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3.94 AVERAGE
3.94 AVERAGE
DNF’d audiobook at 35%. The narrator is actually quite good at narrating except he gave Darian a high pitched voice that sounds like a fishmonger’s toothless wife. I could have dealt with that trash accent if he’d had a deeper voice. I also couldn’t get into his look with the awful fake tan and glittery clothes (sorry to be heteronormative but how was he the top..?)
The depression plot felt very real but..well..depressing and I was already tired of it. Also, I get that he was depressed but Ash was such a wowsie wowsie woo woo dickhead. Utterly unlikable. I decided to DNF because every time I had an opportunity to listen, I decided to do something else, which shouldn’t happen by 35%.
The depression plot felt very real but..well..depressing and I was already tired of it. Also, I get that he was depressed but Ash was such a wowsie wowsie woo woo dickhead. Utterly unlikable. I decided to DNF because every time I had an opportunity to listen, I decided to do something else, which shouldn’t happen by 35%.
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
inspiring
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I loved the banter, but Ash seriously didn't deserve Darian. It was pretty hard to get behind many of his actions, as he's sort of a dick. I don't really see what Darian saw in him, and I don't think being a free spirit is a beautiful enough quality to put up with all of Ash's bullshit. That's just me though. I'm also not British, but the entire attitude towards the Essex people from Ash and Niall was a tad gross.
PS: Darian is such a cutie <3
PS: Darian is such a cutie <3
emotional
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Alexis Hall does a great job representing the internal toil of mental illness.
All the counseling in the world couldn't teach me how to think rationally about my episodes, so I feared them. I feared them with a pure and primal instinct, like dreading the dark or flinching from fire. In all these years this is all I have learned: Depression simply is. It has no beginning and no end, no boundaries and no world outside itself. It is the first, the last, the only, the alpha and the omega. Memories of better times die upon its desolate shores. Voices drown in its seas. The mind becomes its own prisoner. 15
I was nothing but a ghost hunter, chasing the wraith of the man I used to be. A beachcomber of my own detritus. 26
There was little I feared more than happiness, that faithless w**** who waited always between madness and emptiness. 66
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
I loved this book! The writing was amazing—descriptive and lyrical, I laughed the whole way through. The narration was superb.
emotional
funny
fast-paced
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Stopped once the two main characters said some fatphobic trash. Didn't need it. Was a pointless attack on being fat as worse than having anxiety or depression.
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
challenging
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
fast-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Complicated
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes