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lscarlett 's review for:
Shanghai Immortal
by A.Y. Chao
I'll c/p my first reading update for this book as an intro:
I wasn't going to add this to my tracker/challenge because I'm not enjoying it and skimming, but you know what? No, screw it, if I have to force myself to read this book for book club, it's sure as hell going to count for something.
Well, it was worth the frustration, because I finished it just in time for book club.
It's cutesy, and I feel like I would have eaten this up in my high school days, because even though it's technically not YA, boy does it read like it. And I have come to the ultimate conclusion that I am simply too old for it. Not that you have to stop reading YA at a certain age - if you love it, great! Read whatever you like - but personally I just feel dead inside when I read about straight kids pinning over each other and making up weird cringy swear words, especially if it's contemporary, dear god give me strength.
(Which this was not! And that's why I give it 1.5 stars for the cool setting/world building).
I wasn't going to add this to my tracker/challenge because I'm not enjoying it and skimming, but you know what? No, screw it, if I have to force myself to read this book for book club, it's sure as hell going to count for something.
Well, it was worth the frustration, because I finished it just in time for book club.
It's cutesy, and I feel like I would have eaten this up in my high school days, because even though it's technically not YA, boy does it read like it. And I have come to the ultimate conclusion that I am simply too old for it. Not that you have to stop reading YA at a certain age - if you love it, great! Read whatever you like - but personally I just feel dead inside when I read about straight kids pinning over each other and making up weird cringy swear words, especially if it's contemporary, dear god give me strength.
(Which this was not! And that's why I give it 1.5 stars for the cool setting/world building).