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My Sister, the Serial Killer by Oyinkan Braithwaite
3.5
I think it was well paced and written but also it did not move me and my spirit didn’t take to the way korede spoke about/described herself her sister and her mum.
Likely it’s commentary on men and the internet might’ve impacted me more if I had read it when it came out - now it just felt slightly nostalgic and dated to a specific time period.
Likely it’s commentary on men and the internet might’ve impacted me more if I had read it when it came out - now it just felt slightly nostalgic and dated to a specific time period.
Their Vicious Games by Joelle Wellington
4.0
This was a treat for a first read of 2024. I wrote a whole review feverish at 2am in much more detail after finishing it but the app crashed and deleted it so.
The first quarter of this book is was scared, I was fearing for Adina’s life because it was giving Life With the Remington Boys I was like where are we goingggggg… But from halfway till the end? Thrilled me.
I couldn’t predict how the book was going to end and the one plot point I did predict worked very much in my favour.
Will be reading more from this author when yearly need for a YA thriller strikes
The first quarter of this book is was scared, I was fearing for Adina’s life because it was giving Life With the Remington Boys I was like where are we goingggggg… But from halfway till the end? Thrilled me.
I couldn’t predict how the book was going to end and the one plot point I did predict worked very much in my favour.
Will be reading more from this author when yearly need for a YA thriller strikes
Having and Being Had by Eula Biss
5.0
If I could construct a sequence of articulate, probing, self aware musings even half as cohesive as this I would feel like I climbed Kilimanjaro. God what a feat.
I don’t read nearly enough non-fiction but I feel like I will cite having and being had as the book that changed my opinion on the genre. Not only was this easy to read, informative, funny and heartwarming, it kept my attention!!! and I wanted to go through the motions of Eula coming to terms with what capitalism meant for her and how she should/could/will react to it fully aware that it means something different for me.
This also terrified me as a writer as much as I felt rejuvenated by the mirrors in it. I highlighted over 200 parts of this book. Mad.
I don’t read nearly enough non-fiction but I feel like I will cite having and being had as the book that changed my opinion on the genre. Not only was this easy to read, informative, funny and heartwarming, it kept my attention!!! and I wanted to go through the motions of Eula coming to terms with what capitalism meant for her and how she should/could/will react to it fully aware that it means something different for me.
This also terrified me as a writer as much as I felt rejuvenated by the mirrors in it. I highlighted over 200 parts of this book. Mad.
The Titan's Curse by Rick Riordan
4.0
Yes I did watch the first two PJO episodes and immediately feel motivated to continue my reread of the series. Last time I read this specific book I was genuinely 14 and it was borrowed from the school library and I took it to reread on a ski trip like we are firmly nostalgia city.
This book is so ???? what do you mean youkilled a nemean lion, wore it’s skin, tried to fight ares and a dragon and a fucking Titan and held up the sky all because annabeth went missing?
Thalia deciding to become a huntress to say fuck you to the fates and Kronos and them man >>>>> especially since before Artemis announced the successor Percy was about to shit a brick.
Percy Percy Percy Percy How many times must I call your name?!!! Do not promise small children you can save their sisters because when they turn out to be a child of the hades you will be fretting for the prophecy you didn’t even want 😭😭😭😭
Lastly, percabeths matching likkle streak of grey hair 😭 who needs rings when you’ve felt the crushing weight of the ACTUAL world on your shoulders
This book is so ???? what do you mean you
Percy Percy Percy Percy How many times must I call your name?!!! Do not promise small children you can save their sisters because when they turn out to be a child of the hades you will be fretting for the prophecy you didn’t even want 😭😭😭😭
Lastly, percabeths matching likkle streak of grey hair 😭 who needs rings when you’ve felt the crushing weight of the ACTUAL world on your shoulders
Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree
3.75
I enjoyed this? It’s warm and slow paced and it made me hungry but I doubt it’ll be one that will stick with me very long.
Morvern Callar by Alan Warner
3.75
The last 2ish chapters of this really fizzle out to the point where I wasn’t even skimming I was skipping sentences and it really upset me considering how much i enjoyed the rest.
Love that this basically has the exact same premise as Babel. Girl comes home to find writer (boyfriend) dead, steals the manuscript, publishes it and chaos ensues.
I could almost turn a blind eye to the male gaze of the Warners descriptions of Lanna because it was so obvious that Morvern was in love with her at one point. Though I don’t think Alan meant to portray such a homoerotic relationship between the two.
Originally gave it for stars but really I think it’s somewhere in between 3.75 and 4 for me because there were definitely elements of a 4 star read: see incredible use of demotic language but the end really was lacklustre and the more time that goes on the more I’m pissed off by that.
Love that this basically has the exact same premise as Babel. Girl comes home to find writer (boyfriend) dead, steals the manuscript, publishes it and chaos ensues.
I could almost turn a blind eye to the male gaze of the Warners descriptions of Lanna because it was so obvious that Morvern was in love with her at one point. Though I don’t think Alan meant to portray such a homoerotic relationship between the two.
Originally gave it for stars but really I think it’s somewhere in between 3.75 and 4 for me because there were definitely elements of a 4 star read: see incredible use of demotic language but the end really was lacklustre and the more time that goes on the more I’m pissed off by that.
Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
3.25
Enjoyment: 3.75 stars. 0.5 taken off just for the writing style at points bc brotherrrrrrrr. I have a horrible habit of craving the books that are written about in the books. Like I want to read eight and I want to read cursed and I’d kill to read the belle fleur generational possible memoir Eva was researching. The characters felt fully fledged and though I had to wade through a bit of culture shock because I do NOT know New York the way Eva does I came to really care for her and her daughter and Shane. Kind of need an Audre spin off because she just is that girl. If you don’t like toxic second chance romance this book is NOT for you
Starlight by Olivia Wildenstein
3.75
I wasn’t planning to read this as far as I can remember but at about 75% the way through the second book I realised it was inevitable. I did go a bit feral for the reincarnated soulmates trope cannot lieeeee. It really snuck up on me but I went into celestial for a a smutty Angel romance and found myself at invested in the cast of characters. On the verge of tears in the third book. Wild! (I was on my period though so)