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ebonwilde's Reviews (901)
this broke my heart. watching pippa learn that justice isn't always true, watching her become colder and less trusting, watching her push against the system only to believe in the end that nothing she did mattered, and watching her slowly become the character she will be in as good as dead was brutal, but in the most beautiful of ways. the ending, especially, was agonizing, with the gun being eternalized in pip's mind forever. a heart-rending, yet vicious depiction of trauma. it's rare that a second book in a series ends up better than the first, but holly jackson delivered here.
i am very on the fence about this book. it deals with a quite sensitive subject, and yet i just don't care? i believe this is meant for an adult audience and yet the writing is so utterly juvenile. maybe this is a bit hypocritical of me since i read mostly young adult, but that's not what i expected from this book, nor the adult main character who is living in the middle of a WAR. in the 1940s. i really do think she'd be at least somewhat more mature than the modern day coed.
and this is a very petty complaint, but i just don't think someone who lived their entire life in paris would romanticize it like a foreigner? yet odile speaks about paris the same way middle school farm girls from wisconsin would. exactly like the small town tween girl from the secondary timeline, in fact—they have very similar voices, if not the same exact voice. the only difference is that one just happens to be a few years older.
the secondary timeline seemed unnecessary to the main plot line and added random points i really didn't care for, but i will say that it nicely wraps up odile's storyline, which is good for me because i usually don't like ambiguous endings.
overall, very underwhelming, but maybe that's because i had very high expectations.
2.75/5
and this is a very petty complaint, but i just don't think someone who lived their entire life in paris would romanticize it like a foreigner? yet odile speaks about paris the same way middle school farm girls from wisconsin would. exactly like the small town tween girl from the secondary timeline, in fact—they have very similar voices, if not the same exact voice. the only difference is that one just happens to be a few years older.
the secondary timeline seemed unnecessary to the main plot line and added random points i really didn't care for, but i will say that it nicely wraps up odile's storyline, which is good for me because i usually don't like ambiguous endings.
overall, very underwhelming, but maybe that's because i had very high expectations.
2.75/5
