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Love on the Brain by Ali Hazelwood
5.0
I’m taking my old statement back.
The one in which i claimed that TLP is my favorite romance book of the year. I’m cheating on a Hazelwood novel with another Hazelwood novel. (and yes, i feel guilty about it.)
Love On The Brain, AKA my new obsession, is my favorite romance book of the year. and upcoming years. favorite romance book of the decade. and here’s why:
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The plot! I liked it so fucking much. You could easily sense how much of a progress Ali had from TLP to this one. It was more complex and the ending was amazing!! (the little twist it had at the end? Lmao yes to that.) everything was better in LOTB. No potential was wasted.
The characters! Was Bee, Olive 2.0? Hmmm. Yes and No. they sure had similarities but she still felt original to me. Same with Levi and Adam. Levi felt more like a real character to me than Adam. (no offense to Adam Carlsen, the love of my life, the object of all my desires.)
Bee and Levi had more depth comparing to Olive and Adam. Their conversations were well written. Their relationship was everything i expected it to be and their closure had me smiling to myself like an idiot. The one thing i really liked about Levi was how he TALKED. how he finally learned to channel his feelings and put them into words. His confession was one of my favorite book-love-confessions of all time.
And i loved how Bee was a fucking pro in her career! Her obsession with Marie Curie was interesting af.
The jokes! God. I laughed my ASS off with this book. The only author that could do that to me was Rainbow Rowell. Then Ali Hazelwood joined the club. Now it’s Rainbow and Ali all the way to hell and heaven but mostly hell because who am i kidding. The puns were hilarious. I can’t remember when was the last time i laughed this hard reading a book. (I do. It was January 2022. The Love Hypothesis.)
P.s: I’m using this opportunity to say that i forgive Ali for what she wrote in Below Zero (Tits. Hills on mars.) i pretend that never existed. Yoda best romance author, baby.
The one in which i claimed that TLP is my favorite romance book of the year. I’m cheating on a Hazelwood novel with another Hazelwood novel. (and yes, i feel guilty about it.)
Love On The Brain, AKA my new obsession, is my favorite romance book of the year. and upcoming years. favorite romance book of the decade. and here’s why:
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The plot! I liked it so fucking much. You could easily sense how much of a progress Ali had from TLP to this one. It was more complex and the ending was amazing!! (the little twist it had at the end? Lmao yes to that.) everything was better in LOTB. No potential was wasted.
The characters! Was Bee, Olive 2.0? Hmmm. Yes and No. they sure had similarities but she still felt original to me. Same with Levi and Adam. Levi felt more like a real character to me than Adam. (no offense to Adam Carlsen, the love of my life, the object of all my desires.)
Bee and Levi had more depth comparing to Olive and Adam. Their conversations were well written. Their relationship was everything i expected it to be and their closure had me smiling to myself like an idiot. The one thing i really liked about Levi was how he TALKED. how he finally learned to channel his feelings and put them into words. His confession was one of my favorite book-love-confessions of all time.
And i loved how Bee was a fucking pro in her career! Her obsession with Marie Curie was interesting af.
The jokes! God. I laughed my ASS off with this book. The only author that could do that to me was Rainbow Rowell. Then Ali Hazelwood joined the club. Now it’s Rainbow and Ali all the way to hell and heaven but mostly hell because who am i kidding. The puns were hilarious. I can’t remember when was the last time i laughed this hard reading a book. (I do. It was January 2022. The Love Hypothesis.)
P.s: I’m using this opportunity to say that i forgive Ali for what she wrote in Below Zero (Tits. Hills on mars.) i pretend that never existed. Yoda best romance author, baby.
Under One Roof by Ali Hazelwood
3.0
now it’s safe to say that:
1. Stuck with you
2. Under one roof
3. Below zero (forever traumatized.)
1. Stuck with you
2. Under one roof
3. Below zero (forever traumatized.)
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas
2.0
I’ve been thinking about this for the past couple days: I gave a Sarah J. Maas book 2 stars.
this is the second review I’m writing for this book. The first one never made it past my Notes. It’s there, and it’s ugly. It’s me screaming and crying and throwing up, cursing Sarah for what she did to this series. It was not a review of reason. It was a review full of anger and heartbreak.
This one, though. This one is gonna be about how the latest book in ACOTAR series, which has been an all time favorite of mine over the years, disappointed me in every possible way.
it first disappointed me with its plot. now, I’m using the word “plot” but really, such thing does not exist in this book till around page 500. the first 60% of the book was a bland journey of Nesta: Somewhat trying to give us a picture of what’s going on in her mind, what made her such a terrible person. “Justifying” her past actions. Also, there’s a threat in their world that they mention it in page 50, but then stop talking about it like it never existed at all. Suddenly, it becomes relevant in page 600 again. can you see the path here? Can you see why i was so mad that it took Nesta 400 pages to walk down a fucking stairway but it only took 60 pages for the world threat to (kinda) settle down?
Unreasonably, everything took way too long to happen. And when it finally did, i simply didn’t care anymore. I was tired of constantly reading about Nesta training in the morning, Nesta fucking Cassian wildly, Nesta again training in the morning, Nesta riding Cassian wildly again— for 300 pages straight. i was bored. I almost DNFed it. 8 fucking times.
The second time this book disappointed me, was when Sarah ruined all of my favorite characters. The thing that made this series for me special was “the characters”. The inner circle were people that i wholeheartedly adored. But not anymore. Rhysand. The powerful, reasonable Rhysand, turned into a fucking moron in this book. He solely existed to protect Feyre. Not once, as an individual character or (for fuck’s sake) as the fucking High Lord of the Night Court, did he do something. Someone said something about him in the book that says it all:
“Honestly, I’m disappointed in Rhysand. He’s become so bland these days. He didn’t even try to look into my mind.”
He was a total jerk towards Nesta and only appreciated her character when it was useful to him. He didn’t have to stoop so low, Sarah. Not after 4 books trying to portrait him as an incredible character. Amren was annoying, Mor was absent the whole book with no further explanation, Feyre was fine i guess (if not repetitive), Elain was as useless as ever, Az was fine and Cassian was the only member of inner circle that i ended up loving more after this book. Among the new characters Gwyn was really likable. And Nesta.
Well. Nesta. I’m not really sure how to feel about her. I’m satisfied with her ending. It’s good that she grew and learned how to be a better person but honestly, i don’t know, i can’t say that i fell in love with her at the end. I think i preferred her reason for being such a cruel person in the past to be a bit… more understandable. Sometimes i felt like everyone’s being way too overdramatic about how strong and unique she is. Like Sarah was trying her best to portrait her as an unbelievably powerful character. But still, she’s definitely better that Elain.
Overall, this could’ve been a better book. I was bored and i hated the characters. Will not continue the series by the way. I don’t wish to ruin my happy memories with ACOTAR series more than this.
this is the second review I’m writing for this book. The first one never made it past my Notes. It’s there, and it’s ugly. It’s me screaming and crying and throwing up, cursing Sarah for what she did to this series. It was not a review of reason. It was a review full of anger and heartbreak.
This one, though. This one is gonna be about how the latest book in ACOTAR series, which has been an all time favorite of mine over the years, disappointed me in every possible way.
it first disappointed me with its plot. now, I’m using the word “plot” but really, such thing does not exist in this book till around page 500. the first 60% of the book was a bland journey of Nesta: Somewhat trying to give us a picture of what’s going on in her mind, what made her such a terrible person. “Justifying” her past actions. Also, there’s a threat in their world that they mention it in page 50, but then stop talking about it like it never existed at all. Suddenly, it becomes relevant in page 600 again. can you see the path here? Can you see why i was so mad that it took Nesta 400 pages to walk down a fucking stairway but it only took 60 pages for the world threat to (kinda) settle down?
Unreasonably, everything took way too long to happen. And when it finally did, i simply didn’t care anymore. I was tired of constantly reading about Nesta training in the morning, Nesta fucking Cassian wildly, Nesta again training in the morning, Nesta riding Cassian wildly again— for 300 pages straight. i was bored. I almost DNFed it. 8 fucking times.
The second time this book disappointed me, was when Sarah ruined all of my favorite characters. The thing that made this series for me special was “the characters”. The inner circle were people that i wholeheartedly adored. But not anymore. Rhysand. The powerful, reasonable Rhysand, turned into a fucking moron in this book. He solely existed to protect Feyre. Not once, as an individual character or (for fuck’s sake) as the fucking High Lord of the Night Court, did he do something. Someone said something about him in the book that says it all:
“Honestly, I’m disappointed in Rhysand. He’s become so bland these days. He didn’t even try to look into my mind.”
He was a total jerk towards Nesta and only appreciated her character when it was useful to him. He didn’t have to stoop so low, Sarah. Not after 4 books trying to portrait him as an incredible character. Amren was annoying, Mor was absent the whole book with no further explanation, Feyre was fine i guess (if not repetitive), Elain was as useless as ever, Az was fine and Cassian was the only member of inner circle that i ended up loving more after this book. Among the new characters Gwyn was really likable. And Nesta.
Well. Nesta. I’m not really sure how to feel about her. I’m satisfied with her ending. It’s good that she grew and learned how to be a better person but honestly, i don’t know, i can’t say that i fell in love with her at the end. I think i preferred her reason for being such a cruel person in the past to be a bit… more understandable. Sometimes i felt like everyone’s being way too overdramatic about how strong and unique she is. Like Sarah was trying her best to portrait her as an unbelievably powerful character. But still, she’s definitely better that Elain.
Overall, this could’ve been a better book. I was bored and i hated the characters. Will not continue the series by the way. I don’t wish to ruin my happy memories with ACOTAR series more than this.
Down and Out in Paris and London by George Orwell
1.0
Horribly boring and long for a book that had zero point beside poverty. Also, show some respect for jews, George.
Dead Poets Society by N.H. Kleinbaum
1.0
Am i betraying the Dark Academia community by giving this book 1 star? Nah. In fact!
What is the point of writing a book after its movie? Mostly, because we want to give our audience a better perspective. Going further into the plot, showing the roots of our characters, focusing on stuff we didn’t focus on before, maybe add some nice conversations, let everyone know what every individual really think about, etc etc.
But if we’re not going to do such thing, if our book is not going to give people more than what they were already given, why bother writing a book at all? Why making up some extra unnecessary scenes and ruin some pretty nice friendships just so we could fool ourselves that we have, in fact, wrote something brand-new that is worth reading?
This book had absolutely nothing new to offer. The narration was boring. Characters were one dimensional and bland. It was straight out of the movie. As if scripted by someone who wrote exactly every single thing they heard. But actually, fucked some great things up in order to make it seem different.
Dead Poets Society undoubtedly was/is/will be one of my favorite movies of all time but this? This was ungrateful. Insulting. A total waste of time.
What is the point of writing a book after its movie? Mostly, because we want to give our audience a better perspective. Going further into the plot, showing the roots of our characters, focusing on stuff we didn’t focus on before, maybe add some nice conversations, let everyone know what every individual really think about, etc etc.
But if we’re not going to do such thing, if our book is not going to give people more than what they were already given, why bother writing a book at all? Why making up some extra unnecessary scenes and ruin some pretty nice friendships just so we could fool ourselves that we have, in fact, wrote something brand-new that is worth reading?
This book had absolutely nothing new to offer. The narration was boring. Characters were one dimensional and bland. It was straight out of the movie. As if scripted by someone who wrote exactly every single thing they heard. But actually, fucked some great things up in order to make it seem different.
Dead Poets Society undoubtedly was/is/will be one of my favorite movies of all time but this? This was ungrateful. Insulting. A total waste of time.