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Eileen by Ottessa Moshfegh

• Loveable characters? No

3.0

did not enjoy this

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice
Did not finish book. Stopped at 17%.

could this get anymore boring.....???!!! this entire book suffers from "they didn't show us, they told us." which is a terrible way of storytelling, in my opinion.

i couldn't get into this at all. every paragraph was a long, monotonous, repetitive, back and forth of "he did this. he said this. oh i hated him. i was thirsty. i was so ashamed. oh slaves." god shut the fuck up.

The Lighthouse Witches by C.J. Cooke

5.0

i almost want to give this 4 stars only because the personality of olivia and her daughters are all the same? i don't think the author did a very good job at making them different, and even when reading their pov's, they all felt the same. which made them feel a little pointless and even redundant at times. however, i did really enjoy the story, the atmosphere the most. bleak, eerie, dark; hopeless at times. a near perfect read.

Reprieve by James Han Mattson
Did not finish book. Stopped at 21%.

i honest to god though i was reading a YA novel when i started this. i had to go back to see if i had mistaken it for an adult horror book. every character is annoying as hell and so far the only backstory i really cared about the character from thailand. if i can possibly find an audiobook version of this, i may pick it back up and finish but there's no way i'm reading this on my own. i refuse.

After Dark by Haruki Murakami

3.75

pretty writing. i like how it was written like a screenplay. not really sure what was going on, though.

The Great Alone by Kristin Hannah

5.0

I didn't like this as much as I did "The Four Winds", (I literally sobbed at the end of that one, whereas this one made me angry and emotional, but not drawn to tears), but once again, Kristin Hannah's writing is so stunning and poetic and moving. 5 stars again and again.

The Sun Down Motel by Simone St. James

mysterious medium-paced

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

3.5

Fun. Kind of predictable. The writing was okay, but entertaining enough. I loved the setting, which is what kept me reading as intently as I was!

The Long Walk by Stephen King, Richard Bachman
Did not finish book. Stopped at 15%.

fuck this book and it's racism

The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah

emotional informative inspiring reflective sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
• Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

5.0

I cried. Oh my God, I cried so hard

Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant

3.5

Despite Grant's beautiful writing this novel didn't resonate with me as I thought it would. Personally, I thought it started out really well, but Grant's longwinded, filled to the brim with filler writing style got very taxing about 40% through. I liked the POV we got when the story began, but it kept shifting to other flat, unlikeable characters and thus it was hard to really get to know any of our cast because every chapter it would change.

This definitely could've been cut in half by 100-200 pages and I think it would've been a bit better and not so bloated.