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33 reviews

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? No
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

"Ve bir kez kendi içindeki insanı anlamış olan bütün insanları anlar."
Sen ne güzel bir kitapsın böyle🧡🧡.
İlknur İGAN da ne güzel çevirmiş. Aşık oldum her kelimesine.

Furyborn by Claire Legrand

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 36%.

This is coming from a translator
I first read the Turkish translation until the 20th chapter. And there were a lot of grammatical and syntactical mistakes, but I wanted to continue, so I downloaded the original version to my phone but I did not like the narration.
It is a pity that I did not like this book. The turkish translation clearly did not go through a full TEP(translation-editing-proofreading) process, and I hated every second I saw a grammatical mistake. I am not talking about major mistakes like conveying the message the opposite way, I am talking about a lot of simple mistakes that could have been solved if someone read it again. I am talking about forgetting certain suffixes and particles (Turkish language revolves around them) or writing the word wrong. Or when you read, you understand that it is word for word translation so you can imagine the original and think to yourself "Wait, we have a very common phrase for that". And if there are 20 sentences in a page, 14 of them have these mistakes. Basic writing softwares like Word could fix these mistakes. Haven't you used a spell and grammer check software? Even free ones could detect these simple but annoying mistakes.
PS: I read the Turkish translation version from the publication house called "Salon Yayınları", the translator is called "Eda Aksan Park" and apparently there is a proofreader called "Ayse Cakır". I really wonder how these simple software solvable mistakes was not detected by a proofreader, if there was a proofreader?

The Hating Game by Sally Thorne

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funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted tense 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? No

4.0

Oh Damn! Oh Damn! Oh Damn! And that's 3 oh damns! The first 100 pages is full shit, you will say "who wrote this a 13 year old?" But then the narration just gets better. The characters get better. The plot gets better. There is something new every chapter. Those scenes made me go crazy! Yes there are a lot of SMUT in this book, brace yourself! The last chapter was amazing, I was so surprised about the reveal, at both of them! I even cried a little at the end because it was such a beautiful ending.
And let's get this straight: Everything in this book is unfortunately fiction and we will never find a man like Joshua Templeman.

Scarlet by Marissa Meyer

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adventurous funny hopeful lighthearted mysterious relaxing medium-paced

Plot- or character-driven? A mix
Strong character development? No
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus? No

4.5

It is definitely a light read. There are a lot of fun and emotional parts, it is quite easy to read. I read it slowly because I was in my finals week, but whenever I had the book in my hands, I felt relaxed. I was relaxed reading this because I saw a bookstagrammer's reel saying that it was going to end well. It did but it also didn't. It created more problems in the end and my mind is crowded with thoughts right now.
Yes, it is a light read; yes, it is relaxing but at the same time you will get anxious every second too. It is freaking complicated.
You must read it!!

The Queen of Nothing by Holly Black

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adventurous challenging hopeful tense medium-paced