled to finish it. I’m surprised (and disappointed) at the high ratings. The author really wanted readers to know that the protagonist is tiny, (eating small portions all the time, 104 lbs because she was about to marry, always on diet, watching friends eat, etc) and also that she had large boobs, describing them again and again how she was fully developed at a young age…THEN the author leads us to the rapes in high school…??? Apart from ‘luckiest girl alive’ being a line from the book, I still don’t know how she’s the luckiest girl alive. Don’t bother with this one!
I was surprised to really like this book. I could not stand the character in the beginning of the book, but found myself not able to put the book down as I got past the first third. Had I known it was going to be about rape and a school shooting I would never have picked it up.
I am glad I read it and think it is a really good read.
I am glad I read it and think it is a really good read.
I picked this book up after watching the Netflix movie adaptation, and I’ve gotta say that I prefer the movie. I’m fully onboard with the reality that you can’t just film a movie page-by-page from a book, storytelling that works in print doesn’t always translate to screen and vice versa.
****SPOILERS****
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With that, some of the changes didn’t phase me at all: TifAni’s father is present in the book (barely) but not at all in the movie, which is a no-brainer - why would you introduce an “important” character that we’re never really going to see. Most of the more significant changes in the movie I do prefer over the book, though - like Mr. Larson being a much older character and the absence of romantic entanglement.
The various resolutions in the movie were also much more satisfying than the book. In the movie she gets her NYT job, while in the book she makes a lateral (underwhelming) move to a similar magazine. The book has no article sharing her story, which for how focused she is on serious writing feels like a disservice to her once you see it in the movie. One of the criticisms I saw in another review was about how angry or mean she was towards other women, and I see what they’re saying. That’s certainly an element in the movie, though less intense, and there’s also a much more accepting, settled kind of energy that comes from her publishing her article.
I’m not sure when it was added, but there was an author’s note at the end detailing that while this is a fictional story & characters it was heavily influenced by her own experiences. With that note and writing this out - I almost wonder if some of the reader criticisms get back to the fact that this story is grounded in real life. We’re messy, often mean, humans who rarely get the kind of fulfilling conclusions we see in media. Arguably they’re so nice and prevalent in media for that very reason, we’re desperate for a neat bow at the end. Movie TifAni I would argue is much more the kind of person many of us want to be - she goes through all this shit and pain but ultimately comes out the other side with a life that she loves and has built herself. Book TifAni might just be a little too close to home, an uncomfortable look in the mirror.
****SPOILERS****
******************
With that, some of the changes didn’t phase me at all: TifAni’s father is present in the book (barely) but not at all in the movie, which is a no-brainer - why would you introduce an “important” character that we’re never really going to see. Most of the more significant changes in the movie I do prefer over the book, though - like Mr. Larson being a much older character and the absence of romantic entanglement.
The various resolutions in the movie were also much more satisfying than the book. In the movie she gets her NYT job, while in the book she makes a lateral (underwhelming) move to a similar magazine. The book has no article sharing her story, which for how focused she is on serious writing feels like a disservice to her once you see it in the movie. One of the criticisms I saw in another review was about how angry or mean she was towards other women, and I see what they’re saying. That’s certainly an element in the movie, though less intense, and there’s also a much more accepting, settled kind of energy that comes from her publishing her article.
I’m not sure when it was added, but there was an author’s note at the end detailing that while this is a fictional story & characters it was heavily influenced by her own experiences. With that note and writing this out - I almost wonder if some of the reader criticisms get back to the fact that this story is grounded in real life. We’re messy, often mean, humans who rarely get the kind of fulfilling conclusions we see in media. Arguably they’re so nice and prevalent in media for that very reason, we’re desperate for a neat bow at the end. Movie TifAni I would argue is much more the kind of person many of us want to be - she goes through all this shit and pain but ultimately comes out the other side with a life that she loves and has built herself. Book TifAni might just be a little too close to home, an uncomfortable look in the mirror.
dark
emotional
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes