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bexellency's Reviews (980)
Meh? Read very old fashioned and male written - gratuitously crass, casually and perniciously misogynistic. Not something I want to read more of.
Cute and fun with all the things you come to expect from this series. I keep reading these, even though they’ve never been as a compelling after the first few. Still like visiting my old friends, so to speak.
Cozy and a bit over the top, but with good food content. Although the audiobook narrator’s pronunciation of relleno was… interesting and, unfortunately, repeated several times in the novel.
Sweet in some ways. Absurd in some ways. Stylistically very Fredrik Blackman (style undifferentiated from Beartown) - observational, purposefully vague/generalized. I found this repetitive and long. “Most men live lives of quiet desperation” sums up the theme well.
Meh, okay. Not particularly elegantly crafted, although there is a fun little twist in the penultimate scene.
I wish this was better written. It's a fascinating story, but the writing sounds like someone trying to write a school paper at hit their mandated citation count. It's like the author got of focused on the facts and documents they found, that they forgot to actually tell a story. It's short on flow and INCREDIBLY repetitive. But it is a fascinating snippet of history.
Interesting. I'm glad it's not any longer, given the linguistically heavy writing, with long run on sentences and perplexing phrase structures. But it is a fascinating little story and a clear parable of the quick slide into totalitarianism.
This was an entertaining read. Enjoyed the large variety of interactions with the husbands. Great novel for commentary on dating culture, dating apps, who you date/love/marry and who you don't, culture of over-overanalyzing your partner or relationship to death. And a sneaky addiction theme!
Eh. It’s more or less a Man Called Ove but British and female. Reading about Eudora’s younger years is hard, just leaves one wishing mental health care had been a robust thing in the 40s and 50s. Not sure what point the book is trying to make - about death with dignity? about there always being more chances to be happy? The book seems to want to deal with the topic of rejecting that life is always the right choice, no matter the price or condition, and yet spend the whole book showing you how wrong Eudora turned out to be for choosing to be done.
I read little science fiction these days and have limited patience for world building, but I quickly got into the world and this one and it was reading along well, drawing me forward. And the there was the first time slip. Argh! I think time travel is a cheap trick, a deus ex machina device and you have to be incredibly good to pull it off. Otherwise, it reads as lazy writing, a cheat if you will. So that put me off the rest of the book. . Interestingly, The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson is a book with similarities - science fiction, queer characters, and parallel worlds and that one I did really like. I guess it’s all about what you use your plot devices to say.