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337 reviews

funny lighthearted relaxing fast-paced

Plot- or character-driven? Character
Strong character development? Yes
Loveable characters? Yes
Diverse cast of characters? Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus? Yes

3.0

Very much enjoyed this book. I think it's the first book I've actually read this year and it got me out of a reading slump so I can't complain.

My only qualms are with the ending, purely because I was rooting for things that didn't end up happening and the way some of the characters spoke (the slang felt a little overused as someone who is from there and does speak like that). But aside from that it was a cute read with loveable characters, just a quick and fun, light hearted book.

City of Nets: A Portrait of Hollywood in the 1940s by Otto Friedrich

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Did not finish book. Stopped at 26%.

While I was very interested to begin with, I find that there wasn't a cohesive timeline between events within each chapter and it made certain things hard to follow or hard to remember key events when going back. Also if you are a casual movie fan, it makes it near impossible to follow. There are people mentioned that I hadn' heard of before and the way the book is written requires previous at least general knowledge about certain people. Ultimately it made it impossible to continue. Although I did really enjoy the voice and the detail in which this was written. If I could follow certain parts more easily I would have finished it.

The Atlas Complex by Olivie Blake

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adventurous emotional reflective tense slow-paced

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

3.0

To be completely honest I felt like this book was a bit of a dissapointment as an ending to its counterparts. I just feel completely unsatisfied an quite frankly a little annoyed at how the stories of each character ended.

I felt as though the most important parts, the parts that were the most interesting were left to be open ended, im not entirely sure how to describe it except from unfinished.

As always the writing was good, there was a healthy amount of words and concepts too large that I could not wrap my head around which is what I had grown to expect from reading the other two so it is easy to say that this book has been consistent in that regard. The actual personality and grown aside from one character I felt like fit exactly where we left off, it felt natural and I understood why each character made the decision they did.

What I didn't understand that with the large events that happened which was very late in the book i felt like there were no consequences. Chracaters were able to do what they wanted with little blowback, it just felt like a hey everything is fine now situation. Also, with the exception of Parisa I don't feel like anyone actually did anything from the end of the first third to the finale.

Overall as I am sure is obvious it just didn't live up to the expectations I had and I don't feel fulfilled with this ending even though I'm not mad with the actual events that happened. I just don't believe that if fit with the narrative that the book set out.

Goddess of Filth by V. Castro

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adventurous dark hopeful reflective fast-paced