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Death Valley by Melissa Broder
The writing was SOOO GOOD, still trying to decide about the content
It was INSANE and felt really lonely but I liked the ending
It was INSANE and felt really lonely but I liked the ending
Scythe by Neal Shusterman
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
4.75
SOOO GOOD WHAT
I never knew a YA scifi could make me question myself and life and the way we live it. The moral questions about existence and God and everything, and who has the right to control those things, added this really intriguing layer to the book for me. But the story itself was so good aside from that — perfect pacing, perfect ending, perfect romance. I loved how Citra and Rowan started in a similar position but forked in totally different directions as the book went on. I really really loved it💋
I never knew a YA scifi could make me question myself and life and the way we live it. The moral questions about existence and God and everything, and who has the right to control those things, added this really intriguing layer to the book for me. But the story itself was so good aside from that — perfect pacing, perfect ending, perfect romance. I loved how Citra and Rowan started in a similar position but forked in totally different directions as the book went on. I really really loved it💋
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger
The end redeemed the whole thing for me. I feel like this is one of those books I found sort of boring while reading but in a few weeks parts of it’ll keep coming back to me and I’ll love it
The Theban Plays by Sophocles
I love the ancient grief and rage and defiance of women and I love how ancient playwrights/poets all knew how to write the most devastating, most treacherous child deaths known to mankind
The Summer I Turned Pretty by Jenny Han
The first book I’ve ever read where the show is 100000x better. I’ve never read such bland writing in my life, and the character development was not there at all. In the last few chapters I think things did get a bit better though — there was time for the characters to properly express their emotions, and everything. The show was just so much more fun and SUMMERY. This book felt very plain; the characters never seemed to be on good terms with each other. The pacing was so incredibly off — every confession came totally out of nowhere and Belly had the simplest reactions to all of the biggest events in her life. Small things were blown totally out of proportion and big things were minimised.
Overall the book just felt really hollow. It didn’t feel like a fun summer at all — it was honestly really slack and depressing😭 not even the good, emotional sort of depressing, but the very empty sort.
BUT weirdly I’m not unhappy that I read it, it was so fast-paced and simple that it got me out of a reading slump so thanks for that I guess?
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
medium-paced
- Plot- or character-driven? Character
- Strong character development? It's complicated
- Loveable characters? It's complicated
- Diverse cast of characters? It's complicated
- Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes
5.0
This book CHANGED ME😭
The writing was flawless. It wasn’t excruciatingly verbose or flowery, it was subtle and intimate and so immersive. I REALLY loved the perspective and how there was no one narrator. The descriptions of femininity and sexuality and the boys’ objectification of these things were weirdly so good to read. The whole book was so raw and telling and there were no details excluded just for being off-putting. The pacing was perfect — it wasn’t SLOW, but there was a lot of filler parts that seemed unnecessary and yet they ended up mostly being my favourite parts. I think there is something so telling about this book technically being about the girls, and yet by the time they die, you still feel like you still have no idea who they are. The book manages to be centred around them and give the illusion of developing them even though really, the only thing developing is the world around them. And I LOVED this. It made their deaths so much sadder. The moment where the narratorsSee Bonnie’s dead body and realise that they never knew her, despite idolising and obsessing over her for all their lives, and now finding her dead, was the biggest moment for me, in the way that I realised that same thing. The deaths were so beautifully and tragically written😭
In every way it was a beautiful book and I wish everybody would read it!! It felt so REAL and raw and full
The writing was flawless. It wasn’t excruciatingly verbose or flowery, it was subtle and intimate and so immersive. I REALLY loved the perspective and how there was no one narrator. The descriptions of femininity and sexuality and the boys’ objectification of these things were weirdly so good to read. The whole book was so raw and telling and there were no details excluded just for being off-putting. The pacing was perfect — it wasn’t SLOW, but there was a lot of filler parts that seemed unnecessary and yet they ended up mostly being my favourite parts. I think there is something so telling about this book technically being about the girls, and yet by the time they die, you still feel like you still have no idea who they are. The book manages to be centred around them and give the illusion of developing them even though really, the only thing developing is the world around them. And I LOVED this. It made their deaths so much sadder. The moment where the narrators
In every way it was a beautiful book and I wish everybody would read it!! It felt so REAL and raw and full