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bridge_enginerd's Reviews (674)
adventurous
dark
emotional
hopeful
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
adventurous
dark
emotional
funny
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
It’s fascinating to see how my opinion of this trilogy has changed with how my life has changed since I first read it. I LOVED this trilogy this time around. I would have changed nothing. Mal x Alina at the orphanage for life.
adventurous
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emotional
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
I don’t know why coming back to these books has been such a religious (ha) experience for me, but I’m not going to look a gift horse in the mouth. I love how morally gray Alina is in this second book. And oh, oh, how I love Nikolai.
adventurous
dark
emotional
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
dark
mysterious
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
If you want a blood-pounding mystery thriller, this will probably do the trick. But at the end of the day, I feel uneasy about the plot. I still have so many questions. Not about what happened, but how what happened would ever be feasible in any stretch of the imagination. The treatment of minority characters is also gross.
Content Warnings
Graphic: Ableism, Gore, Homophobia, Vomit, Alcohol
adventurous
dark
mysterious
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Yes
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
No
I put off reading this for so long because I was worried about what it would be like to go back to this world. Would it feel like a contrived Disney sequel? It turns out it was just perfect, as always.
hopeful
informative
fast-paced
If you aren’t new to fat activism and you’ve listened to maintenance phase for a long time, none of this will be new to you. This book is an excellent primer for the people in your life who still talk about “feeling fat” or “I don’t want to be fat, but you look fine.” I listened to the audiobook, which Aubrey narrated herself. It was good, but also missing her usual laughter. In particular, I loved how much time she spent uplifting and centering people with more marginalized identities than her own.