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DNF: Time of death, 39%
What the helly happened here Ali….
What the helly happened here Ali….
adventurous
dark
emotional
reflective
sad
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Loveable characters:
Yes
V.E. Schwab my beloved, we are soooo back
Sapphic Interview with the Vampire meets A Dowry of Blood, Lucy Undying, & Carmilla I’m so serious
This was a sapphic vampire tale filled with the trials of girlhood, the violence of men, and the desperate hope to escape womanhood and all of the horrors that it entails. It showcases sapphic abuse in a way that (as someone who experienced it) made me feel deeply seen. It showcased vampirism as freedom from gender/societal norms, as seething obsession and toxicity that sucks the very life from you. I truly could go on and on.
Positives:
- the writing was honestly beautiful. So many lines were breathtaking & I annotated so much of it. I know there are critiques that at times it read slow/repetitive, but personally the pacing was just right for me.
- Sabine… my tragic Lestat-coded beloved…. I both hate you and love you and my heart breaks for your journey
- Charlotte my angel who deserved the world and so much more and so much better
- I adored all of the different historical elements interwoven into this & how different it tonally made the story feel throughout…. I truly was so locked in.
- I feel like Schwab really heard some of the Addie Larue critiques and showed growth in a lot of ways as a response
Negatives:
- the biggest thing that bothered me was how truly anticlimactic and honestly kind of disappointing the ending felt after such a tremendous and masterful build up and interwoven story. It really read quite rushed in the end.
- I also didn’t particularly enjoy Alice’s perspectives, or her as a character all that much. I found it a little hard to fully sympathize with her & I think that while there was so much put into Sabine & Charlottes characterizations and stories to really pull you in, Alice’s was left a little lacking which really took me out of her chapters and also contributed to the ending feeling unearned.
My Schwab rating out of her books that I’ve read:
- Vengeful
- Vicious
- Bury Our Bones under the Midnight Soil/Addie Larue (can’t decide deal with it)
- A Darker Shade of Magic
- A Gathering of Shadows
- Gallant (DNF’d)
Sapphic Interview with the Vampire meets A Dowry of Blood, Lucy Undying, & Carmilla I’m so serious
This was a sapphic vampire tale filled with the trials of girlhood, the violence of men, and the desperate hope to escape womanhood and all of the horrors that it entails. It showcases sapphic abuse in a way that (as someone who experienced it) made me feel deeply seen. It showcased vampirism as freedom from gender/societal norms, as seething obsession and toxicity that sucks the very life from you. I truly could go on and on.
Positives:
- the writing was honestly beautiful. So many lines were breathtaking & I annotated so much of it. I know there are critiques that at times it read slow/repetitive, but personally the pacing was just right for me.
- Sabine… my tragic Lestat-coded beloved…. I both hate you and love you and my heart breaks for your journey
- Charlotte my angel who deserved the world and so much more and so much better
- I adored all of the different historical elements interwoven into this & how different it tonally made the story feel throughout…. I truly was so locked in.
- I feel like Schwab really heard some of the Addie Larue critiques and showed growth in a lot of ways as a response
Negatives:
- the biggest thing that bothered me was how truly anticlimactic and honestly kind of disappointing the ending felt after such a tremendous and masterful build up and interwoven story. It really read quite rushed in the end.
- I also didn’t particularly enjoy Alice’s perspectives, or her as a character all that much. I found it a little hard to fully sympathize with her & I think that while there was so much put into Sabine & Charlottes characterizations and stories to really pull you in, Alice’s was left a little lacking which really took me out of her chapters and also contributed to the ending feeling unearned.
My Schwab rating out of her books that I’ve read:
- Vengeful
- Vicious
- Bury Our Bones under the Midnight Soil/Addie Larue (can’t decide deal with it)
- A Darker Shade of Magic
- A Gathering of Shadows
- Gallant (DNF’d)
dark
emotional
informative
reflective
sad
Wow ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️.5
That was beautiful and walked the lines between fiction, nonfiction, and poetry beautifully.
My only issue was sometimes the jump to the next letter felt very abrupt & at times I found myself a little bit bored
That was beautiful and walked the lines between fiction, nonfiction, and poetry beautifully.
My only issue was sometimes the jump to the next letter felt very abrupt & at times I found myself a little bit bored
funny
It’s like hear me out, yes I can understand why this is polarizing, but I genuinely think that since Check & Mate her writing his improved a bit. There was a lot more effort put into the plot in this compared to her other adult romances and I honestly enjoyed it.
Positives:
- the plot felt pretty good
- the arranged marriage trope went kinda hard
- the relationships between the characters felt pretty genuine
- i enjoyed the mystery element
- i liked how this felt very 2010 wattpad alphaverse, but also was pretty obviously referencing Twilight in really silly ways constantly
Negatives:
- some pretty cringe dialogue and smut at times
- the last like 50 pages ish kinda lost me a bit and I just wanted Ali to wrap it up
- there definitely were some plot holes I fear & some overall cringe-ness
This was my first straight monster romance that I’ve read since my wattpad days and it was definitely very goofy and fun and everything it set out to be so I’m not mad about it
Positives:
- the plot felt pretty good
- the arranged marriage trope went kinda hard
- the relationships between the characters felt pretty genuine
- i enjoyed the mystery element
- i liked how this felt very 2010 wattpad alphaverse, but also was pretty obviously referencing Twilight in really silly ways constantly
Negatives:
- some pretty cringe dialogue and smut at times
- the last like 50 pages ish kinda lost me a bit and I just wanted Ali to wrap it up
- there definitely were some plot holes I fear & some overall cringe-ness
This was my first straight monster romance that I’ve read since my wattpad days and it was definitely very goofy and fun and everything it set out to be so I’m not mad about it
dark
informative
Really great concept, & commentary.
I loved that it felt like it was more about these specific Indigenous characters and their stories/culture/loss etc.
My main beef with this is while I loved the interwoven stories in the narrative, the writing style overall didn’t feel all that engaging to me personally, & I found myself constantly pretty bored.
I really wish I loved this more, I still think it’s an important book & a very real world concept absolutely & I get why people love it.
I loved that it felt like it was more about these specific Indigenous characters and their stories/culture/loss etc.
My main beef with this is while I loved the interwoven stories in the narrative, the writing style overall didn’t feel all that engaging to me personally, & I found myself constantly pretty bored.
I really wish I loved this more, I still think it’s an important book & a very real world concept absolutely & I get why people love it.
challenging
dark
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
sad
tense
fast-paced
My heart is broken
A harsh but also hopeful story about revolution, war, grief, loss, family, love, but especially: Syria. It perfectly balances visceral agony and violence, with hopeful swoony romance, whimsical writing that read very Studio Ghibli, but also immensely graphic subject matter that reads as a primal battle cry.
This book is absolutely haunting but also so so so beautiful & Zoulfa gave us such an important representation of Syria ❤️
I hope to see the sun rise one day on a world where places like Syria and Palestine have peace, freedom, and liberation
This is an incredibly hard read; it is YA & definitely reads YA, but absolutely has some very dark themes so I highly recommend looking up TW.
A harsh but also hopeful story about revolution, war, grief, loss, family, love, but especially: Syria. It perfectly balances visceral agony and violence, with hopeful swoony romance, whimsical writing that read very Studio Ghibli, but also immensely graphic subject matter that reads as a primal battle cry.
This book is absolutely haunting but also so so so beautiful & Zoulfa gave us such an important representation of Syria ❤️
I hope to see the sun rise one day on a world where places like Syria and Palestine have peace, freedom, and liberation
This is an incredibly hard read; it is YA & definitely reads YA, but absolutely has some very dark themes so I highly recommend looking up TW.
emotional
hopeful
informative
inspiring
reflective
fast-paced
An actually perfect book that utilizes mythology as well as the whimsical book within a book narrative to tell a deeply heartfelt story about queerness and culture
adventurous
informative
tense
medium-paced
Genuinely so devastating that this will never be a movie with Carrie Fisher & Harrison Ford
This is one of the best Star Wars books I’ve read so far omg
This is one of the best Star Wars books I’ve read so far omg
adventurous
challenging
dark
emotional
funny
hopeful
reflective
sad
tense
slow-paced
That was fucked up Robin…..
Simultaneously so unbelievably happy and in utter agony reading this book
Simultaneously so unbelievably happy and in utter agony reading this book
DNF 10% in…. It truly feels Dystopian as fuck even calling this a Dystopian?
This genuinely felt like Chat gpt generated Fourth Wing-coded trash…. People saying this is like The Hunger Games/Divergent are you actually okay?
This genuinely felt like Chat gpt generated Fourth Wing-coded trash…. People saying this is like The Hunger Games/Divergent are you actually okay?