oosij's reviews
85 reviews

Love, Theoretically by Ali Hazelwood

3.5

god i love reading romance books so i can feel good about myself (i finish them in a couple of hours, at most lol). i had fun reading this, and the smut was actually pretty good - at least SO much better than it was in LOVE HYPOTHESIS. i read this because i heard it was dramione-coded, but it's just kinda loosely that. it's dramione if you squint, and draco doesn't have constant snark, and hermione is the stupidest smart girl to exist. like... elsie... girl. you're supposed to be smart!!!

i will say, i really do not care for ali hazelwood's... obsession? with the smol fmc and fucking ginormous mmc trope. it's a kinda disturbing concept i loved in my Youth™️, but now that i'm older (and thoroughly icked out by the ao3 manacled illustrations), i personally just can't get behind the constant "he's soooooo big, and i'm sooooo smol next to him" thing. 

A Good Girl's Guide to Murder by Holly Jackson

4.0

despite figuring out the ending the second time around meeting the character (it's a curse to be on the spectrum sometimes, i swear), i had such a fun time reading this. i tore through this murder mystery within a couple of hours! some questions were left unanswered for me, but isn't that what YA kinda is all about lol? 

The Color of Law: A Forgotten History of How Our Government Segregated America by Richard Rothstein

4.0

nonfiction always takes me longer to read, phew. a solid read that i think every american should read, as it goes into how our government at every level further perpetuated segregation and racism against black people. 

Your Utopia: Stories by Bora Chung

5.0

utterly fantastic in its eight fantastical short stories. what bora chung has written is insane in the best way possible. 

tw: body horror, death, zombies???, ai/intelligent machines, the idea of humans honestly

The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet by John Green

5.0

we're here because we're here because we're here because we're here. 

i give the anthropocene reviewed 5 stars. 

Fourteen Days: A Collaborative Novel by The Authors Guild, Douglas Preston, Margaret Atwood
Did not finish book. Stopped at 23%.

premise lured me in, but i honestly kept getting bored while reading and looking for excuses not to pick the book up. just wasn't for me, i guess. 

White Rural Rage: The Threat to American Democracy by Paul Waldman, Tom Schaller

4.5

fascinating insight to the rural white % of our population. a must-read for anyone living in america or interested in our current political climate. i just wish it had more suggestions or explained how there's still hope when things look so bleak. 

Sirens & Muses by Antonia Angress

5.0

what a way to end pride month, quite honestly. the characters feel so real, so human, and you can't help but be enthralled in their rather intertwined lives even though they're ambiguously not the greatest people out there. i solidly enjoyed that. 

The Last Days of California by Mary Miller

3.0

quick read - i finished within a few hours. a slow and rather uneventful slice-of-life view into a 15 y/o's evangelical family's road trip towards a looming rapture. a lowkey fascinating insight into a teenager's quest to better understand herself, all the while battling her beliefs and self-doubts. 

Jane: A Murder by Maggie Nelson

4.0

beautifully written. maggie nelson weaves an emotional look into her aunt jane's murder with her haunting poetry, jane's journal entries, and clippings of news articles revolving around said murder. the brief mention of the other rape-murders linked to jane's death is horrifying and sickening, reminding us just how fragile it is to live as a woman (a girl!) in this world.