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Will Grayson, Will Grayson by David Levithan, John Green
I had a hard time getting into the story but after a couple of chapters, I got book withdrawals everytime I put it down. I started to appreciate how the authors split the writing and how it showed off two TOTALLY different persons. Not just the layout, but the way of writing did the trick.
Even though there wasn't a really 'they lived happily ever after' ending, the ending was just about right. Just highschool boys doings their thing and worrying about normal highschool things. It is something that could happen to anyone and that's what I like about it. It's real.
“It's hard to believe in coincidence, but it's even harder to believe in anything else.”
― John Green, Will Grayson, Will Grayson
I had a hard time getting into the story but after a couple of chapters, I got book withdrawals everytime I put it down. I started to appreciate how the authors split the writing and how it showed off two TOTALLY different persons. Not just the layout, but the way of writing did the trick.
Even though there wasn't a really 'they lived happily ever after' ending, the ending was just about right. Just highschool boys doings their thing and worrying about normal highschool things. It is something that could happen to anyone and that's what I like about it. It's real.
Time Shards by David Fitzgerald, Dana Fredsti
This book was a strange experience and I haven't read any book feeling the same. So what's going on? Time Shards has one of the best plot ideas for a SFF book I have ever come across, and it was awesome reading about it, but it just doesn't work with a all-words-no-pictures format. I am going to explain why later. First I want to add some content warnings to this book. Time Shards contains: Violent/graphic deaths, suicide, abduction, torture, & (violent) attempted rape.
This book is about how all of time shatters into millions of pieces and reorganises into a new version of Earth where dinosaurs can roam from their 'time shard' into the one with a piece of New York. This time shattering is called 'The Event'. Imagine you have 100 jigsaw puzzles and you just make a new one with pieces of all the puzzles. It would become one giant mess. That's basically how the Earth looks like after 'The Event'. Pretty cool, right?
In the story itself you follow Amber, a young adult cosplayer that is enjoying a date right after Comic Con when 'The Event' happens. The world is in pieces, just like her date, and she has to figure out where (when?) she is and what's going on on her own.
Now, I'll explain to you why I think this story doesn't work in a regular novel format. In short, the whole book relies on visuals and without it, some things won't make sense or the essence of the story gets lost. But when you are telling about what happens with the landscape and the people when 'The Event' is happening in real time, in a book that takes up so many pages to just visualize a few different times and places where the timeline is torn apart. It creates a 'Ten pages to describe a tree'-syndrome in a book and really messes with the pacing. This kept happening throughout the book when the main characters walked from shard to shard or encountered strange things. In a movie, all these pages could be summarized in a few shots or short scenes. This is because one visual can replace half a page of words.
Long story short, the book concept is amazing, it was written very well, but just the way how books work doesn't agree with this story and that's a shame. I think many people would put this book down as the book as it's slow points,
The cast of this books is really enjoyable. It's a thrown together bunch of different ages and personalities and that's always fun. My only pet peeve was that all of the cast originated in the last 100 years and then one from hundreds, if not thousands of years ago. There are freaking dinosaurs roaming around, give me Greek prophets or a sassy Golden Age theather player.
The type of story telling reminded me a bit of The Walking Dead, as both are stories without a super direct plot (''Oh we have to do this to save the world!'') in which the world as we know it has gone to shit and the only thing the survivers can do is adapt and survive. The plot got a bit more directer the last third or fourth of the book as you eventually learn more about what is going on. It's a light type of story and I really enjoyed it.
Besides the story telling, I also quite enjoyed the writing style, so I am definitely interested in reading more books by either author. When scrolling through both Goodreads, I saw quite some interesting books among them, so I am definitely keeping Dana Fredsti and David Fitzgerald on my radar.
I wouldn't per se recommend this book as it has its flaws, but you should definitely check out this book if you are a sci-fi fan. Time Shards is one very original and interesting SFF book that definitely deserves some love for the creativity. I really hope someone in Hollywood finds this book and options it for a movie, as that would be absolutely amazing!
It's called 'The Event,' an unimaginable cataclysm that shatters 600 million years of the Earth's timeline.
This book was a strange experience and I haven't read any book feeling the same. So what's going on? Time Shards has one of the best plot ideas for a SFF book I have ever come across, and it was awesome reading about it, but it just doesn't work with a all-words-no-pictures format. I am going to explain why later. First I want to add some content warnings to this book. Time Shards contains: Violent/graphic deaths, suicide, abduction, torture, & (violent) attempted rape.
This book is about how all of time shatters into millions of pieces and reorganises into a new version of Earth where dinosaurs can roam from their 'time shard' into the one with a piece of New York. This time shattering is called 'The Event'. Imagine you have 100 jigsaw puzzles and you just make a new one with pieces of all the puzzles. It would become one giant mess. That's basically how the Earth looks like after 'The Event'. Pretty cool, right?
In the story itself you follow Amber, a young adult cosplayer that is enjoying a date right after Comic Con when 'The Event' happens. The world is in pieces, just like her date, and she has to figure out where (when?) she is and what's going on on her own.
Now, I'll explain to you why I think this story doesn't work in a regular novel format. In short, the whole book relies on visuals and without it, some things won't make sense or the essence of the story gets lost. But when you are telling about what happens with the landscape and the people when 'The Event' is happening in real time, in a book that takes up so many pages to just visualize a few different times and places where the timeline is torn apart. It creates a 'Ten pages to describe a tree'-syndrome in a book and really messes with the pacing. This kept happening throughout the book when the main characters walked from shard to shard or encountered strange things. In a movie, all these pages could be summarized in a few shots or short scenes. This is because one visual can replace half a page of words.
Long story short, the book concept is amazing, it was written very well, but just the way how books work doesn't agree with this story and that's a shame. I think many people would put this book down as the book as it's slow points,
The cast of this books is really enjoyable. It's a thrown together bunch of different ages and personalities and that's always fun. My only pet peeve was that all of the cast originated in the last 100 years and then one from hundreds, if not thousands of years ago. There are freaking dinosaurs roaming around, give me Greek prophets or a sassy Golden Age theather player.
The type of story telling reminded me a bit of The Walking Dead, as both are stories without a super direct plot (''Oh we have to do this to save the world!'') in which the world as we know it has gone to shit and the only thing the survivers can do is adapt and survive. The plot got a bit more directer the last third or fourth of the book as you eventually learn more about what is going on. It's a light type of story and I really enjoyed it.
Besides the story telling, I also quite enjoyed the writing style, so I am definitely interested in reading more books by either author. When scrolling through both Goodreads, I saw quite some interesting books among them, so I am definitely keeping Dana Fredsti and David Fitzgerald on my radar.
I wouldn't per se recommend this book as it has its flaws, but you should definitely check out this book if you are a sci-fi fan. Time Shards is one very original and interesting SFF book that definitely deserves some love for the creativity. I really hope someone in Hollywood finds this book and options it for a movie, as that would be absolutely amazing!
Felix Ever After by Kacen Callender
It has been a while since a book made me feel so much. The book was such a range of emotions, ones I was observing as a reader and ones I could relate to so much. What an incredible book. This book was worth more than five stars, as it really left an impression on me.
Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black, queer, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after.
When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages—after publicly posting Felix’s deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned—Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. What he didn’t count on: his catfish scenario landing him in a quasi–love triangle....
But as he navigates his complicated feelings, Felix begins a journey of questioning and self-discovery that helps redefine his most important relationship: how he feels about himself.
Felix Ever After is a story of self-discovery in more than one way. It's about discovering sexuality, gender, love, your place in society and where all those intersect.
This quote is so powerful. Regardless of who you are or how you identify, you have the same right to exist as you as anyone else and this book made that message abundantly clear.
Some books just don't have plots, they are journeys, and Felix Ever After was a beautiful one to take. The words made me feel, the characters made me think. Some people say contemporary books are lighter reads than other genres, but this was heavy, but in a good way. And after I was done reading, this book left something with me.
I listened to the audiobook and the audiobook narrator was so good. He is a trans man himself and it really added to the experience. The 'acting' during narrating felt so genuine, so raw and true to it's nature. It shows the importance of having Own Voices narrators, beside the obvious of having people tell stories close to their own: they are actors and when actors are connected to their role, the reader will connect more aswell, creating the best experience for everyone.
There are so many more good things to say about this book. The first is that it takes place during Pride Month. I love that so much, especially as it's currently Pride and we can't go out to celebrate, because we need to protest for black lives and on top of that there is a pandemic. The second is that practically the entire cast is queer. There are only a few token straight characters and the ratio feels so natural to me. Third, the allyship between the characters. It's. So. Powerful. There is much more, but I'd suggest to just go and read it to find out.
I really recommend this book. Everyone even remotely interested in LGBTQ+ books should read this. It's a story of self-discovery with a basically all queer cast and a happy ending. I recommend the audiobook even more, as the narrator just adds so much to the story. Really, check this book out, you will not regret it.
I look forward to read more books by Kacen Callender as their writing style and character depth is just exactly right for me, I really need more of that.
emotional
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informative
inspiring
"It's kind of amazing, that there's a word that explains exactly how I feel, that takes away all of my confusion and questioning and hesitation-a word that let's me know there are others out there who feel exactly the same way as I do."
It has been a while since a book made me feel so much. The book was such a range of emotions, ones I was observing as a reader and ones I could relate to so much. What an incredible book. This book was worth more than five stars, as it really left an impression on me.
Felix Love has never been in love—and, yes, he’s painfully aware of the irony. He desperately wants to know what it’s like and why it seems so easy for everyone but him to find someone. What’s worse is that, even though he is proud of his identity, Felix also secretly fears that he’s one marginalization too many—Black, queer, and transgender—to ever get his own happily-ever-after.
When an anonymous student begins sending him transphobic messages—after publicly posting Felix’s deadname alongside images of him before he transitioned—Felix comes up with a plan for revenge. What he didn’t count on: his catfish scenario landing him in a quasi–love triangle....
But as he navigates his complicated feelings, Felix begins a journey of questioning and self-discovery that helps redefine his most important relationship: how he feels about himself.
Felix Ever After is a story of self-discovery in more than one way. It's about discovering sexuality, gender, love, your place in society and where all those intersect.
“I’m not flaunting anything. I’m just existing. This is me. I can’t hide myself. I can’t disappear. And even if I could, I don’t fucking want to. I have the same right to be here. I have the same right to exist.”
This quote is so powerful. Regardless of who you are or how you identify, you have the same right to exist as you as anyone else and this book made that message abundantly clear.
Some books just don't have plots, they are journeys, and Felix Ever After was a beautiful one to take. The words made me feel, the characters made me think. Some people say contemporary books are lighter reads than other genres, but this was heavy, but in a good way. And after I was done reading, this book left something with me.
I listened to the audiobook and the audiobook narrator was so good. He is a trans man himself and it really added to the experience. The 'acting' during narrating felt so genuine, so raw and true to it's nature. It shows the importance of having Own Voices narrators, beside the obvious of having people tell stories close to their own: they are actors and when actors are connected to their role, the reader will connect more aswell, creating the best experience for everyone.
There are so many more good things to say about this book. The first is that it takes place during Pride Month. I love that so much, especially as it's currently Pride and we can't go out to celebrate, because we need to protest for black lives and on top of that there is a pandemic. The second is that practically the entire cast is queer. There are only a few token straight characters and the ratio feels so natural to me. Third, the allyship between the characters. It's. So. Powerful. There is much more, but I'd suggest to just go and read it to find out.
I really recommend this book. Everyone even remotely interested in LGBTQ+ books should read this. It's a story of self-discovery with a basically all queer cast and a happy ending. I recommend the audiobook even more, as the narrator just adds so much to the story. Really, check this book out, you will not regret it.
I look forward to read more books by Kacen Callender as their writing style and character depth is just exactly right for me, I really need more of that.
Maar je ziet er helemaal niet autistisch uit by Bianca Toeps
emotional
funny
informative
inspiring
reflective
slow-paced
5.0